Stock Market Mixed In Early Trading In 1958 Highs
New York stock trading opened with a narrow mix as gains and losses stayed within a point. Aircraft shares edged higher while rails declined and United Aircraft, Lockheed, and Boeing posted small gains. Dow Jones average stood around 168.30, with industrials flat and utilities down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Aircraft
Lockheed
Boeing
Bache & Co
American Can Co
Allied Chemical & Adams-Mills Corp
American Tobacco Co
Bethlehem Steel
Burlington Mills
Chrysler Corp
New York Central RA
Cone Mills Corp
Carolina Light & Power
Douglas Aircraft
DuPont de Nemours
Dow Chemical Eastern Airlines
Consolidated Edison Eastman Kodak
Greyhound
General Dynamics
General Electric
Gulf Oil
General Motors
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
International Harvester International
Tel
Standard Oil Co
Jones Laughlin Steel Johns Manville Loew's Inc
Phillips Petroleum
Pennsylvania Railway
Pepsi - Cola Procter & Gamble Reynolds Tobacco
Republic Steel Sears Roebuck Southern Rwy
J. P. Stevens Co
American Tel
the Texas Co
Union Carbide & Carbon
United Aircraft Corp
Westinghouse Electric Co
U. S. Steel
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
F. W. Woolworth Co
Dow Jones Averages Mixed as Industrials Decline
The Dow Jones averages show varying movement with the industrials slipping while rail and utility indices hold steady. Bache & Co. furnishes the figures with rail readings around 112.05 to 112.27 and utilities near 158.36 to 158.56.
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Bache & Co
Jordan Takes Senate Oath In North Carolina Family Ties
Former WWI veteran and textile mill hand turned plant superintendent and crane of a 300 acre Alamance County farm joins Senate oath. Attending relatives include Duke University VP Charles Jordan and Dr Henry Jordan, with sisters Katharine McLean and May McLean among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Jordan
Alamance County
Charles Jordan
Duke University
Durham
N.C
Frank Jordan
First Methodist Church
Thomasville
Cedar
Robbery Sentencing Set Today in Lake View Case
Kenney Leighton Hester faces sentencing for the April 9 robbery of the Lake View Cash Depository, which netted $4,837. Convicted April 30 by a quick jury verdict, he fled in a car abandoned in Fairmont, North Carolina, and was seized in Lumberton. He was on parole from San Quentin.
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Florence
S.C
Kenney Leighton Hester
Lake View
North Carolina
Dillon County
Fairmont
N.C
Hester
Lumberton
San Quentin
Calif
North Carolina bankers to be honored at 62nd convention
Eight North Carolinians with 50 years in banking receive 50-Year Club certificates at the North Carolina Bankers Association convention in Pinehurst. More than 1,000 attendees expected. Thurman Sensing and Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. slated to speak. leadership changes anticipated for association officers as J. F ar Jr. may succeed C. Lacy Tate.
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Durham
C. Lacy Tate
Chadbourn
G. Harold Myrick
Lincolnton
J. E. Paschall
Wilson
Medical Convention Opens as North Carolina Society Plans Sessions
The North Carolina Medical Society advances its 104th annual convention in Asheville with about 1200 delegates expected for the first general session tomorrow morning. Meetings of the Board of Medical Examiners and the House of Delegates occur, followed by sectional gatherings and the president's dinner. Memorial services honor 60 doctors who died in the past year.
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Asheville
North Carolina Medical Society
North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners
House of Delegates
City Auditorium
North Carolina State Board of Health
The
Medical Society
North Carolina
Interest In Gold Pepped Up
Recession boosts global interest in gold with central banks and investors buying U.S. reserves. Foreign buyers have moved about 730 million dollars of U.S. gold since January while English and South African markets see renewed activity. Some urge a U.S. price hike to 100 dollars per ounce to lift the dollar and aid miners and related metals.
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New York
United States
U.S
London
South Africa
Middle East
U.S. Treasury
Washington
Fort Knox
Treasury
San Antonio
Texas
B. F. Pitman Jr
Congress
England
Barclays
America
Drowning in Rescue Attempt Claims 18-Year-Old Gene Nance
A Charlotte youth, Gene Nance aged 18, drowned in the Catawba River while attempting to rescue a 4-year-old. A companion rescued the child. volunteers later recovered Nance's body. The weekend toll included many other fatalities across North Carolina from car crashes and drownings.
