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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1970
Page
3
August 11 1965 front page notes Richland Budget approved and lunch prices raised. Features include Shafter Chamber banner presentation by Joe Frizell and Dick Southwick, Rotary president Dr O G Ohlsson, and Project Head Start year end report.
August 10 1960 notes Supreme Air owner manager Leon Pitts and lists scouts Mark and Dale Siemens Buddy Engle John Enns Jr Rodney Becker Larry Bartel and Fred Gaede at the Boy Scout Jamboree in Colorado Springs. It also reports engagements Brenda Ballard to Burley Dooley Jr and Nancy Engle to James Kliewer, Barbara Wroten’s bridal shower, a Barbara Wiens and Wilbur Nikkel wedding, and a photo of a lawn decoration with a 1960 Chevrolet wagon won by Mert Wiedmann driven by Deanna Toews.
Funeral services for August D. Mettler 89 were held Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Ebenezer Reformed Church Shafter with Rev Calvin Stuebbe officiating. Burial followed at Shafter Memorial Park. Mettler born July 15 1881 in Menno SD died August 7 in a Shafter convalescent hospital. He farmed in Shafter after moving to California in 1932. He is survived by son Ernest Mettler Rupert Idaho. daughters Magdalina Alexander Shafter and Henrietta Hauck Rupert Idaho. six grandsons two granddaughters and 15 great grandchildren. pallbearers included Jerome Mettler Layton Weidenbach Raymond J Mettler Marvin Weidenbach Allen Zenk and Edwin Bender.
Richland Elementary School seeks used clothing for grades K through 8. A Student Welfare Clothing Drive runs from Monday August 10 to Friday August 15 with drop spots at Safeway and Top's, then distribution to two school clothing rooms. Contact Al Thompson at 746 2975 or deliver to 301 West Ash.
California to honor two million seniors at the California State Fair on Tuesday August 25 with free admission and a Gay 90 Revue in vaudeville style. Executive Director Charles W Skoien Jr cited senior friendly arrangements including free parking for bus groups and rental wheelchairs. Contacts for act submissions listed along with information booths staffed by the Sacramento Volunteer Bureau.
Vandals gained entry to the Richland Elementary School upper grade building through an open window and forced entry to a ballpoint pen dispenser. They took pens valued at one dollar and three dollar coins.
Cal State Bakersfield announces a fall term extension program to start after September 1 at the Stockdale Highway campus. Courses in art chemistry education English geography history humanities psychology and religious studies will run ten weeks meeting one night a week for three hours with three unit credits. Tuition is 12.75 per quarter unit.
Two male juveniles were apprehended by Shafter police on suspicion of stealing a tire rim and two hubcaps from a pickup truck owned by Pedro Garza Jr at 240 East Marengo.
Police seized two suspects after a theft report. A 1962 red Rambler sedan and two individuals, Manuel Aragon and Mary Aragon, were arrested two miles west of Freeway 99 near Lerdo Highway. They were booked on suspicion of theft following a morning incident on August 7.
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