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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1951
Page
4
The Afternoon Chief Union will elect a new chairman and secretary at 1:30 p.m. at the Tulare age and Cross street home of Mrs. Vannatta. Mrs. T. Rootes is the chairman and Mrs. M. L. Wiedmann will serve as secretary. A social afternoon will follow.
A speaker on welfare problems in Shafter will address the Business and Professional Women's Club at 7 30 p m next Tuesday. The meeting takes place at 268 Sun Street in Mrs. George Collins home with Mrs. Geraldine Mundt presiding as president.
St Marys Catholic Church will hold its ninth annual fall festival from 2 to 10 Sunday afternoon and evening. Funds support the church recreation unit under construction. Mrs Edda Giannini is general chairman with Mrs Ranie Torigiani in charge of foods and serving. Italian spaghetti expected to draw many residents.
Miss Ora Allender of Richland School will speak at Union Congregational Church Sunday at 7 30 PM. She will show colored slides and recount her summer visit to the Hawaiian Islands. The Pilgrim Fellowship sponsors the event and Miss Maudie Crabb delivers the opening remarks. Members of the Young Adult Fellowship will be special guests.
California's half million acres of vineyards yield more than 90 percent of the nation's grapes, underscoring the state's dominance in viticulture and fruit production this season.
Ralph Sanderson and his daughters Mrs. Harry Davis of Oakland and Mrs. George Gaede with Janice return from a visit to Jackson and Hanover Michigan. The eastward journey by train included a Bakersfield boarding surprise with Mrs. Davis aboard. The group traveled home in a friend’s new car stopping in Hillge boro Kan to visit. Mrs. Gaede’s sister-in-law Mrs. Dean Stuckey a Shafter teacher joined. Rain marked much of the return with roads undergoing repairs.
The Richland PTA will host a magic show for fifth and second graders who won in their divisions during the membership drive that closed last week. Classes taught by Mrs. Gerald Lockhart and Mrs. Dorothy Raney each achieved 100 percent, with Miss Irene Tilly's fourth grade also excelling. Mrs. J. P. McCoy, membership chair, notes the group is still open for new members as the term ends March 15.
Kern Academy hosted a Halloween event after a downtown Shafter parade. Students rotated through five rooms including cafeteria, library, parlor games, hat making, and film with supervision by Mrs F B Martin Miss Margaret Sackett Mrs John Baerg and LaVern Walcott. Hat making contest crowned five group winners and a grand prize among them. The Folkdance Group plans a party tomorrow with caller Frank Willoughby of McKittrick.
Donna Hare of 240 Golden West Ave will be installed as honored queen of Job's Daughters Bethel 138 at a December Wasco Masonic Temple meeting. Her mother will plan the meeting. Three Shafter girls are in line for the queen, with Donna Weitz and Maudie Crabb to follow. A courtesy night with Taft Bethel is set for Saturday, and practice for the Nov. 19 official visit will be led by district deputy Harold Olson. Go To Church Sunday is set for Nov. 11 at First Methodist Church in Wasco.
A Halloween party and weiner roast honored Gordon Kirsch enmann last week at the home of Mr and Mrs Emil Kirschenmann Tulare avenue. Prizes went to Arnold Kirschen mann and Harold Greene. Guests included Kenneth Mettler Johnnie Enns Johnnie Schnidt Harold Greene Murphy Patrick Janice Handel Sandra Moor Linda Wilson Donna Lee Weidenbach Gordon Kirschen mann Janet David Darrell Donnie Mettler Arnold and Chu ckie Kirschenmann Florence Kirschenmann all of Bakersfield and others from Shafter.
Birthday party honored Vernon Isaac's husband with cake and ice cream Tuesday evening hosted by Mrs. Kenneth Youngblood of Bakersfield. Attendees included his and her families from Shafter and Bakersfield while Isaac prepares for basic training at Fort Ord.
Mrs. Roger Fenderson formerly Beverly Voth was surprised at a stork shower Tuesday evening at her sister Mrs. Clifford Gottfried's home on Poplar Avenue Ch hostesses were her sister in law Mrs. Demas Borba and Mrs. Eugene Strauss. The gifts formed a baby bed display while rhymes gave clues to hidden gifts and prizes went to Mesdames Victor Bonlic and Kenneth Pitts. A long list of guests attended including Mr and Mrs. Fenderson and many others from the community.
Teachers and mothers hosted a Halloween celebration at Rio Bravo School. Students dressed in self designed masks and hats, sang songs, and took part in a spook and witch parade in the auditorium on Wednesday.
Reported events include a power outage mishap with a baby, a new granddaughter for the Crawford family, travel home from a funeral and a sister's visit, Don Little recovering from surgery, Reginald Hamm and Carl Neumann moving, Jo Wheeler buying a home, bread shortage warnings in Shafter and Wasco, Kay Boiler visiting from Des Moines, Mrs Kay Boiler planning Christmas return, and P J Moore's golden wedding anniversary.
Laverty celebrated his sixth birthday with a backyard party hosted by Mrs. Laverty at 372 Cross Street. Benny Laverty and friends enjoyed favors, cake, ice cream, and candy, and played with a boxing set, acrobatic bars, and swings. Attending were Lynn Wiedmann Ann, Chris and Sean, Penny Willis, Tommy Janet Carter, Beverly Ziemke sisters, and relatives Mrs. A. B. Kruger and Mrs. Elmer Ziemke.
Maple family Abe and Mrs Neufeld hosted a Sunday dinner for Norwalk visitors Mr and Mrs Alvin Wright and their three sons plus Wrights father. Mrs Wright is Martha Superman whose family pioneered the Maple area. The Wrights moved to Phoenix years ago. Suderman has suffered three strokes and is not as well, per his daughter. Tuesday evening Neufelds dined with Miss Lillian Schafer, missionary in Colombia and guest of Mr and Mrs E J Peters, who spoke at a Mennonite Brethren Sewing Circle gathering.
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