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Bluefield Daily Telegraph in Bluefield, West Virginia

09 Dec 1997

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph

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Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 09, 1997

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5

Tech stocks rise as Dow slips on rate uptick

Technology shares advance while blue chips retreat with the Dow down 38.29 at 8110.84. Nasdaq gains 17.64 as bond yields climb to 6.13 percent amid inflation signals and Treasury selling. Coca-Cola drops after Morgan Stanley revises earnings lower.

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RON Campbell Investment Planning Robert Thomas Securities, Inc AFLAC Ameritech At&t Corp AM. Water Works Anheuser-Busch Apple Computer IND. Tech Ashland Coal Inc Ashland Oil Inc Atlantic Richfield Baker-Hughes Inc Baltimore Gas & EL Bell Atlantic Bellsouth Corp Bethlehem Steel Boeing CO CBS Corp Cabot Oil & Gas Carolina Power Chevron Corp Chrysler Corp Chubb Corp Citizens Utilities Coca-Cola CO Columbia Gas Sys Columbia Healthcare CON Nat'l Gas Corning Inc Crestar Financial CSX Corp Detroit Edison Dominion Res DOW Chemical Dupont Eastern Ent Eastman Kodak Emerson Electric Ethyl Corp Exxon Corp First Union Corp Virginia Bank Flowers Industries FMC Corp Food Lion Inc Ford Motor CO GEN. Electric CO GEN. Motors Corp GTE Corp Georgia Pacific Gillette CO Glaxo Holdings Goodyear Tire Humana Corp. Hercules Inc IBM Corp Mapco Inc McDonald's Corp MCI Communications Merck & CO. Inc Microsoft Corp Mobil Corp Monsanto CO Mylan Labs, Inc Nash Finch CO Nationsbank Corp Navistar Int'l Nike, Inc Norfolk Southern Occidental Pete ONE Valley Bank J.C. Penney CO Pennzoil CO Pepsico Inc Phila. Electric Philip Morris Cos Phillips Petroleum Pittston Brinks Pittston Burlington Pittston Minerals Potomac Elec PWR Praxair, Inc Reynolds Metals Rite Aid Corp RJR Nabisco Hldg Rockwell Int'l Sara Lee Corp Sears Roebuck Sherwin Williams Shoney's Inc Southern CO Tenneco Inc Texaco Inc TRI Continental Union Carbide Union Pacific Unisys Corp Universal Corp Usair Group Usx-Marathon Oil USX U.S. Steel Wal-Mart Walt Disney CO Wendy's Int'l Westvaco Corp Valley Nat'l Gases NEW York New York Stock Exchange NYSE Standard & Poor Treasury Japan Dow Coca-Cola Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
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Woodtech to lay off workers at Falls Mills plant

Falls Mills based Woodtech plans temporary layoffs affecting about 30 workers or 15 percent of its 190 employee base for possibly up to five months. The Japanese owned facility cites weak Southeast Asian demand and a 50 percent cut in plant production. Company aims to recall staff in early April.

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Falls Mills Woodtech Fancy Tsuda Japan Southeast Asia Maggie Asbury Woodtech Human Resources Asbury
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Underwood speaks at Bluefield State College today

Governor Cecil Underwood will address Bluefield State College at 1 30 p m in the Basic Science Auditorium on Technology in Higher Education He was elected West Virginia governor in 1956 at age 34 and again in 1996 He has held leadership roles in education and high tech and has ties to Monsanto Island Creek Coal and the Software Valley Foundation Public invited. students in Jerry Corley class arranged the visit.

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Luefield West Bins Cecil Underwood Bluefield State College BSC Jerry Corley Underwood West Virginia State College System Board of Directors Morgantown Industrial Research Park, Inc Software Valley Foundation Monsanto Corp Island Creek Coal Co
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Pembroke weighs withdrawal from Giles regional water project

Pearisburg officials say the eight million regional water plan faces a crisis as Pembroke may exit. The PSA project would add a two million gallon per day plant and extend lines to Pembroke, Narrows, Rich Creek, and Glen Lyon, with towns buying water from the PSA. Pembroke council meets at 7:30 p.m. to discuss options and contract terms in executive session.

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Pearisburg Giles County Pembroke Kenneth Wittum Vittum PSA
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