Shafter H. C. Hight Expands Town Store and Theatre
The column notes H. C. Hight’s bold town improvements in Shafter including purchasing his store building expanding it acquiring the State Theatre building and land beside it. A modern corner building and a top parking lot are in place. Community leaders urge watching welfare reform and youth opportunities. The piece contrasts inflation politics with local progress.
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Shafter
H. C. Hight
State Theatre
Japanese Art Exhbits Sail to Kern County Fair
Eleven cases of Japanese art screens perfume fur niture and other items from Wakayama Japan arrive on the Tenzan Maru for Kern County Fair Bakersfield. Highlights include 29 Koh Inagaki paintings and 30 Keizan Sengoku calligraphy works on long sumi scrolls.
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Kern County
Bakersfield
California
U.S.A
Wakayama
Japan
Moto
Wakayama Fair
Koh Inagaki
Keizan Sengoku
Allen
Shozo Ujita
Wakayama City
Ujita
Bellows longtime Shafter firefighter laid to rest
Wes Gershing notes the funeral for Bellows a Shafter Volunteer Fire Department member since 1952 and former training captain 1962 63. He survived by wife Louise son David and daughters Donna Susie plus siblings and five sisters. Organist Bet ty Page singers and pallbearers drawn from the Shafter Fire Department. Mish Funeral Home in Shafter hosted services. Bellows worked at Richland Chevrolet and Garlatz Motor Co as a car mechanic.
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Wes Gershing
Bellows
Shafter Volunteer Firemen
Louise
David
Florida
Donna
Shafter High School
Susie
Richland
Jack Bellows
Roy Bellows
Shafter
Mish Funeral
Richland Chevrolet and Garlatz Motor Company
California Farms Lose Count Yet Grow Outputs 1966
California reports 86 000 farms in 1966 down from 144 000 in 1950 while total field crop fruit nut and vegetable tonnage rises from 26 million to 37.3 million tons as average farm size expands from 267 to 440 acres. National trend mirrors California with fewer larger farms due to mechanization.
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San Francisco
California
Council of California Growers
Statistical Reporting Service
U. S .Department of Agriculture
U. S
Local Church Camp Meeting Draws Area Residents
Maple residents Mrs. P. T. Wall and Mrs. C. C. Duerksen attended the Seventh-day Adventist annual camp at Soquel with Kelley Inghram and Kenny Ingham. Delegates from Detroit and international visitors joined talks by notable speakers including Elder William Fagal and the Voice of Prophecy team. Mrs. Wall noted large crowds required hearty meals and Kelley planned to stay longer. Wilburn Ingham of Sacramento, recovering after surgery at Loma Linda, plans to visit soon.
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Maple
P. T. Wall
C. C. Duerksen
Soquel
Detroit
William Fagal
Voice of Prophecy
School Board Warned on Possible Criminal Liability
California school boards face potential criminal liability if pre 1933 buildings are not inspected for safety. CSBA President Clayton Record urged boards to check Field Act compliance after a July 1966 legal opinion and advice from Insurance counsel. Richland Board already inspects its music building. likely minor structural issues found by engineer.
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Sacramento
California
Clayton Record
California School Boards Association
CSBA
Association
Irving G. Breyer
Long Beach
Richland Board of Trustees
Street Parade of Morro Bay Event Highlights
Highlights of Morro Bay Rock O Rama Labor Day weekend include a street parade with the Bakersfield Motorcycle Drill Team returning, new Saddlelites from Santa Maria, Shrine Clowns from Tehran Temple, and the Legion of Honor 22 with color bearers. Spectators will see San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Posse horses, Morro Creek Indians, Goshen Mounted Police, and multiple bands and drum corps.
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Morro Bay
Bakersfield
Saddlelites
Santa Maria
Shrine
Tehran Temple
Legion of Honor
San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Posse
Los Ranchos
Hazel Jordan
Morro Creek Indians
Goshen Mounted ‘Police
San Luis County
Ballard School
Amvets Jr
Santa Barbara
Morto Bay
Army Privates Complete Guerrilla Training at Fort Polk
Army Private James Lee Baker and Private James E. Grange completed 13 weeks of advanced infantry training at Fort Polk Louisiana. The program included a week of guerrilla warfare simulation under Vietnam era conditions with raids, ambushes, and evasion drills. Trainees learned booby trap removal, small unit tactics, map reading, land mine warfare, communications, and fired the M 14 rifle M 60 machine gun and 3 1 2 inch rocket launcher. Bakersfield relatives are listed as next of kin.
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Fort Pulk
AHTNC
James Lee Baker
Mary E. Baker
E. Euclid
Shafter
James E. Grange
Karen
Fort Polk
Vietnam
Baker
Lee J. Bak
Ernest E. Strange
Strange
Shellabarger
Bakersfield
State Board Finalizes Utility Assessments After Cuts
The State Board of Equalization denied 37 utility protests and cut 142 000 from Feather River Railway as it gears for shutdown. The board set a 4.63 billion total assessment for 191 privately owned utilities and prepared a separate roll for 34 cities. Shafter property valued at 853 240 for 1966 67 taxes. The 34 city utility assessment totaled 248 million, up 1.8 million from 1965.
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State Board of Equalizaton
John W. Lynch
Feather River Railway
Oroville Reservoir
Nouncing
Shafter
Lynch
Snow Irrigation Supply seals valves with rustproof packing
Snow Irrigation Supply Co. promotes Snow Round Rubberized Packing that prevents rust and leaks, asserting its Snow Gates and Valves are the only valves with these exclusive features for rust resistance and reduced packing ROT at their concrete pipe yard.
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Snow Irrigation Supply Co
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Shafter Press
Wellmesday
Brown
Shafter Recreational Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Elaine Schellenberg
Jennie Hill
Randy Hills
Donnie Allen
Shafter Pool
Rick Cooper
Jim Brown
Jerry Willis
Janis Hill
Kern Fair
Alfred Okamoto
Wakayama Press
Surugaya Co
Suroku Sugahara
Wakayama Shinbun
Cy Allen
Oka
Albert Goode
Kern
Wahlen
First Southern Baptist Church
Buel Mouser
Mearming
Pastor
Dexter C.ogan
Training Union
Horace Womack
J.C. Wells
Pres. Brotherhood
Flint
East Lerde
Fort Baker
Jay B. Raney
Melvin R. Russell
Bth
U.S. Army Air Defense Command
Raney
6Th Region
Anna N. Raney
Central Valley Highway
San Jose
Fuk
O. W. Fillerup
The
Imperial Valley
Kern River
Kings River
Supt
Evron Barber
Army
New York
Leon H. Reich
Thyr
Californie
Snow Gates
Church of Christ
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