INVENTOR’S END: Sam Allen Davidson was so...

INVENTOR’S END: Sam Allen Davidson was so devoted to the inventions that he thought would make him rich some day that he lived with his scientific notes in a Van Nuys storage cubicle, despite his bad health. The facility’s operators had no notion he was there until his body was found, dead for several days (B1) . . . His family’s dilemma: If his notes really do hold valuable secrets that would justify his obsession . . . how could they tell?

FOUND, A VALLEY: Today marks a 224th anniversary in the San Fernando Valley. On this day in 1769, Spanish Captain Gaspar de Portola and his dragoons became the first Europeans to see it. Exploring over Cahuenga Pass, they meandered west along the route now followed by Ventura Boulevard. Near where Balboa Boulevard intersects it today, they came upon an Indian village, calling their discovery Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos --the last word of which survives in a local place name today.

DOC DRAMA: At 71, Dr. Walter Kearns of Woodland Hills, above, took the men’s golf championship from a 31-year-old rival at Lakeside Country Club in Toluca Lake. (C8) . . . The doc likes challenges. Now he’s moving to New Mexico, to do surgery on Navajos for the Public Health Service.

MORE LOST JOBS: Lockheed Corp. continues to suffer from the end of the Cold War. The Calabasas-based defense giant said it was delaying production of some fighter planes and eliminating 1,600 jobs at its missiles and space unit in Sunnyvale--in addition to 1,600 jobs already cut this year (D2) . . . Reaction: Lockheed stock tumbled $4 to $62.50 a share.