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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1979
Page
3
A Shafter resident commends Chief Kaplan and the Shafter Police Department, noting the force shows professionalism, uses verbal warnings instead of arrests, and maintains high standards for patrolmen. The writer urges readers to recognize the department's positive impact and expresses willingness to serve under them.
Jane Zachary of Shafter was chosen by a five member committee to represent the Kern County Farm Bureau as Queen for the coming year. She will attend meetings locally and statewide while enrolled at the University of Southern California. In December she competes in Oakland for the state queen title.
The youth choir of Camarillo First Baptist Church presents a Christian musical Celebrate Life at the First Southern Baptist Church 250 Northern Street Friday June 22 at 7 00 p m. Public welcome with no charge. A car wash to raise funds for youth camp proceeds go to cover camp costs with a 30 00 week fee.
Kern View expands Western Kern services by funding an advisory council in Wasco to establish a new mental health clinic for Wasco and Shafter. Residents and church leaders form the council, meeting to plan staffing location and outreach. A National Institute of Mental Health grant supports extending services, with Wasco clinic opening to the public in June.
Senior menu for June 14 to June 20 1979 lists meals for Thursday including fruit juice Swiss steak mashed potatoes spinach and tossed salad.
Glenn Wesley Edwards 69 of Shafter died June 15 in a Sacramento hospital after a short illness. Services were held June 18 at Shafter United Methodist Church with burial in Shafter Cemetery. A native of Yale Oklahoma, he lived in Shafter over 20 years and retired after working as a pumper for Superior Oil. He also worked for Amerada Oil from 1928 to 1935 and from 1935 to 1971 in Seismograph and Production. Survived by two children Darrel Edwards and Collene Perry and their spouses, and several siblings in Lindsay Bakersfield Aranda. many friends and associates.
The Rev. Lendall H. Smith, a missionary to Taiwan for four years, will address Christian missions in the Republic of China at Ebenezer Reformed Church on June 22 at 7 30 p m. He will share ministry experiences with color slides and discuss island wide work centered in Taichung and the Chung Ming Church while on furlough through July 1979.
Ruben Clingan, now a U S Army MP trainee at Fort McClellan Alabama, graduated basic training and hosted a family visit with mother Ina Smith and sister Diane Givens and her twins Rebecca and Candie 12. The group traveled across six states to view tornado damage in Vernon and Wichita Falls Texas and will return home to Shafter in July before a two year European deployment. Cats see in color says Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine though their echo is limited to red.
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