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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1950
Page
4
Camping Troop 53 from Shafter Bay readies for Kern District camporee at Motro Bay April 22 to 23. Scoutmaster Ke Pipkin leads 35 boys along Kern River near Hart Memorial Park with volunteers and several named scouts and adults taking part.
A man named Robert E Lee visiting Shafter to secure a service station permit from Building Inspector E K Grant represented Texaco Oil company. The project plans an $8000 station on Santa Fe avenue one block south of city hall with new equipment bought from Wayne Pump Company of Los Angeles.
Women attending the auxiliary planned tea for Kern County Osteopathic Society receive Miss Caroline Leonetti of Hollywood as guest speaker at 2 p.m. on April 14 at Bakersfield Women’s Clubhouse. Leonetti, longtime fashion and charm consultant, appears on Art Linkletter’s Houseparty. Admission is by invitation only. call Shafter numbers 4479 or 738 for invitations. VOTE APRIL 11.
J H Fuller announces purchase of the Warren Yoder cotton gin. Fuller, a cotton industrialist long resident in Shafter since 1935, plans to call it the J H Deacon Fuller Gin and emphasize service. His career began in 1921 in Memphis and later included Imperial Valley and Arizona.
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