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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1967
Page
12
Shirley Temple Black, former child star, teased a potential Ev and Shirley Show as she campaigns for a vacant California House seat. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen predicted her victory, kissing her twice and joking about an upcoming display of the Ev and Shirley show.
Maurice Chevalier, 79, is honored at a fifth annual birthday party hosted in San Francisco by Louis Lurie, a local financier and longtime friend. The two men, born in September 1888, share a joke about Lurie’s future yearly celebrations as Chevalier’s engagements in San Francisco shift the date. Separately, Mrs. Kaye B. Martin filed a $100,000 damage suit alleging a brutal attack by an unnamed man at the mansion where he lives during a visit with her sister and the mayor’s estranged wife.
Charles Belcher, once earning four dollars a day as a Clearwater waiter, is declared by a federal court to receive his late father’s share in a $14 million lumber business. The four-year court battle ends with uncles managing trust assets, while Belcher plans studies in art and to fund his mother’s travel. Belcher’s family firms include W. E. Belcher Lumber Co and Belcher Wood Products Ltd. The mother also works as a waiter.
The article notes the sea horse has a hard jointed shell that hinders swimming making it a feeble species. It spends much time at rest with its tail wrapped around a plant and its body nearly upright in the water.
Zsa Zsa Gabor wins a Mexican divorce from Joshua S. Cosden after a year and a half of marriage. Judge Jesus Manuel Brives in Juarez second civil court cites incompatibility. Gabor says she plans to pursue television and radio.
The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld dismissal of a lawsuit by Bertie Grimes of Lenoir County against Home Credit Co. after she slipped on a freshly waxed floor in Kinston in November 1962. The court found no evidence of excessive wax or unsafe conditions.
New York University Hospital said author John Steinbeck, 65, may undergo back surgery next week. He has been a patient since October 8 and is in satisfactory condition, being treated for a herniated spinal disc.
In Satellite Beach Brevard County a young lemonade vendor 11 year old Billy Churchill had his sidewalk stand shut by the health department over missing separate male and female restrooms. His mother and father challenged the ruling calling it free enterprise interference and insisted customers could use family bathrooms if allowed. The health director defended the decision noting public health concerns while the family stored supplies in a freezer and joked about dangers.
Gov. George Romney of Michigan bought a half hour of prime evening time on CBS. The telecast on Wednesday November 15 at 10 p.m. sparked talk of a presidential run, with Romney stating a decision within six weeks. A Romney spokesman said the program would cover his urban tour and possibly other topics.
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