Shafter High Student Leaders Plan Fall Socials
The Associated Student body executive board opened plans for the year with budgets for all activities. The first event Back to School Dance was held recently and a Freshman Sophomore party is set for this Saturday hosted by the Sophomores.
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Shafter High School
Max Tudor
John Notley
Elaine Stoller
Morty Brown
Donna Hare
Joyce Bartel
Grant W. Jensen
Water project contract awarded for Madera unit
H. Earl Parker Inc of Marysville won the $2,096,198 bid to build the first section of the Central Valley Project water distribution for the Madera Irrigation District. The project covers 50 miles of canals and 17 miles of feeder works with completion expected in 360 days and CVP water due by August 1953 for about 8000 acres.
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Madera Irrigation District
S. Leonard
Bureau
Parker
Madera
Leonard
Madera Canal
CVP
Jack W. Rodner
More Vehicles Registered in State Car Count
Nearly a quarter of a million more vehicles were registered in California on June 30, 1952 than a year earlier. The mid year DMV tabulation shows 5,223,573 total registrations for the first six months of 1952, up from 4,982,522 in 1951. Auto counts rose to 4,218,010, trucks 536,296, trailers 360,019, and motorcycles 43,538.
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California
Department of Motor Vehicles
Hardtimes Dance Planned by Shafter American Legion
The Shafter American Legion plans the Hardtimes Dance on October 4 at 9 p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Hall with prizes for best costumes. Committee members include Elmer and Katie Ziemke Russell St. Wes ley Gorsching. Commander Earl Wipf also announced mass initiation for all new members on November 17.
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Shafter American Legion
Veterans Memorial Hall
Elmer
Katie Ziemke
Russell St
Wesley Gorsching
Earl Wipf
Veterans Organization
SDA Offering Aids Overseas Mission Schools and Medical Work
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Shafter reports a special mission offering raised for overseas school expansion and medical work. With 5 337 515 dollars donated in the first half of 1952, North American churches directed funds to erect or enlarge at least five overseas schools in the Philippines Mexico Peru and New Britain while medical work in Tokyo and Baghdad is slated for improvement.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
Shafter
Philippines
Mexico
Peru
New Britain
South Seas
Tokyo
Bagdad
Weeds Targeted as Big Farm Machinery Field
At the American Society of Agricultural Engineers convention in Kansas City Missouri the rise of weed control rigs as the most accepted new farm machinery is noted. The sprayer and duster equipment market has expanded tenfold since 1940 and by 1950 valued at 37000000 dollars in renemical weed control gear.
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American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Sas City
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