Proposition 1: Reagan Plan Support Echoes in California
The editorial argues for Proposition 1 the Tax and Expenditure Limitations measure. It cites welfare reform savings, county relief drops, and 42 of 58 counties cutting property taxes. It quotes Kern County Taxpayers Association praising the measure as a checks on discretionary state action and urges Californians to vote yes.
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Reagan
United States
California
Kern County Taxpayers Association
Kern County
Kern
Young Boys Charged in Car and Tractor Thefts
Two boys aged 11 and 12 admitted to stealing a car and two tractors last week near Wasco. Deputies investigated after Armstrong Nursery reported yard thefts and a tractor used to free a stuck car near Beech and Merced Avenues. The second tractor was found abandoned on West Tulare. about 200 dollars in hydraulic line damage occurred.
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Wasco
Armstrong Nursery
Shafter
Beech and Merced Avenues
Emh. Mettler and Sons
West Tulare
Joe O'Brien Sets New Record With Five Straight Wins
Harness racer Joe O'Brien of Shafter set a new WHR record at Hollywood Park by winning five consecutive races in a single program on Friday He rode winners in races two through five and was favored in only one race since beginning Western Harness Racing in 1946 he has ten four victory days and is WHR's all time leading driver with 785 wins.
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Joe O’brien
Shafter
Hollywood Park
O’brien
WHR
Shafter Sees Light Rain and Mild Week Weather
Wind swept Shafter Monday night bringing 0.04 inch of rain raising the season total to 0.26 inch. Temperatures stayed pleasant with nights cool enough to dew up car windshields. The week ranged from a high of 94 to a low of 48 as recorded near Shafter at the USDA Cotton Research Station.
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Shafter
Usda Cotton Research Station
Shafter-Wasco Purse Snatchers Strike Again
A purse snatching near Central Valley Highway left June Kimsey of 516 Sunny Street robbed as two young men aged 18 to 20 fled in a green pickup. The same style vehicle tied to earlier Shafter and Wasco thefts, with a Mexican male suspect driving Wasco cases.
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Shafter-Wasco
Shafter
June Kimsey
Sunny Street
Central Valley Highway
Wasco
Beer Burglary At Smith's Corners Bar Details Stolen Goods
Sheriff's deputies investigated a burglary at Smith's Corners Bar on Friday night. Six cases of beer three boxes of sandwiches a jar of beef jerky and a box of cigars were stolen with a total loss of sixty dollars.
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Wasco
Smith’s Corners
Almar
Shafter and
Orange Avenues
Scouts Sell BBQ Tickets For Saturday Event At Stringham Park
Shafter Scouts from Packs 901 913 and 953 sell hamburger barbecue tickets for a Saturday event at Stringham Park from 4 to 6 p m Proceeds fund Shafter Scout Building costs Weather plan calls for moving to Shafter Veterans Hall if windy or rainy Bruce Muir and Evron Barber lead ticket sales and donations by phone at 746 4050 and 746 4741.
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Shafter Cubs
Webelos
Stringham Park
Jay Atkinson
Shafter Scout
Rolf Jacobsen
Don Little
Tom Almberg
Elmer Unruh
Richard Moon
Carl Wells
Scout Building Committee
Tom Leigh
Lew Carroll
Ed Riggle
Phil Zachary
Bruice Muir
Evron Barber
Shafter Veterans Hall
Muir
Barber
Kiwanis Halloween Parade set for October 31
Kiwanis plans the 31st annual Halloween Parade centered around California and James Streets with a 7 30 p m start after a 6 p m lineup. Dwayne Wilson notes posters and a 5 3 2 1 prize system plus 11 judging divisions and cash awards up to 25 for bands and various groups with over 2 000 expected spectators.
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California
James Streets
Dwayne Wilson
Richland
Wilson
Beauty and the Beast - Kiwanis Parade
Farm Worker Killed When Hit by Truck Near Merced Avenue
Simplica Garza, a Superior Farms employee, died at the scene Friday after a truck backed over him while he serviced a tractor in a field south of Merced Avenue near Highway 99. The sheriff's substation in Wasco reported the industrial accident and the coroner was summoned.
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Wasco
Simplica Garza
Superior Farms
Merced Avenue
Freeway 99
Garza
State Highway Budget Includes Kern County Route Upgrades
The 1974-75 California State Highway Budget totals 929.8 million dollars, up 34.7 million from 1973-74. Kern projects include widening Route 43 to four lanes between Shafter and Wasco, converting Route 58 to a four lane freeway in Bakersfield, and related interchanges and ramps with costs totaling several million dollars.
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California Highway Commission
Kern County
Shafter
Wasco
Bakersfield
James A. Moe
Moe
Riverside Avenue
Cottonwood Road
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Jack) Frost
Cube
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Brian Robinson
Kelly
Southern Sierra Council of Boy Scouts
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
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Almador County
Mother Lode
Smith's Corners
Kyle Grimes
Cameron Road
Cache Creek Bridge
San Bernardino County
General Beale Road
Wilson Road
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Castaic
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