Shafter Generals Eye Title Bid in Reorganized League
Coach Merv Huston builds a 34 man squad with 12 lettermen and 18 junior varsity movers as Shafter aims to repeat in the South Sequoia League. Returning standouts include Turner and Chicca with new talent from Buttonwillow and Monache. The team faces Arvin on Sept 14 and joins Wasco Taft Garces Coalinga Corcoran in a reorganized league setup.
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Merv Huston
Shafter Generals
Shafter
David Nash
David Thompson
Generals
David Turner
Tony Pino
Nash
Frank Torrigiani
Pino
Torrigiani
Santa Barbara
Jerry Mejia
Terry Chicca
Terry Altman
Albert Mena
Glen Sliter
Anthony Taffera
David Wiley
Phillip Brown
Brown
Doug Berkshire
John Cauzza
Ron Janzen
Terry
Hime Bunting
Buttonwillow
Les Peters
Monache
Porterville
Tim Williams
Mike Camp
Husky
Arvin
Huston
Wasco
Taft and
Garces
Coalinga
Corcoran
Seventeen Man Seismic Crew Searched Shafter for Oil
A seventeen man seismic crew operated in the Shafter area last week seeking oil and natural gas. Geophysical Service Inc supervised the effort with data to be sent to Texas Instruments in Houston for analysis and drilling location pinpointing. The Friday search occurred on Seventh Standard Road near south Shafter over 2 1/2 miles.
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Shafter
Geophysical Service, Inc
Texas Instruments
Houston
Texas
Seventh Standard Road
South Shafter
Terry Seaman Assumes Minister Post at Shafter Church
The Shafter Church of Christ on 850 Minter announces 29 year old Terry Seaman as local minister and notes the retirement of Homer Gifford who served as interim minister for an extended period. Seaman’s prior postings included Lamont Ogden Utah Tracy and East Bakersfield.
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Shafter Church of Christ
Minter
Terry Seaman
Homer Gifford
McFarland
Seaman
Lamont
Ogden
Utah
Tracy
East Bakersfield
Shafter and BW Landfills to Close Earlier
County Public Works Director L Dale Mills announced landfills near Shafter and Buttonwillow will close one hour earlier starting September 1. After that date hours will be 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The fall schedule runs until November when winter hours take effect due to shorter daylight.
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County Public Works
L. Dale Mills
Shafter
Buttonwillow
Temperature Drops to the Low 50s Across Week
The article notes a week of cool weather with temperatures dipping to the low 50s while residential air conditioning units saw little use. It also mentions a temperature record at the USDA Cotton Research Station near Shafter.
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Usda Cotton Research Station
Shaf
Police Building Plan Accepted Bidding Procedures Studied by Council
Shafter City Council discussed a new Police Administration Building and a copier for the department. Xerox presented model 660 copier options with leasing at 60 dollars monthly or 3600 to purchase. Bidding procedures remain unresolved while Wicco advances plans and a price estimate, with a later vote expected.
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Shafter
Vicco Construction
Police Administration
Steve Hickerson
Wicco Construction
Hickerson
al Mortimore
Mortimore
Wicco
Don Diamond
Xerox Company
Diamond
City Firemen Use Abandoned House for Training Fire
On Saturday morning at 30348 Los Angeles Street, volunteers and paid firefighters used an abandoned structure for a controlled training exercise. They planned to ignite one room at a time and extinguish each blaze before the house burned down, but difficulties arose during the practice.
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Clifford Ratzlaff
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Street
Shafter Fire Department
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Jack) Frost
Shafter High School
Shafter & BW
Mary Snater
Fresno Avenue
Carlyon Davis
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Vicco
Council
Police Department
Hanley Witcher
Ben Grundy
League of California Cities
San Francisco
Bill Banks
Grundy
South San Joaquin Valley
Lampman and Associates
Lampman
Kiwanis
Harlin Wilson
Larry Wheeler
Ken Wright
Legion Hall
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