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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1966
Page
7
UPI reports markets opened mixed with cautious trading dominating. By midafternoon gains were modest, with a .22 percent rise across 1343 issues. 608 advances and 466 declines. NYSE index up about seven cents on the average share price.
Britain plans a 200 station commercial radio network to replace pirate broadcasters. The proposal awaits cabinet approval and faces Labor Party opposition. The BBC remains the only legal broadcaster funded by licenses as pirates thrive from offshore ships and abandoned forts with large listening audiences.
The latest daily report lists closing prices on the New York Stock Exchange with figures for major stocks and market indices. Investors monitored shifts in price, volume, and notable gains or losses across key sectors.
New York Dow Jones closing averages show mixed moves with the Industrials and Rails slipping while Utilities rise. Data includes current levels and week, month, and year figures, with highs and lows noted for Thursday.
Fragmented market notes show wheat prices per bushel and general commodity readings. Incomplete lines reference Chicago trading, Minneapolis activity, and daily movement.
Reuters style market note from New York shows grain futures and index values with miscellaneous figures for Indus Rails Utilities and 500 Stocks. The page lists highs lows and monthly comparisons while noting fluctuations and market activity from the prior day.
In Cape Town, South Africa, all 1000 copies of a booklet about Senator Robert F. Kennedy sold out during his June visit. The publisher said a second edition will be printed and a Kennedy speech recording from Cape Town University will be released within a few days.
Wiscasset fishermen return to work after a blood worm digging strike that shut down supply to the blood worm market. About 20 men dug along the shore to restart harvesting, a key bait for sports fishermen across the region. The seaport, once famed for clipper ships and China trade, resumes normal operations.
Halifax report states General Kean V. Allard, chief of Defence Staff, announced the formation of a joint Armed Forces Council to oversee integration. The council aims to simplify the Navy Army and Air Force and move toward a single unified command structure.
From the National Bureau to Washington the appeal urged protecting 124 endangered, rare, or status-undetermined species. Sen Tom Kuchel placed the list in the Congressional Record, naming the Modoc sucker the Texas kangaroo rat Dickey’s varied dwelling and the Cheat Mountain salamander as threatened amid broader wildlife protection calls. The San Quentin quail was noted as peripheral to the list.
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