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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Location
Pasadena, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
5
Chicago authorities report gambling has moved from parlors to factories. The payoff runs into millions as workers’ wages are skimmed before paydays, with in-plant games and pools hitting production. Unions and industries push to curb plant gambling, urging coordinated action.
Sen. Mansfield said the State Department is studying adding scientific personnel to U S embassy staffs abroad. He released a Henderson letter confirming the study and urged assigning a science attaché to major embassies. Police noted union actions hinder efforts to curb organized gambling as old forms decline in Chicago.
An old advertisement touts PASTEETH as an improved powder sprinkled on upper or lower plates to keep false teeth from sliding or rocking. It claims the product is alkaline, non sour, and reduces plate odor with a pasty taste and feel. Purchase available at any drug counter.
Donald Bruce Richardson eight year old non swimmer drowned in still water near a Japanese schooner tied at a berth in San Pedro. A tugboat crewman saw the body floating face down after the boy wandered into the water alone. His clothing was found neatly on the beach.
Torrential rains and gale winds battered southwestern Australia as rivers rose in New South Wales threatening bridges and roads. Floodwaters formed a basin about 70 miles wide in the Riverina district, prompting evacuations of several families.
Residents of Zebulon, North Carolina, welcomed Margaret Truman Daniel and her husband Clifton Daniel Jr for a weekend family reunion. It marked their first visit to North Carolina since the couple wed in Independence, Missouri, last April.
Washington lawmakers prepare for a tight week with major votes expected on defense funding foreign aid highway and school aid bills as well as civil rights and a large veterans pension proposal The Senate moves toward a vote on adding over a billion dollars to defense spending while the House weighs a substantial veterans pension bill and a federal aid program for highways and schools
Sen. Jess R. Dorsey opened a two day San Francisco hearing on child welfare and delinquency. Measures include stiffer narcotics penalties, curb juvenile delinquency, faster classroom construction, and a state network of California Academies for non delinquent underprivileged children from broken homes.
Normandie Avenue will be widened to six lanes from Griffith Park to San Pedro at a cost of 7.4 million dollars within six years. Work starts July 1 with a 150 thousand dollar contract for the initial link between Slauson and Gage Avenues. The Board of Public Works aims to make Normandie a major north south artery to the harbor area by 1962.
West Derham England Harry Truman says Sir Winston Churchill at almost 82 remains keen as a briar. Truman recalled Churchill looking young and joined by Lady Churchill and others at Chartwell where Churchill boasted of Le Pretendant winning at Ascot and his 1437 pound gain.
Atty Gen Edmund G Brown led a majority faction that retained firm control of California's Democratic delegates pledged to Adlai Stevenson. Elizabeth Snyder and Kefauver supporters were ousted from party power while Paul Ziffren was re elected as national committeeman and Elizabeth Smith named as committeewoman.
Gate Frega known as Father John of the Cross was ordained a Roman Catholic priest after years as a musician with Les Brown's band the Army all star band and the Joe Mooney quartet. He studied at St. Lawrence Capuchin Monastery in Beacon and recalled an urge for the priesthood from his Paterson New Jersey school days.
Vice Admiral Francis X. McInerney retired at 57 and once commanded the battleship Washington during World War II. He died today from head injuries suffered in a train accident after a long career marked by the Navy Cross. Born in Cheyenne Wyoming, his death was reported in Tokyo.
At the Governors Conference in Atlantic City and elsewhere Democratic hopefuls push back against Adlai Stevenson’s bid. Kefauver vows to press for the nomination, while Harriman seeks civil rights endorsement. Delegates totals show Stevenson leading with 301 and Kefauver at 165, Harriman 110, as party unity concerns rise in a pivotal late- summer convention.
Classified notice promotes the Acacia Inn of Pasadena offering private rooms with baths meals and on site nursing staff. Call SY 4-1131 for information.
Senator McClellan asks White House aide Maxwell Rabb to explain at a Senate hearing tomorrow whether the Eisenhower administration provided a private author with secret data it denies to Congress. The book The Inside Story by Robert Donovan is said to rely on confidential minutes and memoranda. James Hagerty would not confirm who approved the disclosures.
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