City Council reviews retirement plan and multiple programs
The Shafter City Council discussed a New York Life retirement plan for city employees and the Shafter Public Utility District amid other options including the state program. Key figures noted past service findings as a hurdle, with first year costs around 10 383 and 16 252 over 20 years or lump sum. Mayor Zenk said no decision Monday and more programs to hear.
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Shafter Public Utility District
New York Life Insurance Company
Richard Zenk
Bill Hildebrand
Wade Hamilton
State Street
Shafter
Jay "Atkinson
Rio
Temperatures Rise to 98 at Shafter Cotton Research Station
The Shafter area logged a high of 98 Friday at the Shafter Cotton Research Station, with midweek highs of 94 on Wednesday and 95 on Thursday. Weekly highs and lows are listed without further details.
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Shafter
Shafter Cotton Research Station
Shafter Wasco Meeting Proposes Hospital District Boundary Shift
Local Agencies Committee members Dr. Henry Voth and Dr. Max Hendricks led talks in Wasco about redrawing hospital district boundaries. They urged placing the district north and east of the Shafter Wasco area to avoid taxing nonusers and conflicting with a private hospital already serving the zone.
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Shafter
Wasco
Ne Dos
Henry Voth
Shatter
Max Hendricks
Shafter-Wasco
Dr. Voth
Delano
Boundares
Hospital District
Shafter- Wasco
Chamber Hears Sign Proposal and Bureau Talk
The Chamber of Commerce board discussed a proposed city sign offered by Jim Camp with an estimated $3500 price plus $1000 for rights. Weston Futrell appointed a committee to review the sign and report. The board also heard Paul McFaul of the Better Business Bureau request support for expanded membership.
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Chamber of Commerce Board
Jim Camp
Bob Bann
Chamber
Weston Futrell
Mert Weidmann
Dar! Moyer
Paul McFaul
Bakersfield
Better Business Bureau
Lee Fike
McFaul
Legion Auxiliary and Legion District Meet at Exeter
Leslie L. Robinson Unit 213 president Iva Jo Fosdick and Jeannine Hetherington led a 15th district gathering at Exeter on May 22 with 37 Auxiliary members and 50 Legion men. A memorial service honored deceased veterans and auxiliary members. Officers for next year were elected with Marie Wilson president and Isabelle Weisbach first vice president. Delegates to the Department convention in Bakersfield were named for June 23 to 26.
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Iva Jo Fosdick
Leslie L. Robinson
American Legion Auxiliary
Jeannine Hetherington
Algie Heinlein
Grace Cox
Exeter
Memorial Hall
Legion
Danny Hetherington
American Legion
Floyd Heinlein
Leon Morgan
John Everett
Shafter American Legion Auxiliary
Cathy Morgan
Marie Wilson
Isabelle Weisbach
Department
Civic Auditorium
Bakersfield
War veterans buried in Shafter Cemetery list printed
Franks Wisner notes The Shafter Press publishes a complete list of war veterans buried in Shafter Cemetery and invites corrections. The purpose is to honor Memorial Day with prayer for an end to wars and peaceful neighborly living locally and globally. The essay from Scottsbluff Daily Star-Herald is also featured as a dream on the good life.
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Shafter Press
Shefter
Scottsbluff
Daily Star-Herald
Graduation Ceremonies Announced For Local Schools
Superintendent Bruce Crawford announces June 2 graduation ceremonies at the high school stadium with speakers Carol Snively Mary Bankston and Patricia Anderson. Master of ceremonies David Mason to preside on June 9 at 8 p.m. at the High School stadium. Kern Junior Academy and Lerdo Seventh-day Church plan separate graduations on June 9 and June 2 respectively.
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Bruce Crawford
Carol Snively
Mary Bankston
Patricia Anderson
David Mason
Harold Corrie
Kern Junior Academy
Aoe
Lerdo
High School Tax Endorsement Supported by Kern Group
The Kern County association endorsed the 26 cent tax override for the Kern County Joint Union High School District in the June 7 election. John Kelly of KERNTAX said the trustees must review operating costs and keep expenses down while maintaining competitive teacher salaries and essential programs.
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Kern County Association
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Kern County Joint Union “School
John Kelly
Kerntax It
FOCUS
Autho
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Kelly
Kerntax
Kern County Joint Union High School
Citizens React To Picketing By Union Organizers
Leaders from chambers of commerce farm bureaus and church groups attend the Delano Forum on May 18 1966 and agree to picket any business removing Di Glogic products from shelves.
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Chambers of Commerce
Farm Bureaus
Delano Forum
Memorial Day Dedication At Shafter Memorial Park
Memorial Day services planned at Shafter Memorial Park on Monday May 30 at 11 with three U S government bronze markers to be unveiled in the grave of Joe Alic Carter and his two sons Captain Joe W Carter Jr and Second Lt Harold Douglas Carter. Local volunteers and American Legion groups organize the event. The ceremony includes a bugler flag ceremony and a rifle salute with speakers Lt Commander Grold Elmer and Rev Leonard Hall.
