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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1961
Page
2
The 17th annual National Sunday School Week announces Pat Boone as national chairman. Boone contrasts faith guiding Americans with Communist state control and calls for weekly faith engagement across all churches as the Lay Men's National Committee promotes inter faith heritage and regular attendance.
The passage questions the world s greatest needs urging peace security and understanding as essential rights. It contrasts freedom with a welfare state and emphasizes individual ambition family prosperity and the role of laws in driving progress and national greatness.
The article in The Saturday Evening Post analyzes the term temporary in federal gasoline taxes from 1932 to present, noting multiple rate changes and the push to revert to a three cent tax. It cites the U S Department of Public Roads on broad beneficiaries beyond highway users and discusses defense spending tied to highway projects.
The piece argues that total taxes amount to about a third of income due to federal state and local levies. It critiques government involvement in electric power development, claiming it wastes tax money on promotion of socialism and diverts revenue from private enterprise. It concludes by urging restricted government to preserve earnings.
Analysis of a proposal by Assemblyman John O Connell to make local elections partisan. The piece argues California’s nonpartisan tradition protects voters from machine politics, contrasts with Midwestern practice, notes the Brown era cross filing repeal, and cites San Francisco and national figures amid 1960s political maneuvering.
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