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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1966
Page
2
New York trading opened modestly with a mixed, quiet tone as Britain announced austerity plans to support the pound. Reports from the stock exchange note early noon prices and a cautious mood amid jitters over Vietnam and global markets.
A Chicago jail hospital bulletin reports Richard Speck 24 may have suffered a coronary thrombosis before his face to face with Corazon Amurao 23. The Filipina nurse identified Speck as the intruder in the eight nurse murders, while authorities cautioned no comment on the confrontation.
Mrs. Macaria Amarao arrives in Chicago with Josephine Chan and Mrs. Jeanette Wagner to visit her daughter Corazon Pieza Amarao, 22, the lone survivor of the Chicago student nurse slayings. The group travels from Manila and is pictured with Corazon Pieza Amarao’s nurse escorts.
Shoppers watch as looters pile bags on an overloaded cart while a crowd cheers. A siren brings two police cars. five looters are trapped inside and a fleeing man is threatened, as a girl laments her sister still inside and police recover bags afterward.
Senator Dirksen warned that Hanoi would stage one sided trials to unleash a radio television propaganda barrage. He cautioned of brain washed confessions from U S fliers and noted little chance of exchanging American prisoners. The Pentagon counts 62 U S prisoners in North Vietnam.
Readable weather bulletin notes fair and cooler conditions for South Carolina and North Carolina. South Carolina lows tonight 64 to 70 degrees with cooler Thursday. North Carolina lows tonight in the 50s in the mountains and in the 60s elsewhere with fair and cooler Thursday.
Temperatures Thursday to Saturday run three to six degrees below normal. Readings include Asheville 84 62 Charlotte Raleigh 88 68 Columbia 82 71 Charleston 89 72. Cooler then warming early next week. Rain totals from one quarter to three quarters of an inch in NC and about an inch or more in SC, mainly showers and thundershowers toward week end.
U S Marines report 332 Communists killed and 549 likely dead after a top Viet Cong assault near Saigon. A 25th Infantry Division company killed 51 Viet Cong in the Ho Bo Woods 21 miles northwest of Saigon. A gunship was shot down and concerns rose over captured American fliers amid North Vietnamese diplomacy.
Greensboro AP The prosecution presses its murder case against Joseph Eugene Spence and Glen O'Neil Williams over the slaying of Durham taxi driver Alton Maynard. A state witness linked the defendants to the Feb 26 pickup, while a defense motion to suppress pre counsel evidence was granted.
The 13 day strike by the Machinists Union intensifies as a vote of confidence among about 35 000 workers in 30 cities looms if no contract by today. A 3 00 p m meeting is set two hours before a union deadline with no new concessions and talks may be paused for the ballot.
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