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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1962
Page
2
A playful editorial invokes familiar verse to urge discussion on broad topics including footwear vessels trade and symbolic goods. The piece uses literary framing to invite readers to consider policy and cultural issues with whimsy and rhythm.
Washington correspondents report the administration will press Congress to enact a bill offering medical services to all social security beneficiaries. Critics say it relies on compulsion and raises taxes, arguing existing programs and private tools already address elderly medical needs. The piece contrasts the Kerr plan and AMA backed proposals, cautioning that broad socialized care could erode standards.
Life magazine argues for a federal consumers council and stronger labeling while cautioning that inflated promises lead to higher taxes. Letters from Alamont New York Idaho Mountain Home and others criticize costly promises and urge price transparency and sensible reforms.
Mrs Alice Short of Colton asks readers to help find Virginia Coulter and her two sons. The family lived in Shafter. contact 828 East E Street Colton CA TA 5 4850. This appeal follows a December death and a government inquiry into their whereabouts.
Thirty girls donated time to color and decorate eggs for the hospital that serves about 2500 patients, with more than half being children. A volunteer then carried the eggs to the facility in time for its carnival.
Bert Ware, chair of the Salvation Army Shafter service unit, announced annual campaign plans with a May 21 kick-off. Police Chief Hanley Witcher, treasurer, reported 159 individuals aided in the past year with food, gasoline, lodging, bedding, and medical help for stranded or permanent residents.
Plans announced by L Arnold Bruce Crawford F W Handel Mrs Bertha Lachenmaier J H Maurer and Albert Nillek. Some naturalists believe for short distances the kit for one of the fastest running mammals.
Mrs. Jack Harris reports the birth of her grandson Paul Martin to Mr. and Mrs. Harris in Van Nuys. The baby boy weighed 9 pounds 13 ounces and is the Douglas family's fourth child.
A church Womens Guild speaker Mrs Neiderauer discusses tradition of ingathering offerings twice yearly. Mrs Paul Hartloff of Wasco noted. The group plans service and fundraising events with Mrs Pat Kelly hosting a gathering on the Mn 20th at 5 p.m.
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