Your Legislator at Work on California Budget
The 1958 budget era faces a $2.2 billion plan with two thirds fixed charges. Senate finance and Assembly ways and means oversee reviews as the legislature funds schools welfare and state facilities. A deficit of over $11 million in the first half of the year challenges lawmakers ahead of Sacramento session.
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California
Sacramento
Senate Finance and Assembly
Finance Department
Joint Legislative Budget Committee
Legislative
Legislative Analyst
Ftar
Legislative Auditor
CPA
Brightening Up Shafter With Tree Planting Drive
Dorothy Hale calls for a community effort in Shafter to plant trees mark family milestones and launch a clean-up paint-up and flower campaign. The piece suggests a park tree dedication and a public send off to mobilize residents and boost the town’s image.
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Shafter
Sion
Shafter Press
Dorothy Hale
Chamber of Commerce
North Kern Golf Course Nears Completion East of Cawelo
The North Kern Golf Course, nearer Shafter than any North Kern city, nears completion in the foothills east of Cawelo. The county bears major costs while Shafter businessmen and volunteers provide support. The Northern Golf Association will match county dollars and hours to develop what may become a premier valley course.
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Shafter
North Kern City
North Kern
Cawelo
Kern
Shafter Enterprisers
Northern Golf Association
Play Center Outstanding Local Project Gains Momentum
The Play Center, developed in 1955 by 26 Shafter mothers under the Richland School PTA, has grown steadily. It is sponsored by the PTA and led by a cooperative committee that drives its big community impact and ongoing success.
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Shafter
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Richland School Parent-Teacher Association
Richland Cafeteria Ranks Third in County
Richland School District in Shafter provides nourishing meals at low cost for pupils. The program is cited as a core daily meal for many children. Superintendent Bruce Crawford reports Richland now ranks third in the county, behind Bakersfield and Kern County Union High School. Sylvia Baughman is credited for fifteen years of leadership.
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Richland
Shafter
Bruce Crawford
Bakersfield
Kern County Union High School
Sylvia Baughman
Judge E K Grant to resign Shafter justice post
Longtime Shafter figure Judge E K Grant announces resignation from the local justice court due to ill health. He has served since 1944 after establishing Shafter’s first garage in 1915, with court revenue rising from 1660 in six months to about 10 000 to 11 000 monthly. The board of supervisors will appoint his successor.
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Shafter
E. K. Grant
Justice Court
Board of Supervisors
Grant
Mock Orange Shrubs Brighten Valley Gardens
A guide to planting Mock Orange, a hardy flowering shrub with fragrant spring blooms. Describes Varieties Philadelphus Virginalis Atlas Belle Etoile Golden, care needs, soil, sun or partial shade, pruning, rejuvenation, and propagation by layering, cuttings, or seed.
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Atlas
Candles n Cake event names by date and attendees
A multi day listing shows attendees for Candles n Cake from Thursday January 30th through Tuesday February 4th. Names include Mrs. Robert McClain George Guenther Alvina Howe Melanie Neuman E Dietzmann Tommy Williams Bennie Voth Carl J Neumann Keith Perkins Harold Miller Ruth Senn Floyd C Raney Bill Hasbrook Earl Anderson and others.
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Robert McClain
George Guenther
Alvina Howe
Melanie Neuman
E. Dietzmann
Tommy Williams
Bennie Voth
Carl J. Neumann
Keith Perkins
Harold Miller
Ruth Senn
Floyd C. Raney
Bill Hasbrook
Earl Anderson
Keith Johnson
Sandy Hampton
Keith Hamman
J.H. Tatum
Tena Wiens
Carolyn Tiberghien
Glen Poznoff
The Old Hat Tale by C. Phelan
Manny shares a heavy tale of Marvin Miller whose forgotten hat leads to a chance meeting with a woman who loves country life. Marvin wins a wife and a farm plot, but Red Burke loses out as the hat sparks a double romance and a failed deed.
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Jake
Manny
Marvin Miller
Marvin
Red Burke
Red
Remembering Primrose Ohio and family grocery tales
From Mrs Mildred Moyer Shanks of Rice Lake Wisconsin she recalls childhood in Primrose Ohio a farm town with a single general store and a bachelor keeper who hosted meals. She remembers freight shipments of soda crackers ginger snaps and clothing and the nightly habit of eating crackers in bed while peddlers visited.
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Mildred Moyer Shankster
Rice Lake
Wisconsin
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Pat) Kelly
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York
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