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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1972
Page
9
Carbondale-Herrin Murphysbe stage and screen figures end 25 year marriage. The couple married in 1947 and seek divorce custody of sons Gregg 16 and Blake 10. The report notes thirty years in stage television and movie work for the pair.
Gov George C Wallace undergoes treatment with an electric nerve blocker applied via skin electrodes and powered by flashlight batteries to reduce pain from a spinal cord injury caused by an assassination attempt.
The article notes a man named Hughes must apply in person for a new passport with a twelve dollar fee, a requirement seen as potentially enforced for him. He traveled from Managua after a weekend earthquake and entered the United States without a passport previously. He stayed at the Inn at the Park near Hyde Park, paying two thousand five hundred dollars daily for a west wing room that was later sealed off.
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