Final concert of season features Wesley Dalton in Wasco
Nationally known tenor Wesley Dalton closes the 1954 55 Shafter Wasco Community Concert season in Wasco auditorium assisted by Jerome Winter at the piano. Dalton, born Detroit 1928, rose from church choirs to the New York City Opera and major roles in La Bohème La Traviata Don Giovanni and Mozart Bastien et Bastienne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Dalton
Shafter- Wasco Community Concert Association
Wasco Auditorium
Dalton
Jerome Winter
Detroit
Michigan
Fort Worth
Texas
Wesley
First Congregational Church of
Dearborn
Avery Crew
Laszlo Halas
New York
New York City Opera
Rodolfo
Alfredo
Mrs. Chuck Christopher to Be Woman's Club President
The Wednesday Afternoon club met at Veterans Memorial hall for a 1:30 March 2 session. Don Irwin Kern County civil defense officer spoke on preparedness and showed Disaster on Main Street with Ed Murrow narration. A clarinet quartet performed. Members announced a Kern county meeting at St Marks church Oildale and elected officers for the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans Memorial Hall
Chuck Christopher
Don Irwin
Kern County
Main Street
Ed R. Murrow
Jim Moquist
Paul Pilgrim
Marvin Neuman
O. D. Handel
Tom Roots
Ed Brown
St. Marks Church
Oildale
R. G. Baender
Wilbur Stocker
Shafter
Green Thumb and the Land in a Tragic Irrigation Tale
The piece recalls ancient irrigation from foggaras in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys and warns of soil loss from careless use. It cites a 1954 American Museum of Natural History report of a vast desert irrigation legacy built by Jews and Berbers, ended by Islamic influence, and calls for California soil conservation to feed a growing population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tigris
Euphrates
American Museum of Natural History
Sahara
California
Rio Bravo Pianist Robert Haag to Play Beethoven in Bakersfield
Rio Bravo youth Robert Haag, a Bakersfield College alumnus now studying for a doctorate at UCLA, will perform an all Beethoven program at the Little Theatre Harvey Auditorium on Saturday night March 12. Sponsored by the Bakersfield College Faculty Club with free admission and tickets through club members or Haag’s mother Mrs Hazel Haag, a Maple School teacher.
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Harvey Auditorium
Robert Haag
Haag
Bakersfield College
UCLA
Hazel Haag
Maple School
Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach
National Society of Musicolo
Bookkeeping Taught in Unique Way By Shafter High School Teacher
Shafter High School teacher Hal Williams uses a simulated sporting goods store to teach bookkeeping. Students assume the role of real bookkeepers, handling checks ledgers statements and bills. They balance accounts and run the store for six weeks to gain practical experience and sharpen their skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High
Hal Williams
Shafter Tireh
Williams
Willams
Girls Cake Sale Saturday by Freshmen League
The Girls League sponsored by the Freshmen will hold a cake sale on Saturday March 12 at two locations The sale runs from 9 00 am at the corner in front of Johnson Neuman and in front of the Safeway Store All cakes are homemade with prices 75 cents for large and 65 cents for small.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Neuman
Safeway
Girl’s League
Navy Feeds Nation With 1.75 Billion Pounds Of Food
The Navy consumed 1,750,000,000 pounds of food last year. The amount could fill a freight train stretching from Newport News to Baltimore, Maryland, illustrating the scale of military provisioning.
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Newport
R. L
Baltimore
Final Rites Today for R. E. Rolston
Funeral services for Robert E. Lee Rolston, 72, will be held at Armstrong Mortuary with Rev. Ray Smith officiating. Rolston, born July 16, 1882 in Texas, died of natural causes at his home 122 Beth Eden Tuesday morning. Survived by widow Cora, two sons Frank and Cleve of Gainesville, four daughters Bobbie Rolston, Lucille Sanders of Venaco, Ethel Justice of Norwalk, Viola Boom of Long Beach, plus five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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Robert. E. Lee Rolston
Armstrong Mortuary
Rev
Ray Smith
The
Pentecostal Church
Rolston
Beth Eden
Texas
Cora
Frank
Cleve
Gainesville
Bobbie Rolston
Lucille Sanders
Venacopa
Ethel Justice
Norwalk
Viola Boom
Long Beach
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Wasco
Woman's Club
Norma Hogks
Roger Tatum
Gerald Bender
Russell Hardin
Jack Austin
Don Ruggenberg
Mmes al Mortimore
J. C. Hodges
John Jacobsen
J. H. Fuller
H. L. McKusick
W. C. Handel
Allen Bartels
Gene Enns
Jake Bergens
J. Waldo Unruh
Death Valley
Zenith
Stringham’s
Yorfs Shafter Drug Store
Central Ave
Servichig
Dorothy Hale
Young
Rio Bravo
Bakersfield
Paul Newell
Tacko Ishwata
Buttonwillow
Ishiwata
Japan
Fannie Tracy
Levis’ Casuals
Herc’s
Levi’s
Chartone
Wheatone
Shafter Mercantile CO
Hemningson
the Friendly Department Store
Santa FE Shafter
R. E. Rolston
Shafter Area
Empire TV
First Southern Baptist Church
Corner
Kern & Sunset
Sam Wilcoxon
Ber
Mouser
B.T.U
Jack Maxberry
M.U
Ted French
U. S
K. V. Valley Pride Hams
Hamburger
Tbs
DR. Pepper Root Beer
Weiners
Tastewell
Crisco
Ballard Biscuits
Bisquick
Shafter Ave
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