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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1976
Page
5
A editorial cites Nielsen figures and California Medical Association studies showing excessive viewing of violent TV by youths and links to increased aggression. It questions censorship and argues for voluntary change in viewing habits or boycotts of advertisers rather than government intervention.
Vermont superintendent Armand Premo criticizes modern education trends and says schools have grown too large and focus on quantity over quality. He urges returning to fundamentals in reading writing and arithmetic while cutting irrelevant courses and reducing excessive bigness in colleges.
The article chronicles Joburg, a planned 1896 mining town near Randsburg in the Mojave, built to attract settlers and fueled by the Yellow Aster, Tungsten on Rand Mountain, and the Kelly silver mine. It rose with rail support, housed the grand St. Charles Hotel, then declined after mines closed and the railway was torn up.
The piece notes Quebec's election of a party seeking to separate from Canada and warns against allowing legal or illegal aliens to vote in the United States. It cites Proposition 14 backlash and Mexican landownership debates, urging vigilance and calling for beverage container deposits in California following similar measures in Michigan Maine Massachusetts Oregon and Vermont.
The piece previews reforms in the House and Senate to curb seniority and overhaul committees. It notes a Stevenson task force recommendation to halve standing committees and limit chairs, plus analysis of oil industry secrecy through the International Energy Agency and OPEC, and Ford administration ties to Arab boycott aid via Eximbank and OPIC.
Booster Club purchases basketball shoes for all Shafter High School players. Shafter Generals upset Highland Scotsmen 65 to 53 in a thrilling game after Highland entered with an undefeated record. City approves Lerdo crossing gates and Bank president LaGrange to lead Chamber of Commerce.
A majority of Americans own a stake in business through private employee pension funds which control over a third of industry and are projected to reach 50 percent by 1985. Life insurance policyholders also indirectly own through their insurers' corporate holdings, affecting the business landscape.
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