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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1960
Page
7
The New York stock market moved irregularly toward the downside at mid morning trading. Gains were limited while losses touched around one point as steel and copper weakness weighed. electronics and other science shares held gains for selective leaders.
The noon to close update shows the Dow Jones industrial average around 620.40, rails near 140.47, and general stocks fluctuating with totals in the 620.16 to 630.12 range. Trading volume lists about 660,000 at noon and higher totals later, with reported totals near 2.99 million.
New York AP reports cotton futures opened steady to five tenths of a cent lower per bale as trading began.
Officials and Negroes in the Carolinas continue passive demonstrations against segregated lunch counters with further arrests reported. In Henderson a student, Robert Roberson, 24, was freed on bond after a claim of mistaken identity amid a confrontation with a white deliveryman. In Rock Hill 700 plus Negroes backed Friendship College students in boycotts of stores with segregated counters. A Durham spitting incident led to two white teens’ arrests, later released on bond. High school Negro students faced refusal of service at Chapel Hill lunch counters, and North Carolina leaders urged civil rights progress while promising to keep demonstrations controlled.
A timetable lists multiple garden clubs and social groups meeting this week. Attendees include Mrs. David Honbarrer, Mrs. J. C. McAllister Jr., Miss Marjorie Welborn, and others at various addresses and venues in Lexington and nearby areas.
Fifty years ago today a Great Northern rail avalanche near the Cascades summit in the Pacific Northwest killed 96 people, with 23 survivors. The event halted the line for weeks, led to a long tunnel relocation, and left a memorial at Wellington.
A pair of earthquakes struck Agadir Morocco within hours damaging Casablanca Observatory instruments. The first at 11 41 p m and the second at 1 03 a m caused fires as rescue work continued. A tidal wave and collapsing harbor infrastructure left hundreds dead and hotels crowded with European residents as officials report 700 dead. Morocco’s health minister urged blood donations while bases remain under French and U S control.
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