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SERVING ALL OF KINGS COUNTY The Sentinel 50 CENTS (HOME DELIVERY 27 CENTS PER ISSUE) Gary Staff Photographer Ed Gott of Quality Milk in Tulare makes a pickup at the Draxler Dairy east of Hanford. Producer milk prices may rise California dairy producers can look forward to an improvement in prices during the next three months, a welcome change to summer lows. Market conditions for dairy products are expected strengthen by about 3 percent since a 12-cent-per-gallon dip in July. Class 1 prices for October and November should rise from the current low of the year of $13.65 per hundredweight to about $13.67, said Jay Goold, executive vice president of Western United Dairymen. Goold said the price of cheese which helps determine the price of milk traditionally swings up during the holiday months.

"Going into fall and winter, cheese prices usually hold," Goold said. "Prices usually break around the end of the year. Then prices will drop." The commodity reference price for cheese is at $1.3275 per pound nationally. Unlike the rest of the country operating under a federal marketing order, California's pricing system is based on a state marketing order. It's considered quicker and more efficient in adjusting to current conditions than the national order.

California recently surpassed Wisconsin as the country's top dairy-producing state. Class 1 reached the to start the year, but a glut of products in the middle of the year caused the decline and a low cheese price of $1.1825. Jim Gomes of the Danish Creamery a4 07 22. Association in Fresno said the cheese price is expected to be in the range of $1.39 by the end of the year. Product surplus affects prices as well.

Last year, California's milk industry was worth $2.5 billion at a 3 percent growth rate. See MILK; Page 5 Angry Ito may ban O.J. coverage LOS ANGELES A judge today upheld most of the second police search of O.J. Simpson's mansion, allowing clothing, a video from the "Frogmen" TV show and an emotional note from Simpson's ex-wife to be used as evidence in the double-murder case. The ruling came moments after the outraged judge threatened to restrict news coverage of the trial because of what he called erroneous reports by a local television station that DNA evidence linked Simpson to the slayings of his exwife and her friend.

"I am contemplating terminating the media coverage in this case," Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said. It was unclear whether he meant all Navy Reserve funds dry up for fiscal year WIRE, STAFF REPORTS Thousands of Navy reservists will have the weekend off. The Navy Reserve is out of money a week before the end of the fiscal year and is canceling its drills. Some 20,000 Naval Reserve members who were to report 1 for their regular training have been told not to appear, a Navy spokeswoman said today. However, "to lessen the financial impact" the Navy will let reservists make up the drills next fiscal year, which begins Oct.

1, and pick up the paycheck they won't get this weekend, spokeswoman Lt. Ingrid Mueller said. While there are several reserve Speciel Insert INSDE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1994 Wilson: State invaded California files third lawsuit over illegal immigration NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO Illegal immigrants are invading California, Gov. Pete Wilson declared in demanding the federal government pay for their care.

The federal government is shirking its constitutional responsibility to protect states from foreign invasion, California officials argued in the state's third lawsuit seeking reimbursement from the federal government. "The massive and unlawful migration of foreign nationals, on the scale alleged above, constitutes an invasion of the state of California against which the United States is obligated to protect California," the lawsuit said. The argument hinges on exactly how one defines the term "invasion." "This is not an issue of a foreign government or an armed government," aide Leslie Goodman acknowledged Thursday. "But i in real terms we have an emergency." "We can't create our own dictionary for the purpose of arguing the lawsuit in the press," Goodman added. See SUIT; Page 2 Pirelli: No word on talks MICHELE SEABURG Sentinel Staff Writer Long awaited formal talks between the Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corp and the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America (URW) resumed Thursday for the first time since July 15.

The meeting in las Vegas is the first official talk between the URW and Pirelli since negotiations collapsed after 1,600 Pirelli workers in Hanford, Nashville, and Des Moines, Iowa declared themselves on strike. (The Des Moines plant has since been sold to another company, which settled with the workers there.) Pirelli spokesman Bob Newman said the talks are expected to continue today. "There is nothing we can say at the moment. We expect them to conclude this evening and will know something then," he commented. Union members packed the local office this morning hoping to hear See TALKS; Page 5 Local felon frosted by third strike County completes its first ERIK LOYD Sentinel Staff Writer MICHAEL FLEEMAN Associated Press Writer units at Lemoore Naval Air Station, those forces have already completed their drill weekend for this month, according to the reserve center on base.

Nationally. all but about 20,000 of the reservists already have had their weekend duty for the month, according to Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Joe Quimby. The cancellation was ordered by Rear Adm.

Tom Hall, the Naval Reserve's commander, who cited the cost of unexpected obligations such as operations in Haiti, Korea and Somalia. Navy officials said this was the first time the Navy 1 has taken such a step, although other See RESERVES; Page 2 'Three Strikes' sentencing PERVIN LAKDAWALLA Sentinel Staff Writer James Cooper is literally paying for a 79-cent can of frosting with his life. Cooper's decision to walk into a local store, reportedly to take a can of frosting and then pull out a gun when he was stopped, made him Kings County's first candidate for the "Three Strikes You're Out" legislation. Thursday, he was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment in Kings County Superior Court. Cooper was convicted by a jury in August for being a felon in possession of a gun.

