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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1969
Page
2
Business and financial news brief outlines stock market activity with AMERICAN reporting from AP. It highlights market movements, investor sentiment, and notable shifts in shares, indexes, and sectors. Data focus remains concise with key figures and context.
Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and cooler tonight in New York and South Carolina. Thursday will bring considerable cloudiness and a few showers with slightly warmer conditions. North Carolina sees above normal temperatures through Monday with coastal areas much warmer. daytime highs in the 50s to 60s and overnight lows in the 40s to 80s along the coast, with precipitation totaling a half to three quarters of an inch mainly as showers Thursday and early next week.
Washington AP reports the Strategic Air Command apparently failed to win approval for a heavier nuclear missile warhead designed to have enough punch to pierce underground sites and hardened targets. Defense officials said the proposal was rejected by Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans Jr. While SAC may push the idea, Air Force sources say it needs more study.
AP report says three King youths died when their car skid on wet Interstate 40 near Greensboro and collided head on with a pickup truck driven by 36-year-old Donald Stecovich of Burlington. A 17-year-old girl who drove the car was killed along with a 5-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy injured. the truck driver survived and was hospitalized. The youths were en route to Chapel Hill for a musical program.
Page one reports a draft structure where the middle third may wait and see while the upper third stays relatively safe. Pentagon manpower experts note some boards must push beyond halfway due to deferred men enlisting to choose their service branch, reducing eligible draftees.
U S draft plans faced staunch Arab rejection as Yasser Arafat and Palestinian leadership dismissed deferment tactics and settlement proposals. Observers called the plan a political trick while officials defend Washington aims to end Arab-Israeli hostilities with a broader settlement framework.
Nonaligned members of the Geneva Disarmament Committee and allies urged a moratorium on testing and deploying new nuclear missiles and anti missile weapons. The U N General Assembly was set to pass a resolution praising strategic arms talks while calling for urgent preliminary limits on further testing and deployment. The United States and the Soviet Union faced pressure as Britain backed efforts to soften the measure amid ongoing Helsinki talks.
The House approved a $7.49 billion foreign aid package, the smallest since WWII, with $1.6 billion in global assistance and a last minute bar on aid to countries trading with Communist China. The plan includes $54.5 million for Nationalist China fighter planes and $50 million for South Korea, risking a Senate showdown.
Los Angeles AP report details Charles Manson charged in murder conspiracy tied to Tate and six others. Denise Atkins Linda Bearded Kasabian Leslie Lank and three women indicted in connection with the cult The Process The Final Church of Judgment. Trial arraignments set as detectives study possible similar killings while Meath and Sharp families are named in the investigation.
Congressman Mendel Rivers says the congressional inquiry into the My Lai massacre needs more time before it can determine if U.S. servicemen killed civilians in the March 1968 Vietnam village.
The panel, pursuing its closed hearing into the My Lai incident, planned testimony today from Capt. Ernest L. Medina, commander of the company involved in the assault. Rivers’ group questioned Gen. William G. Peers who said the Army inquiry found no massacre. Lt. William L. Calley faced charges as the probe continues amid calls for independent oversight.
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