Patch the Pony safety program aims to curb child molesting
The Shafter Play Center and Shafter Junior Women's Club present The Legend of Patch the Pony to teach kindergarten and first grade children safety rules. The program includes a color filmstrip and songs, posters, a Patch lapel button, and home read material to reinforce lessons amid broader warnings from officials about child molesters.
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Shafter Play Center
Shafter
Patch
Pony
Joey
Patch Gal
Angri
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Alfred Betti
Patch the Pony
Shafter Junior Women’s Club
Luncheon Hosts and Thirteenth Birthday Party Report
Mrs. Bud Barton hosted a Friday afternoon gathering with relatives from Bakersfield and Pawhuska Oklahoma. Twins Sandra and Susan McWhorter celebrated their thirteenth birthday with 16 guests, prizes awarded to Pam Watkins and Susan, and two brothers helping serve.
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Bud Barton
Carl Carter
Pawhuska
Okla
Barton
Frank Summers
Frank Jones
Bakersfield
Sandra
Susan McWhorter
Darriel Te Whorter
Pam Watkins
Susan
Butch McWhorter
Chris Spon
Installation Set for Board of Directors at Assembly of God
officers elected at the church annual meeting include Darriel McWhorter Lawson Ford and Cecil Hight with Herma Hight named secretary treasurer Rev J W Collins pastor The installation ceremony will be held Sunday January 24 following the January 12 board election and meeting
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Assembly of God
Darriel McWhorter
Lawson Ford
Cecil Hight
Herma Hight
J. W. Collins
Newlyweds Del Ke Feted At January Reception
A reception on January 13 honored Mr. and Mrs. Charles Del Ke following their January 7 Las Vegas wedding. The bride, Oralenelmore, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orel Lismore of Shafter. the groom is son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Del Re of Bakersfield. Guests included family from Bakersfield and Shafter, with gifts sent by relatives in Shafter and Bakersfield.
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Charles del Ke
Oralenelmore
Orel Lismore
Walnut
Shafter
Las Vegas
Nev
Robert del Re
Ivan Ave
Bakersfield
Dennis
Margie Imore
Doyle Cole
Greg
Benny Nearn
Jack Maxberry Shafter
Hazel Coffman
Robert del Re, Jr
Shafter High
Bakersfield College
South High
Anlot Hie
Maison Jaussaud
Alpha Kappa Chanter Sets Sweetheart Luncheon on Feb 8
Sorority president Mrs. Marshall Unruh announces Alpha Kappa Chapter of Phi Epsilon Phi will hold its annual Sweetheart Luncheon on Monday Feb 8 at Shafter Memorial Hall. The event funds local philanthropic projects and supports cancer research with $68 420 28 donated to date.
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Marshall Unruh
Alpha Kappa Chapter
Phi Epsilon Phi Sorority
Shafter Memorial Hall
Phi. Fpsilon § Phi
Alpha Kappa
Camp Fire Girls
American Field Service
Rainbow Haven
Childrens Home Shelter
Shafter Convalescent Hospital
Shaftery
Mrs. UN
Shafter Junior Women Plan Charities and Events Schedule
Shafter Junior Women’s Club led by Mrs. Collins hosts guest Crosby California health official and announces a Feb. 6 Delinquency Prevention Youth Conference in Los Angeles. Members donate to Penny Pines and Pennies for Art, support POW letters and a Jan 28 Mothers March, rubella clinic Feb 3, Heart Association coffee Feb 2, and a Feb 20 Sequoia District meeting in Shafter with 13 clubs attending.
