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“Serving the West Kern County Communities of Taft, South Taft, Ford City, Maricopa, Fellows, McKittrick, Derby Acres, Dustin Acres, and the Cuyama Valley”

Small Business Saturday Is Saturday, November 29th Shop Taft and Support Local Businesses Acme Jewelry 426 Center Street

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The Taft Business of the Week: Dr. Vibul Tangpraphaphorn, better known as “Dr. Tang” at 109 Adkisson Way. Dr. Tang has over 40 years of medical experience.

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by Andreas Fault The Taft Christmas Parade is Monday December 1st at 6pm.

This year’s theme is “It’s a Roughneck Christmas.” The Grand Marshall is the great Les Clark Jr. Hurry and get registered to be in the Parade at the Taft Chamber.

Friday- West Side Rec “Holiday Vendor and Craft Show” from 5-8:30pm, and Saturday 8:30am- 3pm. Free admission for shoppers.

Saturday- “Toys for Taft.” Registration from 8-10:15am at 415 Center Street. Kick stands up at 10:30am. Ride ends at Art’s Corner. $20 per rider, $10 per passenger. Cars are welcome but must register.

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Save the Date for these Future EventsNovember 29th: Taft Shooter’s Challenge(Geocaching/Shooting Event) at the Taft Sportsmen’s Club.

December 1st: Taft Christmas Parade. Contact the Taft Chamber for more info at 765-2165.

December 3rd: Taft Industry Night at the Taft Petroleum Club.

Doors open at 5:30, Dinner at 7:30.

December 4: Holiday Gift Show and Dinner at the Fort from 5-8pm. Free Admission.

December 5th: 1st Friday Cruise Night. Cruise, eat, and Christmas Shop from 6-10pm.

Taft Chamber’s “Pictures with Santa” at Westside Furniture from 6-8pm.

December 5th and 6th: West Hills Church of the Nazarene Drive Thru Nativity Scene at 300 Lassen Street.

December 6th: West Side Rec Disc Golf Tournament at Franklin Field, call the Rec @ 763-4246 to register.

December 7th: West Kern Oil Museum Christmas Tea from 1-3:30pm.

December 9th: Taft College Bookstore Open House from 4-7pm.

Truxton Mile & Friends “Christmas Lights” A Holiday Presentation at 6:30 at WBF Church at 101 HWY 33.

December 13th: Taft Soroptimist Home Tour, Fashion Show, and Luncheon at WBF Church.

Taft Soroptimist “Homes for the Holidays” Home Tour, Luncheon, and Fashion Show, Saturday December 13th. Home Tour 9-11:15am, Lunch and Fashion Show at noon at Westside Believers Church. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at A Hint of Class or from any Soroptimist Member.

TUHS Alumni Christmas Luncheon December 3rd ALL Taft High Alumni are invited to the Alumni Christmas Luncheon to be held Wednesday December 3rd at Stockdale Country Club in Bakersfield. The luncheon was started several years ago by classmates from the 1940’s era. It is a chance to meet and greet Taft High Alumni from all decades. For more information please contact Janis Mattoon Varner - a 1966 graduate either at 587-8157 or vvarner@bak.rr.com.

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By: Rob Schwarzwalder

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by Bill Taft It’s almost the holiday Season and it is time to start planning your Christmas Party. There are several great places in Taft to have a Christmas Party for any size group. Rather it be for work, family, or a friendly Christmas Party keep it close, safe, and save money in Taft.

The Fort is always beautiful but looks even better for Christmas.

The Fort has their large Auditorium with a bar and also a smaller Auditorium in the back of the Fort. The Taft Petroleum Club is big enough to have most size parties and parties can also be held in the bar. OT Cookhouse has a large Auditorium or parties can also be held in the bar or side room. The West Kern Oil Museum has a nice patio or their Tea Room is great to have a nice quiet event with no alcohol. Veterans Hall is large enough to hold most size groups. The West Side Rec has a large Auditorium, small Auditorium, and also a party room next to the bowling alley. The Original Hacienda Grill has a large party room in the back that has a bar. Pizza Factory has a good size party room. La Salsa back room is also used for parties.

