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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1951
Page
1
Thrifty Shafter shoppers can stretch their dollars this weekend as merchants unite for a two day Dollar Days sale. Stores from autos to appliances slash prices and add extra bargains, making a city wide event with ready service and ample merchandise.
Edwards Tract residents will learn annexation advantages to join Shafter city on Dec 6 at County Assembly Hall. City officials will discuss police fire protection rubbish disposal and street improvements and petitions for annexation will be presented to property owners for signatures. A 150 percent electorate petition is required to advance the proposal.
Shafter High School hosts a football banquet Monday night with O. Pappy Waldorf as guest speaker. The Generals and Colonels honor the season’s top players, as the Colonels claim the southern Sequoia Division championship in an unbeaten run. Bruce Crawford will serve as master of ceremonies as around 250 supporters attend.
Consultant Koenig presents an 82 page survey urging a new hospital serving Buttonwillow Famoso Semi Tropic Rio Bravo Maple Lerdo and Wildwood areas. He proposes 24 beds initially with expansion to 30, 16 medical surgical 8 maternity, private and two bed rooms and a separate maternity wing, with cost around 445070. He will address Wasco and Shafter Chambers of Commerce to discuss location land values and funding.
Shafter merchants plan a pre Christmas Dollar Day weekend and a December 15 24 period of extended store hours to boost holiday sales. Local post office staff anticipate heavy mailing activity and extra help as decorations and lights go up along Main Street and James Street. Community groups prepare toys Christmas baskets and pageants for Needy families while schools and churches organize events for the holiday season.
Civic organization leaders will meet at the Shafter Press Democrat on December 4 to begin planning the 1952 Shafter Pototon Cotton Festival. Secretary Ernie Hofman said attendance would be about 7 30 p m with details of the show to be worked out. The festival board headed by Bill Stoller has invited one representative from each organization.
Community notes ask readers to report weekly happenings from home visits trips and family events to editorial staff via the Shafter Press phone line. The call prompts readers to share personal news that might merit local publication.
The Maple Parent-Teachers Association will screen the film My Friend Flicka at 7 p.m. Tuesday to raise funds for welfare projects. Mrs Ruben Siemens is the association president.
Turkal Eliades and Dan Contreras lead Shafter Colonels letter earners in a strong fall season. First string backs Hinsley Lynch Beach Ellis and line men Broom Trout Covard Brown Earls Anderson Wishon highlighted by two squads earning letters. Generals coach Dan Bledsoe reports 17 players lettered including Harley Martin who receives a four year service award.
Richard Larson, manager of the Ike and John Peters ranching interests, was elected president on Wednesday night of the Shafter e. He will take office.
The Shafter city council moved to draft an amusement tax on two local theaters and enacted a use tax levy on alcoholic beverage users. The amusement levy, tied to theater activity, requires a counting of theatergoers before setting a rate. The use tax, set at one half of one percent, takes effect January 1 1952 reducing the tax rate from 75 cents per $100 in assessed valuation and is expected to boost city revenues. The theater owner Ernest Panero plans to oppose the ordinance at the December 10 meeting.
Ewing, agricultural engineer at the Shafter Cotton Station for the past year, will return this week to Mississippi to join his father in a Robinsonville farming venture focused on cotton. He specializes in cotton mechanization work and will help run the new farm devoted to cotton.
Spud growers in the Shafter area meet at Veterans Memorial Hall at 7 30 p m sponsored by Kern County Potato Seed Association Kern County Potato Growers Association and the farm advisers office The program covers potato problems of 1952 with Clarence Neuman and John J Peters Jr presenting reports Neuman will discuss the OPS white potato advisory committee meeting in Washington Other topics include potato supplies prices outlook seed beans scale control and variety experiments at the Shafter experimental farm Refreshments will be served after the meeting.
City council faces homeowners protest over an American Legion Clubhouse planned at Manuel avenue and Kern street. Residents claim zoning approval risked deflating property values and residential disruption, urging reconsideration before Legion construction proceeds. Local ex-GIs and officials promised proper conduct and further signatures from zone residents.
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