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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1957
Page
4
J C Choate minister will speak on New Year’s resolutions Sunday morning. He will stress the importance and impact of resolutions on those who make them. Sunday evening he will preach Why I am Interested In Going To Heaven.
Miss Mary Gates daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Gates spent the weekend in Santa Barbara as the guest of her college friend Miss Barbara Edson. The United States produces almost half of the world’s aluminum and uses an even larger share.
Ebenezer Reform Church announces Christmas Eve 7:00 p.m. children's program with choir open to all. Christmas Day 11:00 a.m. service features pastor Mélvin B. Nonhof on The Word became flesh with Lord's Supper. December 29 11:00 a.m. service on Eph 3:14-19 Paul’s prayer for the Church. 10:00 a.m. Sunday School. 7:00 p.m. Galatians study with hymn sing and special music. Worship God in the beauty of holiness.
Christmas Eve 7 30 pm special service with Sunday School pupils singing and a decorat ed tree. Christmas Day 10 am worship with sermon on Isaiah 9 2 7. December 29 11 am service with 9 45 am Bible class. New Year Eve 7 30 pm Holy Communion with Abide with us theme. Also notes on Hetch Hetchy name origin and 208 ski areas on national forests.
Richland welcomes new third grade teacher Jeanne Anderson a California native born in Long Beach who studied at Taft Coalinga and Bakersfield then Fresno State She served as Future Teachers Club president in high school and later married Richard Anderson Now in Bakersfield with a one year old son she plans to pursue further study at the Bakersfield Residence Center while teaching full time.
Dr W Hudson will address the 11 00 a m worship service Sunday December 29 at First Baptist Church He formerly led the Fuller ton California church for 17 years and now serves as representative at large for the Conservative Baptist Home Mission Society in Chicago Ill He tours Haiti sharing views on the country’s conditions
Miss Carolyn Jenkins became the bride of Glenn Knox at eight p m Saturday in the Church of Christ before Brother R Monroe of Wasco. The bride wore a white lace over nylon gown with a fingertip veil and carried a white Bible. The couple left for a southern honeymoon after a reception at the church.
Residents gathered Monday evening at the Lee Bergman home for a turkey dinner with festive decorations. Attendees included H. L. Bergman, Oscar Bergman, Lowell Bergman, Robert Bergman, Jim Bobst, Sherman Bobst, Ernest Schultz, the Robert Bergman family, and several Bergman relatives.
Friends report Leslie Brown is fully liberated from his leg cast after two years in immobilization from a fall 1955 hunting accident. He will use crutches to begin walking and will receive ongoing therapy treatments.
The article describes the wedding party with the bride in aqua wool and pink accents and carnations for the mother of the groom. The bride, from Oma to Shafter High, was active in Glee club and choir, while the groom served four years in the Air Force and spent the South Pacific deployment. They reside at 1619 13th Street Apt. 3, Bakersfield, with Mrs. Knox working at the telephone company and the groom employed by Bethlehem Steel in Avenal.
A Sunday holiday dinner brought together the immediate Unrah family at the J. E. Unrah residence on Lerdo road. The day featured a festive meal, social hour, visiting, and exchanged gifts. Present were Leonard Gaede and family, Waldo Unruhs, Harold Wiens and sons, Elmer Unruh family, and the hostess.
Mable Holliman was feted at a social evening hosted by her daughter Mrs. Carence Vickery and co hosted by Mrs. Everett Mann. The surprise event included gifts and games with prizes for Ruby Hensley Flora Eslick and Norma Vicery. Refreshments of fruit jello donuts and coffee were served.
Stark and Fred Starrh welcome their first-born son Fred Lester on December 17 at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital weighing eight pounds eight ounces. Sandra Lee born December 19 at Mercy Hospital weighs six pounds four ounces with sister Debbie. Gail Lynette born December 4 at Memorial Hospital weighs seven pounds nine ounces with siblings Glenda Sue and David Bruce. Jennifer Dian born December 9 at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital weighs seven pounds ten ounces with grandparents Rolf Jacobsen Sr Clair Dodge. California chromite production valued at six million one hundred thousand dollars in 1955.
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