Farewell Party For Henry Rice Before Army Service
Henry Rice age 19 son of Mr and Mrs Oscar Rice of Rio Bravo left for Army service after a farewell dinner at his parents home. Attendees included extended family and friends from Buttonwillow Bakersfield Mer Highland Shafter and Santa Barbara College ROTC honor society. Rice was elected 1st Lieutenant in the Santa Barbara College Scabbard and Blade unit announced by Lt Col Edward R Maddox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Rice
Oscar Rice
Rio Bravo
Yesterdy
Army
Harry Rice
Lum. Rice
Vicki
Charles Rice
Buel Mouser
Cynthia
Stanley
O'Bryan Daniels
Darrell of
Buttonwillowy
Jimmy Jenzen
Wendell Vannatta
Rootes
Shafter
Santa Barbara College
University of California
Scabbard and Blade
Edward R. Maddox
Campus comedy mystery draws large crowd at auditorium
More than 400 people attend the student body play The Clock Struck Twelve in the campus auditorium. Alan Walker stars as the demented billionaire pursued by rivals while Donna Hare Lawanda Edwards and Donna Weitz lead a trio of scheming house guests. Beth McLean, the dramatics teacher, receives special acclaim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pr Seletion
Alan Walker
Bang
Donna Hare
Lawanda Edwards
Donna “Weitz
Stim
Royee Estick
Beth McLean
Family Members Meet Sailor Back From Seven Month Tour
Keith Burnquist arrived in San Diego aboard the destroyer Hopewell after a seven month duty tour in Oriental waters. Family members including his mother Stella Burnquist and siblings joined relatives P. C. Shannon for a weekend visit as the ship docked for servicing. Four destroyers entered together drawing a large crowd of relatives and new fathers with babies on deck. Burnquist expects to be sent to a school while the ship remains based in San Diego for several weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sailor Back
Orient
Maple
Keith Burnquist
San Diego
Hopewell
Oriental
Ife
Stella Burnquist
G. R. Burnquist
Karen
Dean
Burnquist
Birthday Greetings P. H. Kroeker Leaves Kern Street for Oklahoma
P H Kroeker of Kern Street departs this week to visit his sister in Oklahoma who is seriously ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. H. Kroeker
Kern Street
Oklahoma
Lottie Cummings Honors Youths This Week
Lottie Cummings hosted a birthday and farewell dinner at 528 Sunset Ave. Earl Cummings left yesterday for the Army. Mrs Ray Cummings and Bill Cummings also celebrated birthdays. Attendees included numerous local families and Mrs Lottie Cummings with Earl, LaVerne and Bill. Mrs Leon Bender underwent surgery at San Joaquin Hospital last Friday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lottie Cummings
Sunset Ave
Ray Cummings
Bill Cummings
Randy
Carol
Charlies
Gary
Sharon
Charlotte
bLee-Gray
J. C
Leon Bender
Ash St
San Joaquin Hospital
Legion Auxiliary initiates new members in group
The American Legion Auxiliary held a Tuesday evening meeting in Veterans Memorial Hall to initiate new members and welcome junior members. President Mrs. J. P. McCoy introduced District First Vice President Laura Gamby of Taft and Kern County Council president Thelma Daly of Bakersfield. New inductees from Bakersfield were Mesdames Ben Laverty Henry Hight and Maurice Connell. Junior members include Donna Bellows Martha Susan Laverty Vicki Laverty Pamela McCoy Sandra McCoy Kathy Richards Gail Wipf and Sandra Wipf. Hostesses were Mesdames P. C. Guenther T. P. Rootes and J. W. Lassiter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Veterans Memorial Hall
J. P. McCoy
District First
Laura Gamby
Taft
Thelma Daly
Bakersfield
Kern County Council
Ben Laverty
Henry Hight
Maurice Connell
Delano
Berl Wipf
Jeri Vannatta
Legion’s
Donna Bellows
Martha Susan
Vicki Laverty
Pamela
Sandra McCoy
Kathy Richards
Gail
Sandra Wipf
Twin births and a third son report from Shafter and Denver
The note lists three newborns in March. Jack Lane Jr. born March 22 in Denver to Airman Jack Lane and wife. Michael Leroy Little born March 20 in Miss Freise’s Maternity Home to George and Flora Little in Shafter. Joseph Rodriguez born March 19 in Wasco Maternity Home to Cedra Rodriguez and husband Alex Estavillo in Wasco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Jack Jr
Denver
Colo
Jack Lane
Floyd Lane
Shafter
Bowey
Air Force
Forbes
Kan
Michael Leroy
Miss Freise
George Little
McCrum‘Lane
Flora Fenton
H. W. Little
Joseph Rodriguez
Wasco
Alex Estavillo
Martinez Street
Cedra Rodriguez
Families Take Death Valley Camping Trip
The Allen, Bartel and Waldo Unruh families went on a Maple- Leaf camping trip to Death Valley last weekend. They left Friday after school and camped at the mountain edge. On Saturday they toured the Valley seeing Scotty's Castle, Furnace Creek Ranch and Bad Water. Bartel flew to Memphis, Tennessee Monday for the National Cotton Ginners Convention as Maple Leaf Enterprises' representative, with a return planned Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maple
