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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1977
Page
2
The Dow falls further as investors weigh higher open market rates and a large August trade deficit. Miles Laboratories climbs after merger talks with Bayer potential at $40 a share. NYSE composite slips while volume eases from Friday.
The AP stock averages page shows miscellaneous company figures and percentages for numerous firms including TexEst Texinst TexUtil USLIFE Varian Wachov and others. Data include daily changes and yearly values with varying percentages and prices across many entities.
Trading closes with mixed moves across major issues as Alcoa AMBAC Hess and Atlas Copco show modest changes. Industrials and tech shares post slight gains while several manufacturers report small losses amid market churn.
The High Point Enterprise outlines subscription and home delivery rates in advance with annual and monthly options. Notices detail 6 month and 3 month terms, daily and Sunday packages, and mail subscriptions in North Carolina subject to 4 percent sales tax.
A fragmented market ticker shows York on the New York Stock Exchange with minor changes in industrial transportation and finance sectors. The brief reads like a financial update with unclear symbols and minor percentage shifts.
A made for television film titled In the matter of Karen Ann Quinlan dramatizes the 1975 coma of Karen Ann Quinlan, her parents legal battle to remove life support, and her eventual removal from the respirator in 1976. Piper Laurie portrays Mrs Quinlan. the film is based on the Quinlan family book.
Paris report says Prince Ranier may build The Nautilus Palace off Monaco with a glass walled undersea hotel and casino. The plan includes 50 undersea bedrooms on pylons, floating roofs for sundecks, a pool and restaurants, with first guests possible by 1982.
A nationwide survey by Princeton University researchers shows more than 90 percent of Roman Catholic couples in the United States who use birth control practice methods forbidden by their church. The study by Charles F. Westoff and Elise F. Jones was released Sunday and highlights widespread noncompliance among Catholic families.
Debbie Wagener a 20 year old Dallas Cowboy cheerleader works as a supermarket checkout clerk and says customers stare at the Esquire cover while failing to notice her. She explains the reason for the anonymity and the common reactions at the checkout.
In Buena Park California Oscar Belinda 76 and his partner Dorothy McClar nan 57 finish third in a charity dance marathon at Knott s Berry Farm raising funds for St Judes Hospital Memphis. They each win 500 dollars and a color TV while the Santa Barbara winners take top honors.
Phoenix AP report shows Maricopa County jury commissioner Marjorie Jackman rejects flimsy refusals to serve. She processes 1,000 potential jurors weekly from voter lists and offers $12 daily pay. Some are excused for health or business needs while others submit creative excuses such as not teaching dogs to answer the phone.
ATLANTA AP Lester Maddox the pickhandle wielding restaurant owner whose segregationist stands helped propel him to the Georgia governorship was listed in guarded condition today after suffering a heart attack Sunday night. Maddox who would be 62 this Friday has styled himself as a friend of the little people and foe of liberals and racial agitators. He has kept up a running feud with President Carter whom he preceded as governor in Although Maddox was being treated in the intensive care unit of a Marietta Ga hospital north of Atlanta a tem t by blacks to eat at his Pickrick fried chicken restaurant Maddox supporters the restaurant doors carrying pickhandles and Maddox later carried and gave away pickhandles as his trademark. Maddox himself was acquitted of a charge that he had pointed a pistol at blacks outside the restaurant. He closed the restaurant in early 1965 rather than let blacks eat there blaming civil rights legislation he said was inspired by deadly and Recently he has embarked on a nightclub career in a two man music and comedy act with a young black man. His wife Virginia said he was stricken while working in his front yard. An ambulance was called after Maddox complained the pain was so severe he couldn t stand it any more she said. Maddox was former Gov Carter s lieutenant governor from 1971 74 but the two often disagreed publicly. Maddox won a handful of votes as the American Independent party s 1976 presidential candidate and during that campaign he called Carter a radical left winger and the most totally dishonest man I ever met Back when Carter was governor Carter said he felt s ty to a substantial degree is founded on racial matters The racial matter that propelled Maddox to national attention was an early 1960s at
Elinor Haggart was found shot to death in Miami Beach. Attorney Rubin argues adolescent susceptibility to TV violence fuels crime and cites Kojak and Police Woman as influences. He notes Zamora’s defense centered on his exposure to violent shows, while Savalas denies a Kojak episode.
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