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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1957
Page
10
In a Shafter High School office practice class, students learn proper telephone use with a Bell Telephone tele trainer kit. The device includes two telephones and a master control box, operated by the instructor, helping pupils hear dial tone, busy signals, and call phases.
The program teaches out of town calls and telephone procedures using a tele trainer. Films and tape recordings illustrate proper practice while seniors in the class, with prerequisites in shorthand and advanced typing, study office procedures.
The Lions Club holds its Annual Family Christmas Party at 7:00 p.m. tonight at the Legion Hall with dinner a program and gifts for all attending boys and girls. Dorset Phillips of Bakersfield and Kern County Art Association spoke on Art as a Recreational Hobby. He displayed several Kern County amateur paintings.
Dorothy Voth known as Mrs Harvey Blehm dies during heart surgery in Portland Oregon. Survived by husband and two sons Bobby nine and Merelin four. Funeral held Saturday at St Helen's church with burial in Warren cemetery. Blohm family lived in Shafter until 1942 then moved northwest. Vernon and Ira Schneider relatives attended.
The Shafter Recreation Commission held its second annual playday on a Saturday. Morning events featured volleyball and football teams from Thomas Jefferson Wasco and Upper Grade School Richland. About 380 boys and girls participated in the intramural culmination at noon. Wasco top team faced Richland, with second place teams likewise matched. Shafter High School P E Department provided referees and scorekeepers.
Sandra Scott daughter of Sergeant and Mrs. Sam Scott Jr was a birthday honoree. Grandparents Carter hosted at home with relatives including James Goodman family Dwayne James Smith Darlene Kelvin Wasco Albert Carter Jr Brenda Roper Donnie Lucker and Mrs J C Goldston of Bakersfield gave a gift. The cake featured red roses iced in white and the party was an intimate social evening.
Reverend Sam Ediger was a recent guest of Mr and Mrs Menno Schellenberg. He spoke at the church last Thursday evening together with Reverend Kazadi Matt.
Dr. Walter W. Stiern of Bakersfield, a Democrat, declared his bid for the 834th Senate District in next June primaries. A Kern County native, he attended local schools and earned a veterinary degree at the State College of Washington before practicing in the county since 1938.
A first person reminiscence recalls Sitting Bull and a mile long parade in Bismarck celebrating North Dakota joining the Union as a territory. The event featured military bands, cavalry, infantry, Indian war regalia, and 44 young girls on horseback from Kentucky.
AT KEY WEST Alan Walker a U S Navy member and son of Mr and Mrs John Walker Beech Avenue is stationed at Key West Florida He is enrolled in a 24 week Fleet Sonar School course Walker attended Bakersfield College and graduated from Shafter High in 1954.
The James R. Anderson home welcomed a mixed housewarming and Christmas party last Monday. Honorees received a centerpiece and candle holders while a Christmas skit circulated. Guests and clergy attended among numerous relatives and friends.
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