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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1977
Page
2
The Dow Jones average trades down to 909.77 as inflation and interest-rate worries weigh on investors. The NYSE composite dips to 53.33 while AMEX inches up to 113.25 with about 8.57 million shares exchanging hands in the first two hours. Sony trades 100,000 shares at 9.00, unchanged.
A dense OCR fragment shows a stock price table including numerous ticker symbols and values, interspersed with the High Point Enterprise masthead and subscription rates. The text lists prices, percentages, and notation about dividends, ex-dividends, and footnotes from AP. It ends with a copyright line for 1977.
New York AP stock table shows noon prices for numerous American and New York Stock Exchange issues. Entries list ticker symbols such as RCA Sears Texaco and others with high, low, and last prices, including notable banks, automakers, and retailers. The data dense page captures fluctuating values, percentage changes, and volume indicators for a broad cross-section of stocks.
Stock averages and bond figures are listed with daily and historical context. The table shows prices, highs and lows, and changes for multiple securities, including rails and utilities, with values compared to prior periods.
Prospective buyers were set to sign the papers for the Bille Woodbeck home in Lovinia Michigan when a thunderstorm struck. Winds toppled a Hickory tree, interrupting the sale and delaying the transaction as the likely buyers watched the tree crash.
A federal judge rules the CPSC cannot enforce its Tris ban against Springs Mills Inc in a South Carolina suit. Judge Robert F. Chapman orders a June 13 trial on due process claims with a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement until resolution. Springs alleges the ban was issued without notice or hearing and will cost at least $2 million to repurchase sold goods.
Voters turn out heavily in the first Dutch general election since 1972 with about 80 percent expected of 9.5 million eligible to cast ballots for 150 seats. Terrorist hostage crises at Bovensmilde school and a dairyland train overshadow the campaign and halt election-eve activities.
The article discusses the Carter administration pricing plan for oil and natural gas and likely congressional hurdles. It quotes Schlesinger and Foster on price controls versus deregulation, notes opposition from oil and gas state lawmakers, and cites varying gas reserve estimates from Lawrence and Rassinier. It also mentions the Potential Gas Committee's assessment and inventive ideas like coal seam gas and sewage-oil waste turbines.
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