• NEW YORK – With $10 million of gold in her strong box and a new trans-Atlantic record written in her log, the Cunard Turbiner Lusitania steamed past Sandy Hook lightship at 1:40 this morning. In one grand performance, the great vessel broke her own world’s record and brought to the relief of the money market here $10 million in gold in unprecedented time. The west bound trip was made approximately in four days, 19 hours and 10 minutes.

• DANVILLE JUNCTION – At a hearing before the Railroad Commissioners held yesterday at Danville Junction, it was decided to grant the petition of the County Commissioners to have a new crossing and underpass at the junction.

50 years ago, 1957

WASHINGTON – This is a drug-loving nation. Each year U.S. drugstores fill 195 million prescriptions, and hospitals fill millions more. In the last 15 years, the number of prescriptions has gone up 60 percent. This trend is going on over most of the pill-taking world, and naturally it’s jolly news from the 1,200 delegates attending the Pan-American Congress of Pharmacy and Biochemistry.

NEW YORK – Rocket fuel shares raced ahead today inspiring a previously laggard stock market to a good rally. Word that Russia’s Sputnik II was boosted into space by a liquid superfuel rather than nuclear energy sparked a lively rise in stocks representing the “exotic” fuels.

25 years ago, 1982

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With a predawn “call to stations,” test conductor Andy Brown on Sunday started the countdown for space shuttle Columbia’s first satellite-carrying commercial flight, set for a fiery liftoff Thursday.

Satellite Business Systems of McLean, Va., and Telesat of Canada are the first in a long line of customers who will pay to have their payloads carried into orbit by the shuttle. They each have paid the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $10 million for hauling up the two $30 million satellites.