Cotton Advisory Committee Names Sub-Committee Members
The Shafter Station Cotton Advisory Committee heard five subcommittee reports from 1963 research and set 1964 work, naming Leslie Doan of J G Boswell as new chairman. Eleven growers and industry figures will join, replacing five terms, with focus on breeding disease resistant strains, nematode resistance, fertility and irrigation, and rapid dissemination of findings. A tour of Shafter Research Station preceded the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Station
Leslie Doan
J. G. Boswell Company
Corcoran
Don Camp
Kern County
Ron Allen
Fresno County
Mario Curti
Tulare County
John Dennis
Gene Egan
Producers Cotton Oil Company
Victor GrayPani
Charles Gilkie
Kings County
C. Shannon Harris
Clarence Jones
Mendota
Bob Mortimer
Madera
Jack Stone
H. ©. Trembly
Farm Bureau Shifts Meeting Day in Kern County
President Robert L. Smith announced that Kern County Farm Bureau Board and Executive Committee meetings move from the first Thursday to the third Thursday of each month. He said the change improves administration and continuity by allowing Farm Centers to meet earlier in the month before the board session, a move the board overwhelmingly supported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Smith
Kern County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Smith
Farm Bureau
Kern County
Siemens on Trip To Santa Clara
Mr and Mrs Ernest Siemens took a quick trip north to Santa Clara with their son Brian on a school holiday to break in their new Corvair Mouza. They visited Mrs Siemens brother and family Walter Frantz Dar lene and Kelly Benke and talked with Mrs K G Neufeld who remains in Los Gatos Community Hospital recovering from a hip fracture and hopeful to return home to Shafter soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brian
Ernest Siemens
Santa Clara
Siemens
Walter Frantz
Darlene
Kelly Benke
K. G. Neufeld
Los Gatos Community Hospital
Life Memberships Awarded at Richland PTA Meeting
Bruce Crawford Richland School superintendent announced Honorary Life Memberships at the Richland School PTA meeting last Tuesday evening. Recipients were Laura Hare and Leo Schmidt both active with the school. Hare taught 13 years Schmidt a bus driver mechanic with 22 years service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Crawford
Richland School
California Congress of Parents and Teachers
PTA
Laura Hare
Leo Schmidt
Irish born council candidate Burley Dooley seeks Shafter seat
Burley Dooley, born in Ireland Texas and raised in Ceres and Modesto, with a long career in agriculture education, announces his run for the Shafter City Council. He highlights teaching posts in Nevada Pleasanton Shafter and leadership roles in Future Farmers of America Lions Kiwanis and Rotary while aiming to serve the city and understand its government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burley Dooley
Ireland
Texas
California
Ceres
Modesto
California Polytechnic College
San Luis Obispo
University of Nevada
Reno
Cal Poly
Nevada
Pleasanton
Shafter High School
Agriculture Department
Future Farmers of America
Shafter Lions Club
Kiwanis
Rotary Clubs
John
Scout Building Committee
Fresno State College
Annette
Bakersfield College
David
Dooley
Shafter
Kansas State fellowship awarded to Lorin Neufeld
Lorin Neufeld son of Mr and Mrs Oliver Neufeld 709 East Orange has been awarded a three year National Defense Education Act fellowship for graduate work in chemistry at Kansas State University Manhattan Kansas He is a 1960 Shafter High School graduate and will graduate from Tabor College with a chemistry major this spring The fellowship provides stipends of 2000 2200 and 2400 for the three years totaling 6600 He has been named to Who s Who in American Colleges and Universities and served as laboratory assistant instructor in chemistry and the physical sciences at Tabor College
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorin Neufeld
Oliver Neufeld
East Orange
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Kans
Neufeld
Shafter High School
Tabor College
Tabor
Incomplete Books List with Mixed Nonfiction Titles
A read-through of assorted books includes fiction by Tolkien and Shulman plus numerous non fiction volumes on self help driving teaching and history. The list presents diverse authors such as Harman Peale and Gardner with many titles yet ends abruptly with Always the.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harman
Peale
Frank
Wisconsin
Gard
Carrington
Prudden
Gotjahn
Kikler
Halsey
Brockwell
Letermah
Wood
Erlich
Karpin
Leibling
Galbraith
Silverberg
Mexico
Simon
Rodahl
Cooper's Creek
Moorehead
Bolitho
Motion Picture in Open Forum Series
World traveler Phil Walker presents an all color motion picture with commentary on Switzerland in the Bakersfield Open Forum spring program. He details Zurich St Gallen Engelberg Appenzell Lugano and St Moritz with Alpine travel scenes and a balloon flight over the Alps to Italy. No admission charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Walker
Switzerland
Bakersfield
New Library Shipment Due at Shafter Branch
Next regular shipment of books will arrive at the Shafter Branch Library on March 3. Authors listed include Sandburg Windham Madariaga Bryan, with titles Emblems of Conduct Spain The Sword Over the Mantel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandburg
Windham
Spain
Madariaga
Bryan
Shafter
Easter Seals Aid Reaches Kern County Families
Bakersfield area Easter Seals program aids handicapped men women and children through Kern County Society for Crippled Children and Adults, affiliate of California and National Easter Seal groups. Last year 373 local families served and statewide efforts exceeded 25 000 crippled children and adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersfield
John Fuller
Shafter
Kern County Society For Crippled Children
California Society For Crippled Children
National
Easter Seal Society
California
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. M. Blankenbeckler
Fresno
Kenneth Frick
Karl Schneider
J. G Boswell Company
C. R. Shannon
Harry Thompson
Ed Anderson
Fred Addicott
University of California At Davis
Harry Baker
Kay Blair
Cotton Department of California Farm Bureau
John P. Benson
Burton Davies
Barney Hullman
Nat Hudson
Agriculture Extension Service
Davis
Russell Kennedy
Calcot, Ltd
Seldon Morley
Frank Rayburn
Coachella Valley
Lloyd Shimer
Firebaugh
Robert Smith
Wayne Weeks
Miller and Lux
San Francisco
Dean
Selma March
Shafter High
Carolyn Jackson
Tina Araujo
Mrs March
Used Car Sale
Radio & Heater
Plymouth
Richland
Chevrolet
Oldsmobile
Don
Central Ave
Council
Kansas State
Reilly
Seager
Shulman
Stewart
Matecumbe
Taylor
Tolkien
Shafter Press
United Cigar
E.O.M. Sale
Sadie Hawkins
New Spring
Daisy Mae Didos
Continental Pants
Oxfords
Department Store
DERBY
Hitchcock
Auto Parts
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