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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1960
Page
3
Stocks rose modestly in a choppy session as investors shifted among groups for yearend tax reasons. Rail shares surged briefly led by Eastern roads while steels tobaccos and oils posted gains. motors merchandisers metals and airlines were mixed. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks was up 60 at noon with composites in glow and rails up .90.
London AP reports global opposition to France’s third atomic test with Nigeria voicing strong concern. Lagos officials meet French ambassador as calls arise to freeze assets and ban French goods, while Balewa cautions weekend steps. Japan lodges a protest and press in West Germany and North Africa frame the test as a broader Algeria war issue. Offroy asserts no deaths yet and compares proximity to US Nevada tests.
Snow flurries covered many Colorado sections after a storm, with Denver recording four inches of new snow the heaviest. Akron in eastern Colorado measured nearly three inches as highways remained snowpacked but open amid hundreds of minor accidents in Denver during Tuesday’s rush hours.
Dorothy Ridgeway nine receives massive Christmas mail for a card wish. About 100 bags of undelivered mail filled the Hardy post office and spilled onto the steps. More than twenty bags remained in the Ridgeways mountain home, immobilizing the family. They have survived on sandwiches as residents speculate unknown weather bureau teletype message reports Dorothy’s supposed bone disease.
The Dow Jones averages show the industrials at 613.38 at noon with 614.00 prior and 614.79 at 1 pm. Rails stand at 120.84, utilities at 99.06, and overall stocks at 204.65 with trading volumes reported as 3.27 million at close.
A search for eight persons, believed kidnapped in Kentucky, ended in a motel room where two were arrested on grand larceny charges. A mother and five children were also taken into custody. disappearance tied to a family dispute. Laura Wilson linked William Brannin and wife to the drive toward North Carolina. The Brannins, who ran a service station near a restaurant in Munfordville, Ky, were held for Kentucky authorities. The case sparked a three-state alarm and involved a missing .41 caliber pistol.
A black mother bear and her two cubs have claimed a steam heated den in Yellowstone Park for the season. Park rangers note bears have used the spot during hibernation for the past decade as their snoring fills the hot spring heated chamber.
Four teen survivors of the tanker Pine Ridge sue Keystone Shipping Co and Pace Tankers Inc in U S District Court seeking 1.4 million dollars. Each seeks 100 000 for alleged unseaworthiness and negligence after the vessel split in a Cape Hatteras storm.
Omega Psi Phi, a national Negro fraternity, awarded $250 to the James Gabrielle family of New Orleans for sending their daughter to an integrated school despite threats. Gabrielle, a water meter reader, moved his family to Providence, Rhode Island, to avoid segregationists.
AP reports freelance writer Al Blake claims at least 40 episodes of It Could Be You from 1956 to 1958 were rigged with actors supplied by Blake and other sources. Ralph Edwards and NBC deny collusion. Edwards says staff denied manufacturing situations and Blake was never on staff. Edwards notes they stopped accepting Blake contributions in August 1958.
Navy witness Rutledge testifies that the Constellation fire at Brooklyn Navy Yard might have been stopped in 30 minutes with Navy fog spray but was prolonged by city firemen. He criticizes civilian crews for lack of ship-fire experience and disarray from multiple leaders.
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