into Stockton first at 10
news plus the 10 o'clock news hello everyone as expected California's
Agriculture Director has ordered all wild bees destroyed in a 50 mile radius of
the Kern County site where African honeybees were found Pat McConaughey
explains the eradication effort as well as what this program means to a killer
bee migration that's predicted here in the future state agriculture officials
have already eliminated 12 hives of wild bees in Kern County the department
itself is hunting them down up to a 10 mile radius officials are then asking the
public to locate wild bees from a 10 to 40 mile radius the state will destroy
all of them with pesticides the decision follows the recommendations of a blue
ribbon advisory panel of the expert we think that after we listen to the
advisory committee yesterday in Bakersfield and it's an advisory
committee has got a world of experience behind it and some of those people have
been working just with African I've bees for over 20 years they've been in Brazil
and South American study them so we have a lot of confidence in their
recommendations those recommendations also include the testing of commercial
hive within a 400 square mile area well this eradication program is not the end
of the bee story in 1975 a Kansas University professor predicted a
northward migration of African bees from South America so far experts say that
invasion is on schedule the bees hit Costa Rica in 1983 they're expected to
reach the Texas Mexico border in 1988 and then hit California Berryhill says
unfortunately our current problem won't prepare us with that invasion we have an
isolated situation over here this is going to be a continuation of movement
and they're moving at the rate of two to three hundred miles a year and so you're
gonna have to have some kind of a protocol to stop those prior to when they
reach the Texas border Berryhill says eradication will be up to the federal
government as for this program he doesn't know how long it will take but
it's unlikely these so-called killer bees will have any long-term effects on
California whether the invasion is serious remains to be seen for news
plots I'm Pat McConaughey question how much water needs to flow through the
American River to keep the river animals alive and allow a multi-million dollar
recreation industry to survive that's the question Sacramento County
supervisors asked the public tonight as they prepare an all-out fight for the
rivers water rights the supervisors are trying to develop a battle plan that
would give them some control over the release of water from Folsom Dam and
prevent water agencies such as the East Bay municipal utilities district from
diverting the water flows at the Folsom South Canal so far the focus of their
battle has been a suit against the Bay Area utility company at a request for
assistance from Washington tonight a spokesman for Sacramento's two
congressmen told the supervisors that Matsui and Fazio support the county's
efforts but federal assistance may not be possible element in guaranteeing the
success of the county's proposed proposal hinges on positive congressional
action while this approach is commendable we feel it may be overly
ambitious and optimistic the supervisors will continue public hearings on the
river in September and hope to draft a final battle plan by the end of the year
Sacramento County is making a move to stop big business high-profit bingo
from expanding this afternoon the board of supervisors approved a moratorium on
new profit bingo parlors the new ordinance allows three bingo operations
that have already applied for permits to open but banned the creation of any new
non-charity parlors the bingo moratorium along with new special licensing for
bingo operators is designed to protect charities from the competition of
commercial bingo in addition to approving the moratorium. The task force will address
three major areas first is regulation of bingo secondly would be the expansion
and desirability of expansion of charity bingo in the unincorporated areas and
thirdly would be the issue of some of the ambiguities currently found in the
local ordinance and state laws. The five-member task force will have 180 days
to prepare their report. The Western Placer Unified School District is
serious about fighting drug abuse among children of all ages the district which
includes the communities of Lincoln, Sheridan and Valley View received $105,000
from the governor's office of criminal justice planning at a ceremony today the
district shares the award with the Lincoln Police Department the two
organizations are using the money in a cooperative program to fight drug abuse
in schools. I think one of the most important things about this grant is it
will be training teachers will be training 20 of them who will then be
able to carry this program on into the future after the grant funding ends in
another year. We'll also be doing community awareness programs for the
community teaching law enforcement officers and teaching parents about drug
abuse. The Lincoln project is one of just 19 to be funded throughout the state
because of its commitment to the problem a district spokesperson says surveys
show the rural Lincoln area has as much of a drug problem as urban areas. We've
had two community awareness sessions and the parent training sessions open to the
public some businesses even closed their business all people could attend that
we've had 150 people at those kinds of meetings in Lincoln. That grant runs through
July the county's 911 emergency phone system is designed to save lives and it
did just that yesterday morning when the life of a young boy was saved by a cool
911 operator. Meet 18 month old Andrew Andreoli better known as AJ. The lively
youngster is not at home but at Mercy San Juan Hospital his parents will be
taking him home soon. Only yesterday morning AJ's mother Tammy found him
floating at the top of the family pool here on Orangevale. He had somehow gotten
past the locked gate of the Fenspion area by the time Tammy pulled them out AJ had
already turned blue and was not breathing. I was crying and yelling at him at the same
time trying to see if he could hear me you know and then I just ran back into the
house and laid him on our carpet and reached for the phone and dialed 911. At
the county fire communication center computers located her home and help was
sent. It was senior dispatcher Boyd Cole who took further action.
We were trained and we try to train others to maintain calm and try to calm
them down. In her case I had to yell at her and I gotta calm down enough. A lot of
times they can do the saving before we ever get there. Cole was able to talk
Tammy through the correct CPR procedure.
When he came on the line he told me the right way to do it and it worked. I don't think AJ would be alive today or at least normal if it hadn't been for him.
Every time I hear the case and then hear what happened they send a tingle up the back.
