Retail furniture meet in Roanoke roars with speakers
About 200 furniture workers are expected at the Southern Retail Furniture Association 46th annual meeting in Roanoke Virginia May 11 13. Dr Kenneth McFarland GM educational consultant will speak on Selling America to Americans and Viet Nam Foundation leader Tian Desdae von Fiagal will address a lunch session on Practical Approach to Consumer Credit Education. The John Willis Jr award will be presented for advancing retail standards.
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Southern Retail Furniture
Roanoke
Jim Best
SRFA
Kenneth McFarland
General Motors
Best
McFarland
America
von Fiagal
Viet Pioneny
National Foundation For Consumer Credit
John Willis Jr
Willis Furniture Co
Norfolk
Leo Heer
Exposition
Decker Amos
Furniture South
Way
Shenandoah
W. L. Ragland
Natural Bridge
S.A.M
Stocks Rise For Year’s Best Show
New York reports a strong upsurge with the AP average up 3.70 to 165.00 matching 1958's high reached Feb 4 as turnover climbs to 12,224,704 shares. Rails rally on proposed carrier aid while the Federal Reserve cuts the discount rate to 1 percent and lowers reserve requirements.
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New York
Associated Press
Sean Soda Karen
Wall Street
Rails
Federal Reserve Board
Security quotations and market ranges from 1958 desk quotes
Unofficial bid and asked prices from the National Association of Security Dealers and other sources. They show approximate ranges within which securities could have been sold or offered at the time of compilation on April 17 1958. Origin of quotations available on request.
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National Association of Security Dealers, Inc
Grain Prices Drift in Quiet Week Chicago
Grain futures showed little in the way of strong moves with minor daily shifts. Wheat and oats fell, corn rose for the third straight week but at a slower pace as speculators booked profits, while beans advanced except one contract.
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Chicago
Pork Mart Prices Drop
CHICAGO buyers registered the largest receipts of butcher hogs since late January while prices fell up to 50 cents per hundredweight for barrows and gilts and $1 for sows. Demand favored lighter hogs under 240 pounds though few under 230 pounds were offered and No 1 grade remained scarce all week.
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Chicago
Bonds Show Strong Weekly Advance
New York bonds led a broad weekly rally with corporates up as Federal Reserve action spurred confidence. Rails reached a 1958 AP index high, while trading on the New York Stock Exchange rose to 30.4 million dollars, the strongest weekly total since late January. The Fed cut the discount rate a half point and lowered reserve requirements in stages, signaling a major policy easing.
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G. Reid Marsh
New York Life Insurance
National Assn. of Life Underwriters
Banff Springs
Canadian Rockies
Henry J. York
Nationwide Insurance
High Point
Nationwide
York
Institute
Graham Morgan
Rails
New York Stock Exchange
Central Reserve
New York
Chicago
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Society For the Advancement of Management
King Cotton Hotel
Starmount Country Club
North Carolina Life Underwriters
Winston- Salem
Winston
Raleigh
Charlotte
David Fluegelman
Connecticut Mutual Life
R. L. McMillan
Businessman’s Assurance
Abilene
Texas
Clarence R. Darling
State Capitol Life
Charles F. Gold
N. C
National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers
Nathan Ayers
Triangle Hosiery
Colon Kennedy
The
Diaper Service Institute of America
Morgan
Kennedy
General Factors Corporation
Philadelphia
Lewis Einhorn
Gladys Smith
Southland Factors Cor‘poration
Community Credit Cor
National Finance Company
By Joe Brown
J. C. Boyles
N. Main Street
Jationwidi
Mmutwid Wesmance
Mutual
Sis & Bard Mills
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Amer Heritage
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Amer Hosp Supply
Peeeteese Tee
Amer Marietta
Amer Commerce
Fal Bank
Mnold Co
Atlanta
Ges Light
Atlantic Steel
Ateneee
Eeereee Mu Atlas Gewing Centers
Seeewe
Carolina Tel & Tel Weeteee
Carolina Wholesale Fist Central Telephone
Eestees
Cerlist Diesel
Ise Pia
Colonial Stores
Collyer
Commonwealth
Cone Mills
Donnelley, Rr, & Sons
Drexel Purniture
Electronic Accty Cord Corp
Erwin Aes
Farrington
First National
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General Tele
Pia
Griggs Equipment Eevee Guardian Consumers
Guardian
Pia & Guilford National van
Gulf Cities Gas
Manes, PH
Holiday Inns
Amer
Houston Oi
Mycon Mf
Couneen
OED Inter Mt Tei
Vestors Div Bre ‘Oy
Tee Investors of Canada
Ivey, J.B
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Life Companies Inc
Teteneeeeee ‘Ae
Life Ins Co
Steer Lithium Corp
Amereee
Lone Star Steel
Lueke Stores
MacMillan Co
Maryland Casualty
W. N. Maxson Corp
McLean Industries
Miles Lab Inc
Mississippi Shipping
Moore Handley Hawr
National
National Life & Accident
North Amer North Car Tel Fe
Occidental Life
Ohio State Life
Peninsular Life
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Penn Fruit Co
Common Pefin Fruit Co
udler-Permutit Company
Piedmont Aviation
Piedmont
GOB Sivssreves
Sutton
Delhi Taylor OW
Texas Eastern Trenc A
Aoenene “Corp
Trans Gas Pipeline Coves
Travelers Insurance Co
Twin
Union National Bank
Acteas
Massachusetts Mutual
Massachusetts Life Insurance CO
G. Eddie Ridge
W. Roland Albertson
Pork Mart
Bonds
U.S
Fed
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company
Key North Carolina Cos
Wachovia
Dallas
J. Sturgis May & CO. —Investment Securities
Security Bank Bldg
High Point, N. C
Spivey
P. O. Box
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Charlotte, N. C
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TEL
J. Sturgis May & CO
Sechrest Analoy
Estabi Ambula Ambulance
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