DIVORCED. James Earl ("Chip") Carter III, 29, the President's party-loving second son, now employed as assistant to the manager of Carter's campaign staff; and Caron Carter, 29, Georgia schoolteacher; after seven years of marriage, one child (a son, James Earl Carter IV); in Americus, Ga.

DIED. Wilhelmina Behmenburg Cooper, 40, Dutch-born daughter of a Chicago butcher, who parlayed a career as one of the nation's most photographed beauties into a second triumph as head of one of the top New York model agencies; of cancer; in Greenwich, Conn. During her cover-girl days, Wilhelmina boasted that she was "one of the few high-fashion models built like a woman." So she was. With her 5 ft. 11 in., 38-24-36 frame, doe eyes, delicate cheekbones and mane of high-piled dark hair, she epitomized the classical, aristocratic look that she helped to make the style standard of the 1950s and '60s, along with Suzy Parker, Capucine and Veruschka. She never approved of the earthy, natural look that arrived in the 1970s with laid-back lovelies such as Lauren Hutton, Cheryl Tiegs and Margaux Hemingway. Fashion, she lamented, became "boobs and butts, anything to make pictures sexy." Even so, she knew how to make fashion pay: Wilhelmina Models Inc., which she and her husband Bruce Cooper started in 1967, is today second in size only to the Eileen Ford firm.

DIED. Jay Silverheels, 62, the bass-voiced Mohawk Indian who played the masked man's sidekick Tonto after The Lone Ranger series moved from radio to TV in 1949; of complications from pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Born on a reservation in Canada, Silverheels spurred his horse Scout through all 221 of the video episodes made before filming stopped in 1957, helping his Kemo Sabe (commonly translated as "faithful friend") bring law-and-order to the early West. Silverheels never lost his love for horses (he took up harness racing at 56) or for the show, in which the bad guys were always vanquished, and with a minimum of violence. Said he: "TV-watching children had better examples in those days."

DIED. Emmett Ashford, 65, first black major league baseball umpire, an ebullient Californian whose booming voice and animated gestures behind the plate delighted the fans at American League games from 1966 to 1970; of a heart attack; in Marina Del Rey, Calif.

DIED. Norman Hobgood, 108, retired Arkansas lawyer and farmer who enlisted in the Army in 1898 to fight in the Spanish-American War and was reckoned by Washington to have been the nation's oldest living veteran; in Little Rock, Ark.

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