Shafter Library Offers Films, Magazines and More for Residents
The Shafter branch of Kern County Library invites residents to check out prints for six weeks at no charge and to use conference rooms for groups. Free Friday films run 3:30 to 4:30 with 16mm and 8mm formats, and rare magazines including Playboy are available to readers over 18.
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Shafter
Kern County Library
Ken Spencer
Spencer
Total Library
Thes Library
Jriuge
American Baby
Sports Illustrated
Playboy
Deszine
Life
Shafters Branch
Albury
Wasco
Spencer New
Shafter Library
Pioneer Shafter rancher Emil C. Eckmann dies at 94
Funeral services set for 7 p.m. Wednesday at Union Congregational Church Shafter. Eckmann, aOSU agriculture graduate, worked as a soil scientist and farmer who co developed fertilizer use for potatoes in the Shafter area. He chaired local farming groups and helped found the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District. Survived by son James Eckmann and daughters Joan Ryan Florence Huston Claramee. Donations suggested to Rotary Foundation.
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Shafter
Emil C. ‘‘ Ann
Union Congregational Church
Owen C. Onsum
Hillcrest Memorial Park
Ohio State University
Department of Agriculture
California
Lawrence Teylor
Farm Bureau
Sun Maid Raisin Growers
Rotary Club
Wasco Cotton Co-op
Associated Farmers
Kern County
California Cotton Co-op
Shafter - Wasco
Bakersfield
James
Clark
Gable
Barbara
Stanwyck
Harpo Marz
Te Eckmann
Joan Ryan
Tia Florence Huston
San José
Claramee
Arizona
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Rotary
Shafter Rotary Club
Census Bureau to survey area employment this January
Suhrey and local representatives of the Bureau of the Census will conduct a survey of employment in the area during the work week of January 17 22. C Michael Long, Director of the Bureau in Los Angeles, announced the study for the U S Department of Labor. The scientifically designed sample covers about 70 000 U S households. Employment data will gauge the nation’s economic health and monitor trends.
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Bureau of the Census
C. Michael Long
Bureau
Los Angeles
U.S. Department of Labor
United States
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Council Denies Warner Cable Rate Increase in McFarland Session
The McFarland city council unanimously rejects Warner Cable Company rate hike requests despite assurances of FCC standard compliance. Officials also form a crime reward fund with $300 initial, approve a subsurface oil and gas lease with Tenneco, and authorize equipment purchases for refuse collection and planning, plus a reviewing contract with J R Narwitz Co.
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Warner Cable Company
K. L. Tryggestad
Kern County
McFarland
Delano City
Pat Wilson
Shafter
Bakersfield
Warner
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
William Cummings
Tryggestad
Loyd Link
Earl’“O'brien
Tenneco Oil Company
Richland
Tenneco
William Sheldon
Russell R. Goff
Natwitz’ Company
Lawsuit Filed Over Arrest in Shafter
Ricky and Pamela Manning sue the City of Shafter chief of police and several officers in a second month of litigation alleging false arrest related to a spring break-in at Colvard’s Family Furnishings. They seek over 750000 from city and county.
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Shafter
Ricky
Pamela Manning
Colvards Family Furnishings
Manning
Shafter Police and Task Force Nab Local Heroin Suspect
Shafter police and the Kern County Narcotics Task Force conducted a two phase operation ending with the arrest of Whitbey on heroin selling charges. Sergeant E. C. Williams assisted in serving warrants and the suspect allegedly sold heroin to undercover agents.
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Shafter Police
Kern County Arcotics Task Force
E. C. Williams
Shafter Police Department
Whitbey
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J. R. Narwitz Company
Verl Nash
Planning Commission
Robert Lasiter
Kern County Fire Department
Doug Wagner
Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District
Central California Continal Justice Planning Board
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