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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1969
Page
2
U S equities eased in moderate trading as investors weighed a North Korea incident and mixed corporate signals. The Dow Jones index drifted higher while technology and transportation shares showed uneven moves.
The Army reports a June 20 killing tied to a suspected double agent in Vietnam. CBS and CIA accounts clash over who ordered the fatal action. The Saigon to Nha Trang relay confusion plus a late note from Saigon complicate the narrative as moral and legal questions loom over clandestine operations.
In Belfast and Londonderry protests and patrols continued as talks began with Pope Paul VI urging mutual pardon. Prime Minister Harold Wilson sought lines of force to hold peace while Catholics and Protestants faced a delicate standstill amid threats and barricades. The Irish Republic asked the UN to send a peacekeeping force as violence loomed with an attack on a police station by armed raiders.
A congressional report criticizes FAA and NTSB effectiveness, alleging safety is sacrificed for convenience. It urges massive federal aid, airport upgrades, noise reduction, and stronger air traffic controls, warning of growing civilian aviation risks without drastic reforms.
North Carolina shoppers who bought tetracline under various brand names between 1954 and 1966 can wait to claim refunds. Deputy Atty. Gen. Jean A. Benoy says proof of purchase may not be required for several months. The state rejected a broad settlement and refunds await settlement of the state's suit.
Emergency shelters are established along the hurricane warning area from Grand Isle Louisiana to Apalachicola Florida as forecasters track Camille. Initially expected to strike near Fort Walton Florida, the storm veered west skirting the Mississippi River mouth near New Orleans, shaping delta land at the river’s delta mouth.
In Columbia Mississippi the Daily Herald Biloxi Gulfport edition prints after Camille knocked out electricity. AP stories and photos are included in a four page edition with local copy telephoned in and circulated to readers by weather permits and truck. The Daily Herald has about 35,000 circulation and is a sister paper of the State Record Co. newspapers.
Stanford University Hospital reports Herman Scales, 54, died 10 hours after a 44 hour operation to receive a heart transplant. Scales, the 16th patient at the facility, was the 142nd person worldwide to undergo such a transplant, performed by a team led by Dr Norman E Shumway. Scales, formerly a Detroit nursing home operator, had moved to Phoenix with his wife post retirement.
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