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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1969
Page
5
An OCR fragment shows multiple Shafter businesses with contact numbers and addresses. Notable entries include Coca Cola Bottling Corp at 414 19th St Bakersfield and Hanner Trailer Mfg. Co near Shafter Airport, with several other trades listed along Central Avenue and nearby streets.
Recruiters gathered in California's Central Valley to select about 300 farmers and ranchers for 15 overseas Peace Corps programs. Western Region director H Glen Fishbach announced applicants must be US citizens over 20 with farm or ranch experience. Programs include India crop production, Afghanistan sheep husbandry, and Philippines nutrition agriculture. Women will handle nutrition cooking sewing child care prenatal care, while men work with extension agents and 4 H clubs. Applicants may begin training in spring and be serving within 4 to 6 months.
Fishbach outlined recruitment tours from Fresno to Sacramento with visits to Redding Chico Modesto Stockton and other Central Valley cities through Friday Nov 21. In Shafter a 16 year old girl with 118 Red Devil pills and drug paraphernalia was jailed. other juveniles faced charges from beer to public intoxication and curfew violations.
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