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THE BAKERSFIELD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1141 County Progress Shown in Calendar of Year's Events AJOR news events in Kern county during the year 1940 occurred in the following: chronological order: R. Woollomes elected chairman of the Board of Su pervteora. January vote three to two to adopt resolution favoring return of relief administration to the counties. January K. Fox re- president of Frontier Days Association.

January Bakorsfieia High School given rating of four-year school by board of trustees. Dial telephone system promised Bakersfield for 1941. January 19 Cole congressional committee Inspects Kern county oil January Commissioner Lewis A. Burtch reports Kern county cotton yield broke world's record. January board of review rules Kern County Union High School district to retain $20,000,000 Belridge elementary district.

January 30 Bakersfield City Council adopts uniform building code. January E. Chenoweth announces resignation as superintendent of city schools effective in August. February for Bakersfield Ice skating rink announced. February oil price slash draws protests of independent producers.

February Florence Mona- reinstated as Tehachapi prison superintendent after ouster in December. February reveal to establish prison farm near Lerdo. February J. J. McMillan charged with bribery in connection with gambling establishment.

February arrest Councilman McMillan. February McMillan arrested and preliminary hearing act for March 15. February Compton appointed superintendent city schools. March McMillan removed as Bakersfield census super- Visor. March and plane passenger escape death In forced landing at Fort 'Tejon in low fog.

March Agey appointed welfare director and Leo G. Pauly named purchasing agent by Board of Supervisors. March sit-downers take over SRA office in protest at slash in payments. March Joseph Crowley, beloved desert priest, killed in auto accident near Mojave. March A.

McGinn, assistant district attorney and veteran county official, dies. March preliminary hearing opens after continuance from March 15. March bound over to Superior Court for trial. March prisoner from Folsom road camp at Tehachapi kid. nape three before capture.

March service jerked from seven place! In Kern county in move by Attorney General ren to smash bookies. March of $7,000,000 by Standard Oil to United States government 16-year Elk Hills litigation. April J. Wilt accepts position director of California State Chamber of Commerce. April census begins.

April Alfred J. Elliott introduces bill to authorize $6,800,000 Isabella dam and Kern river flood-control work. April 10 Councilman McMillan pleads not guilty to two counts of bribery. April order temporarily blocks effort of Governor Culbert L. Olson to discharge T.

N. Harvey of Bakenfield and other prison board members. April glider pilots killed In Arvln meet. April Portland Cement Company announces $1,100,000 expansion program. April to spent $15,000,000 on expansion in Kern county during 1940-1941 told by Richfield Oil Company.

April of $222,442 made In Superior Court by Standard Oil Company in connection with Hallmark Oil Company litigation. May county Associated Farmers hold annual barbecue witli Gordon Garland as chief speaker. May runs three to one in county's presidential primary. May bribery trial opens. May plague hits county.

May W. Brink appointed thief probation officer. May McWhorter claims death ray Invention. May shot to death in argument over goat. May acquitted on one count, jury disagrees on the other.

May Cotton Week ob- begins here. May Sons open grand parlor convention. -v May Sons help dedicate Fort at Taft. May 27 Preliminary county budget totals $13,350,771. May array fliers killed In Muroc lake cratih.

June Agey resigns as welfare director to run for super- Visor. June of State June Cassady, pioneer resident, dies. July population set at 132,885, a 61 per cent increase. July Rankin tells plans to establish pilot training school here. July H.

Peters re-elected Kern County Chamber of Commerce president. July clubhouse destroyed by fire. July assessed valuation reaches new high of $284,762.203. July 13 Possibility of National Guard unit in Bakersfield told. July issued for McMillan recall election.

July man shoots wife and daughter, kills self. July writ of mandate issued to city officials on police civil service repeal election. July Guard units assigned Bakersfield. July drowned when boat capsizes on Buena Vista lake. July election registration reaches new high of 64,934.