Paik’s Ranch house has a large room in the back. Oasis has a large room upstairs that has a bar and a stage. Jo’s Restaurant has a large hall in the back. The Taft Moose Lodge has a large hall and parties can also be held in the bar. The Fox Theatre can be rearranged to hold any size party or event.

Ong’s Café, Asian Experience, Black Gold Brewery, Chicken of Oz, Penny Bar, Tumbleweed Café, BV Roadhouse, BV Grill, Vicente’s, and Hot Stone Pizza are all excellent places to have a smaller gathering.

Don’t forget most of these places Cater along with other Taft places like Taco De Mexico, Tacos Y Mariscos, Mi Casita, and Candy Cafe. Load up on Sandwich Trays from Albertsons and Subway. Get some pizza or other treats from Domino’s, Pizza Hut, and Little Caesars. Get your special cakes, cupcakes, cake pops, cookies, ice cream, and much more from Get Your Sweet On. Stay local and support Taft. Call and book your party now. You’ll save money and time while staying safe and supporting your neighbors in Taft. Don’t just have your Christmas Parties in Taft, have your Engagement Party, Wedding Shower, Wedding, Reunions, Birthdays, Baby Showers, Anniversary’s, Retirement Party, Work Meetings, New Years Eve Party, etc in Taft.

Don’t forget you can add Taft’s newest Restaurant The Bank, to this great list on New Year’s Eve. If you drink, do not drive, call T’s Taxi at 770-6231.

MIT’s Dr. Jonathan Gruber, touted as an architect of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA, or Obamacare), has referred to the “stupidity” of the American people as necessary to pass the ACA. “Lack of transparency,” he has said, “was a huge political advantage.”

Well, there you have it: admissions of our government lying and obfuscating, combined with an accusation that the American people are stupid and can be duped by what Gruber called the “very clever ... basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.”

These things are demeaning and insulting to the people government is supposed to serve. Intrinsic in Gruber’s comment is that a small number of educated and wise men and women should ignore the pedestrian concerns of the easily-frightened, inattentive and “stupid” citizens and make them eat their spinach.

In fact, in an “info-comic” he published in 2012, Gruber even says that the Obamacare mandate “is the spinach we have to eat in order to get the dessert that is a working nongroup insurance market.”

When they were small, I sometimes made my young children eat things they disliked because those things were good for them (my wife and I developed a great appreciation for our blender during those years).

However, I’m a parent. Government’s not. And it’s not run by parents (e.g., the Jonathan Grubers of the world) who, without any legal right to do so, try to spoon-feed foolish and recalcitrant children (that would be the rest of us) what’s good for them.

Much has been written (at least in the conservative media) about the lying and deliberate opacity of Obamacare’s marketing, especially since the Gruber videos have come to light. This is a good thing, and shows that press freedom remains a value we should cherish.

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Obamacare was the finest piece of legislation ever crafted (yes, I’m asking readers to imagine wildly, but bear with me). Its every jot and tittle reflected the wisdom of Lincoln, the fiscal discipline of Coolidge and the compassion of Mohandas Gandhi.

Let’s also say that despite all of that, the people hated it. They expressed strongly at the ballot box their distaste for the measure.

They protested it at town-hall meetings, in surveys and polls and in copious communications to their elected representatives (oh wait - they did that).

Finally, let’s say their understanding of the legislation was wrong and wrong-headed. It reflected ingratitude, susceptibility to demagoguery and even stupidity. They didn’t know how grand a cure-all the law would be for all manner of health care ills, personal and system-wide, and were objectively and utterly foolish to have rejected it.

With all that said, one question remains compelling: Do any of the above propositions justify government’s insistence on forcing on the people of the United States something they decidedly do not want? And do any of these propositions justify government lying or manipulating to the people in order to get the legislation enacted?

The answer, of course, is no. Our form of representative selfgovernment was designed by our Founders to prevent the very kind of arrogant, “we know best” insistence that the passage of the ACA demonstrates.

Compelling acceptance of something unwanted is distinct from requiring conformity to agreed-upon law. When a person jaywalks, he violates a law enacted to protect his safety by those he has entrusted to enact such laws. He submits to the law they have passed because it reflects the wisdom and common sense of the larger community of which he is a part.

