06 Dec 1958
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Newspaper
California Pasadena Independent
Location
Pasadena, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1958
Page
1
A chaotic OCR page fragment touts a cashword puzzle with a $750 prize and claims a solution numbered 32. It references claim copies, registration, and various tangential phrases while listing altered terms and stray names, creating a distorted, garbled notice about entering and claiming a potential award.
Four bandits assaulted a Brinks armored car crew in daylight at a Lakewood market and escaped with an estimated $30,000 in cash. A San Gabriel woman, a cash tray worker, was struck and frightened as the robbers seized money from a table and opened the safe before fleeing in a waiting car. The abandoned getaway vehicle was found later.
A kerosene stove explosion ignited a flash fire at a central Delaware two story home killing fifteen related Negro children and adults. Five year old Valerie Kwi son survived with burns over sixty percent while seven other relatives perished. Firemen found victims fleeing along a road and the house nearly collapsed.
Hollywood reports center on Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor after a champagne and caviar supper attended by Fisher’s wife Debbie Files who has filed for divorce. Reynolds also seeks divorce, but no comment was made about Taylor. Fisher and Taylor left Beverly Hills restaurant with Mike Todd Jr., while Reynolds, separated since September, filed for mental cruelty charges.
Phil G. Gough, Pasadena businessman and founder of Gough Industrial, died at Huntington Memorial Hospital from a stroke. Born June 23, 1891 in Spokane, he moved to Los Angeles in 1909 and built a major wholesale distributor of appliances, electrical and electronic equipment, and British automobiles. He was past president of the Jonathan Club and the Sabeiet Country Club. He resided at the Huntington-Sheray area.
A Chicago divorce case centers on Mrs Pau line Bolger 24 who sought separation claiming her husband George 30 spanked her. The judge granted the divorce citing rights and conduct. the report names other family members and local fire department actions as context.
Kenneth Carr 35 of Houston came to audit a construction firm in Bryan yesterday but robbed First State Bank & Trust Co. of 4250. He handed a teller a note, evacuated the money, discarded his weapon, and ran into a police squad car. He claimed the theft was linked to money troubles, not crime, and said he intended to audit Porterfield Construction Co’s books. Carr was quickly caught. Citizens and officers pursued him after the heist.
An 18 year old Altadena youth, Bruce Ginn, was held in Pasadena Municipal Court on a murder charge in the death of his 34 year old brother Edward. Judge Joseph A. Sprankle ordered a preliminary hearing and an appearance in Superior Court on December 24.
Morning Pasadena daily and Sunday home delivery prices are listed, with mail and single-copy rates. Legal notice cites Superior Court order No 0-148 dated June 6, 1981, and provides office address at 523 East Colorado Blvd Pasadena.
Cap Canaveral announces the Army led, NASA managed Juno II four stage unmanned rocket achieved an on schedule December-like launch. The mission aimed to place an instrumented payload into solar orbit after passing within 70,000 miles of the moon as part of the International Geophysics Year program.
London mourns and warns as thick fog descends in 1952, blamed for thousands of deaths and crippling transport. Reports note hospitals treating chest ailments while authorities urge limits on smoke pollution. scenes of abandoned cars and flowers line Lewisham roads as trains and ships halt.
In San Francisco a bid to set aside the death sentence for Edward S. Wein of Los Angeles was halted by Justice W. Carter to allow an appeal to the U S Supreme Court. Deputy A G Arle E Smith sought immediate court action to resume the execution set for midnight, but the court did not act within the two hours.
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