Way We Were: Shafter honors and local notes from 1963
Twenty years ago April 17 1963 First Sergeant Balthazar M Lopez Shafter’s Korean War hero was named grand marshal for the Sixth Annual Potato and Cotton Festival. The Shafter American Legion gifted the city its barbecue pits. Architectural sketches for Shafter City Hall awaited council action. Pioneer Queen Dean Potter highlighted the Golden Anniversary. Easter sunrise services drew about 150 worshippers in City Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balthazar M. Lopez
Shafter
Nevada
Grand Marshall
Shafter American Legion
Dean Potter
City Park
R. Jackson Scott
Richland
State Council of Education
California Teachers Association
Asilomar
William Darrel Tracy
Buttonwillow
John Cauzza
Hazardous EDB Spray Incident Near Farm Ground
An A C A Company worker exposed to the herbicide EDB on April 13 1983 when a hose leaked on a spray rig. He donned protective gear, then the hose burst spraying chemical on him. He shut the valve and flushed himself with water at a nearby location.
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A.C.A. Company
Amador
German cousins visit Shafter after 200 letters
Peter Toews of Espelkamp Germany visited his cousin Marie Enns in Shafter marking the first family visit since 1891. From March 25 to April 9 the visitors toured local relatives and the Santa Cruz area while ongoing correspondence highlighted family history and visa hurdles across decades.
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Peter Toews
Espelkamp
Germany
Marie Enns
Shafter
Enns
Toews
Tina
Christina
Dietrich
Frank Enns
Regina Becker
Rosella Petker
Jake F. Bergen
Wesley Bergen
Ennies
Santa Cruz
J. Bergen
Wasco
J.E. Bergen
Russia
United States
Henry
Mr. Bergen
Johann Toews
Bergen
Mrs. Enns
Canada
Mennonite Central Committee
Reedley
West Germany
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Jeanette Wheeler
Jordan Kanikkeberg
Shafter High School
Foothill High School
Bakersfield
Leota Adams
Francis Barulich
Alene Parsons
Louis Wolfe
Tupman Road
Richland School District Board of Trustees
Jane Zachary
American Legion
Phoenix
Arizona
Ernest Siemens
Kern County Board of Education
Larry Frey
Highway 15
Bob Harrison
Buttonwillow Recreation and Park District
Donna Harrison
Julianne Searring
B & E Insulation of
Virginia Rivera
Southern
California
Conservation Council
Veterans Hall
Shafterman
Ott
McMahan
Orson
CM. S Furniture
Mes
Consee
Golden State Ave
Secretaates
Clara
Central Avenue
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