Al Blain Files Candidacy for 14th District Congress
Al Blain filed papers with Tulare County Clerk Claude Grant to run in the 14th Congressional District covering Kings Tulare and Kern counties. A Republican, he petitions on both major tickets and plans a broad campaign across the three counties. Blain, a Tulare real estate and radio businessman with prior holdings in KTKR Taft Visalia, lives in Visalia with his wife and two children and holds multiple civic posts.
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al Blain
Congress
Kings
Tularend Kern
Tulare
Claude Grant
Blain
Eisenhower
America
Aln
Elks Club
Visalia
Expert Advice for Saving on Home Decorating
Expert guidance on decorating can save money by preventing buying mistakes. Look to service magazines for ideas, books and pamphlets for tips, retailers offering free advice, and decorators who vary on charges from free consultations to design fees.
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American Institute of Decorators
Tor
Kern County Fire Dept Calls for Spring Clean Up
The Kern County Fire Department requests county residents join an annual spring cleanup aligned with national programs to cut fire deaths and property loss. Fire kills over 100000 in a decade with home fires causing half of deaths, often affecting children under 15 and seniors 65 and older.
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Kern County
Speech Program Slated For June Bakersfield
The Kern County Society for Crippled Children announces a summer speech correction program running June 14 through July 30 1954 at 610 4th Street Bakersfield. Financed by the Easter Seal Campaign it will be doubled this year to meet demand with Mr Guy Fones guiding the effort assisted by Miss Doreen Deppler Miss Margery Miller and Miss Ruth Hofmann. Applications for school age and preschool children three and one half years or older are available at the society office.
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Kern County Society For Crippled Children
4Th Street
Bakersfield
Mabel Ellery
Guy Fones
Doreen Deppler
Margery Miller
Ruth Hofmann
Deppler
Miller
Miss Hofmann
Kern County Union-High School District Awards Three Pumps
At a brief adjourned meeting on March 29 the Kern County Union-High School and Junior College District awarded a contract to Layne and Bowler Company for furnishing three pumps for the Bakersfield College water system at 2940 dollars. The board also authorized a notice of completion for the main distribution system by Glanville Plumbing. The body expressed sympathy to the Garrard family on the death of Guy W. Garrard, longtime educator and adult education director. The next meeting is April 12 at 7 30 pm.
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Kern County
Glanville Plumbing Company
College
Marie Garrard
Guy W. Garrard
Bakersfield High School
The
Pets
Garrard
Marc H. E. Woodworth
Shomate’s Long Years Shaping Kern County
The piece recalls Charles Shomate of Shafter later Bank of America figure, who helped build Shafter’s first school behind the bank. He left Shafter in 1921, returned to Bakersfield, ran for county recorder in 1922, and then served in office continuously, shaping Kern County and prompting wonder about the next forty years.
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Bank of Stayw
Bank of America
Shafter
Bank
Recorder
Shomate
Bakersfield
County Recorder
Kern County
Charles Shomate
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Avery Allen
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Bernard Street
George Globe
Liberal Credit
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