18 Oct 1966
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1966
Page
1
A historic Manhattan blaze on Broadway near Madison Square trapped six firemen, with six more feared dead and 17 injured. The three-story block, about 75 years old, collapsed four floors amid heavy flames and smoke as rescue teams fought to recover victims.
A Taft Hartley court ordered about 6009 General Electric employees at the Evendale Ohio jet engine plant back to work. President Johnson directed the order as urgent national need for engines for Vietnam war aircraft. Judge Carl A Weinman in Dayton issued the injunction to halt the strike for 80 days at the Evendale plant producing engines for the F4 Phantom and its reconnaissance variant.
President Johnson sails to New Zealand on a 17 day 29 000 mile trip to six nations with a stop in American Samoa He aims for no quick war strategy or peace formula and will visit Manila Manila summit talks are pared back Johnson and wife receive a large Honolulu welcome first U S president to visit American Samoa
AP reports a 7.6 earthquake along Peru's central coast caused at least 83 deaths in Lima Calao Puente Piedra and nearby areas with 1 000 injured and many homeless. Tsunami alerts affected Hawaii where Sirens warned residents before subsiding. Officials warn toll will rise.
Elizabeth Arden known as Florence Nightingale Graham died at age 84 from a heart attack at her Manhattan home. She had been active recently and returned from a Los Angeles fashion show just ten days earlier, with hospitalization at Lenox Hill following.
Dr Robert W Spike 43 prominent educator civil rights leader was found slain in a Columbus building where he had helped dedicate a center He was struck with a bludgeon and a claw hammer may have been used Police found only 5 in his belongings Investigators question motive robbery threats from civil rights activity remain unproven
Soviet bloc leaders discuss Viet Nam amid hints of a possible settlement approach. Attending dignitaries include Zhivkov Dorticos Novotny Ulbricht Kadar Tsedenbal Gomulka Ceausescu Brezhnev Kosygin. Brown forecasts Soviet support for peace efforts if U S halts bombing. Diplomats await a formal stance for propaganda purposes.
Bonn endorses a stagger ing project by Robert Gabriel to build a 365 story tubular skyscraper housing 25 000 people in Mnsteretiefel area southwest of Cologne. The tower, four times the Eiffel Tower height, will include 8000 apartments and a self contained city with 4000 car underground parking and bomb shelters.
Army engineers say President Kennedy’s body will not be moved this year and the reburial is delayed until next spring. Aiming for alignment with the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument the marble grave site sits beside existing Kennedy graves.
An 11 year old boy shot himself in the temple after being lost in the northwest Georgia mountains during a weekend hunting trip with his father and relatives. The boy, Billy Painter of Decatur, was found conscious near the camp and rushed to a hospital in fair condition. He told rescuers he had earlier been shot in the area above his right eye by a rifle while trying to shoot a squirrel.
Housewives for Lower Prices report success in Denver Phoenix Portland and Van Nuys as stores cut prices. Denver chains announce broad reductions and 10 percent markdowns while Phoenix shoppers claim bread price drops and Portland retailers price war details report 18 cent milk and 68 cent bacon at one market.
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