Paul Wesley Unruh 16 Dies in Cayucos Car Crash
Funeral services for Paul Wesley Unruh, 16, of Shafter will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Mennonite Brethren Church Shafter. He died Saturday night in a head on collision near Cayucos. Burial at Shafter Memorial Park. Survivors include his parents Waldo and Esther Unruh and brothers Jerry Dick Tim. Paul was active in Maple Scouting earning Eagle and God and Country Award 1963. He attended Wasco High School and Maple School and was Senior Patrol Leader at the Valley Forge Jamboree 1963. Honorary pallbearers from Mennonite Brethren class. Agee Funeral Home Shafter in charge. Memorials to Paul Wesley Unruh Fund or Pacific College Fresno.
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Henry Dick
Mennonite Brethren Church
Shafter
Paul Unruh
Madera Ave
Cycacos
Shafter Memorial Park
S G d Bob Nikkel
Lowell Bergman
Janeyne
John Waldo Unruh
Esther Hiebert
Maple School
Paul
Wasco High School
Maple
Valley Forge
Waldo Unruh
Jerry Unruh
Hawaii
Guam
Navy Airforce
Dick Unruh
Hillsboro
Kansas
Tim Unruh
Lillian Unruh
Anna Hiebert
Kenneth Rell Unruh
Ross Shafer
Paul Wesley Unruh
Cayucos
Stanley Gaede
Leonard Gaede
San Luis Obispo Hospital
Morro Bay
William Lachenmaier
Kenneth Bergman
Bryce Carroll
Jeff Cutherll
Tom Garber
Jim Goertzen
Dan Harder
Delbert Janzen
Richard Kopper
Don Nikkel
Stephen Penner
Douglas Reimer
Robert Long
Agee Funeral .Home
Southern Sierra Council
Boy Scouts of America
M Street
Bakersfield
Pacific College
Chestnut Avenue
Fresno
Richland District Faces Teaching Shortage and Insurance Issues
Richland District discusses eight teaching vacancies and insurance concerns at a Monday night board meeting. Superintendent Bruce Crawford reports Kern County Elementary shortages exceed 100, with nineteen districts seeking relief under a five year credentialing plan. State Board committee to decide by September 22 on grant eligibility amid talks with Senator Stiern.
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Richland
Bruce Crawford
Senator Stiern
Kern County
State Board
Stiern
Richland “District
Shafter Temperature Peaks at 102 Amid Heat
Shafter saw a high of 102 with lows near 83 and only five degrees variance for the week. Moisture was minimal with trace amounts on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. The Shafter Cotton Research Station provides the area’s report as heat remains nationwide. The district added two teachers Dennis Harison and Ruth Wedel, with shop and remedial reading roles. The board warned that shop and home economics could be cut if vacancies persist. Earl Bender from Roberts Insurance attended the meeting.
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Shafter
Shafter Cotton Research Station
Dennis Harison
Ruth Wedel
Earl Bender
The
Roberts Insurance Company
Shafter Public Utility District Keeps Rate, Budgets Adjusted
The Shafter Public Utility District set a $204,064 spending plan for the coming year, up $13,364 from last year, while keeping the 50 cent rate steady. Projected income of $159,234.56 leaves a $43,830 shortfall, though district funds exceed $272,184 in special and general funds. Capital outlay totals $66,330, with long term facility upgrades underway. The board approved the 1966 67 budget reflecting $60,000 from real estate sales and reviewed fire, earthquake, Title 1 funds, and building inspections. Roland Toews was arrested on a Bakersfield warrant and held for questioning.
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Shafter Public Utility District
PTA
Recreation League
Govering School
Henry Voth
Jay Atkinson
W. B. Camp, Jr
Ambulance Contract Awarded in Lompoc Area
Kenneth Kelley and Bob Townsend win a contract to operate Community Ambulance in the Lompoc area on a rotating basis. Eleven bids were submitted with Santa Barbara County Sheriff backing the firm for its experience.
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Kenneth Kelley
Bob Townsend
Lompoc
Community Ambulance
Kelley and Townsend
Santa Barbara County
Shafter Man Aids Indians In Dental Care Mission
G Glenn Rusk, a Shafter dental student, joins 44 Loma Linda University faculty and students leaving August 2 to provide medical and dental care in Chiapas Mexico. The group travels by truck and pack animals to set up clinics near the Guatemala border, offering free care to thousands of patients each year since 1957.
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Loma Linda
G. Glenn Rusk
Loma Linda University
Mexico
Rusk
Chiapas
Galen J. Rusk
Colegio Linda Vista
Guatemala
Edu
Eee
Afm
Bill Mills Serves In Outfit In Vietnam
Army PFC Billy D. Mills aged 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Mills of Shafter, was assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, on July 21. He entered the Army in January 1966, trained at Fort Bliss, last stationed at Fort Benning, and is a 1964 Shafter High School graduate who attended Bakersfield College.
