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ORANGE COUNTY fios Angelee (Slimes 6 Part IVTuesday, November 10, 1987 San Diego Company Buys Fullerton Newspaper EMPLOYERS: Companies Trained for War on Drugs From a Times Staff Writer The Fullerton News Tribune-Orange County's oldest continuously published daily newspaper until it went weekly in 1985 has been sold to a San Diego company as part of a deal that included the sale of 23 other weeklies owned by Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Neither the buyer, Community Media Enterprises, nor Cincinnati-based Scripps-Howard would divulge the sale price. But one informed industry source said the newspapers, all of which are located in the Los Angeles basin, are worth about $15 million. Community Media also re Community Media was formed in January by a group headed by Richard Trent, 41, who resigned as publisher of California magazine to start the venture. Though the Scripps-Howard purchase was the company's first acquisition, Community Media plans to make at least two more purchases during the next year, Trent said.

In 1982-85, Trent was president of Harte-Hanks Communications operations in San Diego and publisher of the Chula Vista Star-News, then a Harte-Hanks ceived a printing press in South Gate as part of the deal. With a circulation of 42,000, the News Tribune is the largest of the 24 free-distribution weekly newspapers that Community Media bought. The papers have a combined circulation of 424,000. The Fullerton paper began publication as the Fullerton Tribune on April 6, 1891, and later became the Daily News Tribune. In January 1985, it changed its name to the Fullerton News Tribune and began a new life as a weekly, with a severely trimmed staff and DISCOVER AST Premium286'" AT FORBES COMPUTER GROUP Continued from Page 4 agement's advisory board, as is Sheriff Gates.

Gates, who has tried to rally the business community to join a war on drugs, held a luncheon last month with executives of many of Orange County's largest businesses to discuss the problem. He said during that meeting that 4,512 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $240 million have been confiscated in Orange County since January, and he called for a comprehensive education plan to combat drug use. No Leader But, Gates, who once threatened to publicize the names of prominent businessmen who refused to join his campaign against alcohol and substance abuse, has failed to find an executive willing to head the drive. And of the 110 executives invited to the lunch, only 70 attended. One executive who did attend said that his company had no drug policy but that it was planning to adopt one after hearing Gates' estimates that 14 to 30 of the employees at any given company may be abusing drugs while on the job.

Gates urged businesses to do more to make sure their offices and factories are free of drugs, and he distributed a fact sheet written by Situation Management that offered companies advice on developing a drug policy. Gates said he does not consider it a conflict of interest to sit on Situation Management's board. And Hunter said that Gates isn't paid for his work on the board and that SMI officials have not contributed to his election funds nor do they plan to. Gates said he believes that if he maintains a high profile, Orange County businesses will be more aware of the need to act against drug use. In Orange County, approaches to dealing with the workplace drug problem vary from sending employees to rehabilitation centers to doing nothing, a check of several companies found.

Popular deterrents vary from drug testing to questioning of employees. "There's a debate. Half a corporation's management team will say let's get tough and have a hard-line policy to wipe out the problem. The other half will say it isn't the philosophy of the company to violate the freedom of the employees," said Stephen Christensen, executive director of the UC Irvine Executive Roundtable, which sponsors quarterly seminars for Southern California business executives. Hunter and Gates were among the speakers at a Roundtable seminar earlier this year on drugs in the workplace.

Hunter said such seminars reach only top executives, while every level of management needs to be educated. Difficult Task But that task is difficult, said USC professor Leskin. feel immobilized. They don't want intimate conversations with employees," Leskin said. "They fear rejection.

They feel they'll be prying, and they aren't trained to deal with those emotional reactions. As long as managers can't relate to workers, encouraging employees to discuss drug problems "will be impossible," said Leskin. He said 'As an employer, if you've got somebody using your problem. And you'd better solve it because it's draining your Ted Hunter, president, Situation Management Forbes hat the expertise to provide a TOTAL solution for your business or needs at a COMPETITIVE PRICE acttiidddi ACCDDncTcroiDT innnDix '2995 I I Ul M699H I ij "i yV Authowed Deafer I I Atifhnrirtf1 nmait HP LASERJET SERIES II WTONER AST SIX PAK PREMIUM 256K 199H IN STOCK AST PREMIUM 286 MODEL 80. 120.

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In a bid to increase market share, he said, larger companies have been gobbling up smaller ones. Jordan said Bergen Brunswig faced the decision of whether to spend its energies and resources on expanding its drug supply or medi cal supply operations. "We were less than 10 of Bergen's revenues, so it was an easy choice," he said. By contrast, Bergen Brunswig's national drug distribution business represents about 80 of the parent corporation's total revenues and about 15 of the nation's wholesale pharmaceutical sales. The Bergen Brunswig pharmaceutical distribution network is the second largest in the country, just behind top-ranking McKesson Corp.

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