Residents in 18th District favor extending youth vote
A Kern and Kings counties questionnaire led by State Senator Walter Stiern shows 53.1 percent support extending the vote to 18 20 year olds for state and local elections while a majority backs balancing the state budget without tax increases even with school and environmental cutbacks. Voters favor limiting welfare and elder care spending to hold taxes, while 72.9 percent support job programs for the unemployed. Only 26.9 percent support public employee strikes, and 56.5 percent back liberalized abortion laws. Continued on Page 4.
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Kern
Kings Counties
Walter Stiern
Mercury Dips Slightly in Shafter After Heat Wave
Week ending August 16 in Shafter shows high of 108 and low of 57 recorded at the USDA Shafter Cotton Research Station. Temperatures edged down over the weekend as sunshine returned and conditions cooled from early-week extremes.
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Shafter
USDA
Ground Broken for Self-Help Dwellings in Shafter
Ground breaking Sunday afternoon marked the start of a low income housing project in Shafter. Self-Help Enterprises sponsors eight homes financed by the Farmers Home Administration. The Garcia lot at 340 S Valley hosted the ceremony with Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Garcia and Mrs. Marjorie Griswald welcoming attendees. Father Bernard Burke of St. parish officiated.
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Llo
Hastings
Pentecostal Church of God
S. Valley
Shafter
Bernard Burke
San Mateo
St. Therese’s Catholic Church
Francis J. Pointek
Farmers Home Administration
Pedro Garcia
Garcias
Marjorie Griswald
Rotary Governor and Wife Honored at Dinner Tuesday
Shafter Rotarians and their wives hosted a pot luck dinner at Club President Mrs. Mert Wiedmann’s home to honor District Governor and Mrs. Larry Lyles of Visalia. About 50 attendees marked the district governor’s official visit and luncheon at the Shafter Motel. Lyles praised the club’s 700 percent Rotary Foundation contributions, scholarships to Shafter High School, and youth programs. The evening included a club assembly, plans for the year, and a push to send a large delegation to the District Conference in Visalia. A separate ceremony at Therese’s Catholic Church featured housing project speakers and a benediction by Rev. Hastings.
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Shafter Rotarians
Mert Wiedmann
Larry Lyles
Visalia
Shafter
Lyles
Rotary
Shafter Club
Rotary Foundation
Rotary International
Shafter High
Wiedmann
Mary Lyles
E. B. Stringham
Rotaryanns
L. M. Hastings
Pentecostal Church of God
Shafter Rotary Club
Governor Lyles
Shafter High Announces Sept Seven Start and Staff Changes
Shafter High School sets September 7 to begin the 1971 72 term with an 8 35 a m opening assembly led by Principal Jordan Kanikkeberg Then students receive program cards and report to classes Changes include Neal Olsen as assistant principal directing instructional programs with feeder schools buildings grounds and classified staff Dan Bledsoe becomes Dean of Pupil Services Richard Froehlich named Director of Attendance Activities and Adult School Ed Janzen to be full time freshmen sophomores counselor and head basketball coach Two new teachers Karen a 1971 Cal State Bakersfield graduate will teach sophomore English and Journalism Joaquin Patino a Fresno State College graduate will teach Industrial Arts and Arts Crafts and head C foosball coach A new off campus continuation school will open with three full time teachers including Walt Senior as director and Maxine Rosenberg added to staff A dress code shift to California Education Code guidelines takes effect and the district aims to limit a five period day with some sixth period excusals and optional late bus service Details on math and other program changes to come.
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Shafter High School
Jordan Kanikkeberg
Neal Olsen
Dan, Bledsoe
Richard Froehlich
Ed Janzen
Karen
Bakersfield College
Cal State Bakersfield
Joaquin Patino
Fresno State College
Shafter Fligh School
Shafter Continuation
Walt
Maxine Rosenberg
University of Michigan
Strangrer
Services for Ed Johnston Held Friday
Edwin B. Johnston, 48, of 515 Calloway Street Shafter died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday of last week. He was buried Friday at Shafter Memorial Cemetery after funeral services at First Southern Baptist Church in Shafter. A World War II veteran, he had worked for Thompson Trucking Company eight years. He was born June 29, 1923, in Keefeton Oklahoma.
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Edwin B. Johnston
Calloway Street
Shafter
Shafter Memorial Cemetery
Mr. Johnston
Los Angeles
Thompson _ Trucking _ompany
Roberts Jane
Bakersfield
Thompson Company
First Southern Baptist Church
Shafter T Yiday
Ralph L. Gardner
Keefeton
Oklahoma
Brazilian coffee nematodes threaten industry and research adaptation
Brazil faces an economic crisis from Coffee Root Knot Nematode infestations across large coffee areas. Sergio Monteiro Curi, visiting Shafter from Campinas, studied treatment methods with Dr. C. Jorgenson at the U.S. Cotton Research Station. Nematodes, tiny root parasites, reduce yields and can kill plants, prompting soil fumigation and breeding resistant coffee varieties as Brazil considers costly chemical options amid export dependence on coffee.
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Brazil
Sergio Monteiro Curi
Campinas
Sao Paulo
Shafter
United States
Curi
U.S
Fc. Jorgenson
Jorgenson
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Institutio Biologico
E. C. Jorgenson
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Jon David Raven
Dave Raven
Air National Guard
Fresno
Dave
Stockton
Jon
Emil
Jack) Frost
Board of Trustees
Ed Johnston
Edwin Johnston
Shafter Research Center
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