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WHERE THE IRS HEARING AOTS:LAX, LADIES AT? DEFIANT IRS HEAD AND SKEPTICAL GOP BADMINTON INTERROGATORS WEEKEND PAGE 17 NATION PAGE 7 SPORTS PAGE 11 Leading local news coverage on the Peninsula Weekend • June 21-22, 2014 • Vol XIII,Edition 264 www.smdailyjournal.com Memorial Park camping closed for entire season San Mateo County Parks Department says there is not enough water By Michelle Durand this month they were halting camping at through July will be contacted with the algae to bloom. Both prompted the mid- DAILY JOURNAL STAFF the park for the rest of June and on Friday chance to reschedule for the same dates and June shut off of water to drinking fountains, said it is extending the closure through the length of stay in 2015 or a full refund. showers and toilets. Low water levels and algae blooms due to rest of the season. Pescadero Creek is the only water source Park department staff spent the next week the statewide drought have canceled camp- The seasonwide stop at the 499-acre park to the park and while at the beginning of monitoring the creek and looking at ways ing for the entire season at Memorial Park through October will cost the county the season park staff thought it had a 20- to to get water into Memorial Park but ulti- in Loma Mar. $350,000, according to Parks Department 30-day supply based on normal patterns, mately concluded shutting down camping The Parks Department announced earlier Director Marlene Finley. the recent hot weather dropped the level fur- Anyone with a camping reservation ther. The hotter temperatures also caused See CLOSED, Page 23 Access fight rages Martin’s Beach at center of legislative efforts,state budget,pending court case By Samantha Weigel DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REUTERS The battle to reopen Martin’s Beach to the Traders work on the floor of the New York public will proceed in Sacramento Tuesday, Stock Exchange. despite a near hostile leg- islative amendment induced by politicians’ fear of using eminent Stocks push domain and alleged lob- bying efforts afforded by the billionaire landown- er. toward new The crescent-shaped Vinod Khosla strip of coast just south of Half Moon Bay was catapulted into the spot- milestones light after venture capi- talist Vinod Khosla By Steve Rothwell Inside bought the coveted and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS secluded cove in 2008 for Stocks manage NEW YORK — The U.S. small gains; $37.5 million and Dow,S&P 500 enraged environmental stock market is back to set- at records ting records. activists by quickly clos- See page 10 ing it to the public. After treading water for Jerry Hill Concurrent efforts to most of March and April, restore Martin’s Beach to stocks are nudging deeper into record terri- the public include pending legislation pro- tory and are closing in on milestones with posed by state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San lots of zeros attached to them. The Dow Mateo, that would require Khosla to negoti- SAMANTHA WEIGEL/DAILY JOURNAL Jones industrial average is within 53 points ate with the state or face eminent domain, There is an effort on several fronts to reopen public access to Martin’s Beach just south of Half of 17,000 while the Standard & Poor’s 500 and a civil case filed by the nonprofit Moon Bay with the Assembly Judiciary Committee taking up a bill Tuesday that would force is just shy of 2,000 after rising 6 percent a coastal landowner to negotiate with the State Lands Commission for access or allow the state See STOCKS Page 23 See BEACH, Page 24 to use eminent domain to create an access road off Highway 1. Speier targets e-cig Brown signs $108B state budget marketing to minors By Judy Lin from San Diego. invests in public schools, shores up the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “California is demon- teachers’ pension fund and guards against STAFF AND WIRE REPORT strating that the majority another economic downturn. He said he SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown on can actually govern, doesn’t anticipate tapping the rainy day U.S. Rep. Jackie Friday signed California’s $108 billion unlike Washington, fund while in office. Speier, D-San Mateo, budget for the coming fiscal year that pays which is mired in grid- “It’s certainly going to be untouchable for announced new proposed down debt, builds a rainy-day fund and pro- lock and partisanship and the next 4 1/2 years if the election turns out legislation regulating vides additional money for schools and extreme polarization,” as I think it will,” he said, alluding to his re- electronic cigarettes at a health care. Brown said, adding that election bid. news conference at San Brown signed the budget in a crowded, Jerry Brown Democrats had “a lot of Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Francisco General sparsely furnished press room at San Diego cooperation from the Kashkari said Brown’s budget represents Hospital Friday morn- Jackie Speier City Hall, flanked by lawmakers including minority party as well.” Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, a Democrat Brown said the budget lowers debt, See BUDGET, Page 23 See SPEIER, Page 23 2 Weekend • June 21-22, 2014 FOR THE RECORD THE DAILY JOURNAL Thought for the Day “It is only on paper that one moralizes — just where one shouldn’t.” — Richard Le Gallienne,English poet and essayist (1866-1947) This Day in History Civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were slain in 1964 Philadelphia, Mississippi; their bod- ies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. In 1788,the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it. In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine. In 1913, Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane as she jumped over Los Angeles. In 1932, heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompt- ing Schmeling’s manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: “We was robbed!” In 1942, German forces led by Generaloberst (Colonel General) Erwin Rommel captured the Libyan city of Tobruk during World War II. (Following his victory, Rommel was PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE promoted to Field Marshal; Tobruk was retaken by the Allies Members of the Sheriff’s Office and other area police departments ran the Special Olympics torch through San Mateo in November 1942.) County from Redwood City to the San Francisco County line on Friday.The Sheriff’s Office team was all female and included In 1943,Army nurse Lt. Edith Greenwood became the first members of all ranks from assistant sheriff down to civilian staff. woman to receive the Soldier’s Medal for showing heroism during a fire at a military hospital in Yuma, Arizona. more than $100,000 in a single sea- *** In 1955, the David Lean movie “Summertime” starring son was tennis great Billie Jean The maiden voyage of the Titanic was Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi opened in New York. King. That was in 1971. In 2002, on April 10, 1912. It sunk five days In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen tennis player Serena Williams earned later. The present location of the during a conclave of his fellow cardinals to succeed the late $3.9 million in winnings. She set a ship is 1,000 miles due east of Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI. new record for winnings for female Boston, Massachusetts, and 375 tennis players. miles southeast of St. John’s, In 1964, Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched *** Newfoundland, at a depth of 12,500 a perfect game, 6-0, against the New York Mets at Shea The first credit card in the feet. Stadium; it was the first “perfecto” in the National League United States was created by *** since 1880. Diners Club in 1950. The In 1954, Trix breakfast cereal was In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Miller v. California, card was used by 200 cus- introduced by General Mills. ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene tomers who could use it at 27 The new cereal contained according to local standards. live oil is made only from green olives. Nearly the entire restaurants in New York. The 46.6 percent sugar and was a Oproduction of green olives days of “cash and carry” were huge hit with kids. The orig- Birthdays grown in Italy is converted into really over with the establish- inal flavors were orange, olive oil. ment of standards for the mag- lemon and cherry. They all *** netic strip in 1970. taste like sugar. Atypical lightning bolt is only 2 to *** *** 4 inches wide, but 2 miles long. The comic strip character The word “listen” Most forest fires are caused by light- Olive Oyl was created before contains the same let- ning. Popeye. In the late 1920s, ters as the word “silent.” *** Olive was the star of Thimble *** During the Civil War, soldiers from Theater, E.C. Segar’s daily Answer: Hester Prynne had to both sides carried a “housewife,” comic strip that revolved around wear the letter A for commit- which was a small sewing kit. the Oyl family. Thimble Theater ting adultery. She had an Writer-director Actress Juliette Britain’s Prince *** ran in 600 newspapers. Olive had affair with a Puritan min- Lana Wachowski is Lewis is 41. William is 32. Do you know who wore the scarlet a brother named Castor Oyl ister named 49. letter in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s and her boyfriend was Dimmesdale, after Ham Gravy.

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