Shafter Sports Week Stalled By Weather And Games
The Wasco Invitational Track Meet was cancelled and SHS swimmers were rained out at Arvin. A Wasco Friday track meet is set for 4 00 p m. Meanwhile the Potato Yearbook review praises the 25th anniversary edition, with release linked to the upcoming convention in Bakersfield. Baseball results show Wasco defeating Shafter 11 3 and Garces 3 2, while Shafter beat McFarland 6 0 in golf and sits tied for third with Wasco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Larson
Shafter
Wasco
SHS
Arvin
Mermon
Potato Growers Association of California
Trade Association
Francis P. Pusateri
California
U.S
Association
Casa Royale Motor Inn
Bakersfield
Taft
Generals
Tigers
Chester Hacker
Tim Powell
Powell
David Torigiani
Doug Ellis
Garces
Rams
Mickey Gladden
Rod Rutledge
Colonels
Golf Shafter
McFarland
Buena Vista
Lowscore
Bill McKinley
Two Students Admit Drug Take at Shafter High School
Two students at Shafter High were turned over to Shafter police after admitting taking seconal tablets. One girl was sent to juvenile hall. A boy admitted taking seven tablets and found with two more was taken to a doctor, then Kern General Hospital, and booked into juvenile hall after recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Shafter
Frost Buys Interests of Newspaper Partners
Emil Jack Frost announces he is buying the interests of two partners Frank Wisner and Floyd Wisner in the Shafter Press and Buttonwillow Times. Frost and his wife Laura will take possession April 1 and operate as Jack Frost Publications with Frost as editor and publisher. The Wisners plan travel and remain in Shafter. Audry Leigh continues as society editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil
Jack) Frost
Shafter Press
Buttonwillow Times
Frank Wisner
Shafter
Floyd Wisner
Scottsbluff
Nebr
Frost
Laura
Jack Frost
Audrey Leigh
Hawaii
Frank Wisner ends newspaper ownership after 50 years
In a frank reminiscence, Frank Wisner notes he will have no job or ownership in any newspaper after April 1. He explains Jack and Laura Frost will take over the Shafter Press and Buttonwillow Times, acquiring the interests of his brother Floyd and himself. He recalls working in his father’s plant and early inkner issues with his brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Laura Frost
Shafter Press
Buttonwillow Times
Floyd
Funeral Held For 81-Year-Old Mrs. Paulina Goehring
Funeral services were held Monday at Ebenezer Reformed Church for Mrs. Paulina Goehring 81 of 270 W Lerdo Hwy who died last Thursday in a Bakersfield hospital. Rev Calvin Stuebbe officiated with burial at Shafter Memorial Park. She was born April 14 in Menno South Dakota. She married Emil Goehring in 1907. The couple moved to Shafter in 1934 and he died in 1947. A son was named in the obituary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Paulina Goehring
Katherine Goehring
Jacob Mettler
Emil
South Dakota
Shafter
Fire Department Urges Cleaning Weeds From Lots
Shafter Fire Department to send notices to lot owners to remove weeds as wet spring growth grows. Chief Clifford Ratzlaff warns weeds become a fire hazard when dry and burning is prohibited to prevent property damage. Children playing on lots risk burns from hot embers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Fire Department
Clifford Ratzlaff
Loss of Sales Tax Agreement May Force County Rates Up
The uniform sales tax agreement between Kern County and cities is breaking down as Bakersfield Taft and Delano pull out. The move could force higher county rates and impact local revenue discussed at Monday night meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern
Bakersfield
Taft and
Delano
J. C. Atkinson
Shafter
Board of Supervisors
Study Sought on Tax Free Church Business Activities
Assemblyman William M. Ketchum introduces a resolution for a legislative study of religious groups engaged in business ventures not related to worship. The plan limits inquiry to business activities and excludes property tax exemptions for worship spaces and parochial schools. Equalization says a report supports corrective legislation on church and charity involvement in business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Ketchum
Ketchum
Equalization
Board of Equalization
Former Principal of Shafter High At Career Close
Elmer J. Peery, longtime Kern High School District staff since 1929, will retire at end of current school year. His resignation, accepted with regrets by the board on March 20, recounts a career from teacher at Kern County Union High School to Shafter High principal 1930–1935, Bakersfield High faculty until 1937, supervisor roles from 1938 onward, including district supervisor of audio visual aids from 1952.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer J. Peery
Kern
Peery
Kern County Union High School
Shafter High School
Bakersfield
Bakersfield High School
Funeral announced for T/Sgt Jim Wroten in Florida
Mr and Mrs Don Wroten of Shafter report their son T/Sgt Jim Wroten died Sunday March 23 in Florida He served 18 years in the US Air Force and was stationed at Homestead AFB Funeral arrangements by Mish Funeral Home Shafter pending He is survived by his wife Dona Stead parents and several children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Wroten
Shafter Avenue
Jim Wroten
Florida
Wroten
United States Air Force
Homestead Air Force Base
Shafter
Dona Stead
Rob Robert
Erty Johnnathan
Moni
Lori
North Port
Michigan
Barbara Micheals
Eureka
Mish Funeral Home
Bob Banks Back in Action With 22nd Infantry Unit
Shafter native Sp4 Robert A. Banks of Co C 2nd Bn Mech 22nd Infantry 25th Division Morocco Cu Chi Tay Ninh Vietnam returns to battle near Dao Tieng. He fired a canteen of oil to cool a red hot machine gun during three days of fighting northwest of Saigon after arriving Sept 21 1968 in Vietnam. He is a 1967 Shafter High School graduate and attended Bakersfield Junior College a brief period before enlisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Banks
J. M. Bill Banks
East Euclid Avenue
Shafter
Dao Tieng Tet Nam
Bob
Kualampur
Malaysia
Saigon
Co. C, 2Nd Bn
Mech
Cu Chi
Fort Lewis
Washington
Vietnam
Vien Hoa
Tay Ninh
Shafter High School
Bakersfield Junior College
Army
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Red Cross
Located Cross
David Cooke
Mert Wiedmann
Shafter Drug
Paul Hoffmann
Bank of’ America
Cooke
Nership
Wisners
Tri- Valley
Ventura County
Moorpark Enterprise
Camarillo News
Thousand Oaks Journal
Huron
S. Oak
Huron College
Huronite
Daily
Plains
Carrier Boys
Wisner
Scottsbluff, Neb
Huron, S. Dak
BY Frank Wisner
Dad
Fire Department
Shafter High
Career Close
Charles Pope
Hofman
Church of God
South Shafter Avenue
Richland Avenue
County Public Works Department
Smiths Corner
A. L
Bob Banks
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