July appropriates $1500 for census recount. July men buy Professional building for $80.000. August upholds Bakersfield parking meter law. August County Union High School tax slashed to 70 cents. August Champion, leader of agricultural union, seized in roundup in connection with slaying of sailor.

August States Housing Authority recommends $900,000 for Kern county housing. August meters ordered removed for three-month test period. August killed in Mohawk oil refinery explosion. August W. Austin awarded $226.000 in Hallmark suit.

August Johnson named Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce secretary. August K. Dlckson elected Community Chest president. August engineers arrive to inspect Isabella dam site. August tax rate cut seven cents to $1.32.

August received that Wendell Willkie to speak in Bakersfield September 20. August election returns show Supervisor Woollomes, Representative Elliott, Assemblyman Turner re-elected. September 4 County Auditor Woody to make pay roll deductions for county employes' insurance plan pending ruling by attorney general. September announces court fight against recall as council receives petitions. September Platz, veteran attorne-, dies.

September area at Shirley Meadows begun. September Days celebration begins. September Wendell Willkie addresses Bakersfield throng. September 23 Bakersfield considered by Washington authorities for army air base. September 24 McMillan recall election set for November 6.

September committee on migrants visits Kern. September 28 Aeronautics Board recommends expenditure of $721,360 on Kern county airports. October oil producers charge Ickes with intention of setting up oil dictatorship. October budget of $13,714,671 published in final form. October requests $1,730,000 in state highway projects.

October stamp plan begins In county. October 8 Supervisors authorize Woollomes to visit Washington on behalf of national defense projects. October of basic air corps training field in county revealed. October 9 Kern draft board named. October commission approves Kern river hatchery test.

October agree to allow pilot school operators to use Kern airports if contracts awarded. October loses army air base to Fresno. October men register for draft. October work begun on pout office site obtained in county-federal swap. October draft registration totals 22,638.

October national guard units ordered to active duty early In January. October county loses cotton tax suit in Supreme Court. October 21 Plans for Oiidale bridge announced. October 21 Housing authority named. October States opens BakerBfield census recheck.

October October rains in 13 years occur. October order numbers drawn for Kern men. October Woollomes reports county excellent chance to Kd major army air corps unit. November 1 Highway Commissioner Nielsen says Kern cunyon road project to December 1. R.

Stockton re-elected president of Kern County Farm Bureau. November orders election March 18 on parking meters. November results show Bank of Taft uperv. I Roosevelt 3 to 2 winner in county, June census fig- Noon elected, Wimmer leading and ures given BakerBfield population of McMillan victor over recall attempt. 27,694.

I November killed in June officials dispute i week-end Occidents. November 11 Parade commemorates Armistice Day. November 12 women Census, claim 35,000 city population. June District Attoiney Scon outlawing of Communist party. June of pilot school at Kern County Airport, revealed.

Jane deputies capture two escaped frfom Tehachapi prison. McMillan asks $171,800 for false arrest. metropolitan population of 74,690 Known by prepares to ap- eotton tax suit to Supreme Court. for mountain and desert high school districts told. November votes give Supervisor Wimmer victory.

November opened for Chester avenue bridge. November for railway underpasses begun by civic leaders and The Californian. November Kern draftees entrain for year's military service. November leaders demand subway action at council meeting. DE TRISTAN BABY SfltiHB (Associated Ltmied Wtrtt CAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

kid naplng and safe return of 3-year- old Marc de Tristan, son of a Hills borough family, and the subsequent conviction of Wllhelm Jakob Muhlen brolch. topped the California stories of 1940. There were other stories of great Import and interest, but none compared with the De Tristan abduction in sudden drama and national focus. Others in the list of the year's "big ten" in California news etories, would Include the following: unprecedented boom In defense contracts, construction; the Vultee plane plant strike; volunteers meet conscription need. rebound under Coach Shaughnessy; Seabiscuit's $100,000 Santa Anita victory horse all-time turf money winner.

die, $15,000,000 loss in northern California spring flood; eight die, $2,500,000 £1 Centra quakes. found In hotel room of Speaker Gordon Governor Olson slate sweeps primaries; Olson-Patterson feud on suggestion Patterson quit as lieutenant- governor. "magna charta" won In Howard case permitting picketing in absence of dispute; United States Supreme Court ousts antl-plcketlng laws; two-year long- shore contract signed. Progress Work hits peak on $220,000,000 Central Valley Project; Kings Canyon National Park created. prize goes to Dr.

