Postcard Registration Aims To Boost California Voter Turnout
California embraces postcard registration to simplify voter enrollment. County officials note cards are available at fire stations DMV offices and other locations. Local volunteers will distribute postcards in Shafter before the October 4 deadline to register eligible unregistered voters, aiming for higher turnout by November 2.
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California
Vera K. Gibson
Department of Motor Vehicles
Shafter
California SB 2199 aims to extend bus safety standards to all student transport
Senate Bill 2199 introduced by Senator Randolph Collier seeks to require 40 hour driver training and a school bus certificate for all drivers transporting students and annual CHP inspections for all student buses. It targets private and charter buses and follows community efforts by parents and the California School Employees Assocation after a Yuba City High School charter bus crash.
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Yuba City
Senate
Randolph Collier
Assembly
California Highway Patrol
Ed Meacham
Collier
CSEA
Middle road to energy independence urged by speaker
The speaker calls for a middle road in energy policy, balancing interests to solve problems with new solutions. He declares a new Energy Era has begun and emphasizes adjustment balance compromise and decisive action.
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America
Ford tracks delegates with 100 workers at convention
A Ford campaign plan outfits 100 workers with electronic beepers to monitor delegates in Kansas City. They will operate 24 hours a day from a mission control trailer to deter last minute defections to Reagan, gathering rumors and pressuring wavering delegates.
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Jack Anderson
Ford
Kansas City
Ronald Reagan
Mission Control
Paul Harvey Christmas Welfare Tale Rings True
In an election year Congress balks at curbing free handouts while President Ford notes the need for government to aid the needy. A welfare recipient allegedly borrows a country ham, sells it for 27 dollars, buys 80 dollars of food stamps, and repurchases the ham, underscoring ongoing doubts about welfare abuses.
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Colorado
Crested Butte
Chronicle
Myles Archer
Chronicle News
Callaway
Crested Butte Development Corporation
Bo Callaway
Senate
Congressional
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Congress
Donald Alexander
Paul Harvey
Ford
Earl Butz
Santa Claus
Washington
Treasury
William Simon
Simon
West
Butz
New York City
Taft’s birth and early growth in California’s Kern County
The 1908 settlement of Taft began around a freight car on the Sunset line named Siding No. 2. Rapid development followed after a devastating 1909 bakery fire, with townsite expansion, utilities, churches, and schools shaping Taft as it incorporated in 1909 and built a growing community through 1911 1932.
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Taft
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Sunset
Bakersfield
McKittrick
Kern
Midway Valley
Moro
Morro
Moron
Post Office Department
Colorado
California
R. A. Edmonds
Harry Hopkins
Congress
Blaisdell Opera House
Sixth Street
Conley
Taft School District
Letters Praise Local Farmers and Medical Staff
A reader thanks Art Penner and other tomato field owners for opening their fields to the public, noting benefits for retirees on Social Security. Another letter expresses gratitude to doctors and nurses at Shafter Valley Medical Clinics for rapid diagnosis and ambulance care that saved a life at San Joaquin Hospital.
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Art Penner
Celia Bowen Oildale
Shafter’s Valley Medical Clinics, Inc
San Joaquin Hospital
Shafter
Readin on FBI troubles and public trust decline
A narrator vents frustration with FBI investigations and past secrecy under J Edgar Hoover. He compares government agents to a watermelon with a sweet bite spoiled by the bitter seed of corruption, arguing trust in federal law enforcement has soured for decent citizens.
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F.B.I
A J
Edgar Hoover
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State Department
Volpe
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