Oil weakness trims early mixed New York market
The New York stock market opened mixed with oil shares weak and the AP average down 0.10 to 262.40 at noon. Industrials up 0.10, rails and utilities down, several sectors fluctuated with gains for Chrysler and Union Carbide offset by losses in Standard Oil New Jersey and Texaco. Dow Jones average rose 0.73 to 718.00 as prices showed general uptick on the American Exchange.
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Associated Press
Amerada
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Texaco
Royal Dutch
Chrysler
Fairchild Stratos
United Financial of California
Merck
Consolidated Natural Gas
Union Carbide
Montgomery Ward
Douglas Aircraft
Pfizer
U.S. Rubber
Commonwealth Edison
Dow Jones
American Stock Exchange
U.S
Historians debate if the Mexican War was justified
Bakeless argues the war was largely inevitable as America expanded and cites the Alamo siege. Allan Nevins at San Marino disagrees with Kennedy yet defends the war saying Mexico refused to negotiate and overestimated its force. He notes Massachusetts tradition opposed the war as a Southern expansion over slavery.
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U. S. Grant
Bakeless
America
Alamo
San Antonio
San Marino
Calif
Allan Nevins
Kennedy
Nevins
Mexico
United States
Justin H. Smith
Massachusetts
Cape Fear water plan sparks debate on dam projects
Dairy farmer Scott told subcommittees that a single New Hope dam would not solve flood control for farmers and neighbors. He endorsed 232 smaller dams on tributaries to provide irrigation and urged Congress to create a Cape Fear Commission on Water Use and Control to implement the plan.
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Scott
New Hope
Soil Conservation Service
Cape Fear
Grange
Congress
B. C. Mangum
North Carolina Farm Bureau
Semmuel Johnson
Chatham County Registrar of Deeds
Farm Bureau
Grass and Trash Fires Plague Local Firemen
The High Point fire department battled multiple grass and trash fires yesterday in backyards and lots around the city. Fires occurred behind 402 Tomlinson St and 213 W Willis St, with grass catching from trash fires and a lid blowing off a metal incinerator at 1410 Cloverdale. A fourth blaze appeared at 2218 Chamber St. Another indoors call at 5:40 p.m. to 607 Bridges St involved an electric water heater switch failing.
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Tomlinson St
W. Willis St
Cloverdale
Chamber St
High Point
Bridges St
D. C. Allred
Ex College figure discusses identity and fingerprint results
Hansen notes no point in a series of ghosts and confirms he and Holmberg are the same person. He says he was astonished by fingerprint checks but trusts authorities have the facts and must assume they are correct.
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Hansen
Holmberg
Emerywood Names New President
Gilbert Clinard, secretary treasurer of Clinard Milling, was elected president of the Emerywood Country Club at the annual meeting attended by more than a hundred members. He succeeds Jake Froelich Jr. Walter Comfort becomes vice president, with R. T. Tunstall Jr. moving to treasurer and Jack Rochelle named secretary. The board rotation includes Robert Davis Dr J E Slate and John W Thomas Jr. Froelich remains ex officio a board member. The club reports strong operations in the new clubhouse with 500 members and all stock shares sold. A new widow membership class allows about 20 to join without stock but with limited voting rights. The era of more cars brings more street traffic.
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Gilbert Clinard
Clinard Milling Company
Emerywood Country Club
Clinard
Jake Froelich Jr
Walter Comfort
R. T. Tunstall Jr
Jack Rochelle
Robert Davis
J. E. Slate
John W. Thomas Jr
Froelich
W. R. McKenzie
E. E. Mendenhall Jr
Contempt Sentence Review Sought in Burton Case
The Attorney General's office asks the State Supreme Court to deny Ottway Burton's petition for review of a 10 day jail sentence for contempt of court. Burton was jailed Dec 29 after defying Judge Hal Walker in an Asheboro conference over a divorce dispute.
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Raleigh
Attorney General’s Office
State Supreme Court
Ottway Burton
Asheboro
Hal H. Walker
Burton
Randolph Superior Court
Allen H. Gwyn
Rockingham
Walker
Robert Cahoon
Greensboro
William H. Bobbitt
Supreme Court
Richard T. Sanders
Zone Query Referred To Planners For Interim Zoning
The High Point zoning board sent a case to the Planning and Zoning Commission to review interim district rules created during annexation and advise on permanent zoning. W P Dennis seeks building a home on 1 1/2 lots on Lambeth Street. interim zoning allows industrial use. Test study set for Feb 27. The panel also reviews temp zoning from 1960 annexations. Sheloff Oil Co gets permit to replace a gasoline tank at 401 Prospect St.
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High Point
William C. Sheloff
Sheroff Oil Company
Prospect St
Cotton futures rise at open in New York
Cotton futures opened in New York today up 20 cents a bale from earlier levels, finishing 10 cents below the prior close as market activity began for the session.
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New York
January Death Toll in High Point Reported
Guilford County Health Department records show 49 deaths in January in High Point. Leading causes were heart disease 24, cerebral vascular disease five, cancer five, with two premature deaths, two accidental, one pneumonia, and ten miscellaneous. Live births numbered 163 and stillbirths three.
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High Point
Guilford County
Kornegay backs 19 nation textile market pact
Washington NC Sixth District Rep Horace Kornegay voiced qualified approval of a 19 nation agreement to divide the world textile market over five years. He said Geneva formula should limit cotton textile and apparel imports near current levels and urged full Kennedy textile program implementation to fix the two price cotton system harming American mills.
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Washington
North Carolina
Horace Kornegay
Kornegay
State and Commerce Department
Kennedy
U. S
Western notes warn against Soviet control of flight levels
Western observers report Soviet air maneuvers near West Berlin as harassing. A U S Air Force Europe spokesman in Wiesbaden said there was no interference with U S aircraft. London circles see the moves as rattling West Berlin nerves and testing Western reaction. Washington officials fear renewed Berlin crisis if Khrushchev stirs tension and undermines disarmament talks.
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Royal Air Force
Christopher Steel
Britain
West Germany
U.S. Air Force
Wiesbaden
London
Washington
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Berlin
Georgia Faces Surge in Wild Fires Across State
Georgia Forestry Commission crews battle a rash of fires with 222 reports on Thursday and 686 since Monday. Director Ray Shirley urged landowners to consult county forest rangers before burning. A separate note mentions Lake Baikal as Earth's deepest freshwater lake.
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Macon
Georgia Forestry Commission
Commission
Ray Shirley
Georgia
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