E. O. Lawrence, University of California, for atom-smashing; his associates announce discovery of element 80 and long-lived radioactive carbon. die in military plane crashed; nine killed in collapse of Santa Rosa warehouse. hundred and twelve German sailors interned at Angel island; 35 falling prisoner to British at Gibraltar in vain attempt to return home; Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, friend of Consul-General Fritz Weldemann of San Francisco, ordered to leave United States.

November suit over Camp Owen beatings opens. November aid to underpass drive. November of Kern congressional district Indicated. November high school students killed in auto crash. November suspect linked to Frome murders.

November commission recommends subway survey by expert. November Owen suit as to Johnson, Keen. November woman killed in Cottonwood road murder. November epidemic in county. November Sorg damage award in Camp Owen suit.

November hits 25 per cent of county population. November 29 Earmarking of $756,000 for Kern county housing confirmed. November Bakersfield ranks as eighth city in state. November 30 Effort to compel election on police civil service repeal blocked by court ruling. December decides to let voters determine underpass location.

December Lynn dies. December building sold to Fresno capitalist for $181,000. December beauty bandit nabbed by police. December E. Wilson elected Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce president.

December bookies raided, 19 suspects held in city-wide roundup. December battery added to national guard here. December begun with aid of The Californian to provide Christmas for Kern needy. December approves street and Twenty-sixth street as sites for underpass, overpass. December cpened on Grapevine divided highway.

December 12 Sum of $307,729 allocated for Kern County Airport improvements. December arraigned. December 13 More than 100 Christmas baskets pledged in four days. December date for Kern guard changed to February 1. December engineer ordered to draw grade separation plans.

December filed from all districts on mountain and desert high school plan. December rip county in three-day Ktorm. December on new gas and electric franchise set for January 28. December for new Stockdale clubhouse announced. December of 550 families assured Christmas gifts as drive for needy goes over top.

December of new Bakersfield post office deferred. December request $300,000 WPA project to supplement Civil Aeronautics Board allocution of $307,000 for Kern County Airport. December sen'. United States senators and congressional representative by Supervisors on Bakerufield post office Jelay. December approved bringing Emory Whllton wildlife collection to Lebec museum.

December begun for federal and state aid on December that Christmaa business ia up 10 per cent. December than 1000 families receive Christmaa baskets. December school board decides to buy Arvin for junior high school. A. F.

L. EXPELS UNION CHICAGO, Jan. 1. (U. Chicago Bartenders Union, alleged shelter of the Capone gang remnants, was expelled today from the Illinois division of the American Federation of Labor on the eve of iu election.

"YEAR OF HATE," 1940 PASSES INTO HISTORY Fall of France, Stand of Britain, Rout of Italy, U. S. Defense Mark War-Slate A WORLD at war today sees the "year of hate," 1940, pass Into history, and looks forward to another 12 months of horror as shifting scenes in World War see the United States drawing ever nearer to actual participation in the world-enveloping conflict. Highlights in the American war- calendar of the past have been climaxed by the speedup drive for United States rearmament and war aid to Britain, and first peacetime draft of American manpower for military service. On the swift-moving diplomatic Mid military on which the War la being fought; history will single out memorable days like Mny 10, 1940, when the blitzkrieg struck the lowlands of Europe, and June 17, 1040, when France's Petaln government asked for an armistice with Germany.

