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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1967
Page
2
The New York stock market retreated further on Tuesday as emphasis grew on a tax increase. Gardner Ackley, the presidential economic adviser, told Congress that a tax raise is needed to safeguard healthy prosperity amid ongoing trading activity.
New York AP report notes cotton futures opened without any trades as of noon on the American Stock Exchange.
North Carolina legislators discuss a bill to require open meetings for city councils and boards during zoning and street projects. Burney and Ellis push exemptions for juries, while White warns it could curb press freedom and push meetings underground.
The NASD released representative over the counter inter-dealer prices as of about 10:30 a.m. today. Markets fluctuate through the day and prices exclude retail markup and commissions. Names include Am Fidelity Life, Colonial Stores, Carolina Freight, Eckerd Drug, Gulf Life Insurance, Wachovia, Jefferson Ltd. Life, and others with bid and ask figures listed.
South Carolina shows variable clouds with showers and scattered thundershowers through Wednesday. Georgia stays partly cloudy and warm with highs 84 to 94 and lows 62 to 73. North Carolina has variable clouds with scattered showers and thundershowers in mountains and far south, little temperature change, and a warmer Wednesday. mountain lows 55 to 62, elsewhere 58 to 67.
The noon report shows mixed trading with the Dow and Nasdaq slipping slightly. Key indexes move modestly as investors digest AP Market Finance notes from New York trading.
Albert B. Hazzard of High Point has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Roofing Contractors Association. He owns Albert Roofing Co. of High Point, in business twelve years, and has led industry efforts nationally and as president of the Carolina Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association.
Melrose Hosiery Mills will pay 12 812 43 in semi annual vacation pay to 258 employees. Payments occur each June and December for a six month period. Continuous service five years ending April 1 earns 4 percent of last six months earnings from Oct 1 1966. Employees with 12 months continuous service ending April 1 receive 2 percent of earnings from Oct 1 1966 to April 1.
The House Judiciary Committee voted to make crossing state lines to incite a riot a federal crime with penalties up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Civil rights provisions were separated from the antiriot bill after weeks of pressure from sponsors and leadership.
U S aid official Gustav C Hertz 48 chief of the public administration division in Saigon for the U S Agency for International Development is reported executed by the Viet Cong after a broadcast 12 days earlier. The U S mission cites a North Vietnam air and ground war context with ongoing shelling and casualties at Khe Sanh and around the DMZ.
New Orleans AP report states the Garrison investigation chief resigns amid comment that the Kennedy assassination was solved. details remain unclear as officials weigh next steps and public reaction grows across Louisiana.
CBS reports reinforce Warren Commission finding that Oswald acted alone. Chief pathologist Humes reiterates X rays and photos show Kennedy was shot from behind. CBS notes conflicting evidence but finds no second shooter, no bullets, no cartridge cases. Gurvich resigns as Garrison probe tensions rise.
Royal guardsmen of Greece are described in a vivid 1920s image with bouffant skirts tassled garters and white tights creating a formal ceremonial uniform observed by the public and photographers.
The Dow Jones averages show varied movement across sectors with declines for rails and utilities and modest gains in industrials and bonds. Specific indices list the Industrials around 870.61 down 1.50, Rails around 253.39 down 0.13, Public utilities near 130.85 down 0.10, and the overall index around 917.13 down 0.31.
Washington AP Senatorial and House conferees approve a congressional redistricting compromise allowing 33 states to delay compliance with the Supreme Court one man one vote rule through the 1970 census. The plan lets districts stay as is to 1972 elections with later 10 percent or less variation, drawing strong criticism from Kennedy and Conyers who vow continued push for prompt action.
Johnson briefed congressional leaders on Glassboro talks and suggested possible future direct contacts with Kosygin. White House clarified no specific time or place was agreed, though senators said there was agreement on future meetings in principle and arrangements remain to be set.
President Johnson nominated Woodrow W. Jones of Rutherfordton North Carolina to be U S District judge for the Western District of North Carolina He is 53 a Democrat a former North Carolina congressman and current attorney in Rutherfordton He will replace J Braxton Craven Jr whose position was filled by a White House promotion
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