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An eviction order to oust a woman tenant from a North Beach public housing project for refusing to sign a certificate of loyalty was upheld by presiding Municipal Judge C. Harold Caulfield. "Surely," he wrote in his memorandum opinion, "the Government has the right to exclude from its bounty persons who refuse to disavow membership in organizations which would subvert it." — Jan. 22
A new study shows Negroes have become the second largest racial group, next to native whites, in the Bay Area. The Negroes replaced Orientals as the second largest racial group. The change has come about since 1940. — Feb. 7
Bakeries run out of dough: Two of San Francisco's older independent baking firms filed voluntary petitions in bankruptcy. They were the Roma Baking company ......... in business 42 years, and Waxman Bakeries a 57 year old firm. — Feb. 8
Salk polio test results showed that the vaccine was 100 percent effective in the Alameda County field trials last spring. Plans were set in motion for immediate vaccination of 113,000 first and second graders in San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and San Mateo Counties. Shots will be started Monday in most schools. — April 13
Mabel Malotte, the erstwhile madam of Bay Street, drew a one to three year prison term and was immediately jailed despite the objections of her attorney. — April 30
President Eisenhower visits the city for the 10th anniversary of the United Nations and vows to uphold the U.N. Charter. — June 21
More than 15 square miles of land, much of it in farm areas, was taken over by subdivisions in nine Bay Area counties during the fiscal year ending June 30. — Oct. 13
Supervisor George Christopher was elected San Francisco's next Mayor by the largest plurality ever given a candidate for the city's top job. — Nov. 9
A crowd of 2,500 residents of western sections of the city jammed Lincoln High School auditorium last night to protest the proposed Western Freeway link between Junipero Serra Boulevard and the Golden Gate Bridge. — Dec. 3
Northern California, already reeling from a series of battering storms, took a haymaker blow as a new gale spread floods that resulted in an unknown number of drownings, drove thousands from their homes, cut off whole regions of the state, and spread untold damage over a thousand-mile area. — Dec. 23
"The Rains of Ranchipur," filmed in Hollywood and Pakistan at a cost of $4,000,000, opens at the Fox. — Dec. 23