Rice Family Wins Horseshow Championship at Shafter High
A family affair dominated the Shafter High School horseshoe tourney as Columbus Rice, a senior, took first while his brother Louis Rice, a freshman, finished second. The Rice brothers led eight rivals with ease in the singles event. A doubles tournament is planned for next month by Lowell Todd who oversees the noon recreation program at the school.
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Shafter High School
Columbus Rice
Louis Rice
Lowell Todd
Grid official suffers rib injury during Taft game
Taft high school football game last Friday night saw Pat Kelly, a Taft backfield player, deliver a hard block that jolt ed the official. He completed the game before medical treatment and then drove back to Shafter from the west side community.
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Taft
Ventura’ JC
Pat Kelly
Kelly
Shafter
West Side
Students Battle Through Play-Offs in Ping-Pong Tourney
Students push into the playoffs of the annual ping-pong tournament as teams vie for champion status. Key players and schools are not specified in this readable fragment.
Calendar Qs and Dates Read Similar in Fragments
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered dates October 26 October 2 November 2 November 4 and November 4. The readable text lists multiple day markers with no clear context or events attached.
California Proposition 3 Garners Broad Endorsements
The California Council of Education announced Prop 3 is the fall election’s most-endorsed measure with support from over 2000 groups statewide. Key backers include the Republican and Democratic parties and major organizations such as AFL CIQ American Legion VFW Disabled American Veterans State Grange and NAACP. The measure would set a minimum teacher salary of 2400 dollars per year in California and boost state funding to enable the raise.
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California Council of Education
Proposition Ay Council
Sacramento
AFL
CIQ
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled American Veterans
State Grange
League of Women Voters
Mrs. Vernon Pierce Recovering From Eye Infection
Mrs. Vernon Pierce is slowly recovering from an eye infection that peaked last week. The infection closed her eye completely then, but the eye is improving and should be normal again soon.
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Vernon Pierce
Stockton Cited Qualifications In Kern County Superintendent Bid
Jess Stockton seeks Kern County school superintendent on a stance built on local roots teaching service and business experience. He asserts a platform emphasizing nonpartisan council, improved teaching, close school board cooperation, and preparing healthy capable graduates.
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Jesse D
Jess) Stockton
Kern County
University of California
Robt. L
Bob) Stockton
Stockton
Atlan
Lohr Ranch Sold To Peters Brothers
A 180 acre ranch south of the Lohr home ranch and northwest of Shafter was sold this week. The property formerly belonging to Mrs Ruth Lohr is designated to John J Peters and Ike Peters.
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Ruth’ Lohr
John. ‘J
Ike’ J. Peters
Local Ladies Honor Mrs Lamb at Informal Gathering
Mrs Horace Gray hosted a casual honor for Mrs Lamb last week. Guests included Mrs Merrill Thenas, Mrs Joe Channeson, Mrs John Channeson and H C Neufeld.
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Horace Gray
Phil Channeson
Lamb
Mesdames Merrill * Thénas
Joe Channeson
John Channeson
H.C. Neufeld
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Department of California
American Veterans of World War 1
Amvets
California Farm Bureau Federation
California Federation of Women’s Clubs
California State Chamber of Commerce
Church Federation of
Los Angeles
Commonwealth Club of San
Market Street Association of
San Francisco
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Tailwaggers Foundation of America
American Humane Associations
Welfare Council of Metropolitan
L. A
W. E
Jimmy) James
Mrs. Pierce
Jess Stockton
Joe C. Lewis
Era County
Assembly
Kern
Wile Peterson
Lohr Ranch
Peters Brothers
Square Deal
People’s Court of Tax Appeals
California
Committee
Market St
Shafter Press
Ekonors
Fred Howser
G.I. Senator
W. F
Knowland
County Board of Education
State Board of Education
DE Young
San Franciso
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