New Book Shipment Arrives at Shafter Library
New fiction titles include The Mind Readers Catacombs Monkey on a Chain A Woman of the People A Fortune in Dimes Love Is Here to Stay A Man of Double Deed Disputed Passage Absalom The Last Valley The Hounds of Hell Through a Glass Darkly The Best Is Yet to Be Scandal's Child The Green Man The John Wyndham Omnibus The Afternoon Women The Beard The Hump and more. The nonfiction list features The Last Hours of Jesus Unsafe at Any Speed and The Seventeen Guide to Your Widening World. The next regular shipment will arrive September 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Library
Harriet Mason
Mind Readers
Allingham
Bennett
Blackstock
Capps
Carter
Craig
Daventry
Douglas
Absalom
Faulkner
Hans
Plagemann
Schiddel
Treece
Troy
Wertenbaker
Wilk
John Wyndham
Wyndham
Graham
Graves
Cox
Myer
Sheppard
DeHaan
Haupt
Atlantis
Donnelly
McKie
Nader
Smith
Randall
Arthur Miller
Huftel
Stegner
Sean O’casey
Fallen
Joseph Conrad
Gurko
Durrenmatt
Boardman
Babylon
Assyria
Conewau
Baja
Gardner
Old West
Farnsworth
Wallis
Coming and Going in Shafter Area
A local column notes Mercy hospital confinement for Kerneth Anderson of 30149 West Lerdo Highway. Several families from Shafter and Cashmere return from vacations and travels to Morro Bay, Disney land trips, Sequoia National Park, and Arizona. Many residents visit relatives, attend schools, or plan moves to Tucson, Madrid, and other locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerneth Anderson
West Lerdo Highway
Mercy Hospital
Ernest Castro
Tucson
Shafter
Rolf Jacobsen
Manuel Avenue
Flagstaff
Ariz
University of Arizona
Kern County Fair to Host One of Six California Class A Shows
The 1966 Kern County Fair will feature a Class A horse show with 10382 in premium money, up about 34500. Fair director Kenneth N. Mebane notes extra money is required by the American Horse Show Association and exhibitors seek triple points for Hi Score awards. The five day event runs September 28 to October 2 with Walter Kane as general chairman and Eric Atterbury as show manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Kern County
Kenneth N. Mebane
American Horse Show Association
Mebane
Walter Kane
Eric W. L. Atterbury
Dick Fleming
Ralph V. Walker
Malcom Russell
Cy Allen
Kane
Atterbury
Obituary for Ervin N Bradshaw Shafter Resident
Ervin N Bradshaw 61 of Shafter died Saturday in a Los Angeles hospital. Services set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at Agee Family Funeral Home chapel with American Legion Fest 26 of Bakersfield providing military rites and Chaplain Frank Armstrong. Survived by widow Loree, sons James Roswell New Mexico Walter Potter Fresno, daughters Dorothy Faye Blackard Eureka Billie Jo Stout Dallas Phyllis Jewel Sanders Roswell Cynthia Spicer Shafter Shryl Linn Juranda Bradshaw Shafter and Diane King Nebraska, 16 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Interment Shafter Memorial Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ervin N. Bradshaw
Agee Family
Rosedale Hwy
Los Angeles
American Legion
Bakersfield
Frank Armstrong
Mark Thompson
Bradshaw
Texas
Roswell
N.M
Nebraska
Shafter Memorial Park
Funeral services for Roy Swinford held in Shafter
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Flint Mortuary Chapel Shafter for Roy Lee Swinford Church of God with burial in Shafter Memorial Park beside his mother Rosie Swinford who died in 1957. He was born July 17 1922 in Arkansas and lived much of his life in California. He served in the U S Army during World War I and is survived by Lucille his widow and three sons Gary Jerry and Terry all of Bakersfield. He also leaves father Jack Swinford stepmother Susie and brothers Charles and Tom. Pallbearers were Max Bevins Glen Preston Arthur Nickell Raymond Yoakum Cletus Livingston and Ricky Horton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint Mortuary
Shafter
Roy Lee Swinford
Church of God
Shafter Memorial Park
Rosie C. Swinford
Swinford
Arkansas
Tuscon
Arizona
Jack
Rosie Swinford
Bakersfield
Lucille Nichols
California
Lucille Swinford
Gary
Jerry
Terry
Jack Swinford
Susie
Charles
Tom Swinford
Max Blevins
Glen Preston
Arthur Nickell
Raymond Yoakum
Cletus Livingston
Ricky Horton
Horse show entries close for August fair events
Day and Sunday schedule at 9 am and 2 pm with 10 classes each evening starting 7 pm. Event lineup includes jumpers hunters hackamore parade trail cutting walking stock horses and more plus a Gymkhana on Thu Fri Sat Sun. Judges include Cunningham Morris and Richards with August 27 deadline for mail entries to Bakersfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Cunningham