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Collins . Crosby
California State Health
Shafter Junior Women
William Prout
Ken Clark
California Federation of Women’s Clubs
Los Angeles
Farmers Insurance Building
California
Shafter
Kenneth Handel
Shafter High School
March of Dimes
The
Heart Association
National Association For Retarded Children
Sequoia
Engagement of Janice Neuman Announced
Mr and Mrs E V Neuman of Shafter announce the engagement of their daughter Janice Pauline Neuman to Ronald Kelley Martin of Indiana The bride elect graduated from Loma Linda University School of Nursing in 1968 and serves as First Lieutenant in the Nurse Corps at Scott Air Force Base Illinois The fiance attended Indiana University before his Air Force service He is employed in St Louis Missouri The couple plans a June wedding in San Pablo where the bride elects parents now reside
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E. V. Neuman
Shafter
Janice Pauline Neuman
Ronald Kelley Martin
Indiana
Loma Linda University School of Nursing
U.S. Air Force
Scott Air Force Base
Illinois
Indiana University
Air Force
St. Louis
San Pablo
Miss Irene Tilley Named Chairman of Scholarship Dinner
Shafter Business and Professional Women's Club opened the year with a meeting at Mrs Don Christensen home. Dr Leonard Duck presented slides on Japan. The group announced the Central District Winter Conference in Bakersfield January 24 25. The Mexican dinner fundraiser will be February 18 with Miss Irene Tilley as chair. A January 21 dinner meeting was hosted by Leota Adams.
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Shafter Business and Professional Women’s Club
Don Christensen
Art Stepp
Leonard Duck
Japan
Don, Little
Bakersfield
Freddies Town House
Shafter
Irene Tilley
Veteran’s Memorial Hall
Leota Adams
Claude New III Celebrates Sixth Birthday at Home
Claude New III son of Mr and Mrs Claude New of 330 E Tulare Ave celebrated his sixth birthday Sunday Jan 3 at home. Guests included Kelley Jack Matt Leonard Janey Baves Claude s sister Debbie and grandmother Susan New. Father filmed the party and cake Ice cream and punch were served. The cake made by Mrs New featured a winter scene with snow grass pine trees and a road with miniature cars and trucks along the road.
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Claude New III
Claude New
E. Tulare Ave
Helpi Pereeeese
Kelley Jack Matt Leonard
Janey Raves
Claude
Mrs. Dave Anderson Reappointed District 4 Chairman in Shafter
At the District 4 Leaders Association meeting in Shafter on January 15 at 9 30 a m Mrs Dave Anderson was named chairman. Guest speaker Bob Bloom from Bakersfield Camp Fire Council discussed budgets enrollment and programs noting Shafter has 160 members and Kern County 3000. He explained district representation meetings staffing and local funding where dues fund the National Council while local groups raise candy sales and short term programs. Jan Ganong from Bakersfield assisted and answered questions from members.
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Dave Anderson
District 4 Leaders Association
Shafter
Kern County
Bob Bloom
Camp Fire Council
Bakersfield
Camp Fire and
Blue Birds
Buttonwillow
Bloom
Camp Fire
National Council of Camp Fire Girls
Jan Ganong
District 4
Camp Fire Leaders Association
Shafter Birth Announcements Share Family Details
Dustin Doyle, first child of Mr. and Mrs. Oyle Key of Shafter, arrived January 18 weighing 6 pounds 12 ounces and 20 inches long. Mother Penny Packard. paternal and maternal grandparents named. extended relatives listed. Elena Marie, first child of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wigfhs of Redondo Beach, born January 8 weighing 7 pounds 6 ounces. Grandparents listed. great grandparents noted from Shafter Whittier Enid Oklahoma and other locations.
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Dustin Doyle
Oyle Key
Shafter
Penny Packard
Roy Packard
Vern Allen
Floyd Rector
Packard
Ray
Op Shafter
Gordon Wigfhs
Redondo Beach
Elena Marie
Lillian Unruh
Nettie Wiens
Whittier
Isaac Regier
Enid
Okla
Abe Sperling
Surprise Bridal Shower Fetes Miss Giesbrecht
Miss Giesbrecht honored at a surprise shower hosted at the home of the Jim Mines in Shafter. Fresh flowers, cake, ice cream, coffee, and punch were served as guests including her mother and relatives from Bakersfield Fresno and Shafter. She will wed Richard Simmons on February 12 at the Mennonite Brethren Church in Shafter.
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Don Gloecklex
Bill Long
Henry Isaac
Lloyd Kroeker
Orin Mettler
Bud Johnson
Ann‘Stoller
Katherine Holloway
Argus Feil
Shafter
Lorraine Love
Bakersfield
Gail Bergen
Fresno
Sally Frantz
Serding
Mmes
Frank Russell
Lloyd Oxford
Lois Gaither
John BD
Enns
Albert Froese
Miss Giesbrecht
Richard Simmons
Mennonite Brethren Church
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