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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1977
Page
2
The AP reports a lower stock market with the Dow Jones industrial average down to 818.78 in early trading as investors weigh rising rates. Westinghouse, gold stocks, and NYSE and AMEX movers show mixed moves amid continued rate fears.
The page shows mixed movements in major indices with notable drops in industrials and transportation alongside slim gains in utilities and tech shares. Several named companies appear in the ticker list with fractional changes and prices across multiple sectors.
Selected noon prices for New York stocks show broad activity with diverse gains and losses across many names. Notable postings include Ambac, Allis-Chalmers, Ampex, and Bristol-Myers, reflecting varied reactions in a fluctuating market.
The High Point Enterprise lists home delivery rates and payment terms with options for daily and Sunday editions, various advance periods, and carrier pricing. It notes independent contractor status for carriers and disclaims responsibility for advance payments to representatives.
Judge Hobgood said he would not have time until retirement and noted civil rights activists and feminists flocked to the Raleigh trial over a black defendant accused of killing a white man and a woman charged with murder after alleging abuse. He praised the trial itself but criticized outside picketing and chanting heard in court. Paul, the former client’s attorney, cited outside groups pressuring her for publicity, saying the public kept her in turmoil.
Cape Town AP reports Benjamin Fortes, 59, died 82 hours after Dr. Christiaan Barnard and team transplanted a chimpanzee heart as an auxiliary pump. Fortes had been in satisfactory condition Sunday. hospital cited no details. Barnard’s team had 17 prior piggy back transplants but all used a human heart.
Betty Ford tells McCall's the Nixon pardon likely cost Gerald Ford the 1976 election because many voters could not vote for him after he pardoned Nixon. She notes Nixon was physically ill and that Ford faced heavy media criticism for his Republican link to Nixon.
Army Secretary Clifford L. Alexander Jr urged that the service has shown significant improvement and challenged critics who claim poor motivation and quality. He cited a halving of desertion and AWOL rates from 1974 to 1976 and defended the Army against claims it is heavy with blacks and the poor.
David Duke, leader of the Ku Klux Klan, says Klan members plan a border patrol from Brownsville to the Pacific to curb illegal aliens. Demonstrators threw eggs at Duke in San Diego, with one arrest after a Klan car window was smashed. Duke said he is very concerned about the illegal alien problem.
A Department of Health, Education and Welfare task force screens 35 ideas to curb smoking including a National Don’t Smoke Day and ending tobacco price supports. Secretary Califano backs studying the don’t smoke day concept but rejects lawsuits against cigarette companies.
A low key funeral is planned for Bing Crosby in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The Roman Catholic service will be at St. Pauls Church Brentwood with burial at Holy Cross Cemetery. Crosby died of a heart attack in Madrid after a golf outing. age listed as 73 or 74 per baptismal records. Family says children and close relatives will attend along with select staff and siblings.
Pressure from prison officials and outside groups followed Miss Little after a murder trial. Raleigh police investigate possible offenses linked to her, including a case where a $200 money order was cashed and she did not receive funds. She held a work release job but faced suspension for missed work and rule breaches.
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