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(From left) Doris Hughes, University of San Diego Auxiliary hospitality chairman, meets with Rita Neeper, president, and Helen Egan, hospitality, to plan membership tea. USD Auxiliary plans annual membership tea r f •=f'? Plans for the Universjty of San Sept. 17, in Rancho Santa Fe.

volunteer nonsectarian corpora- tion serving San Diego County through activities promoting the growth and interests of the University of San Diego. Other fall activities include the Campus Docen ts P r ogram and a November l fashion show which will benefit the scholarship fund. For information call the USD Auxiliary, 260-4808 .

Diego Auxiliary's annual membership tea got underway this week when board members met at the La Jolla home of Doris Hughes, the group's hospitality chairman. The tea, at which current, new and prospective members are welcome, will be held Tuesday,

On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Rita Neeper, president of the USD Auxiliary, met with Hughes and other 1985-1986 board members, including Joyce Funtall, Jane Sexton, Helen Egan, Eleanor Mikkelsen and Rae Cabral, all of La Jolla. The USD Auxiliary is a

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Rains in Arkansas cost nation's top cop the chance to chop pot crop for cameras

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By Dori Meinert Copll'y News Service Special to The Tribune

Edwards said there was one bright spot in the harrowing incident. It came when Rep. Bill Lowery, R-San Diego, offered the Edwards family his home in the Virginia suburbs until the Washington Hilton reopens Sept. 1. The Lowery family is in San Diego during Con- gress' August recess. "It was unbelievable," Edwards said of Lowery's offer. "He did that in a genuine kind of way. There was nothing political about it. I can't even vote for the man." Edwards said he declined the offer because he wanted to be closer to the hotel as it under- goes repair. "It would be nice to live in a house for a while, but I'm afraid the kids would never want to leave," he added. Kelly, 6; Billy, 5, and infant Brian Patrick are the third generation of Edwards' family to call a hotel home, he said. * * * PURR-FECT NAME. . . The staff of Rep. Jim Bates, D-San Diego, has begun referring to the mounting stacks of paper work on his in- vestigations of the Miramar Naval Air Station and the USS Kitty Hawk as "kitty litter." The investigations of purchasing abuses at the air base and thefts aboard the carrier got Bates' name in Newsweek magazine. * * * HIGH-TECH HELP FOR THE DISABLED.. . Jack L. Heckel, chairman of La Jolla-based Aerojet General Corp., has been named to an executive committee on technolo- gy and the disabled, established by the Depart- ment of Health and Human Services. The com-

mittee will work to increase the use of technol- ogy to benefit the disabled. * * * THE FRIENDLY SKIES. . . IRS attQilley Gail Morse recently headed home from Wash- ington to attend her 10-year class reunion at Grossmont High School in La Mesa. Meanwhile, a friend from the University of San Diego Law School was winging it from the West Coast to his high school class reunion the same night in a Washington suburb. "We probably passed each other in the air," Morse said. Her law school friend, Frank Zotter, practic- es Jaw in North County. * * * MOVING ON. .. Clyde Romney, administra- tive assistant for Rep. Ron Packard, R-Ocean- side, in Washington, and his (Romney's) family moved to Escondido after Congress adjourned for the August recess last week. Romney said he is moving back to the district to concentrate on a water agreement he helped work out among five Mission Indian bands, the city of Escondido and the Vista Irrigation District. Romney had said earlier this year he might shift his base to San Diego County because he is considering running for the Board of Super- visors seat held by Paul Eckert. Romney gave up his Jaw practice as well as a seat on the Solana Beach School Board when he moved to Washington in 1983 to become Packard's top aide. * * * TOAST OF THE TOWN. .. The National As-

sociation of Arab-Americans recently hosted a reception for former San Diego attorney Thomas Nassif, who will leave later this month for his new post as ambassador to Morocco. * * * LEGAL TOUR.. . Mark Milett, an attorney and hearings analyst for the Social Security Administration, recently returned to Washing- ton from a two-week tour of China hosted by Sheldon Krantz, dean of thej.JSD.1B.8chool. The group of 45 attorneys and their spouses visited prisons and reform schools and met with Chinese attorneys. At one reform school, which is used for stu- dents with behavioral problems rather than those with criminal backgrounds as in the United States, the attorneys were given a song- and-dance routine - literally. "They had choreographed a show for us and some of the people in it weren't even from the school," Milett said. "The students sang 'Jingle Bells' in Chinese and 'Do-Re-Mi' from 'The Sound of Music' in English trying to show us they were simple, fun-loving kids," he said. While the incident made some of the attor- neys doubt they were getting a true picture of the country, Milett said the Chinese attorneys he talked with were surprisingly candid. When the group visited the Great Wall, some of the American attorneys were offended by 100 vendors hawking T-shirts there, he said. They thought it was crass. But Milett said he was amused by the activi- ty which he described as "basic grass-roots capitalism." Mileti came to Washington two years ago after working at the Social Security Adminis- tration's office in El Cajon for 10 years.

RAIN-OUT. . . Edwin Meese, whom some consider a cop at heart, was looking forward to Monday's scheduled raid on marijuana fields around the country. It's not every day he can get out of the office for a little excitement. The attorney general was to accompany fed- eral, state and local law enforcement officers as they swooped out of the sky in helicopters in an assault on marijuana being grown illegally in Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. Aides said that Meese was even planning to grab a machete and whack away at the tall talks of lucrative weed for the benefit of the reporters and television crews who had been invited. But overnight rains and the threat of flash floods kept Meese grounded. Reporters, many of whom had flown down from Washington the day before, had to settle for Meese talking in- stead of chopping. * * * GOOD SAMARITAN.. . Former San Diegan Bill Edwards, his wife, Patty, and their three young children were out on the street with 3,500 guests at the Washington Hilton after two electrical plant explosions July 27 and 28 forced the hotel to close. Edwards managed the San Diego Hilton be- fore he moved to Washington last year to take over the 1,154-room luxury hotel. He .said he and his wife moved "bottles, milk and diapers" from their suite in the closed hotel to more cramped quarters at the Capital Hilton. Their youngest child, Brian Patrick, is 4 weeks old.