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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1961
Page
7
Properties at 412 Gibson Lane and 605 McCrum Streets offered for sale together or separately. Total price $15,000 with good terms. Sold by J. C. Penner of 421 Munser Avenue telephone PI 6 4459.
Graveside services were held last Monday at Shafter Cemetery for infant Douglas Vaughn Taylor son of Mr and Mrs Vaughn Taylor of 183 Beth Eden Shafter Father Breslin of St Therese church officiated Survivors include the parents and grandparents Mr and Mrs O R Taylor of Shafter and Mr and Mrs John Miller of Wasco
Funeral services were conducted yesterday at 2 p.m. for Amanda Elizabeth Curten who died November 11 at La Casa Rest Home Bakersfield. She was 91. Rev. Owen Rose and Jewel Rose officiated. Interment followed at Shafter Cemetery. Survived by Melvin Curten Modesto and Jon Abbot and Elba Culver City Calif. a daughter Marie Abbott Shafter two brothers in Oklahoma and two sisters in Bakersfield Illinois. A Kern County resident for 30 years.
Sportsmen follow signs 30 miles south of Shafter to the Taft highway for the turkey shoot. A drawing offers 12 gauge shotgun or a $100 merchandise order as prizes. Proceeds fund $200 scholarships awarded annually to two deserving high school students.
A notice notes a speaker with UC Berkeley ties who worked in Spain on an irrigation project this spring and returned June 1 to join the Farm Credit Banks of Berkeley. The item reflects local club and regional agricultural finance connections.
The nation yields about 200 million pounds of honey and four million pounds of beeswax annually from honeybees.
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