Generation Gap Honor in Shafter Recognizes Citizen of the Year
Jacobsen, a long time Shafter resident, is named Citizen of the Year by the Shafter Kiwanis Club at the annual meeting. Bruce Craw, incoming president, announces the selection as part of the celebration. Services note an accidental verdict by the county coroner. Several social items mention weddings and anniversaries.
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Jacobsen
Long- Shafter
Shaf- Chamber of Comiree
Bruce Craw
Ter Kiwanis
Couny
Shafter
Community Chest Drive Hazebound Fines Short $4200
Front page notes Burtch Paints Bright Farming Posture as Cotton Harvest Nears with 367 441 bales in sight. Junior Women Mardi Gras to aid Stise of Fnne Drive. Four days weekend food drive to aid jobless. Spud crop slowed by wet soil. Shafter High School elects Tom Kelly president Jesse Mouser VP J C Warneke athletic manager. Mechanization experiments in California cotton crop as first mechanical pickers introduced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Tom Kelly
Jesse Mouser
J. C. Warneke
Shafter and Kern Cite Cigarette Tax Share
Sacramento State Controller Houston I Flournoy announced the December 1969 cigarette tax apportionment totaling 3 067 373 dollars to counties and cities. Kern County received 17 571 76 dollars and Shafter City 915 96 dollars, representing 30 percent of November revenue. County share was 592 873 dollars and cities 2 474 500 dollars.
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Sacramento
Houston I. Flournoy
Kern County
Shafter City
Ten Years Ago Front Page Headlines January 20 1960
Front page items include a Beixchange Club installation and a 30 Prexy leadership note. The Sha Nah mpfire group toured the Shaf ter Preas plant with leaders Mrs Harve Neéiman and Mrs Fran. T. V. Little and spouse returned from a Bay Area drive in rain after attending a Northern California Chapter meeting of a watch collectors group.
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da Pregon
Beixchange
Achary Re
Duck Heads Mineral Rahotoey
Sha Nah Mpfire
Shafter Preas
Ingroup
Harve Neéiman
Fran
T. V. Little
Bay Area
Northern California
The
National Association and Watch Collectors
Centennial Year Kicked Off by Governor In California
Governor Ronald Reagan proclaims 1970 the centennial year of the California Fish and Game Commission. He reads the proclamation in Sacramento at the January 9 meeting and receives Fishing License No. 1 from Commission officials. The piece traces the commission’s origins from 1830 and highlights early fish introductions and later organizational milestones through 1952.
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Ronald. Reagan
California
Conservation of Fish and Wildlife Resources
Commission
Sacramento
Retire Commission
James Y. Camp
California Fish Commission
Board of Fish Commissioners
Fish and Game Commission
Department of Fish and Game
California Fish and Game Commission
Reagan
Fish and Game Commission Abandons Self-Validation Tag System
The Fish and Game Commission on January 9 scrapped the three year self-validation system for big game tags after a Department of Fish and Game review found it costly and ineffective. Hunters will again have tags validated by designated officers, restoring pre 1966 enforcement practices to improve check station contact and data collection.
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The
Fish and Game Commission
Department of Fish and Game
DFG
California Open Checker Tournament at Bakersfield Library
The California Open Checker Tournament will be held at the Bakersfield public library on Monday January 26 with play starting at 10 and continuing until a champion is crowned. Refreshments will be served. Entry is $3. For information call Ray Poore or Dave Green.
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Bakersfield Public Library
Bakersfield Checker Club
Ray Poore
Dave Green
Generals Split With Garces and Wasco in Week Basketball
Shafter and Garces traded wins as Shafter improved to 1-2 in the South Sequoia League after a 63-53 win over Garces and a 58-45 loss to Wasco. Ken Allen led Shafter with 21 points against Garces, while Davgatz scored 18 versus Wasco and Billy Calhoun added 19 in the win over Garces.
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Shafter
Garces
Wasco
Generals
Garces Rams
Wasco Tigers
Rams
Ken Allen
Craig Dartz
Carrasco
Larry Antongiovanni
Davgatz
Tigers
Colonels
Varsity
Billy Calhoun
Ramblers
Rod Creekbaum
Shafter IV
David Nash
Kittens
Bucks
Taft
Arvin
Bames
C’s
Carol Sunlan Wins Tourney In North Kern event
The North Kern tourney chairman changed the iron tournament due to rain to a half handicap format. Women turnout was strong as Carol Sunlan won with 65 1/2 strokes followed by Katy Ogle 66 1/2 and Edith Henry 67. The event featured multiple flights and a future sweetheart tourney on Feb 8.
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North Kers
Carol Sunlan
Katy Ogle
Edith Henry
Helen Ruggenberg
Carman Oliverez
Audrey Leigh Wisner
Katherine Ceasar
Kern River
North Kern
Buena Vista
Kris Albright Crowned SHS Winter Sports Queen
Kris Albright, senior at Shafter High School, was crowned the third SHS Winter Sports Queen during intermission at a Shafter Wasco game in the SHS gym. Her court includes Loretta Phillips, Linda Hearn, and Janice Barulich.
