Shafter FFA Exhibitors Win Prizes At Kern County Fair
Shafter High School Future Farmers of America competitors garnered 37 blue ribbons and one red in the junior division with top placings in beef cattle swine and sheep. Le Roy Kirschenmann led heavy Angus, and several SHS members earned multiple prime and choice ratings while contest officials note room for judging improvements. The Shafter chamber plans to discuss judging reforms with the Kern County Fair board to ensure exhibits follow the theme Mechanized America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Leroy Kirschenmann
Ronnie Siemens
Angus
Glen Hamilton
Dooley
Kirschenmann
Shafter Ffa
Bobby Ray
James Wilson
Dean Burnquist
Dale Seales
Donald Ne
Gordon Kirschenmann
John Dooley
Vernon Carr
Shafter High School Ffaers
Billy Milam
Charles Bonham
Kirk Fitzpatrick
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Wasco Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Shafter Booth Committee
America
Shafter Chamber
Arvin
Ernie Hofman
Kern County Fair Board
Hofman
Fair Board
Shaler
Aece
Wasco
Kern Delta Farm Bureau
Mojave
Shafter
United States
Wasco Chamber
Kern River
Dick Smith
Kern County
Aine Fair
Golf Tournament Planned by Shafter Service Clubs
The Shafter service club hosts a golf tournament on October 7 at Bakersfield Country Club. Organized by the Lions Club this year it brings together service club members and the American Legion. Play starts at 1 p.m. with prizes awarded at the 7 30 p.m. dinner at the country club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Service Club
Bakersfield Country Club
O. D. Handel
Lions Club
American Legion
Richland to Discuss Pupil Needs and School Growth
Richland officials plan a Monday night meeting at 7:30 in the Richland cafeteria to address pupil housing needs and future school problems. Bruce Crawford says expansion, building condition, and the fate of the 1914 Santa Fe building will be considered with invited trustees and local leaders including Harry Hopkins and L E Davis.
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Richland
Bruce Crawford
Santa Fe
Richland School
Crawford
Richland School Board of Trustees
Harry Hopkins
Kern Economic Council
L. E. Davis
Superior Oil Co
Colonels Open 1952 Season at Strathmore in Nonleague Clash
Shafter High School Colonels seek a 14th straight win as they open the 1952 football season at Strathmore in a nonleague game. Eliades reshapes lineup with two veterans and two contenders vying for the right end, while Strathmore’s squad is described as stronger this year.
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Eliades
Edward Bilis
John Thompson
Dave Muir
Everett Jordan
Carl. Beach
Sih
Richland School Survey Team Opens Probe
Dr. Lloyd N. Morrisett leads a study of Richland School District with UCLA professors Dr. Wilbur Dutton and Dr. Aubrey Berry and Claremont Colleges' Dr. Frank Thomas plus UCLA's Dr. Lorraine Sherer. The team will examine kindergarten to eighth grade programs, testing, personnel, administration, finance, transport, and planning, reporting after the study concludes.
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Lloyd N. Morrisett
Pasadena
Richland
Wilbur Dutton
University of California At
Los Angeles
Aubrey Berry
UCLA
Frank Thomas
Graduate School of Claremont Colleges
Lorraine Sherer
Morrisett
Sherer
Thomas
Dutton
Berry
Morrisctt
Potato Festival Meet Postponed to Oct 6
The 1953 Shafter Potato n Cotton Festival is postponed to October 6. Manager Ernie Hofman notes the change after the original Monday date. festival committee members were tied up with other matters and unable to attend.
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Shafter
Ernie Hofman
Two Shafter Teams Face Prospects For New Season
Coaches Dan Bledsoe and Jordan Eliades will address the Shafter Chamber of Commerce about grid prospects for Shafter High School. The Generals and Colonels open at Strathmore tomorrow night with Eliades predicting a hard year due to inexperience while Bledsoe anticipates a brighter outlook with returning veterans and reserves. The Generals will also meet Taft and Arvin in upcoming games.
