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"Snow Victims Tell of Cold and Fear in 72 Hour Train Trap": A relief train with 196 rescued passengers from the snowbound City of San Francisco nears the city. The abandoned streamliner meanwhile remains trapped in Sierra snow, and a Southern Pacific spokesman announced that "she'll sit there until we can get her out." The weary passengers, reached after state highway crews ploughed out an escape trail, were transported six miles to Emigrant Gap and placed aboard the warm relief train. — Jan. 17
As alleged tie-ins between policemen and lewd show-gambling parties at the Beach Chalet were probed last night, police investigators revealed testimony concerning two additional officers. They quoted a witness as saying the officers allowed a burlesque-type entertainment to go on, but stopped the show after the woman stripped off all her clothing. Gambling equipment was at the Chalet at the time, the witness said. — May 20
With Golden Gate Bridge traffic increasing year by year, and the saturation point predicted for 1960, bridge directors began thinking of another span to help carry the load between San Francisco and the North Bay. — June 27
Northern California's biggest department store — the Emporium — will open an adjunct Wednesday. At 12:30 p.m. the doors to the west San Francisco branch at Stonestown, Nineteenth Avenue and Winston Drive, will open to provide goods to residents of the area and to motoring shoppers from the Peninsula and Marin County. — July 13
San Francisco's fluoridation program — expected to reduce dental decay among children by as much as two-thirds — started yesterday. The program was approved by voters last November. — Aug. 26
Ticket-scalping scandal breaks as opera season opens: Reports of ticket sales at exorbitant prices — running as high, down the Peninsula, as $30 for an $8.75 stub — circulated in the Bay area, prior to the opening performance of "Tosca." — Sept. 17
The largest political turnout in San Francisco's history — estimated at 23,000 — filled and overflowed the Cow Palace to hear Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in a campaign speech rip into President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson for mishandling the country's foreign policy. — Oct. 9
Death yesterday ended the spectacular career of Dr. Painless Parker, pioneer chain dentist whose name — largely because of his own untiring effort — was a household word in America. He died at Permanente Harbor Hospital, where he had been confined the last ten days for treatment of a heart ailment. He was 80. — Nov. 9
The city unwrapped a $7,000,000 Christmas present to itself — the Broadway tunnel. Mayor Elmer Robinson snipped the ribbon that opened the thoroughfare for traffic. The opening ceremony was witnessed by a crowd of 5,000. — Dec. 22