Shafter High FFAers Enter Kern County Junior Livestock Show
Kern County Junior Livestock Association hosts a four day show and sale at the Kern County Fairgrounds in Bakersfield September 28 to October 1. More than 350 students projected to exhibit over 700 animals from 4H and FFA groups across Kern County with a public sale and raffled livestock prizes.
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Shafter High
FFA
Kern County
Bakersfield
Kern County Junior Livestock Association
Kern County Fairgrounds
Shafter High School
Fartners of America
Burley Dooley
Shafter High Agriculture
Ken Mebane
Gerald Lewis
Tommy Cross
Larry Compton
Kent Hamilton
Freddie Thomas
Junior Association
Jim Pensinger
Garone
Bakersfield College Ag Club
Ag Club
Jim Smoot
Kern Fairgrounds
Need For New Water Well Arises In Shafter
SPUD faces a water supply issue as seven wells operate with well three underperforming. A new well or relocation is planned since well three at 230 feet yields 800 gpm, while others pump 1200 gpm at 190 feet. The district seeks pump details from Shafter Pump and Machine and may replace well three.
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Jack Harris
Shafter Public Utilities District
Spud Board of Directors
SPUD
Harris
Richland School
Shafter
A. G. Mortimore
Thi
Bill Johnston
Local Merchant Group Rejects Stamp Act Plan
The merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce voted against Evergreen Stamp Company’s savings stamp plan after a stamp committee report. David Bell proposed a redeemable stamp program for merchandise from cooperating local shelves with tiered stamps per purchase. The committee included Earl Johnson, Bob Godbey and Art Hemingson. The next Merchants Association meeting is slated for September 11.
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Chamber of Commerce Onday
Evergreen Stamp Company
David Bell
Bell
Wasco
Earl Johnson
Bob Godbey
Art Hemingson
One Way Signs Ordered For City Alleys
Shafter City Council moves to ease downtown alley congestion by ordering one way street signs for alleys under 20 feet wide. Police Chief Hanley Witcher to arrange enforcement and extend one way traffic as needed. Signs to be standard white on black from US Porcelain Co.
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Shafter
Hanley Witcher
Magenza Street
Central and
California
Central
Pacific Avenues
Central Valley Highway
Witcher
Busines
Madey US. Porcelain& Co
Drivers warned to watch for school children in Shafter
Police Chief Hanley Witcher urged motorists to slow and stop for school kids at crosswalks intersections and bus stops. The new law requiring drivers to stop behind stopped buses and observe flashing red lights will be strictly enforced. Kern County casualties to date 1960 128 1961 95.
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Hanley Witcher
Shafter
Kern County GOP Declines Endorsement of Water Agency
The Kern County Republican Central Committee will take no official stand on endorsing the proposed Kern County Water Agency. Chairman Leonard S. Thomson says individual members may act privately, but the committee remains noncommittal on the request from Lawrence Weill of the Committee for the Kern County Water Agency.
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Kern
Kern County Republican Central Committee
Leonard S. Thomson
Water Agency
Thomson
Lawrence Weill
Kern County Water Agency
Weill
Lawrence
Republican Central Committee of
Kern County
Republican Central Committee
Central Committee
Local FFA'er Shows Grand Champion at State Fair
Mebane, a Shaf ter High senior, reaped top honors as his black Angus steer was named Future Farmers of America Grand Champion at the State Fair in Sacramento. The team’s effort included several Shafter FFA members with strong showings in various divisions.
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Ffa’er
Mebane
Shaf
Farmers of America
Sacramento
Ken
Shafter Ffa
Shafter Press Upgrades to Duplex AB Printing Press
The Shafter Press began using a newly installed Duplex Model AB press capable of printing eight pages at a time and 4,000 copies per hour. The older flat-bed cylinder press required 25 man hours for the issue and printed four pages per run.
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Shafter Press
Ress
Lake Tahoe News
Pss
Olso
Humble Oil to Drill on Watson Land in Shafter
Humble Oil and Refining Co seeks bids to drill a 14 500 foot oil and gas well on George Watson land in southwest Shafter, north of Los Angeles Avenue and east of Scaroni Avenue. City officials, including Mayor Ben Grundy, anticipate a potential gusher as negotiations proceed.
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Humble Oil Company
Shafter
Moho
Humble Oil
Watson Land
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Southwest Shafter
George Watson
Ben Grundy
Los Angeles’ Avenue
Scaroni Avenue
Humble plans deep Shafter well amid Tejon field tests
Fresno area drilling notes show Humble Oil aiming to reach 12 000 feet initially with a 14 500 foot desperation depth if needed. The project sits near Section 17 288 22E, a region long known as the state's deepest producing district. Nearby Tejon field tests and Tidewater oil history frame the effort.
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Fresno Bee
Howard Kegley
Tidewater Oil Company
Humble
California
Kegley
Tejon
Arvin
Richland PTA Plans Teachers Reception
The Richland PTA schedules a Teachers Reception on Tuesday September 12 at 6 30 p.m. on the Richland School patio with theme Time for School. Mrs Art Penner chairs with Mrs Don Camp and Mrs Bill Camp Jr assisting as decorations and plans and dessert or salad contributions are arranged by alphabet group A through L and M through Z.
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Richland Pta
Richland
Shafterites
Art Penner
Don Camp
Bill Camp Jr
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Angus
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Duplex Printing Press Company
Tehachapi Mountains
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Standard
R. Robert Evans
Press
Bob
Bill A. Tyler
Tyler
Bill Pyter
Art Johnson
Kern County Union High School
Don Ruggenberg
Don
Maxey Brooks
By Pappy Swank
Sylvia Baughman
RS. Don Camp
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