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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1966
Page
8
California will replace painted white lane lines with raised markers on highways after more than a decade of tests. The Botts dots, four inches wide and three quarters of an inch high, use epoxy glues for permanent adhesion and were developed from 1954 testing.
Dr. EF D Botts and staff discuss combining plain white raised markers with reflective ones to optimize visibility. Daylight requires white markers, while at night reflective markers perform better. a mixed approach is recommended for multi lane freeways expressways and rural highways.
Young men may take a no fee entrance exam for the California Maritime Academy at Vallejo on Saturday February 5 at 9 a.m. No prior appointment required. Additional tests will be offered on the first Saturday of each month through May in various locations. check with your school counselor for details.
The Shafter Branch Library notes a forthcoming shipment arriving February 1. The long list includes fiction and nonfiction by Yerby Young Smith Mehta Kasner Caiden Canaday Litz Genet Mowat Adamic Malvern Syme Lansford and others with topics from poetry to politics to art and travel.
California Highway Commission grants consent to screen junk yards along state highways under highway beautification. An initial 93000 dollars will fund planting to hide junkyards from traffic from Humboldt to San Diego. State Highway Engineer J C Womack says bids will be sought at roughly five sites monthly for the next 90 days.
The Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin will dedicate St. Mark's Education Building Sunday at 3 p.m. The Rev. Gordon Ashbee and Rev. John Spear lead lessons and officiate. Delegates from nearby churches attend and a life tribute to Marjorie Brown is planned. Refreshments follow. some will attend the Diocese Convention in Bakersfield.
County residents are estimated to have a combined income of 1.1 billion in 1970, based on work by Paul Williams of the California State Chamber of Commerce. Historical data show rapid income growth since 1947, with per capita gains and a rebound from the 1961 recession, supported by Kern County's resources and location.
A specialized education class for educable high school age children will open at Wildwood School on January 31 with Intravia of 1 as teacher and a hired matron. Eight to nine pupils start, rising to a 12 pupil limit, serving Buttonwillow Taft Shafter and McFarland. John Whitt of the county Special Services met with Superintendent Butterfield to finalize readiness and needed changes. Camp Fire Girls begin their Annual Peanut Sale February 4 to 14 at local shopping centers in bright red white and blue uniforms.
The projection shows rising incomes for Kern County residents with a modern inflation rate. Estimated totals reach about 1.1 billion dollars by 1970, 1.4 billion by 1975, and over 1.6 billion by 1980, signaling long term economic growth.
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