Favorable 1955 Crop Conditions in Kern County
Agricultural Commissioner Morley reports generally favorable 1955 crop conditions in Kern County. Acreage declined from 205,341 to 177,815 with a record 943 pounds lint per acre. potatoes rose 17.7 percent in area and 25.95 percent in production, while grapes yielded nearly six million lug s of table fruit. Alfalfa aphid invasion reduced yields and prices. total gross returns fell 8 percent from 1964 totals to about 206 million dollars.
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Kern County
C. Morley
Kern County Board of Supervisors
California
U.S
Ers
Candles and Cake Social Dates Listed for 1956
A dated list outlines multiple participants for Candles n Cake events from March 30 to April 5 1956. Names include Mrs Clifford Weaver Mrs Ned Smith Mrs Orvin Mettler J J Voth Flora Schwartz Mary Austin Ray Rose Mrs H A Thomas Steven Ruggenberg Donna Lee Rose Mrs Emil Stoller Anne Enns Mrs K A Bromwell Clara Notley Phil Channeson Claude Hull Adolf Schwartz Floyd Hoeger Margaret Goertzen Pete Kroeker Wes Douglas Toews a Gloeckier Mrs Tom Wilson Susan Mason Justina Buller Michael Butler Maureen Revell.
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Clifford Weaver
Ned Smith
Orvin Mettler
J. J. Voth
Flora Schwartz
Mary Austin
Ray Rose
H. A. Thomas
Steven Ruggenberg
Donna Lee Rose
Emil Stoller
Anne-Enns
K. A. Bromwell
Clara Notley
Phil Channeson
Claude Hull
Adolf Schwartz
Floyd Hoeger
Margaret Goertzen
Pete Kroeker
Wes
Douglas Toews
A Gloeckier
Tom Wilson
Susan Mason
Justina Buller
Michael Butler
Maureen Revell
The Rose in Myth and Modern Uses Across Cultures
The article traces the rose from Greek myth to Christian symbolism and Renaissance art. It notes Grasse Valley’s Damask rose grown for perfume, rose beads in rosaries, famed rose windows at Chartres and Riverside Church, and rose festivals in Portland and Pasadena. It mentions Cherokee and wild roses, Spanish cultivation, and uses in cosmetics and jams. It also references Channel Islands National Monument near Anacapa and Santa Barbara.
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French Riviera
Grasse Valley
Chartres
St. Stephens of Sens
Riverside Church
New York City
Portland
Pasadena
China
Persia
Spain
Florida
India
Education and Civic Support Drive School Quality
Education Today urges citizens to vote in school elections and support trustees who appoint administrators. It stresses PTA and civic groups as vital to high education standards, noting community involvement shapes schools. The piece ends by noting California leads in sand and gravel aggregate production.
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P.T.A
California
Our Town Takes Viewer To Twelfth Year Of Life
Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town age daydreams grover’s corners life. She experiences her 12 year old self and her wiser future self guiding the major climax. The play, first produced 1938, won the Pulitzer Prize and has TV versions.
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Emily Webb
Mrs. Webb
Norma Hooks
Editor Webb
Don Neufeld
Grover’s Corners
New Hamphshire
Emily
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
New York
Scout Troop 953 Camps At Cedar Creek For Conservation Work
A group of 12 Boy Scouts from troop 953 spent a weekend at Cedar Creek camp near Horn Mountain for conservation work with the Forest Service. Scoutmaster Leonard Johnson and assistant William Irvin led the group. HAROLD HALL, brother of Mrs. Fred Mason, was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship, one of 700 fellows, for a year of study at an unspecified institution.
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Scout Troop 953
Cedar Creek Camp
Horn Mountain
The
Forest Service
Leonard Johnson
William Irvin
Harold Hall
Fred Mason
Oak Street
National Science Foundation
Hall
Scouts Plan District Camporee at Poso Flats
Northern Division units will attend a District Camporee at Poso Flats on April 21 and 22. Troop 953 will hold a pre camporee training at the same site on April 7 and 8. Berkeley, University of California at.
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Boy Scouts
Poso Flats
Troop 953
The
University of California At Berkeley
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Josh. S. Gray
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George Globe
Liberal Credit
Chester Avenue
Leeds
Adonis
Omar Kha
Caesar
Anacapa
Santa Barbara Islands
Channel Islands National Monument
Education Today
E. Ross Harrington
Richland
Sir Francis Drake
St. Augustine
Nemagon
Bryant
Sneut
Shell Chemical Corporation
Agricultural Chemical Sales Division
Bush Street
San Francisco
Nitro Gas CO
Buttonwillow Chemical CO
DAY & Liquid Newagon
Ferd Urzanqui
Phone Pioneer
Pioneer
Maurice Connell
AFC
Edison
Ft. Knox
Eater
Gampomee
Wedgewood
Caloric
Florence
Gatfers & Settier
Hardwick
Magic Chef
O'Keefe & Merritt
Roper
Western Holly
G.V.W
G.C.W
Richland Chevrolet Co
Central Ave
Ph. Pioneer
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