Merchants Struggle in Kern County Baseball League
The Shafter Merchants dropped two games last week in Kern County Baseball League action. Harold Lynch scored the lone run in the 4 to 1 loss to Kramer's TV Bakersfield, while Dale Scales secured the run in the 9 to 1 defeat to DiGiorgio Farms. They host Lamont at Sam Lynn Park tonight and face Wasco Cubs next Tuesday.
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Shafter Merchants
Kramer
TV of
Bakersfield
DiGiorgio Farms
Harold Lynch
Dale Scales
Lamont
Sam Lynn Park
Wasco Cubs
Eslick to Receive BA at Harding College Commencement
Billy Joe Eslick will receive the bachelor of arts degree from Harding College at commencement exercises in Searcy Arkansas on June 5. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Eslick of Shafter. The commencement speaker is Dr Rees H Hughes president of Pittsburg State College. Dr Hughes serves on the U S National Commission on UNESCO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy
Joe Eslick
Harding College
Searcy
Ark
George A. Eslick
Shafter
Rees H. Hughes
Pittsburg State Colege
Pittsburg
Kan
Hughes
United States National Commission On the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Reverend Krug Leads Shafter Ministers Association
Melvin Krug pastor at First Baptist Church will serve as president of the Shafter Ministerial Association for the coming year, succeeding Rev. Menno Schellenberg. Other officers include Schellenberg as vice president, Earnest Schroeder as secretary, and J Austin McNaught as treasurer. The group plans a joint observance program for the completion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible on September 30.
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Melvin Krug
First Baptist Church
Shafter Ministerial Association
Menno Schellenberg
Schellenberg
The
South Gospel Chapel
Earnest Schroeder
First Mennonite Church
J. Austin McNaught
Church of the Nazarene
Townsend Hurt in Crash Near Tagus Ranch
Robert Townsend a 33 year old Shafter funeral home director sustained serious injuries when the hearse he rode in blew a tire and swerved off Highway 99 into a canal near a bridge north of Tagus Ranch. Driver Earl Eugene Stewart 18 aided Townsend from the water and he was taken to Tulare hospital in recoverable condition. Stewart was not badly hurt. The crash occurred about 4 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Townsend
Shafter Funerial
Tagus Ranch
Earl Eugene Stewart
Shafter
Stewart
Townsend
Roy Woollomes Thanks Supporters in Shafter
W. R. (Roy) Woollomes, leader in the first district supervisor race in North Kern, today expressed thanks for supporters in the Shafter area. He praised the Woollomes for Supervisor committee for its work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Woollomes
Shafter
W. R
Roy) Woollomes
North Kern
4-H Demonstration Teaches Proper Shoes To Club Girls
Maple 4-H members watched Miss Lois Lyman demonstrate proper athletic and everyday shoes at the home of Mrs. Walter Nicol. She warned about foot ailments from poorly fitted shoes and advised sturdy, growth room footwear with supportive cushions. The session covered future sewing judging and announced summer camp at Camp Condor with dates June 18 to 28 and June 25 to July 2, plus a June 6 registration deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Lyman
Maple 4-H Club
Walter Nicol
Miss Lyman
Kern County
Camp Condor
Ruben Siemens
Martha’ Mitchell
Nancy Engel
Velva Whitfield
Beverly Ehrhorn
Janice Balzer
Evelyn Penner
Lela Kelley
Norma Nicol
Siemens
Phil
Nicol
Nugents Mark Parents Anniversary in Anaheim
Mr and Mrs J B Nugent of Beech Avenue spent last weekend in Anaheim to help celebrate the 47th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs George Mattis from the same city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Nugent
Beech Avenue
Anaheim
George Mattis
Summer Softball League Opens Monday Night in Shafter
Eight teams start the Shafter summer softball schedule with a two half season ending July 8. Edward Schacht, the softball director, says championships will be held to determine winners in each league. Evening games are at the primary and high school diamonds with 7 p.m. Pee Wee and Low Pee Wee and 8 p.m. for men and juniors, 9:30 p.m. Friday for the men's league.
