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Bluefield Daily Telegraph in Bluefield, West Virginia

23 Dec 1997

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph

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Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 23, 1997

Page

5

Stocks finish day higher after midday retreat in New York

Stocks ended higher as investors regrouped from last week's losses ahead of a quieter holiday week. The Dow rose 63.02 to 7,819.31 and the Nasdaq added 7.29 to 1,532.03 while the S P 500 gained 6.93 to 953.71. Tech pins, Intel and Dell, led gains as Tokyo slid below 15,000 for the first time since 1995.

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Ron Campbell Robert Thomas Securities, Inc Abbott Labs Allegheny Electric AFLAC Ameritech At&t Corp 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 Hercules Inc Humana Corp IBM Corp Ingersoll-Rand Intel Corporation K-Mart Corp Kroger CO Lowe's CO Lucent Technologies Mapco Inc Microsoft Corp Mobil Corp Nash Finch CO Nationsbank Corp Navistar Int'l Nike, Inc Norfolk Southern ONE Valley Bank IS CO Pepsico Inc Phila. Electric Philip Morris Cos Phillips Petroleum Brinks Pittston Burlington Pittston Minerals Potomac Elec PWR Praxair, Inc Pulaski Furniture Reebok Int'l RJR Nabisco Hldg Rockwell I 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 U.S. Steel Wal-Mart Walt Disney CO Wendy's Int's Westwaco Corp Valley Nat'l Gases Xerox Corp DOW Jones NEW York New York Stock Exchange NYSE Travelers Group Standard & Poor Intel Dell Computer American Stock Exchange Asia Tokyo
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Experts offer tips to cut heating bills this winter

Local contractors and providers share strategies to lower energy costs. Regular maintenance keeps systems efficient and durable, with semi annual checks for heat pumps and yearly for furnaces. Insulation upgrades, roof comfort, and sealed windows reduce heat loss, while keeping the thermostat steady avoids repeated reheating and wasted energy.

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Rinceton Danny Neely American Electric Power William Malin AIRCO Malin Neely Sandy Pennington J&m Heating
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Pocahontas Land Expands West Virginia Coal Holdings

Pocahontas Land, Bluefield based private land holder, announced it will manage about 340000 acres of mineral bearing properties in West Virginia and Illinois after Norfolk Southern affiliates acquired them from Columbia Natural Resources. The addition brings Pocahontas Lands total to 1.2 million acres across six states with an estimated 300 million tons of coal. Pocahontas Land traces to 1901 as a Norfolk Southern subsidiary. NS operates 14300 miles of railroad and owns North American Van Lines.

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Bluefield Pocahontas’ Land Norfolk Southern Southern Regional Industrial Realty Northmont Limited Partnership General Partnership Columbia Natural Resources Wayne Lincoln Mingo Logan Putnam Cabell West Virginia Clinton and Madison Illinois Pocahontas Land Friday Alabama Tennessee Kentucky Virginia Rhode Island Delaware Norfolk Southern Corp NS Corp North American van Lines
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Loophole could save Virginians on car taxes

Virginia locals have collected high vehicle taxes by using the NADA book to set values. State law allows adjustments for mileage and condition, enabling lower assessed values. Gov elect Gilmore proposes eliminating personal property tax on the first 20,000 of vehicle value. Some localities publicize the loophole, others ignore it, with debate over fair assessments and costs.

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Richmond Virginia National Automobile Dealers Association NADA Tom Webster Infiniti NACA Webster Commissioner of Revenue Jim Campbell Virginia Association of Counties Campbell Old Jim Gilmore Gilmore New Kent County Hanover County Bristol Virginia Beach Fairfax Juanita Dickerson Fairfax Revenue Laura Rice Brannan Atkinson Atkinson
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AEP to buy Dallas electric company in multi state deal

American Electric Power Co. said it will pay 6.44 billion dollars to acquire Central & South West Corp. and expand into Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana. The move creates a large utility serving West Virginia and 10 other states as regulators push deregulation and customer choice. Analysts foresee a wave of mergers as more states loosen rules and utilities follow the trend.

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New York American Electric Power Co West Virginia Daniel Scotto Bear Stearns American Electric Power of Columbus Ohio Central & South West Corp Oklahoma Texas Louisiana
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