AARP Shafter Chapter Sets Legislative Priorities
AARP members at Shafter Chapter 2809 ranked state legislative priorities including in home supportive services, health care costs, long term care, Medicare and Medicaid expansion, supplemental insurance, rent control, tax relief on Social Security, pensions, sales tax exemptions for prosthetics, housing, no fault car insurance, spending restraint, and inflation control. Plans for fall tours to Hearst Castle, San Francisco, Grand Canyon, and Mother Lode were outlined, with deposits not due until August 1. A spaghetti dinner fundraiser is planned for September 18, with ticket sales set at 3.50 for adults and 1.50 for children. An open June enrollment for the group’s insurance plan was announced, and the next program featured the Wasco Association for the Developmentally Disabled led by Billy Keener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Association of Retired Persons
Shafter
Helen Hasty
Hasty
Sylvia Baughman
Hearst’s Castle
San Francisco
Grand Canyon
Mother Lode
Davis family trip recalls pioneer grandfather in Texas and Oklahoma
Clara Davis and her sisters visited Pauls Valley Oklahoma Dallas and towns across Texas to trace their grandfather a pioneer who helped lay out Hemphill Sabine and Milam. They toured Austin Aquila Springs San Marcos San Antonio Baytown Houston Lufkin and Marshall meeting locals and remembering his impact before moving to Oildale. April forecasts show U S farmers planting 82 million acres of corn an 3 percent rise from 1979 per Sperry-New Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oildale
Clara Davis
Oklahoma
Texas
Paul’s Valley
Dorothy
Marvin Welch
Dallas
Marie Rhodes
Clara
Austin
Aquilina Springs
San Marcos
San Antonio
Marie
Chuck
Baytown
Houston
Lufkin
Hemphill
Sabine
Milam
Marshall
Shafter
Donna
U.S
Sperry New Holland
Reunion honors Shafter High Classes of 1944 45 46
More than 160 alumni spouses and friends gathered at the Elks Club on Central Valley Highway for a joint reunion of Shafter High School classes of 1944 1945 and 1946. Originating as the 35th reunion for 1945 the event welcomed others who graduated early or late to serve in World War II. A campus tour led by chief custodian Harvey Mizell preceded cocktails and dinner while 1945 president Chuck Thomas served as master of ceremonies and introduced guests including former principal H W Pat Kelly agriculture instructor Holger Hansen and English Department head Jeanette Wheeler. Speakers included Bob Devlin for 1945 Dudley Steele for 1944 and Gene Harless for 1946. Prizes went to the youngest child Bessie Byrd Sharp 44 Fred Brown 45 and Reg 46 with awards for greatest distance to Bonnie Scales Jersey Jerry Mathis 46 from Annandale Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High
Elks Club
Central Valley Highway
Shafter High School
Harvey Mizell
Chuck
Bakersfield
Bessie Byrd Sharp
Fred
Births in Bakersfield Area Announce Four New Families
Cradle roll notices report Jennifer Ann Welton born June 1 at Greater Bakersfield Memorial Hospital weighing six pounds fourteen ounces and 21 and a quarter inches. Grandparents are Bob and Sharon Christian of Shafter and Warren and Mary Welton of Arvin with great grandparents W D Smith of Coalinga. Eduardo Lopez born June 9 1980 at 271 Los Angeles Street Apartment E weighing eight pounds two ounces and 22 inches. Loreto and Maria Lopez announce Rolando Lopez born June 10 1980 at North Kern Hospital weighing nine pounds nine and a half ounces and 23 inches. Quote from poet Schiller cited.
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Charles Welton
Jennifer Ann
Greater Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
Bob Christian
Shafter
Warren Welton
Arvin
W.D. Smithson
Coalinga
Eduardo
Dora Montoya
Los Angeles Street
Eduardo Lopez
Loreto
Maria Lopez
Prince Lane
Rolando
North Kern Hospital
Shafter High School Class of 1940 40th reunion
Forty members of Shafter High School Class of 1940 gathered for a 40th reunion at Elmer and Norma Andersons home with Bill Hildebrand as emcee. They heard messages from absent classmates, toured the campus, and enjoyed a catered dinner. Awards went to Mouser Crabb from Petaluma, Lorraine Stewart Perris, and Helen Froese. Attendees traveled from San Jose, Ventura, Petaluma, Temple City, Arroyo Grande, Bakersfield, Taft, and Shafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Elmer
Norma Anderson
Petaluma
Lorraine Stewart Perris
Helen Froese
Helen’Sly Hall
Delton Gaede
Nina Peters Walters
Ruth Merkel
Alvira Willard
Hattie Meacham Kelly
San Jose
Ventura
Temple City
Arroyo Grande
Bakersfield
Taft
Shafter
Chester Neufeld
Fuller honored as educator in Delta Kappa Gamma
Jeannie Guenther Fuller, a Leona Valley School upper grade teacher, was among six women educators inducted into Iota Alpha Chapter at a Lancaster Elks Club dinner. The ceremony, led by Marion Carroll and Joyce Mayberry, celebrated outstanding educators and traced the society’s 1929 origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeannie Guenther Fuller
Iota Alpha Chapter
Delta Kappa Gamma Society
Lancaster ‘Elks Club
Fuller
Leona Valley School
Lancaster
Richland
Shafter High
Marion Carroll
Joyce Mayberry
Senior Citizens Menu June 1980 Week
June 19 25 1980 Thursday to Wednesday Cuisine with fruit juice baked chicken stuffing spinach and citrus salad raspberry sherbet wheat and white bread Friday tomato juice fish lemon au gratin potatoes green beans carrot salad pineapple wheat bread Monday fruit juice chop suey chow mein noodles chop suey veg tossed salad French dressing purple plums Tuesday tomato juice pot roast gravy mashed potatoes Italian beans fruit salad chocolate pudding wheat bread white bread Wednesday fruit veal paprika noodles carrots perfection salad fresh fruit notes waste not fresh tears over old griefs
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AARP
Ing
Lee Thomas
Harlan Wilson
The
Wasco Association For the Developmentally Disabled
Billy Keener
Davis
Rhodes
University of Texas
Wava Owen
Barbara Self
Gerald Higbee
SHS
New Jersey
Schiller
Richland Ave
Sam Hensley
Henry Harder
Jim Wiens
Mennonite Brethren Church
Kern
California
Shafter Methodist
Rev. G
Ted Larson
W. Lerdo Hwy
ST. Therese Catholic Church
W. Lerdo
Msgr
John A. Delany
Pentecostal Church OF God
S. Shafter Ave
Sun
P.Y.P
John Davis
E. Tulare Ave. Shafter
Owen C. Onsum
Congregational Church
KWSO
Bill Hildebrand
Rachel ‘Mouser Crabb
International Honorary Society
United States
Jeannie
Russell
Ebenezer
Reformed Church
Sunset
James Maynard Kderner
God
Church of God
B. Kingsland
Central Aveys Shafter
Congress
Shafter Press
Frank W. and
Donald L. Reedrick Lawler
Publishers News
1St
Southern Baptist Church
H.D. Rutledge
Noel Weeks
Roger Trautmann, Pastor
Ut. Rs
Little Rock, Ark
Danny & Shelly Jenkins
First Assembly OF God
Elm Street
John P. Davis
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