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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1980
Page
4
A man recounts a police confrontation in which an officer questioned his identity, searched for loaded guns on a couch, and restrained him causing injuries to his arm and chest. The incident leaves family members, including a son and wife, distressed as firemen attend to the injured.
Robbery involved four armed suspects forcing entry and demanding money and equipment, with about 210 dollars and 90 dollars in stereo gear taken. Separately a Shafter man was killed on Lerdo Highway near Poplar Avenue after a crash on freshly oiled pavement. James Leon Fitch, 40, lost control of his motorcycle at 2 10 p m and died. Another Shafter resident died in a motorcycle crash near Hart Park, Kenneth Ray Duke, 25, among the victims.
The Wasco Association for the Developmentally Disabled invites Communities of Shafter Buttonwillow and Wasco to meet Charlies Baldwin the new WADD director on Monday October 6 1980 at 7 30 p m in Wasco Baldwin started September 15 and comes from Antelope Valley Association for the Retarded Citizens He has business experience and is pursuing further education including UCLA and Cal State Fresno His wife Susan and three children reside in Wasco with local students.
Growers in Buttonwillow area expect to begin picking cotton around October 6 with Wasco Way yard inventory coming in next week. Carlton Hooper, manager of Farmer's Cooperative Gins Inc., notes the season should reach full pace by October 6 as this year’s crop is late due to cool weather.
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