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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1966
Page
2
Moderate losses follow a brief opening uptick as volumes thin due to bank and financial houses closing for Veterans Day. The downturn riders on a broader post election gain for Republicans as trading shows a tentative turn.
Dow Jones averages show a slight decline of 3.12 points with rails and utilities posting small gains. Industrials and bonds display mixed movements as traders weigh higher grade rails and public utilities against overall market volatility.
Gov Dan Moore and Charlotte Mayor Stan Brookshire travel with a 93 member North Carolina mission in Europe to drum up interest from travel agencies and industries. They will meet Edward Foard, Queen Elizabeth's representative, at Buckingham Palace Saturday and invite the queen to visit Charlotte in 1968 for its 200th anniversary celebration.
Forecast calls for variable clouds and showers across North and South Carolina through Saturday with cooler spells in the west and north. Lows range from the mid 30s to near 60, highs mid 50s to 70s, and coastal areas warm into the upper 70s. Temperatures near normal Saturday to Wednesday with a mixed shower pattern and about a quarter inch of rain or more expected early next week.
Boone housewives led by Mrs. Dan Rice and Mrs. Sam Pettigrew urge a statewide boycott during the week of November 21 to 26 to protest high food prices. The movement, including Operation LFP in Wilmington and a boosters group in Boone, plans leaflets and radio ads and coordinated picketing in multiple cities.
Stamps use declines as Safeway Stores plans to end Gold Bond promotions in Montana at year end. Purity Stores halts sweepstakes and offers stamp or cash discount option. Harold Ward says games lost popularity though most customers still want to save stamps.
The article notes that a bridge player’s rank comes from master points earned in organized events. Players accumulating over 300 points achieve Life Master status.
Dr Stephen A Sheppard testified that Bay Village mayor J Spencer Houk urged Sam Sheppard to plead guilty to manslaughter in Marilyn Sheppard slaying. The testimony described conversations in Houk’s car and Sam’s condition at the Lake Erie home as authorities debated the murder weapon and blood evidence.
Defense Secretary McNamara said the Soviet Union has begun an antisatellite ABM defense and the United States is considering a new system. Talks with President Johnson covered Nike X deployment, cost estimates up to 30 billion, and timing for next year. He noted no current capability gap to penetrate Soviet defenses and eyed Poseidon upgrades for Polaris submarines at several billions of dollars.
York Central officials warn tank cars carried vinyl acetate chloride and could form phosgene when heated. Firefighters abandon efforts due to heat while chemical experts fly in from Cleveland. Deputy Simmons evacuated residents as flames rose 200 to 300 feet and traffic rerouted for hours near Homer, Michigan between Jackson and Battle Creek.
Sen. Wayne Morse contends in a North Carolina State University address that election results show a lack of confidence in the administration. He blames insufficient public information and candor by officials, warning leadership and civil rights progress have lagged as foreign policy and war demand attention.
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