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Newspaper

Berkshire Eagle

Location

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 01, 1965

Page

8

Model Rocket Blast Injures About 30 At NY Mills High

In New York Mills a science fair rocket exploded in a second floor lab injuring the teacher and nearly 30 students. Two boys were seriously hurt and rushed to St Luke's Memorial Hospital in Utica while 18 others received on site treatment for shock and cuts.

NEW York Mills Utica St. Luke's Memorial Hospital All Richard Cherbin Yorkville Guy Delmamarier

Payoffs and Unsecured Loan Tied to Bank Failure

Ousted banker Don C. Silverthorne testified before a Senate subcommittee that a payoff may have occurred in a 2.5 million withdrawal from San Francisco National Bank the day it failed. He cited phone exchanges with James J. Saxon and described an unsecured loan of 632,000 to Morris and Garrett used to gain control of Mainland Bank & Trust Co. in Texas City. Senator McClellan defended Mainland Bank’s solvency and noted investigations into the First National Bank of Martin Texas.

Washington Don C. Silverthorne San Francisco National Bank San Francisco National Federal Reserve Bank San Francisco Lytton Saving & Loan Association of Los Angles Lytton Association Saxon Silverthorne Joseph B. Morris Bernard Texas Bank John L. McClellan Senate Investigations Subcommittee Mainland Bank Trust Sen. McClellan First National Bank of Martin, Tex Morris Garrett Mainland Bank & ‘Trust

More Cigarettes Smoked Since Cancer Report

American cigarette use rose after the Surgeon General report linking smoking to cancer. The Agriculture Department said 1964 consumption was 524 billion, up from 1963’s 524 billion, with a rebound in Oct–Dec 1964 and 1965 expected to rise gradually amid ongoing uncertainties.

Surgeon General Agriculture Department Department

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