Shafter High Class of 1932 graduation remembered
The second in a series outlines how Shafter High School’s Class of 1932, the first four year graduates, shaped a growing school identity. The year featured growth in FFA success led by Glenn Nay, new courses and activities, a pioneer Cardinal newspaper, expanded music and sports including tennis, track, basketball, and a mixed chorus, plus a robust World Friendship Club and student leadership.
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Shafter Hi School
Shafter High School
Future Farmers of America
Laurion
Glenn Nay
FFA
Agriculture Department
Pacific Slope
Los Angeles
Fresno
Davis
Ben Peters
Harold Voth
Pete Epp
The
Cardinal
Lorena Voth
Wesley Hart
Pioneer
Myrtle Gloeckler
Martha Barnett
Robert Gates
Gates
Perry
Wilson
Tehachapi
Wasco
Laurion Reports
Activit
Farm Bureau warns Prop 13 is tax cut not shift
Fred Heringer, head of the California Farm Bureau Federation, says voters framed Proposition 13 as a tax reduction and urges government bodies to reexamine programs, shift school funding from property taxes, fund welfare from state or federal sources, expand user fees, and avoid new taxes without proven need. The group, with 85,000 member families, pledges active involvement to ensure an orderly transition.
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California
Fred Heringer
California Farm Bureau Federation
Heringer
Farm Bureau
California Farm Bureau
Fires and damages reported around Shafter and area
June 22 fires behind a Jiffy Store on Central Avenue burned a plastic container set deliberately. Loss $106. A chicken coop blaze caused by illegal burning destroyed by Monk at 29754 W Lerdo Highway. coop valued $500. Control time 14 minutes. no animals harmed. A grass fire near Lerdo Canal on June 23 suspected burn reignition. A Volkswagen fire on Scaroni Avenue June 25, owned by Mahlom Graves. loss $1,000, save $50.
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Shafter
Central Avenue
Kern County
Charles Monk
W. Lerdo Highway
Monk
Merced
Lerdo Canal
Volkswagen
Scaroni Avenue
Fresno Avenue
Mahlom Graves
Bakersfield
Former manager becomes vice president at Community National Bank
Former manager turned loan officer in 1963 joined Community National Bank as Assistant Manager in Kerman in 1974. In 1976 he was promoted to manager of the Shafter branch and has now become a vice president. The bank has 16 branches, 12 in Kern County, with six in Bakersfield and others in Buttonwillow Shafter Lamont and Taft. He is a Porterville and Bakersfield junior college graduate and serves on Muscular Dystrophy and Shafter Rotary committees while continuing to run the Shafter branch with his wife Jeannie and their two daughters.
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Ies
MarcConnelly
Green Pastures
al Johnson
San Joaquin
Frank Latta
Kern County
Roscoe
Bakersfield Glee Club
Mr. Byfield
World Friendship Club
Mexico
Miss Sullivan
Perry
New World Friendship Club
Darrell Janzen
Anna Bender
Earl Gunther
Howard Weyand
Ida Schwidt
Sarah Scott
Effie Lee Thomas
Olive Sly
Catherine Carter
Alex Poznoff
Edna Schultz
Ralph Janzen
Helen Riloff
Harold Voth
Virginia Meadows
Lorena Voth
Wesley Hart
Reynold Mettler
Blyan Scott
Clifford Mettler
Shafter
Sam Becker
Becker Insurance Agency
Fern Wendland
Harvey Gaede
Shafter Justice Court
Elroy Janzen
Baldwin Handel
Shafter-Wasco
Wasco
Kermit Annis
Long Beach
California
Reynold Duehren
Bakersfield
Pacific Telephone Company
Vivane Woodard
Shaklee
Hereford
Texas
Peter Koehn
Robert Langston
Ida Schnidt
Oildale
Herbert Midgley
Marty Jayne
Corona
Robert E. Shivers
Community National Bank
Kerman
Buttonwillow
Lamont and
Taft
Shivers
Porterville
Porterville Jr. College
Bakersfield Jr. College
San Joaquin Valley
Kern County wrestlers join 14 match tour of New Zealand
Fourteen San Joaquin Valley high school standouts depart Los Angeles for a three week tour of New Zealand. Among them are Roger Giovanetti of Shafter Luis Mendez and Charley Jorgensen of McFarland. The trip, sponsored by Central California AAU, follows a tough qualifying tournament. Wrestlers will stay in private homes for person to person cultural exchange and return July 16.
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Kern County
San Joaquin Valley
Los Angeles
New Zealand
Roger Giovanetti
Shafter
Luis Mendez
Charley Jorgensen
McFarland
Central California Aau
Planning backs annexation and police remodel in Shafter
The Shafter Planning Commission, with four members present on June 20, approved Sill Properties land annexation of about 18 acres along Tulare Avenue west of Central Valley Highway. They reviewed a Police Department remodeling project estimated at 7,690 dollars, with a 6,995 dollar grant likely. A minor mobile home park fence change was also approved adding vegetation like honeysuckle and pines.
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Shafter
Police Department
Nixon
Grady Completes Seven Weeks of Advanced Army Training
Pvt Randy L Grady son of Mr and Mrs William M Grady 463 Rodriguize Ave Shafter California recently completed seven weeks of advanced individual training at Fort Benning Georgia The training covered weapons qualifications squad tactics patrolling landmine warfare field communications and combat operations He qualified as a light weapons infantryman and indirect fire crewman Entered the Army in February 1978 The private is a 1975 graduate of Shafter High School
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Randy L. Grady
William M. Grady
Rodriguize Ave
Shafter
Calif
Fort Benning
Grady
Army
Shafter High School
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Shafter High
Shafter Highs
Jeanette Wheeler
Leona Mettler
Sam Heinrichs
Ed Hein
Owl Drug Company
Cartier Rexall
Tulare
Reumer
Country Club
Morro Bay
Rosalene Moore
Rosedale
Hettie Pedersen
Harold Jenkinson
Knapp College of Nursing
Santa Barbara
New York City
Washington, D.C
Dayton
Ohio
Augusta
Maine
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Jesse Reimer
Loren Kopper
Motor City Gmc
W.P. Thompson
Greenville
North Carolina
WMRB
Bertha Schmidt
Ray Head
Meen
Gladen Crossno
Europe
Islands
Mr. Kaiser
Kaiser Steel
San Jose
Carl Ross
Ross
L.A. Camp Farms Company
Gerald Bosserdet
W.P
Giovanetti
George Globe
Globe
Union Dental
Habla Espanol
Union Insurance
19Th Street
Woolworths
Fireman's Fund
E. Lordo Hwy
Henry Hernandez
Allstate
Lerdo
Jackson
Rod Witcher
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