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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1966
Page
2
Business news wire reports that transmission problems prevented receipt of the remainder of today's New York Stock Exchange list and the list from the American Exchange. The issue halted updates to investors awaiting market data.
The article traces vanilla and chocolate origins from Central America to the Old World. It notes vanilla’s meaning from the Spanish, its orchid vine origin in Mexico, hand pollination spreading cultivation, and modern growing regions Madagascar Tahiti Hawaii Mexico and the West Indies. It explains curing in sweat boxes and pods maturing after eight months, with beans only flavoring after processing.
A cut of text explains vanilla production from bean to extract, noting cost and chemist substitutes, then shifts to a reader question about hummingbirds. It describes tiny hummingbirds, their 400 American species, 18 migrating annually, and a nonstop 500 mile Gulf crossing, highlighting sightings of a gaudy bird in California.
In Johnson City Texas an 11 year old daughter of a Secret Service agent on the LBJ ranch detail was killed by a horse in a pen behind the family home. Nancy Knetsch tied a rope to the horse and her waist, the animal dragged her several times and jumped a gate. The sheriff noted the horse was not saddled and could not explain the rope attachment. The Knetschs reside near President Johnson's ranch while the father serves at the Texas White House.
Arthur Zimmer 20 a Boston University student staged a gasoline dousing in front of the White House claiming no intent to burn himself saying it was a publicity stunt to protest U.S. policy in Vietnam. He was detained and sent for mental observation, later released. Cotton futures opened with no trades registered in New York.
AP reports Stephen H. Kessler 30 of Brooklyn charged with slashing his mother in law Florence Cooper 57 in her Brooklyn apartment after LSD intoxication. He claimed he had flown on LSD for days. In LA, Prof Carlson described future mass replication from genetic codes, predicting century-scale restoration of geniuses and historical figures through mummified tissue.
In Westchester County Court judge allows voiceprint to be used as evidence in a perjury case. Lawrence Kersta, Bell Labs veteran, explains voiceprints as unique spectrographs representing vocal characteristics. Kersta cites 50 000 tests with 97 percent accuracy and envisions files aiding kidnapping and extortion investigations.
The phrase to be in the arms of Morpheus means someone is asleep. It references the Greek god Morpheus, ruler of dreams, implying sleep and dream activity rather than wakefulness.
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