On what date It occurred, no one can aay, but some time during the year, Britain got sufficiently strong to balk any Nazi hopes of Invasion before the cold winter months set in. And equally significant was the poor, of Italy when she tried to invade Greece and, instead, found herself Struggling desperately to protect her troops from annihilation in Albania. The day-by-day development of the war in Europe during 1940 was as follows: January announces entire Russian division "virtually annihilated" north of SoumuBsaimi. January air force attacks Russian army's main base. January Roosevelt tells Congress of necessity for United States to remain at peace.

January 6 Leslie Hore-Bellsha steps out as British secretary of state for war. January is heavily bombed. January launches five offensives against Finns. January In speech, ridicules allied leaders: "They wanted war; they shall have It." February 17 British destroyer Cossack enters Norwegian waters, forces German steamer Altmark ashore; rescues more than 300 British seamen originally captured by Graf Spec. March peace agreement reached In Moscow, hostilities ceasing March 13.

March Supreme War Council in London agrees that no separate peace or armistice shall be concluded. April mine Norwegian territorial waters to close "corridor along coast" through which Germany was getting iron ore from Narvik. April Invades Denmark, virtually without opposition; lands troops at Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, Trondhelm, Egersund and Narvik, Norway. German cruisers Bluecher and Karlsruhe sunk by Norwegians. April naval battle at Narvik between destroyer forces of Germany and Britain.

April mine Skaggerak and Kattegat. April battleship War- spite leads new force into Narvik, sinking seven German destroyers and merchant shipping. April retains superiority over allies in Norway, resulting in increasing difficulties for defending forces. May withdraw from all. Norway south of Trondheim.

May evacuated by British. May Chamberlain's majority in Commons reduced to 881-200 in crisis over Norwegian campaign. May strikes western Europe; Germany invades Low Countries. May Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain, May panzier divisions sweep onward; main Belgian defense lines of Albert Canal crossed, also Meuse river and forest of Ardennes penetrated. May tank regiments infiltrate all along line.

May army surrenders except In province of Zeeland; Germans command Meuse from Liege to Sedan. May 15 drive great bulge into French lines with Sedan as pivot point. May line crumbles; Allies begin withdrawal. May enter Brussels; B. E.

F. withdraws to new positions; German troops pour into Sedan bulge. May Reynaud succeeds Edouard Daladier as French premier. May Maxime Weygand becomes commander-in-chief of Allied armies; Germans capture St. Quentin and Le Cateau, drive turns seaward.

Mny reach Cambrai- Peronne road. May in Belgium withdraw behind River Lys; France removes 15 generals. May Germans reach Channel in force, occupy Boulogne. May reach Calais. May Leopold surrenders Belgian army, turning desperate situation Into catastrophic one.

Allied troops capture Narvik. May take Ypres, Lille, Armentieres. May evacuation begins under rain of bombs. June evacuation by 'mosquito fleet" completed; 335,000 men' saved but all equipment lost. June German offensive against improvised line along the Somme and Atone begins.

June front begins to crumble. June reach Important Dieppe-Paris at June front In confusion, with infiltrations everywhere. June enters war. Germans cross lower Seine. Allies, withdraw from Narvik, liquidating entire venture In Norway.

June close in on Paris. June cross the Marne. June enter Paris. June falls; offensive against Maginot garrisons Russia enters Lithuania. June Henri Philippe Petain becomes premier of France, asks for armistice.

Russia enters Latvia and Estonia. B. E. F. evacuation from Brittany in full swing.

June negotiations begin at Compiegne. June signed, giving Germany full control of entire French Atlantic coast. June with Italy is signed. June in France end at 12:35 a. m.

June sends ultimatum to Rumania; begins occupation of Bessarabia following day. July battle of Oran; Britain immobilizes large part of French fleet. July naval commander at Alexandria agrees to immobilize one battleship, four cruisers, smaller craft. July forces yield before Italian offensive in East Africa. July cruiser Sydney sinks Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni in Mediterranean.

