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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1966
Page
2
The New York stock market opened with a broad rally as glamor shares rose about $2 to $3 and key issues advanced. The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 708.42, up 5.62 points at noon.
The text outlines a set of shorthand symbols and footnotes used in a stock dividend table. It explains indicators for extra dividends, stock dividends, liquidating dividends, declared dates, ex dividends, warrants, and other actions. It also notes special cases like bankruptcy, foreign issues, and different payment forms.
In New York prices for cotton futures opened the trading day unchanged from the previous close as traders waited for market signals and new data on supply and demand.
Quotations from the NASD reflect representative inter-dealer prices as of about 10 30 a m today. Markets fluctuate through the day and prices exclude retail markup markdown or commissions.
The Public Library offers three new Canadian travel films through November 30 for all groups including teachers. Crafts of My Province runs 13 minutes color about New Brunswick craftsmen. Downstream to The Sea is 28 minutes color on a Newfoundland canoe trip. Quebec Winter Fun shows Laurentians north of Montreal with sleigh rides and skiing.
Forecast shows variable cloudiness with scattered rain and showers mainly in the mountains and northwest North Carolina and across the state. Temperatures only slightly vary with nightly lows in the 50s to 60s inland and near 70 along the coast, and daytime highs mostly in the 60s to 80s across regions.
A male jury of eight Negroes and four whites was chosen to try Klansman Eugene Thomas on a first degree murder charge for the killing of Detroit civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. The case involves threats of the death penalty and past FBI testimony by Gary Rowe Jr. regarding the Liuzzo killing in 1965.
Fire crews responded to a dumpster fire near Thomas Car Works on Courtesy Road shortly after midnight and extinguished it after water flooding. A Graves Street house fire at Inez Matthews residence caused interior damage. investigators suspect children turning on a gas stove. Answered at 5 40 p m.
Louis Harris reports Kennedy leads Humphrey 61 to 39 in a hypothetical national primary for Vice President, up from 52 to 48 in May. Johnson’s position weakens, boosting Kennedy’s appeal among Negroes women and youths while anti Kennedy sentiment persists among some Protestants and older voters.
A Vatican mission led by Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli will depart for South Vietnam to study church problems and seek peace amid Buddhist Catholic tensions. The group plans to confer in Saigon and may pursue options toward ending fighting, though no direct power negotiations were announced.
A Standard Oil gasoline barge grounded near Pier 64 in San Francisco Bay exploded killing two Standard Oil employees. Five others were injured or missing, including Coast Guard personnel. A burning patrol boat and wrecked barge were left in the bay as crews battled the flames.
President Johnson and West Germany Chancellor Ludwig Erhard conclude two days of talks and fly to Cape Kennedy to view the U S spaceport. They seek a moratorium on Germanys offset agreement while reiterating Atlantic security and European concerns. Gemini 11 astronauts Conrad and Gordon attended a state dinner.
In Elkin North Carolina the Tex tile Workers Union ends a 48 hour strike at Chatham Manufacturing Co after workers voted to end walkout following union claims of achievement. Pickets at plant entrances faced court ordered limits with some incidents including two arrests for rock throwing and tack throwing. Union regional director says the action pressured management but company denies unfair labor practices.
Cartoonist Gus Edson who wrote The Gumps and created Dondi died after a heart attack at his Stamford home. The Cincinnati native began freelancing in 1920 and drew sports cartoons before taking over The Gumps in 1935 after Sidney Smith’s death.
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