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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1969
Page
2
American Exchange New York stock markets rallied modestly mid day from near a 1969 low. Dow Jones gained 2.37 to 806.16 while the AP 60-stock average rose 1.3 to 283.2. Industrials led with gains as glamor issues paced the advance.
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Forecastes show fair to warm conditions across North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Georgia through Saturday with cool nights and mild to warm days. Highest temps reach mid to upper 80s in Georgia while coastal areas see lower 60s to 70s and showers possible along the coast in South Carolina and the mountains of North Carolina. Rain totals near a quarter inch with chances of showers expanding into the first part of next week.
Wacho via Bank and Trust Co. announces the promotion of W Henderson Rogers from assistant vice president to vice president. Rogers joined Wachovia in 1928, served in World War II, led the West End office, and has held roles including manager and assistant cashier. He is a native of Axton Virginia, married to Martha Singletary, and active in the High Point community and Wesley Memorial Methodist Church.
Among the 20 most active NYSE stocks, 12 advanced, 7 declined, 1 unchanged. Big Board blocks included Trans-Union 149,100 at 30 off 4, Capital Cities 56,500 at 28 off 42, Amerada Hess 40,000 at 36 off unknown, American Telephone 25,000 at 50 unchanged. Mail order, farm implements and drugs rose, oils fell, savings and loan shares led gains with Far West Financial to 17, Gibraltar to 32.34, First Charter Financial to 45, and LFC to 14.
Senator Hollings described the judge as disillusioned and frustrated while signaling possible opposition to Haynsworth. He criticized the administration for pressuring a Democrat into a Republican nomination fight and warned that confirmation could hinge on a single vote amid Republican defections. He also challenged Bayh to a televised debate, which Bayh declined for now.
A Vietnamese club scene controversy centers on alleged kickbacks demanded by club custodians from service personnel, with the subject claiming guards in regular Army units faced these pressures while Marine and Green Beret units were not asked. She asserts she paid kickbacks under duress to avoid losing business, describing custodians as living luxuriously with Swiss bank accounts and villas.
Sanford boards seek a court order to bar outsiders from affecting city schools amid recent racial unrest at Sanford Central High. Superintendent Brinson notes 39 pupils faced discipline in three days, 36 for defying return-to-class orders, with no Thursday incidents reported.
Charlotte developer E. Pat Hall unveiled a 250 million resort community named Carowinds on a 2000 acre NC tract with six miles of Lake Wylie shoreline. The plan includes a convention hotel 36 hole golf course luxury apartments and a Disneyland type amusement park on the NC SC border opening 1972 with phased construction beginning 1970. Crescent Land and Timber Co a Duke Power subsidiary and Shuford Mills of Hickory will be partners.
Washington AP report says the Supreme Court may scrap all deliberate speed and order prompt desegregation of Southern public schools. The court will hear arguments Oct 12 on a Mississippi case challenged by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The move signals a potential shift from the Nixon era stance and tests compliance with the 1954 Brown v. Board ruling.
Peking says U S warships fired on a Chinese fishing fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin in September and two U S warplanes strafed four other boats on Oct 4. The Foreign Ministry protested and charged American aggression. A State Department spokesman in Washington said he had no statement yet.
Black militant Robert Williams warns he will seek an international protest if extradited to North Carolina on an eight year old kidnapping charge. He returned from exile in Cuba Red China and Tanzania and is free on 11000 bail in Detroit awaiting an extradition hearing set for November 12. Williams leads the Republic of New Africa Movement aiming to carve a separate black nation from five southern states.
BRUSSELS AP A passenger express from Paris rammed a freight train in fog 40 miles southeast of Brussels. The engine plunged down an embankment into several trackside houses. Two men were killed and five injured. The accident occurred near Selaigneaux between Namur and Huy in the Meuse Valley. The No 181 train left Paris at 7 50 am and passed Namur at 11 5 am before the crash en route to Cologne. A woman reported the engine hit a house and caught fire, the coach burned completely.
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