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Bonfires & Gushing Tears. The Safe and Sane Fourth is all but universal now; blow-up-yourself fireworks are banned in 27 states, and there is some kind of restriction in every state but Alaska and Nevada. There is still a busy interstate traffic in illegal noisemakers, but the overall results in terms of safety have been impressive and persuasive. Pennsylvania, for instance, was one of the first states to limit fireworks to public displays, adopted a code in 1938, when there were six deaths and 1,702 injuries from fireworks. The next year this dropped to 85 injuries...
...more new houses and apartments-200,000-than any entire state, but local contractors now complain of overbuilding. Cutbacks in defense-spending during April resulted in 5,000 layoffs in California, which depends upon the Pentagon for fully one-third of its manufacturing output. But personal income in neighboring Nevada last year ran 13% ahead of the 1962 rate-a more rapid gain than any other state's-mostly because of its returns from legalized gambling...
...Brokers figure that half a dozen mining companies have raised between $4,000,-000 and $6,000,000 by floating new shares. Some of the funds have already slipped back across the border, are being used by United Comstock Lode Lines to reopen the dormant Comstock gold mine in Nevada. Among the half dozen new millionaires at Timmins, 28-year-old Pat Giardine made a killing on both his claims and controlling interest in Bunker Hill Extension Mines - which he had bought for a song...
...week exercise consumed some $60 million, since it involved more than 100,000 men (90,000 Army, 10,000 Air Force), 780 aircraft, 7,000 wheeled vehicles, 1,000 tanks. All were deployed over some 13 million acres of California, Nevada and Arizona landscape. Air Force units operated out of 25 airfields from Texas to Oregon...
Says Arizona's Governor Paul Fannin, a true-blue Goldwater man for obvious reasons: "If Lodge had bestirred himself even one-half as hard as Goldwater did, or even one-half as hard as Rockefeller did, Nixon would be in the White House today." Declares Nevada's Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt: "We don't want a guy who is going to sit on his big fat duff like he did in 1960." Says one of Nixon's top 1960 aides, a Californian: "I don't know any politician anywhere who worked in the 1960 campaign...