NO MORE SECRETS CENSUS VISIT SHAFTER CENSUS TAKERS
Heavy vote seer in city election with notes on Shafter library plans to attract citizen interest. Prezler and Lachenmaier noted for past roles in farming and potato business, with family details. McClure long city councilman and former mayor, police commissioner earlier. City Clerk Shaw since 1938, active in local governance. vote April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Library
Prezler
Bakersfield
Lachenmaier
Shafter
United States Experimental Farm
Ralph John
William Richard
Marines Ave
Bertha
McClure
Golden West Ave
Lucille
Paula
Cheryl
Shaw
End of Year Parties Planned at Richland School
Richland School representatives plan end of year parties for all grades on May 22 23 or 24 decided at a recent luncheon in the school cafeteria. The city promotes library week April 17 22 with a California Centennial themed exhibit at Shafter Branch Library inviting public materials for display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland School
Shafter
Evey
California
Sunset
James Streets
Census Nose Counters Sweep City for Decade Check
Seven workers canvass Shafter area to measure growth and demographics over ten years. They question origins, occupations, wartime activity and living patterns as California’s population shifts westward. Also noted is the election of O G Ohlsson and 11 others to the Tuberculosis and Health Association board at Hotel El Tejon in Bakersfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Uncle Sam
California
Congress
Angeline Fitzpatrick
Oklahoma
O. G. Ohlsson
The
Tuberculosis and Health Association
el Tejon
Baxersfield
Nugent Elected President of Wednesday Club
Mrs. J. B. Nugent was elected president of the Wednesday Afternoon Club to succeed Mrs. Arthur Brownell. Other officers include Mrs. George Collins as vice president and Mrs. Ed Brown as recording secretary. A guest, Sybil Nelms, high school senior and Pot o Festival queen contestant, attended with Campfire group numbers and a talk on Campfire activities.
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J. B. Nugent
Arthur Brownell
George Collins
Ed Brown
Jack Hare
Harlan Wilson
E. B. Stringham
MemMver
Art Diuwwwnel
Mesdames
Oscar Weidmann
Ernest Panero
Sybil Nelms
Junior Womens Club
Virginia Bender
Mary Gates
LaVelle
LaVenne Stoller
Norma Craig
Mary Margaret Revell
Mrs. Brownell
la Velle Stoller
Aldeen Kimmel
Janice Beaver
Delores Nix
Helen June Adams
Shafter High Students and Veterans Highlight Local Notes
A Shafter High School senior Queen race participant and Bakersfield native Miss Rodgers work as an office nurse for Dr. Ohlsson while attending Bakersfield College. Local veteran programs include one Shafter resident joining 240 ex-GIs statewide acquiring farms, with Kern County peers from Bakersfield and Rosamond also enrolled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Shafter High School
Miss Rodgers
R. W Rodgers
Bakersfield
O. G .Ohlsson
Bakersfield College
Miss Baughman
Lawrence Baughman
Holy Names College
Oakland
Arkansas
Nelms
Roder
California
Kern County
Rosamond
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Richland
Johnson
Coopers Flower Shop & Nursery
E. Lerdo
United States
John Lamb
Katie Merel
Lamb
Espuc
Speedy
Kester Motors, Inc
6Th & F Street
Kester Motors
Karpen
Callifornia
Ses Mat
Ick Nelms
Shafter High Schoo
Horizon
Orthodox Missionary Baptist Church
North Kern Street
Calif
Sissippi River
Southern Baptist Churches
Sam Wilcoxon
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