On the other hand, when the government forces upon the people something that through elective consensus (e.g., the 2010 congressional election) and clear public expressions of opposition they have shown they disapprove, it is enacting not as a steward of the people’s will and good counsel but as an aristocracy of the elite who do what they believe - rather, what they are convinced they know - is best for the tremulous, benighted, dimwitted masses.

A good government has the duty to tell the truth and to explain it simply and consistently. That’s what those who placed it in power, “We the People,” have a right to expect. As my colleague Dr. Chris Gacek has written, “The American people are justified in wondering if they are ruled by interlocking ruling bodies that operate in secret, govern with unbridled duplicity, and are immune to correction by the People acting through their representatives or acting directly in referenda.”

A government lacking in integrity is one also lacking in wisdom.

Isn’t that kind of a stupid way of doing things, Dr. Gruber?

Schwarzwalder previously was chief-of-staff for two Members of Congress and an appointee in the administration of George W. Bush.

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GOBBLE DAYS AT THE REC CENTER November 24-26 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Recreation Center, 500 Cascade Place, Taft Ages 8-16 $10 per person It’s Thanksgiving Break! Join us for unlimited bowling, whiffle ball and other activities.

Lunch (hot dog, chips, juice) will be served each day (one lunch per participant). A turkey will also be raffled off each day!

LETTERS TO SANTA Children ages 8 and younger can write letters to Santa Claus in care of his helpers at the Recreation District. We will make sure that he gets your letters and writes back. Please write to Santa between now and December 17. (Groups and schools – please be sure that Santa gets your letters no later than December 4.) Don’t forget to include your address! If you don’t want to pay postage, you can also email letters to santa.wsrpd@gmail.com. Send postal letters to: Santa Claus c/o WSRPD P.O. Box 1406 Taft, CA 93268 HOLIDAY ORNAMENT & CRAFT WORKSHOP Tuesday, December 2 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Community Center Assembly Room, 500 Cascade Place, Taft Ages 4+ $3 per person Don’t miss the chance to make some special ornaments for your Christmas tree, cards and other fun items. Younger kids will need an older helper.

FOX THEATER MINIMUM DAY MATINEE Tuesday, November 25 – Hoodwinked Wednesday, December 3 – Arthur Christmas Showtime – 2:00 p.m.

Taft Fox Theater, 514 Center Street, Taft All ages – 8 and younger must be accompanied by an adult $5 per person – includes mini popcorn **CASH ONLY ACCEPTED FOR ADMISSION AT THE THEATRE.** REC CENTER TEEN NIGHT Friday, December 5 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.

Recreation Center Grades 6-12 (must show school ID for entry) $10 per person The first Friday of every month is Teen Night at the Recreation Center! Come in and bowl, play basketball or just hang out with your friends in a fun, safe environment.

YOUTH BASKETBALL Division 1: Ages 7-9 Division 2: Ages 10-12 Division 3: Ages 13-15 Practices: Weeknights Games: Weeknights or Saturdays (varies by team) Practices Begin: December 15 Games Begin: January 6 Place: Aera Gymnasium, Recreation Center Registration deadline: Thursday, December 4 Fee: $50 per person

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CENTRAL VALLEY SERIES DISC GOLF TOURNAMENT Saturday, December 6 Check-in: 8:00 a.m.

Players Meeting: 9:00 a.m.

Franklin Field Recreation Complex Ages 10 and older Fees: $50 – pro divisions, $40 – amateur divisions Registration deadline: Wednesday, November 26 This tournament will consist of 2 rounds of 18-holes each. All skill levels are encouraged to participate!

HIKERS OF WSRPD Who: All Ages (17 & younger must be accompanied by an adult) Next Meeting: Tuesday, November 25 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: Recreation Center Party Room Fee: FREE Do you like to hike? Here’s your chance! Come meet with others interested in hitting the trails. We will share hiking tips, locations, possible outings and more. No previous hiking experience is necessary. Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of the month.

BOWLING PARTY RENTALS Make your reservation now!

Reservations are now being accepted for party rentals at the bowling alley in the new Recreation Center. Parties may take place on Friday evenings, Saturday or Sunday. Rental fees start at $100 for 2-lane rentals. Rental prices include shoes, balls and use of the party room.

Call 763-4246 for more information or to make a reservation.

