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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1966
Page
2
The market erased an early loss and moved higher as activity remained light on Wall Street due to Columbus Day observances. Banks and insurers were mostly closed. gains came from strength in select chemical and oil shares lifting the list to a steadier tone.
Selected New York Stock Exchange transactions at 3 PM with listed high low and last prices. The brief includes top moving stocks and notable price ranges for that trading day.
Advertisements for Bravo appeared this week in Charlotte. The report lists stock transactions on the American Stock Exchange with Neon Unness notes. Unclear figures show dividends and sales, with references to ex dividend and ex rights.
The forecast calls for general fair skies in North Carolina through Thursday with mild Thursday values. tonight will be rather cool with lows near 36 to 43, and Thursday bringing rain with daytime highs around 74 to 80. In South Carolina, expect general conditions with overnight lows 43 to 53 and Thursday highs from 74 to 82.
Officials said Johnson's minimal package would cost about 2.2 billion dollars with roughly 1.5 billion financed under a new schedule. The remaining balance might be funded by a higher payroll tax.
Marine units fought a 40 minute battle with Viet Cong as they evacuated wounded and pinned down the enemy. In the action a Marine corpsman treated a chest wound and a corporal from Yorkshire joined a close in knife strike, with air support reported by teammates.
After an 11 minute hearing Judge Francis J Talty postponed ruling on moving Samuel H Sheppards murder retrial from Cleveland to some other venue The session drew 13 reporters to a crowded Cleveland courtroom with no women present and the judge indicated a ruling would come at 11 am Friday The defense sought to introduce newspaper scrapbooks as evidence showing publicity cited by the Supreme Court in upholding the retrial bid
Yadkinville NC AP Captain Edgar Hamby Jr says Robert Hershberger or Henry Leonard threatened guard Jordan with a knife during a work detail on M C 268 near Rock Creek Wilkes County. The pair, convicted of robbery, forced four crew members and the foreman to accompany them to a rural store and then to Winston-Salem Five Points.
Meany announced a Friday meeting of an AFL-CIO committee of 11 union chiefs representing about 125 000 GE workers. The group will plan all-out support if GE forces a strike at 12:01 a.m. Oct 17. AFL-CIO has 129 unions and roughly 13.5 million members. White House and Cabinet aides work to avert the strike with little success.
James A. Pike resigns as auxiliary of the California Diocese amid disputes with Bishop Henry Louttit over remarks on Luci Nugent and his own views on Catholic conversion. Pike will remain honorary canon at Grace Cathedral and continues church activities in California while speaking at Duke University.
A large switchmen strike across a 14 state rail system halted freight and disrupted commuters after a restraining order was issued. Union leaders say talks may occur in Chicago while pickets lined terminals in Chicago Des Moines Minneapolis St Louis and other cities. The action involves about 1200 members over carrier rule changes and yard work assignments claimed to violate the Railway Labor Act.
The Commerce Department eased export controls on about 400 non strategic goods for shipment to Russia and Eastern European allies. President Johnson signaled a shift in policy last Friday in New York City, saying East West controls would be relaxed to ease tensions. Shipments now require no prior specific approval from the Commerce Department.
The Pentagon cut the November draft call by 6 100 men to 37 600 and said 12 100 will be inducted in December. Inductees go to the Army and the move follows higher enlistments in recent months. Officials expect January requests to total about 33 500 based on recent averages.
Lanier rejected a proposal to raise assigned risk policy rates 10 percent above voluntary policy rates. He said about 72 percent of assigned risk drivers allegedly have clean records and that such a differential could encourage non compliance or push more cars into the high risk category. A $2 increase would apply to policies for cars in the 1-A and 1-B categories, covering about two thirds of private cars in the state.
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Five youths under 17 escaped from the Sover eld county jail by climbing from the 13th to the fifth floor and smashing a door in the rotunda. Sheriff Harry Pnd and deputies recaptured all five, with Donald Ponder later caught after a brief manhunt. Suspects included Allen Sisk Billy Turner both 16 Kannapolis awaiting federal robbery charges, Ronald Douglas Smith 17 Hickory on mail theft, and Arthur S. Case 15 of Asheville.
At rallies and social events Romney pivots from ritual handshakes to direct crowd engagement. He guides Griffin through photo lines and joins a large Detroit champagne dinner, signaling a campaign style aimed at broad voter contact ahead of the 1968 GOP nomination.
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