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Bien Hoa
Vietnam
AHTNC
Army
Billy D. Mills
H. B. Mills
Acacia Street
Shafter
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Fort Bliss
Tex
Fort Benning
Mills
Shafter High School
Bakersfield College
Tribute to W. M. Hitchcock at Kern Chamber Banquet
The Kern County Chamber of Commerce honors W. M. Hitchcock for years of community service and leadership as president. The event, held October 27, 1936, features tributes from local business and civic circles.
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W. M. Hitchcock
Kern County
Services Are Conducted For CWO Kinkeade
Funeral services were held for Chief Warrant Officer Ronald J. Kinkeade at 1 p.m. Friday in Tehachapi. The pilot died in Vietnam on July 20 when his gunship helicopter was shot down and crashed. Military honors were given by Camp Irwin officers. honorary pallbearers included Major Griffin Marr and CWO Loren Helbig.
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Conger
Ronald J .95
East D St
Tehachapi
Viet Nam
Owen Onsum
Benjamin Capanas
Clayton Bowser
Camp Irwin
Griffin Marr
CWO
Loren Helbig
Kinkeade
Shafter
William Rugg
Airman Herbert Loewen Begins Photo Specialist Training
San Antonio California based Airman Herbert S. Loewen son of Mr and Mrs Herbert H Loewen of Shafter has been selected for technical training at Lowry AFB Colorado as a U S Air Force photographic specialist. He completed basic training and is part of the Air Training Command which runs numerous courses to supply technically trained personnel for the nation’s aerospace force. Loewen graduated Wasco Union High School in 1962 and attended Bakersfield College.
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San Antonio
Tex
Herbert S. Loewen
Herbert H. Loewen
Fresno Avenue
Shafter
Lowry Afb
Colo
U. S. Air Force
New
Air Training Command
Loewen
Wasco Union High School
Bakersfield College
Dentist Office Ransacked Safe Stolen, Shafter Police Report
The office of Dr. Robert Bongberg was broken into Friday night by Shafter police. A bathroom screen was removed and a window opened. The office was ransacked and the safe carried away. Police are investigating.
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Robert Bongberg
Shafter
Kern County population up by more than forty-six thousand
The Board of Trade reports Kern County population at 338 600 as of July 1, up from 291 984 in the 1960 census. Planning estimates show 214 530 in unincorporated areas and 124 070 in incorporated areas, with Bakersfield containing about 188 750 residents. Projections anticipate near half a million by 1980 and possibly about a million by 2000.
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Kern County
U. S
Board of Trade
Kern County Planning Commission
California
Butte
Humboldt
Merced
Napa
San Luis Obis
Jack Dalton
Bakersfield
Greater
San Joaquin Valley
Kern
Taft
County Planning Core
Arvin- Lamont
Buttonwillow
Delano-McFarland
Ridgecrest
China Lake
Kern River Valley Area
Shafter Area
Tehachapi
Wasco Area
Edwards Air Force Base
Mojave
Rosamond
Greenfield - Panama
Rosedale
Mettler Urges County Budget Cut To Curb Taxes
Orvin Mettler of Shafter told the Kern County Board of Supervisors to honor election promises and guard against inflated tax bills. He highlighted the extraordinary rise in agricultural assessments this year.
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Orvin Mettler
Shafter
Kern County Board of Supervisors
Mettler
Hurst Family Plans California Convention Trip
Russell Hurst of Shafter leads a 61 member Jehovah s Witnesses delegation to the San Francisco Candlestick Park assembly August 3 to 7. Up to 55 000 attendees from the Western States will gather for religious meetings stressing unity and family values. A separate note reports an attempted break in at a Shafter concrete pipe site over the weekend.
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Russell Hurst
Shafter
Hurst
Hafter Congregation of Jehova’s Witnesses
San Francisco
Candlestick Park
Jehovah’s Witnesses
California
Jehovah's Witnesses
Breakin
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Paul Wesley Unruf
Leonard Gaedes
Shafter-Wasco
Maple Leaf Enterprise
Man
Roland Toews
Earl O’brien
Bryan White
Toews
Sheriff's Office
Shafter Man
Bill Mills
Outfit
Jack Sherrell
Harold Olson
Ray Wiley
Recreation Direc
Tor
Back Row
Verlene Henry
Kathy Boggs
Virgie Moten
Pam Siemens
Arold Olson
Eddie Watts
Leeda Stark
Phyllis Sherrell
Lota Sherrell
Lavine Sherrell
Frank Wisner
Shafter Future Farmers
Los Angeles
Alvin Roberson
Ray Poston
Louis Starr
Jim Bobst
Charles Sponger
CWO Kinkeade
Ronald J. Kinkeade
Herbert L. Loewen
Herbert Loewen
Shafter Concrete Pipe
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