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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1970
Page
2
The Dow Jones industrial average falls 3.89 to 771.98 as first quarter GNP shows the sharpest one quarter decline in a decade and inflation climbs to 5 percent. Major issues weaken with Polaroid and Mohawk Data tumbling while Xerox advances.
The American Stock Exchange outlines dividend terminology with footnotes labeling terms such as annual disbursements, stock dividends, liquidating dividends, ex-dividend statuses, and special payments. It also defines codes for new issues, warrants, bankruptcies, and foreign issues.
The noon New York stock index data show mixed results across sectors. Industrial shares slumped slightly while transportation and utilities posted modest declines, reflecting broad market volatility and sector rotation.
A garbled OCR line mentions Dow Jones Averages and mentions utilities and industrials with a figure 66.33. The text is incomplete and ambiguous, preventing a clear event or date but points to financial index data of public utilities and industrials.
The Texas School Book Depository building, linked to Kennedy’s assassination, sold for 650000 to Aubrey Mayhew of Nashville. He may convert it into a shrine, though his plans are undecided. The Warren Commission blamed Lee Harvey Oswald for the fatal shots on November 22, 1963.
North Carolina sees thundershowers in the mountains and partly cloudy skies elsewhere with minimal temperature change tonight and Saturday. Lows range mid 40s to mid 50s. South Carolina stays fair to partly cloudy and mild with 50s tonight. Virginia partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with highs 68 to 76. Georgia fair to partly cloudy and mild with highs around 70s and near 80 in the far south. Extended North Carolina outlook Sunday to Tuesday calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and daytime highs in the 70s and nights mostly in the 50s.
The Apollo 13 crewules conclude a perilous return from near catastrophe in the Pacific. Lovell Haise and Swigert endured a fuel and power crisis after an explosion left the command ship reliant on batteries and a separate oxygen system. They landed in the ocean near Samoa and were to be flown to Ellington AFB for medical checks and rest after a three day, round-the-clock planning effort.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdel Rafi Rifai asked the United States to remove Ambassador Harrison Symmes after he advised cancellation of a visit by Joseph Sisco. Demonstrations and a general strike followed in Amman as security forces patrolled the streets amid renewed Arab-Israeli tensions.
Wood County Circuit Court considers a motion to dismiss 12 counts of murder against Susie Jane Bailey 15 and seeks similar action for her 13 year old brother Roger in the Bailey family arson fire that killed their parents and 10 siblings on June 8 1969. The state waives evidence tied to confessions after a court ruling suppressed them. The judge will rule on the motion after arguments by Prosecutor R Bruce White.
The transcript of testimony and the judge's report in the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest will remain impounded at the Suffolk Superior Courthouse for several days. Clerk Edward V. Keating said the sealed records will not be released before next Tuesday, after a suit by Sidney R. Lipman, the former official court stenographer, delayed the release scheduled for Wednesday.
Cambodian soldiers fired on Vietnamese inmates at the Takeo concentration camp, killing more than 100 and wounding others. Survivors recalled four shootings between Thursday night and dawn, with a boy among the injured and 13 seriously wounded left on a bloodied floor awaiting aid.
In Greensboro the sanitation workers voted to strike Monday morning after rejecting a tentative agreement for a union representation election. The vote followed a Thursday meeting where a compromise was reached to hold a non supervisory vote on April 24, but workers insisted on recognition and distrust the city to conduct a secret ballot.
U S Democratic Leader Mansfield opposes giving arms to Cambodia while administration officials fear Congress backlash. Lon Nol seeks unconditional foreign aid from all sources, prompting talk of an international supply arrangement amid Cambodian North Vietnamese clashes. U S officials defend Nixon troop withdrawal as war reduction, denying war broadening claims.
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