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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1976
Page
8
Shafter City Hall added theatre seats but a planning commission hearing drew two dozen attendees. The land use element aims to set lot sizes street layouts and zoning within and around the city. Citizens are urged to participate at upcoming hearings held on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 30 p m.
Shafter High School students attended a Monday candidate forum sponsored by the school. Most invitees were present including all candidates for several districts. The event aimed to educate juniors and seniors about candidates, issues, and voting, with June 8 as the election date.
Pat Cates, 15, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lannis Cates, was named Miss Junior Baseball Association of 1966. The piece notes a choir farewell party for St Mark's Episcopal Church and honors departing Dr and Mrs Reg Hammond. Shafter Avenue market renamed A H Foodliner by Cecil Hight and Herb Stover. Suzanne and Frank Johnson earned Tabor College academic scholarships. Richard Gaeta of Shafter High shattered the pole vault record at Memorial Stadium, surpassing 13-0 by one inch at the South Area meet.
Jack Anderson reports a quiet U S backstage effort to deter Lebanon violence. Syria and Israel respond to U S mediated hypotheticals, while Assad seeks independence from overt American mediation. The piece also notes Nixon Watergate disclosures and a separate energy lobby fundraiser involving Congressman McCormack.
Milfred Stofen known as Pep, a 55 year old World War II pilot and laundromat owner in Aurora Illinois, promotes a group called Producing Citizens of the United States to counter welfare moochers. He claims 41 percent of Americans support 59 percent and urges producers to organize, write lawmakers, and push back against public employees and welfare claimants. The group reportedly had 90 members and a newsletter urging political action and public ads.
A sermon on God's urge for personal and social change. The text argues repentance as a life of growth, responsibility, and collaboration with God to improve ourselves and society. It condemns copped out attitudes toward sex education and emphasizes witnessing changed lives through worship and praise.
A newspaper column jokes that to save campaign costs a candidate could be declared a lunatic or classified as a convict to receive free railroad transportation. The author notes editor notes and plans for syndication in Kern County.
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