Green Manure Cover Crop Demonstration
A two day demonstration on green manure crops will be held September 3 and 4 at 10 am near the Sill Ranch in Seco under the University of California Extension Service. Directors M A Lindsay and J D Axtell will lead, with plots showing black-eye cow peas mixed cow peas soy beans pigeon peas and sestania. The site lies 1/4 mile east and 1 mile north and 1/2 mile west of the junction of Seventh Standard road and Highway 99.
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Sill Ranch
Seco
University of California Extension Service
M. A. Lindsay
J. D. Axtell
Seventh Standard Road
Highway 99
Evelyn Youngblood Heinlein Returns from Louisiana Trip
Evelyn Youngblood Heinlein returns to Shafter after a month in Louisiana accompanied by her son Kenneth Youngblood.
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Evelyn Youngblood Heinlein
Shafter
Louisiana
Kenneth Youngblood
Witcher Family Returns Home After Two Week Vacation
Mr and Mrs Hanley Witcher and their children have returned to Shafter after a two week vacation spent in Greenhorn and Santa Paula.
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Lyman D. Clark
Appleton
Wisc
Theodore Brunette
Outagamie County
Witchers Home
Hanley Witcher
Shafter
Greenhorn
Santa Paula
D T Moves to Meet Increased Car Demands
The Office of Defense Transportation plans government funding to build 50 000 boxcars to handle harvest season freight. ODT warns of a looming shortage as wartime fleet remains insufficient for farm product movement with weekly loadings near war peak and potential needs approaching 1 million cars per week by fall.
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Office of Defense Transportation
Emergency Transportation Agency
ODT
Roscamp Family Fetes Earl III on Third Birthday
Mr and Mrs Earl Roscamp of Cuyama Valley celebrated their son Earl Jr s third birthday last Tuesday Guests included Christina Roscamp and Stanley Gamegan from Shafter who traveled to Cuyama and back by Thursday Also present were Bob Roscamp of Shafter and Mr and Mrs Walter Kirschenman of Cuyama
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Earl, Jr
Earl Roscamp
Cuyama Valley
Christina Roscamp
Stanley Gamegan
Shafter
Cuyama
Bob Roscamp
Walter Kirschenman
Unruh-Eitzen Nuptials Held in Bakersfield Church
Mr and Mrs Elmer Unruh return home from a Santa Cruz and San Francisco wedding trip to 125 A Godey Road Bakersfield They wed August 2 at First Baptist Church Bakersfield Bride Doris Eitzen daughter of C P Eitzen and groom J E Unruh son of J E Unruh of Shafter The ceremony featured organist Georgina Friesen quartet singing O Promise Me Be Cause and O Perfect Love Dr D D Eitzen officiated Rev J J Toews Toastmaster A reception followed in the church social hall. Out of town guests listed.
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Santa Cruz
San Francisco
Elmer Unruh
Godey Road
Bakersfield
First Baptist Church
Doris Eitzen
C. P. Eitzen
Bakerfield
J. E. Unruh
Shafter
Georgina Friesen
Herman Cornelien
Theodore Heinricks
Dave Friesen
Arnold Bergen
Michael Golick
D. D. Eitzen
J. J. Toews
Alvera Liesch
Elma Duerksen
Diane Golick
Marilyn Gaede
Walde Unruh
Jim Klassen
Arnold Liesch
Harvey Harms
Toews
Alice Nikkel
H. W. Wiens
Abe Ediger
Albert Schroeder
Geraldine
Johnny
Hillsboro
Kans
H. H. Unruh
Dinuba
Ernest Enns
Reedley
Ernest Unruh
San Jose
J. J. Harder
Christian Science Talk Tuesday In Bakersfield
Free lecture titled Christian Science The Panacea for World Unrest to be held Tuesday evening September 3 at 8 o'clock in First Church of Christ Scientist Bakersfield on Eighteenth and C streets. Florence Middaugh from Los Angeles will speak as a board lecturer of The Mother Church in Boston. Public invited. admission free.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
C Streets
Bakersfield
Florence Middaugh
C. S
Los Angeles
California
First Church of Christ, Sciintist
Boston
Massachusetts
McCuen Briefs Kiwanis on Shafter High Site and Tales
Theron McCuen superintendent of the Kern County High School District spoke at the Kiwanis meeting at Cawelo Motel. He described the 80 acre Shafter High School site and future facilities, shared fishing trip anecdotes from Lake Tahoe, and was joined by John Eckhardt, Ted Kinman, and Jack Hare. Visiting Kiwanian Harold Tyler outlined El Centro Kiwanis history while guests Don Little and Maple School principal Mr. Gribble attended.
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Theron McCuen
Kern County
Cawelo Motel
Shafter High School
Jack ‘Hill
McCuen
Lake Tahoe
John Eckhardt
Ted Kinman
Jack Hare
Harold Tyler
el Centro
Don Little
Mr. Gribble
Maple School
Polio Cases Reported in Kern County Rise Through 1946
Kern County polio incidence through August 19 shows 26 cases and three deaths for 1946. Monthly distribution ranges from two cases in January to five in August, with officials urging vaccination, crowd avoidance, rest, nutrition, and clean homes to bolster resistance. Physicians should consider polio in mild illnesses to avoid missed diagnoses.
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Kern County
Minter Housing Seen As Aid To Shafter
Temporary relief for Shafter's housing shortage is seen after 22 Minter Field barracks south of Lerdo are released to be converted into 88 veteran family units. Congressman Alfred Elliott cleared the decision and a Bakersfield Kern County committee will seek cooperation from Langdon W. Post of the Federal Public Housing Authority to make the units available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Temy
Minter Field
Lerdo
Alfred Elliott
Bakersfield
Kern County
Langdon W. Post
Federal Public Housing Authority
Kitts Returns Home After Ear Operation
Ray Kitts a student counselor at Shafter High School has returned from the hospital after an ear operation. He is recovering at home and expects to be on hand for the opening of school.
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Ray Kitts
Shafter High School
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Canadian
Washington
Oregon
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Northern
Sam Lachenmaier
Curtis Robinson
Wasco
C. A. Baugher
Tulare
H. E. Campbel
J. H. Hutchinson
B. C. & H. Company
Porterville Certified Seed Growers and Shippers
Porterville, Calif
D.T
Body and Paint Shop
State Ave
Christian Science Talk
M. M. McElroy
Prop
Central Ave
Veterans Administration Photo
Paul R. Hawley
Veterans Administration
Department of Medicine and Surgery
Hawley
Kiwanis Meeting
Sealer Press
Kitts
Tricycles
Scooters
ERLA
Presto
Shafter Warehouse Co
W. H. Hitchcock
Lawrence Kattenhorn
Isabella
Scovern Hot Springs
Labor Day
Walkers Basin
Caliente
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