August invade British Somaliland. August forces strike deep within British Somaliland. August announces withdrawal of all troops from North China. August of German planes bomb England from Portland to Thames estuary. August air blitzkrieg opens against British.

August planes bomb Turin and Milan. August proclaims "total blockade" of British Isles. August withdraws from British Somaliland. August announces one thousandth German plane downed since land and coast raids began June 18. August bomb Berlin.

August raiders drop incendiary bombs on London. August bomb Berlin for three hours. August loses seventh armed merchant cruiser, Dun vegan Castle. September Roosevelt calls 60,000 National Guardsmen for year's service. September Roosevelt informs Congress United States has traded 50 over age destroyers to Britain in exchange for naval and air bases in New World.

September In speech-, warns Britain that Nazis are coming. September announces loss of two destroyers. September Carol abdicates. September heavily bomb London. September Ion Antonescu forms Rumanian cabinet.

September bomb London heavily for third consecutive day. September palace bombed. September Elster Christensen appointed regent of Nazi September Grazlanl masses Italian troops for drive into Egypt. September proclaims October 16 as registration day immediately after signing Selective Service. Act.

City of Be- carrying child refugees to Canada, torpedoed. September and British fight naval battle at Dakar. September' bombed. September Roosevelt embargoes scrap Iron and steel. September Italy and Japan sign triple alliance.

October bombed for twenty-fifth consecutive night. October resigns from war cabinet. October and Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass. October States mobilizes naval reservists. October bomb London's St.

Paul's. October announces loss of three warcraft in naval battle near Malta. October United States men between ages of 21-35 register for selective service. October Himmler meets Franco In Madrid. October Road reopened.

October and Franco confer. October and Marshal Petain confer. October invadea Greece. October reports two columns sweeping Into Greece. November heavily bomb Berlin.

November troops capture three Albanian towns. November Roosevelt re-elected for third term. November Greek forces steadily advance in Albania. November any compromise in Munich speech. November City of Rayvllte sunk off Australia; first American ship casualty of war.

November Neville Chamberlain dies. November liner Queen Elizabeth sails from New York. November announces heavy blow dealt Italian fleet in Taranto harbor raid; three battleships damaged. November confers with Soviet Commissar Molotoff. November launch general offensive against Italians.

F.D. I AND BATHE OFBHIEAD I NEWS TV'EW YORlC, Jan. news story that not been Russia's role In World events- was included today for the first time in the annual United Press selection of the 10 big news stories of the year. "The Enigma of Russia" is tenth on the United Press list for 1940. The third-term election of President Roosevelt Is the number one news event of the year, the Battle of Britain second, and the fall of France third.

"This Is the first time that something which has not been reported has ever received enough votes to qualify among the first 10," Earl J. Johnson, United Press vice-president and general manager, said. "Our felt that if the about Russian Influence on world affairs were not shrouded by official secrecy and censorship, the Russian story might be among the most important of the year. "The big thing we do not know about Russia the extent of her influence on Tokio's operations in the Far East and on Germany's In the Balkans." Johnson said an unusual feature of the of 1940 was that most of the big events were closely related In of cause or effect. That not been true In other years when were dominated by politics, multiple births, record airplane flights, and other such unrelated stories.

The United Press list for 1940 follows: 1. President Roosevelt's re-election for a third term and preliminary developments Including the sensational rise of Wendell Willkie. 2. Battle of Britain which is history's tint big-Male air war and may be one of the decisive battles of the world. 3.

Fall of France with resulting British evacuation of Dunkirk and battle of Oran. 4. United selective Ice and other measures of hemispheric defense including the de- atroyen-for-naval-basea deal. 5. German occupancy of Norway, Denmark and the low countries.

6. Berlln-Rome-Tokio axis and Japanese thrust at Indo-Chlnn. 7. Italy's abortive attempt to Invade Greece. 8.

Germany's diplomatic offensive Into the Balkans with abdication of Rumanian King Carol. 9. entrance into the war. 10. The enigma of Russia.

