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Annual Cadet Rifle Matches Start Jan. 21 California cadet members from Arvin, East Bakersfield and Bakersfield High Schools are preparing for the annual district cadet rifle matches to be held at the Bakersfield High School range Jan. 21, Charles Bainbridge, cadet commander at BHS said. The cadet matches are made up of three separate competitive activities including the Gov. Warren match for individuals, the O'Sullivan match made up of five-man teams, and the Clausen match made up of ten-man teams.

In the Warren match the individual school may enter a maximum of ten firers with the eight highest of the district qualifying for the area match. In the O'Sullivan match eight contestants are allowed to fire with the highest five counting, while in the Clausen competition 15 riflemen can fire with the score of the highest ten being used for the team score. Each of the three matches consist of firing five shots from each of four sitting, kneeling and standing at a 50- foot distance. Last year Bakersfield High won both the district and area matches and qualified for the state matches held in Sacramento the last of March. The riflemen placed fourth in the Clausen match and sixth in the O'Sullivan match in the state meet, while Cadet Capt.

Don Wood placed sixth in the Warren match in the state meet. Seven of last year's cadets, Don Wood, Francis Jones, Clarki Fischer, Darrel Dupuy, Leonard Angelo, Stanley Morgan, and Bill Freeman, will be firing again this year. Newcomers" will be Leslie Purnell, Brian Holecheck, Steven Fisher, Dan Ward, and Reese Dean. REGISTER FOR SPRING Bakersfield High School's 2,300 students are being registered for the spring semester which begins Monday, Jan. 31.

With the assistance of teachers and counselors, all students have completed preliminary registration and will sign up for final registration Thursday. Bonese Collins, right, art instructor, is shown here assisting three freshmen. Left to right are Anita Williams, a mathematics major; Judy Harding, an art major; Royce Farley, an architectural drawing major. Dinner Here Tuesday Will Honor Singer To compliment Dorothy Waren- skjold, soprano solist, who is presenting a recital Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at Harvey Auditorium, members of the board of Kern County Musical Association and their escorts and ladies will meet for dinner Tuesday at 7 p.m.

at Bakersfield Inn. The singer will arrive in Bakersfield from San Francisco, by air at 5 o'clock. Mrs. Betty O'Brien Morris, association president, and Mrs. Glendon Rodgers, reception chairman, are making the dinner arrangements.

Mrs. Warenskjold's interpretation of major operatic roles continue to bring praise from critics and music lovers. Following her debut as Mimi in La Boheme, San Francisco press proclaimed the event a "Dorothy Warenskjold triumph." And of her Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Alfred Frankenstein writes "Miss Warenskjold is one of the most heart-breaking and superbly expressive interpreters of Sophie's music that it has been my privilege to hear." Secret Ambition "If I have a secret ambition," says the soprano, "I think it must be to play the part of Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier. Although today, it is usually sung by a mezzo-soprano, originally the role was written for a soprano. I can think of nothing more challenging than to make this dashing young count a living character." James Melton heard a recording of her fresh, beautiful soprano voice and chose her (sight unseen) to appear on his "Harvest of Stars" show in 1949.

Concert Recently Miss Warenskjold became Capitol's newest and brightest recording star. But Miss Warenskjold considers herself primarily a concert singer. Since her first nationwide tour in 1949, she has been singing to sold-out houses. In her visits to towns and cities throughout the 48 states she is greeted with warm affection and demonstrative enthusiasm by the thousands of fans. Demands for her talent are so numerous that her concert season is booked solid several months in advance.

Miss Warenskjold is one of the most relaxed and calm 'persons anyone would care to meet. "I don't mind working under pressure," she says. "In fact I like it. Maybe it is because I love everything I do even the constant traveling, long rehearsals and routine practicing." Adopted Korean Waif, 6, Takes to American Way NEW" ROCIIELLE, N.Y. year or so ago little Lee Kyung Soo was an orphaned waif in the muddy streets of Inchon, Korea.

Today he is known as Lee James Paladino and has become quite adjusted to life in the United States. The youngster was adopted by Navy C.P.O. Vincent J. Paladino, a bachelor, and brought here to live with his parents a year ago last month. Lee is now 6 and a first-grade pupil in Holy Name Catholic School.

He has stopped calling Paladino "Abooji," the Korean word for father, and now calls him "Dad." Like other American boys, his television tastes run to cowboys and Western programs, the Paladinos report. And the child is particularly happy now about a bicycle he got for Christmas. The family says the past year has almost completely wiped out the boy's memories of tragic times in his native Korea. The Navy chief, now assigned as an instructor at the naval reserve armory in New Rochelle, still has the problem of having Lee's adoption legally recognized in the United States, a step necessary for the child's- American citizenship. He is trying to get the adoption papers from Korea.

If they don't come soon, he said, he plans to ask for a 30-day leave to go to Korea and get them himself. Plan to Evacuate Americans in Event of Attack Formed FRANKFURT, Germany UP) The U.S. Army is ready for swift evacuation of American families from target cities in West Germany in an atomic war. It has worked out emergency plans to move Army wives, children and civilian workers to safety areas across the Rhine and in France. All' American- owned private automobiles would 1 commandeered.

