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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1954
Page
7
Bob Vignola son of Mr and Mrs C L Vignola earns Reserve Champion with Five Minutes To Midnight in the Three Gaited Division on Western Roll of Honor. The Roll of Honor began in 1951 to showcase breeders and trainers with points from shows in Arizona, California, Washington and Nevada.
Henry Eissler, president of the Crippled Children's Society of Kern County, urges residents not to return Easter Seals. He says keep and use them to remind others of Easter Seals and aid crippled children, with no billing or follow up. Also notes bee and river facts: California bees yield 94 pounds of honey in 1952, Brahamaputra River length about 1680 miles.
The Civil Air Patrol plans an all girl cadet exchange starting July 45 with 48 teenage cadets from the United States Hawaii Puerto Rico and Alaska. Host units Inyokern and Lancaster welcome girl cadets while Puerto Rico and Alaska delegates visit New Hampshire Michigan and California Oregon Nevada and Washington respectively. Cadets are chosen for scholarship leadership and citizenship merits and will be chaperoned by CAP women members with most expenses borne by host units. Girls 15 to 18 may join CAP by attending Squadron 111 at Shafter Airport or Squadron 113 at Kern County Airport.
Seventeen boys from the Pathfinder Club completed a 50 mile ride in ten hours to earn a cycling honor. Mr. MacPhee of Kern Academy led the group with Mrs. Fender son and Mrs. Ted. Voth guiding in support and Esther Neumann in a follow vehicle. All but two finished the journey with Richard Voth, Jerry Wesley, John Wesley, Larry Toews and others named among the riders.
Kern County expands its Ground Observer Corps with a new lookout tower in Bald win Road location. Bakersfield Naval Reserve Sea Bee Division assisted in rehab and relocation, dismantling and re erecting the WWII structure over five weekends. Local supporters Emmet Core Guy E Hall James E Hewitt H B Baumback King Marshal Lumber Dutch Bay Paint Walter Veichel aided the project. The refurnished tower began operation on Monday March 29 per supervisor Jack Homewood.
More than 50 Shafter High School members of the California Scholarship Federation attended a special convention at Wasco High School on Wednesday. The all day session aimed to promote the honor organization’s activities.
Dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Dan Voth at 702 California Ave were Mr and Mrs Harry Bunker who came from Washington and were originally from North Dakota. The Voths accompanied them to Fresno Saturday evening.
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