Who Will Be Mr or Miss 1959 in Shafter
A local Shafter press feature promotes a baby announcement event for 1959 with registrations to close January 14. Merchants offer gifts and services including free haircuts, baby foods, dinners, photos, and a car lubrication, with the Shafter Press planning fifty free baby announcements and a yearlong subscription.
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Toppers
Papa
Dad
Buster
Hood Banks, Inc
Shafter Press
Mom
Shafter
Carlton
Union 76
Herb Howell
Stork
Ralph Beel
Roy Webb
Cotton
Hancock
Memory Lane Highlights From Shafter History Section
A retrospective column notes council salary reviews for city workers after the new year. It also covers the Shafter Press contest standings, 1953 and 1954 local recalls, Chamber of Commerce actions, Rotary installation, Harvey Gaede’s move to real estate, the first air boy scout post, the Potato n Cotton festival future, Santa Claus visits, and Kiwanis Christmas party highlights.
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Merce
Shafter Press
Shafter High School
Kern County
Shafter
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Cawelo
Harvey Gaede
Shafterite
Pontiac Automobile Agency
Air Boy Scout
American Legion
Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Santa ‘Claus
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Brandt Investment Co Real Estate and Insurance
Brandt Investment Co is a Bakersfield real estate and insurance firm led by Louis J. Brandt located at 141 18th St. The office lists telephone number FA 4-6786 and offers real estate and insurance services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandt Investment CO Real Estate and Insurance
Louis J. Brandt
Acme ‘Finance CO
18Th St
Bakersfield
Santa's Christmas Helpers Brings Young Talent to Maple PTA
The Maple PTA program features many students under teachers Mrs. Hazelann Toews and Mrs. Janet Peterson. Performers include toy horses Jeffrey Bryant and Ronnie Morris along with chorus members Simon Peters Virgil Reimer Andrew Scott Ernest Tolbert Lucy Bergman Janice Robertson Madeline Rodriguez Dana Wood Amelia Amador Lupe Amador Natasha Bolderoff Joel Ratzlaff Dale Wiebe Junior Berrera Patricia Davis Debby Hester Ellen Burnquist Timmy Franz. The program includes fairies clowns elves and candy canes with detailed participant lists and a concluding student play The Boy Nobody Wanted directed by Elmer Engel. Applicants for a selection committee must appear and provide a transcript of high school and college records.
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Toy Horses
Jeffrey Bryant
Ronnie Morris
Marcha Hames
Billy Pierce
Liesa Mitchell
Martha
Earl Wooten
Robbie Gorey
Simon Peters
Virgil Reimer
Andrew Scott
Ernest Tolbert
Lucy Bergman
Janice Robertson
Madeline Rodriguez
Dana Wood
Amelia Amador
Lupe Amador
Natasha Bolderoff
Joel Ratzlaff
Dale Wiebe
Junior Berrera
Patricia Davis
Suzanne Portnoff
Rita Davis
Debby Goertzen
Helen Nye
Gwen Cook
Mark Franz
Delbert Janzen
Danny Portnoff
Steven Bryant
Paul Unruh
Jody Wood
Douglas Reimer
Kenneth Wittenberg
Bobby Klingenberg
Linden Buhler
Dwight Reimer
David Dobrenen
Victor Penner
Philip Nickel
Stanley Hester
Rotary club program aids Tokoroa dairymen outreach
The Shafter Rotary Club announces a program honoring Tokoroa Rotary Club and aiding local dairymen through Dr Mead of the University of California. Applicants for unspecified qualifications may obtain forms from the club secretary, with a near deadline for completed submissions. Mrs Herbert Jones recently spent days in Mercy Hospital.
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Shafter Club
Tokoroa
Dr. Mead
University of California
California
Shafter
Tokora
Herbert Jones
Mercy Hospital
Mrs Helen Hasty Recovers From Bakersfield Hospital Surgery
Mrs Helen Hasty is resting at home after undergoing surgery at a Bakersfield hospital recently.
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Helen Hasty
Bakersfield Hospital
Shafter Rotary Seeks Youth for New Zealand Exchange
The Shafter Rotary Club announces a 1959 exchange program with New Zealand. Applicants must be Kern County residents, unmarried, under 23, high school graduates, willing to spend one year in New Zealand under the Tokoroa Rotary Club, provide character references, show a definite goal, and meet physical fitness requirements. Applications close January 25, 1959.
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Shafter
New Zealand
Tokoroa
Health Association Donates 60 Dollars to State Hospitals
The Kern County Mental Health Association donates 60.00 to be split equally among Porterville Camarillo and Modesto state mental hospitals. Funds buy 2.00 canteen tickets for 30 needy patients and are delivered to Miss Jacelyn Young on December 15 by Dr. H Parley Kilburn.