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Kris Albright
Shafter High School
SHS
Kris
Shafter High
Loretta Phillips
Linda Hearn
Janice Barulich
Key Club
Marty Laverty
Miss Albright
Betty Richards
William Hatcher
Ick Paul
Stan Neuman
Loretta
Gary Somers
Steve Garber
Janice
Don Stepp
The
Laurion
State Anchovy Quota Raised to 140 000 Tons
The California Fish and Game Commission on January 9 boosted the 1969 70 commercial anchovy reduction quota from 75 000 to 140 000 tons. An additional 65 000 tons were allocated to Zones I and III, with Zone I at 57 500 tons and Zone III at 72 500 tons, to be split evenly between the two areas. The Northern Permit Area remains at 10 000 tons, though only 1 763 tons have been taken. The season ends May 15 or when the quota is reached.
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California
The
Fish and Game Commission
Department of Fish and Game
DFG
U. S Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
Santa Monica Bay
San Pedro Channel
Point Conception
Shafter Marine Pfc Michael Steen Serves With Fifth Expeditionary Brigade
Marine Private First Class Michael R. Steen, son of Mrs. Zenobia Steen of Shafter, serves with the Fifth Provisional Service Battalion, newly formed Fifth Expeditionary Brigade at Camp Pendleton. His unit handles combat supply, maintenance, requisitioning, accounting, storage and issue of supplies.
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Michael R. Steen
Zenobia Steen
Richland Drive
Shafter
Fifth Provisional Service Battalion
Fifth Expeditionary Brigade
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Shafter Retains Title In Novice Wrestling Tourney
Shafter High won the Shafter Novice Wrestling Tournament for the second straight year, totaling 109 team points. Individual champions were Cesone Romn is Cooper 127 Jim Janzen 133 and Stowell with Raul Reyna in the finals. Coach notes say attendance included Arvin Exeter Maricopa McFarland Monache Morro Bay Taft. The Generals’ next match is Friday at 6:00 p.m. in the Shafter gym.
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Shafter High
Shafter
Cesone Ro Nmnis
Cooper
Jim’ Janzen
Stowell
Raul Reyna
Exeter
Janzen
Anton Affentranger
Alan Cates
Reyna
Affentranger
Jeff Torigiani
Tom Hill
Phil Fraley
Hwt
David Cloud
Arvin
Maricopa
McFarland
Monache
Morro Bay
Taft
Fire story aids praised. Shafter residents urged to use free cleanup
The Shafter Press thanks reporters and fire crews for their rush to cover Tuesday’s Sportsman’s Cafe Lounge blaze. Vernon Pierce of the Fire Department commended the paper for accuracy. The piece also notes gratitude to H C Henderson and others who assisted amid duress. Plus Public Works announces free tree pruning trash pickup in east Shafter this week and west side next week led by Lewis Carroll.
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Shafter Press
Vernon Pierce
Shafter Fire Department
Pierce
H.C
Tip) Henderson
Sportsman's
Public Works Department
Lewis £. Carroll
Carroll
Shafter
Hunt Named To Wildlife Post Leads Agency Under Arnett
Elderidge G. Red Hunt born 191? 42 and from Sacramento was named chief of the Wildlife Management Branch by Ray Arnett director of Fish Hunt. He succeeds Robert L. Jones who left to become environmental consultant to the State Assembly. Hunt is praised as a pioneer in pesticide wildlife relations and a leader in cooperative efforts to solve pesticide problems in the state.
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Elderidge G
Red) Hunt
Department of Fish and Game
Tay
DFG
Wildlife Management
Ray Arnett
Fish and Game
Hunt
Sacramento
Robert L. Jones
State Assembly
Arnett
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Kenneth Popkin
Hasty
Dai
Kermeth ‘Anderson
Mag.neloppini
Richland School
Lloyd. Rovideaux
Kern
Garces Allen Y
Anton Dargatz Carrasco
Pa Bender Jones
He Wasco Shafter
Carrasco Dargatz
Allen Anton Palla
Shafter Garces
B. Calhoun
Creekbaum
Wherry Unruh S
Bryant Klassen
Pyle B. Calhoun
Kerry Ramey
A. Bryant
Dobrenen
Thompson T. Can Berkshire
White Rubio Franz
Tees
Nash
T. Calhoun Thompson Gaeta Berkshire
Old Fish Commission
New York
Sacramento River
Japan
Bureau of Patrol and
Division of Fish and Game
Bakersfield
Scott Larson
Cubs
Wisco
Mike Dobrenen
Richland Elementary School
Richland
John Peterson
Jeanne Keeley
Toni Reedus
Shafter Prise Sports
Pat Wennihan
Roy Kerber
Shafter Lions Club
Wennihan
Lions Club
Talk of
the Town
Shafter Resi
Wildlife Post
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