Melvin and Wilson: Long Beach Wilson High’s...

Melvin and Wilson: Long Beach Wilson High’s Class of ‘62, preparing to hold a reunion on Oct. 3, can’t find one of its most famous alumni: Melvin Dummar.

You remember, Dummar, the onetime milkman and gas station attendant who produced what he said was Howard Hughes’ will? The document supposedly left Dummar one-sixteenth of the fortune of the long-fingernailed industrialist. It was later ruled a fake, but Dummar’s name popped into the news again when a movie, “Melvin and Howard,” was made in 1980. After that, Dummar pretty much faded from sight.

“I knew Melvin Dummar in high school,” exclaimed Sherry (Graham) Colbert of the reunion committee after finding his name in her yearbook. “But I didn’t know he was the guy with the (alleged Hughes) will. I remember he wore a letterman’s jacket. He had dimples. He was a good-looking guy, not geeky looking.”

Dummar, she said, is one of a couple hundred members of the class whose whereabouts are unknown.

We wonder if he hangs out at the Spruce Goose.

Another absent alumnus: The Dummar search reminds us of the reunion bulletin put out a decade ago by a Rolling Hills High class, which listed Christopher J. Boyce among its “missing alumni.”

At the time, federal marshals were also searching for Boyce, who had escaped from the federal pen in Lompoc, where he was serving a 40-year conviction on spying charges. Boyce was the “Falcon” in the spy team that was chronicled in the book and movie “The Falcon and the Snowman.”

A few months later, the marshals held their own reunion with Boyce at a Port Angeles, Wash., eatery. Boyce said he was eating when a marshal with a drawn pistol uttered one of the most memorable phrases in the history of law enforcement:

“Drop that hamburger!”

Glendale scandal?This could be the biggest one ever exposed by Only in L.A. investigators. A reader informed us that more than a month before Glendale’s City Planning Agency unveiled a humorous sign, which this column published, an almost identical one appeared in Tom Wilson’s “Ziggy.”

We browbeat one planning worker who disavowed knowledge of the cartoon on Friday but said she couldn’t remember how the city got the idea. Glendale has since removed the sign to make way for a more stuffy city logo sign. Coincidence? We wonder.

Let’s hope the National Enquirer doesn’t show up: The Grunion Gazette of Long Beach announced that the grunion will be running tonight through Monday night, adding this heartfelt plea: “Please allow the grunion to finish mating before you catch them. They’d do it for you!”

Listen up, buckaroos: One more day of this weather and the name of this column will be changed to “Only in Houston.” Boy, do we regret complaining during the “cool” summer of 1991.

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The L.A. Computer Society will give free computer virus tests at Culver City High on Sept. 3 to PC users who want to learn the best forms of protection for their files.