Shafter History Highlights Side Note 1971 Chronology
Series opens with a January 1971 recap of Shafter events including Hemingson’s store president election, new school superintendent, Citizens of the Year, and city plans. February discusses a fatal crash, earthquake, and early March political race updates. April notes potato harvest gains, school board elections, a charity race, and the end of railroad passenger service in the San Joaquin Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hamilton
Hemingson
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
John Fabric
Bruce Joppins
John Leonard
Jack Colvard
Millard la Grange
Bob Gilbert
Bob Lewis
Bob Bann
Bud Johnson
Robert Milwee
Emil
Jack) Frost
Richard Garber
Kern County
Shafter
Edison
Thomas Almberg
Richland
Joe O’brien
Shafter Lion’s Club
Stan Cook
San Joaquin Valley
Santa Fe
San Francisco
Shafter Receives Cigarette Tax Share in August Allocation
State Controller Kenneth Cory announced August cigarette tax distribution totaling 8,416,177 to counties and cities. Kern County received 60,122 and Shafter 2,428. The eight counties’ share was 1,538,353 and the cities’ share totaled the remainder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Cory
Kern County
Shafter
Early Education Debate Sparks Donahue Show Satire
On the Donahue program a commentator argues delaying schooling to age ten would derail life milestones and threaten emotional development, predicting mothers left to raise delayed ailing children would appear as 70-year-old audience members in the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Donahue
Deisnd Tarepe
Gossamer Albatross set for Pomona Fair display
The Gossamer Albatross, Bryan Allen’s heavier than air craft that crossed the English Channel in two hours forty nine minutes to win a 200000 prize, will headline an aeronautical exhibit at the Los Angeles County Fair Pomona September 14 to 30. The exhibit, curated by Ralph Hinds, will also show the film To Fly and include flight related features plus a possible joint appearance by Allen and Paul MacCready. Allen, born Visalia, is a cyclist and hang glider, six feet tall and 137 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Allen
English Channel
Los Angeles County
Pomona
Ralph Hinds
Smithsonian Institute
Hinds
Allen
Paul MacCready
England
Henry Kremer
Royal Aeronautical Society
France
Visalia
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Jeannette Wheeler
Vernon Witcher
Highway 43
Wasco
Evron Barber
Frank Wisner
The
Shafter Press
Audrey Leigh
Chamber of Commerce
H.W
Pat
Kelly
Central Avenue
Santa Barbara Savings and Loan Association
Paul Wilson
Highway 99
Los Angeles
John Revell
Bill Eslick
Tom Almberg
Wasco Valle
la Nueva Mexicana
James Street
7Th St
Robert & Son Auto Parts
Central Ave
Fane Wines & Liquors
Central
Wasco Art Gallery
JO Anderson Mon
Hwy
Dave Mongold
Yamaha
Black Oak
Habla Espanol
P. T Wasco
St. Wasco
Stringham’s
Areus
Citrin Chiropractic Life Clinic Inc
Central Valley
Lerdo
Tire Service
Shafter Flower & Gift
Calif
Jamses Street
Shafter Cigarette
Shafter Church OF the Nazarene
West Lerdo Highway
Harold C. Thompson
Blytheville
Arkansas
Arch of the Nazarene
Aring
Shevices
Black & Decker
Black & Decker Vie
TYLO
Vaughan
Sera
Sandvik
Damond
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