Tight Races As Ball Leagues Finish Play
In the first half of the softball season final week, three leagues narrow to two or three contenders. Shafter Press breaks tie by routing Johnson Neuman 15 7 in the Junior league as Clarence Bender and Jim Myrick star. Johnson Neuman edges Rotary 10 7. Shafter Billiards suffer first loss. City Barber Shop Pee Wees win 7 0. Girls league features Pierce Jewelers versus Food Town with Kiwanis in close chase. Standings through Tuesday shown.
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Shafter Press
Johnson-Neuman
Clarence Bender
Jim Myrick
Press
Johnson- Neuman
Rotary
Shafter Billiards
Floyd Wedlock
Pee Wees
Pierce Jewelers
Food Town
Kiwanis
Shafter Car & Home Supply
Pee-Wees
Mann & Brown ci
Ccceesees
City Barber Shop
Veceepenciess Central Market
Eeeetendeeeeewnetene
Girls Food Town
Uceerene
Kiwanis Pierce Jewell
Goclets
Theta
Dial Cleaners
Shatter News Agency
Seeerter Schirmer
Services Held For Jose Saucedo
Funeral services for Jose Saucedo aged 78 who died June 12 at Kern General hospital Bakersfield were held Thursday the 18th at Shafter cemetery Janzen's Funeral Home handled arrangements Saucedo born in Old Mexico in 1868 had lived in California 22 years and resided in Shafter at death He is survived by wife Delores of Shafter a son Max of Chowchilla and sister Maria Lopez of Old Mexico
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Jose Sausecedo
Kern General Hospital
Bakersfield
Shafter
Janzen
Saucedo
Old Mexico
California
Delores
Max
Chowchilla
Maria Lopez
Carroll Wilkinson Dies In Tragic B-29 Crash
First Lieutenant Carroll Lockwood Wilkinson 27 of Wasco died June 12 when the B-29 he piloted crashed in Tennessee killing 11 others. Funeral services set for June 22 at First Congregational Church Wasco with interment at Greenlawn Bakersfield. He is survived by wife Jessie A a son Carroll L Jr a daughter Gertrude J a sister and his parents.
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Carroll Lockwood Wilkinson
Wasco
First Congregational Church
Robert Cleland
Wilkinson
Greenlawn
Bakersfield
Robert I.jones
Los Angeles
Tennessee
Jessie A
Carroll L. Jr
Gertrude J
Shirley Wheat
San Diego
Harry L. Wilkinson
Shafter
Kiwanis Club
Rotary Club Is Formed In Wasco
Seventeen business and professional men in Wasco moved to organize a local Rotary club with Shafter club sponsorship. They apply for a Rotary International charter, joining a network of clubs in Delano Oildale Bakersfield Taft and Shafter. Regular meetings at Wiets Motel begin Monday at 12:10 with charter delivery to follow.
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Wasco Rotary Club
Ernest Panero
Pat Kelly
Rotary Internatornal
Buck Wheat
Herbert Comfort
Rolf Jacobs
Ted Vignolo
Clarence Neuman
Shafter Rotary Club
Rotary International
Wasco
Rotary
Delano
Oildale
Bakersfield
Taft
Shafter Club
Rotary Club of
Rotary Clubs
Rotary Club
Wiet’s
Joe Sears
Santa Barbara
Calif
Marjorie Olsen Returns Home for Summer from Oregon State
Marjorie Olson is home from Oregon State University for the summer vacation as rural farmers continue their work and routines.
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Marjorie Olson
Marjorie Olsen
Oregon State
New Paint Saturday opens in Shafter at 156 Central Ave
Stor em Shafter Maintenance Company hosts an open house 9 am to 8 pm celebrating the grand opening of a paint and wallpaper store at 156 Central Avenue across from Shafter Press. The event marks completion of the J C Channeson building used by Wood's Shoe Store and introduces free local delivery.
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Shafter Maintenance Company
Central Avenue
Shafter Press
Shafter
J. C. Channeson
Wood’s
E. E. Lilly and
Melton Kin
Cannon, Shafter Maintenance Company
Kern
Iin
George Vannatta
Shafter Horses Head East After Santa Anita Success
The Shafter Racing Stable horses shipped from Santa Anita to Bay Meadows and then to Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island. Except Huntley and Jessica Scott, all will race in New York this weekend while those two stay in California. Driver Charles Witt, who led Santa Anita, will join the eastern campaign as races run at night.
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Shafter Racing
Bay Meadows
San Francisco
Roosevelt Raceway
Westbury
Long Island
New York
Huntley
Jessica Scott
California
Frontiersman
Bunter Patch
Sky Chief
Sonja Patch
Bob Neuman
Jack Crawford
S. A. Camp
Bill Lachenmaier
Santa Anita
Charles Witt
Surplus Rubber Sale Starts Today
Government surplus equipment for Kern County farmers opens for veterans June 20 to 26 at 2405 M Street Bakersfield with a mimeographed catalogue. Items include tractors, discs, ditchers, plows, sprayers and more from Emergency Rubber Projects in Bakersfield Shafter and Lamont.
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Bakersfield
Shafter
Lamont
P&ma
Kern County Agricultural Conservation Association
M Street
Kern County
Parsons
Shafter Welcomes Mettler Service Station Expansion
Local construction firms celebrate the opening of Em H Mettler and Sons Chevron service station on Shafter Highway north of the Santa Fe tracks. The new facility offers complete truck and car service with ample free truck parking and ties to a 20 acre Mettler business and industrial tract development. The piece also notes the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral in San Francisco as a separate item.
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Chevron
Shafter
Shafter Business District
Shafter Highway
Mettler
Con
United States
Holy Trinity
San Francisco
Rotary Club Holds First Wasco Meeting
Seven Shafter Rotarians attended Wasco Rotary Club’s first regular Monday noon meeting at West's in Wasco. Ernest Panero and Pat Kelly of the Shafter Club, representing Joe Sears of Santa Barbara district governor Rotary International, spoke on Rotary objectives.
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Shafter
Wasco Rotary Club
West’s
Wasco
Ernest Panero
Pat Kelly
Shafter Club
Joe Sears
Santa Barbara
Rotary International
Rotary
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Richland Playground
Bill Kinman
Max Tudor
Ronald Pierce
Jimmy Allen
Wayne Kershman
Gordon Pipkin
Rex Allen
Larry Ped
Donald Day
Bobby Nixon
Roy Farrell
Farrell
Jose Saucedo
Carroll Wilkinson
W. E. Newton
Agricultural Extension Service
R.P.M. Delo & Heavy Duty Oils
Battery and Tire Service
of Santa Fe Tracks
Ray Warren
Chevron Supreme
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