Shafter Needs Bold Promotion to Back Potatoes and Cotton
Editorial says Shafter shows strong community backing through the annual festival and highlights leadership in potato and cotton industries. It urges the Chamber of Commerce to adopt a bold, well funded promotion plan to attract year round industry, expand bi products, and enlist big growers for greater support.
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Shafter
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
California
S. A. Camp Company
Shafter Chamber
Water Fight Stalls Valley Water Conservation Effort
A May heat wave floods California streams feeding the Central Valley. Billions of acre feet will be lost to evaporation or the ocean while debates over who builds dams delay conservation efforts. Land interests urge unity to save valley farms and curb waste.
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Great Central Valley
California
High Sierras
Buena Vista
Tulare Lake
San Joaquin River
Tulare Lakes
Sacramento River
San Joaquin Valley
Kern, Kings, Kaweah
San Joaquin
Sierra
Bureau of Reclamation
Army Engineers
Sierras
Not All Grads Find Soft Landing in 1951 Era
An editorial reflects on graduation amid 1951 wartime uncertainty. It notes the armed forces draft and looming conflict while urging graduates to persevere with faith, courage, and self reliance. It emphasizes resilience, ambition, and support from seniors to overcome gloom and obstacles.
Shafter News masthead and publication details
Paul C. Newell Editor and Publisher Paul C. Newell and Florence J. Newell engage in art photography engraving. Established 1921. Entered as second class matter August 1, 1935 at Shafter Post Office. Published weekly at 1883 South Central Valley Highway. Subscription rates: one year two dollars fifty cents. outside California three dollars.
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Shafter
California
South Central Valley Highway
Kern County
Calif
Eighth Graders Learn Shop Tasks Richland program adds electricity and auto mechanics
Richland eighth graders now study two new shop areas electricity and auto mechanics. The district reports a well equipped shop with hundreds of tools. Students used thousands of board feet of lumber and dozens of other materials for their projects.
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Richland
Fred Hasty
Sequoia
Kings Canyon
San Joaquin Valley
High Sierra
Scholarship fund launched by Shafter Young Farmers
The Shafter Young Farmers thank readers for supporting a scholarship effort at the Shafter Potato n Cotton Festival. They sold 700 copies of the Shafter Press raising $154, added about $100 from other sources, forming a $250 annual fund for a Shafter High School senior outstanding in agriculture to aid college study. Tob Davidson.
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Shafter
Shafter Press
Shafter High School
Letter of thanks from Buttonwillow American Legion Auxiliary
To the Editor. The Buttonwillow American Legion Auxiliary thanks the Shafter Press for publicity of their programs. The note credits the newspaper with contributing to the group’s success throughout the year. Minnie Balum, recording secretary.
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Buttonwillow American Legion Auxiliary
Shafter Press
Minnie Balum
Deserter John Waller’s Berlin romance ends in jail
Berlin report recounts John Waller, a 19-year-old British soldier who deserts to the Soviet Zone, marries Frieda, and is duped by Communist contact Peet. He learns a German speech, seeks protection for cash, faces police scrutiny, returns to West Berlin, and receives a two-year jail term while Frieda waits.
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C. B. Stern
Berlin
Eisler
United States
John Waller
Frieda
Fred
John
West Berlin
Germany
Nauen
Freida
Mr. Eisler
Mr. Peet
Communist People’s Police
West
Sergeant Trains At Germany Stationed With 36th Wing
Sergeant James E. Wooldridge son of Mrs. Cannie M. Mills of Shafter is stationed with the 36th fighter bomber wing at Furstenfeldbruck Air Base Germany as an aircraft maintenance worker. Enlisted February 1948 he joined the 53rd squadron November 1949. He trained at Lackland AFB Texas and later served at Kelly Brooks Keesler and Great Falls bases while attending maintenance schools.
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James E. Wooldridge
Cannie M. Mills
Shafter
Furstenfeldbruck Air Base
Germany
Wooldridge
Lackland Air Force Base
Tex
Kelly, Brooks, Keesler
Great Falls Air Force Bases
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Paul C. Newell
Florence J. Newell
Aeene
Minor Rootes
Thomas Rootes
Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity
Sacramento
Tob Davidson
KERN
Earl Warren
Fred Patterson
Kern County Potato Growers Association
H. W
Pat) Kelly
Warren
Red Zone
Bie Ed H
Ae Vasa
Fane
Austria
Canada
Mexico
Japan
Europe
Luckey Walters
Mal “Patty
Bakersfield
Leon
Pyrenees
Sumner Street
Camp & Barrows
Frank Hornkohl Laboratories
Truxtun
Scott
Cooper’s Flower & Nursery Shop
E. Lerdo
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