OTHER NEWS - Oct. 19, 1993

U.S. Gives Back Payments to Farm Workers: The U.S. Labor Department began distributing $1.25 million in back pay to 377 workers victimized by a Ventura County flower rancher who violated immigration and labor laws. The rancher, Edwin M. Ives, was ordered last month to make restitution to the workers and sentenced to three years in prison on his guilty plea to the charges. The counts included transporting and harboring illegal immigrants and payment of substandard wages. Authorities said most of the workers are residents of Mexico and were smuggled into the United States to work at the ranch in the late 1980s.