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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1960
Page
7
Pastor Sunday School at 9 45 A M led by Jack Graves Sept Preaching at 11 A M by Pastor B T A 6 30 P M HARLTON WEST director A class for each age Preaching 7 30 P M by Pastor Prayer Service Wednesday 7 00 P M W M U Mrs Jesse Mouser President Brotherhood Jesse Mouser President Meets last Thursday each month 7 30 P M
About 500 women from M B Churches across Orland to Los Angeles gathered at the First Christian Church in Bakersfield for the seventh annual West Coast Missionary Rally on March 17. Rev Leo Wiens led sessions praising co labor with the Apostle Paul and welcomed guests from Washington and Oregon.
Analysis notes Los Angeles is about half the land area of Rhode Island yet remains a very large city in scope. The comment contrasts density and geographic footprint, suggesting practical implications for planning and services in a major urban region.
Ann Henderson, California native now teaching physical education and coaching girls tennis at Shafter High, comments on the cooperative students and friendly townspeople. The Gardener's Checklist offers planting guidance for gladiolus, roses, herbs, yellow marguerites, and container plantings, plus pest control advice and irrigation notes.
State appraisers will field test the relationship between county assessed values and market values as part of a statewide equalization program. Kern County Assessor J. H. Hanks announced in Bakersfield that the effort aims to determine county wide ratios against the state average and adjust secured roll values if needed to align with the statewide norm.
Forty one Kern County workers will receive certificates, service pins, and recognition as Edwin Buck reports the group totals 420 years of county service. Cletus E. Quinn earns a 30 year jeweled pin, with six awards for 20 years, four for 15, twelve for 10, and eighteen for five years.
Mrs. Vivian Rice of Shafter notes the Kern County Braille Center offers weekly meetings from September to May at the Veteran's Memorial Hall, Mt. Vernon and Ridge Road. The center provides Braille reading and typing lessons, arts and entertainment, lunches, and social fellowship for blind residents with volunteer drivers and a single paid director.
In a fragmented wartime note the text references a clash between the SS and Moslems with years implied, indicating a heated controversy or ideological struggle during the conflict era.
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