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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1963
Page
2
The Dow Jones average fell 2.44 to 734.51 at noon while the AP 60 dropped 0.6 to 277.5. Losses included Jersey Standard Pfizer and IBM with U S Smelting up about 2 and Polaroid up around 4 as bonds were little changed.
Millard Matthew Curry, 27, of Leaksville, indicted in the April 30 Spray mother kidnapping and murder, was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial in Greensboro federal court and ordered into psychiatric care until competency is restored. He is charged with interstate abduction of Norma Harris Craddock and transportation of a stolen car across state lines. Craddock, 24, was abducted at a Spray laundromat, driven to Virginia, shot, and died 30 days later.
Fragmentary notes indicate Mrs Nhu from page 1 A building tension in Congress over the South Vietnamese foreign aid program. Context unclear but suggests political dispute and rhetoric surrounding aid and policy in a U S legislative setting.
President Kennedy, during a 10 000 mile Western tour, warned that the days of the quiet past are gone in world affairs and said current policies have checked expansion. He spoke in a Rocky Mountain state where conservative sentiment is rising.
Miss Lucy Lopp of High Point was named secretary of the North Carolina Public Health Assn at its Charlotte meeting. Other officers named include Dr. Isa Grant Elizabeth City president elect Dr. Robert P. Lacey vice president and Mrs Corinna Sutton Raleigh treasurer.
A Philadelphia woman, Helen Rice Hancock, 37, was charged with drunken driving and operating a car with no registration tags. Police arrested her yesterday and scheduled the case for Municipal Court trial. Bond of 350 was posted pending trial.
Joe Valachi testifies before the Senate Investigations subcommittee about La Cosa Nostra. He places Genovese in charge of a New York unit and describes 450 to 500 soldiers, a commission, and the hierarchy from boss to soldiers. He faces guards, says he fears a mob hit, and notes a police head price of 100000 on him. Continuous radio coverage notes his status as a convicted killer and narcotics offender.
Square dancers plan a Sunday tour covering four states Colorado New Mexico Arizona and Utah as they circle the meeting point of the four states and dance at the market.
In Saigon Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor toured the central highlands after briefings indicating the Buddhist crisis did not slow North Vietnam operations. Officials said peasant reporting of guerrilla movements increased and attacks decreased as South Vietnam prepared a National Assembly vote.
The Strategic Air Command began training flights of small B58 Hustlers to Spain with stops at Moron and Torrejon for several days. B47 bombers remain at SAC bases in Spain as the B58 program, limited by production, is not replacing them. The move raises questions about bases at Rota and possible Azores rights, amid broader plans for Polaris submarine operations.
Rahman told a rally that Indonesia and Malaysia would feel the effects of Jakarta's trade war moves. He said Malaysia would not be brought to its knees nor compelled to sue for peace, urging neighbors to take initiative in normalizing ties. Australia evacuated Australians and Brits after the Jakarta riots and pledged protection.
Two armed men robbed Farmers Bank in Seaboard North Carolina taking more than $5,000 and fled across the Virginia line after abandoning their car a few miles north. Assistant cashier T. J. Draper and other staff were forced to comply as shots were fired to threaten compliance. Elizabeth Harris, vice president, was inside with three other employees during the heist.
The United States and the Soviet Union began negotiations in Moscow on expanding consular activities. An American team met at the Soviet Foreign Ministry to discuss a consular convention, a topic under consideration since 1933. Talks include rights for American consular officers to visit Americans arrested in the USSR and equal Soviet access in the United States.
Doyle Allen Hicks 28 a Waynesville North Carolina plumber with a history of mental illness rammed a truck through a gate on Pennsylvania Avenue and reached 25 feet from the north portico of the executive mansion. He told guards he wanted to see President Kennedy and claimed Communists were hiding in his state before being taken to District of Columbia General Hospital for observation.
In Aberdeen South Dakota a third Fischer quintuplet began exclusive bottle feeding Thursday after removing her feeding tube. All five babies were described as acting normal and active with increasing feedings as they grow stronger.
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