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DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY. ,2. 1969 5 Bmk Sky semper By EDWARD KIRKMAN The explosion on the eighth floor of a financial district skyscraper Wednesday night, injuring 19 persons, was caused by an "infernal device" with a force equal to 25 sticks of dynamite one of the biggest bombs ever set off in the city, police reported yesterday. The blast did considerable damage to the seventh and eighth floors of the 52-story Marine Midland Building at 140 Broadway. All but two of the injured, 17 employes and a cop, were released after treatment at Beekman-Down- NEWS photo by Ken Korotkln Windows were shattered by explosion on eighth floor at 140 Broadway.

Work crews spent day clean- mg up debris following the blast, which injured 19 persons. The LIRR Countdown 1 mm With Big -Heart Shares 100(5 Ticket By WILLIAM TRAVERS An Elizabeth, N.J., police reservist stood anxiously in Elizabeth Hospital on Aug-. 8 waiting to give blood to a Pennsylvania correction officer who was shot trying to stop four bank robbers a3 they fled from the State National Bank. were looking into the possibility that the blast was the work of a disgruntled employe or ex-employe of the bank or one of the other tenants in the building. Officials of the bank told police they had not received any threats and had not been having any personnel difficulties.

Elevators Still Out The bank officials said that, although files and office machines were damaged, no records lost which could not be replaced. The bank of elevators serving th seventh and eighth floors was still out of commission late yesterday. The FBI joined local police In the investigation. Police asked anyone with helpful information to call a special number DI 4-8960. They said the information will be held confidential.

Damage Is Extensive The force of the blast ripped away electrical fittings and parts of the eighth-floor ceiling, tors through walls and filing cabinets, and gouged a hole in the floor. The building occupies an entire block bounded by Broadway, Liberty Nassau St. and Cedar St. The trust company, with assets of $3.3 billion, is the 18th largest town Hospital. The Marine Midland Grace Trust Co.

occupies the first 12 floors of the structure, The eighth floor where the blast occurred is occupied by the bank's security records and stock delivery depart ments. Police of the mobile crime lab and bomb squad, which investigated the explosion, said the impact of the blast was so intense that any persons in the hallway when the device went off would have been killed. Evaded Surveillance System The cops were searching through the rubble for the detonator. They guessed that someone slipped into the building shortly before 11 p.m. Wednesday, despite the presence of security guards and a closed-circuit TV system; went up to the eighth floor, left the device in the hallway and then escaped before the bomb went off.

Police were Inclined to believe that no timing device was used. All 85 people working on the eighth floor at the time were being questioned in an effort to obtain a lead. Police said they doubted that any organized group was involved. In seeking a motive, the police THE LONG ISLAND All BOAD See page 30 for name of the big winners in the 26th Lottery. With only 45 more days to go on Gov.

Rockefeller's I boast that the Long Island Rail Road would be the best in the country in two months, the line canceled a total of 14 trains yester- day seven in the morning and seven at night. On Tuesday, there were 12 1 cancellations; on Wednes- day there were 13. 1 Despite that slight slip, the line had 544 of its 793 cars in service yesterday, a two-car improvement over the previous day's fig- I ures. ytem bank in the country and ths eighth largest in the city. The officer, George Paszkowski, died and the reservist, Richard Yontef, 29, of 150 Westfield vowed a small contribution to the widow.

Yesterday, Yontef, his wife, Barbara, 26, and his brother, Jay, 21, were announced as $100,000 winners in the August drawing of the New York State Lottery, held yesterday at the New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. and 42d St. "The Least We Can Do" "We were a big winner," said Yontef. "You can be sure we will give considerably more. It was a shame it happened to that man.

This is the least we can do." With the ticket marked "The Three Holidays," the Elizabeth threesome ran off with one of the three top prizes in the August drawing that distributed $574,500 in grand prizes. With winners of the other $100,000 prizes announced, people around Commack, J. ran witness a "mortage burning" and car dealers in Irvington, N.J. can be ready for a customer with ready cash. "I have been an elevator starter all my life," said a jubilant John Palmieri, 76, retired eight years, who shared a ticket with his wife, Natalie.

"With this money, I can give my daughter a new start. We share her home but you can bet there will be a mortgage burning soon." Palmieri, his wife and their Scotto Denies Mafia Unit Anthony M. Scotto, an international vice president of the longshoremen's union, "categorically denies" being a captain in the Mafia family headed by Carlo Gambino, a spokesman for the labor leader said yesterday. Scotto was unavailable for comment on a Justice Department list of Mafia figures which was inserted into the Congressional Record by Sen. John L.

McClellan chairman of the Senate Investigations Committee. Scotto's name appeared on the list. daughter, Vita Mcintosh, and her husband, James, were on hand for the drawing. All except Palmieri screamed at the announcement. "They're excited but I'm calm," said Palmieri.

"I predicted this. I had a premonition we would win." His wife gave him a kiss on the cheek and he said, "That's worth $100,000. But seriously, we live with my daughter (26 Fernwood Commack, L.I.) and we will definitely burn the mortgage." "We'll Get a New Car." The third big winner, Sam Frederick, 60, was not that optimistic because he had never won anything in his life. "I didn't expect much," he confessed. "I lost my job after 39 years because the firm went out of business, then two weeks ago, they stole my car and wrecked it." Then he added: "If you keep having bad luck, there figures to be some good.

But no one would expect this much." His wife, Sally, 59, was at his side. "We are too old to buy a house," she said. "We will get a new car and then our grandson will benefit from the rest." Mrs. Emma Johnson, 83, of 141 Linden Yonkers, a $50,000 winner, said she would go back to Tennessee to visit relatives. Another $50,000 winner, Jewel Christensen, 39, said, "It was like picking up a paycheck.

He had a third of a ticket signed "Edith, Jack and Chris." The others sharing the ticket were Edith Hamel, of 31 Monmoutn Spotswood, N.J., and her son, Jack, 15. Mrs. Patricia Beekman, a work- ins- mother of five, was one of the $50,000 winners. She collected on her first ticket ever. "I was on vacation in New York City last month," said the Bath, N.Y., receptionist for two Fincer Lakes optometrists.

"I saw a lottery counter in the lobby of a hotel and on impulse, I ITS, jT I iJP 7 mr- X-y- A 5 rX NEWS photo by Frank Glorandlno Sally Frederick passes on good news while husband Sam listens along with fellow big winners, Mr. and Mrs. John after lottery drawing at the New York Public Library. bought a' ticket.".