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ARR Wiens
Strathmore
Jordan Turk Eliades
Lindsay
Colonels
Eliades
Dan Bledsoe
Jordan
Turk
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Bob Bann
Shafter High School Generals
Bledsoe
Generals
Shafter’ High School
Taft
Arvin
Cotton Gins Gear Up As Shafter Harvest Rush Begins
Shafter area gins start regular processing as the 1952 cotton season kicks into high gear. labor supplies improve with migrant workers, many mechanical harvesters are active, and gins like L A Camp Co and J H Fuller and Sons prepare for around the clock operation. Acreage near 28 000 acres, slightly below 1951, with bales piling in yard areas awaiting shipment to compressors or buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Shafter Area
L. A. Camp Co
J. H. Fuller and Sons
Coberly West
Camp Outfit
Fire Department
Three Leaders to Receive New Bible at Shafter-Wasco Event
A 7 30 p m dedicatory service in Veterans Memorial Hall will present new Revised Standard Version Bibles to Mayor Adolf Kirschenmann and three Shafter community leaders. Dr Frank B Fagerburg will speak on The Word of Life in Living Language as part of a nationwide observance with choirs from Shafter Wasco and Bakersfield churches.
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Shafter
Gordon Baker
Shafter-Wasco
Veterans Memorial Hall
Shafterites
Adolf Kirschenmann
Ernest Hofman
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Harry Thompson
Richland
Parent- Teachers Association
Bruce Crawford
Grant W. Jensen
Shafter High School
P. L. Bergen
PTA
Frank B. Fagerburg
First Baptist Church of
Los Angeles
Faberburg
Redlands
Baker
United States
Canada
Shafter Union Congregational Church
Wasco First Congregational Church
Wasco First Methodist Church
Bakersfield Uniontional Church
Richard Southwick
Fed Bakersfield
Richland School
Registration Sets Adult Night School Classes for 1952 53
Registration for the 1952-53 adult night school session at Shafter High School was announced by Principal Dr. Grant W. Jensen. Courses in typing and shorthand are popular, with possible offerings in first aid, metalwork, auto shop, homemaking, baking, sewing, music, and more under Kern County Union High School District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Grant. W. Jensen
Jensen Sai
Kern County Union High School
Civic Center Site Sparks Bargaining Over Women’s Clubhouse
City officials weigh a sale price for the Women’s Clubhouse site proposed for Shafter’s civic center. The Women’s Afternoon Club asked about $9000 but may lower it if the building becomes a City Hall. No firm offer exists and two alternate sites are noted.
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Planning Commission
Shafter
P. C. Clarkin
George Collins
Atifornia Names
Veterans Memorial Hall
Mobile blood unit to visit Shafter on October 10
The Hou chin Community Blood Bank mobile unit will make its first official call in Shafter on October 10. Shafter Community Blood Bank chairman Albert Finkbeiner said arrangements with residents through various organizations will secure the 60 donors needed. The unit can handle three donors every 15 minutes and will be stationed at Veterans Memorial Hall.
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Houchin Community Blood Bank
Bakersfield
Shafter
Albert Finkbeiner
Shafter Community Blood Bank
Veterans Memorial Hall
Generals Squad Heads to Strathmore for Opener
Shafter High School Generals travel to Strathmore for the 1952 football season opener. Coach Dan Bledsoe expects a closer contest after last year’s 20 nothing win at home and lists seven reserves in a mostly veteran starting lineup. Players named include Wishon Notley Blattenberg Holland Prender Tudor Scales Hamilton Dillard Hinsley with Wishon at right end and Notley at left end.
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Dan Bledsock
Strathmore
North City
Shafter
Generals
Bledsoe
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H. S. Future Farmers
Donald Neuman
Shafter High School Ag
Burley Dooley
Wings
Shafter High School Colonels
Carl Beach
Strathmore Ag
Strathmore Alz
McFarland
Civic Center
Miss Marian Hitchcock
Mobile Blood
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