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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1964
Page
2
Stocks edged lower in moderately active trading led by profit taking in high priced issues. Utilities held firm while oils chemicals and nonferrous metals resisted the downtrend. The AP average fell to 289.9 and the Dow dropped 2.61 as ex dividends weighed on the market.
bipartisan coalition leads the House to defeat a move to strip voting provisions from the bill and then reject a limit to elections for federal officers. The chamber approves an amendment to extend provisions, with opposition from several Republican leaders and notable names in the GOP.
Clarence I. Lewis, a Harvard University philosopher from 1920 to 1953, died Monday. Born in 1883, he became a noted educator and author, revered for his work on epistemology and ethics.
Tennessee trooper Paschal testified he did not report a promotion offer from a Teamsters official tied to James R Hoffa's 1962 conspiracy trial jury. He described a meeting near Woodbury three weeks earlier and said he refused the offer to influence his wife, then on the jury.
Miss Lucy Lacarde said 18 year old Hardy Ussery grabbed her keys in a wire partitioned ward at the State Hospital in Columbia. He locked other patients away and stayed with her for about 90 minutes before moving to a safer position after a USC student photographer urged a pictured escape. Police entered as staff opened an entrance door. Hospital officials provided limited background on Ussery.
Witnesses said the driver was white and the motorist was ticketed for striking a pedestrian. Police dispersed after a basketball game and later reinforced Jackson State campus and Campbell Christian College. Reporters were initially barred from the area.
The text describes Baker’s Florida real estate deal and a $250000 stock buy in an insurance company linked to Murchison interests in Texas. Senator Hugh Scott accuses Baker of planting threats against committee members and vows a thorough, nonpolitical investigation despite the high tensions in the Senate probe.
States described a bride and called a witness very impressive after Rankin mentioned new evidence. Orren avoided confirming the reference as reporters questioned him leaving the court offices. The focus of testimony likely involved money sources for Oswald travel the mail order rifle purchase and possible links to Jack Ruby.
Donnie Rufus Gardner 48 of Park Street was charged with failure to yield right of way after an accident at Park and Russell Streets yesterday. He collided with a vehicle driven by Willadean Chaney Reams of Brantley Circle. Two passengers in the Reams car were hospitalized.
The Industrial Management Club launches a five week winter series for foremen and supervisors at 7 pm. More than 150 men are expected to enroll. Instructors include Bob Friedman, D Clark Johnson, Dr W P Matthews, Forrest Wilkins, Capt T G Shelton, Richard Owen, Jack Scott, Jack Nance and Red Cross staff. Co sponsored by Guilford Industrial Education Center.
Lexington attorney George Saintsing, a longtime member of the county elections board, is the No. 2 choice of the county Democratic Executive Committee for a seat. Top choice Thurman Briggs and Bryan Myers are also named, with nominations to be sent for state committee approval.
The State Highway Department advertised seven projects for bids including the Randolph area Asheboro bypass relocation of Highway 20. Bids will be opened February 25 in Raleigh for 9.281 miles of grading base binder surface fencing and signing from one mile south of Utah to 1.56 miles north of Park Drive connecting US 220 and 49 A.
The National Lutheran Council adopted a mild civil rights resolution in Charlotte and sent it to a committee for possible further action. It commended Northerners and Southerners seeking peaceful participation for all citizens and urged congregations to support community programs improving race relations. The resolutions are nonbinding recommendations.
Richardson Preyer names Adam Beck to manage the Randolph County campaign and Edward Lackey to run the Forsyth County effort. Beck is an attorney in Asheboro and Lackey heads a Winston-Salem trucking firm.
New York AP reports cotton futures opened steady to 25 cents per bale lower than the prior close as trading begins.
Reports say fears over ending Soviet aid and anger at expanding Chinese militia led to Peng Teh-huai being removed as defense minister and expelled from the Politburo. He has since vanished from public view.
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