It really feels good. For News Plus this is Lonnie Wong reporting. Boy a
reassuring report. Ahead on News Plus believe it or not a phone book cover has
people up in arms in a little town in Wyoming. We'll tell you why and what's
being done about it when Steve Wilson begins the first of a two-part report.
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This is the weekend our dad was supposed to build us a tree house. He needs the club. The club? At Home Club we never have a sale because our prices are low every day. At Lumberjack we bought this Schlage brass double cylinder deadbolt for $17.99. As a Home Club member you'll pay just $13.73. Home Club is open to the public and near you at 73-01 Franklin Boulevard.
George C. Scott and Marlon Brando's star in The Four Nights. Saturday at 8 on TV 40. An unlikely book is the hottest item in one little town. If you had to buy them they'd be best sellers but everyone gets them free. We're talking about telephone directories and though they are usually not terribly controversial they are causing quite a fuss in Wyoming.
The Wyoming town of Jackson Hole. In fact at the top of the town reporter Steve Wilson made a trip to the Tetons to take a look. It's that kind of town. Jackson Hole Wyoming home of the million dollar cowboy bar and packed with thousands of summertime tourists who come to shop and to watch the Wild West show.
And the nightly rodeo where a city kid from Cleveland can find out how long he can ride a sheep. But the biggest showdown in town right now isn't for the tourists. It's for the tourist dollar and whether or not this will help any merchant make a buck where he can.
It's the new Jackson Hole telephone book and it's high noon for the people who made it and the people who paid to advertise in it. They're hot. They are hot. They are feeling double dealt.
Suzanne Young at the Chamber of Commerce says as soon as the book was out her phone started ringing. Cowgirls in good looking tight jeans or something is indeed part of the western culture out here. There was something about that particular shot that hit the nerve.
I mean that's not the way women in Jackson Hole really are. Look at us. Do we look like that? The stereo kind of looks like that.
My waitress is toward the cover options that came into place. Is that right? Yeah. They were offended? Immediately. He didn't know it was you. Yeah it was me. I really felt like it was in poor taste and I didn't want my community represented that way.
But then the whole idea really backfired when the Grand Teton Lodge Company, which operates three lodges here in the National Park area, decided not to put any of the books in the guest rooms before anybody even complained.
We didn't give them an opportunity to complain. We made the decision not to put the phone book in the guest room as soon as we thought.
So hundreds of guests here at the area's biggest lodge never had a chance to see it or the ads and the yellow pages that local merchants paid for them to see. And not only here, they pulled it out of the rooms at the Wart Hotel downtown, the same place where they had female mud wrestling last summer when the place was under different management.
And the book has also gone from several smaller places too, like this motel where the owner says people were complaining.
They're appalled at the cover. They say, why didn't you put scenery on the cover? That's what we came here for.
And there's no shortage of beautiful scenery in this part of the country, but beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder.
And that's why the new phone book has become a hot collector's item at 20 bucks a copy, which only compounds the problems of all those people who paid to advertise in the yellow pages.
As far as the day-to-day usage of the book and having people be able to refer to it and know when we're open that we are a bakery as well as a restaurant and come to us, I don't think it's really doing the job that it should do.
Tomorrow, the publisher admits maybe it was bad judgment that could cost her a bundle. The National Organization for Women jumps in and we track down the artists in Nevada.
I never really thought of it as Texas. I thought of it as more Western than anything else.
Steve Wilson, News Plus in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Like it or not, it will be a collector's item for a long time to come. In a country only 209 years old, we don't often get to celebrate a 500th anniversary, but Scott McDonald has the story.
In a country only 209 years old, we don't often get to celebrate a 500th anniversary, but Scott McDonald has the story of a local event that can take you back five centuries.
A walk through the third floor of the State Library can take you on one of the most famous trails in English literature, tales of chivalry and romance from a story first printed 500 years ago today.
The first edition of the King Arthur legends printed by Caxton. The volume was completed at that time using the Mallory edition of the legends, which at that time were almost 500 years old.
In this borrowed collection from a Los Angeles doctor, there is a facsimile of that first edition and a sixth edition original printed in 1634.
The display showed not only how the art of bookmaking changed with beautiful illustrations and other editions, but also how the story of King Arthur and his knights evolved.
The original Mallory is a very violent, exciting, if you look at it in that context, story of knighthood, magicians, wizards, queens, princesses, and the brotherhood of the round table.
Strong says Victorian editions wiped out much of the violence and emphasized chivalry and brotherhood.
King Arthur is still popular today in books and films such as Camelot and Excalibur, as well as a controversial board game.
Dungeons and Dragons, for example, that many, many kids play still. It's as controversial probably as the Victorian discussion of the nature of the tales themselves.
That certainly is not a solved issue yet.
The exhibit runs through September. Scott McDonald for News Plus.
Sounds like a neat exhibit, doesn't it, Jim? Coming up in sports, Andy, we have got a great big story working in San Francisco.
Also, we'll talk with Joe Klein and Bill Walsh, and we'll have highlights of the Giants-Dodgers game.
For 1985, Mercedes-Benz moved beyond disc brakes to brakes that tink.
The Mercedes-Benz Anti-Lock Braking System, a computer-regulated system that automatically modulates braking pressure up to 10 times a second.
So even in sudden braking, on a slippery, wet surface, you retain precise steering control.
The Mercedes-Benz Anti-Lock Braking System.