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'Second Messiah' Cult Leader
Accused of Illicit Love Affairs
Chatsworth, Calif. - (LTD -Eearded,
berobed cult lead
er Krishna Venta who in life
described himself as a sec-
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245 S. Central at 10th
ond Messiah, was accused in
death yesterday of illicit love
affairs with some of his ar
dent women followers.
The accusation was revealed
by James H. Mulvey, special
agent in the state attorney
general's office. The accusers
were two former sect mem
bers who carried out a mur
der-suicide bombing pact in
which they blew up the Foun
tain of the World monastery,
killing themselves, Venta and
seven of his followers early
Wednesday.
Mulvey said Ralph Muller,
33, and Peter Kamenoff, 42,
made' a 20-page accusatory
statement against Venta, 47,
less than 36 hours before the
bombing.
Former members of the cult,
they wanted Venta's activities
curbed, Mulvey said.
Without License
They charged that Venta
practiced medicine without a
license, performed marriage
ceremonies without authority,
and allowed at least one cult
member to die for lack of
proper medical treatment.
The pair wenfto the mon
astery, authorities said, carry
ing a lethal package of 20
dynamite sticks in an attempt
to make Venta publicly con
fess wrongdoing.
Because Muller and Kam
enoff were killed in the ex
plosion, Ventura county cor
oner Virgil Payton at first
said there would be no in
quest. But yesterday he said
there might be an inquest aft
er all.
New Circumstances
ayton said tnere were
"new circumstances" sur
rounding the case but he re
fused to discuss them or their
possible relations to the for
mer disgruntled sect members
Muller and Kamenoff.
In their visit to the attor
ney general's office, Kamen
off, who spoke broken Eng
lish, said:
"When we went on our for
est fire fighting he (Venta),
whenever he chooses, he
sleeps in the car. He takes one
of his disciples, a sister, and
sleeps with them."
Cold-Blooded
Kamenoff said the so-called
master" said he was cold
blooded and needed a compan
ion to keep him warm.
Mulvey had asked if Venta
had had relations with any
under-age girls and ' Kamen
off said there were few girls
of that age in the cult. 'He
added, however, that Venta
had relations with some
young girls who later left the
colony.
Muller corroborated Kam
enoff s charged against Venta
whose real name, on police
records, was Francis Penco-
vich. He had been arrested
for offenses ranging from lar
ceny to vagrancy and once
was involved in a non-support
case with his first wife.
His second wife, known as
mother Ruth, by whom Ven
ta fathered six children, de
fended him against the
charges, by Kamenoff and
Muller. She said she had the
backing of the 60 cult mem
bers in describing her hus
band as a "misunderstood
man of High moral value."
Study, Smoking
Age Requirement
Lowering Urged
Salem-flTD-The 1959 Oregon
legislature will be asked to
lower the compulsory educa
tion age from 18 to 16 years,
and to lower the age limit on
smoking to 16.
The Legislature Interim
Committee o n Judicial Ad
ministration will make the
recommendations.
Circuit Judge Ralph Hol
man, chairman of , the com
mittee's juvenile code subcom
mittee, said strong support for
lowering the compulsory edu
cation age has come from
teachers.
Judge Holman noted an
anti-social reaction is produc
ed in some youths forced to
stay in an environment where
they do not fit, such as school
for, older children. .
He said the committee fa
vors lowering the age on
smoking because the present
age limit of 18 is often held
up to ridicule. The proposed
law "might get some enforce
ment below that age," he said.
The committee also has pro
posed to abolish the state cur
few law. He said the present
law "means absolutely noth
ing." Another committee propos
al defines authority to take
juveniles into traffic and mu
nicipal courts but gives juve
nile courts discretion to hand
le traffic cases if individual
judge desires.
The report on recommenda
tions was made before Ore
gon's supreme court and cir
cuit court judges in the clos
ing session of the two - day
state judicial council meeting
in Portland Friday.
Seafon Calls
Hells Canyon Site
Fraud of Century
Honolulu -4CPD- Secretary of
Interior Fred A. Seaton charg
ed Friday night that the Hells
Canyon site in Idaho -for a
proposed federal dam was the
"fraud of the 20th century." .
"Not one acre of irrigated
land has ever been directly
connected with it," he said.
Seaton, speaking to the final
dinner meeting of the 12 west
ern states Republican Confer
ence, cited the proposed Idaho
reclamation project as the
type of political issue Repub
licans must "hammer away
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'Sun Blinded' Driver Kills Stale Flagman
Winchester Bay -ujPD Fred
Earl Younans, 63, Winchester
Bay, was killed near here Fri
day when struck by a car on
Highway 101.
Younans, who was a state
highway flagman, was direct
ing traffic from the center
lane of the three lane high
way when struck by a car
driven by Lewis Everette
Poague of Reedsport.
Poague told officer Edward
Bakke of the state police that
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Ice, Fog Hamper
Crews Restoring
Power, Telephone
Pendleton -flJPD Telephone
and power company crews,
hampered by continuing ice
and fog. worked around the
clock yesterday to. restore
power and telephone service
in northeastern Oregon, in a
wide area north of Pendleton.
Crews totaling nearly 50
men worked to repair downed
power lines in the 40 - mile
stretch from Cold Springs to
Weston, while phone compa
ny crews worked to restore
lines between Walla Walla,
Wash., and Pendleton.
The downed power lines af
fected service in Helix, Ath
ena and Weston. PP&L Line
Superintendent Piper Kari
said crews were working in
tently to restore power to
ranches and homes of the
area.
He added that crews, from
Pendleton and Hermiston in
Oregon, and Yakima, Sunny
side and Toppenish in Wash
ington, would work through
the weekend in an effort to
restore power and keep it
flowing. One trouble, he said,
was that when lines were re
stored, crews had to keep dou
bling back to scrape new ice
from them, done by use of
ropes.
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