Midwestern travels mark a respite before fall
The author outlines a multi phase trip from the Midlands to South Dakota and back, logging family reunions, the South Dakota State Fair in Huron, a homecoming for Raymond Gallagher now national VFW commander with Senator Mundt as speaker, then a westward return to Shafter. A local question about the most valuable cargo for Shafter roads is teased as a joke.
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Midlands
South Dakota
Minnesota
Huron
Raymond Gallagher
Redfield
S.D
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Philadelphia
VFW
Ray
U.S
Karl Mundt
Madison
Iowa
Karl
California
Shafter
Woodworth Named Youth Pastor at Union Congregational Church
David Woodworth 29 assumes duties as youth pastor after serving as youth minister at Grace Church in San Luis Obispo. He and his wife Mary expect their first child in October and will lead retreats and leadership programs for juniors to college students under Rev. Aren Onsum.
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David Woodworth
Union Congregational Church
San Luis Obispo
Grace Church
Dallas Bible College
Dallas
Tex
Woodworth
Mary
Anchorage
Alaska
California
A Restoration Clubmerica
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Shafter to Have Float in Wasco Festival Parade
Shafter will be featured in Wasco Festival of Roses Sept 12 to 14 with a parade float organized by the Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Germain's Rose Division. The parade on Sept 13 at 2 p.m. includes 17 divisions with Kern County entrants and prizes for top floats.
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Shafter
Wasco
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Germain’s, Inc
Rose Division
Seventh Street
Kern County
Carl Peterson
Shafter Research Laboratories
Dorothy Whisler
Germain’s
Job
Vacation Ends in Shafter Opens New School Year
Nearly 3 000 students at Shafter High School and Richland Elementary prepare to start the 1969 70 term. Richland opens Monday September 8 while Shafter starts September 10 with about 950 at Shafter and 1 800 at Richland.
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Shafter High School
Richland Elementary School
Richland School Board Postpones Meeting to Sept 2
The Richland School District Board of Trustees moved its regular meeting to Tuesday Sept 2 due to Labor Day. The session begins at 7 30 p m with the fall winter schedule after an 8 p m summer pattern. A 1969 70 finance plan remains unresolved pending state action and will be discussed, with Superintendent Dr E David Cooke expected to present updates.
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Richland School District Board of Trustees
Richland
Kern County
Trio Arrest Breaks Shafter Crime Wave
Police in Shafter report that two juveniles aged 15 and 16 and an 18 year old, Robert Holmes, solved a week of burglaries and thefts. The group admitted stealing welding gear from Wallace and Tiernan on Commercial Road and additional items including a motorcycle battery, tires, gas from trucks, and crates of tomatoes and lettuce from a dairy delivery. Holmes is jailed. juveniles to juvenile authorities in Bakersfield.
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Shafter
Bakersfield
Robert Holmes
Holmes
Palmdale
Hanley Witcher
Wallace and Tiernan Chemical
California
Preston
Lerdo
Five Corners
Elm and
Dairy Elite
Richland District Maintains General Levy Amid Bond Rise
Richland School District will keep its general tax levy at $2.93 per $100 of assessed valuation for 1969-70, despite a lower total valuation of about 11/2 million. An 18 cent bond retirement levy begins this year, raising total levies. enrollment is projected at 1800. The district now qualifies for state supplemental funds beyond equalization and basic allotments. A table shows 12 neighboring districts and Kern Union High School District with varied valuations and per pupil costs.
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Richland
David E
Cooke
Northwestern
County
Kern Union High School
Shafter
McKittrick
Rosedaan
Buttonwillow
Mennonite Brethren Church to Install Interim Pastor in Shafter
The Mennonite Brethren Church at 400 Kern Street will install Rev. Dan Friesen as interim pastor during Sunday worship on Sept. 7. Friesen, former chairman of the United States Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, comes to Shafter from Denver after leading churches in Reedley and Denver across a 30 year pastoral career. He will help the church for two years while a permanent pastor is found. Friesen and his wife have four children. Community members are invited to welcome them.
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Mennonite Brethren Church
Kern Street
Dan Friesen
Friesen
United States Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
Shafter
Denver
Reedley
Pipkin Clarifies Richland Bus Regulations for Schools
Kenneth Pipkin director of transportation for the Richland School District corrects last week's Press error. With one exception seventh and eighth graders must walk to school unless rural students live within a mile. All Shafter city limits eighth graders must walk. Eight buses will transport lower grades and kindergarten.
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Kenneth Pipkin
Richland
Shafter
Pipkin
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el Monte
Stanley Holman
George Napoleon Morris
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McFarland
Delano
American Rose Society
Lester E. Satterlee
Satterlee
Kansas City
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Long
Saganyi
Lester E, Satterlee
Jordan S. Kanikkeberg
E. David Cooke
Trio
Belridge
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Greeley
Lost Hills
Maple
Norris
Rio Bravo
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Mennonte Brethren Church
Richland Bus
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