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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1950
Page
2
The Bakersfield Title Insurance and Trust Company announces a new abstract division office at 1331 Chester Ave. Property valued at $135,000 offers 6222 square feet plus 4500 square feet in the basement for files. Off street parking for 80 cars.
St Therese Catholic Church hosts a building fund benefit party on March 17 at Veterans Memorial Hall. Altar and Holy Name Societies sponsor games including bridge canasta and pinochle with prizes for participants. Proceeds aid construction of a Catholic Church in Shafter.
Voter registration for the Kern county utility district election closes March 17. Registration is under way for the Kern County and Shafter Public Utility district vote set for May 2. Polls will be open 2 to 4 30 p m on Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays and Fridays at city hall. The county election is scheduled for June 6.
Mary Barbara Browner of Pittsburg California celebrated her first birthday anniversary at her grandmother Flora Fenton’s home. Assisting were her mother Mrs Ralph Browner and guests Mrs Bill Wilson and children Johnny Betty Mrs William Taylor and son Bill Miss J A Bonds and daughters Dorotha and Joyce Mrs Charles Abbott and daughter Mrs Juanita Williams and Barbara Fenton.
About 35 planes are to take off Sunday morning on a secret breakfast flight. Flight commander Ver Non Pierce said the pilots and their passengers will perform an assimilated bomb run upon reaching a destination revealed only at takeoff. The fastest arrival wins a $75 flight officer's watch.
Approximately 75 Shafter High School students received smallpox vaccinations this week. School nurse Emma Laughman said more vaccinations will occur next week and final results on effectiveness will be released then.
Miss Harriet Wall and Miss Edna Johnson spent a weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Wall in Shafter. Their daughter and her guest are student nurses finishing training at White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles and will graduate in June.
Mr and Mrs Don Vannon of McFarland were Sunday visitors at the Joe Ford home in Minter Village. Mr and Mrs Melvin Owens of Mesa Arizona are visiting the Vernon Ellington home in Minter Village.
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