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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1938
Page
3
Shafter residents host visitors from Bakersfield Visalia Merced and Los Angeles with dinners, weekend trips and family gatherings. Several marriages births and a football rally at Shafter High are noted alongside travel to Los Angeles Reedley and Sierra Madre.
Mr and Mrs Louis Wade became parents to an 11 pound 6 ounce son Barney on Saturday. The birth occurred at the Strauss home with both mother and child reported in good condition.
Elvin and Mrs. Preszler welcome their son Willard Emil at home in Edison on Sunday. This fourth child marks a recent move from Shefter, with the Preszlers residents aging one month in their new town.
Entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bell were Thursday evening guests Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Akins of Washington D C and Harold E Schwartz and Murray Thompson. Akins is Mrs. Bell's brother and Schwartz and Thompson work with the western division of AAA.
Los H. John Harder and A N Mougin visited Shafter Tuesday. Miss Al Stewart spent the weekend visiting Miss Lorraine Stewart. Al Bartel and Waldo Unruh traveled to San Jose for a weekend visit. Lawrence Tatum returned to Tulare after a Shafter weekend visit during rain. Shafter group attended Lodge meet in Wasco. Agricultural teachers will attend Kern county meeting in Bakersfield. Emil Kirschenmanns spent Sunday in Shafter. Emil Stoller hosted Henry and Edwin Schnaidt and visited with Visalia residents. Bendix washer dealership noted for Shafter and Wasco. Velma Downey returned to Sonoma after a month in Shafter. Lawrence Kattenhorn and Misses Fotheringham and Wiebe spent weekend in Ontario. Wiebe attended C L A Stanford game.
Kern County Farm Bureau directors plan a Saturday monthly meeting in the new bureau building in Bakersfield. Director-at-large Al Eckman of Shafter expects to attend.
Evans sprinted 40 yards for a late first half TD to lift Shafter’s Generals to a 6 0 victory over McFarland High. Evans was the standout, gaining on the ground and returning punts, as Shafter clinched a likely conference title with one league game remaining.
Paul Newell runs for state assembly on a personal friendship campaign in Kern County. He avoids traditional organizational blocs with supporters rallying across the county. Friends from the Coordinating Council Recreation Commission and chambers of commerce lead a last minute whirlwind effort.
Superior Oil reports reaching 10 306 feet in its Ruhl No 3 well in the Shafter field with about 1000 feet to go before production sand. Wagner No 1 remains active with Vedder sand opened at 11 246 feet last March and expected to reach 11 500 feet. Plans exist to deepen Geisinger No 1 as a near future project while ten producers currently operate in the field.
A school assigns each student a 20 by 25 foot plot for irrigation and cultivation. Students perform all work, records track seed and water usage, and the project runs about 120 days to allow crops to mature.
De Monteil, a noted coast broadcaster, spoke to Shafter High School students about sportsmanship and character. He shared film footage from St. Stiens by a ge isco footage and urged students to pursue announcer training, take English, history, public speaking and forensics in high school and college.
Thirty three freshmen in Holger Hansen and Arthur Johnson classes planted seeds this week in experimental garden plots on the school farm under the guidance of the two agricultural instructors.
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