Mexico
George H. Morris
New Canaan
Conni
Ronnie Richards
Valley Center
Calif
Fair Office
P. O
Bakersfield
Teacher Reception Held by Kiwanis at Veterans Hall
The annual Teacher Reception luncheon will be held Wednesday August 31 during the Kiwanis Club regular meeting at Veterans Hall. Several civic groups will host the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Veterans Hall
Adult Beavers Reputed Largest North American Rodents
Adult beavers weigh thirty to one hundred pounds and are described as the largest members of the rodent family in North America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North America
Bulk transfer notice for Shafter Floor Covering and Draperies
Legal notice to creditors lists bulk transfer by Adolph Goertzen covering SHAFTER FLOOR COVERING AND DRAPERIES at 311 Central Avenue Shafter California. Transferee details show none while prior businesses include Wasco Laundromat Econ-O-Wash and Four Seasons Mobile Park. Transfer to be consummated Sept 2 1966 at 10 00 AM in Escrow Dept Bank of America Ondale Branch California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Goertzen
Central Avenue
Shafter
California
Wasco Laundromat
7Th St
Wasco
Econ-O-Wash
F. St
Four Seasons Mobile Park
Lacey Blvd
Hanford
See Avenue
Callide
Bank of America
Ondale
No. Chester Avenue
Bobby A Lewis Ene
Shafter Press
Transfer of Property at Central Ave Shafter California
Notice of transfer detailing listed equipment including metal filing cabinet Hoover sha and polisher pa devices and linoleum rollers to be completed at the Shafter branch 261 Central Ave Shafter California on or after December 2 1966. Transferor’s business name and address are noted with transferee Bank of National Trust and Savings Association represented by L S Holcomb as transferee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Trait
Clark Edger
Central Ave
Shafter
California
Lnsist
BBY H. Lewis
Elim St
Bank of National Trusif & Savings Association
L. S. Holcomb
Transferee Pub
Shafter Press
Title Insurance And Trust Trustee Sale Notice 1966 Bakersfield
Notice of trustee sale by Title Insurance And Trust Company as trustee under a deed of trust dated 1965. Arthur Connor Jr and Betty Connor are the borrowers. Sale to the highest bidder for cash in the Title Insurance and Trust Company building lobby at 1715 Chester Avenue Bakersfield California. Property described in the deed of trust recorded in the county recorder. Sale to cover note of 425 with interest from 1965 for breach under the trust. Publication dates August 10 17 and 26 1966.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Title Insurance and Trust Company
Arthur Connor, JR
Betty Ss. Connor
Cote
Eee County Recorder
California
United States
Chester Avenue
Bakersfield
State of Sanrem
Shefter
Cou
Seid
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Stringham’s
DeWitte’s Paradise
Fresno Ave
Bradshaw's City Furniture
The
A. Moyer
C. V. Hwy
Euclid
E. Euclid
Wasco Motor Sales
Don the
Wasco Dodge
7Th St. Wasco
Reania
Olds Automobile
Harris Dr
FORD
Atlantic
Business
Eee Co., Inc
Aristocrat
Call
Ernie Hofman
al Sleven
East Ash
Cal
Schnaidt
Realtors
Liv
E. Lerdo
Hwy
Lge Res
Notary Insurance
Clara J. Schnaidt “Realtor & Ins
Memberersfield Board of Realtors
Cal-Kern Realty Shafter
Carp
Jeep
Honda
Otto W. Becker
the King Lumber Co
Leech Music
Sylvania
Merle Mettler
Orange
Colvard
Orange Avenue
South Shafter
Willow
Schnaidt's
Central
James St
Schnidt’s Realty
George Mayer
Thomas Lane
Riverside
Kern
Leroad
Godey Rd
Studio Apt
W. Lerdo
Pacific
Apt
Kern & Pacific
State St
West Orange
Avon Cosmetics
Kern City
Los Angeles Times
W. Euclid
Irvin E. Fike, Inc
Central Valley Hwy
Finan
Irvin &. Fike, Inc
Coney Valley Hwy
Free Will Baptist Church
W. W. McPhail
Richland Drive
Smith’s Corner
O. C. Baker
Hershel
Rodgers
Bill
Patrice
Annette Albright
Morro Bay
Vernon Cronen
Cashmere Wash
John Spear
Disneyland
St. James Episcopal Church
Cashmere
Fr. Spear
Pete Buller
Sunset
San Joaquin Hospital
Bill Blanset
Tuscon, Ariz
Sacramento
Evelyn Agee
San Francisco
Joe
St. Mary’s
Moraga
Jim
Spain
University of Spain At
Madrid
Dick Southwick
Ray Wiley
Sequoia National Park
Warren Blumenstock
Shafter Avenue
Ventura
Santa Barbara
Mette
Congress
Frank Wiener
Central Valley Ford
Skafter
Kern Fair
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