Council Honors Resident for His One-Hundredth Birthday.

Jerry Livingston J.D, Jerry.Taft.Independent@gmail.com Tuesday night the City Council recognized Royce Foreman for his up coming 100th birthday.

Foreman was born in Sayre, Oklahoma on November 23, 1914.

His parents lived in Oklahoma City but when it came time for his birth, they hopped on the Rock Island Rail Road and headed to Sayre where his mother’s family had settled a few generations earlier. His family built their first home in Sayre, known as a dugout, a home dug into the side of a hill.

While growing up in Sayre his parents had two more sons, “Tag”, short for tag-a-long, a name he got for following around his big brother, and his youngest brother “Buster”. Foreman said that his parents never used their given names. When he entered fourth grade his teacher asked his name and he said Sonny, she insisted that he must use his real name learning for the first time that his name was Royce. Foreman continued to live in Sayre until finishing his schooling at Sayre High School.

In 1933, at the age of 19, Foreman hitch-hiked to Cheyenne, Wyoming with the intent of finding work with an uncle. When he was unable to find his uncle he continued hitch-hiking until he arrived in Spokane, Washington were he parked cars for the largest hotel in town. By 1934 he had made his way to Los Angeles, eventually finding work parking cars and later working at a Texaco service station.

In 1940 Foreman moved to Bakersfield to open his own Texaco service station at the corner of 25th and Chester.

Two years later he was drafted into the army and sent first to Wisconsin and then to Florida for Army Air Force technical training where he became a radio mechanic. He was then stationed in Italy through 1945 where he was able to visit Rome, Naples and other cities on the Italian peninsula, Foreman said.

“I had a great time in Italy, my job allowed me to travel around because I had my own Jeep.”

Foreman mustered out as a Staff Sargent and returned to Bakersfield in 1945 were he again opened his own service station.

The Taft Independent He operated the service station until his move to Taft. While living in Bakersfield he met his future wife, Sara Geraldine “Jerri” Johns at a dinner in Oildale in 1948 and married her in La Vegas, Nevada four years later in 1952. Jerri was born and raised in Bakersfield and worked at the diner where they met. She told him about the income the diner was making. So two years later they decided to open a place in Taft.

They bought a building located at 6th and Woodrow in 1952 were they opened an ice cream shop that was the first to have soft serve ice cream on the West Side.

In 1955 the built the building that still occupies that location and opened a hamburger stand called the Tastee Burger. Hamburgers sold for 20 cents, fries and cokes sold for 10 cents each.

They sold the business in 1962.

Foreman next bought land from Standard Oil at the corner of 10th and Kern at what is now the Texaco Fastrip station and opened Foreman’s Liquor and Delicatessen which he operated until 1973 when he sold the store and retired.

“Of course I didn’t retire, I became active in the stock market” said Foreman. “I was pretty successful.” It allowed the Foreman’s to owe three different RV’s that they used to travel around the country.

Foreman’s wife passed away in 2006 after 54 years of marriage.

When they first moved to Taft they bought a house at 628 Woodrow Street from a teacher at Taft High. The house had been built by the high school’s students as a school project.

In 1968 the Foreman’s moved to his current residence on Third Street that was built for them by Bob Colston. Foreman continues to live there on his own and he still drives himself to the store to do his own shopping.

When asked if he Royce Foreman in the 1930’s at a Texaco gas station where he worked before moving to Taft.

November 21 - 27, 2014 thought there was a secret to his longevity he said “I didn’t abuse myself with food, alcohol or cigarettes, but the real reason is 90% having a positive attitude.”

“I have had a wonderful life, run two successful businesses in Taft, the people made my business successful. I wouldn’t want to live any place else. Taft is my home.” Foreman said.

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November 21 - 27, 2014

Gas Prices Keep Falling

City Council Selects New City Clerk, Linder Says Goodbye

California, November 17- Average retail gasoline prices in California have fallen 4.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.17/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 10,526 gas outlets in California.

This compares with the national average that has fallen 1.7 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.89/g, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.

Including the change in gas prices in California during the past week, prices yesterday were 41.9 cents per gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 38.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 25.5 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 29.8 cents per gallon lower than this day one year ago.

