Generals Dominate Taft Three-Way Track Meet
Taft, Shafter and Arvin met Friday with Taft taking overall honors. Generals led with 85 5 6 to 51 5 6 for Taft and 22 1 3 for Arvin. Double wins for Robert Turner and Vince Rodriguez paced Taft, with Heller, Harp, Janzen, Alvidrez and Aaron among other winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Bill ‘Silverberg
Shafter
Arvin
Generals
Robert Turner
Vince Rodriguez
Steve Heller
Ronnie Harp
Joey Janzen
Andy Alvidrez
Raymond Aaron
Randy Kruger
Alvidrez
Rick Paul
Mark Costello
Johnny Moore
The
Bucks
Carroll Winters
Abel Nunez
Steve Lankford
Wennihan Named Shafter Coach After Hampton Resigns
Patrick J. Wennihan of North High will become head basketball and baseball coach at Shafter High next fall and teach physical education. He succeeds Bob Hampton whose resignation is submitted. Wennihan has coached at North since 1965 and played and coached at Bakersfield institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick J. Wennihan
North High
Shafter High School
Wennihan
Bob J.hampton
Hampton
South School
Shafter High
Larry Grayson
Kansas
Bakersfield
Emerson Junior High School
Bakersfield High School
Jay Mulvehal
Bakersfield College
Jim Nau
California State College
Hayward
University of Southern California
Carl Bowser
Shafter Highschool
Bowser
Shafter
Burroughs High School
Ridgecrest
Taft
Wasco
Champions Crowned At Local Tourney At Mannes Park
Winners and losers enjoyed a hot dog feed and softball game after the meet. Tom Hill, an eighth grader from Richland, won the outstanding wrestler trophy in the unlimited class. Individual champions include Jim Bristow, Robert Stowel, Scott Howard, John Cooke, Tom Mullen, Larry Zachary, Greg Wilcoxon, Dennis Meyer, Chigger Allen, Doug Ellis, and Tom Hill. The champions will represent Shafter at the Bakersfield Junior High tournament at North High on April 29.
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Mannes Park
Tom Hill
Richland Wrestling
Jim Bristow
Robert Stowel
Scott Howard
John Cooke
Tom Mullen
Larry Zachary
Greg Wilcoxon
Dennis Meyer
Chigger Allen
Doug Ellis
Shafter
Bakersfield
North High
West Shafter Swim Team Maintains Undefeated Streaks
Shafter dominated Wasco with wins across A and B classes and the Girls meet. Bryce Carroll Steve Witcher Steve Senn led A class wins while Paul Kodet Gerri Ohlsson and Gerri Willis starred in B class. The Shafter girls edged their rivals in a tight 200 freestyle finish at Rio Bravo.
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Shafter
Wasco
Bob Hampton
Shafterites
Generals
West
Rio Bravo
Bryce Carroll
Steve Witcher
Steve Senn
Kern County Board of Trade outlines industry growth plans
Radoumis highlighted 18 million Pacific Western Industries plant expansion at Ridgecrest new dairies in the county Goodyear expansion at Stockdale borax plant near Boron Welke factory at Mojave and Shafter Airport developments. He warned 35 California groups compete with Kern and 18 000 US municipalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radoumis
Pacific Western Industries
Genge Industries
Ridgecrest
Goodyear
Stockdale Foam
American Potash and Chemical Corporation
Boron
Welke Manufacturing Company
Mojave
Shafter Airport
Board of Trade
Kern County
Kern County Board of Trade
California
Shafter Chamber
United States
H. W
Pat) Kelly
Kelly
Jobs Daughters Bus Trip to Shrine Show
Fifty girls from Wasco Bethel 138 I O Jobs Daughters attended a Shrine Auditorium show in Los Angeles on April 14 featuring Mitzie Gaynor as the star. Chaperones included Herb Neuman and John H. Brown with other Guardian Council members and mothers joining the trip arranged by the El Charaf Shrine Club. Barbara Sutton, the Bethel 138 honored queen, was also part of the group and welcomed during the event.
