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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1970
Page
2
New York stock market opened with gains and losses in moderate trading. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 1.99 points to 773.14 as Mohawk Data gained 1 percent while Texaco and Chrysler each fell about a percent.
Raleigh AP report on the Governors Study Commission hearing where S Leigh Wilson of the North Carolina League of Municipalities criticizes current state law allowing union membership but banning bargaining. Richard H Robinson notes the law fails to prevent or solve disputes as unionization grows and strains wage and benefit discussions.
AP report notes early New York Stock Exchange quotes with high, low, and last price figures. market action outlined but specifics are unclear due to damaged text.
Orange County dairy farmer Hugh Wilson sues to overturn the rotating Democratic nomination system for state senate. A separate suit challenges a 1969 law barring electioneering within 500 feet of polling places in Durham Cumberland Franklin Guilford and Vance counties. The cases are set for a three judge federal panel in Raleigh.
The piece notes outcomes in several state races. In New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson narrowly fended off conservative challenger Meldrim Thompson. Democratic nominees include Roger Crowley Jr. for governor and Patrick J. Lucey for Wisconsin. Florida sees Farris Bryant leading the Senate primary with 220,070 votes and Lawton Chiles edging him to force a Sept. 29 runoff. Cramer tops the GOP field with 63 percent, Carswell resigns from the federal bench amid his campaign controversy.
Larry N. Lewis has been appointed office manager, comptroller, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of Phillips-Davis Inc in Norfolk. He joins from Western Electric where he worked in supervisory roles in the companys college graduate development program. He previously worked with Burroughs Corp and taught mathematics in Hampton Va city schools. He holds an MBA from William and Mary and a BA in business administration from East Carolina University. He is married to Starr Susan Sherman of High Point and they have two children.
Underwriters meet as Howard E. Carr unit manager of Greensboro agency Jefferson Standard Life Insurance speaks at an eight o clock breakfast in the Cellar Room of the Holiday Inn Downtown. Carr will present awards won last year by members.
Charlotte Mecklenburg County schools reopened under a desegregation order mandating busing. Parents in the predominantly white CPA opposed desegregation, with thousands gathering to pledge legal aid to those who keep children home.
A open hearing at Ft Bragg into Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald murder charges nears conclusion with final arguments set for Friday. Col. Warren V. Rock will review evidence to decide if MacDonald should face a general court martial for the killings of his wife and two daughters. Defense notes hair evidence contradicting MacDonald’s involvement. Army psychiatrists' test results expected.
Richardson Preyer Jr. rode a Pan American flight forced to Cairo after an El Al leg. Guerrillas hijacked the plane and blew it up after all passengers and crew exited. He escaped with scraped knees and lost his tennis racket, then was helped with an injured Spanish-speaking passenger.
Mayor John V. Lindsay and Census Director George H. Brown will testify at a House census subcommittee hearing. The panel will review widespread complaints that the 1970 count shortchanged inner cities, with Lindsay citing a spot check of 1,808 New Yorkers finding 311 uncounted individuals.
Washington AP The Nixon administration urges an 11th hour wage settlement to avert a nationwide strike by about 500000 railroad workers one minute after midnight. Union leaders demand three year wage hikes of 40 percent or more, threatening industry bankruptcy. Government talks yield little progress as negotiators return to the table.
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