Shafter Lions Launch First White Cane Day Drive
The Shafter Lions host a two day White Cane campaign Friday and Saturday to aid vision related causes. 18 teams will staff booths from 10 am to 4 pm in front of local stores with miniature white canes given to donors. Alfred J. Smith chairs the effort with Lew Carroll and others as captains.
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Shafter Lions Club
Eneug
Vernon Wilson
Alfred J. Smith
Justesen’s Market
Central Hardware Store
Safeway
Smith
Lew Carroll
Burley Dooley
Jack Stepp
O. D. Handel
Dick Larsen
Dave Merkel
Abdr Aifwad
J. Smith
Adolf Kirschenmann
Kirschenmann
Shafter
Record Number of Richland Parents Hold Conferences
Bruce Crawford superintendent reports a record flow of parent conferences with teachers as 1041 parents visited classrooms over three afternoons this week. Additional sessions are planned Friday and next week, with kindergarten conferences set for November 14 17. Teachers praise the high turnout and note better understanding of student progress, with 63 percent of children receiving reports and conferences.
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Richland
Bruce Crawford
Richland Yearbook Names Editor In Chief And Staff
Lorin Neufeld, a Richland eighth grader, will be editor in chief of the Richland School yearbook with Dorothy Greene as assistant. Other staff members include Reg Hammond Jr, Gloria Morgan and Betty Jean DePriest. They were chosen November 11 by the student body officers after essay-based selections and blind numbering.
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Lorin Neufeld
Richland
Dorothy Greene
Reg Hammond, Jr
Gloria Morgan
Betty Jean DePriest
Central Valley Highway Association Works On S Curve Plan
The Cen tral Valley Highway Association held a Wasco meeting presided by Vice President Clifton Clemmons. They discussed realigning and improving the Central Valley Highway from Rosedale to Stockdale, about 22 miles south of Shafter, to create an alternate to Highway 99 from Selma to Wheeler Ridge.
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Central Valley Highway Association
Wasco
Clifton Clemmons
Shafter
W. L. Welch
Fresno
Division of Highways
Association
William Perry
Kern County
Central Valley Highway
Rosedale Highway
Stockdale Highway
Selma
Wheeler Ridge
Paul McDonald
Generals and Panthers set for Sequoia playoff showdown
Shafter and Sanger meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. for the North South Sequoia League championship with about 5000 fans expected. Shafter led by an eight win, undefeated in league play, faces a 62 man Sanger roster in a game that could end in a co championship if tied. A new South Shafter Mennonite church opens on Orange avenue with Clarence Thorpe as guest speaker and artist showcasing his Unbelievable Believables cartoons.
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Sanger
Generals
Apaches
Shafter
Sangers
South Sequoia
South Shafter Mennoni South Gospel
Orange Avenue
Clarence Thorpe
Riverside
Christ
United States
Thorpe
Panthers
Grant W. Jensen
Shafter High School
Wasco
Merchants to Elect New Officers Meet Friday
Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture convenes at Kirby's Shoe Store where president Herb Howell urges all merchants to attend the annual meeting to elect officers and set Christmas plans.
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Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Kirby's Shoe Store
Herb Howell
Howell
Plunder Blunder Involving Three 15-Year-Olds
Three 15 year old youths allegedly broke into Young s market at 766 Fresno avenue stealing beer wine cigarets chewing gum and a roll of pennies worth about 50 dollars. One boy was later arrested for disorderly conduct and the others attempted to pass the pennies at another store. Constable Blake Witcher notified. The incident occurred the same night as one boy s 15th birthday.
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Shafter
Young’s Market
Fresno Avenue
Blake Witcher
Experiments to Preserve Quality of Mechanically Harvested Cotton
A large scale study at the U S D A Cotton Field Station aims to control and improve machine picked cotton quality. Engineers report issues from picker twists trash and oil affecting dye and nap. The Cotton Council notes global complaints about flaws in mechanically harvested cotton.
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U.S
U.S.D.A. Cotton Field Station
Agricultureal Vice
Etr
California
United States
A‘gricultural Engineering Research’ Branch
ARS
U.S.D.A
Engineers
Machinery Indus Engineers
National Council
The
Cotton Council
When You Hear Siren Parade For Used Toys
The Shafter volunteer fire department will run a 1955 used toy collection parade Friday at 6 p.m. Fire chief Al Finkbeiner announced residents should place usable toys on their porches as a siren signals start. The truck will tour residential areas to collect, repair if needed, then distribute the toys to needy children before Christmas.
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Shafter
al Finkbeiner
Finkbeiner
Fire Department
Don Williotha Leaf Enterprises appoints Maupin to marketing
E J Peters announces D P Maupin will join Don Williotha Leaf Enterprises marketing division January 1. Maupin, former Kern County Potato Advisory Board manager, brings extensive potato sector background to support expansion of agricultural commodities marketing.
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E. J. Peters
Maple Leaf Enterprises
Wasco Today
D. P
Don) Maupin
Maupin
Kern County Potato Advisory Board
Peters
Kern County
Shafter Sees Rainfall Ahead of 1954 Totals
Ed Wimpy Bender reports Shafter accumulated .88 inch from recent storms this season. Since last Wednesday .63 inch fell, adding to an initial .25 inch, with rain last Thursday and Sunday-Monday totaling .18 and .45 inches respectively. Comparisons show 1954 totals at .73 inch.
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Shafter
Ed “Wimpy” Bender
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