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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
3
A series of short notes shows Ojai visitors G J Rothenburg and Wray Phillips hosting and staying with Shafter residents. Labor Day trips include H Midgley in Los Angeles visiting Frances Midgley and many locals traveling to Glendale San Francisco Trona and Santa Monica for picnics fairs and family visits.
Mr and Mrs H F Janzen depart Shafter for San Francisco and Oakland to visit relatives and will be away several days. P J Gaedes Visit Shafter for Labor Day Holidays. Mr and Mrs P J Gaede living at California Hot Springs traveled to Shafter for business and to visit friends. Jim Beard Plans Oakland Visit from Local Bank Staff.
Mr and Mrs C B Huckaby and son Jimmy join Mr and Mrs B F Quisenberry of Long Beach and Mr and Mrs James Blair of Huntington Park as weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Jack Leird in Shafter. Ray Ferguson transfers from the local Bank of America branch to the Santa Clara branch, with friends reporting the move this week. Ferguson departed Shafter about ten days ago.
Mrs Marie Klingenberg and Mr and Mrs Floyd Klingenberg of Santa Ana stayed with Mr and Mrs Don Klingenberg in Shafter for Labor Day. The families enjoyed a picnic at Kern River park during the visit.
Group returns from Europe includes Miss Helyn McCormick Miss June Lachenmaier William White and Marvin Neuman all from Shafter. Miss Marie Cakin of Richland faculty also part of the European tour.
City directed resurfacing on Shafter streets this week with oil sand disced bladed and smoothed into a new surface. Oiled sections are widened and evened. Streets include Tulare to north city limits Manuel Avenue Sierra and Sycamore Avenues Central Avenue from Santa Fe to Tulare Munzer Street California and Pacific Avenues. James Street worked last week and Lerdo Road is completed.
J V Wilson of Shafter high school staff and recreation director led a Rotary lunch session detailing a summer recreation program. Six clubs including tennis, badminton, sewing, airplane modeling, playground and nightball were formed with 45 in a tennis tournament and 15 daily sewing-room attendees. Over 300 boys joined airplane modeling with about 120 planes built. playground daily attendance ran 50 to 75. nine softball teams drew about 180 participants.
A new 54 passenger bus for Shafter high school students was shown for regular use with the opening of school. The Kenworth chassis and Wentworth-Irwin body house a Hall Scott six cylinder engine with air brakes, safety glass, double sash windows, and a full emergency door. Interior in light green with dark green leather seats includes heaters, ventilation, ice clearing fans, and a luggage rack for athletic gear.
Cooler nights marked the past week in Shafter with highs near 96 degrees. The experimental farm recorded 94 at 3 pm yesterday. The sequence shows highs of 96 on Tuesday and Sunday, with nightly lows from 53 to 57 degrees across the period.
Classes began Tuesday morning at Kern Academy under Clarence O. Trubey now principal. The faculty includes Trubey from Modesto teaching Bible physics and music, Leonard Westermeyer, Lottie Angell Westermeyer, Reva Palmer, Ruth McWhinny, and R. W. Gepford in seventh and eighth grades with varied subjects.
Grades four through six under Mrs T Powell and Emma Neufeld lead the program. Books and student supplies are sold at the Academy store on a cash basis, with hot meals served to students and staff in the school cafeteria.
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