Busy Week for Shafter High School Opens New Term
Shafter High enters its second week with freshman orientation, sport events, and extra curricular rehearsals. Friday features the first official game against East High at 6 00 pm with band drill team majorettes flag team and cheerleaders debuting. Election day Sept 21 will see freshmen officers and five student senate members per class elected under Vice-President Terrance Williams.
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Shafter High School
Cular
Shafter
East High School
Porterville
East
Shafter High
Terrance Williams
Mark Richardson
Sherrill Nixon
Ted Elrich
Sheri Almberg
Steve Hanselman
Chiropractic pitch for 120-year life expectancy ad
An advertisement promotes chiropractic care as a means to aging well and extending life toward 120 years. It cites historical figures with long ages, urges diet, exercise, positive thinking, and nerve-flow adjustments, and invites Medicare and medical patients to call for full-spine chiropractic services for all ages.
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Chiropractic
Roscoe Pound
Amos Alonzo Stagg
Thomas Parr
Citrin Chiropractic Life Office
International Arthritis Society Research
Rodackers return to Shafter SDA school as staff
Virgil and Darlene Rodacker return for their third tenure at Kern Seventh-day Adventist Elementary School in Shafter. Rodacker is principal and teaches grades 5-8 plus basic sciences and math. Darlene handles grades 1-4 and reads English. They emphasize holistic Christian education and note private schools often outperform public schools on tests.
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Virgil
Darlene Rodacker
Shafter
Kern Seventh-day Adventist
Rodacker
Oakdale
Calif
Rodackers
North Dakota
Tom
Pacific Union College
Ne. Calif
Christie
Monterey Bay Academy
Edith
Beth
Maid of Cotton entrants sought for 1979 pageant
The National Cotton Council announced the 1979 Maid of Cotton search begins September 1. The winner, to be crowned in Memphis December 27 to 29, will become the American cotton industry's ambassadress and receive a $2,000 educational grant after touring internationally and domestically. Applicants must be 19 to 23, born in a cotton state or resident in the Cotton Belt since age seven, at least five feet five inches tall, and never married. Applications due November 12, with forms available from the council in Memphis.
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National Cotton Council
Memphis
Ruth Harman
Durham
N.C
New Maid
Canada
Europe
Far East
Mer
Council
Visit Leaves Lasting Impact on Shafter Community
Vicki Williams a 24 year old student from Loma Linda University La Sierra Campus spent twelve weeks in Shafter as an internship for religion majors. She assisted Pastor Paul Johnson of the Seventh day Adventist Church and engaged toddlers youths and parents with Bible stories activities and discussions. Her cheerful service endears her to the church and community as she returns to college as a Junior.
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Vicki Williams
Loma Linda University
la Sierra
Shafterin
Paul Johnson
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Montgomery Man Convicted of First Degree Murder in Drunk Driving Crash
A Montgomery jury found a man guilty of first degree murder after a drunken driving crash that killed a teenager. He received a life sentence, with prosecutors citing the defendant's intoxication at the time of the collision as an aggravating factor.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Obituary notices for Clarence Wade and Emma Nickel
Services were held in Agee Funeral Chapel for Clarence Wade 74 of Shafter died September fifth in Wasco Hospital. He lived in Shafter twenty years and is survived by Ellen his wife and children Herbert Robert Ronald Louise Ruby Lorene and others. Interment in Shafter Memorial Park. Emma Nickel 90 of Shafter died September fifth at a convalescent hospital. Rev Henry Harder officiated and she rests at Greenlawn Memorial Park. Surviving sisters Lydia Rogalsky and Helen Frantz.
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Agee
Clarence
Wade
E. Orange Shafter
Wasco
Joe Smith
Church of Christ
Shafter Memorial Park
Bixby
Oklahoma
Shafter
E.M. Mettler
Ellen
Herbert
Arizona
Robert
Petaluma
Ronald
Bakersfield
Louise Hornberger
Mojave
Ruby Sanders
Auburn
Lorene Porterfield
Emma Nickel
Shafter Convalescent Hospital
Henry Harder
Mennonite Brethren Church
Greenlawn Memorial Park
Rosary for Angie Garcia in Bakersfield area
Angel Garcia aged 44 died Friday September 9 in a Bakersfield hospital. Rosary was recited September 11 at Agee Funeral Chapel with Mass September 12 at St. Therese's Church. Interment at Shafter Memorial Park. Survived by mother Mercedes Garcia, six brothers Jesus Jose Alberto Pedro Jr Richard all of Shafter Ventoura of Tijuana Mexico. Five sisters Ramona Garcia of Shafter Sara Blanco Cecillia Rayos Socorro Garcia Guadatu- bock.
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St. Therese’s Catholic Church
Angel Garcia
Bakersfield
Shafter Me Park
Mr. Garcia
Sonora
Mexico
Kern County
Paul Nava Farming Company
Mercedes Garcia
At Wit's End by ERMA BOMBECK
A humorous essay on mothers coping with half day school schedules and husbands devoted to football. The narrator recalls Iris’s struggle with laundry chaos and her own memories of the past football rituals, ending with a wish for her husband to watch football again.
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Erma Bombeck
Iris
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D.D.S
Union & Insurance
Woolworths
Emma Nickel Services
Angie Garcia
Howard Cosell
Ft. Dix
Goodyear
Japan
Mies Ellen Heiman
Californis State
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