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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1968
Page
1
Weather update from Shafter Cotton Research Station notes conditions for the region. Temperature trends and precipitation potential are outlined for upcoming days, with emphasis on soil moisture and crop risk factors.
Sarah Idabelle Johnson, longtime third grade teacher at Richland Primary, retires at the end of the 1967 68 school year after twenty years with Richland School District. A native of Charlton Iowa, she taught at high school junior high and elementary levels in Kansas Oklahoma and Richland.
At a July 23 meeting the Shafter Public Utility District board approved ordinance No 87 authorizing tax increases to meet a $30 000 budget. The tax rate will be set after the County auditor assesses district value.
Nancy Smith, daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Smith, trains Stormy a German Shepherd for the San Rafael Guide Dogs for the Blind program. After eight months of home training and five more at the center, Stormy will be shown for examination in San Rafael on August 1. Nancy teaches commands sit heel stay come fetch and stand for examination with praise as reward. Stormy’s diet includes vitamins cod liver or kibble daily and will live with Nancy to learn from interactions with people and noises. The dog is even tempered and responsive to most sounds except possibly the doorbell. Stormy’s showing includes command execution and an obstacle course to qualify for further center training.
A Shafter Head Start collection drive runs this week at multiple city sites including Richland Primary, Van's Phillips 66, Safeway, and Top's Market. Volunteers will repair usable items while churches aid outreach. many families lack shoes and adequate clothing, with over three quarters of Head Start families not receiving welfare.
A hometown column notes temporary fills by several locals during the editor’s vacation with a light banter tone and no new ground rules beyond libel caution. The piece signals a relaxed changeover in the newspaper’s voice and staff duties.
The Shafter City Council approved a site for a new Police Department HQ on Richland School District land at Sunset and Central Valley Highway. A Building Committee will study cost, architectural plans, and a potential property exchange with county space, with Planning Commission support.
Wayne Wood of the Downtown Planning Committee outlined a proposal to plant 54 Crepe Myrtle trees along Central Avenue from Central Valley Highway to Five Points. The plan targets the sidewalk area as part of city improvement efforts.
Officials say the summer program is funded entirely by special funds from federal sources for deprived and migrant children and State ADA and Head Start programs. District provides buildings and buses while supplies and operation are paid by these funds, with about 450 children enrolled over eight weeks.
The Shafter Police Department will offer a youth hunter safety course for ages 11 to 18 on July 24 25 at the Council Chambers, Shafter City Hall. Evening classes start at 7 with registration first night. A certificate awarded after passing a written exam Thursday, required for under 18 hunting license applicants, covering safe gun handling and weapon operation with demonstrations.
A long column contrasts enduring liberties with asserted losses. It argues that while citizens retain rights to worship, work, buy, vote, and due process, urban safety, control over schools, high taxes and regulations, property sales, and religious expression in public schools have deteriorated, ending with an incomplete continuation note.
Trustees adopted 33 new basic texts for the 1968 69 year after over a month of study. The books include seven English titles four foreign language texts three science works thirteen social studies items two business texts and one each for driver education mathematics music and photography. The public may view the texts at the Instructional Materials Center 2000 24th Street. A district committee led by Superintendent Eckhardt selected the titles after careful review. In other news PFC Paul Martin of 790 Fresno Ave has been wounded in Viet Nam in the Mikon Delta near Saigon with word reaching his wife Mrs Karen Martin.
Effective July 27 the Shafter Post Office will discontinue Saturday window service from 8 30 a m to noon and street box collections will occur about an hour earlier. All Saturday collections move to Sunday schedules posted on each box. No other Saturday mail changes. The Postmaster General is expected to order further cuts.
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