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Miss Peru Crowned Miss Universe;
U.S. Loses Place in Final Contest
Miss Germany
Is a Tearful Fifth;
Alaska Represented
BY JACK BECKLER
LONG BEACH, Calif., OF—The
crown of Miss Universe rests to
day atop the dark brown hair of
Peru’s Gladys Zender, the first
Latin American ever to win the
coveted honor.
She is the 18-year-old daughter
of one of Lima’s leading families.
There was no candidate among
the 15 semi-finalists from the
United States because of the dis
qualification of Leona Gage, the
married Miss USA from Mary
land, but Alaska was represented
by Martha Lehman, 18, of Fair
banks.
A gorgeous blonde from Brazil,
Terezinha Goncalves Morango, 20,
placed second, and dark-eyed Ma
ria Rosa Gamio, 19, of Cuba, was
fourth.
Breath-Taking Beauty
Sonia Hamilton, 23, a stately
blonde from London, was third
choice in the judging and the
breath-takingly beautiful G e r t i
Daub, 19, of Germany was chosen
fifth among 15 semifinalists.
Tears flowed freely backstage
after the winners were announced.
Miss Zender faced photographers
with tears streaming down her
face—and a smile of joy on her
lips. Her parents rushed to the
stage to embrace their beautiful
daughter.
The sight of the happy family
plus the long strain of the contest
snapped something inside Miss
Germany. Huge tears rolled end
lessly down her face.
"I Want to Go Home"
“I am homesick,” she sobbed.
‘‘Everyone seems to have friends
and family but I have no one. I j
want to go home.”
But the 19-year-old Hamburg j
girl had a large portion of the ;
crowd with her and there was j
distinct disappointment in some i
sectors when her Grace Kelly-like j
beauty was passed over by the
judges in favor of Miss Perq.
Full of Grace and Sex
The Peruvian charmer was by
no means an unpopular choice,
however. She drew some of the
loudest applause heard as the
crowd watched her slow, slinky |
progress down the runway—a |
movement at once full of grace !
and sex appeal.
Miss Zender is 5 feet, 7 inches
tall, has a 23-inch waist and
36-inch hips and bust.
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In Commissioner's Court
Andrew Ningealook and Daniel
Oxereok were each sentenced to
serve 60 days for being drunk in
a private home. The sentences
were suspended.
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Gregory Ayack pleaded guilty
to a charge of assault and bat
tery and was given a sentence
of 90 days in jail with 60 days
suspended.
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Would-Be Miss USA
Has Happy Prospects
As She Flies Home
A beauty queen toppled from
her Miss USA throne by her own
deception flew back to Maryland
Saturday with the prospect of
cashing in on the sensation she
created in the Miss Universe con
test.
Mrs. Mary Leona Gage Ennis,
18, was boarding her plane at Los
Angeles when the judges were
selecting Miss Universe. She took
along a contract for a $200-a
week engagement at the Tropi
cana Hotel, Las Vegas. She said
she plans to accept It.
Gets Feature Role
American International Pictures
is offering Leona a featured role
in a film called “Motorcycle
Gang.” to start shooting in Holly
wood Aug. 12.
Entertainer Spike Jones sent an
offer for her to appear on his TV
show. She was deluged, in fact,
by offers from TV shows and
night clubs. Among the offers was
one to appear on the Ed Sullivan
Show.
But what Leona had wrought
was not without its heartaches.
She fainted once, simply from
tension, a doctor said, and she
fainted again last night when a
reporter told her her father is
alive. She had said he was dead.
Father Is Paralyzed
It developed her father, F. D.
Gage, 56, is a palsied patient in a
Wichita Falls, Texas, hospital.
Hurricane Audrey s Toll:
534 Dead, Property
Damage Over $40 Million
i LAKE CHARLES, La, (JV-The
' dead and missing from Hurricane
Audrey’s June 27th rampage total
534 persons. Property damage
was well over $40 million.
In his latest report, Sheriff
Henry Reid said 323 bodies had
been recovered thru last week
from Cameron Parish (County
and 190 persons are missing. In
addition, the hurricane killed at
least five in other parts of Louisi
ana. Texas reported 11 deaths.
She explained that her father
had been injured in two differ
ent accidents and paralyzed. After
she left Texas for Maryland witn
her husband two years ago she
couldn’t find out definitely from
her family so “I resigned myself
to the thought that he was dead."
Her mother, divorced from her
father, now is Mrs. Walter Biggs
of Dallas. She told newsmen in
Dallas she had written the girl,
telling her her father was dead.
Awful Way lo Live
Leonas husband, Air Force Sgt.
Gene Norris Ennis, 28, stationed
in Maryland, will have a leave to
go to Las Vegas with her for a
vacation before her hotel show.
Their two boys, Gene 3 and David
2, will go with them.
But her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Clarence Long of Crisfield, Md., !
told a reporter: “That’s an awful
way to have to live, by lying.
Anything you get by cheating is
not worth having.”
Leona’s mother, Mrs. Biggs,
said in Dallas: “I can’t figure out
why she did this—to tell these
stories.”
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