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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1966
Page
2
New York AP reports a sharp stock market decline in moderate trading. Prices opened lower and fell steadily with losses for key issues ranging from fractions to three points.
A lengthy table of stock exchange pricing notes outlines dividend types and dating codes such as annual cash disbursements, stock dividends, liquidating and extra dividends. It defines annotations like ex dividend ex rights and warrants and notes special cases including bankruptcy, foreign issues, and interest equalization taxes.
Investigators report one of two flight recorders was burned beyond use after Braniff jet crashed into a soybean field eight miles northeast of Falls City Nebraska killing 42. The cockpit voice recorder remains recoverable though damaged. CAB and factory experts work to decipher data to reveal conversations before the crash. Witnesses describe a sky lit by flames as the plane struck.
A compact clue list solving 9 River island 10 Female deer 1S abe ve of 18 Timothy's mother (Bib.) -maker 1 European deer (pl. Folklore monster 30 Preposition 31.New Testament writer 34 Aeriform fuel 35 Once (Scot.) 37 Roman god of love 38 Before 1939 41 Form of oxygen 43 Wild anim. (edll.) 44 Catch sight of 45 Do as told 47 City in Italy 48 Termination 49 Pronoun 50 Superlative endin, 51 Together (comb. form)
About 1,500 demonstrators marched in Chicago’s Cragin area with 2,000 hostile whites watching as police protected the integrated group. Rocks and firecrackers were thrown, several hecklers were arrested, and a priest prayed for forgiveness for prejudice before the march continued in heavy rain toward two churches. Leaders included Al Raby James Bevel and Jesse Jackson with King attending an SCLC convention in Mississippi.
President Johnsons top political strategist Lawrence F O Brien tells Democratic congressional hopefuls to campaign in full support of South Vietnam policy. He says the President is in strong political shape and that most Americans dont want to turn away from Vietnam. O Brien has appeared in about two dozen races and predicts a modest November performance despite Republican concerns.
In California the Brown Reagan race centers on condemning the John Birch Society and the possible repeal of the Rumford open housing law. Brown presses Reagan to denounce the group while Reagan refuses. A 1966 platform calls for repeal or amendment of the Rumford Act barring housing discrimination amid party debates.
North Wilkesboro officials report a 15 year old white girl was abducted Sunday night by several Black youths, taken to a Black school, and injured. Three Black suspects, Joe Williams Eddie Bailey and Kenneth Whittington, were jailed in Wilkes County. The victim Glenda Benton was treated for shock and contusions at a local hospital. An 18 year old, Ronnie Anglin, survived a later assault during the encounter. Police followed a tip to a Black person school where officers found one area of concern.
Patrick and Luci Nugent honeymoon at Capri corn villa near Nassau while their jet to Nassau carried six other couples. Luci wore a blue skirt and white blouse as the couple stayed at the eight mile west estate. A Marine unit back home in Vietnam was reported as her husband and his brother wed. Local notices include estate probates in Guilford County North Carolina and zoning amendments for High Point.
Forecast covers North and South Carolina with partly cloudy nights and scattered thundershowers mainly in mountains and near coast. Warmer days, nightly lows 55 to 74. Temperatures average four degrees below normal Tuesday to Saturday, with several locales listed and total precipitation three quarters to one and a quarter inches.
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