He was acquitted of a petty theft charge. According to Cooper's attorney, Elizabeth Sexton, store workers caught Cooper walking out of the store with the frosting. Cooper offered to pay for the can but employees refused to take the money. That is when store workers say he pulled out a gun and then pedalled away on his bicycle. Cooper denies he ever had a gun and police never located the weapon, although witnesses say Cooper threw away the gun at the railroad tracks near a market on Hanford-Armona Road.

Since Cooper has two prior felony convictions, he became eligible for a Three-Strikes sentence. Cooper was convicted of second-degree robbery in San Francisco in May 1977 and December 1982. Sexton unsuccessfully argued for probation before sentencing was pronounced Thursday. She said during an earlier interview with The Sentinel that some defendants don't deserve a life term for their crimes, and this was one such case. "Judges all over California (are recognizing this and they) are reducing felonies to misdemeanors on their own motions misdemeanors like petty theft with a prior, drunk driving with injury," she said.

"(They do this) in the interest of justice." Both rocks, music greet Haiti patrols media coverage, or only coverage by KNBC-TV. He issued his threat immediately after saying he would hold a hearing next week to discuss KNBC's access to the court building. He also stressed that other news organizations hadn't carried the same report as KNBC. The station reported Wednesday that DNA testing found a match between victim Nicole Brown Simpson's blood and blood found on socks at Simpson's house. The judge and prosecutors, who are directing the testing, called the story erroneous.

On Thursday, KNBC said it stood by its story, and embellished it on later newscasts. KNBC did not immediately have a comment today. Ito's ruling on the June 28 search was another blow for the defense. The judge Index Classified 1-B Community 6 Comics. Decco 5 Entertainment 12 Sports.

10 2 Only in Kings County JOHN ESTES wondering if alligator is cooked in a 'croc Home Delivery Inserts Fall Fashion Razzari Ford earlier this week allowed all of the items seized during the first search of the Simpson mansion, which was conducted the day after the June 12 knife murders of Ms. Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The only evidence Ito threw out from the June 28 search were Simpson's divorce papers, a note pad containing phone numbers and a video called "Ode to O.J.," showing Simpson's football highlights. The judge said he found nothing excessive in the number of officers assigned to the second search said to be as high as 29 or the fact that prosecutors also were at the home. "At first blush, the 29 officers engaged in a search of a single family residence ap- See SIMPSON; Page 2 ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Writer PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti U.S.

troops beginning their first foot patrols through Haiti's second-largest city today encountered a band that serenaded them but also a few taunts and rocks, Marines said. Marines took to the streets of Cap-Haitien overnight, armed with new orders to shoot Haitian forces if need be to stop them from menacing civilians. As they moved through the city, Marines standing guard at some points said they encountered rocks and taunts. No one was hurt, and it was not known who threw the rocks. President Clinton said today that steps taken to rein in Haiti's police forces appear to be succeeding and that Haitian refugees from the U.S.

military base at Guantanamo, Cuba, will begin returning to their homeland on Monday. Meanwhile, exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide urged Senate leaders today to keep U.S. troops in Haiti until stability is restored. But the lawmakers warned of an impending vote to limit the occupation. In an hourlong closed-door meeting with Sens.

Sam Nunn, Christopher Dodd, and John See HAITI; Page 3 Suspect in Roddy killing sent to superior court PERVIN LAKDWALLA Sentinel Staff Writer Ronald Dean Platz was bound over to Kings County Superior Court after a short preliminary hearing in Kings County Municipal Court in Hanford Thursday afternoon. Platz, 33, is accused of killing his downstairs neighbor at a local apartment complex. He appeared Thursday in a red, regulation jail jumpsuit. He is being held at the Kings County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. Platz's next door neighbor testified Thursday to seeing and hearing most of the events of July 30, when Bennie Roddy, 34, was shot.

Velma Hayes told the court that she could hear someone walking up the stair and pounding on the door. "I turned off my air conditioner, turned down the TV and looked out my front window and saw Rosie (Styles) looking up and knew it was Bennie pounding on the door." Roddy and Styles lived together. Hayes said she then went to her bedroom window, which was open but covered by curtains. She said she could see Roddy's profile. She heard the pounding stop after a few minutes and saw Roddy turn around to go downstairs.

"I saw him put a hand on the rail, (then) I heard his (Platz') door open. He (Roddy) moved back toward the door. I figured he was going to talk See RODDY; Page 5 Prizeweek at possible $1,025 The jackpot in the weekly Sentinel Prize week puzzle swells to a possible $1,025 this week. Although 361 puzzlers did their best, no all-correct answer was received for last week's puzzle. So this week's basic jackpot grows to $525, with an additional $500 available for a winner who also subscribes to The Sentinel.

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