California to Offer $93 Million in General Obligation Bonds
State Treasurer Bert A. Betts said $93,000,000 in California general obligation bonds will be offered for sale Tuesday June 28. Earlier Betts rejected a $50,000,000 Veterans bond bid on May 24 as the 3.986 percent rate was too high. The June 28 offering comprises $50,000,000 Veterans bonds $25,000,000 School Aid bonds $15,000,000 Harbor bonds and $3,000,000 Small Craft Harbor bonds.
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Bert A. Betts
State of California
Betts
Vacation Bible School Totals 290 at Mennonite Brethren Church
Twenty one denominations attended the two week DVBS at the Mennonite Brethren Church with a high attendance of 290 youngsters. The program closed June 8 with parents and friends invited to view work, and prizes awarded for Doublers Club top participants.
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Vacal
Mennonite Brethren Church
DVBS
Cindy Witcher
First Baptist Church
Gwen Isaac
Ronald_ Reel
Park Lane Chapel
Simon Peters
Elmer Unruh
Stanley Gaede
William Siemens
Willis Reimer
Henry Isaac
Ed Nikkel
Henry H. Dick
Box of Shafter King Potatoes Returns From Formosa
A Taichung Formosa bound box labeled Shafter King Potatoes 50 lbs net weight traveled to Formosa and back to Shafter, carrying a carved water buffalo, wicker baskets, a Chinese scroll and sea shell sailboat. It highlights missionary work of Reverend and Mrs. Gaffin and their Orthodox Presbyterian mission in Formosa. The box, wrapped with red white and blue branding, endured a year abroad before ending in the Shafter Press trash.
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Taichung
Formosa
Shafter
Shafter King Brand
U. S
Roert- Neuman and Sons
California
Richard B. Gaffin
Melvin Nowhof
Shafter King
Orient
Nonhof
Goffin
Wisconsin
Virginia
Orthodox Presbyterian Church Mission Board
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Gaffins
China
Gaffin
Detour Starts At Lerdo and 99 for Ten Months
Resident engineers report the Lerdo and U S 99 interchange construction began Monday June 13 and will take ten months to finish. The area will stay passable by detours with minor traffic delays expected. Drivers in a rush are advised to use Central Valley Highway to Wasco or Bakersfield to avoid delays.
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Lerdo Highway
U. S. 99
Central Valley Highway
Wasco
Bakersfield
Promotion Announced for Jack Wilcoxon Manager
Jack Wilcoxon son of Reverend and Mrs Sam Wilcoxon is promoted to Manager of the Or land branch of Peak of Amania after serving as assistant manager for over a year. He previously worked fifteen years at the Shafter branch of Bank of America.
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Jack Wilcoxon
Sam Wilcoxon
Orland
Peak of Amania
Shafterite
Wilcoxon
Shafter
Bank of America
Schnaidts Celebrate 29th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Johnny Schnaidt observed their 29th wedding anniversary on June 13. The Shafter couple married June 13 1931 by a Reformed Church minister and have long operated Schnaidt s Real Estate and Insurance in Shafter.
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Johnny Schnaidt
Shafter
The
Reformed Church
Schnaidt
Mack Wilcoxon Earns Masters in Mathematics
Mack Wilcoxon son of the Reverend and Mrs. Sam Wilcoxon has completed work on his Masters Degree in Mathematics at San Diego State. He attended the university for the past nine months on a scholarship and will resume teaching at Porterville High School in the fall after four years as a mathematics teacher.
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Mack Wilcoxon
Sam Wilcoxon
San Diego State
Wilcoxon
Porterville
Porterville High School
Betty Wilcoxon Tours Europe on prolonged visit
Betty Wilcoxon daughter of Reverend and Mrs Sam Wilcoxon will complete a Europe tour and return home in August. She has traveled through Stockholm Paris Munich and other destinations in Europe over the past ten months and will resume teaching in the Lohe Beach area as a physical education instructor after visiting her parents.
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Betty Wilcoxon
Sam Wilcoxon
Europe
Stockholm
Sweden
Paris
Munich
Germany
Miss Barbara Wilcoxon Summer at Parental Home
Miss Barbara Wilcoxon, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Sam Wilcox, is living with her parents for the summer. She is a nurse employed at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.
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Barbara Wilcoxon
Sam Wilcoxon
Barbara
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
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J. C. Reimer
Jim Martin
Henry Duerksen
Henry Bergman
Fred Frantz
John Wiens
Peter B. Buller
C. C. Reimer
al Eckman
P. J. Gorsching
Christine Goertzen
Carolyn Siemens
Citizens Public Expenditure Survey
Jack King Ite
Iareer Neupert Wench Geneede
Dad
Bell and Howell
Schick
Sunbeam
Remington
Norelco
Old Spice
Black Watch
Stag
Yardleys
Max Factor
Whitman
Saylors
Brown and
Haley
FOLKS
Stringham's
Shafter Drug Store
Shick and Gillette Blade
Priate
Stringham’s
Central Avenue
Shafter, Calif
Pioneer
Velva Reagan
Veterans Memorial Hall
Jeanette Wheeler
Box
Lerdo
Arents
Vis
E. Lerdo
Uh Elf
Rnna
Arizona
Southwest
Agricultural Chemicals, Inc
Coberly & Plumb
Central Valley Hwy
Shafter Press
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