Shafter Plans Summer Recreation Program Growth
City recreation director Verle Heller outlines the 1971 program launching mid June with baseball for boys and softball for girls. Hudson park improvements and potential night play with lights aim to boost participation, aided by Public Works labor savings. Continued on Page 6.
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Shafter
Verle Heller
Hudson Park
Rodriguez Park
City Public Works
Lewis Carroll
Heiter
Helter
Carroll
Public Works Department
Tragic Shafter family buried after Minnesota crash
Patricia Darlene Shore 25 and her three sons Joel 4 David 2 and Paul 1 were buried in Shafter after a car truck collision near St. Paul Minnesota on April 12. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. at Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church with Rev. Dan E. Friesen and Rev. Henry H. Dick officiating. The widowed husband Rev. Mark Shore serves as pastor in Galesville Wisconsin. Survivors include her husband, parents, siblings, and grandparents. Burial arrangements were handled by Agee Family Funeral Home of Shafter.
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Shafter
St. Paul
Minn
Shafter’s
Memorial Park
Patricia Darlene Shore
Joel
David
A Paul
Shafter Mennonite
Dan E. Friesen
Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church
Henry H. Dick
Fresno
U. S. Mennonite Brethren Conference
Shore
Mark Shore
Berean Baptist Church
Galesville
Wis
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Bakersfield
Richland
Shafter High School
da Col- la’ Mirada
Durango
Colo
Dove Creek
Watertown
Maranatha Baptist Bible College
Gale
E. Tulare
Waldo Unruh
Klassen Construction Company
Don Klassen
Jim Klassen
Richland School Board Rehires Staff for 1971 72
Richland Elementary School will offer contracts to current teaching staff for the 1971 72 year after board action at a regular meeting. The board accepted the resignation of Donald F. Wilkinson and waived retirement age to allow Mrs. Rheba Ummel to continue another year. Enrolment stood at 1835, up 59 in two weeks, with talks of adding staff to meet rising enrollment.
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Richland
Richland Board of Trustees
Donald F. Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Rheba Ummel
Ummel
Evron
Barber
Varied Weather Pattern Across Shafter Week
The Shafter area saw a mixed weather week with rain squalls gusty winds and hail. Four days of precipitation totaled 0.50 inch while temperatures ranged from 39 to 80 degrees with soil temps 54 to 64 degrees at the USDA Cotton Research Station.
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Shafter
Usda Cotton Research Station
Lions Club Races Draw Big Crowd Near Shafter
Despite threatening weather the Shafter Lions Club charity event at Joe O’Brien Stables drew 800 to 1,000 people from Kern County and beyond for six races and a pit barbecue dinner. Joe O’Brien flew in from Toronto to race, winning with Fresh Yankee at Torontos meet and driving Head quarters to open race victory for Gerald Mason of Grand Rapids.
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Joe O’brien
Shafter Lions Club
Yellow Knife
Glen Holt
Lions Club
Stan Cook
Shafter
Bill Hildebrand
Kern County
Charles Dodge
Bakersfield
Don Hart
Bill Ketchum
Jim Paul
Bob Mathias
Joe O'Brien
Los Angeles
Toronto
Canada
Joe
Fresh Yankee
O’brien
Lions
Gerald Mason
Grand Rapids
Mich
Artist’s Palette
Armstrong Bros
Brampton
Ontario
Don Beitlich
Sara Lane Hanover
Turn Your Clock Ahead Saturday For Daylight Saving
The notice warns readers to advance clocks one hour on Saturday night April 24 as daylight saving time begins. It emphasizes waking up early on Sunday to avoid being late for church and a distracted boss on Monday. It also notes clocks will return to standard time in October, restoring the lost hour.
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Key Club
Block Sclub
Shafter
Frank Wisner
Corporation Yard
Wisner
Woman’s Liberation Movement
Reconsideration Hinted For Buena Vista Recreation Area Funds
About five million dollars in state money for the Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area in Kern County is being held in Sacramento. Assemblyman William M. Ketchum says the State Water Commission will withhold the funds until November 1 to allow Kern County supervisors to reconsider halting the project between Taft and Bakersfield.
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Buena Vista
Sacramento
Kern County
William M. Ketchum
Paso Robles
State Water Commission
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Bill Plummer
Bill Salamada
Greg Wilcoxon
Tom Bolin
Kiwanis Club
Charles van Blair
Lew Carroll
Public Works
Jerry Schmidt
Lso
Shafter Improvement Council
Mrs
Patricia Shore
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John Siemens
Bank of America
John Peters
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