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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1966
Page
2
American Exchange in New York reports continued losses as 1966’s last trading week begins. The market moves at a moderate pace with a slow decline after a mixed opening. News over the Christmas weekend is uneventful, though bombing resumes in North Vietnam adds a cautious note.
A rough transcription of dividend footnotes and stock terms from the 1966 AP table. It lists codes a through z for various dividends and corporate actions such as extra dividends, stock dividends, liquidations, stock distributions, ex-dividend dates, and special situations, with notes on timing and treatment.
NASD quotations represent inter-dealer prices as of about 10:30 a.m. today. Markets vary through the day. Prices exclude retail markups markdowns and commissions.
Wortham is serving half his sentence and could be released next November if a general amnesty granted on the Bol shear Revolution's 50th anniversary is enacted. He has a long history as a hunter and fisherman in Arkansas and worked construction to pay through college. In the Army he flew a small observation plane and volunteered for paratroop training with jumps in West Germany and Scotland.
AP report shows mixed moves at noon with the Dow Jones industrial average near 43.75 and declines across Transportation and Finance sectors. Utilities and other groups slip around 0.07 to 0.18 points as overall market softens.
The Christmas weekend toll totaled 391 deaths over three days, far below the year’s holiday peaks and well under the National Safety Council’s 650 to 750 forecast. Snow nationwide kept motorists home, yet holiday fatalities still outpaced nonholiday weeks.
NEW YORK AP Springs Mills Inc one of the nation s top textile makers began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The firm with 4300 holders in 43 states joins South Carolina Electric and Gas and Graniteville Co as local listings. The company has 19 plants 18000 workers and paid a 25 cent quarterly dividend to record holders on Dec 15.
North Carolina remains fair to partly cloudy and warmer tonight with lows mainly in the 30s mountains 32 to 42 elsewhere and more clouds by Wednesday with light rain mainly west. Wednesday highs 38 to 44 mountains 45 to 55 Piedmont and areas east. South Carolina stays partly cloudy not as cool with lows 35 to 46 and Wednesday drizzle mainly west with highs in the 50s.
The Romans started coining in the 4th century B C laying the foundations of modern minting. Coining also originated in China in the 7th century B C and spread to Japan and Korea.
Volunteers could not reach the man due to thick mud until Dutka spotted him. A basket was lowered, he was hoisted aboard, treated at a hospital, and released. AP Wirephoto provided the image.
North Vietnamese regulars attacked about 170 U.S. cavalry near the central coast, inflicting heavy casualties before American fire forced a retreat. Army units counted 52 enemy bodies and 44 fresh graves at dawn, as 600 assaulting troops pressed the perimeter with artillery and mortars. An assassination attempt on Saigon politician Phan Quang Dan also occurred, wounding him slightly and injuring bystanders.
Scientists report a method to produce a dried single cell protein by feeding living bacteria or yeasts hydrocarbons from crude oil, creating a potential low cost protein for developing nations. The process involves fermentation, heat killing, and aims to rival skim milk powder in price.
Seven thousand New Yorkers complained about lack of heat during Christmas weekend as city officials blasted landlords. Buildings Commissioner Moerdler called for penalties, noting a new law will require landlords to publish 24 hour contact numbers within about a month. A Christmas Eve snowstorm dropped seven inches in the city and up to 14 in suburbs with weekend temperatures in the 20s.
In New York a Supreme Court justice set a Thursday hearing at Harper & Row's request to block publication of The Death of a President. Edward S. Greenbaum pressed for the date while Manchester's counsel sought delay to January 16 due to the author's hospitalization for pneumonia.
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