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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1968
Page
2
New York stocks surged as the market packaged relief over no immediate tightening from the Federal Reserve. Major averages climbed with gains led by industrials and consumer names. declines were modest as traders awaited further earnings and merger news.
The forecast calls for below normal temperatures from Saturday through Wednesday with daytime highs near 40 in mountains and 42 to 52 elsewhere, 50 to 55 near the northeast coast. Lows will mostly be in the 20s, dipping to around 20 in the mountains and near freezing on the coast. Expect a half inch of rain along the coast and up to about a half inch elsewhere. Showers ending Saturday morning along the coast with another likely around midweek.
A dynamite blast by Presidents Johnson and Diaz Ordaz diverts the Rio Grande at the border to end a century old dispute. The diversion through a new concrete channel on the Santa Fe International Bridge returns 437 acres to Mexico and splits El Paso and Juarez. The boundary, dedicated to Adolfo Lopez Mateos, follows an agreement with John F. Kennedy in 1962.
A chaotic AP despatch reports Dr. Orbion Bosch condemned to a decade in prison amid odd snippets about a mysterious Ernesto and coded Cuban Power aims, with fragmented quotes and unclear context surrounding the verdict.
A tour of the White House and Capitol for 33 children of incoming cabinet members includes guides from Luci Johnson and FBI staff. Tricia Nixon arranged the day guiding the group through historic rooms with reflections from future officials’ families. The trip highlighted reactions from Ruth Hardin and Karl Hickel as they toured and learned about government life.
The Carnegie Commission suggests increasing the share of the Gross National Product spent on higher education from 2 percent in 1967 to 3 percent in 1978. It notes expected GNP growth from 763 to 1,400 billion dollars and recommends cost of education allowances for each college or university participating in federal direct aid, usable for operational and instructional costs tied to the student aid program.
A Washington discussion highlights multimillion dollar construction figures and high pay for Cabinet members and educators. David Kennedy, Maurice Stans, and Clifford Hardin are named among top earners. Blount, Laird, and Finch also figure in the salary debate over federal funding and education loans for students.
Jet from Kennedy Airport reported trouble before radio failure. Witnesses on the ground and station reports describe wreckage spread over a wide area. Passengers included 1962 Miss Venezuela Olga Antonette de Dugarte and her four year old daughter, plus Venezuelan advertising executive Luis Beltran Gonzalez returning from New York.
Pravda described Nixon's cabinet as a nucleus of big businessmen and industrial representatives, noting the government includes corporate figures. The paper offered a restrained assessment, signaling Kremlin wait and see toward the new Republican administration.
Italy inaugurated its most left leaning government in history with Mariano Rumor as premier. The cabinet includes Socialist left leader Francesco de Martino as deputy premier and Pietro Nenini as foreign minister. The center left coalition, wider than Moro's, seeks a confidence vote next week, while protests over university reforms and wages continue.
Guil-Rand Fire Chief Clyde Wilkerson said a man named Jimmy Davis was trying to install a radio antenna on his car when his finger became wedged in a fender hole. Rescue squads freed the finger after about three hours from the incident near Cedar Square and Archdale.
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