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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1951
Page
6
A daughter named Linda Carol was born on December 22 at Wasco Maternity Home to Mr and Mrs Carl Graves of Shafter. The baby weighed six pounds eight ounces and is the couple's first child. Kern county alfalfa seed fields likely to expand by 10,000 to 12,000 acres next season due to the year's results.
Cpl. Thomas Pember, 19, of Shafter, now serves as a Marine casualty clerk at a training base in Japan. He was promoted to corporal after enlisting in January and going overseas in August. He married Joan Peters of Shafter and attended Shafter High School where he played football and ran track.
The Bergen family gathered Christmas Day at 122 West Lerdo Ave. Attendees included Walter Bergen of Was co, Harry Bergen, Ike Peters, Peter Bergen, and Dick Larson of Shafter, joining Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bergen.
Walter Boyd Martin of Buttonwillow is hospitalized at Westside District Hospital Taft after a car accident three miles west of Buttonwillow. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Martin and worked on the Orlando Torigiani Ranch. Mrs N E Osborn of Keyes, sister of Walter’s mother, died in an automobile crash on November 8 at Merced.
BUTTONWILLOW Rev. and Mrs. Gene Vaught received a Christmas gift presentation after a Fellowship Group holiday dinner Friday night hosted by Mrs. Ford Williams. The Rev. Vaught screened the film A Savior is Born. Attending were numerous couples and individuals, including Lucene Godd Speed, Ken Ringsdorf, Boecher, R. A. Adams, Louis Beal, Allen Bottorff, Grace Brandt, Carruthers, C. L. Blomquist, Delmar Nelson, Mary Louise Parsons.
Buttonwillow Lions Club luncheon featured Congressman Tom Werdel speaking on government issues. He urged greater public interest and clearer party platforms to help voters decide more intelligently. President Ford Williams presided. Howard Jeffries was program chairman.
The Shafter branch library reported 5155 readers in November, down from 5932 a year earlier. Juvenile readers totaled 3936. Neighboring libraries’ November reader counts were Wasco 5108 Buttonwillow 1419 Minter Village 1226 Rio Bravo 1207 Maple 881 Shafter migratory 368 Wasco Farm Labor Camp 132.
Ruben Siemens of the Maple District develops an attachable stalk cutter for cotton pickers to shred stalks as they harvest. The device, called the Siemens Stalk Cutter, is mounted on tractors or multi purpose pickers and speeds work by eliminating separate shredding steps. Distribution is led by his brother J C Siemens, with sales strongest in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
George V. Footman announces that 13 San Joaquin Division employees, including Hicks, retire under PGEs pension plan. Hicks began in Bakersfield in 1929 and moved to Wasco in 1930, totaling decades of faithful service and civic involvement.
Mrs. Mattie Wright died in Audubon Iowa after a period of illness. Survivors include her daughter Mrs. Ralph Gribble, husband J R Wright, brother Dr R C Morris of Hollywood, son W R Wright of Whittier, and two Iowa children. Funeral services were held in Audubon on Monday.
The Heming family welcomed back their son who spent the Christmas holidays in Fresno with relatives yesterday returning home to celebrate together.
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