Newly revised instructions from Army headquarters caution combatants that "these plans may have to be carried out under dangerous and adverse conditions during any season of the year." However, the Army adds, the evacuation plan "is a purely routine and continuing matter and is not inspired by any development of the current international situation." In event of attack, the alarm would be given by sirens. Noncombatants would move to sembly areas in automobiles or on foot with minimum baggage. From the assembly areas, they would move in convoy under military control to undisclosed "havens." Individual cars would not be permitted to travel out of convoy. Rations would be provided at assembly areas. Family units would be kept intact in the convoys.

Hospital patients would be evacuated by medical detachments. Cow Aloft MERIDEN, Conn. (U.R) Two policemen, while patrolling the city's outskirts, saw a cow on a barn roof. Together with the amazed farmer they discovered that bossie had walked out of a loft window on the roof. They arranged a makeshift ramp and son, coaxed the cow down.

They student governing board. Four Runoff Races Set at College Recent student elections at Bakersfield College have resulted in a need for four runoff races, according to Tom Giles, chief justice of the student court. The hotly contested posts were those of student body president, associate justice of the student court, vice president of the freshman class, and freshman representative to the student body governing board. Gene Mau and Jerry Orrick will face each other in the runoff for student body president; Joyce Hammer and Maurice Jamison vie for the associate justice post; Ronald Colman and Richard Snyder will be the contestants for the vice presidency of the freshman class; and Bob Martin and Bill Ronaldson will compete for the office of freshman representative. Student body officers voted into office in the general election were Colleen Bertolin, vice president Linda Wilson, secretary; Ronald Holley, business manager; Kent Kilburn, chief justice of the student court; Peter Grossman, associate justice; Cedric Shanley, director of rallies; Ron Sells, director of assemblies; Sid Sheffield, director of publicity; Jack Schuetz, director of athletics; and Murray Smith, director of activities.

Chosen for offices in the sophomore class were Bill Maxwell, president; Pat Bowden, vice president; Darrel Parks, secretary; and Caroline Rice and Loretta Porter, sophomore representatives to the student governing board. Freshman officers selected were Morris Kyle, president; Jerry Weitzel, secretary; and Dick Nel- freshman representative to Bakrrsfirlb (Ealif orttian Monday, Jan. i 1955 23 their report at headquarters in the routine form: "No damage to barn or cow." The newly elected student officials will take office when the spring semester starts on Jan. 31. FRENCH Lane (left) and Ken Warner (third from left), members of the Chess Club of Bakersfield High School receive some pointers on the chess movement, French Defense, from Edward Welz, instructor.

Jerry Mueller (right) studies the movement calculated to control the center of the board. The large metal chess board with magnetic men was designed to aid beginners and was built by Percy Chamberlain, Bakersfield College instructor and president of the Kern County Chess Club. Junior chess in Bakersfield has been steadily on the increase the last three years with clubs being formed at BHS and East Bakersfield High School as well as plans for clubs at other Kern County High Schools. Warner and Lane are president and vice president respectively of the club, and Welz and Gilbert Shimmel art co-sponsors. De Soto's Oil by Drillers Source Being Sought NEW ORLEANS (U-PH Oi 'f- shore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico may uncover a source of oil that was chroniciled by.

the ill- fated Hernando de Soto's expedition more than four centuries ago. Survivors of the expedition were picked up at the Mississippi River's mouth in 1543 after the death of De Soto. A raging gulf storm had battered the Spanish fleet and the ships put into shore near what is now Sabine, Tex. An account written by a person known only as the "Gentleman of Elvas" stated that the Spaniards found a dark scum smiliar to pitch on the water and used it to help caulk the bottoms of their leaking ships. It reportedly was the first use of petroleum by white men in the Western Hemisphere.

Since then, there have been other reports of oil on the gulf's waters near Sabine, and recent offshore exploration has tended to verify the stories. Magnolia Petroleum Co. officials here said the company has spudded in its first wildcat well eight miles offshore and 10 miles southwest of Sabine. The well was described as "fairly close" to the oil slick described in the De Soto expedition. The company has developed several fields off the Louisiana coast, but the wildcat is the first attempt to strike oil off the Texas coast.

The well will be drilled to a depth of 13,000 feet. At Booth's Women's Fire Auxiliary Gets Big Workout PETALUMA 'lff) The newly formed women's fire auxiliary saw its first service early yes terday, staffing both of Peta luma's fire stations while nearly all of the city's firemen fought a S40.000 blaze at Petaluma High School. One man stood by at each fire house as the more than a dozen women handled radio communications and remained ready to fight any other blaze during their three- hour stint. No other fire broke out. Fire Chief Dan Nielsen said the fire started just before 5 apparently in the attic heating plant.

It ripped through two classrooms, a sewing room and band practice room. Nearly 100 band uniforms valued at $5,000 were destroyed. Firemen saved the band instruments. The blaze brought out 23 of Petaluma's 24 firemen, with two on standby duty at the firehouses and 21 at the school. "The one absentee, Chief Nielsen said, was vistiug Reno on his day off.

School authorities said classes affected by the fire will be reorganized. There will.be no holiday, they added. Arms to Arabs Hit by ZOA SALT LAKE CITY official of the Zionist Organization of America accuses the U.S. State Department of "heedlessly tossing a lighted match into the powder keg of the Middle East" by allowing arms shipments to Arab nations. Rabbi I.

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