08 Oct 1958
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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1958
Page
1
The North Kern Golf Club will open its nine holes on October 12 at 11 a.m. on Lerdo Road near Highway 99. Jim Haggerty will handle reservations for weekend play as officials set annual dues at $10, granting voting rights and a cap on memberships.
The Shafter Lions Club starts its annual light bulb sale to support the Light Conservation Program and Lions Youth Activities. The sale runs today through October 15.
A Shafter Press writer defends the paper’s editorial choices and community role, praising local merchants and readers while recounting pride in a newborn, reflecting on past coverage and the ethics of reporting and advertising in the town.
Dick Larson of the Shafter Planning Commission announced the next Planning Advisory Committee meeting will be on October 9 in Shafter City Hall. The session opens at 7:30 p.m. with agenda topics including Design Influences and Sub-Committee Organization. The meetings are open to the public and invited to attend.
Kern County Society for Crippled Children announces its twelfth annual meeting on Monday October 13 1958 at Westminster Hall First Presbyterian Church 1705 17th St Bakersfield California A 7 p m dinner served by church women Reservations for dinner call 610 Fourth Street FA 2 5595 Public invited The organization is affiliated with State and National Crippled ChildrenSocieties and supported by the Easter Seal Campaign
The notice announces a meeting on Friday October 24 1958 at 10 a.m. at Geo Motel Bakersfield to discuss pink bollworm information and its threat to local cotton production.
The Shafter Recreation Commission sponsors a new Saturday recreation program at Richland Elementary beginning at 9:00 a.m. The North Kern Recreational League comprises teams from Wasco Delano McFarland and Shafter with about 75 boys divided into four squads by height weight and age.
Thirty Shafter High School students joined peers from Kern County high schools at Bakersfield College for a full day speech clinic on October 2. Demonstrations covered debate extemporaneous impromptu and interpretive speech with groups rotating between sessions. Cecil Briscoe sponsors the Shafter group.
Ben T Hicks from Elkhart Kansas teaches general science this year at Shafter High School. He is Southwestern College graduate with a BA in science and earned MS from the University of Colorado. He studied at Kansas State College and Kansas University in summer sessions and held NSF funded graduate work in Colorado during 1957 58. He previously taught two years in Ton and eight years in Ulysses and coached football eight years. He resides in Shafter with wife Bessie and their four children Sandy Joyce Cecila and John.
Shafter Library presents What Goes on Behind the Curtain a curated bookshelf guided by branch librarian Mrs Harriet Mason. Two notable volumes by Daniel Blum Great Stars of the American Theatre and A Pictorial History of the American Theatre showcase portraits biographies and showbiz milestones from Maude Adams to Yul Brynner and Julie Harris across fifty years. The librarian distributes a book list on the world of the theatre titled What Goes on Behind the Curtain.
Six judges oversaw four events including reading impromptu informal ad and radio news broadcasting. Students entered two events. The festival stressed experience and preparation over competition for inexperienced speakers.
The Press announces Maltiestor will appear in the October 15 issue.
Sergeant and Mrs. Robert Turner plan to return to Shafter within two weeks after his two terms with the Marines. Turner served at Paris Island and Camp Lejeune and took MP training and clerk courses. He has begun flying lessons and aims to earn his wings before coming home. If Shafter suits them, the newlyweds may settle here.
The Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church held a farewell service for 55 members preparing to join the Wasco congregation in a new church. Rev. Warner Kroeker of Harvey and Abe Ediger addressed plans, hymns were sung, and a benediction followed. The Wasco church invites the community to attend their first service at 10 40 a m on Sunday.
The San Joaquin Valley shifts mail operations with Santa Fe Trains 6 and 63 ending and HPO arrivals in Shafter canceled. Shafter will handle mail only at night from Sept 29, exchanging with Northbound train 7 at 8 40 p.m. and HPO 3 at 3 10 a.m. The plan aims for overnight delivery across the San Francisco to Los Angeles corridor.
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