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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1966
Page
2
The New York market rose modestly with gains in airlines, electronics, and high-priced issues. The Dow touched 794.98 as the Fed lifted restrictions on inflationary expansion of business loans, though banks remain tight and full loan growth is not yet assured.
Copyrighted by The Associated Press 1966 New York AP reports cotton market activity as failing and opening quiet with two actual trades recorded.
Washington asserts no policy change despite civilian casualties cited by the New York Times. Pentagon officials say military targets must be bombed to deter aggression and save lives, while acknowledging some noncombatants are harmed.
The Navy disclosed that Lt. Cmdr. Spellman rode the Enterprise during bombing missions against northern targets in Vietnam and had refreshments with officers including Cmdr. Don Michael of High Point North Carolina a Protestant chaplain.
The New York Stock Exchange index shows a mixed session at noon with small gains and losses across sectors. Industrial, transportation, utility, and finance groups edge slightly in different directions as the market digests brief gains.
Clifford Harden aged 37 and Howard Byrd 21 faced charges in case tied to a Shelby bank robbery. They escaped from the 14th floor of a courthouse jail with Duckett guiding them outside in a stolen car. Police and FBI set roadblocks as Duckett and a nearby couple were freed. First alert came when jail elevator was found open at the basement level.
A pre dawn blaze at the Marcy Hotel in Lake Placid destroyed part of the 70 year old building. Two employees were missing, but about 475 guests escaped. The owner Jack Davis and four staff members were injured, and several others presumed dead were later found in the village. Firefighters fought the flames for about 90 minutes, preventing spread to the main five story section while guests fled in night clothes into freezing weather.
John Sample of Waterboro Maine fulfilled a vow by visiting Dr Edward Hipp in Charlotte 37 years after the surgeon saved his nearly severed left arm. The 64 year old former patient, who became a schoolteacher, presented a newspaper clipping and embraced the doctor during the reunion.
Harry L. Goldhurst, born in New York City and raised on the Lower East Side, published an autobiography of poet Carl Sandburg. He left teaching for brokerage work, pled guilty in federal court on October 16, 1929 to mail fraud involving 444,095 dollars, filed for bankruptcy, served 18 months in prison, and was paroled after recognizing the illegal nature of his acts.
A seminar discusses how draft-eligible youths assess their legal position if opposing the draft with nonconscientious objector views. It notes many men easily qualify as conscientious objectors, but the speaker stresses the challenge for those who oppose this war for reasons tied to this conflict.
The forecast covers North and South Carolina with cooler conditions and mixed rain or showers through the period. Regions expect 0.5 to 0.75 inches of precipitation, heavier in eastern areas, with temperatures 3 to 10 degrees below normal and gradual warming Sunday into Monday.
Fragmentary quotation notes that not all wars are unjust and that a complex problem will be faced, but the context and speakers are missing to establish a clear event or attribution.
AP correspondent recounts Mao Zedong's 1938 stance on persuading errant officials versus purging them. By 1967 Mao faces choice regarding Liu Shao-chi Teng Hsiao-ping amid confessions and power shifts after the cultural purge and Red Guard crackdown.
Allen Berube, 29, of Fall River Massachusetts, held in Asheville for security after a November 26 Shelby bank robbery. He allegedly posed as a government agent, took $24,675, and freed a hostage, William Pearce, who later escaped unharmed in Charlotte. Berube awaited an April trial.
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