Summer Class Graduates 26 at Bakersfield High
Summer session commencement in Bakersfield honors 26 graduates in Harvey auditorium. Nineteen receive Bakersfield High diplomas, six East Bakersfield diplomas, one Arvin High diploma. H. E. Woodworth presides, George Williamson outlines address by Dr. Ralph Prater on The Next Half Century.
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Bakersid High School
Harvey Auditorium
Bakersfield High School
East Bakersfield High School
Arvin High School
H. E. Woodworth
Kern County Union High School and Junior College
George Williamson
Ralph Prater
Bakersfield College
Johnsons Visit Los Gatos Relatives Over Weekend
Mr and Mrs Leonard Johnson and their children stayed in Los Gatos from Saturday to Monday to visit his sister and family the A W Northams and other relatives in the area.
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Leonard Johnson
Los Gatos
Rio Bravo School to complete $330000 gymnasium by September
Superintendent Frank H. ONeil announced the Rio Bravo School will finish a $330000 gymnasium by the start of classes in September. The facility will seat 400 in balcony bleachers with potential for another 400 via pull-out seats, includes separate boys and girls locker rooms and showers, a main floor suitable for two junior high courts, a public address system and an acoustic tile ceiling.
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Rio Bravo
Frank H. O'Neil
O'Neil
O'Neill
Swimming meet results listed for Kern District youth
Readable lines list first second and third place in 25 yard free and backstroke events for girls and boys 10 and under through 18 and under from Shafter Minter Village and other teams. Verna Peters Kathleen Revell Joyce McDonald and others appear as winners and placers. Earthquake note at end references 1808 Bay region quake.
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Kern
Shafter
Joyce McDonald
Connie Benton
Mary Margaret Revell
Mickey Pearson
Minter
Phillip Anderson
Bruce Branner
Bill Benton
Charles Anderson
Jim Nixon
Donny Grant
Orvill Pearson
Bonner Beel
Jimmy Nixon
Glen Putman
Glen Handel
Don Klassen
Tommy Grant
Robert Anderson
Lawrence Wagley
McFarland
Ronnie Siemens
Victor Loftin
Leroy Moser
Eddy Holliday
Blair Russell
Kenny Handel
R. E. Anderson
Rhoads
Richland
Jefferson Pool
Verna Peters
Gordon Carpenter
Kathleen Revell
Brenda Boel
Rosedale
Stockton family moving to Inglewood for precision parts work
The Denton Stockton family of Buttonwillow plans a move to Inglewood where Stockton will work in precision parts manufacture. They have lived on the Stockton property in Buttonwillow for the last three years.
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Denton Stockton
Buttonwillow
Inglewood
Stocktons
Buttonillow
Stockton
William Sullivan Services Held Graveside Rites Porterville
Funeral services for William Thomas Sullivan a 64 year old farm laborer who died July 10 were held in Arm strong Chapel with Rev Menno Schellenberg in charge. Graveside rites followed at Hillcrest Memorial Park Porterville. He lived in Shafter the last five years and leaves a wife Elsie and seven sons Harley Calvin Westle Cecil J W William Travis and one more son Will iam of Thornton Washington a sister Katie Brooner of Arkansas and 17 grandchildren.
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William Thomas Sullivan
Armstrong Chapel
Menno Schellenberg
Hillcrest Memorial Park
Porterville
Shafter
Elsie
Harley
Arkansas
Calvin
Westle
Stockton
Cecil
J. W
Thornton
William
Travis
Washington
Katie Brooner
Mosquito Control Tactics Grower and City Roles Emphasized
Smith explains tail pumping irrigation to recycle water and fertilizer, reducing deep-well pumping and mosquito breeding sites. He notes warm winter and cool June boosted pests, limited by new insecticide and oils, with resistance risk prompting shared responsibility for eliminating breeding centers.
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Smith
Destination Japan for Two Educators from Shafter
Two educators, Beulah D. Bartlett and Blythe Monroe, residents of Shafter, will relocate to Los Angeles to await Army sailing orders. They plan special teaching assignments with the American Dependents School in Tokyo, after Bartlett served as Richland School curriculum director and Monroe as Beardsley School’s director in Oildale.
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Dick Smith
Beulah Bartlett
Blythe Monroe
Japan
Shafter
Los Angeles
Miss Bartlett
Army
Tokyo
Richland School
Miss Monroe
Beardsley School
Oildale
District to spend 233000 to fight mosquito pest area 962 sq miles
The district plans a 233000 expenditure to combat mosquitoes across 962 square miles. Dale Knopf, formerly an aerial crop duster for the district, serves as the troubleshooter and grower contact man for the Shafter area.
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Smith
Shafter
Dale Knopf
Mr and Mrs Lennis Kates Vacationing Couple
Mr and Mrs Lennis Kates with Patricia Ann from Pacific Street spent last weekend traveling to Stockton Carmel and Pismo Beach for a seaside outing and family time.
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Lennis Kates
Patricia Ann
Pacific Street
Stockton
Carmel
Pismo Beach
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First Southern Baptist Church
Kern & Sunset
Sam Wilcoxon
Dean Moore
Leonard Jordon
Mennonite Brethren Church
KWSO
Corner, California
and Kern
Waldo Wiebe
Pentecostal Church of God
Shafter Ave
West Ash
Durwood Phillips
First Baptist Church
E. Lerdo
Rev. Krug
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Rea Glau
Gee
Melvin N. Krug
The
Ben Peters
Los Angeles Examiner
Olympic Stadium
Ridor
San Francisco Bay Region
Tibbetts
Olympic
Eighteenth Street
Bakersfield
William Sullivan
Wheeler Furniture CO
Central Ave
Corcoran
Sunshine Boys
Wasco Station
Shafter Studios
James St
Monthru
Kelly & Somers
Your Shafter Insurance Agents
Arbor Meeting
Velma C. Baker
King’s Four Male Quartette
Park Lane
Myrick’s Corner
Central Valley Hwy
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