Shafter Local Highlights July 1960 to 1975
Twenty years ago Shafter crowned Miss Shafter 1960 Sherry Helms at the pool and a beauty pageant aimed at Kern County. Plans for a new police HQ gained support as Kern Supervisors recommended tax money return. Five years ago a student council budget was set at 1 261 926 for 1970 71. A bicentennial parade attracted about 3000 with barbecue and bluegrass. Lerdo Highway planning moved toward scenic designation. Summer school in Richland District reported 600 students and 16 teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanical Pickers
Shafter
United Ginning Company
H.W. Green
Los Angeles
Margaret Ann Kattenhorn
Charles Hutto
Santa Ana
Sherry Helms
Kern County
Shafter Recap Tive Shop
Kern County Board of Supervisors
California
State School District Board of Trustees
Shafter Planning Commission
Lerdo
Richland
Pioneer Tracy family in Bi-Centennial Wagon Parade
In Buttonwillow in July 1975, members of the Tracy family aided Shafter's Bi Centenary Wagon Parade. Marino Pierucci, 70, was injured in a two car crash at Sherwood Ave and Gun Club Road around 12:30 p.m. Saturday. treated at Memorial Hospital and released. John Gibson, 32, named Director of Athletics at Shafter High School, succeeding Dick Froehlich who became Dean of Students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buttonwillow
Tracy
Shafter
Marino Pierucci
Sherwood Ave
Gun Club Road
Memorial Hospital
John Gibson
Shafter High School
Dick Froehlich
Onions Harvested On Buttonwillow Ranch In 1970
Ten years ago in Buttonwillow an experimental plot of under six acres yielded about 5,300 sacks of top quality onions on the Houchin Brothers ranch just north of 7th Standard on Main Drain Road. Also noted were a drug abuse services list by Assemblyman Stacey and local civic notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houchin Brothers
7Th Standard
Kent H. Stacey
Bakersfield
Shafter
Lerdo
Palm Street
Buttonwillow 4-H Members Qualify for National Awards Program
Thirteen Buttonwillow 4-H Club members complete their projects and record books to qualify for county level competition in the National Awards Program. Work was to resume this week in Buttonwillow area on the International Union of Op.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buttonwillow 4-H Club
Buttonwillow
International Union of Op
Annie Kroeker Hosts Eightieth Birthday Open House
Annie Kroeker celebrated her 80th birthday with an open house from 3 to 5 pm at 300 Cross Street. About 75 guests attended the event with flowers from daughter Mrs. Don Neufeld filling the home and grounds. Family present included Irene Unruh and Oliver of Bakersfield, Mamie Janzen and LeRoy, Leland and Peggy Kroeker, Dorothy Neufeld and Don, Ken and Betty Kroeker, plus numerous grandchildren and relatives from Fresno, Bakersfield, Shafter, San Jose, Reedley, Dinuba, and Santa Barbara, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cross Street
Don Neufeld
Kroe
Brian Kroeker
Sandy
Dustin
Shafter
Bruce Kroeker
Richard Kroeker
San Jose
Phil Janzen
Jessica
Bakersfield
James Janzen
Janzen
Judy Janzen
Santa Barbara
Debby
Brian
Leanne
Mathew Neufeld
Fresno
Erwin
Lorena Klassen
Leela Loewen
Susan
Laura Janzen
Margaret Klassen
Reedley
Ernest and
Evelyn Klassen
Dinuba
Lois
California bill allows hydroelectric power along Kern irrigation canals
Governor Brown signed AB 2170 authorizing the Berrenda Mesa Cawelo Lost Hills and Cl ese Water Districts in Kern County to generate hydroelectric power on irrigation canals within their districts. Assemblyman Don Rogers calls the measure cost beneficial with sites identified including Lost Hills Road near Lost Hills expected to yield up to three million kilowatt hours annually. The bill also raises the interest cap on deferred payments by an irrigation district from 8% to 10% while carrying no state or local cost and faced no opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berrenda Mesa
Cawelo
Lost Hills
Clesé
Kern County
Brown
Don Rogers
A-hern County
Rogers Starts Drive to End California Inheritance Tax
Assemblyman Don Rogers of Bakersfield kicked off a statewide tour July 21 to gather 346,119 valid signatures within 150 days to place a measure abolishing the California Inheritance and Gift tax on the next statewide ballot. Rogers says the tax is the nation’s highest and hits middle income families hardest, decrying double taxation of property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Rogers
Bakersfield
California
Rogers
Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Tee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jeanette Wheeler
Buttonwill
Jack Roberts
Erating Engineers
Robert Peoples
Harry Johnson
Occidental College
Glendale
Schuvhwarn
Bakersfield College Pool
Sandra Bellaomini
Claudia Hoggard
Susie Jackson
Linda Wait
Rick Wegis
Delon Stewart
Lakeside
Fruitvale
Jack Frey
Mildred Wait
Patty Page
Irene Hunter
Annie Kroeker
Henry Harder
Mary Wood
Oscar
Ina Bergman
Mary
Annie Hildebrand
Oliver
Bertha Neufeld
Adolf Frantz
J. Waldo
Esther Unruh
Bob
Ella Bergman
Dick and
Betteye Garber
Datsun
Business Directory
Jean
7Th Street
Wasco
Wasco Plaza
E. Lerdo Hwy
Nicks
Sgeneral’s Dinner
General’s Fish & Chips
Central Ave
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