Generals Open League Play vs Corcoran on Foreign Court
Shafter High School Generals face Corcoran in their first league game on a foreign court Friday night. Bakersfield Drillers visit the local gym Saturday as the Generals host another test. Captain Bob Nixon led a 40 38 overtime win over Carmel, with Kenny Roden and Scales delivering key plays. Starting lineup includes Broom Scales guards Thompson Hargilton Roden Gaede and coach Lowell Tod d.
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Shafter High School Generals
Corcoran
Bakersfield High School Drillers
Generals
Carmel
Bob Nixon
Carmel High School
Nixon
Ortime
Forrd
Kenny Roden
Shafter
le Scales
Jim Broom
Scales
Leroy Thomp
Stanley Hargilton
Harold Gaede
Lowell Todded
Kern Residents Pay Record Tax During 1951 Period
Kern County residents faced a record tax burden for 1951 with a projected total of 142.8 million dollars. The California Taxpayers Association reported per capita taxes at 617 dollars in the county while federal, state, and local revenues combined to create the statewide tax load.
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Kern
California Taxpayers’ Association
Reminder Cards Sent to Backers of TB Program
Kern County's Tuberculosis and Health Association mails reminder cards to 30 000 residents urging Christmas Seal contributions to fund the TB control program The effort notes the need to x ray more of the population and to fund education rehabilitation and research to curb TB spread by deploying mobile x ray units and vital power supplies.
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Kern County
Tuberculosis and Health Association
Elmer Richards
Shafter
Cotton picking rates rise nationwide led by California
All but New Mexico increased picking rates from last year with California averaging 3.70 dollars per hundred. New Mexico held at 2.50 dollars per hundred. The Shad fisheries of the Atlantic Coast have declined in recent years.
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California
New Mexico
Atlantic Coast
Midnight buffet links Buttonwillow residents to holidays
A Friday midnight supper at the Oak street home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Duerksen gathered Mrs. Character Speer Ed Coker and others including Ed Gaede Paul Pilgrim Louis Pelosi and James Jacobs. Arizona State College student Tom Fletcher visited the Curtis Hairs for the holidays. Zegrida Ruzins a Buttonwillow displaced Latvian spent Christmas with Carla Blomquist and friends in Buttonwillow and Bakersfield. Bill and Mary Brown hosted John Sawyer from the Naval Ordnance Test Station at Inyokern during a holiday visit.
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Oak Street
Bill Duerksen
Character Speer
Ed Coker
Messrs
Tom Fletcher
Arizona State College
Curtis Hairs
Button Willlow
Hardy Hair
Dana
Deborah Hair
Darrell Tracy
Darreen
Marilyn
Cpl
Mickey Hair
Avon Fine
Zegrida Ruzins
Buttonwillow School
Carla Blomquist
Buttonwillow
Zegrnda
Latvia
United States
Carla
Bill Brown
Sycamore St
John Sawyer
Naval Ordnance Test Station
Inyokern
Four Buttonwillow Couples Attend Shrine Game Weekend
Four couples from Buttonwillow attended the Shrine East West Football game on Saturday. Names include Mr and Mrs C A Johns Mr and Mrs George Norton Mr and Mrs Nelson Lewis and Mr and Mrs Carlos Rev. The Rev and Mrs Gene Vaught plus son Teddy spent Christmas with Mrs Vaught's parents in Salinas.
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Buttonwillow
C. A. Johns
George Norton
Nelson
Lewis
Carlos
Gene Vaught
Teddy
Mrs. Vaught
T. M. Meeker
Salinas
Five Youths Enter Service From Buttonwillow
Five youths from Buttonwillow entered the service this week as Navy recruits leaving Friday for the Naval Training Station in San Diego. Dale Garner, age 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Garner, left the day of his birthday. Other enlistees include 18 year olds Charles McPhetridge, James Stroub, and Hoy Lee Bilyeu, sons of their respective parents.
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Buttonwillow
Navy
Naval Training Station
San Diego
Dale Garner
Walter Garner
Charles McPhetridge
Oren McPhetridge
James Stroub
Fannie Stroub
Hoy Lee Bilyeu
Service men visit homes around BUTTONWILLO W holidays
Beatouwilouw Robin Blomquist reports servicemen seen around town during the holidays. Cpl. Mickey Hair and his bride Betty Lou Magors of Bakersfield visit Portland base. Cadet Curtis Graves on leave from Amarillo base. S/Sgt Avon Fine, Lackland instructor, guests of the Hair family. Pfc Milton Norton visiting from Scott Field at the Nortons. Bill Woodson visiting from March Field.
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Buttonwillow
Mickey Hair
Mickey
Betty Lou Magors
Bakersfield
Portland, Ore
Curtis Graves
Amarillo
Tex
Avon Fine
Lackland
Curtis Hair
Milton Norton
Scott Field
Ill
Local youths return home from Bakersfield High School
MISS PHYLLIS PETERS daughter of Mr and Mrs John J Peters Jr Wasco Pond Road has been home for the holidays from University of California at Los Angeles. Mr and Mrs Toness Bilyeu Eugene Harris son of Mr and Mrs James Harris Buttonwillow all attended Bakersfield High School.
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Phyllis Peters
John J. Peters, Jr
Wasco Pond Road
University of California At Los
Toness. Bilyeu
Eugenarris
James Harris
Buttonwillow
Bakersfield High School
Burtch resigns as Kern County agricultural chief after 29 years
Kern County agricultural commissioner Lewis A. Burtch resigns after 29 years in the department. He cites need to attend to personal affairs and recommends Charles W. Grimm as successor. Burtch recalls growth in acreage from 147,121 to 575,000 and crops valued over 200 million dollars by 1951.
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Lewis A. Burtch
Kern County
Board of Supervisor
Burtch
Defense Chief Sees 1952 Test for Civil Defense Plan
Maj. Gen. W. M. Robertson urges year of grave responsibility as civil defense plans face a crucial test in 1952. He thanks Kern County officials and the agriculture sector for support and outlines goal to establish a statewide civil defense organization in the early part of the year.
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Robertson
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