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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1963
Page
7
The event, sponsored by the Women's Fellowship of the Union Church, features Mrs. De Smith and Mrs. Art Penner as speakers discussing issues of obscene literature in mail. Ta-O-Wa-Ki-Ya members participate.
Grant C. Butler will speak on Africa at the open forum tomorrow night. Butler, noted lecturer on the Arab world, will present the topic Africa Awakes and discuss its regional significance.
The 1963 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses released notes an average readership and membership figures across numerous lands. Coleman notes figures reach about 920 920 people in 189 nations, signaling expansive organizational growth and activity during the year.
Coleman said the propaganda campaign by the Witnesses included movies books and pamphlets and that local gains would be examined at an 18 congregation circuit meeting to be held in February.
Richland PTA executive board met in the Richland School library on Monday afternoon. President Mert Wiedmann called for Bruce Crawford to report on the Keys to Survival TV series. A book fair is planned in the Richland library March 22 to 24 with children’s authors signing. Wiedmann appointed Life Members to include Mrs. John, Art Craig, Bruce Word, and Reg Hammond.
The Shafter Press reports the Shafter Junior Women's Club thanks readers for wonderful articles over the past year, conveyed by Mrs. Carol Janzen, Publicity Chairman.
Jesus a Ramos spoke at the Ladies Aid meeting, sharing a talk on life in the islands. The topic centered on lessons from the first and second Kings as a peaceful study. Refreshments were served afterward by hostesses Mrs Pat Kerchenfaut and Mrs Elsie Weidenbach.
California merchants banks and the public are warned about a statewide counterfeiting ring that has printed and cashed bogus disability checks. The department reports 79 counterfeit checks totaling 10520 dollars, ranging from 70 to 140 dollars, cashed in eleven cities.
A governor appointed commission chaired by Winslow Christian urges sweeping welfare reforms. The report calls for a rehabilitative focus, cost sharing policy reforms, shifting authority to the Department of Social Welfare, expanding aid to unemployed parents' children, university social work training, more home visits, family court study, and tackling underlying economic causes of welfare burdens. It notes public welfare public aid has failed to promote self-sufficiency and warns of taxpayer cost and human waste if unaddressed. The findings will go to the state legislature with expected action.
Sacramento and Kern County received share allocations for the highway users tax apportionment in December. Statewide distributions totaled millions from the six cent gasoline tax, with funds transferred from the motor vehicle transportation tax fund and state highway funds allocated for state highways.
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