Largest Crowd Attends Shafter Fire Works Celebration
A record crowd at Shafter High School stadium for the Fourth of July celebration saw the Colvard’s sponsored Low Pee Wee baseball team defeat the Shafter Concrete team 27 to 8. The event featured color guards, a mass choir, a Baldwin organ recital, and a fireworks display overseen by the city fire department.
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Shafter Chamber of Commerce Free Fire Works
Shafter
Colvard’s
Shafter Concrete Baseballers
Sstate
Randy
Larry Zachary
John
Ben Hardwick
Calvin Stuebbe
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Shafter Church Choir
Bill Hildebrand
Doris Unruh
Baldwin
Guthers'Music Company
Bob Bann
Clifford Ratzlaff
Shafter City
Niagra
Shafter Fire Works
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Wayne Wood
Roy Kerber
H. W
Pat’’ Kelly
P.A
Shafter Chamber
Bond Proposals Seek $338,000 for School Upgrades
The plan funds classroom furniture roofing and windows at the Primary School and repairs at the bus garage including a hydraulic hoist. Proposition 2 asks for 50000 to replace boilers filters and pool equipment. If approved the bonds could run up to twenty five years.
Enrollment plan reshapes eighth grade homemaking and arts
Peterson notes a shift in curriculum with eighth grade girls on homemaking in second and fourth quarters while boys gain enrichment in individual classrooms during homemaking. Spelling moves from social studies to language arts. Enrichment programs replace former spelling time. A boys chorus and continuation of the girls chorus are planned. The Richland School day will end at 3 30 with an earlier start and a shortened lunch in 1968 69.
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Richland
Youth prize winners shine at 4th of July activities
Twenty six children earned prizes at the American Legion sponsored afternoon event at Stringham Memorial Park. Winners included Mike Gowan in bubble gum wing and Jenny Cole in Balloon Bursting, with prizes donated by Shafter merchants and local sponsors.
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Stringham Park
Robert Rodriguez
Stringham Memorial Park
American Legion
Leslie L. Robinson Post 213
Kenny
David Wiley
Charles
Joan Whalen
Shafter Merchants
Mike Gowan
Jenny Cole
Shafter Drug
Kenny Wiley
Ricardo Jose
Robert McWhorter
O.D. Handel, and Sons
Karen Anderson
Pam Meyer
Doug Garber
Fred Starrh
Scott Riggle
Larry Starrh
Edward Gonzales
Randy Trout
Safeway
Zane Owens
Everett Hskins
Jolene Ortega
Lions Club
Shafter Volunteer Fire Department
Legion
Milt Whisler
Swiss student Kuno balances music study with service program
Kuno, a musically inclined Swiss student, plays piano clarinet and guitar while engaging in Dixieland Jazz and some classical music. He leads a twelve boy youth group in the Swiss Jugwacht, enjoys photography, and plans a year in the United States through the American Field Service to learn about American life, people, and ideas. Mary Walhoad, his American sister, previously joined an AFS summer program in Finland.
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Kuno
Tronics
Swiss Jugwacht
USA Boy Scouts
Kano
United States
USA
Switzerland
Free World
Shafter
Mary Walhoad
Finland
AFS
July Sales and Trade Dates at Local Nurseries
A fragmented list shows sales and vendor names for Cooper's Nursery Tao Diamond H R and Central Hardware across July 1 to July 3. Entries include Maple Realty Mettler & Sons Be rTM W C Handel and D R Farms among other local suppliers and shop names.
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A&w
W.C. Handel
Maple Realty
Cooper’s Nursery
Colvard’s
Diamond HR
Shafter Concrete
Central Hardware
Tao Cooper’s Nursery
BCE
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Shafter Press
Pee Wee
Adam
Vincent
Nikkel Iron Works
Pepsi
Colleen Diltz
Lions
Nick’s
A& W
Manuel Park
Pee Wee All Stars
of All Stars
Taft Vs
Nick
Wasco
N. High School
S. High School
Richland Diamond
Rio Bravo
C.R.S. Ginning
Mettler& Sons
Mettler & Sons
Brown & Bryant
Rtm
W. C. Handel
A&w Colvard’s
A&w Colvard
Cooper’s Nuts
Electric Union
D& R Farms
Kiwanis
D & R Farms Electric Union
Uly
Legion Eo
Lions Wedne
America
Oye
Shirley’s
Buttonwillow Shafter
Buttonwillow
George Globe
Union Dental
Chester Avenue
Leeds
Fairview
Habla Espanol
18Th & K Sts
Southern California
Pacific Lighting System
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