August in Shafter Round About Town Recaps Local Life
Round About Town for August highlights social spots in Shafter. Readers are urged to visit friends, attend the pool by age group, and enjoy baseball with local pitcher Jones of Buttonwillow. Tom Kelly is named outstanding personality for his kindness and morning paper delivery, while cottage life includes floods from a broken pipe and fall fashion chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Marge Olson
Jones
Buttonwillow
Red River
Tom Kelly
Balfield
Freda Kirschenmann
Barbara Keene
Sunday Society
Kenny Cooper
Cooper
Pvt Carl Kelley Ships to Germany
Pvt Carl E Kelley shipped from New Jersey on July 30 to finish a three year enlistment in Germany. He serves as Company Clerk on the General Rose and commands six platoons totaling 183 men and maintains an office. Left at home were Mr and Mrs Kelley and children Kenneth Freda and Lela, residents of Shaf ter for thirteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Kelley
New-Jersey
Navy Recruiting Van Displays In Shafter On Monday
A joint Navy and Reserve Mobile Communications Van toured Shafter on Central Avenue for one day from 9 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. Chief Gunners Mate George S Lunsford and Chief Machinist Mate E M Baifies led the display and answered enlistment questions. Literatures and booklets were distributed to interested residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Shafter
George S. Lunsford
Bakersfield
E.M. Baifies
Bakersfield Naval Reserve Training Center
Hunting with firearms practiced widely in US and Canada
The article notes that hunting with firearms is conducted on a larger scale in the United States and Canada than in any other region of the world, highlighting its prevalence and cultural prominence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Sealed bids invited for Shafter Project No. 16 improvements
City of Shafter California invites sealed proposals to widen Shafter Avenue between Lerdo and Stone on the east and Lerdo to Ash on the west, install part circle culverts, and resurface at Shafter Lerdo Central. Bids due August 29, 1949 at 5 PM to the City Clerk. Bid security of 10 percent required. Prevailing wage rates listed by classification. The city reserves right to reject any bid and waive informalities.
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Shafter
California
City of
Shafter Avenue
Lerdo and
Stone Avenues
Lerdo
Ash Avenues
Central Avenues
State of
Methodist Church Setting for Duke Adcock Wedding
Miss Beverly Duke and Doyle Adcock wed at First Methodist Church Wasco in a 7 pm ceremony attended by 200 guests. Rev. Paul Nelson officiated with solos by Mariann Devlin and Bob Petker. The couple planned a Canada Tahoe honeymoon and future Wasco home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Wasco
Beverly Helen Duke
Shafter
Doyle Houston Adcock
Paul Nelson
Mariann Devlin
Bob Petker
Art Clemens
Pete Duke
Iiorier
Jean Bartel
Rosemary Stocker
Miss Wanda~Sneed
Miss Stocker
Miss Sneed
Sandra Duke
Kenneth
Duke
Ofc
Byron Weston
Montebello
George Dipple
Gordon Henley
George Ann. Standridge
Stratford
Oklahoma
Ruth Duke
Sam Adcock
Benedict
Willie Watts
Helen Buller
Canada
Lake Tahoe
Adcock
Ruth
Beth Eden
Richland School
Shafter High School
Horizon Club
G.A.A
Laurion
Beneict
Recovery Promising For Marilyn Hahn
Shafter residents await news on Marilyn Hahn five year old daughter of Dr and Mrs James B Hahn injured in an automobile crash She shows progress with right side limbs starting to function though fingers and toes remain immobile She receives physiotherapy and remains cheerful visiting Los Angeles Children’s Hospital where she is confined for an extended stay The attending physician notes she will remain in hospital for some time yet
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Marilyn Hahn
James B. Hahn
Hahn
Los Angeles
Marilyn
Children’s Hospital
Metally
Bar
Inglewood Home Hosts Barn and Infant Son James William
Barn and his infant son James William have been living in southern California at the Inglewood residence of Dr Hahn’s parents Mr and Mrs S D Hahn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barn
James William
Southern
California
Inglewood
Mrs
S. D. Hahn
Wasco Men Fined for Knife Fight
L. C. Jackson and Andrew Colbert both of Wasco were fined 125 each by Wasco City Judge Fred Pritschke after pleading guilty to attacking each other with jackknives. They were taken to Kern General Hospital for treatment of head wounds Colbert received 87 stitches and Jackson 27 stitches. Both were booked for battery and fined.
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L. C. Jackson
Andrew Colbert
Wasco
Fred Pritschke
Kern General Hospital
Colbert
Jackson
Cooper Press Reporter Resigns and Returns to Los Angeles
C. Duane Cooper, longtime press staffer since last April, resigns and heads back to Los Angeles after a Navy summer cruise. The Navy veteran previously earned postgraduate degrees at the University of Southern California before joining the Shafter office to handle special script writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Duane Cooper
Los Angeles
Navy
Cooper
Shafter
University of Southern California
Returns Home After Major Surgery
Greg Malory, after major surgery at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, returned home last week and is able to be up and about part of each day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
Solgan
al Cornell
Bakersfield Hospital
Greg Malory
Cottage Hospital
Santa Barbara
Also Mentioned on This Page
PVT
Carl Kelley
Germany
MTR
Sse
Ape
waauTy
F. G. Shaw
Ralph Schwandt
Santa Fe Highway
Central Valley Highway
Calif
Jack Janzen
Golden ‘West
Shafter Ave
Chevrolet
Methodist Church
Duke-Adcock
Texas
Compton
U.S. Army Air Corps
Panama Canal Zone
Donald
Margeritte
George
Ann Standridge
Merle Royal
Pasadena
Doyce McNatt
Jerry McNatt
Hollydale
Marie Woodbury
Johnny Waddell
John Siemens
Pixley
Kho
LIFE
Saturday Evening Post
Kroehler Mfg. Co
Kroehler
Lofa & Chair
H.a.&f. Co
Home Appliance & Furniture CO
Central Avenue
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