Charles Evans

Charles Evans, a founder of Evan-Picone sportswear for women who later produced the movies "Tootsie" and "Showgirls," died June 2. He was 81. Evans, who is the brother of film producer Robert Evans, died of complications from pneumonia at New York Presbyterian Hospital, said his sister, Alice Shure. He had been a resident of New York City.

The Compton City Council voted early Wednesday to fire its top administrator, the second time the panel has terminated its city manager in three years. The firing comes at a time when the mayor is under fire from some residents for missing council meetings. After a closed-door meeting that ended about 1:30 a.m., the council voted unanimously to fire Charles Evans. City Controller Willie Norfleet was appointed to take his place. Evans and Norfleet could not be reached for comment.

BEFORE he stood beaming onstage at the Emmys, before his "Today" interview with Katie Couric, before people were calling him a "superstar," 9-year-old Charles Evans was just a kid from New Orleans' 9th Ward made precocious and wise by his hard-knock life. Then, on Sept.

Charles Evans, a founder of Evan-Picone sportswear for women who later produced the movies "Tootsie" and "Showgirls," died June 2. He was 81. Evans, who is the brother of film producer Robert Evans, died of complications from pneumonia at New York Presbyterian Hospital, said his sister, Alice Shure. He had been a resident of New York City.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the mountain-climbing New Zealand beekeeper who became a mid-20th century hero as the first person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, has died. He was 88. Hillary, who made his historic climb to the top of the world's highest peak with Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay of Nepal, died today at a hospital in Auckland City, New Zealand, according to Prime Minister Helen Clark. A statement from the Auckland District Health Board said he died of a heart attack.

The Compton City Council voted early Wednesday to fire its top administrator, the second time the panel has terminated its city manager in three years. The firing comes at a time when the mayor is under fire from some residents for missing council meetings. After a closed-door meeting that ended about 1:30 a.m., the council voted unanimously to fire Charles Evans. City Controller Willie Norfleet was appointed to take his place. Evans and Norfleet could not be reached for comment.

Charles Evans & Associates Inc. in Redwood City has won a $50,000 contract from the Air Force to provide laboratory services and development work applicable to the B-20 Program.

"Quandoque bonus dormitat Homer." "Sometimes even good old Homer nods." (Horace, Epistles, Book III, P. 359.) Yes, the editors, proofreaders, typesetters of The Times are, like good old Homer, human too,. "Republican Charles Evans Hughes" did not, repeat not, "lose California, and the presidency, to Democrat Woodrow Wilson in 1912." (Times editorial "Sorry Hiram, but Times Change," June 22). It was 1916, not 1912, when Charles Evans Hughes left the U.S. Supreme court to run as the Republican candidate for the presidency against President Woodrow Wilson and lost California and the election.

A man was critically wounded Sunday in an afternoon shootout outside a busy 7-Eleven convenience store, Los Angeles police said. The man, believed to be in his early 30s, was shot five times in a gun battle with another man in the 9000 block of Woodman Avenue about 3 p.m., said Sgt. Charles Evans. He was listed in critical condition at Holy Cross Medical Center after surgery for wounds to his chest, buttocks and hand, authorities said.

Bushy-bearded Robert H. Bork apparently would be the first member of the Supreme Court to sport chin whiskers in 46 years, if his nomination is confirmed by the Senate. A check Wednesday of the high court roster showed that Bork's beard will be the first since the classic Vandyke of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who presided until June, 1941. The present court does have a mustachioed member, Justice Thurgood Marshall.

BEFORE he stood beaming onstage at the Emmys, before his "Today" interview with Katie Couric, before people were calling him a "superstar," 9-year-old Charles Evans was just a kid from New Orleans' 9th Ward made precocious and wise by his hard-knock life. Then, on Sept.

A fire that damaged two bungalow classrooms at a vacant school in Woodland Hills was believed to be arson, possibly by youths playing with matches, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported this morning. Firefighters were called to Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School in the 5600 block of Capistrano Avenue at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, and they extinguished the blaze in about 30 minutes. It caused an estimated $100,000 in damage. The school has not been used since 1983. Fire Department spokesman Jim Wells said the fire is believed to have been started by an incendiary device, most likely matches lit by youngsters who were gone by the time firefighters arrived.

The Compton City Council approved an overdue payment of $90,838 to its insurance broker, Humanomics Inc. of Granada Hills, for Workers' Compensation and liability insurance. Employers Reinsurance Co. was chosen as this year's insurance carrier and will provide $10 million in Workers' Compensation coverage and $1 million in employers' liability coverage with a $275,000 deductible. Charles Evans, the city's risk manager, called it an excellent policy.