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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1987
Page
4
In a Letter to the Editor, P K B critiques the TV miniseries Amerika as a relic of Western tropes ill suited to a nuclear era. The piece argues for broader vision, new vocabularies, and global responsibility, contrasting capitalist and Soviet systems and urging enlightenment beyond old Cold War binaries.
The Corn Growers Association promotes fresh uses for a US corn surplus totaling 5.3 billion bushels, enough to fill the Sears Tower 124 times. Storage is overflowing across the Midwest. Corn-based products now sweeten most groceries and fuel alcohol uses consumed 250 million bushels last year. Staley-Continental expands into corn chemistry producing thousands of potential compounds. Corn starch and carbohydrates offer plastics like potential, with future applications imagined as a plastics-era parallel. Sweeteners add 25 cents per bushel already.
Douglas Jeffrey argues that the Constitution does not clearly separate legislative and executive powers. He cites Hamilton and Locke to defend executive prerogative, suggesting the president must act decisively in crises even if it risks clashing with Congress. The piece frames a long standing debate on presidential authority.
A letter from Jack Swan, Superintendent of the Bakersfield Rescue Mission and Women and Children's Emergency Shelter, thanks Shafter residents for a belated Christmas donation of food, noting the need remains as fewer people think of the hungry and praising George Wise of Wise Realty for delivering three large cartons of packaged and canned goods.
In reply to an editorial, a writer argues that definitions need not change but society must honestly assess human nature to understand struggle. They warn against naively trusting public relations and emphasize a core difference: capitalism prizes competition and achievement, while Soviet communism suppresses individual power.
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