Hospital Drive Delayed Until Autumn for Fund Campaign
The Shafter W a sco Community Hospital trustees postpone the fund drive until autumn. Chairman Elbert Franz cites Louis Barr’s private survey showing better feasibility in the fall due to local finances. A 24 bed, about $400000 facility is planned with a five acre site donated by S A Camp and blueprints by a San Francisco firm.
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Shafter - Wasco
Shafter-Wasco Community Hospital
August W.koenig
Kimberlina and
Poplar
S. A. Camp
San Francisco
Shafter Declares Pototo Cotton Festival Week
Shafter City Council proclaims May 10 to 16 as Pototo n Cotton Festival week and approves an official observance. Festival Chairman Jack Fleming requests a downtown parade and street closures for the event. council votes unanimously to adopt the proclamation.
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Shafter
Jack Fleming
Air Force Plans GOC Meeting Here
Air Force officers plan a ground observer corps meeting in Shafter next Wednesday night. Don R. Irwin county civil defense officer announced the event to begin at 7 30 p m in the county building community room Captain C D Baugh of the Pasadena Filter Center will lead the meeting Representatives who took part in last summer's Operation Skywatch will discuss the program and its future plans within the Pasadena base scope.
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United States Air Force
Ground Observer Corps
Shafter
Don R. Irwin
Civil Defense
C. D. Baugh
Pasadena
Irwin
Baseball League Forms Plans for Summer Series in Kern County
A six team Kern County baseball league will finalize plans at a Bakersfield High School meeting. Teams expected include DiGiorgio Farms Lamont Merchants Shafter Merchants Wasco Dons and Superior Cubs with Delano possible. The league plays at Sam Lynn Park and Wasco Municipal Park with an April 5 exhibition slated.
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Kern County
Bakersfield High School
Carl Berra
County Recreation Dein
DiGiorgio Farms
Lamont, Merchants
Shafter Merchants
Wasco Dons
Superior Cubs
Berra
Kramer
Delano
Kern City
Ray Frederick
Sam Lynn
Bakersfield Indians
Wasco Municipal Park
John Vallembois
ATO Fraternity Elects Tom Kelly at Stanford
Alpha Tau Omega at Stanford selected Tom Kelly of Shafter as next year’s house manager. A PE major and ROTC quartermaster, he graduates in June 1954 and previously sponsored freshmen in Encino. His twin brother John attends Annapolis.
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Alpha Tau Omega
Stanford University
Tom Kelly
Shafter
H. W
Pat) Kelly
Encino
Kelly
Quartermaster
ROTC
Shafter High School
John
Annapolis
San Francisco Publishes First Telephone Directory in 1878
San Francisco released its first telephone directory on June 1 1878 listing 173 telephone numbers and subscribers. The innovative directory marked early adoption of telephone services in the city.
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San Francisco
John Lamb Dies Life as Vaquero In Kern Recalled
John Lamb 95 died in a Bakersfield hospital last week. Graveside services were held at Shafter Cemetery. Born August 10 1857 in Healdsburg he lived in Shafter since 1915. A former vaquero and rodeo performer he supplied much early ranching history.
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John Lamb
Kern
Shafter
Bakersfield
Shafter Cemetery
Healdsburg
Lamb
California
Joshua Lamb
Joe Lamb
Coloma
Visalia
Santa Maria
Kern County
Belgian Honor Awaiting Missionary Return from Africa
Reverend Eldo Epp, a long serving missionary in the Congo region, is slated to receive a royal Belgian honor on his fall return. He has worked 13 years amid uprisings at Blukwa and aims to assess local damage, while detailing anti white sentiment he links to communist influence. Epp outlines station life, logistics from Stanleyville to Bunia, and family life with Verna and four children.
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Eldo Epp
Congos
Lake Albert
Blukwa
Africa
Epp
Bunia
California
Montgomery-Ward
Reverend Epp
Blukwa Station
Verna
Central Africa
Baletha
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Air Force Plans
Fred Patterson
Kern County Potato Growers Association
Bakersfield Inn
Margie Liles
Jeri Vannatta
Betty Grundy
Nancy McDonald
Norma Neuman
Rountree
Baseball League
ATO Fraternity
ABC
Trewax
Central Ave
Stanleyville
King’s Department Store
King's
Infant's Dept
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