Stock market opens with broad gains in active trading
The New York session shows gains outpacing losses by more than two to one. Early movers include International Nickel up 1 percent to 101, RCA up, Control Data up, Benquet off, American Motors up, General Telephone down, and Litton Industries up to 70.
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New York
International Nickel
RCA
Control Data
Benguet
American Motors
General Telephone
Litton Industries
Stock market table with dividends and footnotes
Unofficial sales figures show a wide array of stocks with price changes and dividend notes. A dense list includes RyderSys Safeway Sinclair SmithK SoutCalE SoutNGas Spartan SperryRive Steilind Site Site and others with footnoted payout terms and special cases across 1967 1968 transactions.
Thomson McKinnon to Dedicate New High Point Offices
Thomson and McKinnon, NYSE member, will dedicate its new High Point quarters on February 27 at 301 N Main St. Mayor Robert D. Davis will attend along with senior partners led by William E. Ferguson. The events include Institutional Night and an Investment Round table at the Sheraton, with Carmine Muratore and Robert J. Beck among speakers. The firm began in 1885 and now runs 39 offices across the U.S. and Canada including Winston-Salem and Shelby.
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Sheraton Hotel
Beck
Carroll
T&m
Carmine Muratore
Thomson & McKinnon
High Point
N. Main Street
United States
Canada
Winston-Salem
Shelby
Goddard Cleared to Testify on LSD Control Plan
Administration officials state James L. Goddard can testify before a Senate panel on LSD penalties while opposing harsher federal punishment. The top drug official had been barred from a hearing, with Dodd postponing. officials cite White House briefings and agency shifts as reasons.
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Jack Miller
Associated Press
Washington
James L. Goddard
Johnsons
Capitol Hill
Goddard
Senate
Congress
Johnson
Theodore O. Crow
Food and Drug Commissioner
Thomas J. Dodd
Dconn
Codtland
White House
Ralph K. Huitt
Department of Health, Beamon and Welfare
Justice O
Justice Administration
Dodd
Huitt
No Iowa Primary Ballot Bid Fails To Include Crommelin
In Des Moines a southern group failed to place retired Rear Adm. John Crommelin on the Democratic presidential primary ballot. Secretary of State Melvin Synhurst told Mrs. Robert Muncaster of Montgomery Alabama that he could not assist in listing Crommelin's name.
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Des Moines, Iowa
John Crommelin
Iowa
Melvin Synhurst
Robert Muncaster
Montgomery
Ala
Crommelin
Liggett & Myers Announces Two for One Stock Split
Liggett and Myers plans a two for one stock split as part of a corporate reorganization. The company will merge into a wholly owned subsidiary and shift its corporate domicile.
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L&m
New York
Liggett & Eee Comene
Adventurers Head For North Pole
Six amateur explorers led by Ralph Palisted depart Minneapolis for a overland trek to the North Pole aiming to be the first to reach the pole by surface since Peary. The team includes a pathologist, a geography instructor and three engineers.
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Minneapolis, Minn
North Pole
Ralph Palisted
St.Paul
Pole
Robert Peary
Plaisted
North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Georgia Weather Outlook
Forecasts show variable clouds and much colder weather across the southeast. North Carolina and Virginia expect gusty northerly winds with subfreezing nights and single digits to teens, while South Carolina remains cold with lows around 20s and Georgia cooling with highs in the 30s and 40s.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Georgia
Five Day North and South Carolina Forecast
Five day period through Monday will run below normal with daytime highs 40s to mid fifties and cooler nights between 25 and 32. Mountains near 20 at night and coast in the 30s. precipitation 0.5 to 0.75 inches or more as rain or snow, mainly rain toward week end.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Fulbright McNamara Clash Over North Vietnam Attack Account
The article reports Robert McNamara presenting a 21 page account of the August 4 1964 torpedo boat attack on the Maddox Turner Joy while Fulbright questions the completeness of the story. Fulbright declines to elaborate citing exhaustion after McNamara’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
North Vietnam
McNamara
Fulbright
Ers
Maddox
Turner Mede
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Controversy over Gulf of Tonkin moves into session
The session with McNamara and the committee grew tense as Fulbright noted urging restraint. McNamara released a Pentagon statement asserting U S destroyers did not provoke North Vietnamese attacks and did not take part in bombardments of Communist islands, while noting Vietnam had reason to fear the U S ships.
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McNamara
Fulbright
Pentagon
U.S
South Vietnam
Gulf
Vietnam
Rap Brown Faces New Orleans Action
Rap Brown and his lawyer William Kunstler face a New Orleans move seeking a court order to forfeit his 15000 dollar bail and jail him on a federal gun charge after an allegedly unauthorized trip to California. Brown was arrested in Manhattan on a federal court request and was to appear in New Orleans.
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New York
Rap Brown
New Orleans
Brown
California
William Kunstler
New York City
Kunstler
Richmond
Manhattan
Student Nonviolent Committee
LBJ Names James H. Rowe Jr to Lead Campaign Effort
President Johnson taps Washington attorney James H. Rowe Jr. to run the unannounced bid for re election. Rowe will head the Citizens for Johnson Humphrey operation with help from Hubert Humphrey and Lawrence O'Brien as major fund raising pushes begin in May and June. The National Committee supports the campaign as it starts with early posturing at Democratic headquarters.
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Washington
Johnson
James H. Rowe Jr
Democratic Party
Democratic
Rowe
Citizens For Johnson-Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey
Lawrence F
O’brien
White House
Marvin Watson
National Committee
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S .Court
Oliver Andell Holmes Jr
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
Senate
Humphrey
Johnson News Groups
President’s Clubs
Vietnam troop ceiling debated as Westmoreland may seek rise
President Johnson hinted last weekend he could raise the Vietnam troop ceiling beyond 525,000 if needed. Pentagon and military sources say General Westmoreland has not requested an overall increase yet but is expected to. A 10,500 troop surge to Vietnam was approved to blunt a possible Communist assault on Khe Sanh, stressing U.S. manpower as 82nd Airborne and Marine units reinforce, with phase returns planned to manage tours.
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Johnson
Pentagon
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
Ers
Westmoreland
Khei Sanh
South Vietnam
United States
82Nd Airborne Division
Caribbean
Mediterranean
Army of Marines
Marine Regiment
Viet
Accused South Carolina Killer Ends Suicide Attempt in Prison
Lee Roy Martin 30 of Gaffney, labeled the Gaffney Strangler, is under constant watch at South Carolina’s State Penitentiary after scratching his arm with a metal slat in a half hearted suicide attempt. Police will question him about the death of Mrs Dedmond, whose body was found on a rural Union County road.
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S. C
State Penitentiary
Columbia
Lee Roy Martin
J. W. Strickland
Lor the Penitentiary
Martin
Correction‘al
Jonathan Mc!l Kown
Union County
J. H. Lamb
Dedmond
McKown
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