Positive Thinking Amid Global Tensions and Local Hope
A December column urges constructive action amid nuclear tests and international tensions. It highlights Shafter’s exhibit at the Kern County Fair, the Contadora peace effort, and the Great Peace March, urging peaceful conflict resolution at home and abroad and calling readers to contact leaders.
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Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Kern County Fair
Cathy Prout
Shafter Prople
Dolly Hei
Ione
Jack Lollar
Pete
June Goertzen
Bakersfield
Mexico
Venezuela
Colombia
Panama
Contadora Group
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Honduras
el Salvador
Costa Rica
Contadora
Central America
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York City
Washington, D.C
Letters to the Editor Policy at The Shafter Press
The Shafter Press publishes policy letters to the editor but requires the writer's name to be on signed submissions. Letters may be edited or rejected if no author name is provided in delivery to the newspaper.
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Quest
Shafter Press
Africa's other hunger and the hunger for power
AUL HARVEY NEWS examines Africa's food gap as population outpaces production while nations shed colonial rule, Zimbabwe's Mugabe brutalizes opponents, and South Africa faces growing racial polarization. Outsiders fuel revolts. whites seek exit. Botha seeks peaceful change. Power hunger drives instability beyond famine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AUL
Harvey News
Africa
South Africa
Botha
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Gum Under Tables Exposes Hidden Microphones In Restaurant
In late autumn 1973 Pauline Gore and another woman dine at an exclusive restaurant where gum stains reveal a wider plot. Maitre d Rob ert Parker discovers miniature eavesdropping devices under all 21 tables. He alerts the manager, but authorities are not told and the devices disappear weeks later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Gore
Pauline
Robert Parker
Robert
Joe Diamond
Joe
Understanding atomic energy and radioactivity long ago
Forty one years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this explainer outlines atoms isotopes and nuclear decay, how radioactivity releases energy, and how controlled chain reactions power reactors versus the danger seen in Chernobyl. It covers fission, criticality, half lifes, and the roles of uranium-235 and plutonium-239.
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Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Carbon
Chernobyl
Russia
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Paul Aurandt
Kern County
Trecia Romero
Diane Montecino
Kathy Ketchen
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