Permits for Expansion Reported by City Inspector
Building Inspector E. K. Grant reported two permits this week for expansion. Approval included a $3,000 warehouse addition to the Brown and Bryant fertilizer plant and a $9,000 home enlargement for Allen C. Anderson at 189 Munzer Street with a bedroom bath and larger living room. In 1900 about 20 automobiles existed in San Francisco.
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E. K. Grant
Brown and Bryant
Allen C. Anderson
Munzer Street
Anderson
McClure Drug Promotes T-4-L Skin Treatment
An ad for T-4-L promises rapid drying and skin healing. It claims old tainted skin sloughs off to reveal healthy skin with a 40c back offer at McClure Drug and urges purchases today.
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McClure Drug
Gates Returns to SHS After Yearlong Europe Asia Africa Tour
Social studies teacher and Shafter city council member Robert Gates resumes teaching at Shafter High School after a Ford Foundation fellowship funded a year of travel across Europe Africa and the Near East. He and his wife Ruth and daughter Mary toured cities from Edinburgh to Rome Cairo and Jerusalem evaluating history and culture.
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Gates
SHS
Europe
Africa
Asia
Shafter High School
Robert Gates
Shafter City
Ford Foundation
The
Foundation
North Africa
Near East
Ruth
Mary
New York
Prestwick
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Edinburgh
Royal Scottish Cadets
Inverness
Sir Walter Scott
Glasgow
Belfast
Ireland
Ulster
Northern Ireland
Antrim
Londonderry
Dublin
Irish Free State
England
Gateses
London
Windsor Castle
Buckingham Palace
Hampton Court
Tower of London
British Isles
Dover
Calais
Paris
Louvre
Notre
Rome
Cairo
Lebanon
Byblos
Tyre
Damascus
Jerusalem
Merrill Thomas
Shafter
Legion Executive Meeting Set for Monday Night
The American Legion will hold an executive board meeting Monday at 8 PM in the Veterans Memorial hall, as announced by Commander Richard Scott. All officers and committee chairmen are urged to attend. A Monday picnic at Mt Abel refreshed Mr and Mrs William Siemens and Mr and Mrs Jake Siemens, who took steak along.
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American Legion
Veterans Memorial Hall
Richard Scott
Mt. Abel
William Siemens
Jake Siemens
Buttonwillow Lions Golf Tournament Set for Sept 18
Buttonwillow Lions urge members to register for the Buena Vista course event on Sunday September 18 with guests allowed. Prizes awarded include low gross low net and blind bogey for men and a trophy for the lowest net by a woman golfer nine hole event. A steak dinner at Coffee's on the Taft highway follows at 5 pm with tickets $2.75.
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Buttonwillow
Lions Club
Lion Lou Bridges
Buena Vista Course
Lion Don Hughett
Explorer Scouts
Lion Don
Taft Highway
California 1956 ballot to include at least sixteen measures
The 1955 Legislature set the 1956 ballot with sixteen proposed measures split between six Senate constitutional amendments and ten Assembly measures. Items include SCA 2 repeal of food bans for bars, SCA 6 private architects on state projects, SCA 7 bond term reduction, SCA 11 one hundred million in school loans, SCA 13 cross state boundary talks, AB 841 aliens property rights repeal, ACA 3 exemption of church property parking from tax, ACA 4 longer charter drafting period, ACA 9 restraint on legislative expenditures, ACA 17 two hundred million general bonds for state buildings, ACA 46 borough governments, ACA 53 judicial department notes, ACA 63 allowing non lawyers as municipal judges, and ACA 68 rename Assembly to House of Representatives.
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California
Senate
Assembly
Arizonas
Judicial Department
ACA
State Assembly
House of Representatives
Salvation Army Opens Thrift Store in Town
The Salvation Army opens a thrift store at 433 James Street beside the Post Office market. Capt. Lester Woods announces the Kern County chapter operation with Mrs. Minnie Lagore as manager. A weekly Thursday truck collects household and personal item donations, with pickup line 5914.
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Salvation Army
James Street
Lester Woods
Kern County
Minnie Lagore
Shafter
Woods
New Bridge Planned Between Buttonwillow Areas
Buttonwillow officials announce a new bridge to connect Buttonwillow with East Buttonwillow addition. The span would cross the East Channel and Main Drain, likely on Second Street, with funding in next year’s budget and construction to start after July 1, 1956 to finish before school opens. A barbecue pit at the Park will be ready for the Farm Bureau event on Sunday, October 2.
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Buttonwillow
Floyd Ming
Bob Gunning
Lions Club
Ming
Farm Bureau
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