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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1953
Page
6
Local column lists multiple households from 622 Pacific Street to Sierra Street on vacations in Las Vegas San Francisco and California towns. It notes visits from relatives to Bakersfield area and Shafter residents at camps and rodeos plus library programs and a car purchase.
The article describes storage needs to prevent seed mixups for a long range program at the Northrup King plant in Shafter. It notes certified alfalfa seed such as Ranger and Buffalo are sent East for permanent pasture, with a shift from bags to bulk boxes, each box holding about 3600 pounds. A large outside hopper machine dumps loads from trucks into the milling line, after which seed is boxed, inspected, and sealed for East Coast distributors.
Mr and Mrs Dick A Enns and son Earl with his wife and two children visited last week at Frank Enns home. They came from Enid Oklahoma where they farm. In California they visited Reedley relatives. Mr and Mrs Elmer Richards and family from Riverside Drive returned from two weeks at Lake Tahoe. Visitors in the D L Wilson home this week include Mr and Mrs O T Calhoun and Calhouns from Seminole Oklahoma and sisters Mrs Roger Powell and her family of Kingsburg. Mr and Mrs George Siemens left with the J C Penners for Cayucos to spend a week then Mount Hermon for two weeks. Mrs Siemens not well since her husband’s heart attack and hopes cooler air will help.
MAPILE Mr and Mrs Oscar Bergman and daughter Nancy visit the Jamboree where their son Curtis camps with local Scouts. They travelled from home to an aunt in Burbank then to the event arriving in time for Sunday services in the arena. Mrs Bergman and Nancy plan a Hartland trip as Mennonite Church campers volunteer cooks.
Mrs. Ruth McBride of Bakersfield Mrs. Fay Deever of Taft and Mrs. Hazel Cooper traveled to Santa Barbara Monday to visit relatives there. Elmer Anderson and son Philip of 522 Sierra Street are in Oregon on a business trip.
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