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Kern County Mental Health Association
Porterville
Camarillo
Modesto
Jacelyn Young
State Department of Mental Hygiene
H. Parley Kilburn
Association
Student Recognition Day Observed at Union Congregational
On December 28 the Union Congregational Church held its annual Student Recognition Day as many college students returned home for the holidays. Participants include Bakersfield College students Robert Neuman Bonner Boel Glenn Putman III Joan Eckmann Bert Fuller Howard Duck and others from VUC USC College of the Pacific Mills College Whittier Stanford Red Eight University. The Rev Paul Babbitt delivered a sermon titled The School of Experience.
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Union Congregational Church
Robert Neuman
Bonner Boel
Glenn Putman III
Joan Eckmann
Bert Fuller
Howard Duck
Bakersfield College
VU C
John Stockton
Phil Zachary
Verna Peters
Carol Irvin
U.S.C
Mary Ann Brown
Robert Vignolo
Patricia Cornell
College of the Pacific
Margaret Freedman
Mills College
Patsy Sue Jones
Whittier College
Jack Robbins
Stanford University
Leonard Duck
University At Red
Pople
Paul Babbitt
School of Experience
Christmas Day Guests Gather Across Local Families
Max and Shirley Pearce entertained both sides of their families at a Christmas Day gathering at their home. Attendees included O. L. Pearce and wife from Shafter with Cy Pearce of Arvin and Bill Pearce and family from Puyallup Washington, plus R. C. Jones of Oceanside. Shirley’s relatives from Bakersfield included Robert and Laura Hight and Curt Carter family. The Crawfords visited Oildale, BerNice Mott from Taft joined, Ernie Longs went to Corcoran, and Bill Banks hosted Marvin Banks and children with their kin.
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Max
Shirley Pearce
O. L. Pearce
Shafter
Cy Pearce
Arvin
Bill Pearce
Puyallup
Washington
R. C. Jones
Oceanside
Shirley
Robert Hight
Laura Hight
Curt Carter
Bakersfield
Sidney Crawford
Joe Mott
Oildale
Mott
Bernice Mott
Taft
Women's Club Brunch to Be Held January 7
Members of the Shafter Women's Club plan a 9:30 a.m. Come as you are brunch on Wednesday January 7 at the Veterans Memorial hall. A short business meeting follows and Mrs. Ruby Rollins of Bakersfield will present a Tupperware party. Reservations to Mrs. Wm. Lowe. Cost $1.25. Mrs. Lowe chairs with Mesdames Camp Stringham Jacobsen Frizzell Burns Bender Hill Arnold.
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Shafter Women’s Club
Veteran’s Memorial Hall
Ruby Rollins
Bakersfield
Wm. Lowe
Last Rites Held for Pioneer Shafter Resident
Funeral services were conducted Saturday at the First Southern Baptist Church in Shafter for Sarah Ella Mouser 88 of 189 Lerdo Avenue Shafter who died December 18 in a Bakersfield hospital The Rev Sam Wilcoxon presided and burial was in Shafter Cemetery Mouser a 30 year Shafter resident was born July 21 1870 in Tennessee Survivors include sons Henry W Mouser Marvin Mouser Ted Mouser daughters Grace Tatum Minnie Butler Agnus West Beulah Evans Sally Fitzgerald 33 grandchildren 74 great grandchildren and 12 great great grandchildren
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First Southern Baptist Church
Shafter
Sarah Ella Mouser
Lerdo Avenue
Bakersfield
Sam Wilcoxon
Mouser
Tennessee
Henry W Mouser
Marvin Mouser
Ted Mouser
Wasco
Grace Tatum
Minnie Butler
Agnus West
Beulah Evans
Sally Fitzgerald
Stigler
Oklahoma
Smiths Will Spend Holidays in Arizona with Relatives
Mr and Mrs E Gordon Smith and their daughters departed Saturday for Arizona to spend the holidays with relatives, indicating a family visit during the festive season.
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E. Gordon Smith
Arizona
Ebel Home Hosts Christmas Guests in Bakersfield
Mr and Mrs Jake Ebel hosted Christmas guests in their Bakersfield home. The Buchers and their two children stayed after Christmas with Mrs Ebel and her parents. later, other local guests joined for Christmas dinner at the Ebel residence. The Buchers departed for Napa Sunday morning.
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John Bucher
Jake Ebel
Napa
Ebel
Buchers
Dana Sterling
Bakersfield
P. Smith
Alhambra
Martha Miller
Glendale
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Business & Professional Guide
Neers
J. C. Penner Real Estate, Notary Public
Central Ave
eShaf
Gene Guenther
Shafter Rotary Club
Health Ass'n
Stu
Ernie Long
Corcoran
Thomas O. Long
Bill Banks
Mrs
Marvin Banks
Havermas
Wasco Hospital
E” St
Gian
Best
Cotton's Grocery
Central Valley
Lou
Mom and Dad
Baby
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