Youth Tries To Frighten Pass He Succeeds
A confession from a SHS athlete notes devotion to school sports and a pledge to attend the Generals windup against Wasco on Nov 21. The writer praises Coach Mince amid a shallow roster while recalling Midwest football and Pasadena visits.
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Shafter High School
Taft
SHS
Generals
Wasco
Midwest
Shafter
Hymer
Vice
Mince
Pardon
Huron
S.D
South Dakota
Aberdeen
Christmas Festival Fair kicks off in Shafter
The first annual Christmas Festival Fair aims to warm Shafter residents with gift suggestions and free prizes. Held December 5 and 6 at Memorial Hall, the event is hosted by the Shafter Timine We Club and the Shafter Chamber of Commerce Merchants Division. Committees report final preparations for a family friendly celebration featuring Christmas gifts and holiday plans.
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Chambers of Commerce
Pasadena
California
Kay Crosby
Jim Hamilton
Merchants Division
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Shafter
Shafter Merchants
Yale
Memorial Hall
Shaftrar Timine
Shafter Chamber of Commerce Merchants Division
Burglars Steal Jewelry From Shafter Store and Loot Church
Night break-ins on Saturday, November 15 target Fabric Jewelers at 307 Central Avenue and the Pentecostal Church of God at 425 South Shafter Avenue. Jewelry valued around $5,000 taken from the store, about $59 from the church, plus $15 in property damage. Police report clues and a damaged safe after nine watches, three diamonds, two radios, and cash were stolen.
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Fabric Jewelers
Carl Sparks
Kern County Sheriff's Office
Luis Flores
Shafter
John Fabric
Bob Nixon
Central Avenue
Hanley
Witcher
Fabrie
Unification plan debated at Kern County hearings
Public hearings on a 14 district unification plan in Kern County center on equalizing funds and improving coordination from kindergarten to high school. The Wasco-Shafter district meeting heard Floyd E Taylor outline deadlines. Assistant Superintendent Sam Wallace noted the Kern Joint Union High School District opposes the 14 district plan and favors a 12 district approach keeping Bakersfield city schools together.
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Kern County
Wasco-Shafter
Northwestern
Wasco High School
Wasco
Floyd E. Taylor
Sacramento
Bureau of Administrative Research and District Organization
Taylor
Schoo
KJUHS
Bakersfield
Richland School Board Hears Unification Plan Discussion
Richland School District board members returned to Shafter after a Wasco public hearing on a proposed district unification. Dave Anderson reported highlights of the Wasco meeting where a state Board of Education representative explained the hearings and a plan deadline of December 31 for countywide approval and election.
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Richland School District Board of Trustees
Wasco
Shafter
Shafter-Wasco
Actis
Possente
State Board of Education
Cookies and Candy Needed for Vietnam Boxes
Operation Morale organized by the Shafter Women's Club aims to pack Christmas boxes for servicemen in Vietnam at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday December 2 at Shafter Memorial Hall. Donations of homemade cookies and candy are requested to fill the five pound boxes and cookies should arrive by 9 a.m. on December 2.
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Operation Morale
Shafter Women’s Club
Vietnam
Shafter Memorial Hall
Shafter
Buttonwillow
R.M. Bongberg
Tom Petrie
Jose Delos Santos
Lee Schacterle
James Arp
Dan Smart
Charles Suderman
I.J. Tidwell
Ronald Torgiani
Francisco A. Torrer
Nelson West
Frankie Wheeler
Tommy G
Wiley
Percy J. Williams
Manuel Wright
Charles A. Williams
Dwight Walhoad
Ernest Adkins
Leslie W. Armstrong
Randy H. Bankston
William W. Bishop II
Johnny C. Brown
Frank Borden
Kennethy R
Carleton Robert Carrasco
Carrol G. Crabb
Randall R. Cummings
Donald C. Firkins
David Grisham
Ronald D. Hamman
Allan P. Hoggard
John R. James
Theodore Johnson
Donald Jones
Stanley Klein
Johnnie L. Lewis
Don L. Loveless
Stephen Merlo
Roger Moore
David McCoy
Clifford G. Nelson
Arthur Ornelas
Raymond Rodriguez
Stephen Ruggenberg
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Francisco Martinez
Shafter Avenue
California Highway Patrol
Martinez
Orange Street
CHP
Joseph Samarripas
Kern General Hospital
Joe Martinez
Israel Gutierrez
Richard Rodriguez
Ruth Elaine Stover
William Grittin
Meyers Trailer Court
Bill Plummer
Richland
Wallace
Aldo Actis
County School Organization Committee
Floyd Taylor
State Department of Education
Joshua Thompson
Arvin
Allan Stramler
Earl Smith
Oildale
Melvin Sabovich
Lamont
Roy Fast
Greeley
Dave Anderson
David E. Cooke
Fred Starrh
Arthur Penner
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