November England, blasted by German bombers. November take Italian base at Koritza. November 18 Mussolini, in speech, declares "I cant be stopped." November German-Italian-Japanese alliance. November German-Italian-Japanese alliance. November joins German-Italian-Japanese alliance.

November M. Andrews becomes prime minister of Northern Ireland. November Italians fight long-range naval battle in Mediterranean. November Guards massacre 64 Rumanian political prisoners. November 28-TGreeks announce capture of Argirocastro.

November annexes Lorraine to the Reich. December bombers concentrate on Southampton. December claims' sinking of 18 brltish ships (In convoy. December announce capture of Premedi. December 6 Greeks capture Porto Edda.

December capture Ar- girocastro, Albanian base. December report capture of 1000 Italian prisoners In Egyptian advance. December In speech to German workers, war is between "haves" and "have-nots." December 11 British capture Italian base at Sldi Barrani. December Lothian dies in Washington. December drive forward against Italians in Egypt.

December 13 capture Porto Palermo. i December England, heavily bombed. December Laval ousted from Vichy government. December Counterattack in Albania. December 16-f-Brltfrh ask United States for financial aid.

December 17 British capture three Italian forts iii Egypt. December States Britain "go ahead" $3,000,000,000 orders. December signs contract for 00 to be built in United States. December Kallio, ex- president of Finland, dies; Rlsto Ryti inducted chief executive. December fleet has penetrated Adriatic.

Roosevelt to center defense production in four-man board. December United and moral aggression" against Reich. December Graslant on in Bgypt and Libya. December Halifax appointed ambassador to United December Plus for "a just peace." December George Britain qn "path to victory." December destroyer Acheron lost. December raider Nauru, Britten mandated Me.

Tanker, manned by American crew revealed as sunk on December 21. December bomb German, "invaaion -A; Major Teat's News in Run Kern Communities UCH of the. news developing through 1940 came ft the multifold activities of Kern's rural eommi both incorporated and unincorporated. Here an the stories of the year: January butlneMmen oppose co-operative store at migrant camp. January nearly complete for $22,500 dial telephone building at Shafter.

January flares at Taft on possession of sections of school district land, between the Maricopa Unified School district and the Taft Elementary district. January Grange installs officers at Rosedale. January council acts to form publicly owned water dis trict. January under way for transfer of Semltroplc School district to Wasco Elementary School district. January street extension completed at Taft.

January and Standard hold graduation. January school board rejects Stanley "million dollar compromise offer" in district dispute with Maricopa. February in county public speaking contest staged at Wasco. February City Council salaries of clerk and treasurer. February for new Me- Farland school buildings announced.

February 90 Three added at Delano. February George Garner elected head of West Side Co-ordinating Council. February Pugh tells need for Arvln High School at Booster Club meeting. February City Council studies sidewalk project demands. February commission approves dial phone system for tonwillow.

March city clerk salary at $150, treasurer salary at $76. March Van Home an nounces plans for Ford City volunteer fire department. March City Council city-county Jail. March Di Giorgio land to Rockpile School for playground. March elect Fred Mitchell exalted riiler.

March Shafter poultry show opens. April starts plans for Thirtieth Anniversary- Celebration November 9-11. April of win in municipal throughout county. April 15 Tehachapl Frank T. Baumgart mayor.

April purchases 15- acre ball park at Mojave. April Mary's parish hall at Delano opened. May Expand City cry heard again at Taft. May annual Taft air show thrills thousands. May patrol auto sought for West Side.

May Arnold as Shafter police chief. May Charles M. Flanagin Installed president of McFarland Woman's Club. May Fort dedicated. May New Johnsondalo highway dedicated.

May School 39 students. May 106 grammar school students. May Hills students stage play as part of graduation cere- n.onies. May battling grasshoppers on wide front. May fire installed In Taft.

