LUNCH BREAK: City planning commissioners usually get...

LUNCH BREAK: City planning commissioners usually get just a small monthly stipend for their service. In Buena Park, they soon won’t get even that. . . . At a recent luncheon, Councilwoman Patsy Marshall happened to hear about a new state audit showing that commissioners must be paid retirement and health benefits if they are paid for attending meetings. So the City Council reluctantly voted this week to eliminate $50-per-meeting stipends for Buena Park’s commissioners. . . . Mayor Don R. Griffin called the move “distasteful” but necessary.

DON’T BEEP THEM: You aren’t likely to find Mandatory Human, a new local coffeehouse journal, on many Orange County coffee tables (E1). Its three young editors admit Marxist leanings, and their magazine’s articles assail wealth and exploitation of Third World laborers. . . . One of the editors, Marcelo Pimentel, 23, of Cal State Fullerton, complains too many young people care more about their electronic beepers than politics: “They know every model. But they don’t know anything about Newt Gingrich.”

CLASSIC GUY: Reggie Jackson is making a public appearance here this weekend, but it has nothing to do with baseball. . . . The former California Angels star will attend the huge Newport Beach Classic & Collector Car Auction at the Hyatt Newporter Hotel. Jackson, who owns more than 100 classic cars, is offering six of them for sale. . . . Other notable classics at the auction: the 1977 Rolls-Royce that Frank Sinatra gave his wife Barbara as a wedding gift, and a Mercedes-Benz owned by O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro.

ADD MAALOX? Burritos will be in great supply at Friday’s Cinco de Mayo events (OC Live!). But do you really want to get sick on them? Some are willing to chance it. Six contestants have been chosen--based on fax entries--to participate in the KEZY-FM-El Pollo Loco’s “fastest burrito eating contest” at the Park Place complex in Irvine. . . . Whoever eats the most burritos in three minutes wins. Top prize: Four tickets to Sea World. But all entrants get a free burrito lunch.