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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1981
Page
3
Keeley earns an award in a ceremony honoring contributions linked to Shahn’s project. The event highlights Mack Poul Hin Pay as a key funding or sponsorship role involved with the award recipient and program.
USC psychobiologist Dr. Denis Mitchell warns rats outnumber humans in large cities and are destroying food and crops. He cites four forms of immunity to poisons, including toxin resistance and learned behaviors, urging development of a clay resistant poison and noting rat neophobia as a defense.
The Shafter Chamber of Commerce meets June 12 at Tobys with President George Wise presiding. Sue Linn of Community First Bank is thanked for chairing the Potato and Cotton Festival. Plans discussed include Kern County Fair booth entry, Wasco Festival of Roses float, and a July 4 fireworks show costing at least 2000 dollars. The Fire Marshall’s office permit issue is noted after the office burned down.
The Shafter Press cites a letter from former Shafter Officer Ross Regadanz to Superior Court Judge John D. Jeltetich complaints over a light 68 day county jail sentence for Jose Sital related to an attack on Regadanz on September 5, 1980. Regadanz details harassment his family faced since the attack and notes his own injuries and protracted absence from duty. He moved to South San Francisco, stating the ongoing harassment prompted the move.
John Paul Chelossi, 34, appeared before Judge Walter H. Condley in West Kern Municipal Court on May 15, 1981. He pleaded guilty to food stamp fraud, was sentenced to one year in County Jail with three years probation, and ordered to restitution to the Welfare Department for underreported household composition and income.
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