1976 Year

Signaling strong interest in running for the Senate in North Carolina next year, Elizabeth Hanford Dole on Thursday asked county officials in Kansas to remove her from the voting rolls there and said she planned to register "in another jurisdiction" in the near future. White House and national party officials regard Dole as the strongest candidate the GOP could find to run for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.

Next month, a crew of Buena Park officials and residents plans to "go back East and do some bragging" as one of 20 cities to be nominated as finalists in the national All America City Award contest. "Everybody is just absolutely thrilled (with the nomination)," said Sue Williams, acting administrative analyst to the city manager. "This will help put us on the map." Williams pointed out that Buena Park is the only city from Orange County recently nominated for the award.

The final four teams that will pair off in tonight's semifinals of the NAIA District 3 playoffs at Occidental College in Glendale didn't particularly come as a surprise. In fact, they are the district's top four seeds. SCC (25-4 overall, 9-2 conference) and Westmont (23-5, 10-2) will play the first game at 6 p.m. Biola (27-3, 10-2) and Point Loma-Nazarene (24-7, 8-3) will play the second game at 8 p.m. The winners will advance to the NAIA District 3 final at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Occidental.

The Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded Atari Corp. and created the Chuck E. Cheese restaurants wants to put high-tech jukeboxes and video games linked to the Internet in bars, hotels and other public places--and eventually make billions of dollars. "Do you think 'Bubba' can surf the Net? I do," Nolan Bushnell said at a recent news briefing at his home here, about 30 miles south of San Francisco.

A simple J and F may tell the past, present and future of Jafra Cosmetics Intl. of Westlake Village. The two letters, featured in the new logo of the 43-year-old direct-sales company, pay tribute to corporate founders Jay and Frank Day. And the stylized application of those initials is intended to give a glimpse of forward-thinking plans for the new century.

The Wednesday airplane crash death of In-N-Out Burgers Inc. President Rich Snyder presents the family-owned fast-food chain with a leadership challenge and transition questions at a strategic time in the company's 45-year history. In-N-Out is in the final stages of transferring its headquarters from Baldwin Park to Irvine, a transition scheduled for completion in February. Now, however, the more difficult transition involves unexpected changes in management and control.

Frank Yerby, whose novels of the antebellum South sold millions of copies but who left the United States because he said many of his Southern readers found his mixed blood offensive, has died. The expatriate author, who wrote 32 historical novels, the best known of which was "Foxes of Harrow," died Nov. 29 of heart failure in Madrid. He was 76.

Ervin Santana could use a support group. He has a chance this year to become the hardest-luck pitcher in the history of Angels' baseball - but he's not even in the ballpark yet. Santana enters Wednesday's start at Minnesota with a record of 0-6 record because Angel bats have offered three total runs of support. The Hey-Lows have been shut out in Santana's last five outings…O-O-O-O-Ouch. With an inflated ERA of 5.59, Santana doesn't deserve to be undefeated. But nor does he deserve to be left stranded on Pitching Mound Island.

Andrew Willis walked for an hour along the rugged Corona del Mar coast, his path punctuated by intimate coves and tide pools. "There were no footprints other than mine," he recalled. Someone with a small bulldozer had been moving dirt down the side of a bluff 30 feet above, a neighborhood tipster reported. It could be illegal. And it was Willis' job, and only his, to investigate.

Manfred Ewald, who as head of the state sports program in the former East Germany oversaw one of the most despicable, large-scale doping experiments ever conducted in the name of Olympic glory and national pride, has died. He was 76. Ewald, a former Nazi who after World War II served the Communist regime in East Germany at its highest levels, died Monday of complications of pneumonia in his hometown, Damsdorf, southeast of Berlin.