Superior Burner No. 1 completes with world-record pace at Shafter O31 field
Superior’s Burner No. 1 well finished in 46 days at Shafter O31 with a 3200 barrel daily flow and a potential multifold increase. Sand at 11160 feet suggests higher structure and northwest expansion potential. Oil 39.1 gravity, gas 4.5 million cubic feet daily. casing 11 338 feet, cementing 2000 sacks in 28 minutes. next project Weber No. 1 nearby.
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Superior
Union
Moodie No. 1
Fink No. 1
Weber No. 1
Weber
Enrollment at Shafter High Reaches All-Time Peak
Enrollment at Shafter High School climbed to 323 students yesterday, with 115 freshmen, 83 sophomores, 77 juniors, 46 seniors, and two special students. Last year’s comparable date was 181, and the year’s high reached 281. Authorities cite settling permanent families and fewer work-permit migrants as factors. attendance last year averaged over 96 percent, the highest in Kern county union district, with efforts to sustain this rate.
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Shafter School
Given
Shafter High School
Kern County Union
Grand Jury Pushes Camp Investigation
Kern county grand jury advances probe into juvenile camp conditions with 15 youths expected to testify soon.
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Grand Jury
Kern County
Kern County Potato Growers Form Planning Committee
A Monday meeting in Richland auditorium named a committee to draft a constitution and bylaws for a Kern County Potato Growers association. Local growers will be represented in San Francisco discussions on freight rates, with Milton Lohr and J C Channeson among attendees.
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Kern County Potato Association
Richland Auditorium
Kern County
W. B. Cam
Milton Lohr
San Francisco
W. B. Camp
Lohr
J. C. Channeson
Bay Region
J.C. Channeson
Hogs Prove Diversified Farm Payoff At Peters Ranch
Ed Peters on Madera avenue northwest of Shafter shows hogs as money makers within a diversified system. About 65 head on 1.5 acres use alfalfa pasture, potatoes for feed, and salvage grapes and raisins with electric fencing. Peters favors Duroc-Jersey stock for bacon, pasture efficiency, and high prices, expecting around 120 hogs yearly from two litters per sow.
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Peters’ Farm
Ed. Peters
Madera Avenue
Shafter
Peters
Joe Frizzell Named to Shafter City Council
Joe W. Frizzell, local businessman and resident of Shafter's southwestern section, was appointed Monday night to the city council to fill the vacancy left by Fair. The unanimous decision comes as Frizzell indicated he will accept, with a term running until April 1940. He is expected to attend the next regular meeting at 8 p.m. in City Hall.
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Joe W. Frizzell
Shafter
Frizzell
Beets Grow Bigger at Unruh Ranch Fresno Grower
Last week Herman C. Unruh dug an 18 pound sugar beet at his Fresno Avenue ranch and this week a 22.5 pound beet followed. Unruh credits fertilizer for the sugar giants and notes test plots with 300 pounds per acre yield over 20 tons while unfertilized plots run around 14 tons.
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Herman C. Unruh
Fresno Avenue
Unruh
Registration Opens in Shafter for Ham and Eggs Pension Plan
Voter registration continues in Shafter with one week left before the deadline. Mrs. Dean H. Potter accepts registrations at her home on Shafter highway and Santa Fe way. Those who did not vote in the last election or who have become eligible or moved since voting must register to vote in the November 7 pension election. Registration closes at midnight, September.
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Shafter
Dean H. Potter
Shafter Highway
Santa Fe Way
First Cotton Ginned in Shafter District
The first cotton in the Shafter district was ginned by D O Moore on Friday at his Seventh Standard Road ranch with grower R Bolla. F A Schmidt credited with the third bale. total 35 bales ginned so far. Camp West-Lowe began last Monday, total 30 bales. Ginning not yet started at Shafter Wasco gin but growers hauling in. J H Fuller says picking may start late this week or early next. Rain Tuesday did not delay picking.
