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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1966
Page
2
A New York stock market summary shows a downbeat opening with mixed results among key issues. Traders noted fluctuating gains and losses as averages edged lower, while dividends and distribution terms appeared in the text alongside notes on ex dividend and related actions.
Exiles tell of mass executions by Fidel Castro regime at La Cabana fortress in Havana. Dr Miguel Angel Olba Benito, secretary general of the Commission for Humane Treatment for Political Prisoners in Cuba, says 166 prisoners were executed last May 27 after bleeding an average of seven prints of blood per person. He spoke at a Cuban Lions Club in Exile meeting memorializing members executed two years earlier.
Police control kept Northwest Side unrest at bay Wednesday night after a Puerto Rican crowd fought with officers beginning Sunday. Arcellia Cruz, 20, jailed then shot by a policeman, was released from hospital supervision after his $5,000 bond was posted by Puerto Rican groups. No new arrests reported as police dispersed clusters. weather was chilly and clear.
New York AP reportscotton futures opened without actual trades recorded as of the morning session, leaving prices and activity unclear for traders.
AP report from Washington describes the death of President Johnson's beagle Him after being struck by a White House car. The dog, a longtime companion to the Johnson family, had lived at the White House with Luci and often joined the president at meals and on his bed. Her death in 1964 followed another White House canine tragedy.
James Meredith, recovering from shotgun wounds, plans to resume his Mississippi march Monday. He criticizes readers who have taken over the effort in his absence and compares the march to a Fourth of July celebration inviting all Americans to participate. Meredith spoke at Mrs. Sidney Poitier’s home in Westchester County as he recuperates.
Gastonia North Carolina AP Mayor Dan Gunter said City Manager Dale Mills 32 is missing after taking the job three weeks ago following the firing of his predecessor. Mills reportedly asked for back vacation pay and a city car was found abandoned with keys in a shopping center lot. His wife denies plans to leave and Mills had been public works director for seven years before promotion.
Gunfire marked government bid to regain Hue as Premier Ky sent 500 elite paratroops to reinforce riot police and imposed a 9 p.m. curfew in Saigon. Buddhist demonstrators burned an American car. a five hour Marines stand at Chu Lai beat back 250 Viet Cong, with 45 killed. Two U.S. servicemen were threatened but unharmed.
Partly cloudy and warm through Friday with scattered thundershowers mainly in the mountains and along the coast today and Friday east of the mountains. Lows tonight range from 54 to 62 in the mountains and 65 to 72 elsewhere. Regional financial figures and rail utilities data interject the forecast text.
In Holcomb Mississippi the marching Whites draw resentment as 59 whites watch from one sidewalk while a Negro crowd gathers on the opposite curb. The Mississippi freedom march to Jackson continues amid taunts toward the marchers FBI and newsmen. The delta area shows rising hostility and increasing mechanization with jobless Negroes relying on government aid. Many have not registered to vote, the march aims to spur registration while some marchers report turnover since it started. Williams was unavailable for comment.
ROCKY MOUNT N C AP The North Carolina Methodist Conference announced about 160 pastoral changes at its annual meeting. Rev Leon Russell was named superintendent of the Goldsboro District and Rev Cle McCarver to the Wilmington District. Russell succeeds Rev Clyde Boggs in Burlington. H L Watson moved to Chapel Hill university Church, and Rev Christian White transferred to Graham. Delegates approved absorbing the all Negro Central Jurisdiction into the all white Southeastern Jurisdiction by 386 to 141 and urged revocation of the Ku Klux Klan charter while opposing whisky sales. The 1967 session will meet in Goldsboro and 35 Negro churches may merge with the white conference. legality referred to the Judicial Council. Delegates discussed requiring faculty at church colleges to profess belief in a living God.
Marion AP reports a Mc Dowell Superior Court jury deliberated in the murder trial of 21 year old Kansas man William Henry Ray charged with killing 68 year old Leroy Carter, a semi retired Marton schoolteacher, after a fight following alleged sexual assault. The state seeks a second degree murder conviction.
MEMPHIS Tenn Teel Williams has resigned as president of Hungerford Inc Announcement was made by Joe Blindman vice president of Southern Box Co in Jonesboro Ark which bought Hungerford last year A replacement to be named within 30 days with two other personnel changes pending
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