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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1954
Page
6
MAPLE A family potluck will precede the Maple Parent Teachers Association meeting next Tuesday evening at the school. Allen Bartel will be program chairman for Fathers Night with Mrs Bartel presiding over the business meeting. Anthony Desiderio will direct the school orchestra. Supper at 6 20 and meeting at 8.
Local residents hosted family and friends over Christmas and New Year. Notables included MR. and MRS. BILL GLADDEN with guests from Bell Gardens and Gardena. MR. and MRS. LEROY OWEN visiting from North Dakota. numerous relatives from Bakersfield Los Angeles and Shafter spent holidays in Shafter and surrounding areas. A tour to Sequoia National Park featured ice skating and a picnic. University student TOM KELLY from Stanford returned for winter quarter. Private trips to Pasadena for the Tournament of Roses were noted among families and relatives.
A weekly game called MOVIE QUIZ is held at the Del Kern Theatre on Monday nights. Participants answer five film questions during intermission, submit sheets to the snack-bar manager, and the first correct entry wins a $5.09 prize.
A teacher family reunion occurred at the Westbrook home 433 Gibson Lake. Attending were Robert L Gibson and his wife, both Garden Grove teachers, their children Travis Stinson and wife, Gustine teachers, Freda Gibson of McFarland, Mrs Jack Crouch with Joy Mary and Jan of Santa Margarita, and Sue Bauder of Santa Ana. The Westbrooks drove Mrs Crouch’s group home and spent New Year’s Day with Emerson and family in Paso Robles.
Thirty three guests attended a Christmas dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Dee Wilson, 30740 Burbank Avenue. A quilt drawing as the day’s highlight named Mrs. Roger Powell as winner. attendees included Doris and Woodrow Wilson, Velma Cook and family, Minnie Wilson of Gentry Oklahoma, Barbara Hardwick, Virginia Taylor, Truman Baker, Jack Dunne and families, Roger Powell, Calvin Carter and families, Clarence Taylor and child, Richard Owens, and Weldon Wilson with Pamela.
A service member has spent the past year stationed at SiouX lookout in Canada and will transfer reporting duties to the air division defense unit in St Paul Minnesota. The move marks a coordination with the U S air defense authorities.
Attendees at the home of Mr and Mrs Bill Duerksen included Mr and Mrs Ed Gaede Mr and Mrs James Jacobs Mr and Mrs John Fuller Mr and Mrs Tony Sullivan Mr and Mrs Bob Kelley Mr and Mrs Joule Pelosi John Kelly and Pat Price.
Tony Sullivan on leave from the Naval Air Station in San Diego visits home for the holidays. His wife Betty Jane works for D. E. Ruggenberg.
Mrs Annette Albright hosted out of town guests over the holidays including Mr Dale Day and Mrs Day as well as Miss Joan Panis Miss Joan Betl Miss Sally Jung and Miss Phyllis Heber.
Harley Martin, with the second infantry division in Korea, has been promoted to corporal. His wife, Norma Mix, works at the Shaffer Experimental Farm. Herb Miller, a mechanical engineer at the Shaffer Experimental Station, and his family spent Christmas in Texas.
Shafter families hosted numerous visitors over Christmas and New Year. Nights were spent with Rev. and Mrs. Sam Wilcoxon and relatives from Bakersfield and Fort Ord. New Year births and twin arrivals at San Diego Naval Hospital and Miss Freise's Maternity Home are noted, with names and family ties detailed.
Messrs and Mesdames Gene Wilcoxon Jack Wilcoxon and Everett Baker and family are mentioned in a local notice with surnames and kin groups listed.
E Gordon Smith superintendent at the Shafter Experimental Station and his family spent the holidays in Phoenix Arizona visiting relatives.
Christmas guests at the home of Mr and Mrs H H Gaede 288 Golden West Ave included their son Harold a Bethel College student in Newton Kansas and Mr and Mrs Harvey Gaede and family and Mr and Mrs Leonard Gaede and family.
William D Slivkoff son of Mr and Mrs Fred J Slivkoff Buttonwillow has been promoted to corporal He serves with the 304th signal battalion in Korea and will remain there until April.
Mr and Mrs Layton Weidenbach hosted New Year’s dinner at 223 Cross street with Mr and Mrs Ed Weidenbach Melvin of Bakersfield and Mr and Mrs Albert Weidenbach of Shafter. Mr and Mrs Reuben Dirksen of 231 Cross street traveled to Pasadena to watch the Rose Parade and Bowl game.
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