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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1959
Page
2
The bulletin lists midday and closing Dow Jones averages with figures for Industrials Utilities and Stocks. It shows values around 626 for Industrials and 614 for Stocks, with volume tallies and daily variation.
Cotton futures opened slightly lower before May and October contracts showed modest gains. The market displayed scattered price quotes with notable gaps due to erratic OCR text, while a historical note states Nebraska gained statehood in 1867 after prolonged territorial disputes.
The New York stock market held a narrow edge to the upside in moderately active trading with few big moves. Hertz faced an antitrust suit delay, Kaiser Aluminum rose, American Telephone faded, and several others gained or fell slightly in the 1 p.m. quotes from Bache & Co.
Government mediators and union management reps resume talks to end the textile strike at Harriet Henderson Cotton Mills. Police report quiet as two plants began a new week of operations amid a weeklong court docket backlog and dynamite incidents near Henderson. The Senate Labor Rackets Committee may decide on hearings into strike violence.
Channel 2 30 ae and 11 00 Price Is Right at noon and Could Be You tune in for a lineup of afternoon programs noting game shows and viewer participation segments.
Schedule shows events from 9:30 theatre 10:00 Arthur Murray 11:10 sports 11:15 Jack Paar with listings of daily segments and performer slots.
A reader asks about mutual funds for retirement and current age. The advisor explains you are never too old to own mutual shares, but be cautious of plans with high front-end or long-term commissions. A lump sum purchase is possible, and funds pool capital for shared investment.
In a 16 hour search through rain soaked woods near Oceanlake Oregon Terrence Gall 10 Anna 8 and Jimmy 5 wandered from home overnight. They were found safe and unharmed after tramping logging roads and the weather cooled. Parents William and Mrs Gall plan no punishment.
About 2 800 Black students at Florida A M University joined a campus strike and mass meeting as four white men faced formal charges in a reported rape case. Authorities pledged vigorous prosecution amid calls for justice and civil rights leaders urged calm demonstrations.
Two unknown men robbed dry cleaning owner H. E. Hiers at his shop near Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. They bound him to a table, took 500 to 600 dollars, and warned him not to holler before fleeing after 7 am. A customer found him and alerted police.
Guam, an Pacific island, was acquired by the United States following the Spanish American War of 1898, marking a change in territory and governance.
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