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First Units Occupied in Palm Vista•’I've never Uvti in a place like itofMore. .Vex Profcos -aid wiih unrestrained cn-musiaur ^hile jilting fceaw luagase and canons of household ^ocpIs onto the sm-* ne clevaior o? Oxnard's new ^nior citizens' public housing hj items. Palm Vista. Morris y .'wmingHis sparkling eves and spirited. tubus: ail iu» tehe itecctofsensrian's age. ‘Til be w on the nth. he said wfeh pride. wirrmtirig the move to his alJ new quarters in ti* six* story Housing Authorily structure is stMijetiring of a pre-; hfrthdaypnesciu.► Proktfi. an Oxnard resident• Jlt;y the past 34 sears, at one iirne had his wn business here. Jimmy's Cafe on Oxnard' BoulevardHe has rtttrJIv h-ien hviftg with friends aj*j applied for. r esklpncv in the new huiidinei V or A Ninth streets about six irmths 530Kuby Nciheriain was 11 ret lqmove in. She arrived promptly lt;sr n a m. Bv mid-afternoon she ft-a_s fairiv well settled. but wnsnT are if she wc*2d m sufficiently unpacked to cook tler first meal I here Monday •nietit.Six- said 1x.t first impression upon touring the building last /ITmrsday was that }[ was beautiful and I like it. al-tfwodi she thinks the bodroo-n is a bi! small, she saki pointing M the lack of space between her i win beds.! BEST OF ALL, she d aimed.is. ihe Lrx reril she will be paying. She said she onh has iu pitv less lhan half tA what her rent had cost in the apartment Mtvrc she had been Jiving. And the util Uses are in* 11 ucted, she added grateful Iv.She prvvbuT, worked'for a c'Unis company in cne ctxzniv lV;r many years, then for a restaurant owner in OxnardiKforermirwgto 1962■ By 1 p.m. Harmon Justis. a inmcy. arlive32-vear-ofd. was msv helping relatives move furnishings into bis new aparf-roem.* T Ihink Tin the only World war i veteran to move in here. the spritelv octogenarian said, while hoping move a sofa down the long comdocon the sixth floor., JUSTE was particularly anxK-jis to ire apartment .ill arranged m !?*» brief hours left of the a Iterrrm He said his wife was due lo arrive soon.‘ if we get ell moved in she promised sJ*? uvu/d cook wrfirst dinner here tonighL beexplained.j.Juslis said his wife was tickled to death” with ihe new Apartment building. Thev lt;hose a sixUWJoor unit for the view arid to gc-t a wav from Lhe noises of the ground floor.lie said he and hts wife ap-plied for an apartment in the building over a year ago and have been living with ihcir daughter in Fir Rio while wailing for the complex in to frtlitt.Justis, an Arkansas native, nod Mrs. Justis. who was bom in Ireland, have fx-en living in Oxnard on and oJf ever since World War 1. He retired as a security guard at the Scatee Base In Port Huencme in 1900. The couple more recently managed « apartments (He wood Drive until property changed hands.: Only senior citizens with low incomes are eligible for housing in the Wunil fcuMng.As example of comparison between private and publicly subsidized rents. Housing Authority Administrator jMrothv Zi m cited a case where rule person with Si J in annua I jncome tad been paring sihs rent plus utilities in an efficiency apartment, but when Jmvins into Palm VUa will be paying V7? a rr/xiUi for rent with utilises paidoniheNEW SENIOR CITIZENS APARTMENTSMrs. Hubv Netherlfla of Oxnard gelt a helping hand from her grandson, Jimmy Homing, above, as she moves into cer apartment at Palm Vista, Cand Ninth streets, Oxnard. Fintof the tenants entered the 100-unit building Monday. Mrs. Neiheriio, €6, end Jimmy remove furnishings from truck, below, oo locg-cwaited movLag day.Work Dufy , Given for iiDisturbanceXavier Fiores. 21. of Oxnard was sentenced Monday in X'cntura .ASuriiclpuI Court lo twotears' pmbalkm and $/j hours tn Che county's direct work program on his comxiion of inciting persca^ to riot at an rixnani High StfwA expulsion hearing.A Municia) Court jur- con-vie red Flores of ihe charge of inciting persons to riot al ihe bearing on Nov. :». The jury rteadlccked on a charge ot rrf-rftnx-ting a folico officer in making an arresl and this cha re was dismissedJudge Lee Cooperpronounced sentence on FTorc^. Cndcr the direct work program. Flores ctwJd do work tor ihe fire depan mem. oirk e work or any olhcr kind of wxiri: lt;5elermined by ihe direct work coordinator.Deputy Disl. Attv. I.arn-Saiic had asked trial 'Floret be sentenced to five days in jail, us recommended by the probation officer. Ihe charge Flores was convicted of w as punishable bv a year in jarf.FORCES NAME)The I’.S. Ircops in Europe during World War 1 were known as the American Ex-pedit ionary Forces.
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Oxnard Ventura County Ad Visor
Oxnard, California, US
Thu, Mar 17, 1977
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