Market Drift Keeps Dow Near 718 As Investors Pause
In light trading the Dow Jones Industrial Average neared 718 amid investor caution awaiting President Nixon's news conference. A late April employment report and Cambodian developments weighed on sentiment while transport, metals, oils rose modestly and several sectors fell. An Imperial Oil block trade and notable moves in Sears Roebuck, Xerox and Polaroid highlighted the day’s price activity.
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NEW York
Nixon
Associated Press
Imperial Oil
Telex
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Memorex
Xerox
Polaroid
General Telephone
American Stock Exchange
Milgo Electronic
Saxon Industries
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Contracts Awarded For State Roads In North Carolina
North Carolina Highway Commission approved awards for 17 highway projects totaling 17 million dollars covering 152.5 miles. Blythe Brothers Co. of Charlotte won the largest contract at 8.65 million for I 40 regrading surfacing and structures between Cove Creek and Clyde in Haywood County. Other items include projects in Wayne Beaufort Craven Edgecombe Cumberland Robeson and Alamance counties with varying crews and completion dates through 1971.
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North Carolina Highway Commission
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Clyde
Haywood
Blythe Brothers Co
Wayne County
U.S. 70
Snow Hill Road
Goldsboro
Barrus Construction Co
Kinston
Crowder Construction Co
Beaufort - Craven County
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N.C
Barrus
Edgecombe County
Howard Avenue
Tarboro
St. Andrews Street
U.S. 64
Barnhill Contracting Co
Cumberland - Robeson County
Cumberland Paving Co
Fayetteville
Alamance County
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Greensboro
Lakewood High players with number 36 named to all state teams
Five athletes who wore uniform number 36 at Lakewood High School have earned all state football team honors in recent years.
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Colo
Lakewood High School
Denver
Senate faces early showdown on Cambodia war fund cut
Democratic and Republican senators plan an amendment to a military sales bill to cut off funds for U S operations in Cambodia with a possible Senate vote by late next week. Nixon warns of limits and seeks congressional approval if expanding beyond 21.7 miles into Cambodia.
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Ilion
Associated Press
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United States
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Senate
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Cambodia
Nixon
House
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Foreign Relations Committee
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George D. Aiken
John Herman Cooper
Frank Church
Idaho
George McGovern
D.S.D
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Ore
Alan Cranston
Calif
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Charles Goodell
N.Y
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Citizens Committee For Peace With Freedom
Vietnam
Indochina
Herb Klein
Reds press Viet Cong in Cambodia chase
A South Vietnamese army communique reports 79 enemy dead and 15 captured as about 500 Rangers in tanks and APCs clash with Viet Cong forces in heavy treelines near War Zone C Cambodia. The action follows artillery bombardments and leaves civilian and Vietnamese casualties with no clear bunker complex found.
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Supreme Communist Command
Fishhook
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Agnew calls Kent State shooting murder if unwarned
Vice President Spiro Agnew labels the Kent State University shooting by Ohio National Guard troops murder if guardsmen fired without a warning shot or being fired upon first. He says the act was an overreaction not condoned and notes the guardsmen were young.
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Los Angeles
Spiro T. Agnew
Kent State University
Ohio National Guard
Agnew
David Frost
Westinghouse
Group W Broadcasting
Frost
Cambodia
Governors Cancel Spring Gathering Amid Campus Turmoil
Republican governors meeting in Santa Fe cancel their two day spring conference citing the national crisis. Only seven governors reach Santa Fe before leaving. President Nixon will meet all 50 governors at the White House as Democrats join in canceling the event after campus protests and Cambodian tensions escalate.
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N.M
Nixon
White House
Raymond P. Shafer
Pennsylvania
Republican Governors’ Association
Shafer
Association
U.S
Cambodia
GOP
New Mexico
Rodeo de Santa Fe
Bob Jones Defends Kent State Shootings Comment
President Bob Jones of Bob Jones University says reports about Kent State justify shooting youths. He states the country is better off without such young people and criticizes networks for coverage while expressing sympathy for the four killed and guardsmen injured.
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Greenville
S. C
Bob Jones
Bob Jones University
Kent State
Foundamentalist College
Warmer Outlook For North Carolina This Week
A stationary high off the Carolina coast brings a southerly flow and warmer air across North Carolina. The Friendship Weather Bureau forecasts fair and warm weather in High Point through Saturday with highs in the 80s. No rain tonight or Saturday, but Sunday may turn partly cloudy with afternoon and evening showers.
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Carolinas
North Carolina
Friendship Weather Bureau
High Point
Five Day Regional Weather Forecast North and South States
North Carolina expects scattered showers and thunderstorms Sunday through Tuesday with highs mostly in the 70s and 80s and lows in the 50s, mountains cooler. South Carolina shows a warming trend with mid 80s highs and upper 50s to 60s nights, showers possible Monday and Tuesday. Northern coastal areas stay fair and warming through Saturday, while southern coast remains fair and warm. Georgia and Virginia forecast mostly fair with highs in the 70s and 80s and nights in the 50s.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
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