May High School commencement exerclees. June Junior College graduates 64 seniors. June School stages June 6 Seventy-nine graduate from Arvln School. June View School graduates 62 pupils. June Midway Grammar School receive June seniors graduated from Bhafter High School.

June class In McFarland School history graduated. June board throughout county. June Lions elect Delbert Smith president. June Fire Insurance rates reduced. June 20-30 Club for $200,000 underpass.

June to utility setup lower water for Fellows. June City Council $106,800 project with WPA In construction. July aite for new airport. July flock to Tehach- apl for Fourth of July celebration, while Mojave stages parade. July airport for government use.

July antimony mines being reworked again above Pine Tree canyon. July Red Cross Gold Riuhf drive for relief of Southgate fire July plans $21,000 reatlon center. July to Mount Abel catPd. July -the-rlver sanitary district sets 36-cent tax rate. August Elementary School board $482,500 budget.

August hundred Masons attend rites atop Mount Abel. August new recreation center. August ity council for West Bide. August utility district buys Southern Pacific water systehi. August 28 throughout county preparing for start of full semesters.

August petition for new highway to proposed airport. August to erect new fire hall at Shafter. September Tall oil work- era escape death when rig collapses. September tax rate cut 10 to $1.10. September 12 Elementary and high schools throughout county ord enrollment in week.c new semester.

September gins in Arvli district hit early capacity. September district wtnl fame as winter salad bowl of nation. 1 September dial telephone system dedicated at Buttonwillow. October Day staged. October grape festival October October for Taft Anniversary queen hot on West Bide.

October con- second proposal to disincor- porate city. October and commun- Ity parties staged in all of county In observance of Halloween. November New clubhouse opened on Belridge lease. November starta preliminary celebrations of Thirtieth Anniversary with Ford City kangaroo courts. November sees home mall delivery starting soon.

November address climaxes All-Church convention at Taft. November witness Taft parade, participate in week-end of Thirtieth Anniversary celebration. November businessmen seek lights for downtown November of county either play host to and or travel to other citlea for Thanksgiving observances. November 23 County-wide epidemic of influenza grips residents of all communities. November Buttonwillow Orange studies for new high school.

November to ob-f tain cemetery. November day held at TaXt High School and Junior College. December I McFarland f' night recreation program for adults.y December 7 Shafter Bualv Association to fight dlsinoor- poration. December Arvln sewer project under way. December third CAA pilot training program to atart at Taft in January.

December see model planes fly in Taft meet. eor- 1 Blame Laws in Drop of Marriage Rates LOS ANGELES, Jan. Rosamond Rice, chief of the Angeles county marriage licence bureau, California requiring health and three notice of Intention to wed for a 15 per cent drop in marriage here last year. Licenses issued in 1940 totaled 364, compared with 22,929 the pre- vious year. Divorce, annulment and aeparate I maintenance suits filed in Los An-1 geles county last year showed a 7 per cent Increase, from 1939 to 13221.

11,049 in Indicted Unionist Seeks "Protection" (Vnittd Prtu tttttti Win) SACRAMENTO, Jan. Thome, Oakland lather indicted on charges of damaging new here, was released against the on ball today of police and partially against own He asked police protection. Thome's attorney posted $4000 bail last night for his release from'' the county jail. City it mediately him and him to the city Jail for booking'on a Richmond check charge they aaid listed in state THE CALIFORNIAN'S MmWINTBR EDITIOH OUT TODAY rrHE result of months af research and organization by editorial, 4 mechanical and hnshKss staff meobers, today's The Callforniaa preeeats probably the cdfUM complete rtodjr ever agriculture, IndMtfy of Kern esunty collectlvsly. Business and the of today's CallfomUn through pictures, staff articles the pBfes of fne CsMfornUn throswh pktam, staff articles and eosjtrflmtlsw fNm dvie (overnmentol leaders I Bakenfleld and Eera county.

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