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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1949
Page
2
A Georgia trial involving a white man accused of lynching a Black man drew juror witnesses who testified to disbelieving the chief prosecution witness. The jury promptly returned a not guilty verdict, prompting reflection on racial justice and calls for outside scrutiny.
The UC president Robert Gordon Sproul hails Jackie Jensen as California’s All American fullback with praise for his blocking speed and passing ability likened to Molotov Truman and Tommy Manville in a vivid description.
The article notes retailing has high mortality due to deceptive ease and resource gaps. Success requires serving the public, pleasing customers, and a strong competitive instinct to outperform rivals. With adequate resources, retailing offers growth for small operators into big players. It also defines a cable as 0.1 nautical miles or 608 feet.
A veteran argues young men returning from war face turmoil after service. The piece urges readers to consider how combat, barracks life, and postwar expectations shape behavior. It portrays restlessness, detachment, and difficulty reintegrating into civilian life as understandable reactions.
Figures released this week show Polio reached 1949 peak levels with Shafter recording three severe cases and Arvin Lamont Tehachapi Wasco McFarland totals, urging residents to unite and donate to fight the disease. It warns polio can strike anywhere and asks broad support for the March of Dimes.
California lawmakers move to protect ancient Sugar Pines in Tuolumne County with an emergency bill by Lester A. McMillan and twenty co authors. The pines, 300 to 500 years old and over 200 feet tall, are unique to California and southern Oregon and cited as a national effort to preserve the species.
Construction begins this week on Wasco’s new post office at Eighth and E Streets. The 30 by 90 foot concrete block building with brick front will cost about $11,000 and be ready by June 1 under a 10 year federal lease. John Vrba builds it. Ted Clawson is general contractor for Wasco.
Free compulsory primary education is provided in the Argentine Republic with subsidies from both the general and provincial governments. The policy outlines government support at national and provincial levels to ensure universal access to schooling for children.
Fresno State College geography geology head Dr Calvin McKim says Arizona and Mexico partly cause California cold spell. He urges a warm letter to Arizona Chamber of Commerce to help raise temperatures and ease San Joaquin Valley discomfort. He cites a stalled cold front failing to move southward for dissipation by equatorial air.
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