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Charlotte
Catawba
Gene Nance
North Carolina
David Nance
Barbara Boger
Gene
Nance
Bill Barley
Barley
John Nance
Winston-Salem
Robert Oswall Todd
Winifred Meehan Todd
Howard Eugene Norton
Fayetteville
U.S. 74
Whiteville
Con
Highway contracts approved for 200 miles in 23 counties
The State Highway Commission awarded contracts to low bidders on 21 highway projects opened April 29 totaling nearly 200 miles across 23 counties. A Chapel Hill by pass bid of 369,951.60 by Thompson-Arthur Paving Co. was rejected as over budget and will be re advertised. Several projects include interstate relocation near Marion and Glen Alpine, NC 87 work in Brunswick County, surfacing on U S 301 in Cumberland, and N C 41 widening near Lumberton and Elizabethtown.
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Chapel Hill
Thompson-Arthur Paving Co
Greensboro
W. H. Rogers Jr
Marion
Glen Alpine
Brunswick County
N. C
Southport
U. S. 17
Dr Marney Accepts Call To Charlotte
Dr Carlyle Marney longtime pastor of the First Baptist Church of Austin resigns to become pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte North Carolina He will be accompanied by James Berry music director and William Schwantes administrator He cites a higher call and spiritual purpose in moving on.
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Austin, Tex
Carlyle Marney
First Baptist Church of
Austin
Myers Park Baptist Church
Charlotte
N.C
Austin Church
James Berry
William Schwantes
Marney
Myers Park
Beaver Dam
Ft. Knox
Paducah
Kentucky
Army
Air Force
Insurance Agents Name New Officers In North Carolina
Paul L. Davis of Waynesville was named president of the North Carolina Assn. of Insurance Agents at the 61st annual convention in Pinehurst. John N. Hackney Jr. of Wilson became vice president, with re-elected officers Charles C. Harris Jr. Mt. Airy, J. C. Allison Raleigh, and William E. Webb Jr. Statesville, plus a nine-member board of directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinehurst
N.C
Paul L. Davis
Waynesville
North Carolina Assn
Thomas F. Hewitt
Kinston
John N. Hackney Jr
Wilson
Charles C. Harris Jr
Mount
J. C. Allison
Raleigh
William E. Webb Jr
Statesville
North Caro City
Thomas B. Follin
Winston-Salem
E. L. Peterson
Clinton
David Schenck
Be Hackney
Reno police tow eight cars in alley parking crackdown
In downtown Reno eight cars were towed during a police campaign against alley parking. Among vehicles towed were two belonging to off duty police officers, highlighting the reach of the enforcement drive despite initial concerns about the effort.
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Reno
Road projects map resurfacing and grading across NC counties
State officials outline multiple highways projects including 14.83 miles resurfacing on U S 62 near Mount Airy toward the Stokes line, 11.05 miles grading on U S 74 from Shelby to Kings Mountain, and 12.53 miles resurfacing on U S 23 and 441 from the Georgia line to Franklin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph County
Surry County
Mount Airy
Stokes County
Cleveland County
Washington Street
Shelby
Kings Mountain
Georgia State Line
Franklin
College Founder Succumbs in North Carolina
Red Springs Dr Charles Graves Wardell 98 founder and first president of a Presbyterian liberal arts college for women. He established the school in 1896 and led until 1930. Born February 12 1860 in Charleston he later gardened at Flora Macdonald. He is survived by five daughters and a son.
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Red Springs
N.C
Charles Graves Wardell
Wardell
Davidson College
Princeton Theological Seminary
New Bern
Flora Macdonald
Charleston
S.C
Second Presbyterian Church
Church
Charles G. Wardell Jr
W. B. McNett
Durham
J. J. Murray
Louisville
Alexander Sprunt Jr
Gaston Gage
Clemson, S. C
Ellison Syth
Blacksburg
Union Elections Slated in Two Firms
In Winston-Salem and Orangeburg unions prepare representation elections under the National Labor Relations Board. About 300 workers at A E Gordon Furniture Co will vote for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 433. About 130 workers at Southland Provision Co will pursue Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of America representation. A Thursday hearing is also set in a Asheville Concrete Materials case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
Asheville
Orangeburg
S.C
National Labor Relations Board
A & E Gordon Furniture Co
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of America
Production
Nance Workers
Southland Provision Co
Jerry Stone
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Swan Quarter
Hemrith Lowery
Rt. 4
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Edward Vance
U.S. 311
Eugenia Baker Simmons
Rt. 3
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Rolander White
Albert Potts
Daniel McAllily
James Jones
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Harnett County
Robeson-Bladen
N. C. 41
N. C. 87
Elizabethtown
Davidson County
Lexington
Dr. Marney
New York, N. Y
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Weathertron
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