Dodgers end losing skid with 7 6 win over Cubs
Dodgers snap their longest skid of the season with a 7 6 victory over the Chicago Cubs to hold a 2 1/2 game lead over the Cincinnati Reds. Jim Murray slams the Dodgers in a morning column as the team faces a downturn and a potential fall. Kern County promotes tourism with a new Visitor's Guide highlighting Buttonwillow Shafter Buena Vista and local attractions and airports.
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Philadelphia
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Los Angeles
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Murray
Shafter Sees First Sub-90 High in Weeks
Cooler weather brings relief to Shafter residents as Monday highs reach 86 degrees at the USDA Cotton Research Station. The week ending Monday records overnight lows between 54 and 64 degrees with July 12 showing a 89 degree high.
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Usda Cotton Research Station
Points of Interest and Visitors Guide promotes Kern County tourism
The Kern County tourism push releases a newly updated Points of Interest and Visitors Guide aimed at growing a fifty million dollar yearly industry. The brochure highlights more than 100 items with an artist map and thumbnail sketches of landmarks sports and recreation sites. Board of Trade President David Parker notes the folder fits in a standard envelope and will be distributed widely through regional visitors councils and agencies.
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Kern County Board of Trade
Kern County
Board of Trade
David Parker
Arraignment Set for August 27 in Cotton Gin Case
Nine Kern County grand jury indictments name Roy Bradley Euel Kindig Otis Page and six others from Wasco Buttonwillow Terra Bella and related gins. They face charges of conspiracy to commit grand theft over three years for illegal sale of remnant or short fibre cotton.
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Kern County Grand Jury
Wasco
Buttonwillow
Roy Bradley
Euel Kindig
Albert M. Leddy
Lare
Ken R. Bundy
Hanford
Luton
Fresno County
Joe Pesika
P&f Cotton Co
Don Donato
Kern Lake
Farmers Cooperative Gin
Troy Tuttle
Pismo Beach
Delano Ligour
Conrad W. Garner
Earlimart
Delano
Pesika
Donato
Ralfi
Oliver Robinson
Bakersfield
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Robinson
Record year in sight as Shafter issues permits total tops
Shafter builds toward a record yearly permit value with 1974 on pace to surpass prior marks. July permits add 55 253 to the year total of 1 420 842, nearing the 1955 record of 1 534 759 while June’s 756 000 leads a strong spring run.
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City Hall
Telephone lines severed during highway widening project
Workers cutting curbs on Central Valley Highway damaged underground telephone lines, disrupting Shafter police and banks for seven hours. Teletype and bank alarms failed, water pressure dropped as pumps halted, and officials had to restart pumps manually until Pacific Telephone crews reconnected lines the next morning.
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Fred Rappleye
Continental Electric
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Shafter Avenue
Lerdo Highway
Public Works
Lewis Carroll
Corporation
Carroll
Pacific Telephone
California
Local 4-H Girls Shine At San Rafael Guide Dog Field Day
Kern County 4-H Guide Dog Club members hosted and trained guides at the San Rafael Field Day where nearly 200 dogs and young handlers demonstrated obedience under distraction. Chandra the black Labrador trained by Caroline Nicol impressed officials, earning a TV interview and invitations for future puppies.
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Guide Dog Club
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Guide Dog Project
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Kelly Hayes
Laura Horn
Julie Horn
Kern Counly
Guide Doge For the Blind, Inc
Shafter
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Loyd Link
Wayne Sexton
Chuck Franklin
Harry Ralfi
Tri-Growers, Inc
Terra Bella
Kern Guide Dog Club
Ernest Schaffer
Ally
Wayne Horn
Eric
Kenneth Nicol
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