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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1974
Page
1
RAQUEL WELCH, named 1975 chairman of the American Cancer Society, briefly cried at a news conference when asked if her image was too frivolous for a serious cancer crusade. She apologized later, saying she volunteered to help because the public has supported her.
U S diplomat George Bush arriving via Tokyo to assume head of the American Liaison Office in Peking will bring his 1 year old male cocker spaniel C. Fred. Barbara Bush accompanies him while he travels by Japan Airlines to Peking Monday.
London reports Princess Alexandra will stay in her Richmond Park home as moving to Ryde Park would be too expensive. Angus Ogilvy says the cost is higher than expected and it would be wrong for the government to fund a large conversion amid belt tightening. Paris ad notes for King Faisal’s car auction in the International Herald Tribune lists a Packard model with a $100,000 basic price and various details.
President Ford defended his Nixon pardon as no deal with no haste, while House members split on whether the inquiry should end. Democrats pressed for more witnesses. Republicans urged shifting focus to urgent national needs and moving on.
In Livermore California residents rally around Mike Pompillo a 73 year old storyteller jailed after his shack on Vasco Road was burned. Donations of money clothing and furniture pour into the Emergency Fund Center as Pompillo faces psychiatric exams after a misdemeanor trespass arrest.
Annette Godsey formerly Eckis, a former Sea World secretary, won a $75,000 compensatory damage award on Thursday after suing Sea World for $2 million over leg injuries and permanent scarring suffered when she was bitten by a killer whale she was attempt to ride for publicity photos.
A Superior Court jury ruled Judge Louis M. Welsh that Mrs Godsey was not acting in the course of her employment when she rode the killer whale Shamu. The incident occurred April 19, 1971, in a show tank where she rode the whale three times in a bikini and was bitten after she fell off.
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