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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1968
Page
10
Washington column notes seven million Americans may suffer cosmetic allergies while FDA tests include pig skin trials. The piece satirically offers mock ad slogans praising a hypothetical Pig line as safe, drawing humor from testing on pigs and consumer safety trends.
Jerry G. Hall aged 35 from Groves died in a blast at the E. Dupont plant south of Beaumont. Two Nederland men, Paul Carbello and Johnny Evans, suffered first to third degree burns over about 20 percent of their bodies and remained in serious condition. The explosion occurred around 2:30 a.m. in the tetra ethyl lead unit. Public relations director Ken Whitlow said the cause of the blast was not available.
A Washington street encounter ended with Benjamin Widman of Hyattsville Md having his wallet taken for $12 by a gunman who then returned the billfold and $2 saying Merry Christmas. The incident occurred at a traffic light and the thief fled.
A county agent article describes safely using chemical treatments to create colored flames in a holiday fireplace. It also warns about electrical hazards from overloaded circuits and advises adding circuits to improve safety and prevent fires.
A blast at a rubber products plant knocked the unit out of service but caused no injuries to two nearby men. Fire was controlled quickly, with the blaze extinguished within about 30 minutes. Whitsow noted it was the first serious accident in 14 years at the facility producing synthetic rubber and other items.
Saigon reports a higher toll for the past week with 222 American deaths and 1 199 wounded, plus 198 South Vietnamese killed and 815 wounded. Allied forces claim 2 059 guerrilla deaths and 521 captures as the war toll rises overall.
The Cavern Blasted In Desert By Atomic Blast reports a huge underground cavern opened by the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated in the United States. Newsmen watched the test from a trailer 12 miles away as the blast shook the area.
Spokesmen said American troop strength in Vietnam fell by 1,060 last week to 534,500. Another 35,000 sailors served aboard U.S. warships in the South China Sea. Separately, South Vietnam reported Viet Cong terrorists killed 23 civilians, wounded 41 and kidnapped six last week.
A television image showed the blast from a helicopter circling 3 500 feet above the desert and three miles from the test site. The explosion’s force swayed high rise buildings in four Western states as shock waves rolled outward from the Nevada test site 4 606 feet beneath the plateau. The device was stated to be sixty times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb and jolted seismographs nationwide.
A report cites an energy release on the East Coast equivalent to 1.4 million tons of TNT. Details on location, timing, and involved parties are limited in the available text.
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