Shafter Community News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Shafter residents host and visit friends across California. O H Strom, ex Shafter council member, travels from Morro Bay for brief business. Wasco and Bridgewater guests join local families for dinners and Sunday picnics. Local fare includes Kern River park outings and visits to Bakersfield and Porterville. References to family reunions, school ties, and travel to Los Angeles and Orange Cove accompany notes on aviation dawn flight and a medical degree for a former Shafter resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. H. Strom
Shafter
Shafter City
Strom
Morro Bay
Merchants Top Wasco Hardware 15 to 5 in Nightball
Shafter Merchants slugged 19 hits led by Lawrence Annis with two doubles and a single in three trips. Ralph Janzen and Bill White each had three and two hits respectively as Wasco led early before the Merchants pulled away to win 15 to 5 on the local diamond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Merchants
Tom Wooley
Wasco Hardware Company
Lawrence Annis
Johnny Shultz
Ralph Janzen
Bill White
Jim Taylor
Harvey Gaede
Bill Johnson
Walter Kirschenman
Barling
Merchants
Wasco Hardware
AB RH
D. Wooley
T. Wooley
Weyand
STA Wedel
Waugh
Borton
Kinnerfield
Chitwood
Sia
ABRH
Oiacne
Rodgers
Tamten
Sortbor
Perea
Historical Society opposes post office as library site
Kern County Historical Society at its season finale meeting at Kern River Park opposed using the Bakersfield post office as a central library. It urged a new building on county block east of the El Tejon hotel. F. F. Latta of Shafter led the remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County Historical Society
Kern River Park
Bakersfield
el Tejon Hotel
F. F. Latta
Shafter
John Pala-Kangas
Adolph Forester
Father Garces
Ardis Walker
Kernville
Sunday Services Held for Infant Lee Ann Hill
Funeral services were held for 22 month old Lee Ann Hill at Janzen Funeral Home. Reverend M. W. Walker officiated. Interment followed at Shafter cemetery. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hill of North Shafter with siblings Violet Viola Ruby Catherine Norma Lee and brothers Troy Leroy and Charles Hill listed as survivors.
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Janzen
Lee Ann Hill
Mercy
Recreation meeting postponed due to illness
A local recreation meeting was postponed because Miss Blossom Olmstead from the county recreation office could not attend. The session with Miss Olmstead is rescheduled for June 13, while committee members press on with outlining the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Blossom Olmstead
Miss Olmstead
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Wasco
V. C. Bean
William Bean
W. C. Bean
Burbank
Jessie McClure
Southern California
Russell
Mrs. H. Russell
Mr. Russell
Routh
Pre Zerbe
Ethel
Bridgewater
South Dakota
Ed. Wiedenbach
Zerbes
Pete Kane
P. C. Guenther
Henry Zerbe
A. J
Roland Mettler
Edison
Arnold Pfeifle
Laurence Baughmans
Porterville
Laurence Baughman
Shafter Justesen
A. J. Burdicks
A. J. Burdick
Los Angeles
Floyd Penn
Burdicks
Pismo
Waldo
Harold Meilke
Richmond
Clarence Heiser
Helmuth Hehn
A. B. Neufeld
P. C. Neufeld
A. J. Neufeld
Oregon
Harold Lee
Betty Jane Wilcoxon
Mary Lee Mouser
Guy Mouser
Sam Wilcoxon
Mahlon Mowerys
Mrs. Mahlon Mowery
J. W. Wilson
George Noriis
George Norin
Los Angeles Angels
San Francisco Seals
Wrigley Field
Novella Stewart
Novella
Lebec
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Baxersfield
Tom Eveleth
Internal Revenue Office
Busic
Palo Alto
Marion White
Lois L. Berry
Orange Cove
R. W. Partridge
Stewart Glenny
Jim Camp
Kern County
Visalia
Irene Parker
Luton
Edna Prieve
John Cornelius Siemens
Cornelius Siemens
University of California At Berkeley
Siemens Tive
Fontana
M. A. Lindsay
Allen
Shafter Bass
Melvyn Douglas
Florence Rice
George O'Brien
Marjorie Reynolds
Lone Ranger
Edward G. Robinson
Eeha Js
Warren William
Gracie Allen
Rio Bravo 4H Club
Whitaker Forest
Helen Bohler
Elinor Schierlmann
Bobby Devlin
Robert Curtis
Calvin Wilson
Charles Morgan
Jeannie Haag
Charm and Roam Hour
Phil Haag
Gene Stewart
Antonionete Pianoforty
Rosalyn Sears
Florabel Haywire
Mayhaw Field
Joyce Haag
Historical Society
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West
Harvey
Shafter High School
H. E. West , T. N. Harvey
Shafter Area
Rio Bravo School
Citizens Committee For
West and Harvey
H. E. West
T. N. Harvey
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