Richland set to open with 1553 pupils amid kindergarten doubles
The Richland School district projects enrollment of 1553 for the coming year with kindergarten classes possibly forming a double session due to high pre registration. Bruce Crawford notes more permanent students and fewer migratory pupils will yield more uniform class sizes and a slightly higher average daily attendance. Registration procedures and open classrooms begin Tuesday with registrars ready at 8:00 a.m. Birth evidence required for kindergartners.
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Os School
Bruce Crawford
Richland
Police Solve Gas Station Burglary
Richard Lindsay, 25, formerly of Munzer street, serves a six month county jail term for burglarizing Maxberry's Union service station on August 17. He worked as an attendant, opened the safe and stole 41 dollars, a hacksaw and two screwdrivers. Arrested at his home days later, he admitted the burglary and has a prior record of three automobile thefts.
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Richard Lindsay
Munzer Street
Maxberry
Lindsey
Deep South
Hanley Witcher
Witcher
John Reily
Lerdo Boy Burned To Death In Sawyerville Fire
Nine year old Theodore Freeman died in a Sawyerville fire that destroyed a service station and cafe behind it. Fire officials say he slipped into a storeroom to fill a kerosene lantern when the blaze started around 9 39 p.m. He lived with his mother Ruby and brother behind the station.
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Lerdo Boy
Lerdo
Sawyerville
Cawelo
Theodore Freeman
Ruby
Richard Jones
Ground Observers to Meet FBI at Police Station
The air force plans a meeting at 7 30 Friday night at the Shafter police department to reorganize the ground observer corps. It will involve current volunteers and prospective volunteers to decide on a new local structure after a Bakersfield USAF notification.
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FBI
Air Force
Shafter Ground Observer Corps
Shafter
USAF
Bakersfield
Bill Banks
Ground Observer Corps
Shafter High prepares for fall registration 730 students
About 730 students including 52 from Buttonwillow will register at Shafter High on September 2 and 3 under Principal Dr Grant W Jensen. Enrollment should rise slightly from last year’s 628 average daily attendance. Book and supply distribution and an all school assembly are planned for the first class day August 6, with staff returning and reports from teachers about trips and tents delivered by Norma Hooks and Roger Tatum.
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Buttonwillow
Shafter High School
Grant W. Jensen
Jensen
Dr. Jensen
Fang Cens
Eee
Oc Ee Ee
Norma Hooks Roger Tatum
Buttonwillow Freshmen to Attend Shafter High School
Buttonwillow ninth graders will transfer to Shafter High School this fall, as Kern County Union High School District supervisor L McCuen announced. All older students remain at Bakersfield High. the change follows a district survey and local group support.
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Buttonwillow
Shafter High School
Bakersfield
Shafter
L. McCuen
Kern County Union High School
Bakersfield High School
Buttonwillow Pta
Chamber of Commerce
Shafter Squad Formed From Local Army Recruits
A squad of enlistees from Shafter will be organized by the Army under M/Sgt. James R. McClain. Five Shafter youths have already enlisted. three more are needed. The group will be sworn in via Bakersfield television and trained together for nine weeks, likely at Fort something.
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Shafter
Army
James R. McClain
Kern
Inyo
Mono Counties
McClain
Eedel
Bakersfield
Kern County
Fort
Five Youths Injured in Headon Crash
Five youths were injured in a head on collision on Fresno avenue with two in critical condition at Bakersfield hospital. The injured include Donald Dean Heaton and William Cummings. The crash remains under investigation by California Highway Patrol.
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Charles Barnes
Headon
Fresno Avenue
Beech Street
Bakersfield
Donald ‘Dean Heaton
Euclid Avenue
William Cummings
Sunset Avenue
John R. Ryan
California Highway Patrol
Buttonwillowan man fined for drunk driving
John Stewart 38 a Buttonwillow farm worker was fined 150 after pleading guilty before Judge E K Grant to driving while intoxicated. He was arrested by Officers Wade Hamilton and Glenn Molt on the Central Valley highway.
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John Stewart
Buttonwillow
E. K. Grant
Wade Hamilton
Glenn Molt
Central Valley Highway
Harrington Chosen Next President of Shafter Kiwanis Club
Ross Harrington is slated to become president of the Shafter Kiwanis club after an unopposed nomination by the board. He currently serves as vice president with Bob Bann nominated for vice president and Lester Reeves for secretary-treasurer. Official balloting will occur the first week of October with installations planned in January.
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Ross Harrington
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Harrington
Bob Bann
Lester Reeves
Houchins Bloodmobile Visit Slated for Shafter
The Houchins bloodmobile will come to Shafter next Wednesday in front of the Veterans Memorial to collect about 30 quarts. Jack Janzen of the local blood bank notes the event sponsored by the Mennonite Brethren church with refreshments from church ladies and volunteer nurse and physician services from Dr Henry Voth.
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Houchins
Shafter
Jack Janzen
Shafterites
Veterans Memorial
Comeate
Janzen
Mennonite Brethren Church
Henry Voth
Henry F Mettler Shatter Farmer Dies After Attack
Henry F Mettler a Shafter area farm owner and potato and cotton raiser died after a heart attack Aug 21 at an Oildale hospital. He was 68 born Oct 9 1885 in Menno S D and moved to Shafter in 1922. Survivors include his widow Lydia five sons and five daughters plus siblings and 32 grandchildren. Funeral services 10 a m Thursday at Ebenezer Reformed church with burial in Shafter Cemetery.
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Shafter
Mel Krug
First Baptist Church
B Brock
Fresno
Brock
Velma Brock
Oceano
Clarence
Donald
Frnest
Nipoma
Calif
Barkene Bra
Lantie
Oildale
Mettler
Shatter
Kern County
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Menno
Lydia
Adnet
Alvin
Elmer
Raymond
Bakersfield
Ruben
Los Angeles
James Taylor
Ray Rose
Robert Warren
Sam Heinrichs
Roy Davies
Fair Oanks
California
Christ F
S.D
Fred F
Santa Cruz
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