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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1953
Page
2
Delano has just completed one of the finest Harvest Festivals and the Shafter festival directors see a county fair style exhibit as key. They plan to add a manager with fair or community celebration promotion experience to boost future success and prevent the festival from dying on the vine.
Planning Commission may gain authority to review building designs before permits. Councilman Rolf Jacobsen endorses it as fostering orderly development. Supporters say close scrutiny prevents eyesores and preserves the town’s attractive growth.
A public North Kern golf course project gains support from Shafter, Wasco, Delano, Mc Farland, with the North Kern Golf Association leading a membership drive. W D Gaskill of Wasco heads the effort, backed by J Sin, George Vine, M Wiemann, Schnaidt, Dick Zenk, Ed Eidsen, Bill Arnie Hofman, and local backers urging others to join.
Managing Editor Shafter Pree established 1921 enters second class matter August 1, 1985 at Shafter Post Office under 1879 act. Published weekly Thursdays at 183 South Central Valley Highway Shuffer Kern County California. Subscription rates One year 8 dollars outside California 3.50 dollars.
San Francisco's famed Hip podrome Theater has reopened as a night club in the International Settlement. Parsley, a native of Mediterranean countries, is noted in society circles.
Queen Mona Moor led the annual Richland PTA barbecue and carnival drawing hundreds of Shafter residents. Proceeds support the PTA milk fund. Mona won queen by selling votes at 10 cents each. Paula McClure was runner up. Eight graders from Richland School, winners included Mrs. Hildebrand, Burley Dooley, Mrs. Al Sleven. Bean contest winners named for guesses and total beans.
Buttonwillow grower W L Smith told the California Board of Agriculture in Sacramento that the 1953 54 cotton acreage limits, forced by Ezra Benson, slash California more than 50 percent. He urged support for the Hope bill proposing a 991000 acre allowance and called for a two to three year gradual cut to avoid harming Valley workers. The Suez Canal opening date is noted as Nov 17 1869.
Tom M. Chastain, 26, received a 60 day sentence with a 120 day suspended term for thefts in North Shafter. He admitted taking five cotton sacks from Fred Montgomery, selling three for 5 dollars, then taking a sack from Young's Grocery and selling it to Dallas Moten for 4.50. Moten filed a complaint after a knife threat. Restitution to all victims is due within 60 days after his release.
Advertises bidding on a school project with plan and specification deposits of 26.00 per set and return conditions. Specifies California Labor Code prevailing wage rates for crafts including Laborer 2.05, Carpenter 2.78, Carpenter-Foreman 3.48, Cement Finisher 2.70, Cement Finisher Foreman 2.95, Iron Worker 2.98, Sheet Metal Worker 2.64, with other trades noted and conditions for bid return.
Seaman Willard W. Stoller, USN, son of Mr and Mrs William H Stoller of 160 Golden West Ave, is serving at the U S Naval Radio Station in Balboa. He attended Bakersfield Junior College before joining the Navy.
Mr and Mrs Richard A Jones of Shafter avenue plan a weekend motorcycle trip to Death Valley as guests of Mr and Mrs Ross Wooten of the Bakersfield Motorcycle Club. A party of about 30 couples will depart tomorrow evening with a wiener roast, then visit Death Valley Scottys Castle and other desert points while sleeping in sleeping bags with a own chuck wagon.
Mr and Mrs Wayne Bur Row of Buttonwillow purchase the Texaco Service Station from H H Hart. The deal marks a local business change in Buttonwillow with the sale finalized and new ownership taking over operations.
The Shafter chamber will honor J C Penner tomorrow. An early community member who arrived in 1924 with his family he farmed as a foreman for F W Handel and later ran his own real estate and insurance firm. The Penner family includes four married children living in Shafter and one in Wasco. They reside at 140 Munzer Ave and attend the Mennonite Brethren Church.
A lingerie shower for Mrs. Jack Fleming honoring the birth of her third daughter was hosted at the home of Mrs. Robert Warren in Beechive with Mrs. Ray Fast as co host. Guests included Mesdames Jack Stepp Dick Larson Kenneth and others as they enjoyed pumpkin pie coffee nuts and candies and played bridge.
Howard and Dick Jeffries of Norwalk Distributing Plant purchase the Associated Gas Service Station from Arthur McDaniel in Buttonwillow.
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