Grange Booster Night Highlights Slideshow and Talk
The Wasco Grange Hall hosted Grange Booster Night with color slides a travel movie and an impromptu talk on Japan after the potluck supper Master Kerneth Anderson outlined the Grange history and purposes Ben Homfeld presented slides from Camp Hood Texas and Pellet and Nicol army trips Pellet attended and spoke.
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Japan
Grange
Wasco Grange Hall
Kerneth Anderson
Ben Homfeld
Frank Pellet
Don Nicol
Camp Hood
Texas
Pellet
Homfeld
Est
Evangeline Ault Moves to Shafter for School
Miss Evangeline Ault of Loma Linda arrives in Shafter to live with the Bill Duerksens and attend Shafter high school. Mrs. I. L. Brooks, visiting from Japan, recounts life there noting many lawmakers are women. The note includes upcoming Wasco hall dinner bazaar and degree conferrals. The next meeting is Thursday October 27 for members only.
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Evangeline Ault
Loma Linda
Shafter
Bill Duerksens
Shafter High School
I. L. Brooks
Japan
Wasco Hall
Now They're Sitting Pretty
Squint Miller recalls a tale of woodpeckers nesting in a telecom pole and the company replacing the pole after birds kept pecking wires. The anecdote advocates tolerance toward others and differing lifestyles, urging readers to consider others’ rights and choices.
Blind Girl Highlights Gospel Work for County Fellowship
Frances Thiessen, a Wasco blind student turned Bible Institute instructor, leads braille transcriptions for migrant workers in a film shown at the Missionary Gospel Fellowship district meeting. The event, at the Wasco Farm Labor Camp, featured Acrobats from Los Angeles Bible Institute and was led by Virgil Terry with volunteers from Shafter Wasco Arvin East Bakersfield and other centers.
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Wasco
Frances Thiessen
Los Angeles Bible Institute
Missionary Gospel Fellowship
Ione Lowman
Shafter
Arvin
East Bakersfield
Thiessen
The
Bible Institute of
Los Angeles
Bibble Institute
Virgil Terry
Wasco Fellowship Chapel
Terry
Martin Loepp
John Nielsen
George Nikkel
Menno Schellenberg
Ben Giesbrecht
Chris Ummel
Henry Penner
Garrett
J.B. Heaton
Raymond
Ruby
Margie Kimmel
Ella Dueck
Edith Fisher
Peters
Robert Bergman
Wallace Reimer
Mrs. Grace Miles Visits From Stockton
Mrs Grace Miles of Stockton arrives at the John Jacobsen home on Friday for a stay filled with social gatherings and plans to return home this weekend.
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Mrs. Grace Miles
Stockton
John Jacobsen
Jacobsen
Grace Miles
Aid for Blind Discussed at Librarians' Meet
Three Shafter women attended the twelfth Kern County Librarian's meeting at the Bakersfield Methodist Church on October 17. Effie Wedge was elected vice president. Ruby Nikkel and Loraine Giesbrecht also attended. A film on visual aids, projected books for bed patients, braille services, and a volunteer teacher program through Sacramento were highlighted along with donated drama recordings.
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Shafter
Kern County
Bakersfield Methodist Church
Staff Association
Effie Wedge
Ruby Nikkel
Maple Branch
Loraine Giesbrecht
Eleanor Wilson
Nina Jorstad
Visual Aid Education
California
Sacramento
Weekend Guests Visit Gloeckler Home
Mrs. W. A. Regester and her daughter Mary Ellen of Port Chicago were weekend visitors at the C. C. Gloeckler home.
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W. A.’ Regester
Mary Ellen
Port Chicago
C. C. Gloeckler Home
Conclave Attendance and Record Player Issue
About one hundred persons attended the conclave. A note explains a dinary record player will not work with these recordings as they play from the center outward.
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Dinary
Contest to Name Winners and Boxed Ad Item
Fill out the blank with the winning team and their points plus an advertised item from that game's box. Entry must be postmarked by 8 p.m. Friday or placed in the press office if open. Open to all except staff and families. No purchase required. Tie predictions use tie game rule. Name advertiser and item.
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Shafter Press
Duerksens
Bank of America National
Member
FDAC
Joe Marsh
Squint Miller
HOTEL
Clifford J. Wilson
Mgs
PVG NP Suas
Eddy AT
Taylor
Bakersfield Inn
Bakersfield’s
Union Avenue
Bakersfield High Cathedral High
County Gospel Fellowship
Librarians
Bill” Young
RES
24Th St
Bonnie and
Oscar Sargent
Bakersfield
Calif
Lee
Michigan
Illinois
WEST
Shafter and Wasco
Wasco, Calif
Baylor
T.C.U
de Luxe Barber Shop
Cafe Neuman
Central Avenue
Oregon
Wash
Wittenberg’s Poultry & Fish Market
Santa Fe
Stanford
Santa Clara
Shafter High
Exeter High
Bksfld
High—Cathedral High East
Visalia
J.C
U.S.C
Washington
Cal
U.C.L.A
Notre Dame
Navy
Oregon State
Wash. State
U. of Iowa
Wasco High
Tulare High
Kern
East
Flickinger-Janzen Ambulance Service
Exeter
Hallmark Cards
Shafter News Agency
James St
Post Office
James Street
Children’s
Punch & Judy
Iowa
Shafter Warehouse Co
Iver Johnson
Mossberg
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