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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1966
Page
2
The New York stock market closed higher after a third straight advance sparked by a steel price increase likely to hold. Trading was moderate as aircrafts turned mixed with United Aircraftdown about 1 percent while electronics led by RCA Zenith and Raytheon each gained roughly half a point.
Compilation of dividend and distribution abbreviations with meanings for common corporate actions. Covers ex dividend ex rights stock dividends stock splits and related terms used in 1960s financial reporting. Includes notes on accretive measures and special cases like liquidating dividends and warrants.
The State Highway Commission reports 1,560 potentially hazardous spots in the NC highway system costing over 100 million to fix. Gov. Dan Moore requested the list, priority scheduling is planned, and the commission also set a record with 12.3 million dollars in new road contracts this year, totaling 85.2 million, including Cape Fear River bridge section at Wilmington and 9.2 miles of four laning on U S 29 in Guilford and Rockingham counties.
Forecast calls for variable cloudiness and warmer temperatures across both states. Scattered showers or thundershowers likely near the coast tonight and through Saturday, with varying overnight lows from the mountains to the coast.
Temperatures Saturday through next Wednesday run 1 to 4 degrees below normal, near normal in southeast NC and southeast SC. Asheville 83 61, Raleigh 87 67, Charlotte 87 67, Columbia 90 70, Charleston 89. Warmer first half, then slightly cooler. Precipitation 1 to 1.5 inches with locally heavier showers and scattered thundershowers mainly early next week.
U S B52 bombers struck North Vietnamese infiltration routes and supply dumps near the Cambodian border in the fourth such incident in a week. Additional raids targeted the Chu Pong Mountain lair as U S officials said enemy forces broke contact with about 10 000 troops near Pleiku.
Bowman Gray School of Medicine and North Carolina Baptist Hospital announce a major cancer research center. Dr. Manson Meads describes a broad program for physician training and a long term plan to evaluate current cancer work and shape future training, research and patient care. Two federal grants totaling more than 588000 from the National Cancer Institute support the effort, coordinated with a regional program on heart disease cancer and stroke involving three North Carolina medical schools, the State Medical Society and health agencies.
The AP discloses portions of two notes by Charles J. Whitman found near his wife and mother after the University of Texas rampage. One note asks for an autopsy after death to examine mental disorders while detailing impulses and a plan to kill his wife and reference to his father.
Two North Carolinians married in the Orly Airport chapel before about 40 guests who flew in from the United States. George Shipp of Winston-Salem and Joyce Klitz, his ape meet for six years, wed after a civil ceremony at home.
An article by Carlton Smith and Richard Putnam argues central air may boost resale value, with appraisers citing replacement cost as a key factor. It notes typical adds of 13 to 14.15 dollars per square foot depending on system type, and warns ductwork costs can affect profitability, especially in two story homes.
Miss Cleave’s interview with John Lennon, first published in the London Evening Standard, quotes Lennon predicting Christianity may vanish and noting the Beatles’ popularity in the United States. Some U.S. stations banned the quartet’s records, urging listener boycotts, while Lennon discusses religion and its decline. The Beatles plan a 14 city U.S. tour opener in Chicago on Aug. 12 and manager Brian Epstein travels to assess the scene.
Private beauty schools and the North Carolina State Board of Education oppose the Department of Public Instruction plan to offer full beauty culture courses in some high schools this fall. Negotiations failed after an initial compromise, and private schools plan to pursue legal action. Joe Snotherly of Sir Walter Beauty College cited the shift to full public schooling. Representatives of cosmetology associations say the public plan threatens their members.
The sun emits energy with remarkable steadiness but astronomers cannot confirm variations as small as one cent in output. This challenges precision models of solar irradiance and long term climate correlations.
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