Markets Drift Lower At Noon As Investors Sit Out
Stock prices eased with the Dow Jones industrial average down 2.94 to 943.03 at noon. The NYSE index fell .11 to 59.98 and the AP 60- stock average dropped 1.7 to 326.1 amid slow trading and notes of potential higher food prices. Whirlpool and Continental Corp blocks traded lower as declines spread across motor, steel, electronics, and metal issues.
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Dividend Coding Footnotes Across American Exchange Listings
A glossary of issuing terms and footnote codes for dividend classifications in the American Exchange table. Notes explain designations for regular versus special dividends, stock dividends, liquidations, ex-dividend dates, rights, warrants, and foreign issues, with year-based and action-based annotations.
Acorns as Food in California Indians Diet
Acorns formed the principal sustenance for California Indians, ground into flour to produce porridge and bread.
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Justice Dept Cites Lefler For Pollution
The Lefler Concrete Block Co. of Charlotte is accused by the Justice Department of depositing arsenic into Mecklen County streams. The dumping into Stewart Creek feeds the Wateree River, per the complaint. It marks the fifth Charlotte area firm charged under the revived 1899 River Refuse Act.
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Blood Durham murder case moves toward trial dates
Braswell set a hearing to schedule trial dates for Cassada and Chandler and to hold bail hearings. Mrs Chandler invoked the Fifth Amendment about her own or her husband’s activities. Testimony covered a Cassada claim of strangling the Durhams during a burglary and a whispered call from Mrs Durham about black men. SBI polygraph said Cassada, Garren, and Coffey denied involvement.
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Democrats To Choose Delegates At North Carolina Meet
The North Carolina Democratic nominating committee plans to meet to select 16 at large delegates for the Miami national convention. The council urged correcting district representation issues in the 5th District and voided a Guilford county vote for second vice chairman, amid protests from party members.
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First Lady Pat Nixon to Attend Rapid City Flood Memorial
First Lady Pat Nixon will attend a memorial service in Rapid City for flood victims, flying from Los Angeles as officials confirmed 207 known dead and 192 identified with 600 missing. Graveside rites were held at Black Hills National Cemetery for four family members amid ongoing burials and cleanup. National Guardsmen numbers were reduced from 2,500 to about 2,100 with more to depart.
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Kissinger Addresses 79 Lawmakers On Moscow Arms Pact
Henry Kissinger faced 79 members of Congress in the White House to defend Nixon’s Moscow arms accord. Questions showed mixed doubts but little will to vote against. Kissinger urged that offensive weapon spending spurs Soviet interest in talks. He quipped that some lawmakers resembled his Harvard students as many left for other meetings.
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Proxmire Pushes Court Martial Over Lavelle Actions
Senate inquiry questions Maj. Gen. Lavelle for ordering up to 20 unauthorized air strikes on North Vietnam early this year. Defense Department says case closed with no further action planned. Civilian control concerns cited as Lavelle testifies about false reports and end to unauthorized raids.
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McGovern plans to shift arms dollars to civilian needs
McGovern and economists say four years could yield at least five million civilian jobs replacing those lost in the armed forces and military industries with 1.5 million more. Javits and Republicans vow to grill McGovern on wealth redistribution plans.
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Pollution boards regain local authority in NC
The Forsyth Mecklenburg and Western North Carolina Regional air pollution control boards regained jurisdiction over paper and pulp mills power plants and chemical manufacturers in their areas. A 5 to 1 vote with three abstentions restored control at a special meeting of the state board.
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