Campfire Group Spends Busy Month
The Mac kah-wee Campfire Girls spent March on several activities. They traveled to the Freedom Train, held a snow party with families including Vannatta Neuman Weitz and Sturges, celebrated at the Mennonite Church on March 14 for the Campfire Miss Morris entertainment, met at the Woman's Club house, and rehearsed a concert at the Standard School in Bakersfield. Mrs Weitz and Mrs Sturges supervise twelve girls.
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Weitz
Sturges
Frances Rose-Darryl Jenkins to Wed Sunday in Shafter
Frances Rose daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Rose of Shafter will wed Darryl Jenkins son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Jenkins also of Shafter at the Pentecostal Church of God at 8:00 p m Sunday June 25. Rev Bradhurst will officiate the double ring formal ceremony. A reception will follow.
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Frances Rose
Joe Rose
Shafter
Darryl Jenkins
Elmer Jenkins
Former Shafter Residents Visit Glendale Pair
Former Shafter residents Mr and Mrs Cecil Horton and Mr and Mrs L N Bishop with daughter Mrs Gena Coyne visited Friday. Hortons left Shafter ten years ago for military service. Bishops lived in Shafter 1923 to 1928 and later moved to Glendale.
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Cecil Horton
L. N. Bishop
Gena Coyne
Shafter
Hortons
Horton
Bishops
Bishop
Richland
Glendale
Shafter Workers Harvesting Edison Spuds
Shafter workers flock to Edison for the potato harvest but report smaller than average tubers this year. Explanations cited include cool weather and low moisture during planting.
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Shafter
Edison
Relatives Visit Mrs. Zerkel in Oildale from Culver City
Mrs. Rose Zerkel of Oildale hosted relatives including her son Mrs. Irvin Fike and her brother and his wife Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Zerkel from Culver City at her home recently.
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Rose Zerkel
Oildale
Irvin Fike
Taylor’ Zerkel
Culver City
Congregational Women Hold Kern Association Meeting at Maricopa
The Women’s Fellowship of Congregational churches met with Kern Association in Maricopa last Friday. Local delegates included Rev. and Mrs. Wm. H. Harper and others. Nelson C. Dreier of the Southern California Conference attended, with Mrs. Judson Fiebiger and Shafter group leaders praised for promoting racial and religious understanding.
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Women’s Fellowship of Congregational Women
Kern Association of Congregational Ministers
Maricopa
Congregational Church
Wm. H. Harper
Dean Potter
Marian
Herndon Hitchcock
Clyde Zachary
Clayton Montgomery
Southern California’ Conference
Nelson C. Dreier
Judson Fiebiger
Home Mission Board
Shafter Woman’s Group
Ed Brown
Kern Homes News Card Items and Social Notes
Regular Wednesday bridge club met in the recreation hall with Mrs. Jay Foster first high score, Mrs. Dale Knopf second, and Mrs. Kenneth Schmedding low. The benefit bridge party was postponed. Community notices include birthdays, illnesses, hospital visits, guests, travel to Southern California and Bakersfield events. A Friday night reel at the recreation hall showcased Sentimental Journey, Big Broadcast, and Great Northern Tackle Busters as short subjects.
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Recreation Hall
Jay Foster
Dale Knopf
Kenneth Schmedding
Fred Schardt
Kern Homes
Shafter District
Dunn
Barbara
Richard
Bobbie Foster
Sheran Day
Eric Donn
Sherry Goss
Richard Bertken
Virgil Wickatrick
Mercy Hospital
Robert McKean
Frank Angell
University of California At Berkeley
Ben Larson
Bobbie
Hollywood
George Harris
Melvin Goss
Joe Baker
Durward Jones
Clifford Squier
Donald Hart
Bakersfield Inn
San Diego
Norman Davis
Glendale
Richard Hunt
Gene Lee
Bakersfield
Walter Heisey
Stanley Willis
Werdel warns rural voters on statewide reapportionment
Bakersfield attorney and Congress candidate Tom Werdel urged Delano Exchange Club that the initiative to amend the State constitution would centralize legislative power in four metropolitan counties. He cautioned rural voters to defeat the measure by a four to one margin, noting his long service in California politics and his role in regional civic development.
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Delano Exchange Club
Tom Werdel
Bakersfield
State Senate
Werdel
California Legislative Constitutional Committee
State Assembly
Man
Alameda
San Francisco
San Diego
Los Angeles
San Joaquin Valley
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Westlake
del Monte
Ita
Tele
Giri
Hilo
Swifts
Arta
del Monte Catsup
ON Soap
Staleys
Bakers Package
Oxydol
Ivory
Shafter's
SN Ns
Kern Homes News
Mettler III
Roland Mettler
Congress
Shafter Press
McClure Drug Store
McClure
Central Ave
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