Five Shafter Seniors Earn Citizens of Tomorrow Honors
SHS honors five seniors for the first semester based on grades and citizenship. Chris Mattson leads as Girls State representative and FS clubs president. The group includes a future educator, a math major eyeing Air Force Academy, and students aiming for Bakersfield College and Berkeley with goals in teaching, interpreting, and public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris Mattson
SHS
CSF
FTA
Buttonwillow
Bakersfield College
Berkeley
Liberty Editor Spoke Locally In Shafter Visit
The editor of a national journal dedicated to religious liberty spoke at the Seventh-day Adventist church in Shafter. Roland Hegstad, based in Washington D C, tours the nation promoting religious liberty through the International Religious Liberty Association. He visited Central California Conference under its Religious Liberty Department in San Jose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Shafter
Roland Hegstad
Washington, D. C
International Religious Liberty Association
Conference of
Seventh Adventists
Hegsted
Central California
Conference
Religious Liber
San Jose
Junior Livestock Sale Receives Major Financial Support
Officials of the Junior Livestock Show scheduled for September 8 to October 1 at Kern County Fairgrounds announced backing from the three largest cattle associations in the United States. Funds will support premium money if the American system of judging is used. John Hershey, Aberdeen Angus breeder, is praised for securing breed association support. Auctioneers Col. Harry Hardy and his son Skinner Hardy donate time. Bakersfield College Agriculture Club volunteers will staff barns.
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New Kern Couny Fairgrounds
United States
America
Jim Pensinger
John Hershey
Breed Associations
Col
Harry Hardy
Skinner” Hardy
Neathern County
Col. Hardy
Skinner
Pensinger
Fall Livestock Show Association
Bakersfield College Agriculture Club
Letter to the Editor Criticizes Segregation Critics
A Shafter California letter to the editor denounces segregation and traces NAACP origins and alleged communist ties. It cites W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary Ovington White, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Moskowitz, and William E. Walling as founders and includes accusations from Manning Johnson and Eugene Cook about anti Negro welfare. The piece advocates abolition of Jim Crow laws and compulsory racial mixing opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William E. Walling
Eugene Cook
Georgia
NAACP
Walling
DuBois
Henry Moskowitz
Oswald Garrison Villard
Mary Ovington White
Manning Johnson
Communist Party
Eugéne Cook
United States
Courts and federal rights clash over due process and equality
The text questions the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment and federal supremacy while debating public rhetoric and the misuse of terms like segregationist. It notes concerns about how words shape perceptions of citizens, states, and national laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ghana
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Ron
Niagara Y
Dee
Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation
Niagara Chemical Division
Fresno
California
Middleport, New York
Co. Cali
Edadds
Ececeee
Five Shafter
Citizens of Tomorrow Award
Ken McMinn
Key Club
Ken
Air Force Academy At
Colorado Springs
International Relations Club
Sandy
Bakersfield High
East Bakersfield
Ray Dickey
Club
Liberty Editor
Junior Livestock
Sale
All Event
Calif
Tditog
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
W. E. B. DuBois
Committee On Un-African Activities
United States Houses of Representatives
Kenneth Goff
Stringham’s
Shafter Drug Store
Rexall
Shafter, Calif
Ulf
Finance & Thrift Co
Bartlett
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