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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1972
Page
5
Nasdaq interdealer quotes show bids from banks and firms including Alabama Bancorporation and Tenn Natl Gas with prices for milling wheat barley yellow corn and shelled corn. The notes explain NASD quotations reflect representative prices around 10 am and exclude retail markups and commissions.
The noon Dow fell 2.04 points to 961.39 as declines led 615 to 450 on the NYSE with 1,483 issues traded. The NYSE index slid 0.16 to 60.65 and the American Stock Exchange price-change index dropped 0.02 to 26.52. Analysts cited higher short term rates and Munich incident as factors while auto sales and housing starts offered slight optimism. Oil shares advanced with Gulf up 25 percent, Continental up 34 percent, and Mobil up 66 percent after a rebound from Middle East fears.
Ground was broken Wednesday for a 400000 addition to Cullman Hospital. Mrs. Ralph Dodson, widow of a former board member, turned the first spade. The wing will house updated X Ray and laboratory facilities. Construction will start soon with no completion date. Hospital administrator Ken Hawthorn and State Rep. Finis E. St. John attended.
PRICEVILLE An 18 year old Decatur girl won the Southeastern Horse Center Rodeo Queens Pageant. Gilda Hendricks a University of Alabama Huntsville student will represent the area in Miss Rodeo USA to be held in February in Tulsa Oklahoma. The pageant occurred with the First Annual Southeastern Horse Center Rodeo.
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