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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1968
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR text shows a late New York Stock Selected List with numbers and percentages but no coherent story, names, dates, or clear entities to identify a full item. The readable data are scattered figures and symbols lacking context.
NASD quotations show interdealer prices around 10 a.m. for Alabama and regional insurers and banks. Names include Allied Life, Bank of Huntsville, Coastal States Life, First Colbert National Bank, First National Bank Decatur, Jefferson Standard Life, Kentucky Central, Protective Life, Vulcan Life, and others with varied bid and ask figures.
Decatur markets list cotton loan terms middling inch at 26 and cottonseed at 40 per ton. Milk grade A six fifty five per hundred with four per cent and manufactured milk three twenty. Wood values range from sixty five to thirty five with pulpwood fourteen fifty per cord. Grain quotes include corn at 122 per No. 2 oats seventy cents and soybeans two sixty per hundred.
The New York stock market showed an uneven rise with gains outpacing losses about two to one on the NYSE while blue chips drifted, amid rumors about possible Vietnam peace talks site. Schenley led volume with 432,400 shares, while Du Pont GM Procter & Gamble Chrysler slipped modestly. IBM gained several points as Polaroid fell.
A listing of tonight's TV lineup includes Virginia ex-marshal revenge drama rerun, Lost in Space alien intrigue, Beverly Hillbillies London caper, Green Acres Humane Committee plot, Kraft Music Hall County Fair hoedown, He and She will and Paula tension, and Run for Your Life legal defense segment.
AP notes Lee Trevino rising from unknown rookie in 1965 earning $30 a week to earning nearly $30,000 in 1967. Former Green Bay Packer Jesse Whittenton recalls discovering Trevino when he asked for a job at Horizon City club. Trevino, 26, linked to Horizon Hills, finished fifth behind Nicklaus Palmer Caspar and began golfing during service in Okinawa.
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