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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1966
Page
2
The New York market opened slightly higher with Dow up 4.73 at noon to 792.03 as investors held gains and grew cautious amid a seesaw session. The Stock Exchange and many listed issues showed uneven advances, with traders watching key heavyweights and financials for sustained momentum.
The noon update shows the New York stock index figures with trading activity in New York. Market movement totals and key stock performances are summarized for investors watching the midday session.
Greensboro employers face an approaching tax deadline says Internal Revenue District Director J. E. Wall. The notice cautions businesses in North Carolina to file returns and meet payment obligations by the coming Monday.
A fragmented text notes proposals to overhaul run-down districts and boost city life, mentioning widespread legislative activity with hundreds of bills discussed. The fragment hints at tension between preserving communities and enabling redevelopment in larger cities.
New York AP reports cotton futures opened quiet with no actual trades registered. Prices showed minor movement with nearby and deferred contracts around 21.30 to 21.80 per unit as trading awaited clearer activity.
Forecasts show scatter led rain or showers across North Carolina tonight with cooler conditions inland and coastal cloudiness. South Carolina remains mostly cloudy with possible thundershowers and a cooling trend, with Tuesday temperatures near mid to upper 60s inland and lower 70s coastal zones.
In Washington, North Carolina lawmakers largely opposed President Johnson’s Great Society measures, especially in the House where most Tar Heel votes were dissenting. Senator B Everett Jordan and Senator Sam Ervin showed more support, backing housing, education aid, and other initiatives at times.
Florida deputy superintendent of education and his 12 year old daughter were found bound and shot in their Tallahassee home. The wife Helen Sims was wounded and one of their daughters Jeanette age 17 discovered the bodies. Sheriff Joyce said no motive or signs of forced entry and valuables remained intact. Norman Jeannette Sims reported the killings after returning from a football game. The suspect, a local actor named Sims, is described as a Meridian native with connections to Florida State University and the Department of Education.
Manila police discharged shots into the air near the president's hotel to disperse about 2,000 students protesting U.S. policies on Vietnam. Officers used swinging truncheons and jabbed at demonstrators amid the clash.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the North Carolina school board was not required to act with the aim of maximum racial mixing. It upheld the district’s rezoning, noting factors like geographic boundaries and school accessibility, and that boundaries not drawn to maintain segregation allow some intervention via transfer options.
NAACP national director Roy Wilkins told a Georgia conference that progress requires control of mavericks. He cited September Atlanta riots and blamed police in Birmingham, warning the climate has shifted and criticizing the Maddox Callaway gubernatorial race as a devil versus witch choice.
In Aberfan Wales mourners at the inquest into the coal slag slide that buried the village school shout their blame at the National Coal Board. A bereaved husband asks for a verdict of burial alive by the board as 148 bodies are recovered, most of them children.
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