County Fair Emphasizes Mechanized America Theme
L. H. Goad announces Kern County Fair to open on Union avenue and Casa Loma drive with six times more commercial exhibits. The fifth largest in the state runs Sept 22–28 featuring agricultural development and county wide attendance, plus tours of the 159 acre site and junior livestock show rated No. 1 in America.
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America
Kern County Fair
L. H. (Stoney ) Goad
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Union Avenue
Casa Loma Drive
Kern County
Kiwanians
Glenn O. Nay
Shafter High School
15Th District Agricultural Association
Bakersfield
Jim Janzen Called To Army Service
Jim Janzen twenty year old son of Mr and Mrs Jack Janzen 477 Shafter Ave is stationed with the Army at Fort Ord He left for the service last week Janzen formerly attended Shafter High School and Bakersfield College His brother Jack recently graduated from California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo is working for Era 11 Mettler and Sons
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Jim Janzen
Jack Janzen
Shafter Ave
Army
Fort Ord
Young Janzen
Shafter High School
Bakersfield College
Jack
California Polytechnic
San Luis Obispo
Era
Mettler and Sons
Funeral Services for Mrs Enyard in Armstrong Chapel
Funeral services for Mrs Martha Mahaley Enyard, 67, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Armstrong Chapel. She died Tuesday in Taft Community Hospital. Rev. Durwood Phillips will officiate. interment in Shafter Cemetery. Mrs Enyard lived in Shafter nine years. she is survived by two sons Tom and Rex Enyard, Shafter. three brothers Robert Beach and Abraham Beach, Missouri, Webb Beach, San Jose. one sister Mrs Mary Ash, San Jose.
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Martha Mahaley Enyard
Armstrong Chapel
Taft Community Hospital
Durwood Phillips
Shafter Cemetery
Enyard
Shafter
Tom
Rex Enyard
Robert
Abraham
School to Install Clocks in Rooms
The Richland School will gain electric clocks in classrooms as the board approves acoustic tile in hallways. Western Asbestos Co. won the bid for materials. IBM Co. selected to supply clocks per Assistant Superintendent Ralph Bush.
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Western Asbestos Co
IBM Co
Ralph Bush
Don Wheeler Hurt In Bike Mishap
Don Wheeler son of Mr and Mrs J E Wheeler 254 Cross Street has been in bed for four weeks after a broken hip from a bicycle fall. Visitors include his uncle Carl V Fry Porterville who recently returned from Korea and his grandmother Mrs Houston Rowell Lawton Oklahoma.
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Don Wheeler
J. E. Wheeler
Cross St
Carl V. Fry Jof
Porterville
Korea
Houston Rowell
Lawton
Okla
Rowell
Poll On Joint Hospital Project Receives Postcards
The Shafter-Wasco committees study a district hospital unit and send 1000 postcard ballots selecting every fifth voter. The slow return rate prompts hope for a fair decision led by Elbert Franz of Wasco. The card invites donations to a private hospital fund if the district idea fails.
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Shafter-Wasco
Elbert Franz
Wasco
Schools Conference Opens New Year Orientation Plan
The article notes a teachers conference before school begins with special education speakers. Seventy one teachers and staff will be on hand. 23 are new to the district, nine filling extra classes added last year. Engineers inspected the Richland plant after the quake and found no damage. The school board meets August 19 after officials return from vacation.
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Bush
Richland
Bruce
Crawford
Leonard Gaede
Ed Kirschenmann
Mrs Harold Dunham Celebrates First Anniversary Dinner
Mrs Harold Dunham was entertained on her first wedding anniversary by her husband’s parents Mr and Mrs Tom Dunham at a dinner in Wasco.
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Harold Dunham
Tom Dunham
Wasco
Miss Blakely to Wed Clyde Wilcoxon in Oildale
Miss Freda Laverne Blakely daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Blakely of Rosedale will marry Clyde Mack Wilcoxon son of the Rev and Mrs Sam Wilcoxon North Kern street at 8 p m tomorrow in the First Southern Baptist Church of Oildale The bridegrooms father a minister will perform the ceremony A church annex reception will follow
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Freda Laverne Blakely
Fred Blakely
Rosedale
Clyde Mack Wilcoxon
Sam Wilcoxon
Kern Street
First Southern Baptist Church
Oildale
Shafter First Southern Baptist Church
Workmen to Start Road Improvement on City Streets
Workmen of the city streets department will finish improving Calloway Street and Tulare Avenue this week and then move to South Shafter Avenue. Public Works Director Jack Harris said crews would re-surface South Shafter where water drainage and roadway issues persist.
