GOOD RIDDANCE: Remember Richard Barrett, the white...
GOOD RIDDANCE: Remember Richard Barrett, the white supremacist who wouldn’t leave Simi Valley alone? It appears the Mississippi mischief-maker has found another target. He’s raising a ruckus in Boston by trying to hold a one-man parade that usually draws hundreds of police, counterdemonstrators and TV cameras. . . . Barrett twice stirred up trouble in Simi Valley after the first Rodney G. King beating trial. “We’re very pleased that he’s not back,” said Assistant City Manager Mike Sedell. “We are still trying to live down the image he was trying to give us.”
MULTIPLEX MANIA: James Edwards Sr., the 87-year-old founder of the Edwards Theatre chain, today helps break ground on Ventura County’s largest movie theater complex, near the Camarillo Airport (B1). . . . Edwards, who opened his first theater in Monterey Park in 1930, has adopted some of the movie industry’s razzmatazz. It’ll be “one of the most beautiful theatre complexes in the world,” Edwards’ announcement says, with a dozen curved screens, waterfall curtains and “state-of-the-art everything.” Its name: The Camarillo Movie Palace.
SPEED RACER: Most high schools have a few dare-devils who like to drag-race late at night on abandoned streets. But Ventura High senior Kris Krabill is a speed demon of a different dimension (C6). . . . On weekends, he travels to raceways throughout the West with his manager (his mom), his crew chief (his dad) and his pit crew (his uncle) and a 1,350-pound dragster that hits 60 m.p.h. within a second and 150 m.p.h. in two seconds. “It’s such a rush,” he said.
BATTLE AT SEA: The Navy is under attack for its plan to detonate explosives in coastal waters thick with dolphins, whales and sea lions. (B1) . . . . Save the Whales and other groups have filed suit, claiming the explosives will harass and injure 9,600 marine mammals or, worse yet, send them to Davy Jones’ Locker. The area is too rich with sea life for such blasting, says environmental lawyer Joel R. Reynolds. “It’s absolutely the wrong place to do this testing.”