Shafter Veterans Win Big in Cotton Growing Awards
Veterans in Kern County on-farm training won $925 in cash at the third annual cotton growing winners banquet. Clarence Evans of Shafter claimed the grand sweepstakes prize of 450, including 300 for sweepstakes and 150 as first in his group. Other Shafter winners included Leroy Jackson, William Peltier, Jack Thomson, G. H. Grundy, Albert Suckitt, Kenneth Jackson, and Roma Mansfield, across four groups based on acreage. The event at Bakersfield Inn featured speeches, musical numbers, and prize awards totaling 16 veterans sharing $1600.
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Fight Shafter
Kern County Union High School
Clarence Evans
Shafter
Leroy Jackson
William Peltier
Jack Thomson
G. H. Grundy
Albert Suckitt
Kenneth Jackson
Roma Mansfieldourth
Palm Room
Bakersfield Inn
Robert S. Davidson
J. P. Kennedy
California Cotton Cooperative Association
Singing of America
A. G. Rinn
W. L. Smith
Buttonwillow
Bowen Hall
Bakersfield
Kern County
H. K. Dickson
Kern County Union High
Dickson
James Camp
Bates Dewey
George Harrison
Ed Peters
John J. Peters
Dale Duncan
J. R. Kennedy
Mannirng Becker
McFarland
Bernie Barwick
Amos Boatwright
Arvin
Ronia Mansfield
Jack Thompson
Antony Muzivich
William Payne
John Gobler
Bob Davidson
Lee Beeson
Livio Palla
City Council Denies Webb Loading Zone Request
City councilmen Monday night denied L. E. Webb a loading zone privilege in front of his store, the Market post office area. No further details provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Webb
Ostoffice Market
Kelly Heads Easter Seals Drive in Kern County
H W Pat Kelly, candidate for assembly and sheriff, leads Easter Seal fundraising for the Kern County Society for Crippled Children. He plans to distribute coin collectors at community stores to aid the campaign. A Veterans of Foreign Wars dance sponsored by local vets, featuring Tommie Duncan, is set for Saturday at Minter Village.
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Kern
Society For Crippled, Children
H. W
Pat) Kelly
Shafter
Kelly
Assembly
Minter Village
The
Shafter Vets
Tommie Duncan
Deputies Seek Road Bandits Robbery Targets Local Station
Deputies hunt three hoodlums who forced Clifford England operator of the Shell Service Station in Shafter off Lerdo Highway and robbed him of 180 dollars Sunday night. England was unharmed and en route home to Minter Village after closing the station. VOTe April 41 voters in Richland School District vote May 19 for the trustee seat of M. L. Thomas whose term expires this year with no candidates filed.
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Sheriff's Deputies
Clifford England
Shell
Shafter
Lerdo
England
Minter Village
Richland
M. L. Thomas
School Board
Shafter class formed with Nay leading agriculture dept
A newly formed class at Shafter was presented with Glenn O Nay head of Shafter High School agriculture department presiding.
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Shafter
Glenn O. Nay
Shafter High School
Agriculture Department
Vets to Start Kids Program in Shafter
Shafter veterans of foreign wars plan a weekly Saturday morning program for children ages five to teens. Bristow announced with N F Waymire Frank Johnson and Clarence Fowler on the arrangement committee. The yearlong program will feature educational movies free popcorn safety and religious matters. Doyle Hayworth paid a $40 fine after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace before Judge E K Grant.
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Shafter
Shafter Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rem Bristow
Bristow
N. F. Waymire
Frank Johnson
Clarence Fowler
Doyle Hayworth
E. K. Grant
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Shafter Vet
Sweep Cotton Growing Awards
Gls
California Department of Education
Barber Shop Quartet
Coberly-West Ginning Company
Harold Green
Cal Conron
John Akeman
Billie
Bevo Kelliher
San Francisco
Whitcome
Karl C. Weber
Wittenberg Poultry
Santa Fe
Schneider
Wikoff
Payne
Central Ave
VFW
Lucille Barkley
B. F. Goodrich Company
Miss Barkley
Universal-International
Peggy
Shafter Recaptire Shop
E. Lerdo Hwy
Ernest Adamson
49ER
Cooper’s Nursery & Flower Shop
Vets To
Leo Gorcey
Bowery
Bill Elliott
Martha Stewart
iJoe
MacCret
Veronica Lake
Ramrod
Burt Lancaster
Joan Fontaine
Duncan Renaldo
Ann Savage the
Gay Amigo
Lizabeth Scott
Dan Duryea
Don Barry
Marjorie Steele
Wood's Shoe Store
Central
Don’s
Beauty
Don Fitzgerald
Chateau and
Marchaunt's
Willat Dynacurl
Don's
Baker
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