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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1971
Page
2
The Dow Jones 30 rose 2.63 to 854.78 as profit taking and selective buying mixed. The AP 60-stock average gained 0.3 to 311.1 with industries, rails, and utilities up, while mail order retail fell. Wheelabrator-Frye led activity on the Big Board.
A dense listing outlines percentages, ex-dividend terms, stock dividends, and related conditions for multiple securities. It includes codes for liquidation, dividends paid, ex date, and special statuses like bankruptcy or foreign issues, with notes on tax and distribution timing.
Birmingham AP report details Bill Todd 55 a circus clown who serves as executive Santa at Bloomfield Plaza for December. A bright red desk phone invites calls for Christmas Day house visits at $10 but the line is now unlisted due to overwhelming demand.Todd earns about $2500 for the month.
Market data shows mixed moves across sectors with slight dips in some indices. Utilities and transportation are modestly up while industrials and overall market readings slip by fractions of a point amid a choppy session.
Holiday outlines classification and appeals rules while noting a 30 day notice before induction. No drafts expected before mid January due to quotas. Changes include ending undergraduate deferments for most and creating a Uniform National Call System to issue draft notices by lottery number timing.
President Nixon rejected a $2 billion antipoverty package including day care and child development funding, calling it the most radical measure before Congress. He warned it would be costly and hard to administer, dampening hopes for a two thirds override while liberal lawmakers denounced the veto as political.
AP report describes writer Gary in a 1969 blue Ford pursuing bank robbers through Charlotte streets. The pursuit included close maneuvers and at least one gun drawn but no shots fired as the robbers escaped with cash during two separate heists.
Israeli official says Ralph Bunche once doubted his Nobel Peace Prize was rightly awarded and might have returned it if fully informed. Bunche died in New York aged 67 after a long U.N. career. tributes poured in from President Nixon and U Thant.
A Retail Clerks Union official forecasts a strike by 1,600 workers in Kroger's Roanoke Division if negotiations stall. Clerks began unsanctioned walkouts in Lexington Staunton Charlottesville and Waynesboro with talks ongoing on wages benefits and conditions across Virginia West Virginia North Carolina and Tennessee. Cadwell notes seven negotiating sessions have failed to reach a new contract.
Eight-year-old Douglas Moore can eat ice cream without pain after treatment with cyproheptadine to treat cold urticaria. Doctors at National Jewish Hospital report nine of ten studied cases improved, while one genetically transmitted case did not.
In Charlotte two suspects, James T. Sanders 26 and Joyce Davis 27, face arraignment on charges related to a Northwestern Bank robbery on Wilkinson Boulevard. About eight hours earlier a separate NC National Bank heist yielded $36,000. $1,700 recovered. A license plate clue led to arrests within an hour.
President Nixon’s daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower will represent at the National Environmental Research Center dedication in Research Triangle Park North Carolina. EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus will join with talks ribbon cutting and a facility tour as the center advances pollutant research and pollution measurement instruments.
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