22 Feb 1973
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1973
Page
1
Greek actress Katina Paxinou, 73, was hospitalized in Athens with doctors suspecting lung cancer. The Oscar winner for For Whom the Bell Tolls has been performing on stage. her husband Alexis ee is starring in a nearby production.
William Mellon Hitchcock, grandson of Gulf Oil founder William Larimer Nool, indicted in Pittsburgh for evading more than 500000 dollars in federal income taxes during the late 1960s. Charged in a six count indictment with failing to report 543900 dollars in taxes from a Swiss numbered account. Hitchcock, 33, now in Tucson, Arizona, previously associated with Timothy Leary and once ran a Millbrook New York estate for Leary’s followers.
Comedian Flip Wilson beat a paternity claim after a private 14 day trial. Judge Harry S. Thrupp ruled Wilson not the father of Mabel Robinson's child based on evidence submitted. Tony Curtis gained custody of his 16 year old daughter Kelly Lee with Janet Leigh's consent. Curtis also holds custody of Allegra and Alexandria via his second wife Christine Kaufmann. He is married to Leslie Allen, mother of his son Nichols, due in May.
An American pilot from Las Vegas was killed and a California attorney jailed after a gun battle during a Mexican marijuana smuggling raid near Ensenada. Philip Murrell Barton, 28, allegedly fired on federal police and soldiers as his plane approached the airstrip, while attorney Robert Lee Grimes of San Diego was wounded and later arraigned. Police said six tons of marijuana were flown into the United States in multiple flights from Mazatlan. Vermont ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, becoming the 26th state to approve the measure.
Six persons including a father and son were indicted today by the Orange County Grand Jury on narcotics charges. Investigators reported seizure of more than 100 pounds of marijuana, a fully equipped drug lab, and chemical formulas from a Fullerton residence. Police seized 40 pounds of marijuana from another Fullerton home and, in Costa Mesa, two pill presses and about 25,000 amphetamine tablets from Vaudra D. Nunley and his son. The drug lab and most marijuana were taken from Jonathan Lowry's Fullerton home, with the remainder from a residence at 1314 West Raymond Avenue in Fullerton occupied by Rue Steele, Dennis Swiden, and Collette Cone.
The Senate Banking Committee approved G. Bradford Cook to succeed William J. Casey as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cook, 57, a Colorado Springs native, will serve until June 5, 1977 and joined the SEC as general counsel in 1971.
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Two female Army members in uniform married each other in San Francisco and later went AWOL. An Army spokesman said charges were shelved and a discharge as undesirables initiated due to regulations against a real choice. The Gay Alliance of San Francisco urged a general discharge and threatened a protest at the Presidio.
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