Shrine Potato Bowl Sept 17 tickets on sale now
The Pageant is set for September 17 with reserved tickets available at the Shrine office, 1920 18th St in Bakersfield. Hours are 9am to 4pm weekdays, plus Saturdays 9am to noon starting Sept 1. Demand is high after last year’s sellout, with a top football game and halftime show planned.
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18Th St
Bakersfield
Fairview
Buzz Wassung
Emil Reed
Ernest Hunter
Shrine
Hunter
Fall sports talk and a math puzzle closes week
Fall season chatter surfaces with football and World Series talk. A reader explains the solution to a geometry puzzle about a cow pen area, using a mix of circular shapes and the pi value 3.1416 to arrive at 11 781 square feet, with plans for a five dollar prize and future contests.
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Peggy
Dr. Ohlsson
Five Local Future Farmers To Exhibit at State Fair
Five Shafter High School Future Farmers of America members are displaying eight steers at the California State Fair in Sacramento. Leaders Elliott Garrison and assistant advisor F. F. A. supervisor oversee the group as they travel from Shafter on Monday and return September 4. The steers will be judged Friday September 2 after weeks of grooming, training, and record keeping. The same animals will later be shown at Kern County Fair and sold at the Bakersfield livestock auction.
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Gordon Kirschenmann
Saxon
Gordon
Shafter High School
Kern County
Peggy
Future Farmers of America
Sacramento
Larry Compton
Tom Cross
Kenneth Mebane
Don Palla
Elliott Garrison
Shafter
Bakersfield
Fire damages apartment in early morning blaze
Shafter volunteers were alerted at 3 36 am to a fire at 219 East Lerdo in an Everett Mann apartment. Tenant Mr Fladland had left. smoking embers in a sofa cushion spread to bed walls and ceiling, causing about 800 dollars in damage before firemen contained it with ten responders.
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Shafter
East Lerdo
Everett Mann
Fladland
Nine New Teachers Added To Shafter High Staff
Shafter High opens with approximately 900 students and a 48 member faculty including nine new teachers. Clyde T. Allen teaches English and Speech. Allegr a Anderson Biology and General Science. Carol Armstrong English. Ben E. Batey Biology. Yvette Ernaga French and Girls Physical Education. Claude L. Gilbert boys physical education and coaching. Anna Lovelace Office Practice and Typing. Joyce Mickley Girls Physical Education and swimming coach. Jim D. Wood World Geography and U.S. History. Classes begin Tuesday with 8:30 a.m. student reporting and preliminary registration completed in spring.
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Shafter High School
Clyde T. Allen
Allen
San Jose State College
Syracuse University
U.S. Air Force
Mr. Allen
Allegra Anderson
Wyoming
Anderson
University of Wyoming
Wayne's University
Detroit
Carol Armstrong
Pennsylvania
Miss Armstrong
Mt. Holyoke College
South Hadley
Massachusetts
University of Edinburgh
Radcliffe College
Cambridge
Ben E. Batey
Mr. Batey
Vanderbilt
George Peabody Teachers College
Yvette Ernaga
Ernaga
France
East Bakersfield Haligh School
Bakersfield College
U.C.L.A
J.V
North Carolina
Anna ‘Lovelace
Shorthart
Miss Lovelace
Atlantic Christian College
Wilson
Nashville
Tennessee
Joyce Mickley
Miss Mickley
Illinois
Denver University
Jim D. Wood
Oklahoma State University
U.S
Mr. Wood
First Football Practice to Be September 1st at Shafter High
Shafter High School announces varsity and B team football begin practice on Thursday September 1 with the varsity in Room 17 at 7 20 am and the B team at 3 00 pm. C team starts the first week of school. Players need a physical and signed consent card. First 1960 game at North High on September 23 then Arvin the following week. home opener versus South High on October 7.
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Jim Wood
North High School
Arvin
South High School
Beos
Youth for Christ Barbecue Draws 25 Teens from Churches
A group of 25 youths from First Baptist Church joined the third annual Youth for Christ barbecue at a Marietta ranch on August 26. Jake Kliewer drove the church bus and Mrs. George Lave served as chaperone. Teens from Fresno to Bakersfield arrived for swimming volleyball and relaxation on landscaped grounds. A Fresno Youth for Christ program directed by Rev. Bufford Karraker featured The Four Flats with music and skits and speaker Ken Poure. Bakersfield Shafter area participants were organized by Rev. Mole Cole.
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First Baptist Church
Marietta
Imsmar
Jake Kliewer
George Lave
Fresno
Bakersfield
Sherman Thomas
Fresno Youth For Christ
Bufford Karraker
Ken Poure
Mole” Cole
Swedish exchange student Marta Nordenfelt arrives in Shafter
Marta Nordenfelt, a 16 year old from Ronneby Sweden, arrives to live for a year with the Clarence Neuman family as an American Field Service exchange student at Shafter High School. She speaks fluent English and will take six senior year classes while joining the Girl Scouts and school choir.
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Marta Nordenfelt
Sweden
Marta
Ola Neuman
American Field Service
Shafter
Ronneby
Clarence Neuman
Shafter High School
California
Girl Scouts
Kern County Sets General Tax Rate At $2.20
Kern County supervisors approved a county general tax rate of 2.20 per 100 of assessed valuation. They also set 18 cents for road maintenance and 32 cents for structural fire protection. The move ends fears of a larger April tax increase as hearings begin on the county budget showing the general rate five cents higher than 1959-60 and lower than early estimates.
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Kern
Student to Attend Stevens College This Fall
One student from Shafter will attend Stephens College in Columbia Missouri this fall when classes begin September 19. The message notes the student is Vee a Jacobsen daughter rebelt Amando Mannel Ave.
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Shafter
Stephens College
Columbia
College For Women
Jacobsen
Rebelt
Amando Mannel
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New York
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Allen Zenk
Harvey Gaede
Central Valle
Erat Milia
Shaffer
Wdpee
Stevens College
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