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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1983
Page
2
The Shafter Press invites free notices for weddings engagements birth announcements and club church news. Submit to the Press office by Monday noon for weekly publication. Contact society writer Jeanette Wheeler Mondays or Fridays at 746-4942 or 399-5925. Photos best in black and white. Color accepted if properly exposed.
James C. Bishop vegetable crops specialist at the UC Davis Shafter station will retire in July after 35 years. He helped study potato varieties since 1948 and earned degrees from Cornell and UC Davis. His plans include private consulting, photography, and woodworking as he notes staff reductions and crop diversification in Kern County.
Bakersfield unit led by Lt Col Weil conducts combined arms training at Camp Roberts with M 48 tanks M 113 APCs 155mm artillery TOW and Redeye missiles. Air support from F 4s Huey UH 1 CH/47 aircraft enables night deployments and simulated nuclear drills. Camacho commands an 11 man advance scout in Support Co 2d Btn 160th Inf. (M) returning Sunday June 25.
Ernie Lopez former Shafter High School graduate received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology on June 11 1983 from Oaks College of the University at Santa Cruz. He plans to take the Stanford Medical School entrance exam. He is the son of Lucio and Vicenta Lopez of 456 West Ash Street Shafter, with two sons and four sisters.
Arnold, son of Tegemnash settee Mr ands, and Wayne Arolot graduate from seminary at the university.
Susan Carter of Shafter is among fifty five high school seniors from California and six states named to the 1983 President's Honors at Entrance Program at Humboldt State University. The program honors top applicants for full admission with GPAs around 3.75 or higher. Carter has a 3.969 GPA.
Wednesday offers tomato juice turkey pot pie peas fruit salad pudding and brown bread. Thursday features orange juice sweet and sour pork rice green beans tossed green salad fruited Jell o and brown bread. Friday serves liver and onions potatoes au gratin broccoli fruit and brown bread. Monday Cook s Tuesday ham and limas spinach coleslaw fruit corn.
The Shafter Church of Christ launches a Summer Outreach program called Super Thursday from June 23 to July 21. Each Thursday 9 am to noon at 850 Minter Avenue, for children K through 8, with Joy Bus transport and activities including arts crafts singing Bible stories science nature sign language cooking and more. Alberta Watkins at 746-2204 for details.
John E. Bishop of Shafter, a mechanical engineer, was named to the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Honor Society. Initiation rites will honor him as part of a select group representing less than five percent of the graduating class.
Four Kern County 4-H members, the All Star Team, will join high school 4-H peers from the western states at the Nevada Extension Service event in Reno. Workshops cover computers teaching fund raising and public speaking with media. After return they will share insights with Kern County 4-H members. The August California All Star Conference at Davis is also planned.
Janis Sullivan of Shafter has been named sales representative by Allstate Insurance Companies per regional VP R H Barge Jr. She returns from Menlo Park training after a two week course and will open a sales office in the Sears store at 3001 Ming Street Bakersfield. She will counsel on casualty and life insurance and also represent the Allstate Motor Club.
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