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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1977
Page
3
The Shafter City Council plans a tip reward fund to aid investigations in burglaries and thefts. Police say public information helps, with $300 seed money and possible expansion to vandalism and drug cases. Community concerns note paid tips could affect trust and motives.
A reader letter criticizes the Supreme Court for not reviewing a bus ing plan to desegregate schools. The writer attacks forced busing, names Louise Day Hicks, accuses groups like the NAACP and CORE of seeking control, and predicts violence and political backlash across the United States.
A weekly special accuses official secrecy of censorship and reveals flaws in intelligence processing from Washington to Mexico City. It notes Oswald’s Mexico City visit, intercepted calls, and slow data digestion. It also reports candy makers raising prices despite cocoa and sugar shifts, plus foreign gifts to U.S. officials and anecdotes about Kissinger and Kennedy.
Paul Hahvey champions cleaner U S water, citing U S Geological Survey data. He notes 65 percent of 642 metal analyses show zero concentrations at 57 sites in 37 states, highlights Great Lakes revival, Lake Erie rebound, beaches reopened since the 1960s, and rivers like the Cuyahoga no longer catching fire.
Eugene Burmeister recounts Kernville before Isabella Dam when many film studios used Kern River Valley as a location. Stars like Roy Rogers Bogart and Gloria Swanson visited, stayed at Mountain House, and the valley built movie town fronts and hosted studio baseball teams and charity dances. The waters of Isabella Reservoir ended the era in 1953 and prompted retellings of gospel style civic calls.
A preacher muses on the transformative power of faith. He contrasts worldly pleasures with the Bible’s promise of becoming anew in Christ, urging readers in 1977 to embrace a spiritual renewal and a life of peace joy and hope.
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