The Region - News from Nov. 7, 1985

Los Angeles County supervisors directed the welfare department to ask food stamp distributors to voluntarily stop selling California Lottery tickets. Thirty of 37 businesses in the county that sell food stamps to welfare recipients also sell lottery tickets, and the supervisors agreed that the poor are being encouraged to gamble. The supervisors voted 5 to 0 last week to ask the state to stop selling lottery tickets at businesses with food stamp contracts, but lottery officials said they are still studying the matter.