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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1952
Page
1
Shafter area homemakers plan a two day Dollar Days event on Oct 24 and 25. Merchants expect heavy demand as thrifty shoppers seek discounts on shoes chinaware groceries and more with early access and replenished stock to sustain bargains.
Shafter High School Generals, boasting three straight wins, travel Highway 33 to Coalinga for their first Sequoia league contest. The matchup against Coalinga, viewed as a stern test, follows a 28-20 defeat last year and centers on a bid to topple the league power trio alongside Corcoran and Wasco in the southern division.
John H Turner Jr cotton breeder at the University of Georgia was announced by the US Department of Agriculture to serve as cotton breeder on the Shafter Experimental Station project. He succeeds George J Harrison who developed the Acala 442 strain in California. Turner will arrive Jan 10 and previously worked in Beltsville Maryland.
Radio Station KWSO will rebroadcast the Shafter versus Coalinga first league football game. The transcription airs at 9 35 a m Saturday with Coalinga and Shafter’s odds discussed and growth noted. Continued on page seven.
Shafter business leaders Forrest Wood Herb Howell Tony Heller Ray Mayfield Paul Drengwitz A J Whit Whison and Mary Lou Collins were nominated from the floor for the merchants division directors. Five will serve on the board and two will be seated as press representatives.
The Shafter Generals and Colonels travel to Coalinga for their first league game of the 1953 season. The kickoff is set for 6 p.m. Coaches Dan Bledsoe and Turk Eliades announced starting lineups featuring Holland Bonham Morris Tudor Leavell Prendez Kilgore Blattenberg Wey Wishon Ellis Hin am.
Richland School District voters will be asked to approve a 700000 bond issue to build 18 new classrooms and four kindergarten units at the primary campus, replace 1938 era emergency cabins, and fund a cafeteria option. The board plans a five year repayment with possible tax rate renewal.
The Shafter Press editorial defends W. R. Woollomes from a paid political ad by the Shafter Walker for Supervisor Committee. It cites George Harrison’s testimony on farm funds and notes a 1949 Grand Jury inquiry found no irregularities, urging voters to decide based on personal judgment.
Fifteen hundred bleacher seats will be installed at the Shafter Experimental Farm on Oct. 23 for the sixth Beltwide Cotton Mechanization Conference co hosted by Shafter Bakersfield and Fresno. The event will draw fiber industry leaders from below the Mason Dixie line and focus on California farming methods from planting to picking. Demonstrations will highlight practices common to California growers but largely unfamiliar to southern planters.
Sam Becker, a Shafter insurance man, is named state secretary for California and Nevada Gideons. He was elected at the 14th annual convention in Pasadena where O. J. De Pree, international Gideons president, spoke at the banquet. The group dedicated Bibles at the new Statler.
The Shafter City Council weighs using 9000 to purchase the Women's Clubhouse site for a new city hall and considers SPUD assistance. Officials note city coffers are empty for the 9000 purchase, and demolition of the quake damaged old City Hall is under bid.
The Houchin Community Blood Bank mobile unit makes its first Shafter call to collect at least 60 donors. It will be at Veterans Memorial Hall in front of the American Legion wing from 10 a.m. to about 1 p.m. Donations are welcomed from area residents with specific health and age restrictions listed.
The Shafter Chamber of Commerce hosts a public panel to explain all 24 state constitutional amendments. Members include A. G. Mortimore John J. Peters Rev. Gordon Baker H W Pat Kelly Jack Fleming and others with KWSO as moderator. The event 7 30 p m Monday at the Veterans Memorial Hall is free and open to the public.
The city council authorized an entomologist to find the best method to eradicate red spiders from trees. John Nickel of Maple Leaf is expected to be hired to lead the pest control effort.
North Kern District scouters meet in Shafter at 7 p.m. to elect officers. Current president is E. J. Peters of the Maple District. Other officers are Ray Sirman vice president and J. Ray Baker secretary, both from Wasco.
Nearly 32 200 acres in the Shafter area are planted to cotton this year per the agricultural inspector. Potatoes 4342 acres and alfalfa 3750 acres are the next major crops. Buttonwillow reports about 32 000 cotton with Rose dale at 12 500. Other 50 000 acres include 851 permanent pasture 1850 barley 500 mile maize 35 hybrid corn 45 watermelons 177 onions 115 dehydrated 50 lettuce and 974 double crop.
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