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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1963
Page
2
Apollo era news notes Gordon Cooper reporting from aboard his spacecraft during orbit two near California, saying he felt comfortable and even took a nap. U.S. stock markets opened higher with mixed trading and aerospace shares firm ahead of his extended flight.
President Kennedy selects 37 year old William Henry to replace Newton Minow as FCC chair. Minow resigns June 1 after five years. Loevinger to head antitrust division. Orrick named for State Department post. Spaceflight report notes Cooper Faith 7 first live televised American space flight with 88.7 minute orbits and high cabin temp readings.
Astronaut Gordon Cooper lifts from Cape Canaveral aboard Faith 7 aboard Atlas booster. He reports weightlessness, sees air glow and fireflies frost reflections. Mercury Control logs heart rate 80-86 resting, 150 during powered flight. temp 98.5, BP 120/80.
Lawmakers return from a mountain trip to take up redistricting in the Senate with a plan to grant two senators to Mecklenburg Guilford and Forsyth. A Senate committee discussed but did not vote. The House Highway Safety Committee sent two vehicle bills to subcommittees. New senate bills include Valdese liquor store votes and a constitutional reform to empower married women to transfer property without a power of attorney.
LSU officials warned coeds that necking on campus could lead to expulsion. A Baton Rouge newspaper reported a general assembly aimed at promoting cooler companionship among students.
The Dow Jones average figures show the industrials near 720 with a closing at 719.64 and 30 stocks, rails at 166.30, utilities at 140.63, and an overall stocks index around 256.46. Trading volume across the three points totals 4.74 million.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told Kennedy and Macmillan that the USSR will make no further concessions in nuclear test negotiations. The stance was conveyed in letters delivered last week in Moscow in response to Western messages aimed at breaking the Geneva deadlock.
Raymond Cassagnol said he was disbanding his forces as Jacques Duvalier contradicted reports of Haitian exile disarmament on the Dominican border. Dominican sources doubted the armed invasion threat while U S warships loomed offshore and commentators warned of a possible bluff to deter sanctions.
Raleigh Negro leaders met more than an hour with Gov. Sanford to discuss Raleigh racial problems amid ongoing demonstrations by college students. The group included Dr. Charles Lyons and John Winters, with other students. Lyons called it a good meeting.
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