Okies Music Keeps Old-Time Country Alive in California
Edgar Crane, known as Uncle Ed, a Shafter resident, preserves Okie country western folk through a one man band. Since arriving from Texas in 1930, he plays guitar harmonica and drums for senior groups and parades, hoping to form a seniors band while preserving traditional tunes and presidential themed songs.
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Texas
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Jim Crane
Jim
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Joe Channeson
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Shafter Wasco
Tulare County
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Franklin
Eleanor
Pearl Harbor
Ed Crane
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Kern County Business Outlook Sees Mixed 1978 Forecast
The Kern County Board of Trade hosted its 20th Kern County Business Outlook Conference, with speakers optimistic about 1978 despite drought and energy woes. They warned of a hazy longer term due to rising government controls, while a record crowd of about 1,700 attended in Bakersfield. Union Oil's Fred L. Hartley delivered the luncheon address.
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Kern County Business Outlook
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Union Oil Company
Shafter Adult School Offers Pesticide Course and Classes
The Shafter Adult School schedules a FARM PESTICIDE SAFETY COURSE on Saturday March 4 in ROOM 18 HOME ECONOMICS HALL. Class begins 8:00 a.m. Call SHafter High School at 746 4961 or 325 1230 325 1239 EXT 32 for details. Also English as a Second Language three nights weekly Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 7 9 p.m. in ROOM 13 and openings in SEWING WITH KNITS and HOME ARTS. Mr Matis art class continues Tuesday evenings. The spring semester shows 875+ people finishing high school or gaining new skills in art crafts ceramics woodshop auto repair and photography. United Methodist Women of Shafter met at president Mrs Lois Robinsons home on Feb 14 with guests Mrs Pearl Beck and Mrs Myrtle Baughman of Bakersfield for a film on world hunger.
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Matis
Ings
Shafter
United Methodist Women
Lois Robinson
Pearl Beck
Myrtle Baughman
Bakersfield
Shafter High Baseball Schedule Highlights March Dates
Shafter High School plans a tentative baseball schedule listing games against Mc Farland Arvin East BHS North Wasco and Garces through March with times shown and a two day March 21 22 Wasco Tournament to be announced. The piece notes a historical figure stating 1 000 tractors on U S farms in 1910 rising to 4 402 000 tractors today to help farmers produce food.
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Wasco
Garces
U.S
Economic optimism voiced at Kern County conference
A Kern County conference chaired by Robert W Karpe featured nine speakers who forecast steady momentum for the billion dollar oil and gas industry into 1978 and likely 1979 while noting regulatory limits. Agricultural prospects are bright but water and energy pose the key challenges, with real estate growth aided by a strong food and fuel based economy and a favorable lifestyle.
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Ann Gutcher
Bakersfield College Public Information
Robert W Karpe
Karpe Realty
Kern County
Shafter High Hosts Third Annual Anything Goes Event
Shafter High School will stage its third Anything Goes competition on March 2 at 1 45 p m on the football field as part of National Physical Education and Sports Week March 1 7. Classes and faculty submit teams to tackle events like Slip N Slide Obstacle Course Human Wheelbarrow and Tug Of War with spirit points awarded, a format now adopted by Beardsley and West High in the Kern High School District.
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Shafter High
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Deserve the Best Schools Measure A in Shafter
An educational ballot measure pleads for a YES vote on Measure A in Shafter on March 7 to fund a new gym, air conditioning, classrooms, woodshops, upgraded windows, special education spaces, and relocated playing fields for Shafter High and nearby Central Valley High. It highlights benefits for PE, athletics, summer programs, and overall student facilities.
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Shafter Adult School News
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