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Shafter Memorial Park
Joe Alic Carter
Vera Carter
U .S
Joe W. Carter Jr
Harold Douglas Carter
Evelyn Agee
Jim
U. S
Leslie L. Robinson
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Danny Hetherington
Shafter Cemetery
Carter
Gary Ingle
Buttonwillow
Hetherington
Grold G. Elmer
U. S. Navy Reserve
Bakersfield
Leonard Hall
Shafter Ministerial Association
Shafter Church of the Nazarene
Shafter
2030 Club
Shafter Junior Women's Club
Shafter Woman's Club
Shafter Business and Professional Women's Club
Lions Club
Rotary Club
Kiwanis Club
Degree of Pocahontas
Shafter Merchants Association
Chamber of Commerce
The
American Legion Post
Grady Bartlett
Potatoes Shed Readied for Market Amid Crop Delays
Shafter farms and several sheds including Kem Land Company Lapomo Ward and Sill plant report a late spring crop. Frost delayed maturity by about one week but growers expect better quality potatoes soon reaching the market. Shafter Marketing plans to start shipments next week as mature stocks come in.
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A. H. Br
Em H. Mettler
Ter
Steve Furman
Handel Shed
Kem Land Company
Street
Lapomo & Ward
Sill
Shafter Marketing
List of Deceased Veterans To Be Honored Monday
A Monday ceremony at Shafter Memorial Park Cemetery will honor 163 veterans from all wars buried there. Rueben Siemens provided burial records and assistance for locating graves, including both men and women. The list includes Jack Altman, Samuel Abright, E C Atchison, Elvin Allen, Hubert Annis, McKinley Bailey, James Bailey, and many more, with the tally continuing on page 2.
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Shafter Memorial Park
Rueben Siemens
Shafter Cemetery
Jack Henry Altman
Samuel Abbright
E. C. Atchison
Elvin Allen
Hubert L. Annis
McKinley Bailey
James S. Bailey
Bill Joe Baker
Paul Hanceford
Louis Baldwin
A. Barnard
Warren G. Barton
Max Bell
Peter Bender
Paul
Fred H. Briggs
James E. Eugene Breck
Jesse W
Shelby P. Brooks
Charlesee Brown
Reginald H. Brown
James Bryant
Richland Board Sets Friday Night Public Meeting
The Richland District Board met in executive session Monday night to discuss personnel problems. It will reconvene Friday at 7 30 p.m. at the school with a portion possibly in executive session before the open meeting.
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Richland
Clergy Visit Touts Steady Growth in Missouri Conference
A June meeting involving district superintendents of the North Conference of Methodism discussed Pastor Greer’s Southeast St. Charlies Kansas background and recent work. He formerly led a Kansas church and served an inner city Louis parish before arriving at Center Street Church in Clarence Missouri.
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R Pett
N. Conference of Methodism
Greer
St. Charlies
Kansas
Louis
Center Street
Clarence
Soren Bee
Holiday Hours Noted for Monday May 30 Mail Service
Postmaster announces holiday schedule changes for Monday May 30. Mail collection receipt and dispatch will observe special hours with all deliveries made as scheduled.
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Nancy Lawson
Mary Miller
Kris Albright
Kathy Ander
Janet Jengeerg
Jim A T
Robert Shively
Are Business and Professional Women's Club
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Lemiel Dee Bryant
Isaac Cardwell
Luther Lee Carroll
James Emmett Chambers
Andrew Chester
Frank Herbert Chapman
William Paul Connell
Fred Cotton
Richard Crain
Lonnie Crawford
Lee William Cooper
James Harry Davis
William Clarence Davis
Harold Martin Dial
Ruben David
James Eh Treva Junior Ellis
Jesse Elmore
George Enns
David Epp
Richard J. Erickson
Herbert C. Evans
Omar J. Evans
Curtis Fain
Wilburn Fain
Haldeman J. Flad
John Edwin Fink
Aaron Gladden
Benjamin D. Goodwin
William Vernie Grose
Peter C. Guenther
Charles E. Hand
Bert Cecil Harvey
Thomas St. Hill
Gayle Eugene Hinton
Herndon W. Hitchcock
William D. Hobbs
Carl F. Hockett
James Monroe Helt
Mabel Susan Housdan
Fred M. Howard
Temple Maurice Hooker
Homer Lee Holt, Sr
Ernest Richard Howard
Billie Lee Ivey
Arlington Guy Jamison
William Johnson
Louis J. Kennath
Harold R. Klassen
John E. Kroeker
Carlton C. Kellar
Homer Leon
Richland Board
Connie Richards
Connie
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Debra Gorsching
Vicki Owens
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