Selma Eyes Central Valley Highway Push Next Tuesday
Fresno County readers meet in Selma to urge rapid development of the Central Valley Highway as part of a statewide push. The Selma Chamber of Commerce argues highways indirectly benefit a city and urges Shafter Wasco Corcoran and Hanford to support a broader route including Selma.
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Central Valley
Selma
Bakersfield
Shafter
Wasco
Hanford
Corcoran Hanford
Val Highway
Shafter High Tickets Offer Lifetime Pass for Top Seller
Season tickets to Shafter High School home football games go on sale Tuesday. The top ticket seller between September 21 and October 1 earns a life-time pass to Shafter home games. Last year Ray Rose won. Francis Rose also competed. Season tickets cost $3.
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Shafter High School
Shafter
Ray Rose
Francis Rose
Kern County growers push postwar basis for cotton quotas
Kern County agriculturists urged modernization of agricultural adjustment acts to avert economic disturbance if cotton quotas are imposed under the 1938 law. A four point plan called for postwar basis, timing awareness, and coordination with regional groups to protect land and equipment investments.
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Kern County
Robert Davidson
California
F. R. Kalloch
Kern County Chamber of Commerce
Davidson
Chamber Agricultural Council
County Chamber Board of Directors
Secretary of Agriculture
Shafter Juveniles Face Juvenile Court Burglary Charges
Reading crime stories led two Shafter boys to burglary charges after they allegedly broke into Neufeld Automotive Parts Co. on Central Avenue and Lerdo Road. Arrested outside the store after dropping money while climbing from the rear window.
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Shafter
F. G. Shaw
Kern County
Justice of the Peace
E. K. Grant
Buster Long
North Shafter
Blake Witcher
Re -Midway Market
Wipfs Embark on Three Week Midwest Motor Trip
Mr and Mrs Earl Wipf depart Shafter for a three week tour routing through the middle west. They will visit Clearlake Iowa with Mrs Wipf’s sister and family Mr and Mrs Jim Watts, then Menno South Dakota to see Mr and Mrs Dave Wipf, Earl’s parents.
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Earl Wipf
Shafter
Middle West
Clearlake
Iowa
Wipf
Jim Watts
Menno
South Dakota
Dave Wipf
Shatter High to Exhibit Sheep and Hogs at Kern County Fair
Shatter High School FFA plans to display 71 sheep and nine hogs at the Kern County Fair. Glenn Nay and Edwards Eyraud direct the ag program with students including Eugene Schmidt Dean Flaming Duane Freeman and Everett Eyraud showing various ram lambs yearlings ewes and fat hogs across open and FFA divisions.
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Shatter High School
F.F.A
Kern County
Glenn Nay
Eugene Schmidt
Dean Flaming
Duane Freeman
Fred
Starrh
Everett
Eyraud
Everett Eyrand
Bob Calder
Kenneth Buller
Charles Patrick
Robert Lamas
Keith
Burnquist
Burley Dooley
Aquatic Center Opens Sundays For Public Use
The Aquatic Center remains closed for regular public use except Sundays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Swimming instruction for boys and girls from kindergarten through eighth grade continues all week, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Bids Heard on Shafter Veterans Memorial Building Plans
Kern County Supervisors received bids for remodeling and new construction at the Shafter Veterans Memorial Building and referred them to Architect W Francis Parsons for recommendation. The board also considered housing for non veteran workers at Minter Field and Build ing T 341 for a Legion commissary. Hudson and Gudmundson won the Bakersfield agriculture office project bid at 37 659 55.
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Shafter Veterans
Kern ‘County Board of Supervisors
Bakersfield
W. Francis Parsons
American Legion
Ation
Minter Field
John Douglas
The
Legion
War Assets Administration
Director of
Public Works
Chester James
Cecil C. Meadows
Agriculture
Hudson and Gudmundson
Coneree of Spa
Atory
Local Children Need Swim Suits
Local children lack bathing suits and cannot join swimming lessons. Bring unused suits of any size to Richland School office or the Aquatic Den this week to help them participate and enjoy swimming.
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Richland
Aquatic Denals
Uncle Sam Suit Wanted by Shafter High Drama Class
Wanted an Uncle Sam suit for Shafter High School drama class. Contact Miss Margrette Smithbert at the high school with offers or information.
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Uncle Sam
Shafter High School
California U S 99 highway construction advances statewide data
Since 1947 a total of 88 projects totaling 284 miles and 33.97 million dollars have been completed or begun on U S 99 from the Oregon line to the Mexican border. Governor Warren spearheaded funding via the Collier Burns Act with postwar expansion continuing through Kern County and the San Joaquin Valley.
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Oregon Line
George T. McCoy
Earl Warren
Public Works
C. H. Purcell
Oregon Boundary
Kerm County
Bakersfield
Mexican Line
California
Oregon
Weeks
Mountaine
Sacramento River
Chico
Yuba City
Marysville
Roseville
Corning
Willows
Williams
Woodland
Davis
Sacramento
San Joaquin Valley
Stockton
Modesto
Merced
Fresno
Division of Highways
Frick Opposes Prop 13 in California Senate Reapportionment Debate
L W Frick of Arvin president of the Aegee Cotton Cooperative, denounces Prop 13 as a plan to tilt California’s senate toward four populous counties. He warns the measure would threaten local interests, shift power to Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco and Alameda, and harm both rural counties and the state.
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L. W. Frick
Arvin
Aegee Cotton Cooperative Sd Yt
Eadquarters
Bakersfied
Senate
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Alameda
Assembly
California
Local Shoe Man Bags Large Deer on Modoc Hunt
H Forrest Wood owner of Wood's Shoe Store bagged a 200 pound four point mule deer with a 28 inch antler spread during a week long Modoc lava beds hunting trip. His eight man party including Carl Steele Verlon Mouser Elmer Evans Murray Evans Bill Bradley Ed Smith and Bill Reed returned with five deer amid heavy rain and high deer numbers. Wood shot the buck from a tree and the animal fell after a 50 yard chase down the hill.
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H. Forrest Wood
Wood
Modoc
Carl Steele
Verlon Mouser
Elmer Evans
Murray Evans
Bill Bradley
Ed Smith
Bill Reed
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