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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1983
Page
4
Jim Henning thanks CalTrans for work on Highway 46. The repairs fix the worst buckholes and rough patches, improving safety and ride for drivers, buses, and trucks. He notes funding limits and questions whether patching is the best use of tax dollars.
A letter urges California voters to back an initiative creating a plebiscite amendment granting the governor the right to alter or abolish statutory laws without legislative action. The plan, to be circulated for signatures, would replace conflicting provisions and requires a constitutional convention for any changes. Postal requests for petition forms are invited from Peter Applegate in Big Bear Lake.
Assemblyman Don Rogers outlines the clash over California reapportionment rules. He explains how 1981 and 1982 Democratic plans created safe districts, the referendum defeat, and the rapid passage of urgency laws. Republicans push a people’s initiative to redraw districts per constitutional standards.
Generations of quackery delayed genuine electro physiologic advances in medicine. Dr Clinton Compere of Northwestern University reports in the AMA Journal that pulsing electromagnetic fields and direct current stimulation show major progress in treating delayed and nonunion fractures. The method, likened to Star Trek medicine, promises painless recovery with high success rates and no surgery.
Richardson reports on Tom Hayden of Santa Monica, a famed leftist linked to the Chicago Seven and CED, who pivots from radical image to mainstream influence. He backs education funding tweaks, garners cross‑party support, and uses public relations to soften his past while aligning with legislators and even some Republicans.
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