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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1967
Page
2
The market opened higher with gainers outnumbering losers about two to one. The Dow Jones average rose 2.34 to 861.53 at noon, easing above the 860 support level. Brokers cited a favorable technical factor and noted advances in steels, mail order retail, utilities, nonferrous metals, airlines, tobaccos, building materials and drugs.
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North Carolina lawmakers at a House Constitutional Amendments hearing confronted proposals to extend a homestead tax exemption to citizens 65 and older. Opponents led by county commissioners and the state league argued loss of revenue, while Rep. David D. Jordan suggested cigarette taxes as a potential remedy. No vote was taken on about 8.6 million dollars.
Westinghouse Electric Corp plans a battery powered two passenger car called Markette. A model on display resembles an enclosed Jeep and is designed for streets not freeways. Top speed is 25 miles per hour and a 50 mile range is claimed per charge.
Thomas E. Holman appointed manager of Credithrift of America at 306 N Main St High Point He comes from Princeton Ky where he managed a Credithrift branch for five years He joined the company in 1958 and has been a branch manager since 1961 Holman a Bowling Green grad Army veteran and active in American Legion Kiwanis and Jaycees has three children and is married Dennis Office Supply Co moves to 840 S Main with larger space and drive in window Off street parking added to the new site.
Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr launches a broad campaign of teach-ins preach-ins and mass demonstrations to press the government for an admission that the war policy has been wrong from the start. He aims to mobilize public opinion and sustain pressure through organized nonviolent actions.
The report traces the sequence of events in the Speck murder case as the prosecution links key moments and names witnesses including Pamela Wilkening and Army Sgt. Richard Oliva while noting testimonies about the time and actions after the killings. Weather and economic blurbs accompany regional notes from North and South Carolina.
Adams-Millis Corporation projects a rise in sales for the first quarter ended March 31 1967 about one percent higher than 1966 with earnings likely to meet a first quarter target. The company cites hosiery margins and a driven demand for disc packs as drivers while noting a planned 10 cent quarterly dividend payable May 1 to shareholders of record April 19.
Witness Oliva described seeing Robert Speck handle a pocket knife at a tavern bar before the fatal July 14 events. Patrick Walsh testified he saw a man with a gun at the Shipyard Inn on July 13, while testimony placed Miss Widening’s death between 12:15 a.m. and 12:35 a.m.
An advertisement touts Grandma Molasses as a nutritious, unsulphured product rich in iron calcium and B vitamins. It claims a spoonful daily aids regularity and highlights higher energy content than other molasses types.
State Senate moves toward final action on a substitute abortion measure proposed by Sen. Jack White. The bill would legalize abortions under broader health and certain defect or rape circumstances with hospital-based, mother-consented procedures and a four month residency safeguard to avoid turning the state into an abortion state.
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