HEALTHY READING: It’s not exactly bedside reading,...

HEALTHY READING: It’s not exactly bedside reading, but the book summarizing the Clinton Administration’s health care proposal is selling briskly through the U. S. Government Bookstore in Los Angeles. Since Nov. 1, it has sold 180 copies of “The President’s Report to the American People” for $5 each. . . . Dutton’s Books in North Hollywood and B Dalton in Topanga Plaza Shopping Mall just got the paperbacks Friday. Sale price: $7 plus tax. The federal bookstore, whose price does not include tax or shipping, will take credit card orders at (213) 239-9844 or checks sent to U. S. Government Bookstore, ARCO Plaza, Level C, 505 S. Flower St., Los Angeles 90071.

FORE PROFIT: After years of leasing a veritable entertainment gold mine to a private vendor, the Los Angeles Parks and Recreation Department has taken over a 54-hole putt-putt golf course near the San Diego Freeway in Sherman Oaks. . . . Sounds like small potatoes, but a $100,000 face lift last April has helped to more than double profits at the course to $250,000 from the same period a year ago (B1).

WIND-WHIPPED: The scene was frighteningly familiar: Winds whipped up to 30 miles per hour and a spark from a downed power line swept into a 150-acre brush fire within 40 minutes. But firefighters contained the Santa Clarita blaze with little trouble, no damage to property and no injuries. In the end, Sunday’s winds rustled little more than nerves (B1).

DOUBLE DIPPING: Palmdale officials want the public to report graffiti vandalism. The “public,” they have decided, does not include off-duty police officers, security guards, some teachers and city employees. . . . These people are supposed to report graffiti vandalism without expecting to collect the $1,000 reward offered to other Palmdale residents, officials say (B8). Since the reward was established in 1988, off-duty LAPD officers are among those who have nabbed graffiti suspects and applied for the reward.