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Wasco Bethel
International Order of Jobs
Mitzie Gaynor
Shrine Auditorium
Los Angeles
Herb Neuman
el Charaf Shrine Club
el Charaf
Doris Warkentine
Bethel Guardian
Jean Landrigan
Bethel
Esther Nickel
Harvey Neuman
Claudine Rodgers
Guardian Council
Gladys Brown
Inez Jones
Sandra McDaniel
Barbara Sutton
Bethel 138
Shafter Wins and Loses Ball Games By One Run Margin
Shafter split a pair with West High losing 9-4 and beating Wasco 2-1. JV squads won 4-3 each over West and Wasco. Phil Powell led West bout with four hits, Charlie Brown two singles. Rod Askew took the West loss. Tom Stepp pitched a two hitter for Wasco win, Powell aided with three hits. Upcoming games include a home tilt with Taft and Garces, then a trip to Taft.
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Shafter
West High
Vikings
Wasco
Sturday
Jv’s
West
Larry Grayson
Phil Powell
Charlie Brown
Generals
Rod Askew
Tom Stepp
Stepp
Powell
Tigers
Garces
Taft
Fifth Generation Daughter Born To Clinton Johnson
A daughter named Tamera Elaine Johnson was born to Mr and Mrs S Johnson of 441 Walnut on Monday April 3 at Mercy Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces at birth and is described as a fifth generation. Grandparents are Donald Jones and Charles Johnson of Shafter and Ernes t Adkins. Great grandparents include Nancy Jones in Oklahoma City and Susan Bunnis in Webster South Dakota. Lena Adkins is a great great grandmother in Oklahoma City.
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Tamera Elaine Johnson
S. Johnson
Walnut
Mercy Hospital
Donald Jones
Charles Johnson
Shafter
Ernest Adkins
Tamera Elaine
Nancy Jones
Oklahoma City
Okla
Susan Bunnis
Webster, S. D
Lena Adkins
Officer Candidate School Graduate Joins Airborne Unit
Michael P. Allen son of Mr and Mrs Lee Roy Allen graduated from Officers' Candidate School at Ft Benning Ga on March 16 He entered the army February 1966 and trained at Ft Ord He completed airborne qualification at Ft Benning and is now at Ft Bragg NC in the infantry airborne division He recently visited Shafter and is a Shafter High School alumnus who studied in Ecuador in 1964
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael P. Allen
Lee Roy Allen
Pine
Ft. Benning
Army
Ft. Ord
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Infantry Airborne Division
Shafter
Shafter High School
Ecuador
Foreign Exchange
Community Cancer Crusade Appeal for Shafter Support
Neighbor notice urges rapid contributions to the Cancer Crusade in Shafter. It appeals for community cooperation and provides two contact numbers 6-4329 and 6-4638 for any questions.
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Shafter
Shafter Student Prepares Five Month Netherlands Study Work Tour
Janie Ohanneson a Lewis and Clark College sophomore biology major heads to the Netherlands for five months of study and work. She travels from New York to Luxembourg April 26, after a three week language stint in Brattleboro Vermont.
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Netherlands
Janie Channeson
Shafter
Lewis and Clark College
Portland
Ore
Janie
Philip McAllister
Brattleboro
New York
Luxembourg
Enschede
Holland
Miss. Ohanneson
Putney
John Ohanneson
Pine
County Mourns Two Noted Bakersfield Figures
The county mourns J. B. Cap Haralson and Audie Rose Foster. Haralson arrived in 1924 to teach and coach at Kern County Union High School, later chairing the AAU track and field committee and earning state trophies before dying at 66. Foster, also 66, founded the Shrine Potato Bowl in 1948, boosting Shrine charity funds. a World War I and II veteran, his civic and Masonic work dated back decades.
