Shafter Adopts Salary Schedule A Model For County Cities
The city moves through year one of a long range pay plan adopted at a special meeting. City and Kern County Employees Association officials praise cooperation and merit based raises. Officials Dallimore and Councilmen Larson and Moyer receive credit for crafting the schedule. The plan includes cost of living increments and liberal fringe benefits. The article notes potential early hiccups but optimism remains. Other items preview Boy Scout encampment at Huntington Park Lake as snow threatens camp facilities before summer use.
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Shafter
Kern County
Shafter City
Richard Larson
Carl Moyer
Mittee
Kern County Employees Association
Howard S. Dallimore
Shafter Council
Mother Nature
California
Huntington Park Lake
Sierras
Miss Shafter crowned as town holds old fashioned Fourth
Lupe Flores was named Miss Shafter at the Shafter Fourth of July celebration, a day of park events and an evening stadium program. The Lions Club hosted the Miss Shafter contest with runners up Patricia Kelly and Veronica Gaeta, while the Up With People Singers entertained and a Legion barbecue fed hundreds.
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Don Zachary
Shafter
Zachary
Stringham Park
Shafter High School Stadium
Shafter Lions Club
Lupe Flores
Lupe
Shafer Hi School
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Bakersfield
People Singers
American Legion
Shafter Recreation
Stringham Memorial Park
Bob Gilbert
Lions Club
Shafter Business Institutions
The
Patricia Kelly
Veronica Gaeta
Shafter Sees Minor Holiday Mishaps After July 4
Shafter residents enjoyed a safe holiday with only one major traffic accident. Adilio Alcantar Purneda collided with a Santa Fe locomotive at Central Ave crossing, injuring a passenger Esmeralda Garza Valdez who was hospitalized but not seriously hurt. Alcantar was uninjured. Remaining incidents included two minor car collisions and a bicycle theft reported from Richland School Aquatic Center.
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Shafter
Adilio Alcantar Purneda
State Avenue
Santa Fe
Central Ave
Alcantar
Esmeralda Garza Valdez
Kern General Hospital
Bakersfield
Clara Burch
East Orange
Albie Lee Bennett
South Shafter Avenue
South Shafter
Dennis Allen Bender
Orange
Lester Gilbert
Central
Lerdo
Central Valley
Gilbert
Pat Myers
Pine
Richland School Aquatic Center
Richland Board Restores Officers and Plans Groundbreaking
The Richland School District Board of Trustees reelected all officers at Monday’s meeting. President Phil Zachary was kept in place. Arthur Penner and Dave Anderson also retained roles with Dr E David Cooke and Fred Starrh continuing as representatives. The board approved further revisions to two new school units and prepared for a summer groundbreaking. They authorized Mrs Delores Witcher to sign warrants and arranged for the county to send warrants to her as financial secretary. Regular meetings will stay on the first and third Mondays plus a 10 cent per mile auto allowance. Architects Robert F Stuhr reviewed deletions in plans for the music and administration buildings while Biggar Construction Company of Bakersfield handles the contracts totaling 266000 dollars. Administrative building with music complex cost 228360 dollars and 37300 dollars went to cooling system installation. Deletions to 5700 dollars were discussed as bids exceeded estimates.
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Shafter
Bob Gilbert
Judy Grayson
Shafter Merchants
Roy Kerber
Lions Club
J. C. Atkinson
Miss Shafter
Patricia Kelly
Shafter High School
Veronica Gaeta
Shafter High
Gloria Thayer
Patty Smith
Gloria
Vietnam
Patty
Kerber
John Hanner
Stan Cook
Richland
Phil Zachary
Arthur Penner
Dave Anderson
E. David Cooke
Fred Starrh
Henry Voth
Delores Witcher
Stuhr
Biggar Construction Company
Bakersfield
Richland School
Robert Stuhr
Richland School Board of Trustees
Richland Aquatic Center
Mathias Announces $1.122 Million Grant for Shafter Farm Housing
Congress member Mathias announces a Kern County Housing Authority grant loan totaling 1 122 000 for 100 rental farm housing units in Shafter. Funds cover a child care center, maintenance building, and playground, replacing housing torn down at the North Shafter Labor Camp.
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Shafter
Bob Mathias
18Th Dist
Kern County Housing Authority
Farmers Home Administration
North Shafter
Lila Little
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Ichland Board Returns
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Shafter Farm
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