“Just a week ago, I was becoming concerned that the national average would level off unless crude oil prices kept dropping, and that’s exactly what happened,” said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy. “Suddenly, the market turned bearish again and crude dropped as low as $74/bbl before closing the week out at a $2/bbl loss. Either way, the decline in crude price renews the downturn at the pump that had stabilized last week and helped the national average tip back into a downward decline. In most places across the country we should see the downward trend continue or re-emerge this week,” he noted.

Jerry Livingston J.D, Jerry.Taft.Independent@gmail.com The City Council selected a new City Clerk to fill the final two years of the Clerks term. The Council accepted the resignation of Alina Megerdom former City Clerk effective November 5th. Megerdom had been appointed to fill the position last February. The Council interviewed two candidates, Yvette Mayfield and Vanessa Gonzalez both of whom had previously applied to fill the Clerk’s position. Mayfield was selected to the Clerk’s office based on training an experience. The Council chose to fill the position rather than hold an expensive special election to fill the final two years of the Clerk’s term.

Tuesday nigh was also Mayor Linder’s final night to preside over the Council’s hearing and he took the opportunity to thank city staff and management his fellow Councilmembers. Linder also took a moment to present his wife with a bouquet of roses as Tuesday was their wedding anniversary.

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Athelete of the Week 11-21-14

TUHS Varsity Girls’ Volleyball It’s a good problem to have so many hardworking athletes on one team that singling out one individual for athlete of the week is no easy feat. That’s why it’s a no brainer to give the whole TUHS Varsity Girls’ Volleyball team the award. On the season, the team went 22-8-4 and earned the top seed in D-4 going into playoffs. More impressive, they finished runner-up in the central section Interscholastic Achievement Award with an overall team GPA of 3.73. Now that’s what we call truly embracing the title “student-athlete”.

Congratulations girls and keep up the good work!

Dear Taft Friends, Our Saturday clean up of portions of Sandy Creek was a big success.

Some 120 Taft High School and Taft College volunteers along with some adults met at the Taft Veterans Memorial Building that morning. This was the largest group of clean up volunteers we have ever had at one of our community clean ups. This effort started at 10th and San Emidio Streets continuing to 4th Street and ending at Highway 119. Hundreds of bags of trash were collected. A big thank you goes to Westside Waste Management for providing the roll offs to put the trash in.

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We look forward to serving you starting December 1st! See you there!

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Your Supervisor David Couch, Field Representative Ryan Shultz and I were very impressed how the community came out to make this part of Sandy Creek cleaner and better able to contain water coming down from South Taft in the event of a flash flood or El Nino year.

We want to also especially than Huddleston Crane, West Kern Water District, General Production Services for the use of their heavy equipment including cranes as well as their employees. The City of Taft and County of Kern also provided equipment and some manpower.

The students were all eager to work and very polite. Several thanked us for the lunch back at the Veterans Hall.

This stretch of Sandy Creek was deeded to the City of Taft by Standard Oil Company in the early 1940s to be utilized as a flood channel to protect the residents of Ford City from flooding.

Mark C. Salvaggio Constituent Services Specialist Kern County Supervisor David Couch, District 4 1115 Truxtun Avenue, Room 504 Bakersfield, CA 93301

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Liberty Under Fire

A shift in who is responsible for the killing of John F. Kennedy

By Harold W. Pease

Many of us think about the tragedy in Dallas 51 years ago this month.

Last May I visited the Texas School Book Depository on the corner of Houston and Elm Streets in Dallas, Texas and read the government’s inscription on the wall of the building, “On November 22, 1963, The building gained national notoriety when Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot and killed President John F. Kennedy from a sixth story window as the Presidential motorcade passed.” The word allegedly grabbed me, as it was an admission that even the government was not certain, without some level of doubt, that Oswald did the deed or acted alone.

Most serious scholars on the assassination view the Warren Commissions review of the data with great skepticism (some with contempt) especially in light of its numerous omissions, as for example the testimony of Dr. Charles Crenshaw who placed Kennedy in the coffin at Parkland Hospital and testified years latter that the neck wound had been tampered with to look like an exit rather than an entry wound. An entry wound would have proved more than a single assassin and provoked more investigation. Also, why did they seal the unpublished portion of their findings for 75 years?

