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16Kenosha News Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1978By United Press InternationalROUND WON Cat Davis studies drama, sports a Farrah Fawcett-Majors hair style and packs a mean left hook. Tuesday, her court fight won, she became the first woman ever licensed to box in New York state. Two other female pugilists — Marian “Tyger” Trimiar and Jackie Tonawanda” Garret — also picked up permits Says Cat, who's knocked out 15 of her last 16 opponents, “We re not freaks, just women who want to be athletes.” Two-time heavyweight champ and state boxing commissioner Floyd Patterson doesn't agree. Says he, “I’m still against it ... I just can't see a woman lying on the floor, bleeding from the nose or mouth ...I hold women on a pedestal because they’re feminine.”NEW MODEL Betty Ford ishome from the hospital with a brand new face — but fans will have to wait until next month to see it. The former first lady entered Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert, Calif., last week for a face lift, aimed at removing puffiness from under her eyes and at tightening up the skin around her neck She says she’ll make her first public appearance Oct. 6 in Los Angeles when she attends a dinner honoring Fred Astaire POT-POURRI California has another entry in the great marijuana debate, which began when Gov. Jerry Brown refused to decriminalize pot and said he s never smoked it Attorney General Evelle Younger — his challenger for office — countered, saying he would decriminalize it, that he doesn't smoke it himself, but that Brown does. Now comes Congresswoman Yvonne Brathwaite, who’s running for attorney general She says in San Diego she'll never take up the hash habit because she’s seen smokers all share a “joint,” and that's lcky. Says she, “I watched them passing it around to each other. I figured it was the easiest way to catch every disease in the world ”WHEN YOU’RE NO. 2 Americans will never accept the idea of women in combat, but women in the military do the men a favor by being tough competitors That’s the word from Brig, Gen Margaret Ann Brewer, the first woman general in the U.S. Marine Corps She took reporters on a tour of El Toro Marine Air Station in CaliforniaCAT DAVIS .. .gets boxing licenseTuesday, telling them the corps’ 4.400 female Marines will continue to be barred from infantry, artillery. tank and combat pilot positions But she says since women study hard, they force their less scholarly male collegues to work harder, to keep from falling behind.GROWING FAMILY: His honor and her honor will become their honors Friday, with a touch of “Eight is Enough.” Harriet Cosmo, mayor of Ventura, Calif., willmarry’ Municipal Court Judge Burt Henson The 42-year-old mayor has three children from a previous marriage and the judge, who’s 52, has five They say they’ve known each other for some time, but that romance didn't blossom until they wound up in the same voting headquarters on election night last November.QUOTE OF THE DAY Former U S Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz commenting on Watergate at a political fund-raiser in Omaha. Neb : “It was like General Motors breaking into the Ford Motor Co. to steal the Edsel plans.”GLIMPSES Frank Sinatra will be the chairman of a major tribute Nov 9 for ring great Joe Louis at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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Kenosha News
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Sep 20, 1978
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