Death Valley
Allen
Bartel
Waldo Unruh
Scotty
Cotton Ginners Convention
Maple Leaf Enterprises
Pasadenans Visit Peters Family Here
Maple Mr and Mrs Joh J Peters Jr hosted over weekend visitors Mr and Mrs Ralph Wallace from Pasadena. Wallace is parent of Ensign Calvin Wallace fiancé of Miss Phyllis Peters whose engagement was recently announced. Guests included Mr and Mrs Walter Nicol and Norma Nicol. Peters plans a early summer wedding after Phyllis graduates UCLA. Ensign Wallace serves in the U S Navy finance office in Detroit Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maple
Joh J. Peters
Ralph Wallace
Wallaces
Pasadena
Ensign Calvin Wallace
Phyllis
Peters
Wallace
Walter Nicol
Norma
Miss Peters
University of California At
Los Angeles
Ensign Wallace
Detroit
Mich
United States Navy
Wednesday Afternoon Club Names New Officer Slate
The Wednesday Afternoon Club in Veterans Memorial Hatch will present a new officer slate at the luncheon meeting starting at 12 30 p m. Co chairs are Mrs L J Woodard and Mrs E A Brown with all new members on the committee and Mrs Charles Melton of Bakersfield to demonstrate flower arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans Memorial Hatch
L. J. Woodard
E. A. Brown
Charles Melton
Bakersfield
Students Present Indian Program at Maple School
Maple School hosted Mothers of third and fourth graders for an Indian program in the auditorium. Students dressed in deer skin robes, demonstrated crafts, songs, and a piano number, with demonstrations of beadwork and clay murals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MAPLE
Hilda Wiebe
Maple School
Phil Siemens
Cer
Dennis Shepherd
Tonette
Exchange Teacher Visits Delano Society Meeting
Miss Alison Banks, English exchange teacher from Delano High, spoke at the Wednesday Afternoon Club in Mrs. John J. Peters home. She described British and American schooling, noting grammar and modern schools, 18 year path to universities, wage comparisons, and a TV license impact on ads. Peggy Vogt accompanied her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alison Banks
Delano High School
John J. Petans
ATLD
America
Southend-on-the- Sea
Essex
United States
France
British Broadcasting Company
Miss Banks
PTA Leaders Attend Meet On Desert
Two car loads of local PTA members traveled to China Lake to attend the Seventh District Congress of Parents and Teachers. Mrs. Kenneth Spencer spoke, detailing a South America trip and noting shoeless pupils and illiteracy tied to hook-worm and poverty, and commenting on Peron’s private property seizures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent- Teachers Association
China Lake
Congress of Parents and Teachers
Ruben Siemens
Maple Pta
Ralph Gribble
Arthur Ehrhorn
Maple
Jake Siemens
Shafter High School Pta
Wallace Weyand
Jack Thompson
William Dalke
John Notley
Egg Hunt Celebrates Nancy Barling Sixth Birthday
An egg hunt highlighted the sixth birthday of Nancy Ann Barling, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harley Barling of Orange Drive. Winners were Charles Kirschenman and Rodney Honea. Relatives and friends from Bakersfield Wasco Modesto attended with adults including Roland Shell Murray Evans Cecil Honea and Harley Barling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Ann Barling
Harley Barling
Orange Drive
Charles Kirschenman
Rodney Honea
Arnold
Bakersfield
Kathy Betts
Pamela Evans
Michael Shell
Wasco
Lana Jane Barling
Modesto
Roland Shell
Murray Evans
Cecil Honea
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Jim Howard
Brenda Kay
Hollywood Spotlight
Joyce
Englé
Lederle
Newcastle
Stringham’s Shafter Drug Store
301 Central
Hardware ‘Co
Central Ave
Ory
Adah Hy
Morty Brown
Neighb ‘Bor
Barbara Jobe
Arlene Kadel
Dave Muir
Dwight Harvey
Marvin Taber
Deloris Potts
Wiley Anderson
Dale Morris
Ed Ellis
Jack Robbins
Bob Vignolo
Jack Hunsucker
Harold Gacde
Charlene Kroeker
Emma Mansfield
Christine Owens
Virginia Mendenhall
Gerri Thompson
A Roh
Neuman
Opal Kade
I Fenderson
Yoyl Holmes
Lila Cornelius
al Anderson
IK “Hanley Witcher
LaVerne Klicns
A. Cornery
Maxine Senders
Mylo Mettler
Bert Cook
Martin. Anderson
Clifford Weaver
Ned Smith
Rvin the
Ij. J. Voth
Flora Schwartz
Ray Rose
H. A. Thomas
Dad
Hemingson
Shafter Mercantile Co
Legion Auxiliary
Colt
Mesdames Glen Long
J. C. Eades
Fred Mason
Tut H. W. Kelly
Gordon Baker Harold Mil
Ling Cranach Austin
Paul Pilgrim
William Fairbanks
Marvin Hoover
Leland Dargatz
Sunset St
Norma Maxine
Ray Hearon
J. B. Hearon
Walnut St
Shafter High School
Shafter High
Bank of America
PTA
Ata
Clara Seehnaldt
Clara J. Schnaidt
Central Ave. Shafter
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