Home Economics Teacher Manages Big School Feeding Job
Miss Jean Waffle of Shafter High School oversees daily hot lunches for about three hundred students and faculty using limited facilities. A Michigan native born in Detroit, she trained at Western Michigan College and previously taught in Michigan before moving to California last summer. She also leads the Makers Club guiding girls in home economics, social, and service activities.
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Jean Waffle
Shafter High School
Miss Waffle
Michigan
Detroit
Owosso
Western Michigan College
California
Shafter High Ool
Makers Club
Temporary replacement for Kern County home demonstration agent
Miss Dorothy Wilkinson of the Agricultural Extension Service takes sabbatical leave after fourteen and a half years as Kern County home demonstration agent. She will study housing and family economics at Columbia in New York City and Cornell in Ithaca before resuming duties in early fall. During her absence, Mrs. Marguerite Wurtsbaugh will lead the program from Berkeley, while Mrs. Patricia C. McAlister continues 4-H and adult programs.
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Dorothy Wilkinson
Agricultural Extension Service
Kern County
University of California
Wilkinson
Columbia University
New York
City
Cornell University
Ithaca
Miss Wilkinson
Kern County Farm Bureau Home Department Committee
Home Department
Marguerite Wurtsbaugh
University of California At Berkeley
Patricia C. McAlister
Awards at Camp Fire Girls Council Ceremony
At the annual Camp Fire Girls Council event held Monday evening at the Woman’s Club building, thirty one Blue Bird and Camp Fire girls participated. Eight received honor beads awarded by Mrs. Emil Stoller and Mrs. Wallace Weyand, including Mary Ann De Vincenzo and Norma Jean Craig. Stephanie Robertgue, Marjorie Vannatta, and Mary Margaret Revell earned the Woo rank. The event featured lights, songs, and seven candles representing crafts, with groups performing stunts and closing with a concert of songs.
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Woman’s ‘Club
Emil Stoller
Wallace Weyand
Mary Ann
de Vincenzo
Norma
Jean Craig
Helen June Adams
Virginia Bender
LaVonne Stoller
LaVelle Stoller
Lynn Enns
Ann Kadel
Joan Peters
Geraldine Jefferson
Barbara Poden
Charlotte Voth
Juanita Heinback
Betty Jean Elliott
Norma Newman
Dona Nixon
Dona Weitz
Caroline Spitzer
Marjorie Vannatta
Elaine Stoller
Dorothy Heinback
Donna Hare
Dixie Sturges
Stephanie Roberts
Mary Gates
Jolene Waymire
Dolores Nix
Mary Margaret Revell
Mary J. Crawford
Stephanie Robertgue
Sammie Avery 9 Passes in Los Angeles
Sammie Lee Avery 30 year old cook died last week in a Los Angeles hospital after a brief illness. He had been at the hospital two days before death. He worked at Canelo Motel as a cook for several months. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at True Light Baptist Church with Rev. P. A. Bedford officiating. Interment followed at Shafter Cemetery. Born December 5, 1917, he was survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Doss Avery of Arkansas, four sisters Nannie B. Cooper of Wasco and three others in Arkansas, and four brothers Dorsie Avery of Wasco, L. B. Avery of Oakland, and Selmer and Charlie Avery of Arkansas.
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Sammie Lee Avery
Cook
Los Angeles
Avery
Canelo Motel
Shafter Cemetery
True Light Baptist Church
P. A. Bedford
Doss Avery
Arkansas
Nannie B. Cooper
Cawelo
Wasco
Willie Mae Hubert
Annie B. Smith
Lou Della Patterson
Dorsie Avery
L. B. Avery
Oakland
Charlie Avery
Selmer Avery
Shafter Graduates Take Roles in Bakersfield Recorder Office
Florence Wheeler Jimmy Terry Francis Heffley and Virginia White all Shafter High School graduates are now employed in the Recorder's office at Bakersfield, reflecting local educational ties and career paths.
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Florence Wheeler
Jimmy Terry
Francis Heffley
Virginia White
Shafter High School
Recorders Office
Bakersfield
Mrs Wood Recalls South American Trip for Sixth Graders
Mrs Forrest Wood of Wood's Shoes spoke to Richland School's sixth grade on Tuesday at the Woman's Club House about her Chile visit. She showed motion pictures and souvenirs, described South American life, and shared a factory visit tied to her shoe business.
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Forrest Wood
Wood
Chile
South America
Woman's Club House
Richland School
Mrs. Wood
Kern County Per Capita Valuation Rises in 1947-48
California Taxpayers' Association reports Kern County's 1947-48 per capita assessed valuation at 1857 dollars, up from 1776 in 1946-47 and 2211 in 1942-43. Total county valuation reaches 399,351,180 with a January 1, 1948 population of 14,700, while statewide per capita averages rise to 1094 dollars.
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Kern County
California Taxpayers’ Association
California
Solano
Santa Cruz
Mendocino
Association
National Leaders Speak at Big Adventist Rally
Three speakers addressed a district Sabbath School rally in Shafter at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. J A Stevens Washington D C spoke of child delinquency as a threat to national existence. R R Breitigam Pacific Union Conference Sabbath School leader and K H Wood San Jose urged parental responsibility and character building to curb delinquency. Glenn Fillman from San Jose led the event.
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Seventh- Day Adventist Church
Shafter
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
J. A. Stevens
Washington, D.C
R. R. Breitigam
Pacific Union ‘Conference
K. H. Wood
San Jose
Breitigam
Wood
Glenn Fillman
S.D.A. Young People’s Worker
Central California
Young People’s Societies
California Speaks on Security and Society
Prominent Californians share brisk criticisms and observations. Lt. Gov. Goodwin J. Knight jokes that only prisoners and asylums offer security while Sam Goldwyn decries industry woes despite box office highs. Mayor Elmer E. Robinson rails against civilian police badges and adult cops playacting. Ben B. Vail touts potato image for diet.
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Goodwin J. Knight
L.A
Sam Goldwyn
Hollywood
Elmer E. Robinson
S.F
Ben B. Vail
Nat. Grocery Ass‘n
Calif
Western Weed Control Conference Dates Set in California
The Western Weed Control Conference will meet in Sacramento on February 2 and 4 and in Davis on February 3. Secretary Walter S. Ball announced an anticipated attendance around 350 delegates, surpassing all previous gatherings.
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Sacramento
Davis
Walter S. Ball
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Radio & Appliance CO
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Camp Fire Girls’ Council
Blue Bird
Sammie Avery
Court House
Sam Lachenmaier
Kern
Adventist
Tire Shop
Richmond
CUE YS
S. Shafter Ave
Fellows
le Havre
France
Baldwin
Baldwin Piano Distributor
Bakersfield, California
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BUICK
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Goodyear
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