Stock Market: Mixed Gains as Dow Rises on Broad Uplift
Stock trading opened with cotton futures steady to up as the market recovered from two days of declines. The AP average of 60 stocks rose 0.80 to 251.10 at noon with industrials up 1.70 rails 0.30 and utilities flat. Major steel firms showed rebounds while GM and Du Pont moves reflected legal and divestiture news.
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Associated Press
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Wall
Jones & Laughlin
Lukens Steel
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet
General Motors
du Pont
Chrysler
Ford
American Motors
IBM
Beckman Instruments
Litton Industries
American Stock Exchange
U.S
North Carolina poet laureate wife Eleanor Pearson dies
Eleanor Fox Pearson 67 wife of North Carolina poet laureate James Larkin Pearson died in Wesley Long Hospital after a brief illness. She founded the Dolley Madison Memorial Association and helped prepare a Guilford County First Lady biography. Funeral Sunday at Kew Garden Friends Church with burial there. She is survived by her husband, a sister and two brothers.
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Guilford County
Guilford College
Pearson
Kew Garden Friends Meeting
Kew Garden
Killers Of Three Are Sought
Police in Elmwood Park Illinois join Chicago and Cook County officers in a homicide hunt after gunmen fatally wounded Phillip Scavo 36 his brother Ronald 30 and Lydia Abshire 28 as they attempted to flee in Scavo s sports car. Barbara Scavo Nikki North Phillips wife was questioned by police.
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Abshire
Ronald Scavo
Peter Rice
Rice
Elmwood Park
Ill
Chicago
Cook County
Phillip Scavo
Ronald
Lydia Abshire
Phillip Scane
Phillip
Barbara
Nikki North
Cleveland
Ohio
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Escape Injury in Auto Crash
In Rome a predawn car crash left Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton uninjured after the vehicle blew a tire and veered into a ditch. They later appeared with Sybil Burton at Rome's airfield to greet their daughter Katy, aged four, as the couple reconciled after a reported quarrel.
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Rome
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Sybil
Burton
Katy
London
Miss Taylor
Porto Santo Stefano
Mark Antony
Cleopatra
20Th Century Fox
Eddie Fisher
Governors Protest Cuts to National Guard Units
Governors from Missouri Kansas Idaho Utah and Colorado pledge refusals protest reductions in state Guard strength as eight infantry divisions reorganize into brigades and ready-to-go units. An appeal for federal intervention is urged while state adjutants general plan coordinated protests at upcoming meetings.
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Iowa
McGowan
John M. Dalton
Missouri
John Anderson
Kansas
Uni
Steve McNichols
Colorado
Idaho
Robert E. Smylie
Utah
George D. Clyde
Maxwell R. Rich
Western Governors’ Conference
Alaska
New York
Army Reserve and Guard
Newspapers On March Says Maier New ANPA President
Irving Maier, president of the Milwaukee Journal, was elected president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association at its four day convention. He pledged to meet the challenge of newspapers on the march as the group approved a dues increase for expanding the ANPA research center in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Irwin Maier
Maier
Milwaukee Journal
ANPA
Mark Ferree
Scripps-Howard
Gene Robb
Albany
N.Y
Times-Union
Knickerbocker
Ranger lunar probes highlight old NASA mission plan
The article outlines backup Ranger spacecraft for a late year moon shot, with Ranger 5 duplicating Ranger 4 and aiming to capture TV images up to impact. It notes Ranger 4 failed to photograph after launch from Cape Canaveral and confirms progress on Rangers 6 through 9 despite uncertainties.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dow Jones Averages Snapshot From Early Trading
The Dow Jones indicators show mixed early activity with the 30 Industrials near 683.29 at previous, 680.66 at 11 am, and 678.68 at noon. Rails at 140.28, Utilities around 129.48, and Stocks near 235.46 with volumes rising from 790,000 to 3,650,000.
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Ewes
Ewer Beeee
May Eresas
Juldvisvess
Eee
Pennsy RR
Pepsi-Cola
Phillips Petreeeae
Radio Corp
Seetees
NEW York
Rep Sil
Reynolds
Sears Roebuck
Adams Millis
Allied
Railway
Corp Seeeene
Allis-Chal
Am Can Co Sevens
Am Enka
Calif
Am Motors
Tel & Tel
Scavo
Tobe
Stevens J
T&sf
Texaco Inc
Boeing Air Borden Co
Borg-Warner
Celanese Corp
West Union Ween Ener
Ms — /Westing El Champion
P&f
Winn-Dixie
Ches & Ohio
Woolworth Ee
Chrysler
Coca-Cola
Columbia G
Gen Foods
Goodrich
Yi Goodyear T&r
Kayser-Roth
Monty Ward
Motorola
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Pdereee
Nat Distillers
NY Central
North West
Avia Eeewen
No Pacific Ae
Ohio Oil
Param Pict
Penney J C Feee Ee
Bache & Co
Southeast Business Volume Reaches A Postwar Record
Wachovia Bank reports the Southeast economy hit a postwar high in Q1 driven by gains in sales, personal income and spending. The Southeastern Business Index rose to 113.9 in March, up 5.7 percent from a year earlier, with broad gains across nine states amid a gradual national recovery.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
Wachovia
Southeast
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Georgia
Tennessee
Florida
West Virginia
Kentucky
Maryland
Alabama
Mississippi
Southeastern
Space launches mark cooperative US effort with Britain and US scientists
A day of space activity saw Ranger 4 crash land on the moon after a 64 hour mission from Cape Canaveral. Officials say despite a faulty device it proves US guidance capability for lunar travel. Plans emerged to launch Mariner toward Venus this summer using Agena B similar to Ranger.
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Moon
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lunar
United States
Cape Canaveral
Venus
Mariner
Ranger
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