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Bakersfield
J. B
Cap’’ Haralson
Audie Rose
Ray) Foster
Haralson
Kern County
Kern County Union High School
Amateur Athletic Union
Foster
Shrine
New Richland Names Janice Wilson as Fifth Grade Teacher
In reporting the hiring an error misstated Mrs. Janice Wilson’s relation. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Bill Putnam of 417 Pine. Wilson will teach fifth grade at Dell Velle School, having taught there for one year.
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Janice Wilson
New Richland
Bill Putnam
Richland School
417 Pine
Wilson
Dell Velle
Controversial Vietnam March Backers Named in Long List
The piece catalogs sponsors and participants in a West Coast Vietnam Day march, naming figures like Edward Keating, Kipp Dawson, Mario Savio, Jerry Rubin, Bettina Aptheker, and Terrance Hallinan. It labels many as Communists or subversives and argues such associations harm antiwar efforts.
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Albert J
Mickey) Lima
Communist Party
California
Pete Camejo
Berkeley
Socialist Workers Party
Terrance Hallinan
W.E.B. DuBois
Mario Savio
Jerry Clyde Rubin
Berkely
Million Dollar Plus Crops In Kern County 1966
Kern county valued 29 crops at $1 million or more in 1966 led by King Cotton and Safflower which surged from 1965 figures. Other gains included barley milk sugar beets sheep lambs sorghum grain onions cantaloupe rose plants carrots peaches plums wheat tomatoes and watermelons with some declines in eggs range dry beans irrigated pasture grain hay silage and sweet corn. comparative values for 1965 and 196? accompany the list.
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Kern County
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Massile
Turner
Lister A
Bright T
Morrison S
Turner S
Anderson A
Tarner A
Helter S
Parker S
Shamblin
Harp S
Hastings T
Hooker T
Mile
Janzen S
Gathings
Contreras A
Paul
Alvidres S
Johnson S
Jones T
Wolf T
Rodriguez S
Cruzan T
Waters T
Richardson
Lucas S
Watson T
Benn T
Young T
Aaron S
Landrum
Pv—Brown T
Stuebbe
Brant S
Sibley
Sp—Young T
Allison T
Foster T
Brown S
Strawn T
Kaldenberg T
Brown
Kruger
Walker T
Alvidres
Paul S
Costello
Mathews
HJ Moore
Pv—Bilbey
Sp—Batson
Olson
Lj—Russell
TJ Sanders
LeGar
Winter
Whyte JT
Whyte
Nunez
LH —LeGar
Hj—Studer
Lji—Wright
Pv—Langford
Sp— Beerbower
Davis
Tj—Legar
Church OF Christ
Eugene B. Cullum
West-Shafter
Carroll
Kattenhorn
Settler
Witcher_ S
Jones
Linn
Senn
Snively
Terry
Putnam
Witcher S
Linn S
Scales
Carroll S
Putnam S
Settles
Pauly
Snively S
Witcher
Anderson
Wankum
P. Kodet
Thompson
Bann
T. Kodet
Zachary
Holloway
Freaney
Marratt
Newman
Voth
Sears
Crawford
Harbison
Willis S
Elrich S
Ohlsson_ S
Miller S
Ellebracht
Parker
Taffera S
Ohlsson
Clement
Parsons
Elrich
Taffera
Miller
Cummings
DeWitte S
Shafter Press
Clinton Johnson
Mike Allen
Sr. High & Jr. High
Pilgrim Fellowship
Bible Fellowship
E. Tulare Ave
Owen C. Onsum
West Coast
San Francisco
Edward Keating
Atherton
Ramparts
Keating
Kipp Dawson
al Richmond
Peoples World
Bettina Aptheker Kurzweil
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Harry Bridges
National Lawyers Guild
International Painters Union
Santa Clara County Labor Council
University of Chicago
Marie
Susan Savio
Staughton Lynch
Herbert Aptheker
Bettina
King Cotton
First Southern Baptist Church
Dexter C.ogan
Buel Mouser
Training Union
Horace Womack
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