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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1962
Page
2
New York stocks opened mixed in slow trading as the AP average of 60 shares hovered around 222.7 at noon, with industrials down a touch, rails up slightly, and utilities down. Volume was near the week’s slow pace as few sectors moved decisively.
The page reports a muted stock session reacting to Kennedy’s Cuba remarks and a $900 million public works bill. Dow slips slightly as IBM and Polaroid rise. bonds mix. Kennedy hints at delaying tax changes while pursuing space and defense policies and urges allies to stay alert. An unrelated traffic court note closes the page.
Wary comments from astronaut Wally Schirra accuse space officials of withholding Carpenter's landing details while the nation worried. Schirra cited radar fixes near Scott Carpenter’s site and urged openness, as NASA officials said they had not released location data to the public after the May 24 landing.
Governor Barnett defends state control over schools and laments federal court limits. He accuses professional agitators and liberal press of stirring strife and accuses the Kennedy administration of backing un-American pressure groups against state authority. Charles Fair declines comment on the speech.
Leonard Lefkow called an insurance firm to arrange an auto liability policy but was told the salesman could not talk during a sales meeting. The brief encounter shows Lefkow pursuing coverage as his inquiry unfolds.
The North Carolina State Highway Commission will hold up Salemburg's street funds pending scrutiny of past allotments while distributing $7,629,882.79 in Powell Bill money to 413 towns. Beach resort allocations for Cape Carteret Emerald Isle Bayshore Park and Chadwick Acres are delayed or pending legislative action.
The 5 a.m. advisory places Celia near 19.3 N 56.7 W about 620 miles east of San Juan. It crawls northwest at 12 mph with little change in direction or speed for 12 hours. Winds peak near 60 mph with gales outward up to 150 miles north and 50 miles south. The storm should pass well north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. a hurricane watch remains for the Northern Leeward Islands but may end soon. Mariners should proceed with caution.
The United Nations Security Council approved Jamaica and Trinidad Tobago for UN membership. They will join Burundi and Rwanda at the General Assembly opening next Tuesday, increasing total members from 104 to 108. The UN began with 51 in 1945.
Police found 17 year old George Wayman Roberts at a Nashville high school where he had enrolled after escaping from the county jail. His capture ends plans to try out for the football team.
President Kennedy weighs external pressure on Cuba and Castro as the Soviet Union boosts aid. The analysis notes Kennedy’s rejection of immediate U S military action, while signaling new economic and political measures. Rusk to propose options at Latin American foreign ministers meeting in New York late this month.
President Kennedy signed a 900 million public works authorization in Washington with a large congressional delegation present. He said the program will create jobs in areas with high unemployment and pledged an executive order naming Luther Hodges as coordinator. The bill funds flood control harbors reclamation hospitals water pollution control airports highways and facilities with 50 percent federal cost sharing and up to 75 percent for poorer communities.
President Kennedy backs a White House board proposal to require Lockheed Convair North American and Ryan to adopt union shop with two thirds approval. He warns that a strike would be blamed on the firms and unions, amid a looming walkout at Boeing and a 60 day no strike period set for fact finding in Seattle.
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