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tt (gazette Friday, Augmt 22. 1 997 Page Disaster-orone Malibu straDoed for cash Malibu Pier "could be sitting in somebody's living room on Pacific Coast Highway." Hasse, who insists Malibu is not going bankrupt, acknowledges a cash-flow problem in recent years. He said it would take two natural disasters to wipe out the reserve and force the city to begin cutting servic- as. "But it's not going to go bankrupt because of two disasters," he said. "Bankruptcy has been used as a campaign war cry for those who want to develop Malibu." Construction could boost the city's tax base, but the council anti-de- velopment majority won't hear of that.

In fact, the city's financial woes can be traced in large part to legal costs fighting developers. Malibu also spent $30,000 and countless hours to designate Malibu's coastal waters a refuge for whales, dolphins and fish. By JEFF WILSON Associated Press Writer MALIBU, Calif. The images scream Wealth: celebrity-soaked shores, lavish oceanfront mansions, a rich-kid university, trendy boutiques and Hollywood mover-and-shaker watering holes. 1 Yet tough fiscal times have fallen oh Malibu.

the beach enclave of 16,000 that has weathered five expensive disasters in the six years it has been incorporated. And just around the comer is September, often the beginning of Malibu's notorious cycle of fires, floods and mudslides. While municipal leaders won't utter the there are signs bankruptcy may be just a fire or flood "We're pretty much close to broke. I would say we are one good disaster away from insolvency," others look nervously to next month, when fierce Santa Ana winds usually arrive. The winds can whip fires down the city's populated canyons in minutes, leaving slopes barren and ripe for floods and mudslides from intense winter rains.

Malibu's cost of weathering a single disaster runs about $500,000. While the City Council plans to build its reserve to $8.5 million over the next several years, City Manager Harry Peacock said Malibu has about $1.7 million in the bank. However, York's research found less than $500,000 in cash on hand. The city that is home to Pepper-dine University also must pay for several big-ticket projects, including the reopening of two key roads closed by landslides and the repair of the crumbling Malibu Pier, its most prominent landmark. don't have money," York said.

"One good storm and the said Arnold York, gadfly publisher of the weekly Malibu Times. How could this be in a community of multimillion-dollar homes owned by the likes of Johnny Carson, Sylvester Stallone, Frank Sinatra, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dick Clark, Bruce Willis and Janet "If you look at the history of Malibu, it's about fires, mudslides and floods," city Planning Commissioner Tom Hasse said. "The only thing we haven't had has been a destructive wave." The disasters have kept Malibu spending and that has prevented the stockpiling of cash to fall back on. While the League of California Cities suggests municipalities keep up to half of their annual budget in reserve, Malibu has about 5 percent on band making it one of California's most thinly cushioned cities. That is why city officials and The crumbled remains of Kanan Dume Road lean down a hill Tuesday, which collapsed in a mud slide after flooding last year in Malibu.

(AP photo) VITAMIN Workers: Burger plant is clean despite recall I- ricmiiiT CONNECTION anhprru I Mill' Capture tlw natural cr.inberry solids found in frcsli cranberry juke in a convenient capsule tot m. Optimum Cranberry1 Premium Concentrate, from Naiurc'i Way Pro due If, Inc. ITS CAIAIOG CXllLEI StOSE '645 KouErt Da. inrxAfj liiirp in fancub? mom I Billy, administrator of the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service. tell you what this plant is clean," said Jarod Krueger, a Hudson security worker.

"It's just depressing they have to send all these people home." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which investigated the E. coli outbreak associated with the patties in Colorado, said Thurs- day that 15 people became ill be-Iween June 14 and July 14. Five of them were hospitalized. Eleven said they had eaten frozen patties, aft eight specifically re-. membered eating.

Hudson Foods the CDC E. coli is a notentially deadly bacteria that often gets into food through contact with fecal matter. It causes severe diarrhea, cramps and dehydration and was blamed for three deaths and hundreds of illnesses in Washington state in 1993, mainly because of undercooked burgers. Thorough cooking kills the bacteria, and officials stressed consumers thoroughly cook hamburger, using a -meat thermometer to make sure it is at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit. The CDC said the Hudson patties may have been distributed to all 48 contiguous states.

The plant's major customers include Safeway, Wal-Mart, Burger. King, Sam's Club and Boston Market, officials said. Customers at a grocery store just -down the road from the plant' said the recall will not change their eating habits. Tom Penington said he ate some Hudson beef a couple weeksago. "If you cook it, it's not going to hurt you anyway," he said.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Neb. Employees at the Hudson Foods plant that produced about 25 million pounds of possibly contaminated beef, defended their workplace after it was shut down because of problems with meat handling. The company called for the mas-. sive recall and agreed to close the plant Thursday in an agreement' with the Agriculture Department, said' more stringent safety were needed there even though the beef was contaminated 'elsewhere. "We're all sticking together and we're all behind Hudson," said Dan Hull, who makes hamburger patties at the two-year-old plant in Colum-' bus, about 70 miles west of Omaha.

More than 200 employees were without jobs, but Hudson said (hey would continue to receive pay. coli bacteria contamination at a 'slaughterhouse outside the plant but the recall is needed because of problems with meat handling, record keeping and safety testing. Agriculture Depart: ment officials The plant will not open until the company has. adopted "far more stringent safety Agri-culture Secretary Dan lick man "said. The recall, which officials called the department's largest, covers all.

made by the plant that are still believed to be: in the market- place. Recalls were announced last week, first with of NEW BUSINESS. Sal 10-3 Wed. Sun. by chance or spot.

4tt2-7S3-6t2t 706 Miiht (fcti a FREE 100 gallons of whole home heating propane for new customers meat, then another 20,000, and on Friday it became 1.2 million pounds. The recall began after health officials traced the illnesses of more than a dozen people in Colorado to hamburger patties they ate in early June. Twenty-five million pounds of beef equals about 100 million quarter- pound hamburgers. The impact was felt immediately. Several Burger King restaurants in Omaha were reduced to selling chicken and fish sandwiches Thurs- -day night, while some Boston Mar- ket restaurants were left without meatloaf.

Glickman said officials discovered the plant had a practice of using leftover raw. meat from one day in the next day's production. That makes it difficult to know when the last of the tainted meat left the Officials are looking at the seven slaughterhouses that were known to have supplied the plant, said Tom Company to cover diabetes screenings PHILADELPHIA (AP) Aetna U.S. Healthcare will cover regular screening for diabetes in members older than 45. The move by the health-business unit of Aetna Inc.

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