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bmk lif mm liiflipqfflija I LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THI WEST, 982,075 DAILY, 1,317,220 SUNDAY. PARTS-PART ONE 108 PAGES WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1970 SIX BUILDS OJAI HAVEN VOL. LXXXIX Goal of Millionaire: Saving Problem Boys BUM STINGLEY Tlmu start Writer Copyright 1970 Time. DAILY 10c Blaze Perils POP, Beach Restaurant A spectacular fire of unknown cause destroyed much of the famous Lick Pier in Venice early today, taking with it last memories of the old Aragon Ballroom and threatening many contemporary dwellngs in the area. No injuries were immediately re--; ported, but the Los Angeles Police! Department declared an immediate tactical alert when billowing flames; cut off electrical power to stop-and?" go traffic lights, and 'air-Borne' sparks became a hazard to hundreds of spectators and apartment roof tops.

"More' than of fire equipment from Los Angeles and Santa Monica responded. Immediately threatened was the plush Jack's at the Beach restaurant, just north of the pier inside the Santa Monica City Limits. Firemen Guard Restaurant The-restaurant, one of the few commercial concerns still operating in the immediate vicinity of the blaze, was guarded by fire equipment as a precaution against flying sparks from the pier. The fire was reported at 12:03 a.m. Sgt.

Emmett Drennen of the Los Angeles Police Department said the blaze apparently began beneath the historic pier, which juts out from No. 1 Navy Venice. Within A5 minutes, Drennen said, giant sections of the pier had collapsed, and wind gusts, gathered sparks into huge orange balls, vaguely resembling a sunset at midnight. The site of the former Aragon Ballroom beginning "home" for such musical names as Lawrence Welk and Harry James collapsed at 1:10 a.m. The old Aragon was closed in 1963 during a union dispute with a 16- Please Turn to Page 5, Gol.

5 BILL ON FULL-YEAR STATE COLLEGE OPERATION GAINS SACRAMENTO UP) The Assembly's budgeting committee Tuesday overruled objections of the State Finance Department and approved legislation ordering year-around operation of the state colleges by 1976. Finance Department spokesmen told the Ways and Means Committee that the extra 'cost of. offering at, full academic schedule in. summer session far.exceeded the sayings in. the building program and at the very Legislature should wait: another.

year. 51 heard -the same argumetatVin' 1940," said, Veteran Assemblyman. Carley. Porter (D-Compton), "and the academic jhertia hasn't moved off dead, center since Legislative Analyst, Alan Pogk the Finance Department's of experimental yea-atpurid6perati5hs waV loaded ofdeliberate "If you manage the thing Tight-, you byi yery high, cost aademlc'jplantsyear-around Postpaid'. AMARILLO, Tex.

On the windswept breaks of the Canadian River, about 40 dusty miles north of here, an oasis of sweetwater. springs shady cott6nwoods stands out cool green against the barren rangeland of the Texas Panhandle. And George Page, a 67-year-old Santa Barbara businessman who with $500 made himself a multimillionaire "because I wasn't afraid of hard work," stood gazing from the top of a grassy knoll. Down below, he believed, was the best answer to most of America's problems with its youth. Page was looking at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, a privately operated home-ranch-school that specializes in making "good citizens" out of boys from a world of trouble.

Soon Became Ghost Town In the 1880s this place had been Tascosa, a hell-raising watering hole for leather tough drovers who worked their longhorns north along the old Dodge City Trail. In the short, fiery history of Tascosa, 26 men, including three deputy U.S. marshals, were buried on the hill. It was not long before Tascosa was a ghost town. It stayed that way until the late 1930s, when suddenly new young hell-raisers reclaimed it.

But this time they came because they were sent by judges, probation officers and parents "who couldn't handle them" or "didn't want them." It is now a haven, established by the late Cal Farley and others in Amarillo who agreed that boys in trouble are not necessarily boys totally lost. John W. McCormack ot Washington reception WORDS WITH THE SPEAKER-President Nixon and former President Lyndon B. Johnson with Rep. tor the Mouse Stricter Laws Seen in Offing for Contro of Farley, who begged, borrowed and promoted the boys ranch, into a spread, operated it on a simple principle: discipline with love, plus hard work and play in a country environment.

It worked. According to boys ranch officials, there hasbeen a 95 success factor with the more than youngsters who have made the ranch their home. Praise From FBI Chief Even J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, has termed the ranch "a blueprint for crime prevention." And George Page, his white hair ruffled by the Texas wind, was impressed as he stood on the knoll. "For 20 years I've been looking for the right kind of setup to help boys that can use help to better themselves.

