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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1955
Page
5
Mrs J E Unruhs hosted dinner for her son and his family. The event included Mr and Mrs Allen Partel and their four children in attendance with other relatives.
Phyllis Stoller and Karen Burnquist headed back to Los Angeles to resume school after a mid term vacation at home. Mr and Mrs Alex Dobre NEN and children are busy moving into their new home on the John Neufeld farm on Tulare Street.
This piece advises choosing small shade and flowering trees for limited spaces, using spire and broad headed forms for contrast, and placing trees to frame a house with attention to sunlight, roots, and year round foliage. It notes evergreen options, specimen trees like St Johns Bread, and cautions near doorways and patios.
The Shafter chamber of commerce will sponsor the local Mrs America contest with aims for a Shafter winner to become Mrs California and compete nationally. Applications are being distributed at Central Hardware, Brown’s Department Store, Neuman and Co, and via Don Knowles. The prize includes more than 15000 dollars in benefits and a two week vacation threough Texas and Oklahoma.
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