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Shafter
Rio Bravo
American Legion
Edward Schacht
Stringham’s
Associated
Brown
Bryant
North
Kelly
Somers
North Camp
Stringhams
Reuben’s
Buttonwillow
Reuben's
Nor Camp
Pee Wee
Yankees
Lions
Kiwanis
White Sox
Wanis
Police
Central Hardware
Dodgers
Maple
Athletic Club
Baptist
Shamrock
Adamses Leave For Northern Trip
Mr and Mrs Dick Adamses depart for a six week trip beginning in Seattle to visit their daughter Mrs Joe Mulroy and her husband. They will travel by air and ship through Skagway West Taku Whitehorse and Dawson City with stops at Fairbanks Nome Kotzebue and Anchorage to see Fort Richardson and the 95th Tank Corps. They plan visits to the Jessie Lee Home for Children in Seward and return via Valdez Sitka Ketchikan Victoria B C and Bellingham Wash.
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Buttonwillow
Seattle
Wash
Visi
Joe Mulroy
Rom
Skagway
West Taku
Whitehorse
Canada
Yukon River
Dawson City
Fairbanks
Nome
Kotzebue
Artic Circle
Anchorage
Dick Adams
Fort Richardson
95Th Tank Corps
Jessie Lee
Seward
Valdez
Sitka
Ketchikan
Victoria B. C
Bellingham
Farm Bureau Leader Installs Buttonwillow Officers
Roy McLain of the California Farm Bureau Federa tion serves as installing officer at a Buttonwillow center meeting. Officers installed include Mrs Jack Thomson as chairman and Mrs Allen Bottorff as vice chairman. McLain spoke on expanding farmer voice to consumers and rising production costs. A summer schedule includes dinner meetings and a September Farm Bureau barbecue.
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Buttonwillow
Roy McLain
California Farm Bureau Federation
Buttonwillow Center
Home Department
Jack Thomson
Allen Bottorff
Other Young
Wayne Smith
McLain
Farm Bureau
C. Greyberger
T. C. Baldwin
Kenneth Wegis
Mexico
Mattie Baldwin
Don Hughett
Bill Brodbeck
Hefner Family Visits Salem Relative in Oregon
Mr and Mrs Herman Hefner and their sons from Salem Oregon visited in the home of Mrs Hefner's brother Leslie Nusz last week.
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Herman Hefner
Cherokee Strip Worker Injured In Ditch Digger Spill
A. C. McCarver, 65, a Cherokee Strip farm worker, is hospitalized in Bakersfield with serious back injuries after being thrown from a ditch digger when its plow struck a root. Harold Huskins stopped the tractor, and McCarver was taken to Bakersfield Hospital by an ambulance. The accident happened Tuesday on a Coberly-West Co. farm on Los Angeles Avenue.
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A. C. McCarver
Bakersfield
McCarver
Harold Huskins
Los Angeles Avenue
Bakersfield Hospital
Robert L. Jones
Coberly-West Co
Body Found in Barley Field Near Shafter Identified
The body found yesterday evening in a barley field off South Shafter avenue near Smith's Corner is tentatively identified as S. H. Sanger, a Los Angeles farm laborer. Constable Blake Witcher notes Sanger was in the area about two weeks ago. autopsy by Kern General Hospital is pending.
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Shafter Avenue
Smith's Corner
S. H. Sanger
Los Angeles
Blake Witcher
Sanger
Witcher
Melvin Ruth
Kern General Hospital
Richland Graduation List Renewed With Many Names
Long roster of graduates and eighth graders listed by surname in Richland source. Names span numerous families including Chavez Collins Colvard and dozens more, naming students from elementary to eighth grade and college-eligible graduates in detailed roll.
