USDA Leaders Move Headquarters to California Visit Kern County
National USDA officials led by Earl L. Butz relocated from Washington to Davis. In Kern County they reviewed rural development loans and grants from the Farmers Home Administration and Soil Conservation Service. A $705,000 FHA loan will fund Phase III of the Buena Vista Water Storage District, joining irrigation with the lakes of the Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
D. C
Davis
California
Earl L. Butz
Department
USDA
Kern County
Bill Erwin
Indiana
Erwin
Buttonwillow
Usda Farmers Home Administration
Soil Conservation
Buena Vista
FHA
Coleman
Shafter
Soil Conservation Service
Pafford to Speak at Kern Water Meeting
Robert J. Pafford Jr. will address the Water Association of Kern County at the Bakersfield Inn on September 5 with the topic Rough Times Ahead for Water Development. The retired Federal Bureau of Reclamation regional director holds a 39 year career in water resource development and recently earned the Interior Department Distinguished Service Award. William E. Moore Jr. will chair and conduct the association’s board election.
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Robert J. Pafford, Jr
Water Association of
Kern County
Pafford
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
The
Bakersfield Inn
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclamation
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
William E. Moore, Jr
Temperature Rises a Bit in Shafter
The Shafter area saw temperatures rise slightly last week with highs mainly in the 80s and several days reaching the 90s. Cooler days followed, and the first day of the new month dropped into the 80s at the USDA Cotton Research Station near Shafter.
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Usda Cotton Research Station
Shafter
Reception to Honor New Pastor Henry Harder at Shafter Church
The Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church invites the community to a reception for Rev. Henry Harder who becomes pastor. Harder, a Dallas Theological Seminary graduate with a Th M, has taught at MB Biblical Seminary and Pacific Bible Institute and served in Fresno and Saskatoon. He and wife Doris and son John will reside at 345 Calloway, with installation and reception planned for Sunday, September 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church
Henry Harder
Harder
Dallas Theological Seminary
Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary
Pacific Bible Institute
Fresno
M. B. Biblical Seminary
The
Central Mennonite Brethren Church
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Canada
Doris
John
Calloway
Kern Crops Impress High USDA Official in Buttonwillow Visit
William W. Erwin Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development toured western California agriculture. A Buena Vista Water Storage District luncheon announced a $705000 Farmers Home Administration loan for Phase III of the Buttonwillow Water Management project. The official praised the area’s very sophisticated farming and noted Westward farming must be understood to gauge national agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William W. Erwin
Buttonwillow
United States
Buena Vista Water
Pino’s
USDA
Farmers Home Administration
Buena Vista Storage
Irwin
Earl L. Butz
Department of Agriculture
U. S
Erwin
Butz
Department
Davis
Washington, D.C
West
Indiana
William Erwin
Douglas Young
Leland Freeborn
Buena Vista
Frank Elliot
FHA
Young
Freeborn
Richland Hosts 3 Day Workshop for Teachers
Forty two teachers and administrators took part in a three day Richland School District workshop led by Dr. Robert A Daw and Associates from Palo Alto. The program emphasized individualized instruction and applying primary level strategies to other grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Robert A. Daw
Palo Alto
Dr. Daw
Tom Flanagan
Horses Killed by Truck on Rosedale Highway
Two horses owned by John La Fountain were killed Friday when they ran in front of a pickup driven by Robert James Stanford on the Rosedale Highway near Renfro Road. Stanford escaped injury. the incident occurred about 5:50 p.m. The horses had escaped through an open gate allowing a corral truck to unload.
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Rosedale Highway
Rosedale
Robert James Stanford
Holland Street
Renfro Road
Hylton Drilling Company
John LaFountain
Stanford
California Highway Patrol
USDA Officials Inspect Shafter Projects Friday
Assistant Secretary William W. Erwin led a USDA delegation to Shafter to review housing and sewer projects funded to aid agricultural workers. They inspected the Mexican Colony sewer system and self help homes built with USDA loans, plus 50 duplexes part of Kern County Housing Authority’s 1500 unit low income program and other sites in Bakersfield Wasco and Buttonwillow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Shafter
USDA
Kern County
Erwin
Consultants Begin Study of Shafter City
Shafter officials met with Lampman and Associates consultants to review city structure. The team from Sacramento will study areas including police and public works, with Miss Walker forecasting five to ten years of impact. Phase I starts Thursday, about four months, at a cost of 9500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Lampman and Associates
Sacramento
Phil Brown
Ted Shettler
Carol Walker
al Mortimore
Miss Walker
Brown
Shettler
Police Department
Department of Public Works
Council
Adventist Pastor Accepts Bakersfield Church Post
Owen P. Jones, pastor of the local Adventist Church, will serve as pastor of Bakersfield Adventist Church on Wilson Road. He has spent three and a half years in Shafter and previously held positions in Phoenix, Arizona. The Jones family plans to move to Bakersfield mid September.
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Owen P. Jones
Bakersfield
Shafter Plans Float Entry in Rose Parade
The Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture will enter the same float as in the Shafter Festival parade in the Wasco Rose Festival in Wasco. Susan Franklin 1973 Miss Shafter leads with attendants Carla Absher Kim Handel Jacque Janzen Ellen Sill Jenee Tadevich Becky Witcher and Brenda Whitt. Shafter Mayor Richard Larson to ride in the car pulling the float. The festival runs September 7 9 with a parade September 8 a rose show and an art show scheduled along with an honored guest reception and a donkey basketball game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Shafter
Susan Franklin
Miss Shafter
Carla Absher
Kim Handel
Jacque Janzen
Ellen Sill
Jenee Tadevich
Becky Witcher
Brenda Whitt
Richard Larson
Wasco
Palm Avenue
Veterans Memorial Building
Palm Avenue School
SHS Booster Club to Feature Film at First Meeting
Jay Atkinson, president of Shafter High School Booster Club, invites potential members to the first meeting of the year in the SHS cafeteria on Thursday September 6 at 7 30 p m. Open to men in the Shafter Buttonwillow area. coaches will discuss the athletic program and show a film of intersquad scrimmages and player close ups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay Atkinson
Shafter High School
SHS
Shafter- Buttonwillow
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Emil
Jack) Frost
Kern
SHS Booster Club
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