District Auxiliary to Honor Guest at Buttonwillow Meeting
District President Mrs Zola Sheumseiet of Bakersfield will be the honored guest at the American Legion Auxiliary meeting in the Duke Veterans Building on March 18. Mrs Mildred Armstrong promised members that Mrs Loustalot would bring an important message. The gathering starts at 8 p.m.
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Buttonwillow
Zolasheumseiet
Bakersfield
American Action Auxiliary
Duke Veterans
Mildred Armstrong
Unit Dent
Loustalot
Youth Notifies Folks Of Return Stateside
Kenneth Parker of Buttonwillow informed his parents Mr and Mrs Boyd Parker that he arrived in San Diego from Korean waters Friday The Parker family traveled south to greet him The ship will remain for a while and Kenneth will take a leave in a few days
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Buttonwillow
Kenneth Parker
Boyd Parker
San Diego
Kenneth
M. J. Davis to Step Down at Title Firm
M. J. Davis announces he will relinquish Bakersfield Abstract division management on March 15. He remains a vice president and will advise staff and customers. Paul Filson will assume management duties. Filson joined Title Insurance and Trust Co in 1929 and moved from Los Angeles to Bakersfield in 1946.
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M. J. Davis
Title Insurance and Trust Co
Bakersfield
Paul Filson
Davis
Filson
Title Insurance and Trust.Co
Bakersfield Abstract
Los Angeles
Funeral Services For George Taylor In California
Funeral services were held Friday in Bakersfield for George E. Taylor a long time Kern county resident since 1895. He farmed locally and was linked with the grocery and real estate businesses. Pallbearers included Cecil Tracy Darrell Tracy Tilton Tracy Ho Venable.
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Buttonwillow
Bakersfield
George E. Taylor
Fanny Tracy
Hazel Codper
Taylor
Kern County
Cecil Tracy
Darrell Tracy
Tilton Tracy
Ho- Venable
Five Buttonwillow teachers escape death in highway crash
Five Taft area elementary teachers narrowly survived when their car skidded on a wet Taft highway three miles south of Buttonwillow. The vehicle toppled into an irrigation canal. Mrs. Jean Mefford sustained serious cuts while four other teachers suffered bruises. The Elmer McCoy family helped pull them from the wreckage and treat them.
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Buttonwillow
Jean Mefford
Taft Highway
Metford
Ted Worden
Margaret Cutland
Pearl Walsh
Emeline Palmer
Gertrude Steen
Taft
Elmer McCoy
Mefford
Walsh
Seaman Albert Carter Jr. Uninjured After Ship Shelling
Seaman Albert Carter Jr of Shafter is reported uninjured after February 22 firing on the USS Shelton 100 miles south of Korea. Eleven sailors were wounded, three seriously, during the destroyer attack. Carter, married to Melba Harrington of Bakersfield, will arrive in the United States on April 4 after a year and a half of service.
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Albert Carter, Jr
Shafter
Shelton
Carter
Navy
Melba Dean Harrington
Bakers= field
Flower Show Promotes Home Garden Craft by Two Women
Mrs Martha Frey and her mother Mrs Fanny Tracy organized a Farm Bureau Women’s Club flower show at the center last Thursday. They demonstrated formal and informal arrangements, container choices, and the use of woods in displays while hinting at spring plantings. Guests for the next meeting include Mrs Merle Taylor and Mrs Robert Strauss.
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Buttonwillow
Martha Frey
Fanny Tracy
Women of the Farm ‘Bureau
Francis Selvidge
Alda Kemp
Mary Ellen Brodbeck
T. C. Baldwin
Wilma Obergefeld
Merle Taylor
Liberty Belles
Robert Strauss
League of Women Voters
Mr and Mrs Horton Return to Bakersfield Area
Mr and Mrs Junior Horton, formerly of Shafter, have returned here from Hawthorne Nevada where he has been employed during the last year. Horton plans to work at the Lockheed Aircraft plant in Bakersfield and make their home there.
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Junior Horton
Shafter
Hawthorne
Nev
Horton
Lockheed Aircraft Plant
Bakersfield
Kern Man Heads Firm for Bakersfield Store Opening
Carlton Minner of Kern County is named manager of the new Barker Brothers home furnishings store planned for 2727 F Street Bakersfield. The 20,000 square foot shop opens March 15 as interior decor progresses and stock moves in. Minner brings 20 years in Bakersfield furniture trade with Barker Brothers eight years as the firm's Kern County representative.
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Carlton Minner
Kern County
Bareker Brothers
Bakersfield
Neil Petree
Concera
Minner
Barker Brothers
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Dick Smith
Lewis D. Patrick
Korea
Fred W. Roberts
Oakland Army Base
Patrick
William J. Patrick
Kirschenmann
Masco
California Ave
Bakersfield, Calif
M., J. Davis
George Taylor
uWe Valous
Robin Blomquist
International
Povine. Fhee Motor Port
Central Valley
California
Frucks
Junior Hortons
Nevada
MOTEL
Cawelo
Highway
Lerdo
Kern Man Heads
Mission San Miguel
The
Francisan Fathers of
West
Haindies
West’ Rie
America
Pacific Telephone
Red Cross
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