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City Streets Department
Calloway Street
Tulare Avenue
Public Works
Jack Harris
South Shafter Avenue
Sgt. Dunham Homeward Bound from Korea
Word has been received that Sgt. Harold Dunham, husband of the former Artie Britt, is due to arrive home from Korea at the end of the month. He has served eleven months in the Korean theater and will arrive in San Francisco where he will be met by his wife. Mrs. Dunham will live with him at his next base until discharge expected in November.
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Harold Dunham
Artie Britt
Korea
Dunham
Tom Dunham
San Francisco
Baseball Birthday Party For Donald Wayne Watson
Baseball games highlighted a Tuesday afternoon party celebrating Donald Wayne Watson ninth birthday. Guests included Verle Boney Johnny Tate Ronald Ray Karen Watson Rob ert Neuman Boyce Hicks Carolyn McKillwayne Virginia Smith Jimmy Watson Sheryl Watson and Roger Fowler. Cup cakes punch jello and birthday cake were served.
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Donald Wayne Watson
Donald Watson
Los Angeles Avenue
Donny
Verle Boney
Johnny Tate
Ronald
Ray
Karen Watson
Robert Neuman
Boyce
Donna Hicks
Carolyn
Barbara McKillwayne
Virginia Smith
Jimmy
Sheryl Watson
Roger
Sidney Fowler
Water合同 negotiations for Shafter-Wasco district outlined
Crowe pressed for a saving clause to protect the district from Bureau actions in water distribution and the potential for contract redraws. Moskovitz considered phrasing changes and a saving clause. The meeting covered payments, delivery dates, and allocations, with a Mar 1 start and a six year ramp period before schedule locking.
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Crowe
Bureau
Moskovitz
Por
Shafter-Wasco
Millerton Lake
Friant-Kern
Salvation Army Leader Visits Buttonwillow Earthquake Relief Units
Senior Major McCann of the Salvation Army of San Francisco visited Buttonwillow this week. She discussed local relief work at Tehachapi and Arvin, spoke with C. A. Johns, and said the Army can be called on to help through the local unit and the state office in San Francisco.
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Buttonwilloow
McCann
Salvation Army of
San Francisco
Tehachapi
Arvin
Buttonwillow
C. A. Johns
Salvation Army
Army Ca
John Wilkins Sent To Sawtelle Veterans Hospital
John Wilkins of Park Lane has been sent to the Sawtelle Veterans Administration Hospital for treatment of a stomach ailment. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Ray Wilkins of Shafter and served with the Army during World War II.
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John ,W.wilkins
Park Lane
Sawtelle Veterans Administration Hospital
Ment. Wilkins
Ray Wilkins
Shafter
Former Shafter Residents Pay Visit to Starrh Family
Former Shafter residents who have been visiting in the Starrh home include Mr. and Mrs. G L Starrh of Poplar Avenue and Mr. and Mrs. J P Hansen with Alice Marie of Durham. On Friday evening the Hansens were dinner guests in the home of Mrs. George Vannatta on Cross Street.
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Shafter
G. L. Starrh
Poplar Avenue
J. P. Hansen
Alice Marie
Durham
Hansens
George Vannatta
Cross St
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Anne Baxter
Dale.Robertson
Richard Denning
George Brent
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Dick Smith
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T. D. Steelman
J. H. Steelman
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Grover E. Sherrell
Ted H. Steelman
R.D. Milam
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Ed Starz
L. J. Charles
Batboy
Rodger Dale Steelman
Miss Blakely
Sgt
Adolph Moskovitz
Sacramento
T. R
Ted) Thompson
Fresno
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Shafter, Calif
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Veterans Hospital
Starrh
New Holland
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