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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1959
Page
1
Hal Boyle surveys the 1950s as the decade ends, noting personal changes and social shifts that defined daily life. He humorously contrasts era landmarks from penny-pinching to frozen foods, escalators, drive-ins, fashion, and cultural trends, ending with a nostalgic question about those memories.
Nelson Rockefeller will actively support Richard Nixon for president but will not accept second place on the ticket. The New York governor described his withdrawal as final and irrevocable, saying the vice president role conflicts with his temperament. Democratic insiders noted tension and split views over the White House race.
In Seoul, AP reports the U S Army canceled its original 1960 ration book issue for military personnel and dependents in Korea after 2 050 books were stolen by safecrackers. The incident follows a similar theft noted at Post Gifica Hayward California.
A 21 year old sailor told police he was wrong to say comedienne Joan Davis urged him to flee after an auto crash. Richard H Gray a Tripler Hospital corpsman suffered a broken nose and two black eyes when beaten by the other car's occupants. Gray said he fled after sideswiping the vehicle as Miss Davis and Miss Virginia White rode with him. Davis has sued a Honolulu salon for damages, seeking 125000, alleging bleach spilled in her eye.
At the New York Met Opera, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was staged with three different performers in the title roles due to colds. Birgit Nilsson sang Isolde in act one, Ramon Vinay was Tristan in act two, and an American tenor replaced in act three with Lars Kleiberg and Da Costa also mentioned. The audience faced a unique, pre-announced solution as management explained the 상황.
In Stockholm Sweden the annual death by own action rate is 17 per 100 000, higher than 14 in France and 10 in England or the United States, highlighting regional differences in self harm statistics.
A string of lighthearted police blotter items from UPI reports includes a Michigan man jailed after asking for a good place to eat and turning up in Mackinac County Jail, a Alabama official fined for contempt after court lateness, and Santa Claus penalties in England plus a shy missing pet note in South Dakota.
In Los Angeles the murder trial of Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregott neared completion of jury selection for the July 18 killing of Barbara Jean Finch. Prosecutors and defense teams exhausted most challenges as 100 potential jurors were culled and four alternates awaited. Finch seeks a change of venue citing pervasive publicity and potential bias.
Lake County sheriff asks outside experts after Christmas Eve sniper slays Charles R. Clark in Mentor. Floyd E. Hargrave, freed earlier, denies shooting but polygraph tests cast doubt. Investigation widens as head slug, rifle, and Mrs. Clark’s alibi draw scrutiny amid a tense custody case.
Tehran AP reports Shah of Tran departs on his honeymoon with Queen Farah en route to Caspian shores after delaying departure amid border tensions with Iraq. Well-wishers shout as the royal train leaves. the Shah previously divorced two wives for lacking a male heir.
A fragment recalls Leonardo da Vinci’s early airscreen idea and a feathered model helicopter with a gator trade, suggesting historical curiosity about early flight concepts and primitive methods.
A Hayward housewife and her husband found Blanche R. Mazzie dead in her bed after her phone was busy all afternoon. Police call the death a probable suicide linked to a February injury at Hayward High School. A note cited despondency and 50 sleeping tablets. a pharmacist had renewed a sleeping pill prescription days earlier. The victim, 54, formerly Hayward High School District matron, last saw by Christmas.
Manila AP reports Typhoon Harriet with 120 mph winds approaching Luzon. The storm is 880 miles east and moving west northwest at 17 mph. Eastern Luzon could feel fringe winds by Wednesday morning as preparations begin for the storm season end.
President Dorticos urged better U S Cuba relations on a basis of a new trade agreement. He defended sugar export quotas as mutual and said Cuba would seek markets even behind the Iron Curtain. He denied anti American policy claims and said efforts to extradite Batista officials face legal hurdles.
In Tucson Arizona a B47 fuel tank broke loose from a plane departing Davis Monthan Air Force Base and exploded killing June A. David 32 a mother of two The tank showered a fiery column 250 to 300 feet high incinerating the victim The pilot Captain Donald R Shilling and crew diverted the fuel tank avoiding a larger tragedy and spared a densely populated suburb.
The Cal ifornians for Rockefeller group says it will organize a draft of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as a Republican presidential candidate. The board led by Greg Morton of Santa Barbara asserts Rockefeller’s leadership remains essential and criticizes current party leadership as hamstrung by politics. The organization claims about 350 hard-core members.
Sen Solon Sparkman says the sudden exit of Nelson Rockefeller from the Republican presidential race boosts Democratic odds. He argues the move lets Democrats focus a single opponent, while criticizing the GOP for backroom selection and potential independent voter backlash.
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