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FThursday, January 24, 1985Part II 3 Cos Angeles Times U.S. Allocates $2.7 Million in Aid for Area Homeless Missing Child Depicted on Milk Carton Returns Home Pop and Hiss at Parking Lot Anger Drivers By LENORE LOOK. Times Staff Writer A missing 13-year-old Lancaster girl, whose picture was displayed on milk cartons as part of a program to help find lost children, has returned home7, authorities said Wednesday. Doria Paige Yarbrough, who had been missing since last November, apparently ran away from home because of "personal problems," but returned Tuesday night after friends she was staying with in Fresno saw her picture on a television news report last week concerning the new program, according to a statement issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. Deputies said the friends persuaded Doria to return home.

Her mother got a call from the girl Tuesday night and picked her up at a bus stop in Lancaster, officers said. Doria is one of two children pictured on 400,000 Alta-Dena milk cartons this week after an appeal to the dairy by Sheriff Sherman Block and state Assemblyman Gray Davis (D-Los Angeles.) The other child, Monica Judith Bonilla, 7, who disappeared from her Burbank home in September, 1982, is still missing. City Sued Over Police Killing The parents and children of Larry Plummer, 36, a former mental patient who was shot to death by police last year, sued the City of Los Angeles on Tuesday for unspecified damages for negligence. The Los Angeles Superior Court civil suit by Lawrence and Delores Plummer, the parents, and Carlos and Tisha Plummer, the children, claimed city officials negligently hired and trained Officers Gary Couse and Lynn Stermolle, who fatally shot Larry Plummer. Police said last January that officers had been called to Larry Plummer's house at 6303 S.

Long St. several times when Plummer brandished a shotgun and fired at a neighbor. On Jan. 22, 1984, police said, officers surrounded the house and threw tear gas inside when the man refused to come out. Forcing their way in, officers said they fired 11 rounds into Plummer's legs and upper torso, fatally wounding him, after Plummer pointed his shotgun at them and cocked it as if to shoot.

Attorney Gregory J. Kaapuni filed an administrative claim for damages last April 16. The city refused to act on the claim, denying any liability for Plummer's death, -thus clearing the way for the suit. A lolal of $2.7 million in federal aid will be distributed to 86 charities throughout Los Angeles County this week to augment emergency food and shelter programs, it was announced Wednesday. The funds are part of $3.12 million allocated to Los Angeles County from a $70-million national grant approved by President Reagan in August The difference of $420,000 has been reserved by United Way and the Los Angeles Emergency Food and Shelter Voluntary Board for the expansion of existing shelters.

The agencies awarded the Federal Emergency Management Agency aid were chosen from 105 local organizations whose funding requests totaled $6.8 million, Jim Pursley, coordinator of FEMA funds for United Way, said at a news conference at a Skid Row agency. The 86 nonprofit agencies were selected on the basis of their existing programs of food and shelter assistance and their record-keeping, he said. The purpose of the aid is not to establish new programs but to strengthen current ones, Pursley said. The agencies have until July 31 to dispense their funds in the form of groceries, meals, shelter and one-time-only rent or mortgage assistance, he said. The additional aid is expected to provide 5 million meals and 240,000 nights of shelter for 140,000 people in Los Angeles County, Pursley said.

There is a need for more than 8 million meals and 340,000 nights of shelter for an estimated 247,000 people, United Way literature said. Ted Kammer, vice chairman of the Los Angeles Emergency Food and Shelter Board, said at the conference that the aid is part of a "new federal consciousness, to meet a new set of reality needs. "It is a Band-Aid," Kammer said, "but the problem of the homeless is so serious in L.A: that we are grateful for Band-Aids." The amounts of aid awarded range from $4,000 for a Baldwin Park church to $140,000 for Lutheran Social Services of Southern California, which operates 16 centers throughout the county for refugees and the homeless. By JAMES RAINEY, Times Staff Writer The pop of punctured tires and the hiss of escaping air have become common sounds at the corner of Santa Monica and Sawtelle boulevards in West Los Angeles. More than 50 cars have fallen victim to a row of steel tire shredders aimed at stopping them from exiting the Key Shopping Center parking lot onto busy Sawtelle Boulevard.

Angry customers say the spikes are improperly marked and they have asked the owner, Key Centers Inc. of Canoga Park, to pay for new tires. Company officials have refused. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation ordered the small shopping center to install the spikes and, despite the rash of flat tires, has denied the company's request that they be removed. Aware of Problem "We definitely do not want the spikes there," said Jeff Susa, who manages the center.

