Shafter News Highlights and Front Page Items
Front page items include Shafter Church voting to leave the United Church of Christ and a $2.5 million aqueduct project in California. Burglars take $700 at Bayless, Brown Chemical Plant preps for operation, and a big illness in the community with golf and social notes. Also covered are a Kiwanis gift presentation, a Taiwan letter, and school events. California wild turkey hunting results are reported by the DFG.
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Neumans
Shafter Marketing Association
Shafter Church
United Church of Christ
California Aqueduct
Bayless
Brown Chemical Plant
Generals To Launch Cage Campaign On Friday
Shafter High School basketball coach Pat Wennihan faces a inexperienced 1968 69 General squad with only two returning lettermen Larry Antoniovanni and Mitchell Jones and a host of new players. Wasco Taft and Garces loom as tough non league foes as Shafter targets improved balance and a press heavy defense despite lacking a star player. The JV and C teams will signal future prospects under coaches Steve Richardson and Richard Froehlich.
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Liam Cessrat
Delano H Schoo
Pat Wennihan
Wennihan
Taft
Arvin and
Garces
Sid Unruh
Rich Houghton
David Freeborn
Shafter
Bakersfield College
McFarland
Ram
Steve Richardson
Richard Froehlich
Bucks
Pheasant Season Opens Across California on Averages
The 1969 opening weekend of California pheasant season on public lands was rated average, near last year’s pace. Sut ter National Wildlife Refuge, Gray Lodge, and Honey Lake led with about one bird per hunter. Across 10 reporting areas, 0.37 bird per hunter from 1 910 roosters by 5 175 hunters.
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California
Department of Fish and Game Reports
Sutter National Wildlife Refuge
DFG
Gray Lodge and
Honey Lake Wildlife Areas
Sutter
Honey Lake
Gray Lodge
Pigskin Blood In Their Veins Shafter Men Form Volunteer Chain Gang
A group of Shafter men volunteer as the Shafter High School football chain gang during home games. Members include Roland Grisham Elmer Anderson Dick Larson Don Zachary Joe Turner Billy Gladden and Bill Banks. They work gratis on varsity and junior varsity games and often help coaches during the season ending Wasco Shafter game. Van Blair directs the crew as athletic director.
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Roland Grisham
Shafter Drug
J. .Bid Banks
Kern County
Shafter
Don Zachary
Richard Larson
Nan
An Gladden
Elmer Anderson
Joe Turner
Shafter High School
Sa Cs
Turner
Banks
Eogangers
SHS
GANC
Dick Larson
Billy Gladden
Chuck van Blair
Bill Banks
Wasco-Shafter
van Blair
Commission To Set 1970 Angling Rules In California
California's 1970 sportfishing regulations to be set by the Fish and Game Commission at a Sacramento meeting Friday December 5. President James Y. Camp said the session starts at 9 a.m. in the Resources Building auditorium. Proposals include year round trout season on central lakes and reservoirs and a uniform five fish limit near urban areas with seasonal shifts for larger reservoirs. A plan would curb heavy take of tide pool species by closing tidal areas in state parks beaches and reserves to tidal invertebrates except sport shellfish.
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California
Fish and Game Commission
Sacramento
Commission
James Y. Camp
Shafter
Resources Building
Ninth Street
Memorial Hall Holiday Display And Sale Event
Talk of the Town invites shoppers to Memorial Hall at James and California for a Friday evening and Saturday daytime sale with booths and dining. Steve Garber reports a near brush with a nighttime misread as a break in, a sheriff’s warning and police patrols highlighting local vigilance.
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Memorial Hall
James
California
Steve
Res overwhelms Santa Barbara City College 49 to 0
Bakersfield College Renegades routed the Vaqueros 49 to 0 at BC Stadium in the first round of state junior college playoffs. Six former Shafter High players saw action including running back Tim Robnett who left the field with a knee injury, while Fullerton advanced to face BC in Anaheim Stadium.
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Shafter High School
Mtair
Bakersfield College Res
Barbara City College
Fullerton
Grossmont
San Diego
Balboa Stadium
Renegades
BC Stadium
Santa Barbara City College
Tim Robnett
Carr
A. Robnett
Shafter
Will Meeeree
Shaf
Ex Shafter Gridders Honored on Metro Conference Team
Three former Shafter High players now on Bakersfield College made the 1969 Metropolitan Conference honors led by Tim Robnett on first team. Jerry Engle and Jeff Warren earned second team and honorable mention respectively as 23 Renegades receive mentions. John Tarver and Larry, Blalock, True, and Cagle scored TDs with Preston perfect on extra points as the Renegades beat Bakersfield 7 0 in the opening period and 14 2 in the final.
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Shafter High
Bakersfield College
Tim Robnett
Jerry Engle
Jeff Warren
John Tarver
Renegades
Larry
Gades
Blalock
True
Cagle
Ted Preston
Welcome to the Shafter High wrestling squad features
The Shafter Press previews the 1969 70 wrestling team coached by Darrell Fletcher with weekly photos. Kal Matis leads JV coverage and Scott Larson reports varsity results. Jim Janzen a junior 133 pounder, Lee Janzen a returning 120 pound letterman, and Leo Herrera a tough 140s competitor are profiled with family details.
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Shafter
Darrell Fletcher
Shafter Press
Shafter High
Kal Matis
Hds
Scott Larson
Jim
Lee Roy Janzen
Lee
Leo
Leo Herrera
Delano Opens SHS Wrestling Season With Friday Home Match
Delano hosts Shafter in the season opener Friday December 5 as head coach Darrell Fletcher calls it a question mark season. The squad adds five returnees and several newcomers, aiming to fill gaps left by players like Danny Black and Jim Brown as Wasco Taft and McFarland loom as rivals.
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Delano
Darrell Fletcher
Danny Black
Jim Brown
Wasco
Leo Herrera
Robert Cruz
David Kadel
Tom Hill
Johnny Moore
Woody Colvard
John Romero
Phil Fraley
David Cloare
Wayne Forbes
Robert Stowell
Cain Ma
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Ben Grundy
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Arthur Johnson
Johnson
Kiwanis
Battle For the Valley
Tehachapi Warriors
Mountain City
John Lachenmaier
Africa
Department of Fish and Game
Bill Plummer
Talk of
the Town
Steve Garber
The
Vaqueros
Jer
Jan Stuebbe
Jim Janzen
Fletcher
Tigers
Kalman Miis
Allen Cates
Nicky Templeton
Johnny Gomez
Raul Reyna
Anton Affentranger
Forbes
Stowell
Cruz
Herrera
Abair
Janzen
Robertson
Channeson
Moore
Kadel
Romero
Hil
Hwt
Fraley
Boroughs
Foothill
Corcoran
Tulare
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