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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1970
Page
3
Recipe of the Week shows two desserts from Miss Donna Brown of Huron South Dakota printed in the New York Times. One is an Apple Cinnamon Cake baked in a nine inch pan and served warm. The other is a dense fruit cake with pecans Brazil nuts dates cherries walnuts baked in loaf pans.
Domino Beraud, a French AFL student, travels from Shafter to Fresno on June 27 to stay with a local family and join a weekend swimming party. She will tour the western states by bus including Phoenix and Denver, then fly to New York for a July 8 return to France, with chaperones from UC Santa Barbara and UW.
George McCoy 87 of Bakersfield died Sunday in a local hospital. Services were held June 17 in the chapel with Rev. Ancestor and Rev. Leo Wiens officiating. Burial followed at Shafter Memorial Park. He was born September 8, 1882 in Arkansas and lived in California 40 years. He worked as a construction worker for Griffith Co. Survivors include three sons Melvin, Paul, J P. five daughters Olive Nelms Ruth Beit Dorothy Price Geneva Stokes Margie Fleischauer. 16 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Pallbearers were Larry Janzen Don Shelton Jim Maxwell Dwight Grimes Melvin Froese Horace Womack. Honorary bearers were Russell Reit Jerry Nelms Jim Stokes.
Rev Elwood R Greer who has been on sabbatical leave for a year is assigned to the United Methodist Church at Taft and will depart to assume new duties on June 30 Rev Greer served as pastor of the United Methodist Church from 1966 to 1969 before his leave Rev Ken Clark currently serves the Shafter church
Kern County leaders tour a 4.1 mile, 2.8 million Kern Canyon freeway section under construction as a late 1972 or early 1973 opening is expected. The project extends toward Democrat Hot Springs and includes a 1.1 mile, 1.8 million fourth link from Kernvale to near Edison's Borel plant.
Rev. and Mrs. Eugene Pennington and their Yakima family hold revival meetings at the Assembly of God Church at 154 W. Tulare Avenue Shafter this week. Services begin at 7 30 p m nightly and conclude next Sunday evening. Music by family members adds to the program says Pastor J W Dowlins.
Harold Corrie appointed principal of Shafter High School and Mary Walhoad named exchange student headline the week. Richly outstanding 1965 graduation speakers include Kenneth Perkins Patrice Rodgers Cora Nickel Patricia Arendes. Vicki Laverty wed Richard Swan in Bakersfield church and Diane Putnam married Mark Vincent. Diane and Vicki are daughters of local families.
A front page photo shows P J Gorsching with a horse drawn wagon loaded with cotton. Mrs Leonard Duck stands beside a baby pig won at the Food Bank Market. Daily life includes a state bar admission, a Miss Shafter entrant, a candlelight wedding, a house warming and new arrivals Jay Bradley Kroeker born June 17. Deanna Toews leads Order of Job's Daughters Wasco with Christine Neuman and Paula Thomas as princesses.
More than 200 guests attended the St. John's Catholic Church wedding of Donna Baughman and Thomas Craig. June Nikkel announced engagement to Gus Stoese. Ella Dueck and Robert Bergman plan a Friday wedding in MB Church. a surprise shower for Mrs. Harold Engel occurred.
State official reports progress on aqueduct construction linking Buena Vista and Wheeler Ridge facilities. Water from State Project to reach Los Angeles County early in 1971, with Buena Vista pumping plant due mid July and Wheeler Ridge plant by year end, boosting supply toward Tehachapi and A D Edmundson pumping plant.
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