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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1966
Page
2
New York stocks rallied this afternoon after the British bank rate rose from 6 to 7 percent. Trading stayed active with prices on an even keel despite tighter global credit conditions as a list of selected NYSE transactions at 3 pm showed notable activity.
The table uses footnote letters to denote dividend type and timing. Codes cover stock dividends, liquidating and special distributions, cash values on ex-dividend dates, and events like in bankruptcy, foreign issues, or next day delivery. Many letters indicate year of declaration or payment and whether stock or cash.
At a South Chicago location authorities report multiple nurse victims found in two upstairs bedrooms and hallway. Coroner Dr. Andrew Toman called it the crime of the century while noting no bullet wounds and a likely large butcher knife as the murder weapon.
Violence erupts across Chicago's West Side as fire bombs, bricks, and looting mark a second night of unrest. Police report hundreds involved, dozens arrested, and several injuries among officers and residents amid clashes on Roosevelt Road and Pulaski Road.
Police turned on trouble youths in a series of rock throwing incidents. At least seven persons were arrested and several were injured in the unrest.
The New York Stock Exchange unveiled its common stock index covering more than 1,250 issues. Printed every half hour in dollars and cents, it aims to reduce investor confusion from Dow swings and includes separate indexes for industrial, transportation, utility and finance sectors. All five indexes start at 50.00 based on Dec 31, 1965.
The Senate closed its doors and cleared galleries to begin an unusual locked session over CIA oversight. The 12:25 p.m. session followed a period of debate as lawmakers wrangled over intelligence agency supervision.
In Greensboro six jurors were seated bringing total jurors to nine as selection continued for the first degree murder trial of Raleigh men Joseph Eugene Spence 26 and Glenood O Neil Williams 28. They face charges in the February 26 taxi driver Alton Maynard 35 slaying and related shootings in Granville County while released from Dorothea Dix Hospital.
Hercules Inc of Wilmington plans a 34 million fiber research facility in Research Triangle Park. Construction starts Nov 1 with completion by July 1967, employing 125 initially. The site covers 44 acres in the park’s northeast. 50 staff to come from elsewhere, rest recruited in North Carolina.
New York AP reports cotton futures opened without any trades recorded. The market showed no price quotes as the session began with no transactions.
Eight people were killed by manual strangulation and multiple stab wounds after a front bedroom discovery. Miss Amurao escaped a window ledge shouting that all her friends were dead, while investigators say the crime began as a robbery and may have escalated to sex crime and burglary.
Part cloudy with scattered thundershowers tonight and mainly south Friday. Warm tonight with 70 to 76 degree lows, mountains in the 60s. Northeast Friday cooler. South Carolina sees no widespread activity tonight and increasing clouds Friday. lows around 70s and 78 in the south.
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