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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1958
Page
11
A small listing announces four top teen age songs for a Sun Mon event led by the act Young and Wild and another group Eighteen and Anxious. The brief highlights the lineup of teen acts in a local music schedule.
The E. V. Neuman family acquires a 200 acre cattle ranch 12 miles southwest of Eugene Oregon. They plan fall planting soon but will not move in for possibly a year. The timbered ranch has an orchard with pear and apple trees and will stock white faced Herefords for grain and oats.
Marie Foreman along with fellow members installed district officers for the 14th district at Memorial Hall. Named were Lucille Johnson Visalia district president Barbara Cole Fellows district 1st vice president Rebecca Adams Earlimart 2nd vice president and Yvonne Wipf Shafter parliamentarian. The 10:00 a.m. meeting featured a noontime barbecued turkey dinner led by Erma McCoy with help from Isabel Crawford Elizabeth Buller Louise Bellows and Nellie Lassiter. About 125 people from Kern and Tulare counties attended the annual fall event.
Mrs George Wedel announces the marriage of former Shafter girl Delvina Duerksen to Roberto Brockway. Delvina, daughter of Mr and Mrs Dave Duerksen of Oroville, wed Sunday September 7 in a northern city. The Duerksens were longtime Shafter residents before moving to Oroville.
Mr and Mrs Bud Galloway recently moved from Lancaster to 301 Mark Avenue Shafter where four children Carol Fred Nancy and Dennis adjust to new surroundings Their summer visitors were Mrs Galloways mother and father the Peter Tonnesens of Salt Lake City Grandmother Calloway lives with them and their father works as a trucker.
Bethel No 138 of the International Order of Job's Daughters outlines a busy term with a schedule of events and charitable projects. Members plan an instructional heart disease film program, carry Traveling Baskets to fund Educational Fund scholarships, a mountain trip ending in a slumber party, and social activities including a Father Daughter Box Social and Back to School parties. Guardian Mrs Spencer Gill and Associate Guardian Mr Irvin Barr of Wasco advise the group.
Ronnie Neuman son of Mr and Mrs E V Neuman celebrated his seventh birthday with a surprise party at Manuel Park. First grade classmates attended and enjoyed park activities as well as a pastel themed dining table with sandwiches carrot sticks chips candle decorated cupcakes and fudge cycles. Classmates included Ronnie Retzer Mark Schneider Delvin Pitts and his sisters Janice and Shirley.
Tickets for the fall style show of Junior Women go on sale Tuesday October 7 announced by Mrs Billy Jack Thompson general chairman. Donation is 1.00 for the 8:00 p.m. October 28 event at Memorial Hall with tickets also available from Mrs Ivan Meyer or any committee member.
Mrs Niles Bernard former Claudine Gallagher awaits a late October stork and is honored with a surprise party Sept 12 at her mother Mrs Luther Gallagher home. Co hosted by Mrs Rufus Dorhier infant theme with gifts cake punch and ice cream. Guests include multiple local residents and relatives with gifts from Earl White John Everett Billy Duncan Jim Malone and others.
Clarice Mouser and Carol Barton enroll in the regular nursing course at Bakersfield College. They spend two days a week at a Bakersfield hospital as part of their clinical study.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tatum and Mrs. Rena Butler and her mother, Mrs Minnie Butler, have just returned from a vacation in Oklahoma. They came back to Shafter on Saturday, September 13.
Mrs Roy Charves hosted a Saturday luncheon and theater trip for Patty Charves eleventh birthday. Guests ate ham burgers and picnic foods at the home on Pine Street then saw a movie chaperoned by Mr Charves. Attendees included Diana Lyndh Barbara Mettler Linda Helm Charlotte Freedman Carolyn Hasty Carl McClain Byron Carroll Curtis Mincher Grant Cooke Mark Larson and Tommy Wilson.
Brandt Investment Co markets real estate and insurance at 1414 18th St Bakersfield. J C Penner Real Estate Notary Public Insurance advertises at 248 Central Ave Shafter. CME Finance Co offers all types of loans at 1219 18th St Bakersfield with free parking.
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