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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1966
Page
2
The stock market edged down in early afternoon trading as losses edged out gains. Auto stocks fell on weak car sales while a report on credit growth showed the smallest instalment credit gain in two years. Flux in oils, nonferrous metals, airlines, rails, tobaccos and other glamour shares pressured the market alongside aerospace and rubber issues.
NASD compiled over the counter stock averages and noon quotations from the area Stock Exchange. Prices shown are representative inter-dealer bids and asks excluding retail markups and commissions with footnotes explaining dividends and special issues.
The New York index held a modest advance as traders trimmed losses from earlier sessions. Analysts attributed the move to cautious optimism amid mixed corporate reports and economic data.
A survey finds one third of Washington blacks support riots for civil rights while nearly nine in ten whites say riots harmed the cause. Most residents fear violence in the capital, with concerns over housing, police conduct, jobs, schools and discrimination. Whites show cautious tolerance toward interracial coexistence but oppose interracial dating. The study highlights a crisis in urban America as middle class whites move to the suburbs risking central cores turning into ghettos.
Icy temperatures and snow closed parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville with four to five inches of accumulation in the area. Hazardous conditions extended to Boone and Blowing Rock as arctic air kept temperatures in the 20s to 30s, with a hard freeze forecast after more snow flurries.
Forecast warns frost and freezing temperatures overnight across both states. North Carolina: killing frost and subfreezing lows in the 20s west and 30s along the coast, Friday then clears with highs 46 to 55. South Carolina: frost and freezing lows 25 to 32 interior, 20s at the coast, with Friday turning fair and warmer to the mid 40s to mid 50s.
Observers expect Romney to start a national campaign surge after the election. He is set for a Meet the Press interview and a December governors’ conference at White Sulphur Springs, with unde termined speaking engagements in the works. Sources say no major changes before January 1.
New York AP report states cotton futures opened unchanged from the prior close, indicating no early price movement as traders await further market cues.
Prof. Robert S. Mulliken of the University of Chicago receives the chemistry prize for fundamental work on chemical bonds and molecular electronic structure. Mulliken, a director at Chicago’s Laboratory of Molecular Structure, also teaches at Florida State University in winter. The Nobel awards announced include physics to Alfred Kastler and medicine to Charles Huggins and others.
City will widen High Street between S Wrenn and S Hamilton and resurface it as part of East Central urban renewal. Project cost about 32 692 dollars includes 12 inch water main install and intersection work at High and Hamilton. A spur railroad track will be removed and High Street reconfigured from Y to T intersection with a street hump removed.
American air forces carried out 165 missions against North Vietnamese SAM sites radar facilities and storage areas amid clear weather. A U S destroyer exchanged fire with a North Vietnamese gun battery nine days earlier. Ground fighting remained light in South Vietnam with 13 Viet Cong killed near the Cambodian border by the 196th US Light Infantry.
In testimony during the retrial beginning Oct 24, former osteopath Houk recalls being awakened by a 5:45 a.m. call from Sheppard who said the neighbor couple might have killed Marilyn Sheppard. Houk and his wife were first on scene. Sheppard claimed a stranger murdered his wife as authorities probe possible pressure and family tensions.
The Titan 3 rocket carried multiple payloads including satellites designed to locate US military assets and test satellite to satellite communications. The mission used 2.5 million pounds thrust with two solid boosters. the transtage steered the Gemini craft back through reentry at 17,500 mph and temperatures near 3,000 degrees.
Republican congress candidate ee B Barnwell will headline a GOP gathering in High Point at the City County Building starting at 7 p.m. The High Point Republican Executive Committee organized the event with other candidates for the general election Tuesday expected to attend.
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