Shafter to Host Community Breakfast for High School Scoreboard
Shafter service clubs plan a Saturday breakfast at Veterans Memorial Hall to raise 1400 dollars for a new mechanical scoreboard at Shafter High School Stadium. Four thousand flapjacks, bacon, eggs, and coffee will be donated by local grocers and volunteers to support the effort. The project began with the 2030 Club and now unites the entire community in a spirit of cooperation.
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Veterans Memorial Hall
Service Clubs
Shafter
Shafter High School
Shafter Recreation Scores Another Successful Season
Roy Farrell reports a record summer in Shafter with 93 643 attendees up from 24 000 nine years ago. The aquatic center drew 25 429 participants while 325 people took instructional swimming, 23 baseball teams played, and arts crafts dances and tennis clinics were offered.
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Shafter
Roy Farrell
Shafter’s
Wonderful Aquatic Center
Instruc
Community Opens Heart To Deserving Little Girl
A deaf mute girl who wished to attend the state school for the deaf in Berkeley was aided by local donors. More than twenty people in Shafter contributed gifts after a prior article, allowing her to begin her school year in Berkeley.
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Shafter Press
State School For the Deaf
Berkeley
Shafter
Shaler and Florence Newell Found Journal in Shafter California
Paul Newell editor and publisher with Florence J Newell established a weekly paper in 1921. It was entered as second class matter at 183 South Central Valley Highway Shafter Kern County California under the act of March 3 1879. Subscription rates listed: one year three dollars, outside California three fifty.
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California
South Central Valley Highway
Shafter
Kern County
Advance Registration Policy for Hunters Approved
The State Fish and Game Commission approved a policy for advance registration of hunters by lottery for state waterfowl management areas. Minor plan changes included continuing free hunting on Madeline Plains and Honey Lake areas and adding Columbus Day as an open shooting holiday.
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State Fish and Game Commission
Department of Fish and Game
Madeline Plains
Honey Lake
Lassen County
Industrial Farm Program Expands Prison Camp Repairs
Franklin details ongoing and planned improvements across Kern County camps from Kernville to Taft. New brick barracks, a dairy barn, and storage facilities are planned by 1958 with salvaged lumber from Minter Field used for construction. Religious and recovery programs support inmate rehabilitation alongside staff supervision.
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Bakersfield
la Cresta
Hart Memorial Park
Kern General Hospital
Taft, Fellows
Lost Hills
Arvin
Mond
Mojave
South Chester
Delano
Kernville
Inyokern
Isabella
Lerdo
Franklin
Minter Field
Eran
Christian
Neukirk
Minter Village
Shafter Business
Kern County
Marines Welcome Newblees To 1st Marine Division In Korea
Cpl Arlie M Newblees son of Mr and Mrs A I Newboles of Shafter arrived at Inchon harbor aboard the transport Marine Phoenix to join the 1st Marine Division in Korea. The division has been in Korea since the outbreak of the conflict with unit citations for Taeke and the Chosin actions.
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Cpl
Arlie M. Newblees
A. I. Newboles
Shafter
Inchon Harbor
Marine Phoenix
1St Marine Division
Korea
Ntal
Tanke
Merchant Marine Officer Exam Set For February
Captain T Y Awalt announces that merchant marine officers who pass exams in the Times Building Long Beach next February will be considered for commissioned ranks of Lieutenant junior grade Lieutenant and Commander. Applicants must be 21 to 40 and have at least four years aboard a U S merchant vessel as a licensed officer. Exams open to licensed deck and licensed engineer officers with eligibility depending on age experience and ability. Examinations conducted under the U S Coast Guard mandate and details available from Coast Guard offices.
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T. Y. Awalt
Eleventh Coast Guard District
Times
Long Beach
U. S
U.S. Merbe
Mandaht
U. S. Coast Guard
PTP
Washington
D.C
Coast Guard District Office
Marine Inspection Office
Shatter High Students Prepare for Kern County Fair Livestock
Shatter High agriculture students return from the State Fair and prep for steer and hog showing at Kern County Fair from Sept 27 to Oct 3. Entries include Angus Hereford and Duroc pigs with multiple pens and single animals supervised by Elliott Garrison.
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Shatter High School
Kern County
Amers
Pingley
Leroy Kirschenmann
Sam Ba
Gus
Kenneth Kroeker
Ross Johnson
Billy Houze
Bruce
Angus
Hen Warkentine
Derek Steele
Paul Jones
Jim Wilson
Paul Scott
Elliott Garrison
Larrylton
Bill
Jerry Heiser
John Brown
Pfc Jack Trampp in training with 75 mm howitzer unit
Pfc Jack H. Trampp, son of Mr and Mrs Henry W Trampp ofter, is taking part in a siege? training with a 75 mm howitzer battery as part of Marine duties.
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Marine Pfc
Jack H. Trampp
Henry W. Trampp Ofter
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Pentecostal Church of God
Shafter Ave
West Ash
Cecil Pool
Shafter Recreation
Nationat
Adgpagrion
Paul ©. Newell
Ween
Paul
Newell
Florence J. Newell
Calif
Buick
America
Getter
Snow Bros
D Street
WASCO
Alfred Schmidt
Bakersfield College
S. Schmidt
Joe W. Schmidt
West Marengo St
Richard Heber
Alumni Association
Margaret Levinson
Renegades
Tnegades
Wings
Edwards Air Force E
Griffith Stadium
Ant
Bradford L. Meyers
Tehachapi
Sheaffer
Ter Brug Store Drug Store
Central Ave
Merchant Marine Officer
Pfc
Jack Trampp
CALL
Walker St
Irvin FE
Central Valley
Shafter, Calif
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