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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1961
Page
2
New York stocks eased after two days of sharp advance with the Associated Press average up 0.20 at 258.00 at noon. Rails slipped while steel shares showed mixed progress and auto, oil, chemicals, aircrafts and electronics varied with only modest moves overall.
Rayburn's lymph gland was removed and biopsy showed metastatic malignancy likely from the pancreas. He is under heavy sedation for pain at Baylor Hospital as doctors plan up to four daily bulletins and Congress awaits word on his serious condition.
The Duke Symposium celebrated pediatrician Dr Wilburt C Davison upon his retirement as dean of Duke Medical School. Attended by about 1000 people including heiress Doris Duke, the event praised Davison for his vision and leadership in Duke Medicine. Dr Stanhope Bayne Jones lauded his role in founding the medical and nursing schools and hospital.
The Dow Jones index figures show a morning close near 710.11, with rails and utilities trading around the 150 level. Trading volume totals reach roughly 720 thousand at the first reading and 1.35 million at midday, reflecting a cautious session across industrials.
The United States unveils a seven point program to implement Kennedy's call for the 1960s as the United Nations decade of development. Ambassador Philip M. Klutznick outlines aims to boost technical aid to underdeveloped nations and use food surpluses to fight global hunger. A formal resolution will be sent to the General Assembly in about three weeks.
President Kennedy will deliver greetings by remote link to the North Carolina Trade Fair in Charlotte on Oct. 12. He will receive an honorary UNC degree, observe 18th Airborne Corps drills at Ft. Bragg, and attend university convocation at Chapel Hill then return to Washington.
In a sheriff's office confrontation with his mother and stepfather, a teenager admitted to abducting Yvonne Elliott, taking her into a field, assaulting her, and attempting to suffocate her with a rag. An autopsy confirmed sexual abuse and suffocation.
A former U.S. diplomat Irvin C Scarbeck told a Frankfurt interview he accepted about 400 from Polish agents over months while handling Warsaw matters. He faces federal charges for turning over four embassy secrets after blackmail over an affair with Ursula Discher.
Crowds gathered at the border as East Germans attempted to flee. East German police fired rocks at protesters while West Berlin police tried to push crowds into side streets. A Western officer protested as East German police fired a shot but hit no one. West Berlin reports say two East Germans were killed while swimming the Spree near Oberbaumbruecke as Red police used rifles and machine guns in the river searchlights.
The Declaration of Independence was among official papers moved in a light wagon when Congress fled Philadelphia for Baltimore in December 1776.
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