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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Location
Pasadena, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1959
Page
1
The Field Western Poll shows Nixon as the Western voter's top choice to handle national problems. Rockefeller Stevenson and Kennedy follow with Stevenson second. Nixon leads in foreign relations, while Kennedy is noted as strongest on labor management issues.
Pope John XXIII elevated seven new cardinals in the second pre Christmas consistory of his reign. Among the appointees were American Albert Gregory Cardinal Meyer archbishop of Chicago and Alois Cardinal Muench bishop of Fargo North Dakota and apostolic nuncio to Germany.
Ralph Neves returns from a serious summer injury to win his first race. Ray Meadows, the president, hugs him after the victory as special ceremonies mark the jockey's comeback. The piece notes a Catholic birth control view by David Lawrence and a Pasadena redevelopment proposal discussed by the Community Redevelopment Agency.
Report notes a deadlock between American President Ike and French leader De Gaulle over opposition to integrating foreign forces. Column coverage appears on page 2 under Bridge Column with multiple page references and related sections including Christmas Story and Classifieds.
President Eisenhower met with Habib Bourguiba in Tunis amid cheers from thousands as he considered France’s Algeria proposals for self‑determination. A joint communique urged continued progress on peace and reducing tension while signaling Algeria remained the central topic of discussions.
Los Angeles enters Operation Fuel Oil Switch as smog envelopes the basin and plants must use natural gas during the emergency. Weather officials predict cloud cover and hazy sun with night fog along coasts and cooler mountain temperatures.
In the murder case of Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff Pappa, 23 of 100 prospective jurors remain unchallenged as the 10th day begins. Pappa’s lawyers seek a separate trial while the state appeals a scuttled motion to dismiss charges. A final jury may require summons of another panel.
Geneva Gropp a 30 year old Redondo Beach mother was critically burned when cigarettes ignited a gas explosion that blew out kitchen and living room walls and shattered neighboring windows. Two young children escaped unharmed. Gropp three weeks from childbirth, was taken by ambulance to Harbor General Hospital Torrance with third degree burns over most of her body.
Fifteen crew members of the Liberian freighter Guam Pioneer were rescued about 340 miles southwest of Los Angeles after the ship sank following an SOS at 1:33 a.m. The Navy ship Watchman located the survivors and they were taken to the USS Picket for return to San Francisco.
The British trawler Red Falcon and her 19 crew members are feared dead after a gale estimated at 60 miles per hour drove the ship down off Scotland's Western Isles. The vessel was returning to Fleetwood for Christmas from a fishing trip in Icelandic waters.
In Los Angeles Cary Chessman faces a scheduled death date in Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker's courtroom on Monday. The case concerns kidnapping and rape charges as Chessman awaits the outcome of the proceedings.
Virginia Praegister, 22, rushed back into her blazing El Monte home to save her 6 month old baby Richard and freed two older children John 3 and William 1. She suffered first and second degree burns and both children were hospitalized and later released. Firefighters from Engine Company 43 extinguished the blaze and the cause remained undetermined.
Monroeville Alabama canceled its annual Christmas parade after reports the Ku Klux Klan threatened violence if Black high school bandsmen joined. The parade was planned for today to spread the Yule spirit through town.
John Factor, known as Jake the Barber, arrived in Chicago a day before Roger Touhy was assassinated on his sister’s porch. Police edge toward a Mafia linked motive as Walter Miller's gunfire briefly wounds him and an inquest is opened by Coroner Walter McCarron.
The U S government nears a jury verdict in the Apalachin conspiracy case. Judge Irving Kaufman spends hours instructing eight men and four women jurors on the charge that the defendants obstructed justice by lying about the gangsters meeting two years ago. Prosecutors say the defendants remained silent amid racketeering crimes.
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