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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1966
Page
2
New York trading showed a firmer tone with Chrysler bouncing back over a point after yesterday’s slide and other blue chips adding one point or more. The action appeared moderately active as investors absorbed mixed earnings and dividend notes amidst a broad market uptick.
New York AP report notes cotton futures opened today steady from the prior close with no net change. Traders watched early activity with prices holding near yesterday’s level as the market awaited further guidance.
Sen. Len B. Long named five large U.S. drug makers in a charged price fixing conspiracy. He condemned the cartel as reckless and harmful, noting drugs developed with government aid cost far less to produce and accusing firms of maintaining high prices since at least 1958.
Candace Mossler’s murder trial in Miami stalled for the weekend after she fell ill overnight and failed to appear in court. Dr. Edward St Mary testified she suffered migraines and nausea, with the judge and prosecutor indicating they expect to resume midweek as state witnesses continue.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey spent four hours touring Saigon area improvement projects in South Vietnam and called the work very fine. He joined children in a village school five miles south of Saigon, chanting numbers and enjoying a brief moment of light, morale-boosting interaction amidst the war setting.
In Santo Domingo late Thursday into today bombs used by police to disperse rioters spark violence. Official toll shows nine killed and about forty injured over two days, with unofficial estimates suggesting twelve deaths. Wednesday saw seven killed as a mob attacked a police sergeant. A spokesman for the Inter American Peace Force denied Brazilian troops hurled a grenade into a crowd, saying the blast came from rocks striking their jeep.
In Moscow AP reports rebel writer Andrei D Sinyavsky argued in court his novels are purely literary not political. The Soviet Newsi said the facts convict Sinyavsky and co writer Daniel with seven years in prison plus five years Siberian exile on charges of anti Soviet propaganda.
The Duke Bar Association invites Frank Wilkinson to address students on campus amid a debate over abolishing the House Committee on Activities. The invitation comes as two other student groups await trustee board action, and Duke officials say the association acted independently of the law school dean and university president.
President Johnson awaited final action on a permanent GI benefits bill with an estimated $500 million yearly cost at full run. The measure expands education and home buying aid for all service members with over six months of duty since January 31, 1955, and would start June 1. Beneficiaries could choose schools and receive monthly stipends, with $100 for full-time single students and $150 for those with dependents, among other provisions.
Chapel Hill AP UNC students plan a mass meeting to discuss campus issues with Gov Dan Moore possibly invited to explain his views. Paul Dickson would be named president of the student body at the meeting while George Nicholson Tl criticized inviting Aptheker the Communist theorist as ill timed and sensational.
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