ANTELOPE VALLEY: BRIEFLY : BRUSH FIRE CONTROLLED NEAR PEARBLOSSOM.PEARBLOSSOM - Helicopters, fire engines and prison camp crews spent 90 minutes controlling a brush fire Monday that blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. 50 acres southwest of Pearblossom. No information was immediately available on what sparked the blaze, which was reported at 12:31 p.m. near 111th Street East and Avenue W. No structures were threatened, officials said. SOURCE: Daily News Dog vaccination, license clinics set LANCASTER - Low-cost vaccination and licensing clinics for dogs are scheduled for next week in Lancaster and Palmdale. The Lancaster clinic will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. June 19 at El Dorado Park, 44501 Fifth St. E. The Palmdale clinic will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. June 20 at Courson Park, 38226 10th St. E. Rabies vaccinations, which are required by state law for all dogs four months and older, will be available for only $4. The 6-in-1 vaccination, which also protects against distemper distemper, in veterinary medicine, highly contagious, catarrhal, often fatal disease of dogs. It also affects wolves, foxes, mink, raccoons, and ferrets. Distemper is caused by a filtrable virus that is airborne; it is also spread by infected utensils, brushes, and , hepatitis, leptospirosis leptospirosis (lĕp'təspīrō`sĭs), febrile disease caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospirae. The disease occurs in dogs, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and horses and is transmissible to humans. , parainfluenza parainfluenza Infectious disease A virus that causes URIs–up to 50% of croup and 10–15% of bronchiolitis, bronchitis, pneumonias in toddlers Clinical Rhinorrhea, cold-like Sx Risk factors Preschool children; by school age most children have been exposed and parvovirus parvovirus (pär'vōvī`rəs), any of several small DNA viruses that cause several diseases in animals, including humans. In humans, parvoviruses cause fifth disease, or erythema infectiosum, an acute disease usually affecting young , will be available for dogs eight weeks and older. License fees are $20 for unaltered dogs, $10 for spayed or neutered neu·ter adj. 1. Grammar a. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender. b. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs. 2. a. dogs with proof of sterility; and $5 for spayed or neutered dogs belonging to senior citizens 60 and older. All dogs must be leashed. SOURCE: Daily News Meeting will focus on gas, alcohol sales PALMDALE - Lancaster and Palmdale officials will talk Friday about the possibility of tightening municipal regulations on mini-marts and service stations that sell gasoline and alcoholic beverages. Lancaster Councilwoman Deborah Shelton, Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford and Palmdale Councilman Jim Root are scheduled to speak to the High Desert Alcohol Policy Coalition, which will meet at 10 a.m. at the Antelope Valley United Way office, 190 Sierra Court, Suite B-1. The meeting is open to the public. Also present will be Dale Rasmussen, administrator of the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control's Van Nuys District, who will talk about Los Angeles County experiences and practices associated with businesses that sell both alcohol and gasoline, said coalition Chairman Ray Chavira. SOURCE: Daily News McDonnell Douglas calls quote a `smear' PALMDALE - A McDonnell Douglas spokesman said inflammatory statements attributed to the company president and which riled rile tr.v. riled, ril·ing, riles 1. To stir to anger. See Synonyms at annoy. 2. To stir up (liquid); roil. [Variant of roil.] Adj. 1. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works employees were ``a smear, totally without foundation.'' McDonnell Douglas spokesman Tom Williams said he would not further dignify dig·ni·fy tr.v. dig·ni·fied, dig·ni·fy·ing, dig·ni·fies 1. To confer dignity or honor on; give distinction to: dignified him with a title. 2. the remarks attributed to McDonnell Douglas President Herbert Lanese by commenting on them. During contract negotiations, McDonnell Douglas machinists union leaders said, Lanese told them they shouldn't think of IAM IAM - Interactive Algebraic Manipulation. Interactive symbolic mathematics for PDP-10. ["IAM, A System for Interactive Algebraic Manipulation", C. Christensen et al, Proc Second Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM Mar 1971]. workers at competing aircraft plants like Boeing and Lockheed Martin as ``your brothers and sisters.'' ``You have to look at them like I do, as your mortal enemy,'' Lanese was quoted as saying. ``I wish they were dead. I wish their children would starve to death. I wish they would lose their houses. When you all get that mind-set, then we'll be in sync.'' The quote appeared Friday in an in-house newsletter published at Lockheed Martin's Palmdale plant. Carl Kessler, an organizer with the Burbank Machinists Union, which represents 1,500 workers at the Palmdale facility, said that when the quote appeared, ``workers became absolutely indignant.'' SOURCE: City News Service |
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