Automobile Safety Check Sponsored by Shafter High Students
Shafter High School auto mechanics students sponsor an on campus safety lane check on Monday March 9 under supervision of Captain Devens of the California Highway Patrol and Chief Witcher of the Sh after Police Department. Kenneth Taylor, instructor, leads program development. Vehicles must pass inspection or repair defects before campus use. Checks follow Vehicle Code requirements including brakes lights wipers glass and hazards. No citations issued. Focus is safety and accident prevention.
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Shafter High
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Devens
California Highway
Chief Witcher
Police Department
Kenneth Taylor
Department of Motor Vehicle Code
Shafter High School
Wayne Trammell
Jim Eichman
James Webb
Shirley Kendrick Wins County Oratorical Contest
Shirley Kendrick won the Real Contest held February 16 at the Hall. Shirley Hammond and judges Katie Kienike Jeff McCarty and Clyde Dykes officiated. The American Legion sponsored the event and sent the winner to Delano to compete with county students.
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Shirley Kendrick
Fe 16
Hall
Shirley Hammond
Katie Kienike
Bakersfield
Jeff McCarty
Fellows
Clyde Dykes
The
American Legion
Delano
Gas Company To Present Awards In Kern Division Dinner
Southern California Gas Company veterans will be honored at a March 5 Kern Division service recognition dinner at Stockdale Country Club Bakersfield. Employees reaching 15 20 and 25 years will receive awards with gold watch recipients joining the 30 Plus Club now at 27 members. A B Newby division manager reports milestones achieved in 1958 and will host the event.
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Southern California Gas Company
Kern Division
Stockdale Country Club
Bakersfield
Kern
A. B. Newby
Blackburn
Newby
Supervisor Woolomes Attends Chamber Luncheon
Supervisor Roy Woolomes and Mrs. Schnaidt attended a Chamber of Commerce luncheon Monday at the Shafter Motel hosted by Clara and Johnny Schnaidt.
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Roy Woolomes
Clara
Johnny Schnaidt
Chamber of Commerce
Shafter Motel
Schnaidt
Enrollment Up 700 Students in Kern High District
The Kern County Union High School and Junior College District reports enrollment exceedance of 700 students over last year. The fifth month total daily attendance averages 15 873.25, up 730.69 from the prior year. Trustees add two probationary teachers and plan further hires for next year.
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Kern County Union High School
T.x McCuen
Red Cross Drive Sets March Campaign Across Kern County
The Kern Chapter prepares a month long Red Cross drive for March with a city wide one day event on March 21. Volunteers will canvass all communities in Bakersfield area soliciting donations in buckets in exchange for membership cards window stickers and lapel pins. The chapter highlights services including first aid courses nurses water safety disaster relief aid to servicemen families and junior Red Cross programs.
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Kern
Red Cross
Bakersfield
The
Local Kern County Library Branch Adds Wide New Book Selection
The Shafter Branch Library reveals new fiction titles by Capote Carr Clarke Conroy Corbett and more along with non fiction works by Ashmore Banning Anne Frank Diehl and others. A March 4 1959 shipment will replenish shelves with travel history poetry and guides for readers.
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Kern County Free Library
Ny’s
Capote
Carr
Carrington
Clarke
Conroy
Eve Christopher
Corbett
Dumas
Feuchtwanger
Tom Jones
Fielding
Gardner
Heinlein
Hoyle
Hill
Dixie
Ashmore
West Point
Banning
Carrighar
Coast Guard Academy Engeman
Craven
Diehl
Estes
Ewing
Anne Frank
Gillespie
United States
Goodman
Griffis
Ladies’ Home Journal
Halsey
Joad
Lord
Leckie
Lederer
Neider
Nourse
Popular Mechanics
Rawliss
James Whitcomb Riley
Latin America
Rippy
Navy
Robertson
Shattuck
Stobart
Szabo
Russia
Soviet Union
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Doug Allen
Nile Street
Freewill Baptist Church
Richland St
Pioncher
South Shafter
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Don Farris
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