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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1966
Page
2
New York stocks moved in a mixed pattern in moderate trading as prices dipped slightly in early dealings. The report notes dividends and footnotes detailing various payout forms and classifications for 1965 and 1966, with terminology on ex-dividend and stock distributions.
AP reports prison clothing believed to belong to Frank Mitchell the so called mad axman was found five miles from Dartmoor Prison. Mitchell, 37, escaped two nights ago and evaded police cordons as a large manhunt continued with warnings to keep homes locked. He has a violent crime record including hatchet attacks and was sentenced to life for robbery with violence in 1958. He escaped from a working party on the moor near the prison at dusk Monday.
Forecast for North and South Carolina calls for fair nights and a chilly spell with lows in the 20s to 30s along the coast. Temperatures Thursday should rise modestly with five day norms about two to nine degrees below normal and rainfall averaging five to eight tenths of an inch mainly on the weekend. Asheville 48 27 Charlotte Raleigh 52 31 Columbia 58 34 Charleston 61 38.
Margarettha Linden a 19 year old nurse from Uppsala was crowned Sweden's Light Queen of 1966 at a coronation ceremony in Stockholm Town Hall. The event featured her bright smile and a candle crown as part of the pageantry reported by AP Wirephoto.
Readable lines show fragmented financial figures and partial item labels including stock-like entries such as banks, rails, utilities, and industrials. The text presents scattered prices and changes without coherent narrative or complete security names or dates.
Dr. Carl Coppolino testified in his murder trial denying he killed Lt. Col. William E. Farber in 1963. He said he tried to save Farber’s life and admitted only a preexisting affair with Farber’s widow, denying she urged him to kill. The defense rested as prosecutors had no rebuttal witnesses and the case was to go to the jury.
Investigators described the victim being bound with knots from both ends of a rope, gagged with a dishcloth and sock, and his hands tied in front by shoe strings. McCauley, a 195 pound freshman golfer for NC State last spring, was regarded as a promising player. He was known as a former altar boy at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Charlotte.
Chicago advocates say city improvements will draw more residents especially younger and middle income families shifting to suburbs. The plan seeks to reduce white flight while honoring growth of nonwhite residents under fair housing rules. It promotes redevelopment and conservation to balance neighborhoods facing rapid racial change and encourages longtime families to stay while ensuring broad housing choices for all including low income and elderly.
Greensboro AP report details 11 year old Ricky Dempsey Smith of Liberty whose acute leukemia leaves him near death before Christmas. His father’s tobacco income and lack of insurance strain the family with two younger children. Donations and contributions are urged to help Ricky, with Elbridge Smith coordinating gifts from Rt. 1 Staley.
A coastal storm brings snow up to seven inches in inland Connecticut Massachusetts and New Hampshire with rain freezing rain and winds to 45 mph on coastal areas. Maine sees under three inches in Portland while Skowhegan reports bare roads. Washington DC records five inches and several schools close with one traffic death blamed on the storm.
The North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the ABC Board ruling against Big Bear supermarket on West Market Street Greensboro, ruling there was no evidence the store failed to supervise. The case involved alleged beer sales to a 17 year old customer, William McAlpin Aycock III, on February 2.
Brodie and Thomas Martin, both held on $7500 bail, were arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court after allegedly staging the accidental death of Miss Lindenmaier on July 9 in Long Island Sound. Lindenmaier, described as quiet and bright, was parolee living with her parents.
Duke University Law School faculty approved a resolution severing ties with the North Carolina Bar Association after Negro graduate Eric Michaux of Durham was denied bar membership. Dean F Hodge O Neal said the exclusion appears race based and the bar will be barred from law school facilities until its policy changes. UNC Chapel Hill and Wake Forest were informed but not asked to act.
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