Look Alike Agency Finds Fame in L A
Ron Smith runs Xon Smith Enterprises in Los Angeles offering celebrity look alike clients. He says people pay 250 to 1500 dollars for look alikes of Rosalynn Carter Cher and Howard Hughes. Applicants travel for appearances, autographs, or clothing souvenirs, with crowds reacting like real stars.
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Smith
Jimmy Carter
Ed Becheler
Waco
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Johnny Carson
Cher
Clark Gable
Howard Hughes
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Burt Reynolds
Christopher Lance
Lance
Crs Durante
Bill Grimes
Huntington Beach widow wins chance at Orange County townhomes
Helen Kirk a 69 year old Huntington Beach widow was the first name drawn in Newport Beach for Woodbridge Village townhouses. Some 8,000 people crowded the Irvine Co lot as 300 names were drawn for 85 sale spots priced from 34 900 to 344 800. Kirk and her daughter Mary secured forms to buy if qualifying.
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Helen Kirk
Orange County
Huntington Beach
Irvine Co
Newport Center
Woodbridge Village
Mrs. Hirk
Mary
Earl Traux
Kirk
Publisher elected to executive board of global press group
Howard and Tim Hays Jr of Riverside California were elected to the executive board of the International Press Institute. The announcement appeared in the Riverside Press Enterprise and highlights the pair as prominent publishers with ties to the Norwegian media scene.
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Norway
Howard
Tim” Hays Jr
the Riverside
Calif
Enterprise
Interna
Gnnsl Press Institute
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TIDES AND EFAMPHRATURES BEACH WEATHER OUTLOOK
Variable clouds with chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms. Temperatures reach the 70s with highs in the 30s to 39 across today and Tuesday. Winds light to southwest, seas 2 feet. Moonset and moonrise times included with general marine forecast and tide notes.
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Oreret
Cepradghi Kins
Oter
Wiley
Man Shot on Willowbrook Street Near Largo Ave
A 24-year-old man was found shotgunned on a Willowbrook street near 13406 Largo Ave. by residents who heard several blasts and called deputies. The incident occurred around 1:15 am, and Lynwood sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting as a homicide.
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Willowbrook
Lynwood
Largo Ave
Supreme Court rejects Ron Paul appeal in Texas race
Washington AP reports the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Republican Ron Paul who lost Texas 22nd district to Democrat Robert Alton Gammage by 268 votes. The defeat tied for the narrowest congressional margin last year with 112,802 votes cast in the district.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Ron Paul
Texas
Robert Alton Gammage
Paul
Riot Violence Rages in Humboldt Park Puerto Rican Quarter
Police enforce heavy security after Saturdays shootings that killed two and injured many in Humboldt Park. Sunday clashes left 13 officers and several civilians hurt as youths hurled debris and Molotovs at squads. Looting, arson, and property damage totaled in the hundreds of thousands amid claims of police overreaction and community frustration.
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Humboldt Park
Julia Osorio
Rafael Graz
Osorio
Kiran
Cruz
Michael A. Bilandic
Dawntown
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California Avenue
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Sun-Times
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Fixeman
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Adeline Keane
Robbers Hit Taco Bell in Bellflower Robbery
Two armed men entered the Taco Bell at 10600 Alondra Blvd Bellflower shortly after midnight and escaped with about 200 dollars after threatening clerks Gary Alter and Brenda Griffith with a sawed off shotgun. Deputies report the suspects forced the workers to lie at the door while taking money from the register.
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Taco Bell
Alondra Blyd
Bellflower
Lakewood
Gary Alter
Brenda Griffith
Clerk balky as bandits flee with empty hands
Lakewood deputies said a man and woman entered Chock's Thrift Store in Bellflower about 6 p.m. and demanded money, but clerk Ellene Clay refused to open the register. They fled south on Bellflower Boulevard after she kept the cash box closed.
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Lakewood
Ellene Clay
Chock’s
Bellflower burglary report details TV theft from Belflower apartment
Devan Ross of 16216 Eucalyptus Ave Belflower told Lakewood deputies Sunday burglars removed a window screen to enter her apartment and stole a television valued at 200 dollars.
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Devan Ross
Eucalyptus’ Ave
Belflower
Lakewood Deputies
Police believe boy of nine kidnapped in Firestone case
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies halted a house to house search for Luis Miguel Ruela, a Graham Elementary fourth grader missing since May 25. Detectives pursue leads after a ransom call. authorities suspect a kidnapping and seek clues in Mexico where the boy's mother resides. The child is described as about four feet tall with brown hair and eyes, last seen in a red shirt and green checkered pants with a facial cut.
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Los Angeles
FBU
Mexico
Trinidad Cueva
Het Iinches
Fire Believed To Have Started By Firecrackers
A weekend brush fire in the Little Rock area of Angeles National Forest burned about 360 acres near Palmdale before 100 firefighters from Los Angeles County and the U S Forest Service contained it after roughly 20 hours. No injuries or property damage were reported. Officials cited a possible firecracker trigger.
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Palmdale
Los Angeles County
U.S. Forest Service
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Angeles National Forest
Palmale
Pomona
China
Fontana
Upland
South Coast Air Basin
National Weather Service
Long Beach
Carter names Mora as deputy assistant secretary of Labor
President Carter named Roland R. Mora 39 of Mission Viejo California a Marine veteran and former campaign aide to deputy assistant secretary of Labor for veterans employment Mora has advised on alcoholism and drug abuse and the Navy fitness program He served in the Marine Corps from 1961 to 1988 retiring as a captain and worked for the Air Force secretary earlier this year Mora supported the 1975 presidential campaign
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Washington
Carter
Roland R. Mora
Mora
Mission Viejo
Calif
U.S. Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
Vietnam
Police hunt rape slayer in Fullerton
Fullerton police intensified their search for a suspect after the stabbing death and possible rape of a 21 year old woman whose nude body was found bound in her bed at 233 Yorba Linda Bird. An autopsy was planned to determine the cause of death and confirm sexual assault claims.
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Fullerton
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