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Rev. Krug
E. Lerdo Hwy
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Ryiaw
Lars
Melvin N. Krug
Mennonite Brethren Church
KWSO
Corner, California
and Kern
Waldo Wiebe
First Southern Baptist Church
Kern & Sunset
Sam Wilcoxon
Dean Moore
Leonard Jordon
Pentecostal Church of God
Shafter Ave
West Ash
Durwood Phillips
Wasco
Virgil Spohn
Shafter Veterans
VFW
Dick Smith
Minter Village
Shafter-Minter Field
Minter
4-H
State Theatre
Loretta Young
Robert Mitchum
Rachael and the Stranger
Powell Betsy Drake
Dancing In
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Geronimo
Rory Calhoun
Errol Flynn , Viveca Lindfors
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Don DeFore
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Sword's Point
Southside
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Arthur Kennedy
Jon Hall
Marie Windsor
Barbara Rush
Judy Canova
Oklahoma Annie
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Dean
Hamburger
Richland
Cassidy
Larry B. Chavez
Colleen Jenniffer Collins
Bill F. Colvard
Fred Colvard
Ronald Colvard
Viola Joyce Cooper
Anna B. Cota
Gaylen Cotton
Glen Davis
Ray Dean Davis
Patricia Deckert
Lydia Delarosa
Melba Denney
McKinley M. Dillard
Ruby Dillard
Thomas Duckett
Carl
Edmund Duerksen
Kay Duerksen
Bobby Dye
Ruth Earls
Edward Ellis
Marjorie Ann Engel
Marlene Enns
Royce Lee Eslick
Ernest Estavillo
Ramon Evaro
Jean Fincher
Arvilla Evan Fink
J. W. Finley
Freda Joyce Fowler
Shirley L. Fox
Maria de Los An
Barbara Friedley
Johnny Faye Gafford
Luther Doyle Gallagher
Jesse M. Gerrard
Charlie Campbell Glenn
Lupe Gonzalez
Bobby L. Granger
Larry Wayne Grider
Bud Griffin
Dennis Gills
Lydia Hernandez Gutierrez
Aretta Jewell Hayworth
Margie Marie Hearon
Maynard Doyle Hendricks
Robert Louis Henry
Frances Elizabeth Higbee
Clarence Hobbs
Charles Edward Hood
Harold Wayne Hood
Norma G. Hooks
Dorothy Jean Howard
Joyce Jhuanise Howard
Herschel Huskins
Judy Vaun Janzen
Elizabeth Jara
Carolyn Jane Jenkins
Barbara Jobe
Arleigh Johnson
James David Miller
James Mitchell
Norma L. Mixon
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Freda Montgomery
Belvi Ann Moor
Dale M
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Cora L. Nanney
Clarence Neufeld
Robert L. Neuman
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Jackie Nixon
Donald Padgett
Charles Patrick
Johnnie Lee Perkins
Ronald Dales Pierce
Gordon Lowell Pipkin
Ival Pressley
Jack Ragsdale
Cruz Ramirez
Colleen Sue Rector
Caudie Reel
Clarence i
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Lionel
Rogerquez
Thomas R. Rogers
Betty Lee Ross
Joel Saenz
Robert Scates
Ernest le Roy Schultz
Bill Siesbel
Charlotte Sephus
Ruth Sharp
Betty Ann Shaw
Charles Ertill
Katherine Simonson
Ruth Sigpey
Lucyndez Sosa
Ben Sprague
Zena Stacy
Derek Leon Steele
Glen Stoller
Manuel Ray Sturgeon
Roger Tatum
Virgini Terry
Dean Thompson
Jerry Wayne Thompson
Marie Thompson
Rita L. Tiberghien
Bobby Lee Trout
SS Rudy Velarde
Robert John ’ Nolo
Henry Warkentin
Warren
James Dean Waymire
Nelson West, Jr
Hollistine Wher Sey
Barbara Lou Wilcoxon
Lioyde Williams
Carolyn Wilson
Billy Wood
Jerel Wayne Wood
She Wood
Odell Word
Faye Young
Don Loy King
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