This Farley ranch has it, more than any other place I've investigated, and I've investigated them all." Page wants to start the same- sort of operation in California. And he wants to make it available, just as Farley did, to all boys "black, white or galvanized." His sincerity was reflected by officials of the Farley ranch: "Hundreds of people come here, asking advice on how to start and run a boys ranch," said Sherm Har-riman, executive director. "But this man Page is one of the very, very few who has a realistic approach." Page, a conservative man, comes from a cut of cloth that wrinkles at the sight of long hair and of young people who want to destroy the "system." He has always wanted to help boys with no chance, and now "student Please Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 GOFF Burtau Chief Deny to state college faculty members a 5 across the board pay increase recommended by Reagan for all. state employes.

Late last week, the Senate Finance Committee in considering, its version of the budget bill, took similar action' in denying the raise to University of California faculty members. The punitive actions against the academic community, which has been criticized repeatedly by Reagan and others for participating in campus dissent and failing to con-lain college rioting, were taken by the Assembly committee with virtually no debate. The move against the UC Academic Senate and the Coordinating. Council were recommended by a subcommittee arid approved by the full committee without dissent. Please Turn to Page 28, Col.

1 BY JOHN F. LAWRENCE and MURRAY SEEGER Tlmas Stall Writers Angry Legislators Vote to Cut Funds for UC, State Colleges who retires at end ot term. Wlrephoto Stock Market stitutional investors, which, may. find themselves with limitations on their size and speculative trading. In addition, brokerage houses probably will be under stricter federal controls and the SEC, itself, may be given greater control over the industry.

"It's going to be 'Once in Golconda' all over again," said "one source in the Nixon Administration, referring to a currently popular' book recounting the wave of legislation which followed the 1929 market crash. "I don't question the fact that this in- Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 The Times NATO Switch: Allies to Seek All-Europe Parley Page 20, Part 1. Panel OKs Postal Reform but Not Letter Rate Hike Page 5, Fart 1. Howard: Hughes Will Buy; Los Angeles Airways Inc.

Financial, Page 8, Part 3. RETIRING SPEAKER Bipartisan Tribute to McCormack Led by Nixon, Johnson BY RICHARD L. LYONS Enlutlva to Tha times from ttia Washington Past WASHINGTON House Speaker John W. McCormack mashed out his ever-present cigar in a potted plant and greeted former President Lyndon B. Johnson, whose majority leader he had been in the House during the 1940s.

President Nixon arrived with the leaders of both houses a few minutes later. Presidents Nixon and Johnson, who served with him in the, House more than 20 years ago, joined 300 of his colleagues on Capitol Hill Tuesday to honor McCormack, retiring as Speaker of the House at the end of this year at 78. It was a bipartisan love feast, made pointedly so as House Minority Leader Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) introduced Mr. Johnson and Majority Leader Carl Albert (D-Okla.) introduced Mr. Nixon.

Mr. Nixon recalled an(occasion in 1948 when as a House freshman he had been in charge of a bill. After the debate, he said, McCormack, then minority whip, walked i across the chamber and' said, "That was a good. job, young Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 5 WASHINGTON In the wake of the stock market crisis, fundamental changes are in the offing for the securities business.

That probability emerges from exclusive interviews with Hamer H. Budge, chairman of the Securities -and Exchange Commission, and with Administration and congressional leaders. The changes will involve legislation to bolster investor confidence in the safety of the stock market. i One target of such action is likely to be mutual funds and other big in Index to BOOK REVIEW. Part '4, Page 22, BRIDGE.

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EDITORIALS, COLUMNS. Part 2, Pages, 6, 7. ENTERTAINMENT, SOCIETY. Part 4. FINANCIAL.

Part 3, Pages 8-16. METROPOLITAN NEWS; Part 2. MOTION PICTURES. Part 4, Pages 11-18. MUSIC.

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BY TOM Tim Sacramento SACRAMENTO Public higher education in California felt anew Tuesday the vengeance of frustrated state legislators under increasing pressure from home to end campus turmoil and violence. The Assembly Ways and Means Committee took final action on version of Gov. Reagan's $6.48 billion 1970-71 state budget. But before sending the amended document to the Assembly floor, it voted in rapid-fire order to: Abolish the faculty Academic Senate at the University of California by deleting from the budget $409,000 earmarked by the governor-for its support in the next fiscal year. Terminate the activities of the 10-year-old Coordinating Council for Higher Education by eliminating a $531,186 proposal for its support.

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