By Sophia Fischer sfischer@theacorn.com

By Sophia Fischer sfischer@theacorn.com

The ongoing dairy pricing scandal widened its reach beyond Agoura, according to reports in The Acorn this week in February of 1975.

KNXT, the local CBS affiliate, sent a news crew to Whizin’s Market to interview Vance Moran, general manager of Whizin Enterprises and the impetus behind the pricing outcry. A two-part news expose focused on the state dairy pricing controversy.

Moran also received a call from state senator Lou Cusanovich stating his support of Moran’s efforts and pledging to repeal unfair dairy pricing laws. Assemblyman Paul Priolo promised to investigate the matter.

Local volunteers set up tables in front of Whizin’s Market to obtain signatures for a petition against the price regulations.

In other news that week, talk continued at the Agoura Chamber of Commerce dinner concerning Agoura seceding from Los Angeles County and creating its own county. Chamber member Arthur Wright suggested the new county’s name be Bedlam County.

And, the superintendent of parks took on Oak Park teenagers. For several months local teens had been disrupting community meetings at Mae Boyar Park. According to the article, a small group of teens were vandalizing cars, interrupting meetings, and cursing and threatening people. The superintendent vowed to cancel all teen events if the situation did not improve.

The Acorn expressed dismay over the introduction of a bill by U.S. Senator Alan Cranston to protect teacher retirement benefits. The bill would retain teachers’ retirement benefits no matter what school, city or state they might move to.

The Acorn felt that protecting only the teaching profession in this way was unfair to nurses, doctors, firefighters, police and other workers who deserved the same protection.

Happenings in Fiji were also included in The Acorn that week. A brief article appeared in the newspaper about gold miners in Fiji who wanted to add a 30-minute midday sex break to their lunch hour.

The miners felt a man had an obligation to please his wife and by the time he came home after work at 5 p.m., he was too exhausted to fulfill this obligation.

The break would be added onto the lunch hour when a man, after eating and a short rest, is in prime mental and physical condition, according to the gold miners’ union.

The union proposed limiting the break to married men, but would make some kind of "alternative arrangements" to compensate bachelors.

There was no mention in The Acorn article what the wives thought of the idea, whether or not this "break" was granted, or why The Acorn even ran the article.

The Acorn will be taking a look back at our first year’s issues over the next 12 months, giving an historical perspective on "30 Years Ago in The Acorn." If you have memories to share from that time period, please send your submission to Sophia Fischer at sfischer2@yahoo.com or fax to (818)706-8942.

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