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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1964
Page
3
John C. Satterfield argues the civil rights bill massively extends federal authority in labor and housing sectors. He contends it permits nonunion layoffs, bans homeowner selection of buyers, and imposes federal scrutiny on banks, professionals, and workplaces, with severe penalties and forced protections.
Steven Allen Brincefield was born December 17 to Mr and Mrs Carl Brincefield of Shafter. He weighed 4 pounds 15 ounces and has a two year old brother Carl Wendell. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs August Brincefield and Mrs Maybelle Short of Shafter. Mrs Gene Guenther reports a Camp Fire meeting held at Mrs William Sage home where peanut and candy sale instructions were given to leaders ahead of February 1.
Harry S. Williams and J. J. Fields were in a minor auto collision on East Lerdo in front of the K and M potato shed at 4 53 p m January 8. Neither party sustained injuries.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company reports that receiving units have been pulled from the telephones at Carlton's filling stations.
The speaker warns that a bill would grant vast federal authority over city finances and grants totaling billions, bypassing due process and hearing protections. It would allow executive findings guiding agency action, with limited judicial review and broad control over hiring and firing in education and media. The narrator cites a gray-haired teenager leaving a beauty shop as a sign of global worry.
The Walker Manufacturing Company announces commercial availability of its Smog Ban anti smog crankcase ventilator system for used cars in California. The kit fits most makes and models, approved by the California Pollution Control Board, and targets crankcase fumes to curb smog as California mandates begin 1964 for new and used vehicles.
Carl H Thomsen former aviator and film producer presents an all color feature covering Panama Ecuador Peru and Chile at Bakersfield Evening High School forum in Harvey auditorium. He showcases Andes Peru Lima Quito and other landmarks with aerial closeups and jungle scenes. lecture plus Q and A follow.
California farming again led the nation with over 3 billion dollars in food and fiber production in 1963, per the Council of California Growers and the Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. Weather setbacks included a big January freeze and hot late season. however, plantings in the San Joaquin Valley boosted fruit and citrus outputs for 1963–64. Bracero program extension and labor shortages loom as mechanization lags, with UC engineers testing new harvesters and lettuce shipments reaching a million carloads to New York.
Stanley J. Holman of Shafter was booked by Shafter police on a drunk driving charge at 2 06 a m January 11. At 6 am he was booked again for flooding the Shafter jail by turning on the water.
Police logged open doors at Supreme Air on January 7 and Popular Plumbing on January 8. Chief Hanley Witcher urges business owners to check their business houses thoroughly when closing at night.
Funeral services for James Madison Sharp Sr were held at 2 p m Monday at First Southern Baptist Church of Shafter. Sharp died in a Bakersfield hospital aged 71, a Oklahoma native who lived in the county 19 years. Interment followed at Shafter Cemetery with Pastor Hy Paul Winters officiating. He is survived by his wife Mattie and several children and siblings.
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