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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1977
Page
7
The page displays a dense list of stock prices and percentages from various securities including PepsiCo Pfizer Rite Aid Robins and others. A NYSE index snapshot shows noon trading with declines across Industrial Transportation Utility and Finance sectors.
The Dow Jones average rose on Wednesday but fell back by noon today to 904.77, with prices mixed and gains barely ahead of losses. Dow Chemical led NYSE volume, trading 352000 shares at 34 percent, while the NYSE composite declined to 52.86 and the ASE market value index slipped to 112.20 as volume rose to 8.73 million shares in two hours.
Charley Williams assists Dr. Ted McMillian and Dr. Stuart L. Porter at Gladys Porter Zoo Brownsville Texas in giving intravenous dye solutions to a gorilla to diagnose a urinary tract malady. The ape recovered to good health after treatment.
Harvard's Peabody Museum houses 15 daguerreotypes thought to be the earliest photographs of American slaves. Subjects include Jack of Guinea and Renty of the Congo, photographed in Columbia, South Carolina, 1850 under Louis Agassiz's research. Also notes NYU 1977 Great Teacher Awards recipients.
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