Congregational Church Honors Two Members
Wasco Congregational Church celebrated Dr. E. S. Fogg and Mr. Karl F. Clemens in a Thursday evening program. Local residents recognized Fogg for decades of service as a pioneer doctor and school leader while Clemens was praised for community involvement.
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E. S. Fogg
Karl F. Clemens
Wasco
Dr. Fogg
Lost Hills
Buttonwillow
Shafter
McFarland
Masonic Order
Congregational Church
H. G. Hull
Foggs
Eleanor Clemens
Old Age Relief to Get Increase in Kern County
Kern County will raise the maximum old age security grant by $5 per month starting October 1, benefiting more than half of 3113 recipients and lifting the cap to $65. Welfare Director Albert G. Wilbur explains the budget-based calculation method used by the state social welfare department, revised quarterly from a living-cost survey.
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Kern County
Albert G. Wilbur
Wilbur
Welfare Department
State Department of Social Welfare
Weekend Visit by Karnes Family in Los Angeles
Mr and Mrs Paul Karnes and their daughter Paula spent a weekend in Los Angeles visiting relatives and enjoying local sights. The trip highlighted family time and leisure in late spring.
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Los. Angeles
Paul Karnes
Paula
Los Angeles
Visit from Los Angeles family highlights Shafter weekend
Mrs. Lyn Kirkland and her daughter from Los Angeles visited Shafter with their husband and father over the weekend. Details of old-age security grants show changes with income adjustments and the regional share of benefits. Total payments for the first six months reached 1,010,031.42, up from 833,911 in the prior year, with June disbursements split among federal state and county funds and an average per person of 57.33 versus 52.81 last year.
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Lyn Kirkland
Mechanized Onion Harvester Built by UC Davis
The University of California Davis College of Agriculture reports a mechanized onion harvester that unions three steps. It attaches to a tractor and needs only a driver and an unskilled helper. It moves at 1.5 mph, fills a 60 pound sack every 15 seconds, and uses belts and knives to detach tops and collect onions into sacks.
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University of California College of Agriculture At
Davis
Teachers Oppose Proposition 13 in California
Mrs. G W Luhr of Oakland state president of the California Congress of Parents and Teachers says a militant campaign will oppose Senate Reapportionment Proposition No 13 on the November 2 ballot. The group opposes abandoning the present American plan and urges members statewide to stand against the measure to protect rural educational access.
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California Congress of Parents and Teachers
Senate
California
G. W. Luhr
Oakland
Congress
Starring Kern County Artists Radio Auditions Open Oct Eight
Alec Smith announces extended deadline for radio auditions in Kern County to October eight enabling more beginners to apply. Preliminary auditions start October nine across five districts to select top vocalists and instrumentalists with prizes including a Baldwin Aerosonic spinet piano and a $50 second prize.
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Alec Smith
Kern County
Baldwin Aerosonic
Fred Gutcher
Baldwin Piano
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