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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1952
Page
4
In a staged interview, organizers outline prize structure for a local contest. Two major prizes and four bonus awards will be given, plus weekly commissions for each new or renewed subscription. Special cash prizes and votes run this week to spur early participation.
Kern County Union High School District Superintendent Theron L. McCuen predicted Shaffer High School could approach an enrollment of about 1000 students by 1962. He based the forecast on birth-rate figures and long range planning, noting 9000 Kern births from 1935–1938 and over 26,000 from 1947–1950 indicating future high school enrollments.
Sophomore class at Shafter High School was cited for cooperation in a class project. About fifty five members aided a fundraiser by selling hot chocolate at home football games under adviser Hal Williams.
Rio Bravo guests attended the Bakersfield meeting led by Eleanor Wilson as director. E Ben Evans, Kern County Union High School district library services head, spoke on his two year tenure as American Library Information director in Oslo. Educational films on library science were shown. Rio Bravo librarian Marie Lilliehoorn found the session valuable.
SPUD Superintendent Jack Harris announced bids for four carloads of transite pipe for Shafter Public Utility District. The pipes fund a new subdivision project with costs borne by the subdivider. Estimated pipe cost is 12500 dollars.
A hamburger fry and ping pong tournament were held Friday night at the First Baptist Church. The junior high Sunday School class of Lawrence Kattenhorn attended, including Rex Tudor, Jimmy Bartel, Jessie Grumbles, Bruce Branner, Ross Johnson, Noel Wilson, Huey Long, and Warren Thompson.
Mrs James R Rosenstiel and her husband Capt James R Rosenstiel are noted visitors to Shafter, her hometown, during the past week. She formerly served as the first editor of the Shafter Press.
The Associated Student body executive board at Shafter High School ordered more than two thousand dollars of football equipment at last week’s meeting. They also weighed purchasing new band uniforms, a therapy machine, bench coats, shoes, and expendables, with band uniforms pending formal request by Ernest Graf.
The late 1930s javelin standout from Shafter High School, Lowell Todd, set the American record of 234 feet 9 inches in 1938 during a Europe tour of All-American track men. His achievements led to his 1960s Hall of Fame induction at San Jose State College. Todd later coached at Shafter and competed with the San Francisco Olympic Club until 1946.
The article notes a community biograph portrayed through pioneer recollections and mentions H A Jastro’s account of General Shafter. It states Shafter settled on a 10 500 acre tract south of Bakersfield where he died in 1906. A festival contest is planned to name the show.
Elder Henry T. Baerg, a youth leader for the Seventh Day Adventist Central California Conference, spoke at a Sunday Parent Education class on nature as essential to Christian education for preschoolers. He urged parents to use nature as a core lesson book and to take children into fields, gardens, and woods to see Christ. Also present were Professor Tuttle of Bakersfield Adventist school and Elder Isaac Schneider.
Mayor Adolf Kirschenmann led steps to annex two nearby tracts. The council adopted a resolution for the Tulare to State street section while a petition targets the State to Lerdo highway area. The Shafter Public Utility District has already acted on the same territory with hearings set for January 12, 1953.
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