The valley echoed with explosions last night and spectacular and aerial bombs lighted the sky for all in the Greater Williamsport area to see. The occasion was the annual July 4th fireworks display for all to see co-sponsored by the Sun-Gazette Co. and the Grit Publishing Co.

It is estimated that more than 60,000 people saw the colorful climax to this community’s colorful Independence Day celebration. The fireworks could be seen from throughout the city and its environs and even from many elevated rural sections.

Traffic was very heavy in the hour or two before darkness provided the backdrop for the show, and after the great finale through 10:30 and 11 o’clock, the central streets of the city, South Williamsport and DuBoistown were jammed solid with cars leaving vantage points from which motorists had watched the show.

This year for the first time, the fireworks were set off from the head of Maynard Street in South Williamsport. In previous years the display was staged at Memorial Park.

The show was the only evidence of fireworks since private use of pyrotechnics are illegal. Observers noted that the incidents of fireworks being used in the community were virtually nil when compared with previous Independence Days when numbers of violations were reported.