Seventeen Bakersfield Girls Vie for Shafter Queen Crown
Sixteen of the twenty one contestants gathered at a Shafter kickoff dinner hosted by Queen Chairman LaVerne Jacobs. Five Bakersfield hopefuls could not attend as tickets for the May festival went on sale. The top ten ticket sellers will enter the May 19 judging contest where one will be crowned queen.
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Shafter
Queen
LaVerne’ Jacobs
Crown
Bakersfield
Kern County
Lavelle Elliot
Bakersfield College
Julia Lang
Wasco
Julia
Wasco High School
Sue Stinnett
Willard
Korea
Sue
Henry W. Voth
JoAnnn
Daeed
Edith
Dipple
George
JoAnn McKenzie
Bakersfield High School
Barbara’ Postell
Virginia Richardson
Ina Chapman
Marilyn Frambarger
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Bann
Ernie Hoffman
LaVerne Jacobs
Betty Sullivan
Carlyn Kelley
Lee Koehn
Nick Johnson
Nick
McClures and Stringham Drug
Prize Winning Groups Sign For Shafter Festival Parade
Shafter festival parade entries expand with Explorer Post 953 comic, Empire antique car from Bill Stefani, Bakersfield Kern-Co-Etts team, Wasco Elementary School eight pieces under James Prisley, and Wasco High School band notable for state and national honors.
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Explorer Post 953
Empire
Billtefani
Bakersfield
Kern-Co-Etts
Wasco Elementary School
Direcor
James Prisley
Porterivile
Santa Barbara
Wesley
Uuguet
Los An
Clinic
No jet base at Minter Field, officials say
Official sources indicate plans for a jet testing center at Minter Field have fallen through. Cecil Medows, director of Kern County Airport, was out of town and unavailable for further details.
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Minter Field
Navy
Cecil Medows
Kern County
Kirschenmann Earns Triple Honors At FFA Banquet
Leroy Kirschenmann receives three top FFA honors at the Future Farmers of America banquet held at Shafter High School. He earns a Certificate of Merit from the California Bankers Association a State Farmers Key and high point senior recognition. Dean Lloyd Dowler of Fresno State College praises FFA citizenship and leadership while highlighting college entrance requirements and Fresno State agriculture facilities.
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Leroy Kirschenmann
Future Farmers of America
Father and Son
Kirschenmann
California Bankers Association
High Point
Kirk Fitzpatrick
Shafter Ffa
Lloyd Dowler
Fresno State College
Dowler
FFA
Woody Wilson
Kenney Kroeker
Glenn O. Nay
Dickenson
District Oil of Agriculture
Grant Oe
Shafter High School
Ter
Kern County Union High School and Junior College District Board of Trustees
Roy Jones
G. C. Parker
Buttonwillow National Bank
Parker
Nay
H. E. Woodworth
High School and College District Board of Trustees
Aan
Ery Allen
T. L. McCuen
Future Farmer
Dean Dowler
Fresno State
Enatioh
Mathema
Charley Castro
Shafter High Future
Eenennaa. of
America
Four Candidates Seek Richland School Board Trustee Seats
Richland School Board expands to five members with May 21 election for two new seats. Harold Greene Clarence Neuman and O Handel file. Leonard Gaede seeks re election to one of original three seats. All candidates are local leaders with community ties and active in PTA Lions Rotary and church groups.
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Harold Greene
Clarence Neuman
O. D
Handel
Leonard Gaede
Gaede
Shafter
Richland School Board
Unity
N J
G 5
Shafter Rotary
Club
Saheel
the Lions Club
Greene
San Joaquin Valley
loberty-West Company
Richland School
Congregational Church
Parent-Teacher Association
Neuman
Shafter High School
Robert’ Neuman
Shafter Sees Near Four Inch Rainfall This Year
Fire Chief Bender reports Shafter has accumulated 3.98 inches of rain so far this year, a little under the usual annual total of about four inches. The note reflects ongoing weather conditions and compares to the average annual rainfall.
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Bender
Shafter
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Bakersfield Junior College
Vel Smith
Vel
Bank of America
Bobbie Bender
Lufkin Business College
State Theater
Bobbie
Hazel Slivkoff
Hazel
Patsy Bartshe
V and W
Patsy
Porterville
Hitchcock Auto Parts
Wilma Caton
Las Vegas
Wilma
LaVina Regehr
LaVina
Shafter High
Betty Jennings
Betty
Chuck
Dorothy Cox
Dorothy
Superior Oil Company
Mary Joyce Libbing
Mary’Joyce
San Jose State
Airlines
Delano
Alice Luque
Ravellis Shafter
Alice
JoAnn Cummins
Wheelers
Doris Brown
Regehr
Sue. Stinnett
Howell Studio
Photon
Julia Latig
Quentin L. Young
Long Beach
Jack Cook
Jackie
Nie C. Parker
Bankers Award
Future of America
D. Handel
Harold Gréene
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