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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1952
Page
8
Shafter Press reflects on Thanksgiving as an American tradition. The piece emphasizes the nation’s bounties and spiritual trust, urging reliance on divine guidance amid global turmoil and wars. It calls Thanksgiving a time to count blessings and seek guidance for difficult days ahead.
The Richland School District's 706000 bond proposal won strong voter backing in Shafter area. Officials credit Superintendent Bruce Crawford for clear presentation that built public confidence in bonds as the method to fund new classrooms and facilities.
The Shafter Potato n Cotton Festival committee advances plans for a historic community wide pageant featuring participation from civic groups churches schools and thousands of residents. Bob Bann is director Dick Larson leads the committee Dr Grant Jensen oversees production and Jack Fleming serves as historian.
Fragmentary editorial notice from a California newspaper lists staff roles and a dated publication note. It includes an editor publisher managing editor photo director and an entered as second class matter statement with a Kern County Shafter postal stamp and subscription rates of 3.00 per year, 3.60 outside California.
The Shafter Press launches a large premium subscription contest offering $5000 in premiums including a 1953 Plymouth. Participants can win generous commissions beyond prizes. The aim is to boost subscriptions and community usefulness by reaching more area families.
It is good to recall the pioneers who shaped our community and the daring toil of Frederick William Haag who celebrated his 90th birthday. Haag arrived when land was sagebrush and hardship, yet built a thriving farm, inspiring the younger generation to face tough times and persevere.
Shafter community will welcome back Rev. Cecil Pool to the pastorate of the Pentecostal Church of God. Pool previously led the church in Shafter and has served as pastor in Buena Park and Vallejo and as youth director for Southern California Pentecostal Churches.
California opens 135000 plus acres of pheasant country to a 10 day free public hunt sponsored by the Department of Fish and Game starting November 22. Areas run from Shasta to Fresno, with two waterfowl zones Grizzly Island and Honey Lake included. Ages 12 to 18 may hunt Grizzly Island with an adult 25 plus. daily bag limit two birds. shooting hours 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. north of three counties. elsewhere sunrise to half hour after sunset.
The California Agricultural Extension Service in Berkeley offers an electrolysis method to clean silver saving time. It warns against use on hollow handles or oxidized designs and requires aluminum or zinc contact, boiling water, salt, and baking soda, with immediate removal once tarnish disappears.
County Fire Chief Elmo Frear warns of higher fire risks this Christmas from bulky merchandise and packing materials. Merchants should dispose of combustibles and avoid using non flame retardant decorations with electric lights to curb potential fires.
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with visitors admitted throughout those hours.
Leslie L. Robinson Post 213 of the American Legion thanks the editor for reporting on the Community Betterment Program. The Shafter drive exceeds a $6048.50 quota with strong public support and generous pledges. The board of directors and participants express pride in the community’s forward growth and resources.
Montana State College trials show turkeys need less vitamin B-12 than chicks and that growth gains from antibiotics are greater in poultry rations than in chick rations. A finding suggests omitting B-12 after 12 weeks may be advantageous and calls for further study on continuation through growth.
UC Davis professor C N Johnson leads a pamphlet on irrigation pumps. It covers pumping units pump types well applications pump economics care and maintenance. Copies available from local farm advisers or UC Berkeley office, 22 Giannini Hall.
Bill Baker, longtime manager of the Justensen's Store in Hanford for 18 years, arrived in Shafter last week to assume control of the local chain store. His wife and daughter will join him after the first of the year.
The Revelers a renowned quartet will headline the second seasonal program of the Shafter-Wasco Community Concerts Association tomorrow at 8 15 p m in Wasco High School auditorium. Members Wilfred Glenn William Hogue Thomas Edwards and David Meyers accompanied by Paul Sergeant will perform a wide repertoire from Bach to Gershwin and feature solo careers across the nation Glenn a UC graduate leads the quartet.
The Davis campus team from the University of California won the intercollegiate judging contest at the Grand National Livestock Exposition in San Francisco. They scored 3956 of 5000, beating the nearest rival by 148 points, with members Hogue 826 Gould 824 Bath 786 Morris 770 Wiley 750 and alternate Nichol.
The record notes Mt Tina rising to 10,301 feet as the region’s highest point, located in the Dominican Republic.
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