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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1966
Page
2
The New York stock market traded irregularly lower in early afternoon dealings with fractions noted in declines among key issues. Gains appeared in color television electronics and photography while utes chemicals drugs tobacco rails and some utilities weakened. a few sectors showed strength amid a broad table of noon prices and dividend notes.
Jamestown Guilford Technical Institute started its 1966 67 term amid a record enrollment. Dr Herbert F Marco reported a large parking expansion and three new classrooms in the basement. Some business administration commercial art drafting and secretarial science classes were closed while many technology courses remained open including sheet metal machinist trade auto mechanics welding and electrical installation.
High Point civic leaders organize car ride cards to aid furniture buyers staying beyond bus routes. About 70 volunteers will place hail me signs in car windshields to offer rides to downtown display buildings during the Fall Southern Furniture Market opening Oct 21 along North Carolina's Furniture Highway.
Forecasts vary by region with scattered rain or showers mainly in the west and north tonight and Tuesday. Temperatures little changed tonight with lows generally in the 50s to around 70 along the south coast. Tuesday highs range from the 60s in the mountains to the 70s elsewhere, with cooler southeast portions. Coastal areas expect highs mostly in the 70s and 80s. Across North and South Carolina, coastal temperatures stay near normal Tuesday through Saturday, inland 2 to 5 degrees below normal. Asheville 74 50, Charlotte 78 56, Raleigh 78 56, Columbia 83 60, Charleston 82 62. Precipitation totals about three quarters of an inch or more, mainly rain and showers early, with possible activity late in the week.
Tropical storm Inez intensified into a hurricane with winds of 80 mph and moved toward the Leeward Islands. Weather warnings were issued from Marie Galante to Antigua as the system neared the Leewards, with expected impacts on Puerto Rico.
Cuban 2506 veterans paraded on island TV after April 1961 capitulation. Rivera clashed with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in a televised debate lambasting the Soviet takeover. He faced a $50 000 bounty during the 1962 Isle of Pines imprisonment and later backed a referendum push to unite exiles against Castro. He worked with Jose Bosch of Bacardi, then withdrew support after failing to gain military leadership. Rivera led later armed forays using a bazooka, including an attack on the United Nations in December 1964 as Che Guevara disappeared.
Astronauts Conrad and Gordon faced late lift off and radar issues but still achieved a daylight Agena rendezvous. They completed a flawless formation flight and linked up over the Pacific before returning. The mission extended their spaceflight to three record smashing days and surpassed one million miles traveled.
Greensboro High Point Airport Authority accepted Alternate C to move Friendly Road away from a runway. Marion Eakes called it the most desirable and said the route serves the best interests. Alternate C would intersect Highway 421 near Old Burnt Poplar Road, moving the road east of its current location. State Highway Commission Chairman Joe Hunt supported cooperation and approval.
Typhoon Ida struck Japan’s heartland including Tokyo and Mt. Fuji areas, triggering mass disaster relief with hundreds of police and soldiers assisting. Reports cite 211 dead, 103 missing, about 1,000 injured, and over 6 million dollars in U.S. military damage plus 300 million in Japanese damage.
An air paragraph describes Birdwell issuing a plea as a Marine aircraft, three miles east of Dong Ha, faced heavy combat. At dawn evacuation helicopters returned to the scene with helmets, ponchos, and wounded. Lance Cpl. Jerry Bilney of Denton Texas voiced disbelief at the night’s fury.
Navy brief traces submarine concepts from ancient writers through Leonardo da Vinci to Robert Fulton. Early designs and a Revolutionary War attempt show long development, with modern engineering rushing toward near perfect underwater craft for today’s needs.
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