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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1947
Page
3
Fragmented OCR shows a grocery and meat listing including venison camp items, Vienna sausages, luncheon meat, liver sausage, chickens, fowl, rabbits, fryers, fillets of sole haddock cod halibut and more. Contains scattered prices and incomplete product descriptions.
Tommy Kimbriel and her daughter Marilyn received a surprise house warming Monday evening at their new Euclid home. The guests included Abe Toews and wife, Ed Brown and wife, Frank Gonzales and Bakersfield girls, Dan Toews and boys, Irvin Toews and children, Clifford Gotfried and son, Raymond Oblander and children, Jake and Martha Voth, Hattie Williams, Alvin Buller and Will Johnson with daughter, Gerald Sexton and girls, and Ted Voth with a partner.
Dad Frizzell visits this week with son Joe and family Mrs J W Frizzell and Virginia for a pleasant stay in town.
Valley cotton picking slowed as workers demand 3.00 per hundred pounds, extending past an earlier raise from 2.50 to 2.75. Many growers refuse further increases while cotton seed prices rise from 85.00 to 90.00 per ton last week.
Kern county is among twenty three California counties cutting general county tax rates for 1947-48 compared with 1946-47. The $1.8813 general rate is 6.1 cents lower than last year’s $1.9423 per $100 valuation. Prewar 1941-42 rate was $1.2388 and the 1944 war and postwar low was 92.59 cents.
An advertisement from Joe's Topper Bakery promotes tea cakes baked for parties and social gatherings. The brief copy emphasizes party-ready treats and a welcoming bakery identity.
At Shafter High School adult night classes began last Tuesday under Principal Jack Hill. The physical education class has about 16 students and meets in the gym on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The typing class run by Mr. Letizia has 10 students and will be dropped if not at least five more enroll. A wood shop class taught by Dusty Rhoads has no enrollments. Classes are free and open to interested adults, who are urged to enroll promptly.
Mr and Mrs David Northam relocate from Shafter to Hanford with their children. Dewey Northam and his family stay in Santa Maria and their mother hears the family is doing fine after a weekend report.
A Bakersfield farm labor meeting on September 12 approved expanding recruiting and referral facilities to meet an estimated 10 000 additional workers needed for the valley cotton harvest. With 505 140 acres planted this year compared with 357 162 last year, several thousand bales have already been ginned and picking began September 22. Authorities plan recruiting offices in the Bay Area Sacramento Stockton and other California points to channel workers to short supply areas. Last year’s program yielded strong results and this year may be even more effective as harvests start early and workers seek conditions in the valley.
The Henry Janzen family moved to San Jose after selling their funeral home business. Mr. Janzen built the Janzen Funeral Home eight years ago and had collaborated with his son Ralph, who remains in Shafter with apartment properties. A stroke limited work capacity and prompted the sale.
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