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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1966
Page
2
New York stocks opened mixed but quickly eroded amid a sinking trend. Despite strong weekend corporate earnings and rising machine tool orders, trading remained active with declines in several major issues including Homestake and Sperry Rand while others held losses.
New York AP reports cotton futures opened with no actual trades recorded, leaving initial activity quiet as markets assess early price signals.
A gyroplane crash near Asheville killed Earl T. Freeman 49 news and feature editor of the Asheville Citizen Times. The weekend violence in North Carolina included numerous traffic deaths and electrocutions, with several fatalities across multiple counties and towns.
A survey finds the public feel the pinch from higher costs in food and clothing while taxes and other prices also stretch budgets. About one in four respondents say they are delaying purchases to cope with the overheated economy.
Dr. Joe M. Withers a Lexington Kentucky physician and his mother in law Mrs Allen Nutting Jeffersonville Indiana were killed when their private single engine plane crashed in a wooded area near Jacksonville Airport. Nutting's husband Allen Nutting 45 was hospitalized in shock lacerations and burns. The plane failed to clear fog and hit a tree exploding on impact.
President Johnson's sharp rebuttal to Senator Fulbright's Asia policy speech fuels ongoing Senate foreign policy dissent. White House and Moyers say Fulbright misread Johnson while Mansfield and Mansfield allies warn the Senate should be involved early. The vote to cut 42 million from foreign aid shows broad concern over Viet Nam policy and potential policy shifts.
North Vietnamese regulars withdrew into jungle near the border after a weekend clash that mauled a U.S. Marine company. Guerrillas struck Saigon fringes, downing a U.S. Air Force F100 and attacking government outposts. Marines pressed northern hills as 698 North Vietnamese troops reportedly fell in an 11 day sweep. the 324B division evaded the Marine sweep toward Laos.
A New York Stock Index employee fled into the woods about 200 yards from the Moose Lodge before being found and transported to a hospital. Police said the man was unharmed and the incident is under investigation.
The House Commerce Committee approved a strengthened auto safety bill covering new and used cars with federal standards starting with 1968 models. The 26 to 0 vote expands coverage to all cars, buses and trucks and includes a strengthened tire safety measure. The measure, along with a highway safety bill, may reach the House floor in early August as the Johnson administration backs early enactment.
The United Nations Security Council met to hear Syria and Israel’s complaints over an Israeli air raid on a Syrian plan to divert the Jordan River. Syria accused Israel of targeting a vital economic project, while Israel blamed Syria for recent landmines that wounded two Israelis.
Investigators probe motive and suspects in the deaths of Vernon Shipman 40 and James Glass ? both found with massive head injuries. The unidentified woman Louise Davis Shumate 61 of Asheville was found Nude except for cloth near the legs. remains suggest violent crime with sparse clues and no bloodstains nearby.
North Carolina shows partly cloudy skies with little temperature change through Tuesday. Widely scattered showers are possible mainly along the south coast and mountains Tuesday afternoon. Lows range from 53 to 63 in the mountains and 66 to 74. South Carolina remains mostly warm with a chance of scattered afternoon showers in the northwest and near the coast Tuesday. Lows near 67 to 73.
North and South Carolina expect near normal temperatures Tuesday through Saturday with highs from Asheville 83 to Columbia 92 and lows from 62 to 71. Showers and thunderstorms may bring total rainfall of 0.2 to 0.8 inches by week’s end as a warm trend continues.
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