Finally, thirteen years later The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1976 concluded that “President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” They, like the Warren Commission, did their investigation mostly in secret.

Unbelievably they too sealed their evidence for 50 years under Congressional rules. Withholding evidence feeds conspiracy theories. As the years fly by, and new data surfaces from the hundreds of books on the subject, it is increasingly more difficult to dismiss, as an accomplice, Lyndon Baines Johnson and his CIA/FBI friends.

My journalist friend, Don Clark, has personally read most of the 2000 books on the subject and is a noted speaker on the assassination. He told an audience in San Francisco that while the government has not, or will not, pursue the subject, private investigators have done so and we do not have to wait for the sealed records. He has a recommend list of “must reads” on the subject and they follow.

First, get the directors cut of the motion picture JFK by Oliver Stone.

Despite the profanity the “movie contains more spoken words, more script, than any film in history.”

Second, On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison (a former FBI agent) treats Oswald’s time in New Orleans and four government agents identified as “handlers” that seemed to “shadow” him.

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Third, read JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. A stunning piece of original research published in 2008, by James Douglass.

Fourth, read MARY’S MOSAIC: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace,

by Peter Janney. The work published in 2012 found that the author’s own “CIA father, was among the conspirators orchestrating the deaths of Kennedy and his friend Mary Pinchot Meyer. The latter’s death is also “in a veiled way” in the recent movie, An American Affair.

Fifth, read JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, by Air Force Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, who served at the time of Kennedy’s death, as the key liaison between the Pentagon and the CIA. Sixth, tying together many loose ends the following three books will help. Revealing the secret links between the most powerful law firm in Texas and the criminal rise to power of Lyndon Johnson is Blood, Money, & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK by Barr McClellan. LBJ: Mastermind of the JFK Assassination by Phillip Nelson. Texas in the Morning by Lyndon

November 21 - 27, 2014 Johnson’s long-time mistress, Madeline Duncan Brown “takes you to the meeting the night before the assassination. She reveals the identities of the men in that room. She shares the story of Lyndon Johnson coming late to the meeting, then emerging in a fury, grabbing her by the arms so hard it hurt, and swearing in a rage, ‘After tomorrow, those goddamn Kennedy’s will never embarrass me again---and that’s not a threat, that’s a promise!’ ” In light of decades of intensive reading, Clark poses the question, “Was it devious, desperate Lyndon Johnson, the viper in the nest, the Brutus to Kennedy’s Caesar, who with the help of J. Edgar Hoover had blackmailed his way onto the 1960 presidential ticket, who knew he was about to be dumped from the 1964 ticket, who knew he was about to be indicted and probably go to prison for his probable role in the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes scandals, whose lifelong lust and endless scheming for the presidency would stop at nothing to get to that office, least of all murder?”

Perhaps it is time to speak the unspeakable and be more inclusive of the new data in our history tests.

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In Part 1 you get as much of the history of the cemetery as we have been able to find.

The book contains the names of 466 people who were buried there from 1911 and 1951.

It contains a short history of the people or the families of the people buried there.

It shows you how many people died in each year that the cemetery was used.

It shows you where they are located in the cemetery and much more.

In Part 2 you get as many actual Obituaries for as many people as we could find.

Oil Workers, World Famous Entertainers, Saloon owners, Shoe Makers, Butchers Civil War Soldiers and a Spanish American War Soldier The cost is $25.00 per part or $45.00 per set Available at the West Kern Oil Museum or by contacting Guy Lingo

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The woman who has been mistaken for an Egyptian Princess, although I think she would have liked that. Who came from humble beginnings in Jerusalem. Moved to her adopted culture, city and country, Cairo, Egypt. Then to Paris, France to dance the Raqs Sharki, belly dancing. She married a rich globetrotting Lawyer and traveled the world covered in jewels, is then abandoned, tries to commit suicide and sets out to look for her husband to find him in San Francisco. With the stage name “The Princess of Egypt” is the star of the show The Streets of Cairo in the Zone at the 1915 Pan-American Exposition. Joins the Burt Levey Vaudeville Troup in Los Angeles and comes to Taft to perform at the C & C Theater. That performance was to never take place, she died on November 11th 1915 and is buried in the Midway Cemetery on 25 Hill.

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