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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1966
Page
2
New York led by the American Exchange shows a split ahead of midday with declines and advances nearly even as the prior session’s recovery from Kennedy assassination losses fades. A regional stock list and footnoted dividend notes accompany noon transactions, detailing special rates and conditions.
The Viet Cong fired mortars and recoilless rifles for 90 minutes at the U.S. 25th Infantry Command Post in Chu Lai 18 miles northwest of Saigon. American counterfire with artillery and napalm ended the assault. casualties were described as very light. Further north, U S air power pounded targets amid typhoon winds while Marines hunted remnants of the first full North Vietnamese division across the 17th Parallel, reporting 736 enemy dead.
The Law and Order Committee's informants and FBI derived material formed the basis for possible action to revoke the Ku Klux Klan's charter to do business in North Carolina. Attorney General Bruton evaluated the information, while Deputy Atty. Gen. Moody said evidence was insufficient to proceed.
In Jamaica Plain outside the Veterans Administration hospital two Armored Bank Service guards were shot by three masked gunmen who robbed $60,000 from an armored car. A second Boston area armored car ambush occurred four days earlier with $130,000 stolen in Bedford.
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and continued warmth with scattered thundershowers mainly near the coast and in the mountains. Lows dip to 55-65 in the mountains and 67-74 elsewhere. South Carolina sees partly showers and thundershowers in the Coastal Plain with lows of 67-73.
The Saturn program plans a third unmanned flight in August before sending three astronauts around the Earth in November, marking a milestone for crewed spaceflight.
A staged progress report from MSFC in Huntsville details Saturn-5 development with S-1C 95 percent complete and due for delivery to Cape Kennedy in August while S-2 faces delays after two explosions. S-4B is 95 percent ready for shipment to Cape Kennedy with stacking planned by October and full checkout to follow.
Tropical storm Ella with winds up to 50 mph threatened the Leeward Islands with high seas and thunder showers. Small craft were warned to seek harbor as Ella moved west-northwest at 12 mph, about 150 miles north-northeast of Antigua and northeast of San Juan. Dorothy weakened into a tropical storm far west of the Azores, posing no land threat for 24 hours.
Greensboro AP report shows Montgomery, chair of Guilford County Commissioners, endorsing a countywide law enforcement agency to replace the sheriff's department. He cites political tangles between Sheriff Clayton Jones and Chief Deputy Paul Gibson and notes city forces from Greensboro and High Point should join rural police. Davis calls for a full investigation into Jones and Gibson amid Gibson's resignation and bid to become sheriff in November.
Washington reports the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive 511931 dollars in federal funds for construction of a university affiliated facility for mental health. The Public Health Service announced the grant approval on Monday.
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