District to Cut 51 Teacher Positions Amid Funds Shortage
Supt. Eckhardt announced 51 terminations for the coming year, all first year teachers, as the district faces a funding gap. He blamed state underfunding and recent tax vote defeats, noting no new hires until vacancies are filled and student enrollment rising. The board also raised high school cafeteria prices to cut the deficit and eyed central kitchen options if prices fail to break even, with March 16 as the new price effective date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt
Eckhardt
Hoyern Schooistrict
Eobhards
Kern County
J. S. Wallace
Wallace
Harry Ward
Eelna
New Peak in Kern County Nonfarm Employment
Kern's nonfarm employment rose to a record 90,600 in the last year of the sixties, a 26.2 percent rise from 1960. December figures show 92,600, up 1,700 from December 1968, with Trade at 21,500 and manufacturing and services each up 600. Mineral extraction fell from 7,200 to 6,900 year over year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersfield
Kern County
State di- Sapa
Kern County Board of Trade
Kern
Bank of America vows civil suits after Isla Vista arson
San Francisco announces a four part response to the February 25 burning of the Isla Vista Bank of America branch. It includes John Doe suits to seek maximum damages and requests swift grand jury action for arson indictments. The bank also appeals to Gov Reagan and major city mayors for strong measures and rewards $1,000 for leads on mob leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Goleta
Bank of America
John Doe
Isla- Vista
Reagan
Grand Jury
Santa Barbara
Seton
King
Samuel B. Stewart
Bids Sought for Rosedale Highway Widening Project
Sacramento announces bids for three highway projects in Kern Inyo and Fresno counties. Kern County work on Route 58 Rosedale Highway widens to add two northbound lanes and an overpass over the AT and SF tracks at Jewetta Avenue with frontage road realignments. Bids open April 1 in Sacramento. Total funds 915000 including 3000 from Rosedale Union School District for school crosswalk beacon lights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
State Division of Highways
Kern
Inyo
Fresno
Kern County
Rosedale Highway
Allename
Jewetta Avenue
Rosedale Union School
Rosedale
Life of Joaquin Murrieta revived in new book
The review notes The Life of Joaquin Murrieta republished from the 1859 California Police Gazette details his rebel image, lynching of his brother, wife’s murder, and a two year spree from 1851 to 1853. It discusses myth versus fact and the brigand’s impact on California history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joaquin Murieta
California
Murieta
California Police Gazette
Valley Publishers
Fresno
Murietta
Marysville
San Gabriel
Sonora
Mexico
California Rangers
Girls State attendees named from Shafter and area
Marilyn, a Shafter High junior with two years on the Executive Board, California Scholarship Federation, Pep Band, Pep Club and student council, heads to Girls State as head junior class cheer leader and assistant council at SICON camp near Balch Park. Gail Kelley, alternate, a California Scholarship Federation member and active in Future Homemakers, Girls Athletic Association, joins Girls State staff as publicity aide under Mrs. Frank Wisner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marilyn
Shafter High
California
Balch Park
Richland School
Bakersfield College
Gail Kelley
California Scholarship, Federation
Futur Homemakers of America
Girls Athletic Association
Frank Wisner
Leslie L. Robinson
Department of California
Income Tax Plan Approved By Committee
The Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee backed AB 151 to let the State Board of Equalization continue collecting sales taxes for cities if the county repeals its sales tax ordinance. The measure, coauthored by Senator Stiern and Assemblyman Stacey, aims to spur talks between Kern County cities and the Board of Supervisors over revenue distribution. Bakersfield City Attorney Kenneth Hoagland and Delano City Manager Gerald Minford testified for the measure. a County Supervisors Association representative opposed it. The bill moves to the Ways and Means Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
County Board of Supervisors
Assembly Committee On Revenue and Taxation
William M. Ketchum
Paso Robles
State Board of Equalization
Board of Supervisors
Ketchum
Bakersfield
Kenneth Hoagland
Delano
Gerald Minford
Association of
Kern County Cities
County Supervisors Association of California
Walter Stiern
Kent Stacey
Assembly Committee On Ways and Means
Troop 953 Prepares for Camporee at Kern River Campout
Boy Scout Troop 953 sponsored by the Shafter Rotary Club camped by the Kern River on Feb 27. Scoutmaster Tom Almberg assisted by Kenneth Handel led meals, songs, skits and games around a campfire. Saturday featured advancement prep, camporee practice, first aid simulations, and a five mile hike before rain threatened tents.
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Kern River River Bottom
North Kern
Johnny Walker
Rusty Cooper
Steve Siemens
Philip Reimer
Robert Diltz
Ralph Goehring
Clayton Camp
Marvin Davis
Ron Johnson
Edwin Camp
Joe Voth
David Perales
Lonnie Harmon
Eric Almberg
Michael Boles
Mike Leigh
Mike Camp
Tony Mainici
Shafter Rotary Club
Kern River
Tom Almberg
Kenneth Handel
Pheasant Poison Survey Results Are Made Public
State Health Director Dr. Louis F. Saylor releases findings on mercury in wild pheasants after seeds treated with mercurial fungicide. Tests show 1.6 to 4.7 ppm mercury in six birds, well above normal animal flesh levels. Hunters mainly shoot birds hatched earlier and not exposed to treated seeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis F. Saylor
Department of Fish and Game
Drivers urged to keep freeway shoulders for emergencies
Captain R G Behringer of the California Highway Patrol warns motorists not to use freeway shoulders as travel or acceleration lanes. On modern freeways drivers should accelerate to match traffic before merging. shoulders remain for emergencies only and not as traffic lanes even on older freeways with heavy density.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Behringer
California “Highway Patrol
Behringer
CHP
Also Mentioned on This Page
Shafter High School
Debbie Smith
Laura Martens
Betty Crocker
Debbie
Robert Smith
H.S. Teachers
Bryan Coleman
Board of Trade
Shafter Press
Revie
Brigand
Hero
By Frank Wisner
Girls State
Committe
Mike McMeans
Edwin Gamp
Burley Dooley
Bob Diltz
Roy Kerber
Jack McMeans
Don Camp
Ken Handel
Everett Siemens
George Cooper
Evron Barber
National Meat Packing
Radiant
San Jose
Calif
Shafter
George Globe
Union Dental
Chester Avenue
Leeds
Habla Espanol
18Th & K Sts
First Baptist Church
North Pine Street
Edward M. Rhoades
Morning Worship Training Union
Evening Gospel Hour
KWSO
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