Shafter Tower Guide to Be Razed amid City Debates
A visiting publicist recounts Shafter’s unique water tower as a navigational landmark, notes plans to demolish the structure, and questions local motives while praising the city’s history and layout. The piece shifts to a Bakersfield trip, detailing a visit to the Kern County Fair and its admin office, led by Helen Bates and Cy Allen.
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California
Sacramento
Bakersfield
Kern County
Helen Bates
Cy Allen
Bates
Kern County Faces Enrollment Surge With 110000 Projection
County Superintendent Harry E. Blair predicts more than 110000 students will be enrolled based on last spring attendance, population growth, and factors like the 1970 opening of California State College at Bakersfield and the California Water Project. He notes possible growth to over 122000 in five years and cites local districts already expanding from 78 to 113 students in Lost Hills Union School District.
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Richland School
Ruth Searcy
Evelyn Little
Harry E. Blair
Blair
California State College
Bakersfield
Taft College
California
Feather River
Lost Hills Union
Lost Hills Enrollments Highlight Growth After Water Supply
The article notes Lost Hills enrollment steady at 61 in 1964 as Kern County anticipates population growth from new water supplies. It cites Bakersfield College 10 583 spring enrollment Taft College 1 048 and districts Bakersfield City 24 359 Blake 10 Kern Joint Union High School District 23 974, with planning implications for future educational facilities.
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Lost Hills
Kern County
Blair
Bakersfield College
Kern High School District Adopts Revised Dress Code
The Kern High School District board approved a new dress and grooming code based on student and staff recommendations and recent court decisions. It outlines acceptable attire and grooming, including skirt length for girls and hair standards for boys, and requires students to be neat and clean on entering school.
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Kern High School
Schoo
Kern High School Adopts Dress and Grooming Rules
The Kern High School board directs staff to enforce a new dress code citing court rulings that staff act in loco parentis during school hours. Girls may wear dresses or skirts with blouses. minimum skirt length is mid-thigh. footwear required. rules ban revealing or very tight clothing and beachwear. Boys should wear properly fitted suits or jackets with shirts and slacks worn at the waist. specific details cut off in available text.
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Board of Trustees
Shafter City Council Chases Salary Schedule Bugs
City officials grapple with a new salary plan adopted last July 1. A 5 percent request from City Clerk W H Johnston was curbed to a ¼ percent hike as council members seek guidelines for department head raises. Fred Ward and Bob Nixon urged a formal policy during the Monday session with more discussion set for the next meeting.
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W.H. Johnston
Johnston
Fred Ward
Kern County Employes Association
Ward
Bob Nixon
Assis
Will Moir Joins Staff of Shafter Baptist Church
Will Moir is named Minister of Education at the First Baptist Church in Shafter under Rev. Edward Rhoades. He assumed duties June 1, 1969, after graduating from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland. He will oversee all church education programs for children, youth and adults.
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First Baptist Church
Shafter
Edward Rhoades
Western Baptist Seminary
Portland
Ore
Moir
Eugene
Oregon
University of Oregon
Dallas Theological Seminary
Western Seminary
Kern and
Pacific
Shafter Man Killed in Two Car Crash
Shafter farm machinery salesman Troy D. Hardwick 48 died after his 1969 Chevrolet pickup ran a stop sign at Main Drain Road and Lerdo Highway. Joseph V. Silva 34 of Wasco was hospitalized in Bakersfield in serious condition after the collision near Buttonwillow.
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Shafter
Joe Silva
Main Drain Canal
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Troy D. Hardwick
Joseph Vincent Silva
Wasco
Niagara Chemical
Buttonwillow
Main Drain
First Baptist
Memorial Park
Silva
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
California Highway Patrol
Lerdo
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