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MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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By Chad Carpenter
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Newsmakers Celebrity scoop ■ By The Associated Press
Fourth child for Sorvino, husband MIRA SORVINO AND her husband, Christopher Backus, are celebrating a new addition to their family — a bouncing baby girl. On Thursday, the parents welcomed daughter, Lucia, into their lives, the actress’ representative confirmed to Access Hollywood on Friday. “We are thrilled beyond measure to have been blessed with our fourth precious, healthy Sorvino child,” the couple told People, which first reported the news, in a statement. Sorvino gave birth to her last child, Holden Paul Terry Backus, on June 22, 2009. The couple also are parents to Johnny, 5, and Mattea, 7.
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Rock singer Patti Smith, looking at age 65 much as she did in the ’70s, performs in concert in Mexico City on Saturday.
FRIDAY/SATURDAY QUESTION: Who should Mitt Romney pick as his running mate, assuming Romney to be the Republican presidential candidate?
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GEORGE LINDSEY, 83, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Hee Haw,” has died. A news release from MarshallDonnellyCombs Funeral Home in Nashville, Tenn., said Mr. Lindsey Mr. Lindsay in 1977 died early Sunday morning after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were still being made. Mr. Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, “Mayberry RFD,” from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character — a service station attendant — on “Hee Haw” from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993. He joined “The Andy Griffith Show” in 1964 when Jim Nabors, portraying Gomer Pyle, left the program. Goober Pyle, who had been mentioned on the show as Gomer’s cousin, thus replaced him. Although he was best known as Goober, Mr. Lindsey had other roles during
Laugh Lines PIZZA HUT HAS introduced a new pizza that contains multiple cheeseburgers stuffed within the crust. It’s the first pizza that comes with your choice of soda or an intervention. Conan O’Brien
a long TV career. Earlier, he often was a “heavy” and once shot Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke.” His other TV credits included roles on “M*A*S*H,” “The Wonderful World of Disney,” “CHIPs,” “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour,” “The Real McCoys,” “Rifleman,” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” ‘’Twilight Zone” and “Love American Style.” He had movie roles, too, appearing in “Cannonball Run II” and “Take This Job and Shove It.” His voice was used in animated Walt Disney features including “The Aristocats,” “The Rescuers” and “Robin Hood.”
________ COUNT CARL JOHAN BERNADOTTE, 95, who lost his Swedish royal title and succession rights when he married a commoner, has died. Count Bernadotte died Saturday at a hospital in
Angelholm, Sweden, Royal Court spokesman Bertil Ternert said Sunday. The court did not disclose Count the cause of Bernadotte death. in 2008 Count Bernadotte was the youngest of King Gustaf VI Adolf’s five children and an uncle of the current Swedish monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf. He was also a great-grandchild of Britain’s Queen Victoria. Mr. Bernadotte lost his “prince” title and his succession rights to the Swedish throne when he married Swedish journalist Kerstin Wijkmark in New York in 1946.
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Setting it Straight Corrections and clarifications
■ Al-Qaida-trained terrorist Ahmed Ressam was captured and arrested in Port Angeles on Dec. 14, 1999. The wrong date appeared in a report about waterfront surveillance cameras that appeared on the front page of Sunday’s
Clallam County edition.
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Peninsula Lookback From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
1937 (75 years ago)
The state’s newly christened “Voice of Seen Around Washington” tri-motor Boeing plane Peninsula snapshots arrived in Port Angeles and is spending three days — past the start of the fishing DOG FROLICKING season — before heading east through the IN an old Dungeness Valstate. ley irrigation ditch . . . Mary Riddle, a member of the Quinault tribe who learned to fly 10 years ago, WANTED! “Seen Around” recently quit the controls for a new pasitems. Send them to PDN News Desk, P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles time: parachute jumping. WA 98362; fax 360-417-3521; or Riddle made the first parachute jump email news@peninsuladailynews. from the new plane as it flew directly over com. Clallam County Airport in west Port Angeles.
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1962 (50 years ago) The Civil Defense Organization of Forks acquired eight ammunition bunkers at the old Quillayute naval airfield from the federal General Services Administration. The eight magazines were dismantled and hauled to Forks, where volunteers
will convert them to fallout shelters to house townsfolk in case of nuclear attack. The acquisition was made through the cooperation of U.S. Sen. Warren Magnuson, U.S. Rep. Jack Westland — whose 2nd Congressional District includes Forks — and Clallam County Commissioner Thomas Mansfield.
1987 (25 years ago) A crew of eight divers from Tacomabased Maritime Adventures has returned to the wreck of the ill-fated steamship SS Governor off Port Townsend. The crew hopes to recover the purser’s safe, silverware, china and other valuables — including a load of wine and liqueurs picked up in Victoria two hours before the ship sank in a collision in 1921. Maritime Adventures head Robert Mester and two companion divers descended to the wreckage in the Strait of Juan de Fuca last month to survey the site and set up the new effort.
Looking Back From the files of The Associated Press
TODAY IS MONDAY, May 7, the 128th day of 2012. There are 238 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On May 7, 1812, English poet Robert Browning was born in London. On this date: ■ In 1789, the first inaugural ball was held in New York in honor of President George Washington and his wife, Martha. ■ In 1824, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, had its premiere in Vienna. ■ In 1915, nearly 1,200 people died when a German torpedo sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast. ■ In 1941, Glenn Miller and
His Orchestra recorded “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA Victor. ■ In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Jonathan Wainwright went on a Manila radio station to announce the Allied surrender of the Philippines to Japanese forces during World War II. ■ In 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War II. ■ In 1954, the 55-day Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended with Vietnamese insurgents overrunning French forces. ■ In 1963, the United States launched the Telstar 2 communications satellite. ■ In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to
the “Vietnam era.” In Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover. ■ In 1977, Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby, the first of his Triple Crown victories. ■ In 1984, a $180 million outof-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who charged they’d suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant. ■ In 1992, the latest addition to America’s space shuttle fleet, Endeavour, went on its first flight. A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise received enough votes for ratification as Michigan became
the 38th state to approve it. ■ Ten years ago: Authorities arrested 21-year-old college student Luke J. Helder in a series of rural mailbox bombings that left six people wounded in Illinois and Iowa. Helder was later found incompetent to stand trial but remains incarcerated. ■ Five years ago: Yahweh Ben Yahweh, a former cult leader in Miami linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s, died at age 71. ■ One year ago: The U.S. released a handful of videos seized from Osama bin Laden’s hideout showing the terrorist leader watching newscasts of himself amid shabby surroundings.