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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1971
Page
2
Trading resumes after the Thanksgiving holiday as the Dow Jones average climbs 11.31 to 809.94. Broad advances lift many sectors while volume remains light and analysts cite bargain hunting and October economic indicators.
Exchange rates and footnotes explain annual dividends based on last declarations. Various symbols mark special dividends stock splits liquidations and paid dates. The list includes numerous company names and figures with footnoted interpretations for ex dividend and ex distribution status.
Newsmen report inmates clashing with guards in a regional prison laundry where workers earn 13.50 a month for six days weekly. They described price gouging at the commissary and planned reprisals, while seven hostages were released and a final list of demands was presented.
Investigators traced four parachutes delivered to the hijacker on the 727 after it departed Seattle. Two were military static-line chutes and two were sport models. one sport chute was a ground training unit unlikely to function. The hijacker bailed out around 8 13 p m near View Ariel Washington as FBI and FAA probe the landing and parachute types.
Major snow disrupted Thanksgiving across the Eastern Seaboard with up to 20 inches in spots and ferry service halted on Nantucket. Nebraska beat Oklahoma 35 to 31 as President Nixon praised the game. Protests by antiwar veterans and a Plymouth Pilgrims parade were noted amid the storm.
At noon in New York the stock market shows a slim gain of 33 cents in the major index. Traders eye steady trading as the session unfolds with cautious optimism in the financial sector.
John A. Womack Jr. is promoted to the Westchester Drive Office main office with administrative operations and credit duties. Mickey W. Kiger becomes manager of the Westchester Drive office. Both promotions are effective immediately. Womack, a Wofford College graduate and Vietnam veteran, joined First Citizens in 1970 and is active in local civic groups. Kiger, from Rural Hall and Guilford College graduate, joined in 1969 and moved through Raleigh training to the trans stallment loan department in May 1970 and then to the commercial department in October.
The University of Appanes football roster lists players with distinctive names Brawner Lively Rusher Prince King and Saint. A Texas Tech connection helped reveal the lone star first name George.
Premier Golda Meir in Tel Aviv rebukes the United States for not supplying Phantom jet fighters as Arab threats grow. She warns Israelis to expect renewed war and says victory will come at a high human cost. Meir plans to tell President Nixon what she told party members. She questions Soviet restraint of Egypt and notes Sadat’s war rhetoric.
Central High students and fans can still buy advance tickets for the 4-A championship between High Point Central and North Forsyth. The game is at 8 p.m. at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem. Pre-sale runs 4 to 5 p.m. in the Boys' Gym. gate tickets cost more for children.
A Thanksgiving Day fire in Greenville County Jail’s largest cell block left two inmates in critical condition and six more hospitalized. Officials said inmates set mattresses alight in the all Negro section amid a dispute over meals. Forty one prisoners were moved to the city jail after the blaze, which was put out within an hour. Nobody was burned.
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