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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1968
Page
2
New York stocks showed a hesitant gain as trading picked up. The Dow fell 1.33 to 896.15 while the AP average rose 0.30 to 323.50. Industrials slipped and rails and utilities rose, with Chrysler and United Aircraft rising but market cautious on peace talks progress.
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The AP stock table lists prices for Abbott Labs through numerous companies with figures for last price high low and percent changes. Notable entries include Gen Mills, Alcoa, Goodyear, Exxon, IBM, Coca Cola, General Electric, and Texaco with varied gains and losses.
No. 2 cotton futures opened higher with May at 29.74 to 29.87, July 30.05 to 30.25, October 30.34 to 30.38, December 30.32 to 30.38, March 30.62 to 30.65, May 30.87 to 30.85 and July 30.12 to 30.20, reflecting a stronger start.
The article explains how dividend figures in the Dow Jones table are calculated as annual disbursements from the last quarterly data unless noted. It details footnotes for special, stock, liquidating, ex distribution, ex rights, warrants, and bankruptcy scenarios and how these affect rates and timing.
The Pentagon reports Marine Captain Roy L. Griffin Jr. was killed recently in the Vietnam conflict. He was husband of Mrs Marjorie E. Griffin of Wallace.
John G. Johnson announces Philip J. Lombardo named general manager of WGHP TV serving High Point Winston Salem Greensboro. Lombardo succeeds James W. Coan who takes on other executive duties and helps plan new office studio facilities. Lombardo assumes post May 1.
Herbert S. Kugell former marketing director at Data Products Sales Corp is named vice president of Athana Corp of High Point. The firm develops and markets disc packs and peripheral equipment for the electronic data processing industry. President George L. Athanas says Kugell will oversee western operations.
Donald D. Melville joins Cumby Mortuary staff. A North Wilkesboro native, he attended Wilkes Central High School Garner- Webb College and the Kentucky School of Mortuary Science, where he became a charter member of the Lambday Chapter of Pi Sigma Eta. He earned the Key to the City of Louisville for Red Cross service and is married to Betty Pritchard of Greensboro.
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy led the Pennsylvania presidential primary as the sole ballot name, with about one third of 5.2 million voters participating. McCarthy topped Kennedy by roughly seven to one and led Humphrey by around ten to one in official results, while Nixon led the Republican write-ins.
New York AP reports Henry Ford and David Rockefeller disagree with Whitney Young Jr about leading a white march on Washington to prove commitment to racial equality. Rockefeller favors job training and urban programs. Ford prefers focusing on creating jobs for the hard core unemployed rather than a march. George Meany did not comment.
Saigon officials and Washington officials gave mixed signals on the F111 status after a third crash in a month. The Saigon spokesman said no grounded status change occurred while confirming ongoing air raids in North Vietnam with other services continuing missions.
Showers and thundershowers end tonight across the region with clearing and cooler conditions. Temperatures range from lows in the 40s to 50s and highs around 60s to mid 80s, with most of the area turning sunnier and warmer by Friday through the weekend, then cooling again Monday. Precipitation totals up to about half an inch mainly Sunday.
A midafternoon tornado near the Ohio River devastated parts of Falmouth Kentucky. Mayor Max Goldberg estimated one third of the farming town destroyed with damages between 2 and 3 million dollars. At least 75 homes damaged and over 100 injuries reported including an elderly couple and two children. Governor Louie B Nunn visited the scene as Pendleton County Hospital admitted many patients.
Cernik outlined tentative political and economic reforms to ease travel limits and bolster religious liberty while placing the political security police under government and parliamentary oversight. He said the economy is not in crisis but warned of wasted opportunities and slow improvement despite full employment and higher production.
Saigon's national police chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan told US adviser John Manopoli he would ignore US reports and aid cuts. Reports accused Vung Tau police chief Lu Van Vinh of kickbacks bribes illegal licensing gambling and prostitution.
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