"We know there is a problem." HAMILTON: Result of Probe Problems began in October when drivers leaving the cramped parking lot first plowed over the tire shredders. Many who have met the same fate blamed a warning sign that stated: "DANGER. SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE. DO NOT ENTER." SALE Continued from Page 1 "Obviously I am relieved that no further action will be taken," Hamilton said. "Now I can do my professional job without this issue hanging over me.

"I have also learned a lesson, that what seems appropriate to me may not have been appropriate from a legal point of view. So I will be extremely careful in my outside activities in the future." Hamilton's involvement in TRAICE was first disclosed by The Times in articles that led to investigations by the city attorney, a special task force created by Mayor Tom Bradley and by city Controller James K. Hahn who charged that Hamilton "ripped off" the city for nearly $10,000, most of it in staff time a total of 624 man-hours. The city task force accused Hamilton of using the prestige and power of his office to help a private organization, and Ira Reiner, who then was city attorney, said he would prosecute Hamilton on misdemeanor charges. Acknowledging "errors in judgment" and a conflict resulting from having an investment in a firm he was promoting as planning director, Hamilton took a six-week unpaid leave of absence as punishment.

Reiner, explaining that felony violations could be involved, referred the case to then-Dist. Atty. Robert H. Philibosian for possible prosecution on the more serious charges. The case then became the center of a political dispute between the two prosecutors who were opponents in the race for district attorney, and Philibosian turned it over to the attorney general's office for investigation.

The report released Wednesday was the result of that investigation into possible conflict of interest and misappropriation of public funds. "We looked at every possible statute under which we could prosecute him," said Patra Woolum, a deputy attorney general who headed the state's investigation. "We considered both misdemeanors and felonies but couldn't come up with a thing." The sign was poorly worded, Silver China Crystal Antiques Estate Jewelry Towle Sigma Gold Flatware! according to attorney Steven Howard. "It says 'do not How ard said, "but I was not entering. I was dri ving out of there.

The sign is Just one in thousands of Winter Sale absolutely wrong. I saw the sign, and I said 'no problem' and just $1000050pcSet (Reg. 75! drove right into them (the spikes)." "Cherry Hill" Howard lost two $100 tires Jan. 3 and is representing himself and two other drivers in an attempt to get pattern Make every day a special occasion with Sigma's elegant 23 karat goldplate "Cherry Hill" pattern at your table. 50-piece set includes 8 dinner knives, 8 dinner forks, 8 salad forks, 8 dessert the center to pay for them.

The sign has been changed to read, DO NOT EXIT," and soup spoons, lb teaspoons, 1 butter knife and 1 sugar spoon. Hurry, quantities are limited to second sign with the same warning has been added. STUDY: Koreatown Service Needs At least five cars a week fall victim to the spikes, according to stocK on hand. Phone orders including Visa, Mastercard American Express call (818) 982-0830 Mon. thru Fri.

9 am to 5 pm. Mail orders send $108.50 per set. Covers tax, insurance local delivery. Ken bhaian, a mechanic at a ser vice station across the street. "If they are lucky it is just two tires, but a lot of the time it is all four," Shaian said.

(The spikes destroyed all six tires on a delivery truck. Shaian is sick of fixing punctures. "I hate that business," he said, "It is not worth it to me to fix the Continued from Page 1 Last September, the Board of Library Commissioners approved an unusual proposal to construct not only a new library for the Korean community, housing books in the Korean language, but a second new building, on the same site, for the Korean Youth Center. The center is the community's only service for Korean children and teen-agers, and had outgrown its existing offices in Koreatown to such a degree, director Jane Kim once said, that clients were being interviewed in the parking lot. One other service, the Asian-Pacific Counseling and Treatment Center, also said that it is overburdened in trying to deal with the problems of Koreans.

The center, run by the Los Angeles County Mental Health Services, has three Korean-speaking professionals. But the demands for services by Koreans are so great, director John Hatakeyama said, they had to shut down the waiting list: "We haven't been able to open intake for six months." Beverly Hills 213-272-3355 320 N. Rodeo Dr. 90210 Northridge 818-885-1661 Fashion Center (Valet parking Rodeo Dr. al Dayton Way) (Lower Shirley St.

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