People and Events

Johnny Carson’s ex-wife nudged her undocumented maid into going to La Migra on Wednesday--not to turn her in, but to apply for amnesty.

Rosario Sanchez, a Mexican national who had been working for Joanne Carson in her Bel-Air home since slipping into the country illegally seven years ago, was not eager to go to the Immigration and Naturalization Service amnesty office on Wilshire Boulevard.

“We had to talk her into it,” Carson said. “I knew it was only a question of time before she’d be deported, and I was worried I’d lose someone I loved.” She said Sanchez had been afraid to go to the INS office because of fear that she would be sent back to Mexico.

INS Western Regional Commissioner Harold Ezell personally escorted Sanchez and Carson to the application window, where the latter submitted an affidavit that brought her maid an immediate six-month work card pending approval of her application.

Carson said she was urging all her friends employing undocumented aliens to do the same thing before the deadline for applications May 4.

Another Bel-Air social note:

Nancy Reagan is planning to drop in today to inspect the little home she and the President have leased for their first three years of retirement. It’s at 668 St. Cloud Road.

It used to be 666 St. Cloud, but the address was changed because of a biblical mention of 666 as the sign of the beast. Devil worshipers love the number, it seems. For a long time, the single-story, ranch-style home was known to some as the “demon house” because of the address.

It must be presumed that the Reagans are not particularly superstitious. Their lease agreement with Wall Management Services, a firm set up by about 20 of their friends, gives them the option to renew or purchase the property at the end of the three years.

Wall bought the estate last August for $2.5 million. At today’s Bel-Air prices, said a realtor, that makes it practically a fixer-upper.

We’ll soon see about that. This is purported to be the First Lady’s first look at the place.

A men’s dance group calling itself the Chippendale Gentlemen and wearing not all that much was prevented from staging its scheduled show at a city-owned plaza in Biloxi after an attorney for the original Chippendales in Santa Monica served the Mississippi city with a cease-and-desist order.

Only women were to be admitted to the male-stripper shows.

Bob Green, an official of the real Chippendales here, said the group has been going around the southeastern part of the country for about six months playing on the Chippendales name. “It has cost us tons of money over the years to establish a certain image,” Green said. “The name is federally copyrighted.”

He added: “We’ve got I don’t know how many of these cases of people using our name illegally going on right now, both here and in Canada. It’s a major problem.”

Billy Shaw, a 37-year-old former cash register salesman from Northern Ireland, finally got his motorcycle back on Wednesday and said he plans to resume his round-the-world jaunt today or Friday. He has been stranded here for about a month waiting for the machine to arrive by ship from Australia, the last place he visited.

Shaw sold his house and set out on his lengthy ride in an effort to draw attention to the efforts of the Belfast-headquartered We Care organization, particularly on behalf of a Nairobi, Kenya, Boys’ Town operation set up by the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco.

Shaw, who has been staying in the priests’ residence of Salesian High School here while waiting for his mount, said he is doing his part to get the people of Northern Ireland to stop fighting each other and “set an example to the rest of the world.”

Does he think that will happen any time soon?

“It has to come some time. They’ve got to grow up and mature.”