Buttonwillow Fall Festival Set With Food Fun and Contests
Saturday plans include Buttonwillow 10th annual Fall Festival with Lions Club pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. and continuous activities in the park. Wasco hosts Festival of Roses with Wasco and Shafter honors, Buttonwillow and Shafter winning parade and art prizes, plus Buttonwillow band and majorette awards. Dennis Day headlines Kern County Fair with Hank Simen, Tu-lare Lee, Rockettes, and opt shows.
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Buttonwillow
Jack Frost
Shafter Press
California
Kingsize
Lions Club
Lady Lions
Wasco
Shafter
Jack
Jan) Kennath
Debra Page
Evan Ball
Donna Parish
Marie Dyles
Gloria Calhoun
Shafter Rose to Headline Kern County Fair Rose Show
Shafter's rose gains prominent spot at the Kern County Fair with Germain's Treasure Chest, Dorothy Whisler's golden variety, featured among new floriculture entries. Co-Chairs James Thorne and Pearl Melton note the broad range of roses for gardening and landscaping needs, highlighting Treasure Chest as a high performance canary yellow hybrid tea with pink-tinged margins and 55 to 65 petals.
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Shafter
Kern County
Germain
Dorothy Whisler
Floriculture
James Thorne
Pearl Melton
Bus Transportation Restored for Kern High Athletes and Band
The Kern High School District Board reinstates bus transportation for band and sports team members to after school and evening events. Superintendent Dr. John Eckhardt cited budget cuts and community concerns as factors, with funds drawn from dwindling reserves to restore service immediately.
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Kern
Kern High
Eckhardt
Shafter Exhibitors Triumph In Home Economics
Shafter entries led by Miss Ann Christensen and her mother Mrs. Donald Christensen captured multiple prizes in the Home Economics Junior Department. Ann Christensen won first in bar cookies and seconds in frosted sugar cookies and larger cakes with a third in sugar cookies, while Mrs. Christensen earned five firsts two seconds and a third in food preservation including canned beans jellies and pear butter. Mrs Minnie Heinrichs won second in sculptured ceramics and an originally designed bowl and a third for a hand built ash tray.
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Shafter
Helen Bates
Ann Christensen
Pacific Avenue
Donald G. Christensen
Minnie Heinrichs
Smith’s Lane
City Council Sets New Garbage and Sewage Rates in Shafter
Shafter city council at its Monday meeting approved emergency garbage and sewage rate increases effective Oct 1 for the 1969 70 budget year. Residential garbage will rise from 1.50 to 2.00 monthly, with other residential and business scales specified. water rates were deferred.
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Shafter
Wayne Wood
Sharaenessman W
Eas
Parents and Sons Invited To Scout Session Tuesday
Richland Elementary School in Shafter opens its doors for a Cub Scout and Boy Scout information night. Marvin Neuman and Evron Barber urge boys and parents to visit Richland School to meet area leaders and register if desired. The countywide sessions aim to explain Scouting and welcome new members, with Shafter’s event at 7 15 p.m. in the cafetorium, where boys can join that evening.
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Richland Elementary School
Kern County
Evron Barber
Marvin Neuman
Richland
Shafter
Evron’ Barber
Richland School
Neuman
Barber
Bruce Crawford
North Kern Scout Council
Don Zachary
E. David
Pe Shee Oraack
Carlos White
Tom Leigh
Saturday Service Cut At Shafter Post Office
Saturday morning window service at the Shafter Post Office will be discontinued effective Sunday October 5 due to high costs and low patronage. Stamps remain available via the lobby Stamp Vending Machine. other mail services stay unchanged. In Kern County the building dollar volume rose 474000 ahead of last year with August totals and new dwellings dominating, though year to date permits show mixed levels. Economists call construction a key business barometer. Six cities posted over the year gains in August construction.
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Shafter Post Office
Gene Guenther
P.O. x
Guenther
Kern County
Mits
Zee
Kern County Board A Trade
Bryan Coleman
Board of Trade
Coleman
Bakersfield
California City
Delano
Shafter
Tehachapi
Wasco
Expect Arson in Theft and Burning of Automobile
Shafter police investigate arson in the theft and burning of a 1961 model car. The vehicle was stolen from the Jimmy Carter residence at 224 South Shafter and later found gutted by fire south of Lerdo on Cherry Avenue. Mrs Mary Pierce reported an attempted entry to her home at 5511/4 Central Avenue.
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Shafter City
Jimmy Carter
South Shafter
Lerdo
Cherry Avenue
Mary Pierce
Shafter
Central Avenue
Shafter High School Enrollment Reaches 950
Enrollment at Shafter High School reached 950 as of Friday, September 19, with officials noting it as near normal and a projected peak of 970 for the term. Class tallies show freshmen 263, sophomores 240, juniors 257, and seniors 190.
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Shafter High School
Checks Stolen From Shafter Service Station
Blank business checks were reported stolen from the Phillips 66 Service Station at 921 Cecil Avenue. One check was reportedly made out and presented at Top's Market. Residents of the Shafter area have been cautioned to be on the alert for the checks.
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Phillips 66
Cecil Avenue
James
Shafter Area
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Dennis Day
Jack Benny
Hank Siemen
Gigi
Archie
Cherri
Henry
Tulare Lee
Leanne Johnson
Arlene Wells
Bill Plummer
Gamma Beta Chapter
Alpha Zeta Beta Sorority
Weldon Wilson
Pat Lamas
Marlene Stonebraker
Virginia Wahl
Joan Easton
John Eckhardt
Parents and Sons
Shafter Business
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