Shafter Potato Festival Queen Contest Prompts Tahoe Prize Plans
Obispoes, a McMinnan and manager in Santa Maria, moves to Shafter with his wife Sally as the festival approaches. Queen contestants appear on TV shows while Lake Tahoe hosts a potential prize week at Playland Motel, Lake Tahoe Chamber arranging lodging and events.
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Last Frontier
Las Vegas
Lake Tahoe
Shafter
Hi Way 50
West
Georg
Cousin Herb
Leo
Bakersfield
Pat Kelly to speak at Friday luncheon in Shafter
Shafter Assemblyman Pat Kelly will address a Friday luncheon on the current state legislature session and emergency actions. He described a $20 million aid bill for impoverished school districts, especially Bakersfield area, to rebuild earthquake damaged schools. Kelly is a realtor, former teacher, and 1950 assembly member reelected in 1952.
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Shafter
Kelly
Governors Office
State Capitol
Bakersfield
Adventist Group Celebrates Fortieth Anniversary in Shafter
Eber R. C Baker, president of California Conference Seventh-day Adventists, is named as guest speaker at 11:00 AM on Sabbath day. The Shafter group, once without a central church, now stands as a key center for the Adventist movement in Wasco area with members meeting in homes across weeks.
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Eber R. C Baker
California
Chevneth-day Adventists
San California
Shafter Agri
Wasco
Local Directory Project Underway in Shafter
Backed by the Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Division, Sar Becker launches a city and environs directory. Workers canvas the community to collect names and addresses of residents aged 16 and over. The directory aims to cover Shafter and surrounding area, with data ready in sixty days and the book to printer immediately.
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Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Shafter Merchants Division
Sar Becker
Shafter
Becker
Renee Shafter
Mother-Daughter Banquet Set for May 7
Union Congregational hosts a mother-daughter banquet on May 7 featuring roast turkey dinner. Only 120 tickets available, with seating for families and guests.
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Union Congregational
Rolfom AU
Bahia
Parents to View Children’s Work During Special Week
The 35th annual American Heritage event runs April 26 to May 3 in Richland and nearby high schools. Richland School opens with a grade girls glee club performance for Shafter Rotary Club, followed by a parent dinner April 26 from 4 to 8 p.m. Parents visit classrooms to see student work as teachers meet with them.
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California
Richland School
Ter High School
Anni
Shafter’ Rotary Club
Ing
Martha Gloeckler
Mystery Farce Old Lace Slated For Hi School Play
The drama club at the high school presents a mystery farce titled Arsenic and Old Lace in the school gym on an evening at 8. Karen Burnquist and Po well play the two elderly sisters who take welfare matters into their own hands while a demented nephew aids their plot. George Larson, as Teddy, supports the plan to build the Panama Canal with a gruesome nephew Alan Walker arranging murders. Cast includes Jack Robbins Don Neufeld Clarente Kastner James Waymire Harvey Friedley Royce Eslick Marvin Schmidt Gary Wilson. Behind the scenes are Mary Brown Dorothy Weitz Arlene Kadel Marilyn Smith Barbara Maupin Kirk Fitzpatrick Joan Eckman Gladys Taylor. Dramatics teacher Darlene Ludtke directs with dramatics students.
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Karen Burnquist
Powell
George Larson
Teddy
Alan Walker
Jack Robbins
Don Neufeld
Clarente Kastner
James Waymire
Harvey Friedley
Royce Eslick
Marvin Schmidt
Gary Wilson
National Education Association appoints life membership committee
The article notes the National Education Association appointing seven members to its life-membership committee. The goal is to extend life memberships to raise funds to expand the association’s facilities and support its work.
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PEFA
National Education Association
Educational Association
Kern Academy Flower Show Slated For April Twenty Seventh
Kern Academy announces a flower show at the Assembly Hall on April 27 at 7 30 p m with films from California Spray Chemical Corp. A company representative will present the films and answer audience questions. The European Gardens film tours famous sites and the African Violets and Gloxinias film showcases dozens of specimens and care tips. Entries will be received April 27 from 10 a m to 2 p m after a 3 45 p m start.
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Kern Academy Assembly Hall
California Spray Chemical Corp
Hyde Park
London
Kew Garden
Windsor Castle
Royal Horticultural Society
Wisley England
Bagatelle
Paris
California
Legion Announces Winners Of Richland Essay Contest
The American Legion Auxiliary sponsored Richland School students in an Americanism essay contest. Upper grade winner Dianna Mettler earned a $5 prize. first place in another division went to Juanzeh Delaney for What the Pledge means to Me. Certificates of merit went to Donna Ditmore and Patty Pyle.
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Juanzen Delaney
Diana Mettler
Erma Moody
American Legion Auxiliary of
Shafter
Richland School
American Legion Auxiliary
Richland
Dianna Mettler
Dee
Meri
Juanzeh Delaney
Donna Ditmore
Patty Pyle
Harold Greene
Bob Bann
Ernie Hofman
Shafter High Glee Club Plans Spring Concert Tour
Shafter High School Glee Club and Band announce four spring concerts as part of the area elementary schools counseling program. Music director Ken Fahsbender says events will introduce high school musical opportunities to prospective freshmen and prep for the May 6 Annual Music Concert. Concerts at Lerdo Maple Rio Bravo and Richland schools occur April 21 to April 28.
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Shafter High School
Ken Fahsbender
Lerdo School
Maple School
Rio Bravo
Richland School
Kern County Predicted to Top Fresno by 1959 Population
Pacific Gas and Electric Company projections cited by the Kern County Board of Trade estimate Kern County's population reaching 272,000 by January 1955, a 19.1 percent rise from 228,209 in 1950, suggesting Kern will become the San Joaquin Valley’s leading county by 1959 amid faster growth in auto registrations employment and income.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Zive
Kern County
San Joaquin Valley
Kern County Board of Trade
P. G. and
Board of Trade
Kern Coun
Cy Finance
Clifton Clemens
Kern
Frespo
Fresno
Poster Contest Opens for Local Festival
Four area schools Richland Maple Rio Bravo and Lerdo begin poster work for the festival contest. A $10 grand prize awaits the best judged poster from the four schools. Entries due by May 14 with judging on theme originality artistic ability and neatness.
Shafter High Blue and Gold Day Details Given
Shafter High School hosts Blue and Gold Day on May 1 to give students brief on the job training. Students will be screened next week and stores contacted to offer positions, with selected youths placed at their chosen stores for May 1. Dr. Grant Jensen notes merchant participation.
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Shafter High School
Acco
Grant Jensen
Laban
The
Shafter
Entries Pouring In For Shafter Festival Parade
The Shafter Potato Festival parade draws about 50 entrants with Bakersfield horses a float from L A Camp and Maple Leaf Enterprise Wasco entries. Bakersfield riders Fredda McClarren on Missy enter best rider class. Majorette groups Twirlettes and Bakersfield Landerettes plan uniforms and ostrich plumed hats.
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Bakersfield
Corinne ‘Lambert
Dee Humphry
L. A. Camp
Maple Leaf Enterprise Group
Wasco
East Bakersfield
Missy
Twirlettes
Bakersfield Landerettes
Sanderettes
Shafter
Lindsay
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
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Doe) Jenner
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