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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1975
Page
4
Four students at Richland Junior High School received straight A grades for the third quarter. Three eighth graders achieved perfect reports while only one seventh grader reached the top mark.
Kern High School District Board of Trustees met April 10 reorganizing the board. Dr Geo Ablin was elected president succeeding Don Ruggenberg while Craig Jenkins became clerk and ROCK board representative. The meeting also seated new member Mary M Vaughan and listed eighth graders and honor roll students.
Shafter Fire Chief Clif ford Ratzlaff urges a community effort for spring clean up to cut fire risk. He cites up to 50 000 home fires yearly and outlines a five point action plan: clear clutter in rooms shops garages remove trash around the house repair cords check appliances and inspect heating and cooking system components. He warns to act now before fall.
Nine years ago three incumbents were re elected and one new councilman won in Shafter's municipal race on Tuesday. Ben Grundy Bill Banks and Bert Ware served as city officials with Bill Johnston as city clerk and Bert Ware as treasurer. The city earned praise from the California Bureau of Sanitary Engineering for a perfect bacteriological record in 1969. A photo caption notes narcotics instructional kit donated by the public and shows Sgt Earl O Brien Jim Northcut and Mayor Jay C Atkinson reviewing it.
Mrs Alma Nikkel named lay person of the year and Mrs Hazel Haag educator of the year at the Northern Division Calif ornia Teachers Association rival banquet. Santa Fe Golden Gate train Nos 60 and 63 made final runs through Shafter. Chamber of Commerce elected Mrs Violet Hemingson to replace Tony Brown on the board. Explosion in Richland School boiler room injures no one. damage estimated at $20,000 with 800 elementary students put on lunch program. Shafter High boys win South Sequoia League tennis title beating Wasco 8 3. Plans announced for Garrison’s automatic ginner manufacturing in Shafter by Smith Garrison.
Kern County officials say a final choice on a national cemetery site is pending. A Washington wire reports the Veterans Administration backs a Riverside area site over Kern and Merced counties. Rep. George Danielson pledges on site review by his Congressional subcommittee before final selection.
At its 41st annual meeting in Fresno California the Associated Farmers of California Inc urged enactment of a National Agricultural Labor Relations Act distinct from federal industrial labor law. They backed H R 3526 to create federal farm labor rules and called for a uniform minimum wage and outlawing the farm labor secondary boycott. Officers were re elected for another year led by Samuel G. Shannon as president with regional vice presidents and officers named.
Shafter High tennis squads dropped three of four matches last week. The boys lost to Wasco 12 to 2 away, and the girls fell 9 to 4 at Wasco. In a Friday match at home, the Generals beat Corcoran 8 to 5, while the Shafter girls narrowly lost 7 to 6 in Corcoran.
The Shafter boys lost to Taft 95 76 while the girls beat Taft 92 63.5. Senior Willard Vieira was out, Doug Kerber and Rusty Cooper earned the two boys wins in 50 free and 100 back. The 200 medley relay of Kerber, Cooper, Tucker, Velasquez also won. Dana Nickelsen led the girls with a 1 11 individual medley and Angie Ghilaradcci won diving. Wonderly won the 50 back stroke and Bannantine the 50 breast. The girls remain undefeated at 3 0 while the boys sit 1 2.
Advice urges continuous pest control against snails and slugs using pellets bait or liquid treatments to protect plants and gardens without lapse.
The council debated a zone change hearing amid opposition and discussed annexation policy for full alleys. Mayor and staff urged a measured approach, approving a plan for staff to present a formal policy while pursuing annexation with an extra 10 feet for a full alley.
The Shafter team boosters invite all in the recreation leagues and Buttonwillow Little Leaguers to attend a morning demonstration starting at 10 a.m. The event also notes girls will try out for Buttonwillow Little League teams competing with boys for positions.
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