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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1958
Page
2
Editorial urges parents to prevent burns by storing matches and keeping pots away from stove edges and fires. Explains burn degrees and first aid using antiseptic ointment or oil for minor burns, while deep second and third degree burns require immediate medical attention to avoid shock and infection.
Four major food firms cut coffee prices with no public outcry about price fixing as with steel and oil. The piece argues suppliers react to supply and demand shifts with market driven changes and warns price hikes due to higher inputs will provoke criticism, while drops are welcomed as free market adjustments.
An opinion piece argues the U S government competes with private carriers through parcel post, cutting taxes and prices to suppress private industry. It likens tax exemptions to socialism and warns against subsidized services destroying taxpayer income and private business.
The piece argues industrial progress boosted gasoline efficiency from 25 miles per ton in 1930 to 43 miles today, cutting cost per mile from 0.66 cents to 0.18 cents while overall living costs rose. It credits oil and automotive industries for higher value and free competition as drivers of progress.
Shafter High School notes 118 students named to the honor roll for the fall semester second grading period. Seniors listed include Mae Addington and Bruce Branner among many others. sophomores and freshmen also named with numerous names across grades.
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