Market edges higher as investors await signs of economic improvement
The noon Dow rose 3.09 to 906.48 while the AP 60 rose 0.3 to 315.1. Investors mixed cautiously as earnings season nears with expectations of disappointing results, amid oil settlement chatter and mixed progress on NYSE and AMEX names. New Jersey Standard climbed to 79, and several small caps showed fractional gains.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
New Jersey Standard
Associated Press
American Stock Exchange
DHJ Industries
Wilson Co
Pioneer Plastics
Rath Packing
Wilson & Co
Stock Prices From The American Exchange Noon Update
The AP dispatch lists noon prices for numerous stocks including Ark Best ArkGas Alamera Atlas Cont and Technicolor among others. It notes unofficial sales figures and provides dividend and stock detail footnotes with various annotations.
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New York
Aerojet
Ark
Arklgas
Brascanlt
Certron Cp
Cinerama
Dillard
Dixilyn Corp
Frontier Air
Husky
Corp Nm
Kaiser In
McCrory
Newldria Mn
NewPark
Ormand
Associated Press
Dci
Dow Jones Averages and Stocks Report
The page shows Dow Jones Averages and stock figures across sectors including Transports, Bonds, and Industrials. Values listed include 200.28 for Transports with 0.53 change and 207.40 for a corresponding index with 0.57 change. Rail and utility categories appear with small percentage changes.
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Cere Ees
A.P. Stock Averages Briefing From New York Market
Noon stock averages report mixed readings in New York with the Dow Jones and related indices showing notable activity. The article notes fluctuations across sectors including transportation utilities and commodities with prices captured for beans and other futures.
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New York
Wide Search Continues For Crewmen
Coast Guard search crews and five airplanes comb the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras for the Texaco Oklahoma crew of 31 missing after the tanker split in two during a gale. Seventeen survivors have been found among the 44 crew. hope remains for others clinging to debris or life rafts.
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Calley
George Latimer
Latimer
Kennedy
Gulf Stream
al- An
America
Portsmouth
Coast Guard
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Texaco Oklahoma
Atlantic
High Point Man Earns President's Club Honor
W Roland Albertson of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. joins the President's Club for placing over 1 million dollars in life insurance, reflecting standout sales achievement.
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W. Roland Albertson
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co
High Point
Lane Co. completes public offering of 142700 common shares
Complete public sale of 142 700 Lane Company common shares from Altavista Virginia at 36 50 per share. Proceeds go to selling shareholders not to the company.
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Lane Co
Altavista
New Records for Sky City Stores in Fiscal 1970
Sky City Stores, Inc. reports fiscal year 1970 results with net earnings rising 16.3 percent to 809,416 and earnings per share up to 72 cents. Total store sales hit a record 30,604,240, up 32.1 percent, with leased department sales up 34.5 percent and net sales up to 19,846,545.
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Sky City Stores, Inc
Brezhnev Presses Popular Front Idea and Domestic Plan
Brezhnev signals renewed push for a European popular front with leftist allies while denouncing social democrats as right wing. He notes continued bloc difficulties led by Czechoslovakia and stresses no denigration of leading Communist roles. Domestically, he outlines the nine year plan to raise living standards and expand light industry with more TVs and appliances. Foreign policy mixes hard line against imperialists with cautious outreach to the United States as relations may improve. He criticizes Red China and targets Western renunciations as dangerous heresy, hinting at a new international Communist alliance.
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Popular Front
Europe
Brezhnev
Communist Bloc
Czechoslovakia
Congress
U.S.S.R
Middle East
Southeast Asia
Red China
West
France
Italy
Austria
Venezuela
Kremlin
Measure Doubling Powell Bill Funds for N C Cities
The Senate passed 47 to 1 sending to the House a bill to double Powell Bill funding for North Carolina municipalities. It would raise the gas tax share from two to one cent and add about 11 million dollars yearly for street building and repair while changing the allocation formula to 75 percent population and 25 percent road miles.
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Raleigh
Senate
House
North Carolina
J. J. Harrington
D-Bertie
Bob Scott
Charlotte
Upper
Greensboro
Harrington
Manson Appeals Could Reach Supreme Court In Five Years
Los Angeles AP top defense lawyer predicts the Charles Manson and followers appeals may last five years and go to the Supreme Court if needed. A April 19 hearing before Judge Older will address downing death sentences to life imprisonment and second degree murder and challenge pretrial publicity venue and joint trial issues.
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Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Charles Manson
Supreme Court
Paul Fitzgerald
Perior Court
Charles Older
Older
Fitzgerald
Los Angeles County
Maxwell Keith
Leslie van Houten
Miss van Houten
Patricia Krenwinkel
Susan Atkins
Ventura County
Ronald Hughes
van Houten
Labor To Fight Wage Constraints
Washington AP reports construction union leaders won a legal fight against President Nixon's wage stabilization order but will comply with law. AFL CIO official C J Haggerty said unions have not decided on wage review boards. Craft presidents oppose voluntary plans and call the restraints a true control despite flexible wage criteria.
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Nixon
C.J. Haggerty
Building and Construction Trades Department
Afl-Cio
Haggerty
Labor Department
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DaycoCp
Norris Ind
Davin
Phil
Deere Co
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Northrop
Millon Co
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Occid
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Rone Cp
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idahoPw
Sorryr
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INA Cp
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Wake
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Manson
High Point Enterprise
High Point Enterprise, Inc
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