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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1948
Page
8
Tickets are on sale through Mrs. Peter Channeson Mrs. Ed Brown and Mrs. Harvey Neuman for the Bakersfield Woman's Club follies at the Fox Theatre on March 17. Proceeds benefit Kern county crippled children. 50c entries offer a trip to the Hawaiian Islands or cash. Reserved seats range 2.50 to 4.50 unreserved 1.50.
Mr and Mrs S L Myrick motored to Death Valley this past weekend and returned home late Sunday evening.
Amid rising costs and growing demand thousands of new homes require gas-main extensions. The Texas California pipeline, a mammoth 70 million dollar project spanning about 1200 miles, expands supply while materials and labor, taxes, payrolls, and gas prices rise.
S/Sgt Charles H Belz announces the 7th Infantry Regimental Combat Team at Fort Benning is open for nearly 5000 enlistments on a first come basis. Qualified applicants need only pass a physical. no mental or aptitude tests required. Details available from S/Sgt Belz or Sgt Merlyn L Myer at the Delano recruiting station daily 8 to 5.
A parable on overconfidence and hidden errors. Mr Little learns rivals boast only successes while others repeat mistakes, lifting him to leadership. David Belasco notes even great producers miss forecasts, praising only the rare hits. The message: others err as you do.
A Tuesday evening bridge buffet at the Women's Clubhouse was co hosted by Mesdames Pete Bender William Lachenmaier Harold Freedman and H W Kelly. Dozens of guests attended including Mesdames Tom Henley A B McKinley Max Snall John Jacobsen T V Little J C Channeson Oscar Weidman S A Camp Joe Fizzell Floyd Cooper C J Vignolo William Bender Joe Cosgrove Dave Muir R G Albert Frank Will E B Stringham E C Eckman J L Hill Bert Ware Richard Arnold Emil Bender George Vannatta Jack Battaglia Ed Warren Glen Nay Rolf Jacobsen Glen Putman Jeffrey Phillips Walter Poznoff Gordon Haycock William Lowe John Revell Al Ingraham John Peters Henry Neufeld Fred Ruhlman Sylvia Baughman P L Arnold Ike Peters George Harrison Orvin Mettler Hugh Sill Robert McClain Peter Channeson Eugene Mettler Bill Carpenter and Miss Edna Prieve with Ray Pollasky of Bakersfield. Card prizes went to Mesdames Ed Brown Ray Pollasky Sylvia Baughman Al Ingraham Walter Poznoff Joe Cosgrove and John Jacobsen.
On Air Monday listeners will hear Ted Watson, 18, taft bass barytone, and Nancy Ralph, Bakersfield violinist, at 8 30 p m on KERO from Standard School auditorium Oildale. The Kern Philharmonic Society KERO and Kern County Recreation and Cultural Commission run the series now in its second half leading to two guest soloist slots with the Kern Philharmonic Orchestra on May 3. Public invited. those watching by radio may come to the auditorium before 8 15 p m Monday evenings.
The text notes that each of the nine Canadian provinces has its own parliament and administration with a lieutenant governor appointed by the governor general. It then shifts to geology and ostrich farming history, mentioning feldspars and ferromagnesians transforming into clay minerals and salts, and cites C. K. Sketchley introducing ostrich farming in Southern California in 1881.
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