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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1965
Page
1
Washington AP reports a 0.2 percent drop in the consumer price index for August, led by lower food costs—the first decline in a year—while housing and transportation ease and clothing and medical care rise. The index stands at 110.0 percent of the 1957-59 average, with food prices off about one percent from July.
At the Raleigh NC fairgrounds a 315 foot stretch of concession stands was destroyed by fire before dawn. No injuries were reported. The stands, run by eight independent agents near Dorton Arena, will not be rebuilt for the six day fair starting Oct. 11. The blaze caused no immediate damage estimate and the cause was unknown. One operator, Virgil Miller, and his wife escaped from their trailer, losing their trailer, equipment, and money worth about 1500 dollars. Miller, in underwear, said the fire was too hot to hook the trailer to his truck.
In Marion North Carolina a 40 year old ETWNC Transportation driver Homer A. Stewart died after his truck hit by a second rig. The other driver Billy Monroe Newton 33 of Swedesboro New Jersey was critically injured. Property damage exceeds 49000 dollars. In Sumter South Carolina Queen City Trailways bus driver Charles L. Mims 46 of Fayetteville North Carolina died after the bus struck a bridge abutment on Highway 378 Nine miles east of Sumter. Five passengers were slightly injured. The bus left Augusta Georgia en route to Fayetteville with final destination Norfolk Virginia.
Tropical storm Debbie stalled just off the Florida Alabama Gulf Coast and forecasters said it was weakening. The Weather Bureau predicted it would stay about 115 miles south southwest of Mobile for 6 to 12 hours while winds and rains lashed the Panhandle. Tens of thousands faced high tides and beach erosion as residents rode out the edge of the storm.
House Democrats weigh trimming a far reaching minimum wage bill to pass it this session. They discuss reducing coverage from 10 million plus workers and farm worker inclusion as critics press for changes. A caucus discussed compromises but no agreement emerged on modifications.
In Saigon North Viet Nam declares U S and Vietnamese pilots captured will be tried as war criminals. Geneva Red Cross confirms Aug date of letter. Hanoi hints Americans captured may face execution by Viet Cong. Meanwhile U S forces repel a major Viet Cong assault near Gui Nhon area. 45 Viet Cong killed, 75 captured. paratroopers seize weapons, documents, and field hospitals in Ben Cat operation.
U S officials voiced disappointment as North Vietnam rejected efforts led by the Red Cross and the United States to ensure humane treatment of prisoners. A Hanoi threat to try captured Americans and South Vietnamese as war criminals was reported, risking a harsher phase in the conflict amid ongoing bombing and prisoner executions.
A Park Ridge study tests a simple sputum analysis as a early lung cancer detector using 6,000 residents aged 30 plus who smoke at least a decade. Under Dr Valaitis, the two year project funded by a 22650 grant from the American Cancer Society checks sputum for cancer cells before X rays or symptoms appear.
Rescue teams reached the 12 square mile Taal island to find a wide land of death and destruction. Officials warned of heavy toll among 2,000 island inhabitants and lakeshore villages as 55,960 people crowded evacuation camps. Red Cross reported 184 bodies on the mainland and 104 in Agoncillo with many killed by rock blasts and searing ash.
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