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limes CC SECTION SUNDAY, MAR. 15, 1970 BLL HENRY Value of Agreements If you happen to be one of those who believe all our problems will be solved if the U.S-A. and the U.S.S.R. sign a new agreement to keep the peace in the future it might cool your enthusiasm if you took your time off to read "The Treaty Trap" by Lawrence W. Beilenson.

Better still, you might read the review of the 221-page book which has recently been written by Lester W. Roth, presiding BARNSDALL HOME Hollyhock House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on Olive Hill as home for Aline Barnsdall, was the architect's first venture in California and stirred an artistic sensation upon its. completion. Times photo by tarry Sharkey Strange Saga of Barnsdall Park BENEFACTRESS Aline Barnsdall, who in 1926 presented Los Angeles with the 1 1 -acre summit of Olive Hill. Time photo BY HENRY SUTHERLAND Times staff Wrlttr justice of the Court of Appeals, 2nd Appellate District, Division 2.

Justice Roth's terse but thorough appraisal of the book is the sort of analysis to make the chills run up and down your spine. Going back to the first I The story of Olive Hill, one of the strangest in Los Angeles annals, will come to an end late this fall with completion of the new Municipal Art rGallery in Barnsdall Park. It is mostly the story of Aline Barnsdall, an incredibly rejected benefactress, who in 1926 presented the city with the hill's 11-acre summit. It is a story of how she spent the remaining 20 years of her life in a losing battle to persuade a reluctant city government to accept the rest of the hill. And it is a story of how Miss Barnsdall, a luminary in theatrical and art circles to begin with, became one of Los Angeles' most misunderstood women almost a recluse.

Probably the tale has no villains, other than the Great Depression, the ordinary inertia of city government and bureaucracy and the impact of an impetuous personality upon them. But in sum they add up to an irreparable civic loss. Angelenos today think of Barnsdall Park as a green hilltop, encircled by the Kaiser Foundation Hospital and Henry Sutherland, who died March 7, was a reporter with a historian's interest in the people, events and institutions that created modern Los Angeles. His last assignment was the new Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park. other medical enterprises on Sunset by markets and retail complexes on Hollywood Blvd.

and Vermont and by apartment buildings on Edgemont St Yet none of these buildings predates 1953,: and until then Olive Hill rose to its elevation of 490 feet above sea level about 100 feet above surrounding terrain in the same shallow cone it had been since the days of Rancho Los Feliz. The park, accessible only by a road winding up from its entrance at 4800 Hollywood accommodates activities of the Municipal Art Department, which have flourished there since the early 1950s. But a lack of parking space will inhibit expansion beyond completion of the new Municipal Art Gallery, according to the art department director, Kenneth Ross, and the story of the development of Olive Hill will end. It began in the 1890s, when J. H.

Spires bought the hill and planted it with olives, laying out driveways and paths to facilitate cultivation. The olive tree was something of an exotic here at that time. Angelenos of the day were charmed with the hill and some, with Biblical reference, called it the "Mount of Olives." For many years its summit was a favored spot for Easter sunrise services. But in Chicago, during the first year or two of World War were two persons who would alter the nature and direction of Olive Hill. One was Frank Lloyd Wright, then at the beginning of his fame as an exponent of "organic architecture," his term for his philosophy of designing the building to harmonize with its user and its environment.

The other, Miss Barnsdall, one of two sister heiresses to the Barnsdall oil fortune and descendant of one of the most distinguished names in petroleum industry annals. Miss Barnsdall was the granddaughter of William Barnsdall, English-born shoemaker who drilled the world's second producing oil well at Titusville, a few weeks after Col. Edwin L. Drake brought in his historic first on Aug. 27, 1859.

Barnsdall also was credited with building the world's first oil refinery. His son, Theodore father of Miss Barnsdall, figured in the' petroleum developments of Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, where a town between Bartlesville and Tulsa is named after him. Miss Barnsdall was born in Bradford, April 1, 1882, had studied drama and stage design in London and was managing a little theater in Chicago when she met Wright. At that time she was married to Roy McCheyne George, a native of Beaver Falls, by whom her daughter Aline Elizabeth, was born in 1917. However, Miss Barnsdall preferred to use her maiden name, probably as a theatrical name, even before this marriage ended in divorce.

Many years later Wright recalled in his autobiography that she consulted him concerning "a project for a theater in which she was interested in Los Angeles," and noted that: "Her very large, wide-open eyes gave her a disingenuous expression not connected with the theater 1 1 ARCHITECT Frank Lloyd Wright was the early architect for complex later to be known as Barnsdall Park. Ift photo and her extremely small hands and feet somehow seemed not connected with such ambition as hers." Miss Barnsdall evidently moved to Los Angeles about 1015, for a year later her management of the Little Theater on S. Figueroa St. was in full swing. It was really an experimental theater, far removed from the amateur or semiprofessional status which the term "little theater" often implies.

Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 Our job is to keep treaty referred to in the Bible and showing how it was "fraudulently entered into and brazenly breached" Justice Roth runs his summary down to the recently broken agreement between Russia and Czechoslovakia and fails to find any reason for believing that a solemn pact between sovereign nations is ever worth the paper it is written on. He quotes John Jay who negotiated the end of the Revolutionary War for the United States as saying "You would never give a farthing for any parchment security whatever. They never signified anything since the world began when any prince or state of either side found it convenient to break them." Continuing, Jay is also quoted as saying "nations in general will make war whenever there is a prospect of getting anything out of it" Makes One Cynical There is plenty of cynicism abroad in the world without adding to it but the arrangements for the upcoming "SALT" talks between the United States and Russia do little to lessen it. The careful arrangements to start the talks in Vienna where the United States wanted to hold them and then move to Helsinki which is the choice of the Russians is a pretty good example of the extent to which arrangements can be made to give the appearance of an equal shake for both sides when, as a matter of fact, it is well known that the Soviet has no intention of starting any serious talks until they have disposed of some meaningless protocol in Austria and have moved back close to their border for a serious discussion.

One of the big surprises at the preliminary conference in Helsinki was the manner in which the Finns outdid themselves in their hospitality and other arrangements for the press. For many reasons they were extremely anxious to be chosen as the main site for the "SALT" talks but reporters say the Finns had learned a great deal about special arrangements when acting as hosts to the Olympic Games in 1952 and they put the knowledge to good use this year. There is a tendency to regard the Finns as rather cold and distant but the fact is, that personally they are hospitable and they made a highly successful pitch which was greatly appreciated by the reporters. The international reporters were decisis lph up the agitation for the release; of Mooney and Billings BUT ALSO It Will take nni 8 rS monstrous, thfc ore cases like to continue the searcn.not oruytor the cause of our (nationall trouble BffI to produce" nag of Justice UNDERSTANDING BY EVERYBODY QF Ah 1 WHAT IS THE MATTER. OSWALB GARklSOS XIUAkH CHANGED MESSAGE Miss Barnsdall erected signs at Sunset Blvd.

and Vermont Ave. during dispute with city. Later signs, like these, advocated "causes." Timts photos 1 1970 Times Fund Scholarship Reuse of Water Field Narrowed to 40 Finalists llmpH fn Imnrnvp FUND-RAISING DINNER TONIGHT Asian-Americans Will Turn Spotlight on Their Problems BY JACK McCURDY Timet Stiff Wrlttr State Environment BY ED MEAGHEB Ttan Staff Wrlttr Forty of Southern California's most accomplished high school seniors have been named as finalists in the seventh annual Los Angeles Times Fund Scholarship Program, Otis Chandler, publisher of The Times and president of the fund, announced. Four finalists will be selected, and each will receive a $10,000 four-year scholarship to the college or university of his choice. Winners of 1970 Times Fund Scholarships will be named after all finalists have met individually with panels of distinguished educators, civic leaders and executives April 18 in The Times Building.

The panels will evaluate each finalist's scholastic achievements and personal potential in determining tht winner in each of the four categories of competition English, history and social science, mathema-' tics and science. The 40 finalists 10 in each category were selected from more than 2,400 applicants through standard. College Board achievement and aptitude tests conducted and evaluated by the Educational Testing Service of Berkeley. The following high schools each; placed two students in the finalist classification: Chatsworth, Fuller-ton, James Monroe, Birmingham, South Gate and Alemany. Applications were received from public, private and parochial high schools in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Kern counties.

The four scholarships to be awarded this year continue for four college years, subject only to satisfactory personal Hmm Ton to Bate 9, CL 1 BY JOHN KUMBULA Ttam Staff Writer The chancellor of UC Irvine Saturday advocated reuse of water as one way to increase the efficiency of water resources management in California. Dr. Daniel Aldrich appeared at the second day of hearings by the House subcommittee on science, research and development, chaired by Rep. Alphonzo Bell The session was at 11000 Wilshire Blvd. The subcommittee has been trying to find ways of improving the nation's environmental health.

He said proper management of water resources in necessary for the development of Southern (California. Aldrich said additional supplies can come from Importing more Col- American community center, similar to existing centers for Mexican-Americans and Negroes. Yellow Brotherhood was founded about a year ago by a half-dozen Japanese-American youths. All had been on drugs and all were school dropouts. All belonged to or even led such gangs as the Ministers, Black Juans, Dominates, Algonquins and Little Gents well known to police gang details.

Their objectives were to help themselves and others kick drugs and to persuade dropouts to return, to school They were successful in many cases. They were also against gangs and today they say there la little or no gang activity among young Asian-Antarlcans. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) will be the keynote speaker at a fund-raising dinner for the Yellow Brotherhood today at 7 p.m.

in the Biltmore Bowl. The remarkable thing is that such a dinner would have been extremely unlikely even a year ago. For it is seen as a reflection of a growing awareness among the area's 200,000 Asian-Americans that they are no longer going to hide their problems of unemployment, school dropouts, narcotics addiction, generation gaps, broken homes and all the others. Proceeds will go toward purchase of a four-bedroom borne to be used as a headquarters the forerunner, if plant are zeaHseA of as Asian- not allowed in on the discussions at Helsinki and were thus reduced to gossiping among themselves over coffee. They were inclined to think that Vice President Agnew was the most newsworthy politician to come on the scene in recent years and that the TV people in allowing themselves to become panicked by his barbed remarks had greatly overplayed their importance and that made Agnew what he bat now the hottest number, on the political scene.

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