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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1965
Page
2
Profit taking spread as the stock market moved irregularly lower in early trading in New York. Activity stayed high but no clear rally emerged, with top steels and motors dropping and aerospace and tobacco issues slipping by one to two points. A list of selected NYSE transactions follows.
In June two from the same family died and their survivors lived with Mrs. Dickson at Rt. 1 Central. Martin, 4s, was killed by a shotgun blast in the front yard. his wife Geneva Martin was shot in the shoulder and face and is in critical condition at an Anderson hospital. Sheriff Bolding said Dickson forced his wife to accompany him after the shooting and suspected mental illness. The couple’s two young sons witnessed the events but were unharmed. Coroner Clement A. Smith ruled murder and death by own action, with no third party involved. He noted Dickson shot from outside the car, then killed himself after entering the vehicle. An impaneled jury viewed the scene but an inquest seems unlikely. Officers say the car likely had been parked after 3 a.m. Wednesday, found by a nearby high school girl who alerted police.
Following list shows selected American Stock Exchange transactions with noon prices and footnote codes for dividends and distributions. The notes explain regular and special dividends, stock splits, warrants, ex-dividend dates, and related conditions across years and foreign issues.
Forecast shows variable cloudiness and warmth through Friday. North Carolina lows tonight expected in the 30s, with similar conditions across South Carolina.
Quotations compiled by the NASD at approximately 10:36 a.m. today show bids as representative inter-dealer prices excluding retail markdowns or commissions. Ask prices have been adjusted upward to include approximate markups.
Quotations from the NASD reflect representative inter dealer prices as of about 10 30 a m. Markets move through the day and prices shown exclude retail markups markdowns or commissions.
Toledo story reports Ethel Miller receiving 45 dollars by mail with an unsigned note claiming the finder found the amount. Miller forgives him and suspects overpayment, recalling she lost only 29 dollars in 1923.
Police investigate a 1965 Clemmons bank robbery at Northwestern Bank where an armed white man in a beige trench coat and orange sweater stole over 15000 dollars from teller cages. Witnesses saw a 1964 black Ford Galaxie, as authorities note this was North Carolina’s 14th bank heist of 1965 with few solved.
Archaeologist J. C. Harrington reported at the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities meeting that diggings at Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island yielded bricks from the nation’s first English settlers. No brick use or kiln site is yet identified, and the exact settlement location remains undetermined, though discoveries suggest it may lie near the fort.
President notes danger signs but pledges action if needed as wholesale prices rise 2.3 percent and consumer prices 1.8 percent in the past year. He says the situation has stabilized and expects no major inflation next year amid growing needs from the Viet Nam war and overall economic growth. He asserts the economy can expand without overheating.
Governor Moore says the Supreme Court ruling on apportionment is flawed and urges the General Assembly to handle reapportionment, noting the special session should focus on the big task ahead while planning no immediate reapportionment action.
Washington AP reports the United States unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent in November, a record November employment level of 72.8 million. The number unemployed reached 2,566,000, up slightly from October, with seasonal adjustments masking the real drop. Without adjustments, the rate would be 3.9 percent of a 75,803,000 civilian labor force. Harold Goldstein of the Bureau of Labor Statistics called the change not statistically significant but part of a year-long trend downward.
A tanker truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas overturned on U.S. Highway 1 in Cheraw South Carolina scattering fears of explosion. About 100 people evacuated to the National Guard Armory as cranes prepared to remove the heavy rig. The driver was only slightly injured. Electricity cut off in a wide area and a school and textile plant closed as the area was cleared.
North Carolina jurors may recommend mercy for a defendant found guilty of a capital crime, triggering an automatic life sentence. One defense attorney argued there was no real dispute over guilt. Detectives testified Childs admitted raping Mrs. Waller.
The lawmaker discussed submitting redistricting to the General Assembly and did not rule out presenting a plan later. He said he would work with members and leaders to develop an agreement everyone can accept.
A white male jury began deliberating the case of three Alabama Ku Klux Klansmen after a 58 minute charge by U S District Judge Frank M Johnson Jr The defendants Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr 22 William Orville Eaton 43 and Eugene Thomas 42 are charged with conspiring to violate civil rights The indictment stems from the killing of Viola Gregg Liuzzo a Detroit mother of five as demonstrators were shuttled from Montgomery to Selma Mrs Liuzzo was killed by shots fired into her car The judge told jurors the defendants stand guilty or innocent separately and it is not necessary to establish who killed Liuzzo The jury is instructed to render a fair verdict without sympathy prejudice or passion The defense and government presented testimony from key witnesses including Gary Rowe Jr who infiltrated the KKK and described the night of the Liuzzo shooting The case follows two and a half days of Department of Justice testimony and one 1 14 hours of defense evidence The government cites laboratory analysis living witnesses and physical evidence supporting its case
The North Carolina Supreme Court blamed a publication error in the general statutes for 46 men receiving sentences exceeding the 60 day limit for temporary larceny of an automobile. An August discovery led to releases for 23, while others remained jailed on other charges. A 1965 amendment later set two years as the max. James Wayne Massey 21 of Belmont was not released due to prior escapes.
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson became the two United States presidents awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their roles in international diplomacy. Roosevelt won for mediating in the Russo-Japanese War era peace efforts, while Wilson was honored for his advocacy of postwar peace structures though his broader plan faced domestic challenges.
Rep. Charles L. Weltner D Ga was warned by federal officials that North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leaders will try to embarrass him at a December 13 speech at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Weltner faces same issue as he has long pushed for a House Un American Activities Committee inquiry into the Klan. The UNC event is hosted by the student government and YMCA, with hearings on the Klan having occurred previously in October and November.
In Miami a second planeload of refugees from Cuba was awaited as 75 arrived Wednesday and began new lives in the north. The airlift aims to move about 900 Cubans weekly with arrivals to Elizabeth New Jersey and other destinations. Rosario Gonzalez 19 plans to join her husband in Chicago after proxy marriage in Havana while leaving her parents behind. The first resettled included Emilio Quintero 81 a Batabano funeral home owner, his son, granddaughter and her husband, and two great granddaughters.
Communist forces were reported to have shot down two planes during raids on strategic targets in the Red River Delta. Another aircraft, a Navy A4 Skyhawk, went down near Hanoi while returning from an attack on a bridge 35 miles north. US pilots reported heavy antiaircraft fire and noted 75 tons of bombs were dropped on North Vietnamese targets. In the south, Marine aircraft dispatched 50 sorties, dropping 29 tons, destroying 16 Viet Cong structures and damaging six others. Senate leaders Mansfield and four others arrived from Bangkok on a global peace-negotiations tour, meeting de Gaulle, Kosygin, Romanian officials, and Sihanouk, then proceeding to Tan Son Nhut without comment.
Bulk send them, and this defense job has eaten up battalions. Jungled areas like Chu Lai An Khe and Ben Cat, where up to six months ago the Communists moved freely, have become American base locations. The Allied buildup thus far seems at the most to have had the effect of containing the Communists. Open invasion across the border by North Vietnamese troops has drastically changed the picture.
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