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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1967
Page
3
Legal notice identifies Bert Oh Stepp and Lee R Stepp carrying on business as Bonnet in Pennsylvania. Filing and publication dated November 13 1967 with Albert T Clifford Lee & published by Shafter on Wednesday November.
Mr and Mrs Everett Siemens visited San Carlos to see his sister and husband Farm Advisor Hank Scaroni. They attended the Stanford Cal game in Palo Alto Saturday afternoon where Stanford led 3-2 before losing 26-3 in the final quarter. They had dinner Saturday night at the Hennigs home in Redwood City. They traveled by plane.
Sealed proposals for the construction of a chain link fence at the Shafter Rodriguez & Hudson sumps will be received at the City Clerk’s office 320 James Street until 5 p.m. Monday December 11 1967. Bids opened at 7 p.m. the same date at the City Council meeting. Plans and bid forms available from Beer Rickett Reaves Ward Bakersfield California. Prevailing wage rates apply and bid must follow state public works specifications July 1964.
The City of Shafter reserves the right to reject bids and to adjust or omit portions of work. Bids require contractor licensing under California Business and Professions Code. Prevailing wages and employer benefit payments are set by state Labor Code. Work must begin within 15 days of notice and finish within 40 working days. Dated 1967.
Jim Hanner reported to police that someone set the tail of his horse on fire while the horse trailer was parked at the Hanner home. The incident details remain unclear and no suspects are named in the brief report.
The California Association of Public Cemeteries meeting in Red Bluff prompted a northward trip by Ruben Siemens and his wife. Siemens, Kern County Cemetery District 1 supervisor and state association vice president, visited relatives in Livermore Pleasant Hills and Benicia. They toured historic sites and met former neighbors as their family prepares a new home in Livermore. The piece closes with a note on prudent hunting and waste.
Bakersfield Stamp Club announces its next regular meeting in the police department basement at Truxton and Eye street with guest speaker Edward Flading, editor of the World Postal Stationery Catalog. Refreshments will be served and adult collectors are invited. A junior club is sponsored and basic instruction classes start January 9. Regular meetings are the 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7 30 p m.
Mrs. Lenia V. Somers and family from Berkeley, along with W. D. Butler and sisters in Virginia, visited Shafter and Vista relatives after ten years. Thanksgiving plans include visits with the Maddox and Garvin families in Oxnard and Camarillo, with several other local relations noted. Mrs. Lewis Woodard remains in Mercy hospital convalescing, receiving no visitors but welcomes cards.
Carl Franklin Hunter, 70, of 714 Jackson St Bakersfield died Wednesday in a Bakersfield hospital. Funeral services were held 3 p.m. Friday at Agee Family Funeral Home Shafter with burial at Shafter Memorial Park. He was born December 22, 1897 in Texas and lived in California since 1941. Survivors include his mother Dora Hunter of Gainesville Texas sons J C and Ooora Hunter daughter Della Hunter brothers G H Hunter and Cleo Hunter Hobbs sisters Ollie Eikman and Vera Smart. Pallbearers were Kenneth Blanton Kelly Blanton Johnnie Blanton Melvin Blanton Victor Smart Darby Day.
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