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Shafter
D. O. Moore
R. Bolla
Seventh Standard Road
F. A. Schmidt
Camp West-Lowe
Wasco
J. H. Fuller
Charles Songer Escapes Injury When Lightning Strikes
Charles Songer, a local high school student, narrowly escaped injury when lightning struck a transformer near a pump house on Clyde Zachary Place in the Burbank district. He was knocked to the ground but suffered no injuries.
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Charles Songer
Clyde Zachary
Burbank
Songer
Business Men Aid Recreation Program Here
A motion to provide five dollars per month toward the rent of a club room for grammar school boys to serve as a winter recreation center was approved by the Shafter Business Men's Association at Cafe Neuman. The group also discussed securing land for a Los Angeles flying school and continuing talks with Kern County Land Co. to buy three Pacific Avenue lots with a bid for half the oil rights.
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Shafter Business Men’s Association
Cafe Neuman
Los Angeles
Kern County Land Company
Pacific Avenue
Storm Darkens Shafter Area as Heatwave Persists
A severe electrical storm darkened Shafter and surrounding areas for over an hour causing outages and disrupted services. Transformers burned near Lerdo road and a fire alarm was logged. High heat and humidity continued with temperatures near 100 degrees across the region as rainfall remained light.
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Shafter
Power Company
Lerdo Road
Kiwanis Nominates Officers and Harrison Speaks
Kiwanis officers for the new club year were nominated at a noon meeting at Cafe Neuman. George Harrison spoke on the Shafter experimental farm established in 1921, its work with cotton varieties and cooperative seed distribution, and related agricultural projects.
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Kiwanis
Cafe Neuman
Laurence Baughman
William White
Herb Schirmer
Wray Phillips
al Anderson
Harry Wilkinson
A. N. Mougin
Jack Lighthill
Karl Teget
Jake Siemens
Herb Midgley
Ed. Friesen
P. V. McClure
Harlow Johnson
Emory Johnson
George Harrison
Shafter Experimental Farm
W. B. Camp
Federal Department of Agriculture
County Board of Supervisors
Sidewalk Work Expands To Low City Areas
Crews move to the city’s lower districts before winter rains. Work continues on California Street from Shafter Highway to Santa Fe Way and north of the street from James Street to Shafter Highway. Walks will be laid on the south side of Shafter Highway north from Five Corners.
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Five Corner
California Street
California
Shafter Highway
Santa Fe Way
James Street
Five Corners
Clyde Bell Installed As Legion Commander
Installation of officers was held Monday evening at the first meeting since summer recess of Les er cook ene wee Bell were Walter vice president, Albertins second vice president, W. W. Tannahill chaplin, Jack Janzen sergeant at arms and Glen C Nay adjutant. Named to the executive board were J. B. Henderson, W. H. Hitchcock, and Floyd Penn tion. A social time concluded the evening. The Legion members consider continuing Boy Scout and Cub Scout work in Shafter and other activities.
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Les
Er Cook Ene Wee Bell
Walter
Albertins
W. W. Tannahill
Chaplin
Jack Janzen
Glen C. Nay
J. B. Henderson
W. H. Hitchcock
Floyd Penntion
Legion
Shafter
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Nale
Kurt Kecker
Harry Fowler
Sol Camp
Adolf Kirschenmann
John Bidart
Andrew Barling
A. P. Channeson
Lindsay
M. A. Lindsay
Provate Committee
Committee For Inspection
Federal State Inspection Service
Provate
Association
John Nale
Joe Frizzell
Norval Fair
Unruh Ranch
Miles
Bakersfield
Irrigation District Board
Harrison
University of California
Thomas L. Nelson
Oliver Doyle
Kiwanian
McClure
Ira G. Myers
Strand McBridge
Palmdale
Nelson
Doyle
Larmont Frost
Ben — Ken Rich
M. Thorne
Shafter-Wasco
Fred Pritschke
Alpaugh
Westenberg
Bender, Duehren
Channeson
Pritschke
Althouse
Clyde Bell
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