Diana Ross Does Not Live Here...

Diana Ross Does Not Live Here Any More. Please do not disturb.

Before he posted two signs bearing that plea, the owner of a home on North Maple Drive in Beverly Hills had a constant flow of sightseers ringing the doorbell. It was, he observes, “an incredible imposition.”

There hasn’t been an unwanted visitor since he put up the signs 10 days ago.

The owner, who will remain unidentified here, says he and his family have been in the place for nearly a year and a half, but the home is still shown on many movie star maps as being the residence of the singer. “We did everything possible to get this off the maps,” he says, “but it doesn’t do any good.”

Many of the visitors, he notes, have been Scandinavians. Ross is married to Norwegian shipping tycoon Arne Naess Jr.

Things have taken a turn for the better for Leonard Reyes, 22, of Whittier, who all in one day earlier this week:

- Lost his job as a truck driver.

- Had his girlfriend, Natalie Bozoich, 19, fall out of his car when she opened the passenger side door while trying to adjust the seat belt as he curved onto a San Gabriel River Freeway ramp in Santa Fe Springs.

- Made a U-turn on the ramp to get back down to a bleeding Bozoich, only to encounter arriving California Highway Patrol officers and a crowd gathering at what everybody thought was a fight.

- Managed to persuade officers there was no fight, only to have someone steal his new car a few yards away. He had left his wallet and keys in it while straightening everything out and making sure that Bozoich was taken care of.

“It just went from bad to worse,” said CHP Officer Lyle Whitten.

On Thursday, however, Bozoich had her stitches taken out and Reyes said she was “fine.”

He also had his car back. He said he went out looking for it, discovered it parked in the area and simply drove it home. Then he called the cops and told them. He didn’t know whom they might have arrested.

And, Reyes said, he has a new job, driving a truck for a Duarte firm. He will start work Tuesday.

As for the other day: “I wish it would never happen again.”

The Watts Towers are about ready for company again after being closed to visitors for almost a decade.

The consultant overseeing restoration of those nifty old spires for the Los Angeles City Cultural Affairs Department says a couple of recent graffiti raids have not resulted in any serious damage.

Actually, said Bud Goldstone, “I’d like to say thank you to the people who live around the towers for preventing vandalism. It’s about time somebody thanked them.”

Early in June, and then again this month, vandals broke a chain-link fence and spray-painted gang signatures on the towers that Italian immigrant Simon Rodia constructed out of rocks, seashells, broken glass and other junk as a monument to something or another.

Goldstone said there have been perhaps four instances of vandalism at the towers since 1959--”most of it insignificant.” Even the latest incidents were not serious, he insisted.

Rodia worked on the famous towers from 1921 until 1954, when he abruptly left them to neighbors and went to live with relatives in Northern California, where he died.

The restored structures at 1765 E. 107th St. will be ready to receive visitors on July 31 from noon to 4 p.m., when there will be a jazz festival. “We hope people will come out and give them a tour,” Goldstone said.

For two weeks now, the annual summertime dig has been going on at the La Brea tar pits, where all sorts of things waded to their regret back in prehistoric days. You may recall that this year’s effort was barely under way when the wishbone of a 35,000-year-old condor was discovered.

Shelley Cox, laboratory supervisor at the Page Museum, said the summer of ’88 diggers have recovered about 120 identifiable specimens--”primarily saber-tooth cat and dire wolf material.” They have also found the femur, or thigh bone, of a giant ground sloth and a batch of the little bones that were embedded in the sloth’s hide.

“Somebody comes along and takes a bite and gets a mouthful of marbles for his trouble,” explained Cox.

Today’s Quote

“A patient must have the ultimate power to control what becomes of his or her tissues.”

--A three-judge panel of the 2nd District state Court of Appeal, voting 2 to 1 to reinstate a former leukemia patient’s suit against UCLA Medical Center for developing a commercial cure based on unique properties found in his blood.