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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1972
Page
2
Stocks rose modestly as the Dow gained to 909.84 with the 60 stock average up to 331.6 while advancers outpaced decliners on the NYSE. The Labor Department said unemployment climbed to 6.1 percent in December from 6.0 percent in November, keeping market gains cautious as sectors shifted among gains and losses.
Nixon prepares to tell New Hampshire Governor Wayne Dwinnell that he approves of Dwinnell's entry in the March 7 primary. Muskie and Ashbrook file for the Democratic contest as other Republicans and several Democrats also line up for the pivotal early test.
The ceremony marked the first double swearing in in 60 years as Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist took oaths before Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. The courtroom was packed though access was restricted to invited guests.
Eleven freight cars derailed on a mountain trestle near Old Fort North Carolina and seven loaded cars plunged into a 20 foot gorge. Two more loaded and two empty cars derailed but did not fall in as four locomotives pulled a 29 car train from Asheville toward Salisbury. authorities closed the scene to manage traffic and described the derailment as damaging the trestle deck plates.
The National Center for Disease Control reports influenza A2 virus documented in eleven states including Colorado Kansas Illinois Iowa Maine New York Ohio Oregon South Dakota Texas Utah with widespread influenza in Michigan Wisconsin and parts of Connecticut New Jersey and Rhode Island. No nationwide epidemic is expected this winter and Christmas holidays curb school absenteeism data.
The Soviet Union president Nikolai V. Podgorny will visit Turkey in April. The Foreign Ministry said the trip will reciprocate Turkish President Cevdet Sunay's 1969 visit to the Soviet Union.
Norway’s coastline remains ice free inlets due to a branch of the Gulf Stream warming regional waters. This keeps inlets open despite high-latitude location near Siberia and southern Greenland.
A New Delhi AP dispatch cites the Bangladesh Observer reporting that detonations at an ammunition dump left by the Pakistani army in Dinajpur killed about 52 people and wounded 300. The explosions damaged nearby houses and injured residents as seven more died in hospital.
Connally warned that tariff and quota concessions by Japan would not be matched by the United States as Rogers signaled U.S. retaliation in politics. Nixon and Sato discussed goals for normalized relations with China, amid Washington Taipei ties complicating formal contact with Beijing and concerns over communications like a Washington Tokyo hot line.
In Augusta Georgia surgeons at University Hospital completed their first total hip replacement inside a sterile greenhouse bubble in the operating room. The 2½ hour procedure fused a stainless steel cap on the femur with a high density polyethylene pelvic socket. Both components were implanted to allow simultaneous reconstruction. The patient will begin moving the leg in four days and stand on day seven.
A cesium-1357 capsule is missing from Baptist Hospital’s lead vault sparking a radiation safety search by the team. Another cesium-137 capsule was found at Duke Medical Center after a separate report, both cases prompting extensive search efforts at the hospital, landfill, and sewage plant.
Ford Motor Co chairman Henry Ford II warns safety emissions and damage standards will lift the price of a new car by 750 dollars by 1976. He spoke at Flat Rock during the costing center dedication and urged the federal government to delay pollution rules from 1975 to 1976. Iacocca suggested a possible price rollback from 13 percent if steel prices stay steady.
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