Community Chest in Balance as 1952 Election Looms
Shafter residents face a decisive vote Tuesday night over the 1952 Community Chest. If the Chest sinks, it reflects apathy toward the Red Feather drive and its civic efforts. If it swims, strong civic support will sustain the Chest and the 1952 board of rectors. The 1951 board, led by Mayor Adolf Sirschemann, approved changing terms from January to December rather than September to September to align with the calendar.
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Shaf
Cizens
Adolf Sirschemann
Generals To March On Lemoore
The Shafter Generals travel to Lemoore for their third league game on Friday night. The Colonels, including a successful B squad, have shown strong scoring form though their defense has yielded occasional points. Bill Hinsley has repeatedly opened with a kickoff touchdown as Shafter seeks a positive result.
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Shafter Generals
Lemoore
Horntoad
Shafter
Caenle Moore
So Yar
Taft
Colonels
Bill Hinsley
Coalinga
Shafter 1951 Community Chest Drive Progress
Shafter's Community Chest drive shows $3625 collected to date with remaining worker envelopes and advanced site entries. Chairman ge 4 Kise schenmann thanks volunteers for more contacts this year though donations are smaller, and notes board turnover to September for better campaign preparation. If public meeting turnout remains low, current directors may continue Chest operations. policy favors rotating most members.
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Shafter
Pen Kiseschenmann
Ge 4
Amore
Educational Pro
L. J. Woodard
Weather and football notes from Lemoore game
The forecast calls for fair cool conditions tomorrow night at Lemoore. Generals captain Dale Scales and Colonels guard Delmer Earls are listed. the game will be rebroadcast Saturday at 9 30 a m on Station KWSO. Tadpole’s fourth down punt for a touchdown is noted. Continued on page 6.
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Lemoore
Dale Scales
Generals
Delmer Earls
Colonels
KWSO
Tadpole
Dan
Growers Learn Latest Move On Pink Boll Worm Threat
An impromptu talk at the United States Experimental Station during a mechanization field day drew over 1500 growers and industry officials. Kern County official Lewis A. Burtch and Jes Dick explained how pink boll worm larvae were found in a hidden pocket of a mechanical cotton harvester entering California. Officials outlined quarantine measures and field checks to prevent spread, noting Kern County as the likely entry point and stressing inspections of independent machines and border controls.
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California
United States Experimental Station
Kern ‘Co Agricultural Com
Lewis A. Burtch
Jes Dick
Bureau of Plant Industry
State Department of Agriculture
Burtch
Apon
Quan- Wick
Kern County
S. Morley
Morley
Kiwanis Parade Showcases Weird Halloween Costumes
Shafter held its 10th Kiwanis Club Halloween parade with hundreds lining the park to watch children and groups in eerie outfits. Judges Milt Ross Taft and Rollie Henderson Tulare announced winners across divisions including kindergartners to eighth graders and decorated floats.
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Shafter
Kiwanis Club
Milt Ross
Taft
Rollie
Margaret Baker
Mary Dinman
Tommy Cross
Dale Nickel
Katherine Kadel
Scarecrow
Teddy New
Don Loveless
Sandra Patrick
Diana Jensen
Leroy Rohrbach
Donald Colvard
Donald O'Dell
Thelma Reynolds
Aviation Science Club
Richland
Los Ami
Shafter Firemen Collect Toys for Kids Christmas Drive
Firemen begin annual toy drive in Shafter collecting abandoned toys from residents. They will repair and paint the items with help from the auxiliary and distribute them door to door as a Christmas gift from Santa. Fire Chief Albert Finkbeiner urges calling for pickup of any toy.
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Shafter Fire Department
Shafter Firemen
Santa Claus
Albert Finkbeiner
Vision Testing Program At Shafter High School
All students at Shafter High School must undergo a vision testing program this week in the school's gymnasium. The test aims to screen out students with growths and eye defects, according to officials.
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Shafter High School
Jeron Criswell Plans Show In Shafter This Saturday
Forecaster Jeron Criswell plans two public appearances in Shafter this Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Hall. He will offer women a first hand life prediction during his “Criswell Predicts” column, published in Magazine California and other papers. Admission is free. early arrivals get the best seats.
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Jeron King Criswell
Shafter
Criswell
California
Shafter Press
Veterans Memorial Hall
Cotton Fires Bother County Smoke Eaters
Several small cotton field fires alarm Lerdo and Poplar avenues near Daniel Schnidt’s property The county and city smoke eaters extinguished all but one blaze at Five Points A torch leak blamed for the other fire Loss estimated at 100 dollars
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Daniel Schnidt
Lerdo
Poplar Avenues
Earl Wipf to Lead Tehachapi Legion Meeting
Earl Wipf, commander of Kern county American Legion, will direct a Saturday night meeting in Tehachapi. The council weighs using county high school football teams in a countywide benefit Round Robin, with Bill Frizzell of Shafter heading the committee. Attending from Shafter are Claude Camp, Jack Hare, and Elmer Ziemke to study constitution changes and other proposals.
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Earl Wipf
American Legion
Kern County
Tehachapi
Bill Frizzell
Shafter
Shafter With
Wips
Claude Camp
Jack Hare
Elmer Ziemke
Flies Home From Recruit Leave
Jim Guenther of 30970 Los Angeles Ave Shafter returned home from recruitment in San Diego to Burbank aboard Pacific Southwest Airlines last Friday. He will spend his leave at his home.
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Jim Guenther
Los Angeles Ave
Shafter
San Diego
Burbank
Pacific Southwest Airlines
George Harrison Honored by Cotton Industry for Soil Work
George Harrison, renowned cotton breeder and senior agronomist at the States Experimental Station in Shafter, is feted as a “Man of the Soil” by 750 growers and friends at the George Harrison Day event. Ike Peters presented a luggage token before Harrison saluted his wife for support.
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Jack Fleming
George Harrison
States Experimental Station
Shafter
SWID Member To Air Water Committee Names
Shafter Wasco Irrigation District member may join a north county panel to press water rights in the Central Valley Project. The Supervisors plan a committee after Northern tentative appeals to aid Kern County in Federal CVP suits. The panel may include three supervisors, a water district representative, and a Kern County Land Company member at large.
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Shafter-Wasco
North County
Central Valley
Board of Supervisors
Amittee
CVP
San Joaquin
Kern County
Kern County Land Company
Progress in Machinery Shapes Cotton Industry Future
At the United States Cotton Station in Shafter, engineers from US Department of Agriculture and the University of California showcased mechanization in cotton. Marvin Hoover described plots and spacing for precision harvesting while Battle B. Ewing demonstrated equipment alterations, high clearance gear, and flame weed control advances for the crop.
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United States
Shafter
Chamber's Initiative Urged By County Industry Speaker
W Frank Jones head of Kern C of C industrial committee urged Shafter to pursue local industry rather than rely on government site relocation. He noted defense plants may be dispersed by the Western Strategic Command and cited Taft as an example of local industrial outreach with state small business aid available. Local leaders P C Clarkin Russell Stickler and Ernie Horman attended.
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Shafter
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
W. Frank Jones
Kern C of C
Commission
Taft
Southland
Shafter Chamber
Jones
South
P. C. Clarkin
Russell Stickler
Ernie Horman
Jupee
Western Strategic Command
Cain
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Community Chest
Seto
Leroy Rohrback
Avianon Spare
Layton Lynch
Witch Aviation Science Club
Kiwanis Party
Jeron Criswell
Legion Group
Harrison
Battle B. Ewing
Ewing
Chamber
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