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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1958
Page
4
A reader laments crowded colleges by 1960 limiting access to the select few and urges teens to focus on grades and career planning. He notes increasing selectivity, timing of applications, and the need for serious study in high school. He invites more teen opinions for a national teen column.
Bernie Baerg son of Henry and Eva Baerg was elected pastor of the Junior Class at La Sierra College in Arlington He is a La Sierra College Academy graduate pursuing theology at the Arlington Seventh day Adventist school He also leads the janary Volunteer society on campus Other officers elected include Duane Brenneman president Donald Inhans vice president Sylvia Janzen secretary Don Brown treasurer and Ruby Bullock publicity secretary Dr Walter F Specht is class sponsor The first class activity since organizations was the annual junior senior picnic at Griffith Park.
The Kern County Fish and Game Protective Association schedules its annual parade in downtown Bakersfield on Saturday April 26 at 2 00 p m and the 23rd annual barbecue and field day on Sunday April 27 from 10 00 a m to 3 00 p m A membership ticket covers barbecue and prize drawings Funds after expenses go to conservation and wildlife propagation in Kern County The group is 62 years old on Thanksgiving Day Last year it released 3000 quail and 2000 pheasants aided the Kern River Fish Tagging Program supplied equipment for the Fish Rescue on the Borel Canal Lt Governor Harold Powers will attend as guest speaker and other state and local officials may be present
Mrs Rudolph Hillblom and her sons Jon and David of Wasco and Margaret Warkentin of Shafter traveled Saturday to Ft Ord California to visit Pvt Jerrol D Hillblom. They visited Monterey Bay and Pacific Grove and returned Sunday. Hillblom was sent to Ft Ord for basic training February 6 but illness extended his stay. He will be stationed in Boston Massachusetts after training.
An anthropologist at the University of California notes the Eskimos have no single term for snow. A California scientist says the tropical zone was much wider for a large portion of Earth's history.
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