Scouts to Stage May Exposition at Kern County Fairgrounds
The second annual Boy Scout Exposition, themed Strengthen a ca Scouting Can Make Difference, will run 2 to 8 p m on Saturday May 23 at the Albert Goode Auditorium Kern County Fairgrounds. William Scott says the free event showcases Cub Boy and Explorer activities to thousands of parents and the public with hundreds of booths. Tickets go on sale May 2. admission for adults is 1 with free entry for children and Scouts.
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Albert Goode
Kern County Fair Grounds
William Scott
Scott
America
Kern County
Exposition Committee
Bakersfield Concours d Elegance Opens Memorial Day
Concours chairman Joseph M. Thomas announced the first biennial Bakersfield Concours d Elegance with the theme The Elegant One Hundred. The event will be held at the new Bakersfield Civic Auditorium on Memorial Day, showcasing the complete evolution of the elegant auto era.
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Bakersfield
Locker Room Bids Open For Shafter High Renovation
Bids for locker room additions at Shafter High School must be submitted by April 13. Working drawings have been approved by Kern County Union High School and Junior College District trustees as part of the $6,930,000 bond issue passed last May. The board’s next meeting is April 9 at 7 30 p.m. at the district administration office, Bakersfield.
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Shafter High School
Kern County Union High School
Rage Aas
Arehart
Alice Bush
Alie ii Laewi
District Administration
24Th Street
Bakersfield
Donald Ruggenberg
Shafter
Coronelli Map 1680 Shows Rio Grande Reaching Gulf
The Coronelli Map of 1680, cited by the National Automobile Club, marks the first charted assertion that the Rio Grande flows into the Gulf of Mexico rather than the Gulf of California, reshaping geographic understanding.
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Coronelli
National Automobile Club
Rio Grande
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of California
Two Fires and a Rescue Mark Busy Fire Weekend
The Shafter Fire Department responded to two simultaneous calls at Scaroni and Central Valley highway and at DeWitte Labor Camp on 1035 Central Valley Highway. A curtain caused a kitchen stove fire in the DeWitte house, while DeVincenzo raisins boxes caught fire.
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Shafter
Jon DeVincenzo
Scaroni
Central Valley Highway
Minter Field
DeWitte
DeVincenzo
Wildwood
South Merced
Rowlee
Lerdo
Fred Parrish
Ann Street
North Shafter
Turner Speakers At Bakersfield Chamber Meet
Turner and G. L. Seitz addressed fifty four attendees at the Bakersfield Chamber Agribusiness Committee meeting. Turner, head of the Shafter United States Cotton Research Station, outlined a new seed aimed at higher valley revenue and earlier harvest with disease resistance. He projected a 12 to 18 million dollar revenue rise by 1967.
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Cotton
Greater
Bakersfield
Kenneth G. Clarke
G. L
Sam’ Seitz
Calot, Ltd
John Turner
United States
I Shafter
Turner
Shafter Research Station
San Joaquin Valley
John Hoyt
Maynard Cummings
University of California Davis
Cummings
Chamber
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