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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1962
Page
6
In New York and Chicago markets, mutual funds and investment firms show varied bids and asks. The page lists numerous fund names, shares and prices with scattered totals, plus a naval stores weekly report and Chicago potato arrivals providing broader commodity context.
At Guantanamo Bay 160 wives and 220 children of sailors and Marines welcomed back aboard the Geiger after 54 days evacuated during the Cuban crisis. A band, confetti, and pennants marked the return, with a total of 2,801 dependents evacuated. Final group due by Dec. 22. total movement cost about $500,000.
Ne wkly account describes 10 000 Marines occupying a coastal fortress inching into a new base with mined hills and barbed wire perimeters. Families on base face concrete bunkers and trenches in yards as wary wives monitor children for safety amid tension and improvised signs greet returning crew. Navy personnel distribute toys to youngsters and greet loved ones as reunions unfold aboard ship.
Local ad for Gregory General Store in Java Ve lists two telephone numbers HE 2-2851 and HE 2-2855 promoting available goods and services.
U S Government bonds closed irregularly higher on Friday while corporate issues were mixed. Over the counter Treasuries edged up with long maturities steady or up modestly and intermediates gaining. Corporate volume was 4.37 million shares with modest gains for New York Central, Great Northern, Firestone, Associates Investment, and Oklahoma Gas & Electric tickets.
Baltimore Livestock reports cattle receipts 2,000 vs 1,847 last week and 1,973 year ago with slaughter steers and heifers active while feeders are scarce. Cows and bulls vary, vealers weaker to mixed, hogs 2,600 receipts mostly lower, sheep not enough on offer to test prices. butter and eggs in Chicago unchanged to lower with varied egg prices and mixed dairy quotes.
New York AP report: leader of a week-old printers strike rejecting a 60-day truce in the walkout. He warned that if all dailies go out of business it would be death by action, not murder, as federal mediators scheduled peace talks for next Tuesday.
London AP Reginald Bevins, Britain's postmaster general, will create a Santa Claus department to handle letters to Santa. He proposes opening addressed letters, replying to children, and sending parents or charities a note. He targets Christmas 1963 for the plan to be in place.
In Popular Bottom Kentucky on May 30 1806 Andrew Jackson dueled Charles Dickinson after an insult in nearby Nashville. Jackson was wounded and Dickinson died in the rural Kentucky community near the Tennessee line.
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