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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1970
Page
3
Potatoes from Kern County grower area shoulder a 25 percent share as shipments slow. Teen rider Vernie Parrott, 16, suffers concussion and abrasions after a motorcycle collision. Shafter PTA officers named Frank Johnson president and others. Social notes include weddings in Buttonwillow and Cuyama, plus a Shafter engagement.
Ground broken for a new cotton gin valued at 130000 dollars to serve meal pickers. The facility sits about one mile northwest of Santa Feast across the Peerae roi Wah and is part of United Ginning week led by L Green of Los Anges. Ernie Peeler, a war correspondent killed in Korea, once edited Windsock at Minter Field. Shafter YMCA camp elected Mayor Peter Newell during a Greenhorn Mountain summer session.
L Johnson Jones outlines wedding attire including the bride in pink lace and white accessories and the groom's mother in blue crepe. A reception occurred at the Veterans Memorial Hall before the couple departed for Monterey and Carmel.
Grove California selects a Student Liaison Member to represent students at State Board of Education meetings and relay board views back to the student body. Larson will edit the Commander newspaper and participates in Spanish Club orchestra studio band California Scholarship Federation and the Spectrum literary magazine.
Susan Laverty reports on the marriage of the couple now residing at Myers Trailer Court in Shafter. The bride and groom are both Shafter High School graduates with ties to Stanislaus State College and Bakersfield College. Jones works as a truck driver for a local firm. A linen shower before the wedding was given by Mary Jaenecke. The article also lists a group of locals including Bob Somers John Walker Susan Bud Johnson Jim Moquist Otis Page and others.
A fragmented newspaper item lists Second Class matter at Shafter Post Office with August date, Copal News, Sun Order 2, and class postage paid at Shafter Cal. It names Editor and Publisher Mrs. Emil Frost, Associate Editor Mrs. Pat, Advertising and Cahns, Manager Bob Frost, Scott Largon as Justowriter, boot Mrs. Jean Paul, Printing Assistant Norman K. Ropes and jal Printer.
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