Specialty breads name the kind you like
Joe's Toppes Bakery advertisement promotes a selection of specialty breads inviting customers to choose their preferred loafs and flavors.
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Joe’s
Toppes Bakery
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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1947
Page
12
Cafeteria On Drawing Board Amid Enrollment Rise
Superintendent McCuen notes sharp enrollment increase with 7551 students this year vs 6950 last year and a projected 7797 by October. Temporary Bakers field College campus buildings provide vital extra classrooms as the board hires teachers for day and adult evening programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCuen
Bakersfield College
Gardner Field
Press Duty and Free Life in Nation’s Future
A forward looking piece stresses the press role in strengthening community and national life. It asserts the test of American freedom lies in delivering a better life for people and highlights journalism’s important responsibility ahead.
Local notes mix humor and history from Shafter
Bakersfield officer Martin Baird once painted signs for P W McClure in 1938 and signs stayed until recently. County fair exhibits show Shafter’s strong display while rival towns jockey for place. Corrections note mistaken marriages of Melvin Vaux and Laura Bender. Odds and ends poke fun at front-page Bud and Beulah, catty corners, and Hollywood marriage trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Baird
Bakersfield
Fox Theatre
P. W. McClure
Baird
McClure Drug Store
Shafter
Horizon Club Plans Installation of New Members
The Horizon Club at Shafter High School will initiate new members with an informal event on October 6 and a formal candle light ceremony on October 20. New initiates include Vida Aselton Mary Montgomery Dolores Enns Beverly Voth Jeanne Gorsching Joyce Morris Doris Gilwett Donna Dalke Marjorie Liles Ilene Schaeffer Virginia Carter. Senior members Bessie Thomas Ferrelene Parker and Barbara Peterson lead the informal planning, with others managing the formal ceremony. Camp Fire Girls directors and Shafter faculty wives and Women's Club sponsors will be invited along with the girls’ mothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horizon Club
Shafter High School
Vida Aselton
Mary Montgomery
Dolores Enns
Beverly Voth
Jeanne Gorsching
Joyce Morris
Doris Gilwett
Donna Dalke
Marjorie Liles
Ilene Schaeffer
Virginia Carter
Shafter Mumps Outbreak Affects Local Children
The Shafter mumps outbreak continues with Bennie Goossen joining the list of young sufferers. Mary Brown and her brothers Morton and Jackie are home with swollen jaws while Patsy Cornell and Joan Eckman recover. Several students have returned to school as new cases emerge daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Bennie Goossen
Mary Brown
Morton
Jackie
Patsy Cornell
Joan Eckman
Stringhams Write From Ohio
Mr and Mrs E B Stringham who have been in the east recently wrote from Toledo Ohio arriving in the smoky city during a heat spell. They plan to continue their trip north into Maine and other points before returning home.
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E.B. Stringham
Toledo
Ohio
Maine
Junior Women Rush Tea Event at Club Building
The Junior Women's Club hosted a rush tea at the club building on Wednesday evening. Officers Mesdames Harold Schnidt Robert Warren Marvin Neuman Berit Pipkin Otto Handel and Misses Maxine Albright Corrine Mettler served as hostesses. Over 50 guests greeted and tea was served from a rose-centered table while Mrs. Art Hemingson provided a musical program with several songs.
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Art Hemingson
Channesons on Canadian Tour Visit Pacific Northwest Parks
A P Channesons report from Vancouver to Shafter mentions plans to visit Victoria and return by coast. They traveled through Yellow Stone National Park Glacial National Park and Grand Coulee Dam in Washington enjoying the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Ohannesons
Shafter
Vancouver
British Columbia
Victoria
Yellowstone National Park
Glacial National Park
Grand Coulee Dam
Washington State
Woods and Quigley Return from Sierra Hunting Trip
Forrest Woods of Woods Shoe Store Shafter and Dave Quigley of Quigley Electric Wasco return from a High Sierra hunting and fishing trip with each man bringing back a buck. They traveled from Dardanelle Pack Station north of Yosemite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Woods
Woods Shoe Store
Shafter
Dave Quigley
Quigley Electric Company
Wasco
Sierras
Dardanelle
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Social
American: Legion and Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Sue Alexander
Miss Alexander
Sue
California
Opal Evans
The
Legion Auxiliary
Miss Evans
Miss Voth
Harry Sturm
al Mortimore
Auxiliary
Helen Hobson
Jane Hahn
Georgette Kadel
Marilyn Grumbles
Tom
Courtess
Sacramento Bee
CNPA
Shafter Property
J.C. Penner
Central Ave
Sling Shafter
Mortantile
Shatter
Melvin Vaux
Esther Bender
Bender
Vaux
Laura Bender
Esther
Curtis Carter
L. A
Congressional
Cleo
State Theatre
Robert and Raymond Hakim
Henry Fonda
Ar Anatole Litvak Production
Robert and
Raymond Hakim
Anatole Litvak
John Wexley
Stringhams
A. P. Channesons
Woods
Quigley
Freeman & Dye
Meyer Lane
Potato Growers
Jack Ware, Inc
Wart
Law Boys
Irvin E, Fike
Prvinef
Chrysler Cars
Plymouth
Dodge
DeSoto - Chrysler
Tle
Irvin E
Fire’s Garage
Ivar
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