LOS ANGELES COUNTY - News from Aug. 19, 1986

Allen J. Vangelos, a former executive with Castle & Cooke, was named president and chief executive of Calavo Growers of California, a Los Angeles-based marketing cooperative that annually markets about half of the state’s avocado crop along with other specialty produce items. He succeeds David Freistadt, who will become a consultant to Calavo in November.