A SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE WAS DISCOVERED IN THE WATSONVILLE POST OFFICE THIS MORNING. IT WAS LEARNED THAT THE REPORTEDLY POORLY WRAPPED PACKAGE (WHICH HAD HAD IT?S RETURN ADDRESS SCRATCHED OFF) HAD TRAVELED FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO SAN JOSE, AND THEN TO WATSONVILLE.. THEIR WAS NO POSTAGE AFFIXED TO THE PACKAGE, AND IT WAS INTENDED FOR DELIVERY TO WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A VACANT HOUSE IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY SHERIFF?S BOMB TEAM OPENED THE PACKAGE AND IT CONTAINED SEVERAL SUSPECTED COUNTERFEIT CD?S. THE U.S. POSTAL INSPECTOR?S OFFICE IN SAN FRANCISCO WILL BE DOING THE INVESTIGATION IN THIS MATTER.

ACCORDING TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, THE NUMBER OF CALIFORNIANS WHO SMOKE CONTINUES TO DECREASE. ONLY 15.4 PERCENT SMOKED LAST YEAR WHILE ABOUT 23 PERCENT OF CALIFORNIA ADULTS REPORTED SMOKING IN 1988. SMOKING HAS DECLINED AMONG ALL AGE GROUPS, BUT REMAINS HIGHEST AMONG 18 TO 24 YEAR OLDS. STATE HEALTH OFFICER DOCTOR RICHARD JACKSON SAID THEIR MESSAGES ABOUT THE DANGERS OF TOBACCO USE, SECONDHAND SMOKE, AND THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY'S MISLEADING MARKETING PRACTICES, ARE RESONATING WITH ALL CALIFORNIANS.

GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER HAS APOLOGIZED FOR SOME RECENT COMMENTS ON SEALING THE BORDERS. EARLIER THIS WEEK , DURING A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS CONVENTION, HE REMARKED THAT A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WOULD BE TO CLOSE THE BORDERS. TODAY THE GOVERNOR SAID HE MISSPOKE "I AM SORRY IF THAT OFFENDED ANYONE. IT WAS A LANGUAGE PROBLEM. I MEANT SECURING OUR BORDERS RATHER THAN CLOSING OUR BORDERS."

2 MOTORCYCLISTS WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENES OF SEPARATED ACCIDENTS THIS WEEK IN UNINCORPORATED GILROY. ON TUESDAY, A MAN DIED AFTER LOOSING CONTROL TRYING TO PASS A BIG-RIG. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT ABOUT 11:30 A.M. ON STATE HIGHWAY 152 NEAR CASA DE FRUTA . THE VICTIM'S NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED. ON MONDAY 46-YEAR-OLD GEORGE GERA WAS KILLED IN THE LATE AFTERNOON, AFTER HE ALSO LOST CONTROL OF HIS MOTORCYCLE. GERA WAS THEN HIT BY A TRUCK AND THROWN FROM HIS MOTORCYCLE ON UVAS ROAD NEAR WATSONVILLE ROAD.