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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1974
Page
1
Jazz trumpeter Al Hirt and Mary Patureau Hirt reached a mutual separation agreement ending their 31 year marriage. Hirt will pay $1,125 weekly alimony plus $700 weekly support, plus medical dental and tuition costs for their children. The case cites a March 21 1973 abandonment of their home.
New York chronicled prosecutor Frank S Rogan who served 32 years as district attorney. He died at 12 aged 12 after a stroke and surgery. Rogan helped secure key convictions in 1950s basketball scandals and during his tenure G hamber officials went to jail. The article notes his long career and the 20th anniversary celebration at the Air Force Academy.
Severe storms lashed the Southeast causing three deaths. In Cherryville North Carolina Pamela Denis Humphries 54 died as 15 mobile homes were wrecked. 10 others injured. In Huntsville Alabama Willie McCarey died as a trailer overturned. 19 injured statewide. A 28‑twister event hit Tennessee Ohio Mississippi Kentucky and Alabama with damage at Nashville and Cincinnati roofs torn, stores flooded, and cars tossed.
A U S Coast Guard helicopter found four Americans in good condition after their single engine plane made a forced landing atop a 200 foot mesa near El Rosario Baja California Sur. The group from San Jose and Long Beach had hiked to a beach 250 miles south of the border. Two others from a second chartered plane were stranded on Dusty Town mesa awaiting weather to permit rescue.
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