Bartlett Resigns As Scout Chief
C D Bartlett resigns as Scout Executive of the Kern County Boy Scout Council effective January 1 to transfer to the Santa Clara Council in San Jose. Board accepts the seven year tenure during which Kern County grew from 53 packs and 1 271 boys to 70 packs and 2 100 scouts, with Huntington Lake summer camp expanding and a 1945 record attendance of 298 scouts from 35 units. Bartlett will assist until successor is chosen, and his family will relocate to San Jose once housing is found.
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C. D. Bartlett
Kern County
Boy Scout Council
Harold Taber
Bartlett
Santa Clara Council
San Jose
Buttes
Council
Huntington Lake
Bakersfield
Wednesday Club Hosts Family Nite With Music and Skits
The Wednesday Afternoon Club held a pot luck supper at the Womens Club on December 5 to honor families. Mrs Spillsberry from Wasco led Christmas carols, accompanied by Mrs Clemmen. Rio Bravo pianist Bobby Haag performed two numbers. The Bakersfield directed Boys Band and the High School Drama Club presented radio skits and numbers featuring local students.
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Womens Club
Spillsberry
District Federation Music
Wasco
Clemmen
Bobby Haag
Rio Bravo
St. Marys
Old Man River
Clarence Carr
Bakersfield
Jimmie Neuman
Billy Thompson
Kay
Jay Raney
John Kelly
Donald Enns
Bertram Fuller
Wendell Vanatta
Willard Stoller
Kenneth Cooper
Howard Crampton
Donna Baughman
Pat Mettler
Minor Roots
Pat Kelly
Opal Evans
Joan Crawford
Freda Holsenback
Mary Weaver
James Hubble
Camps Return From Trip
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Camp return from a three week motor trip to South Carolina. They were joined by Mrs. Camp's brother Cammon Sparks of San Luis Obispo. En route they visited Mr. Camp's father J. C. Camp and Mrs. J. S. Sparks.
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Mrs. S. A. Camp
South Carolina
Harper Son Visits Here
M. D. Harper A.C.M. of the U S Navy, visiting his parents Rev and Mrs Wm S Harper, left Monday for a new assignment at Naval Air Station Puget Sound near Seattle Washington.
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M. D. Harper
A.C.M
U.S. Navy
Wm. S. Harper
Seattle
Wash
Naval Air Station
Puget Sound Area
Goethe Finishes Faust Part Two at Eighty
The famed German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes the second part of Faust at age 80 marking a historic literary milestone. Contemporaries note the work’s culmination after decades of revision and study.
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Goethe
Faust
Evangelist Dr. John R. Rice Draws Big Crowds in Shafter
Dr. John R. Rice preached in the Mennonite Brethren Church at Shafter and at the Labor Camp of Rev. and Mrs. Ummel drawing about forty decisions. He plans three more Wasco talks before a Santa Barbara invitation ends the Wasco tent meetings. He also launched subscriptions to The Sword of the Lord with local readers supporting the nationwide drive.
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John R. Rice
Mennonite Brethren Church
Shafter
Ummel
Fresno
Los Angeles
Dr. Rice
T. C. Gameson
Sword of the Lord
Wasco
Santa Barbara
Heaven
Rotary Club Hosts War Pictures and Christmas Party
Herman Blane presented war pictures to the Shafter Rotary at Tuesday noon. John Reily served as program chairman and Ernest Panero presided. The Rotary Christmas party is set for next Tuesday. Milton, age 57, wrote Paradise Lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Blane
Shafter Rotary Club
John Reily
Ernest Panero
Rotary
Coast Guard Lowers Education Gate Enlistment Rules
The U S Coast Guard broadened enlistment eligibility for grammar school graduates ages 17 to 25. Enlistees undergo twelve weeks of training at Alameda and may pursue specialized roles such as radio technician radar man aviation ratings electrician's mate and more. Interested applicants should contact the Recruiting Station at 113 Appraisers Building 630 Sansome Street San Francisco.
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U. S. Coast Guard
Margaret A. Dunker
12Th
Naval District
Coast Guard
Alameda
Appraisers
Sansome Street
San Francisco
There Are Blocks in San Francisco Will Cost More Than 160
The Central Valley Project notes blocks in San Francisco where 1450 residents live, density 725 persons per acre. The area features cost projections exceed 160.
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Central Valley Project
San Fran
Cisco
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Channel Street Bridge
Joseph B. Strauss
Harper Son
McClure
McClure’s
McClure’s Drug Store
Milton
Wallace Beery Barbary Coast
Richard Frazer White Pongo
Maria Montez
Jon Hall White Savage —Second
Sally Eilers
Strange Illusion
Anne Baxter
Thomas Mitchell
Eddie Cantor
Ann Sothern
James Cagney
Olivia DeHaviland
Sylvia Sydney
Jack Oakie
Alan Lane
Trail of
Kit Carson
The
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Herb Peters
Willie Woo
Central Avenue
Stocktons
Antelope Valley
Geo. C. Burger Hotel
el Tejon
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