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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1960
Page
2
The New York market drifted lower after a brief initial rise as steady declines hit steel autos rails drugs and chemicals while aircraft and missile issues stayed firm. The Dow fell 1.19 to 578.95 at noon with the Associated Press average down .30, reflecting mixed reactions to steel copper concerns and a tense United Nations outlook.
The Dow Jones industrials close around 570 to 580 with 29 stocks, 20 rail, and 15 utilities showing tentative midday levels. Trading volume crosses several hundred thousand shares, reflecting mixed market activity.
Flue cured tobacco markets resume sales today with record high price averages on North Carolina's Middle and Eastern belts. Last week’s averages were higher on the North Carolina Virginia Old Belt but lower on the Carolinas Border Belt as its sales season nears close with four markets remaining open.
WBTV Charlotte Channel 3 lineup lists 8:30 Bringing Up FP 9:00 eee 9:30 Surfside 6 10:30 Peter Gunn 11:00 Weather News 11:05 News 11:20 Sports and 11:30 Jack Paar scheduled.
Channel 4 broadcasts from WUNC TV in Chapel Hill feature a lineup on physical science world history and mathematics with portraits and UN review coverage. Educational segments highlight global science figures and historic math developments.
French film star Brigitte Bardot leaves a Nice clinic where she was treated for an overdose and self harm on her 26th birthday. She appeared wan in polka dot slacks and a black blouse as photographers captured her departure.
Gov Hodges leads a Chicago goodwill tour to attract new industry to North Carolina in the final days of his term. A party of 82 Tar Heel businessmen civic leaders and government workers will split into teams to call on Chicago industrialists with William P Saunders of the Conservation and Development directing a team.
Hayward California student pilot James Deloach, 32, landed a single engine plane at a street intersection damaging utility wires and the traffic signal system. Traffic lights were out for an hour while Deloach was taken to an Oakland hospital with non life threatening injuries.
Khrushchev inscribed his name as first speaker and used his right of reply to answer earlier remarks. He met Nkrumah and Nasser at Glen Cove and held two hour sessions with Algerian rebel leaders urging decisive action toward independence. He also met Nehru and attended a Guinea delegation reception before private talks with Turkey's Selim Sarper.
In Reidsville Georgia two convicts were stabbed to death and two others wounded in an early morning outbreak at the State Prison. Guards rushed to bar racks after shouts and cries of pain. Names given include Gordon Rex Andrews 22 and Gerald Frost 22 killed, with wounded Tommy Gay 36 John David Williamson 19. State corrections director Jack Forrester said only the four were involved and knives were improvised from kitchen tools.
German Airlines captain Hans Mueller-Nalbach landed a Boeing 707 at O Hare after two engines failed shortly after a predawn takeoff for Frankfurt. With 143 passengers and 10 crew aboard the jet circled Lake Michigan for almost an hour, dumped 77 000 pounds of fuel, and achieved a smooth recovery. The captain said the power loss after takeoff would likely have cost many lives if it had occurred then. He called it earning his pay after 22 years in the air.
A Lee Beck Sr. 81 retired saw mill operator and Thomasville resident died at City Memorial Hospital at 7 50 a m. He was born June 12 1879 in Davidson County and lived in the county all his life. Survived by Gracey May Beck wife of 1904 marriage and one daughter Mrs Grover Rummage plus five sons two of whom are Alannzo Beck Lawrence Beck Ben N Beck Albert L Beck Jr and Marcelle Beck. Funeral at J C Green and Sons Chapel at 1 30 p m. service at Smith Grove Baptist Church at 3 p m with Rev Paul Berrier and Rev Elmer W Day. Burial in church cemetery. The body remains at the funeral home and will be placed in the church 30 minutes before the service.
The sun will set today at 6 01 p m and rise tomorrow at 6 17 a m providing standard daily shadows and light.
The forecast calls for generally fair mild conditions through Tuesday across the region. High temperatures range from the mid 70s to mid 80s with nights in the 40s to 60s depending on location. Five day outlook shows near normal to slightly above normal temperatures with mainly dry conditions.
At McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey the Military Air Transport Service inaugurates jet passenger service with 166 passengers flying nonstop to Frankfurt Germany aboard a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707. The flight departs at 10 30 p m and lasts about seven and a half hours. TWA will operate 47 such round trips in the final three months of 1960.
Three women in a gos pel singing family were stabbed to death in a rural Alabama home. Officers found a 10 inch knife and bloody footprints, with the estranged husband jailed for questioning. Public Safety Director called it a savage, possibly revenge driven killing.
New York manager Casey Stengel named Art Ditmar to oppose Pittsburgh’s Vernon Law in the opening game of the World Series in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. Ditmar owns a 15 9 record while Law is 20 9. Stengel will likely start Bob Turley next and Whitey Ford later. Pittsburgh plans Bob Friend and Vinegar Bend Mizell at home.
Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi told a visiting Japanese delegation that China and Japan should unite to strike down U.S. imperialism. Peiping radio quoted the remark made at a reception honoring the National Council against the revision of the U.S. Japan security treaty.
Crown Prince Harald of Norway leaves Idlewild Airport for Oslo after a two week stay in the United States. A spokesman called the unofficial visit here quite interesting.
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