Market Falls On Mixed Trading Amid Tax and Viet Nam Fears
Stocks opened lower as investors weighed profit squeezes and Viet Nam spillover with tax worries. Dow 751.33, down 4.12. A P average 272.5, down 1.5. Techs like Polaroid IBM slipped about 3 points. SCM edged lower ahead of Portable Electric Tools stake. Blue chips Du Pont Anaconda off. GM and Jersey Standard down mildly.
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Dow Jones
Associated Press
SCM
Portable Electric Tools Inc
Polaroid
IBM
Raytheon
Magnavox
Motorola
New York Exchange Nat Airlin .60 Nat Bise 1.90 Nat Can .50
The report lists trading quotes for several chemicals and commodities on the New York Exchange, including National Airlines at 0.60, National Bise at 1.90, National Can at 0.50, National Cash Register at 1.20, National Dairy at 1.40, National Distillers at 1.60, and National Fuel at 1.60.
Dividend codes and stock dividends parsing notes
A list of abbreviations and terms related to dividends including ex dividend xw ex rights xr and warrants ww with notes on stock dividends cash values and notification timing, plus references to declared paid and arrears with years and conditions.
Inter-dealer quotes and prices from NASD session
Quotations from NASD show representative inter-deal prices as of about 10 30 a m with no retail markup or commissions. Prices reflect intraday changes and list securities including Piedmont Aviation Piedmont Nat Gas Wachovia and Security Life Trust among others with bid and offer figures and no actual trades recorded.
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Gulf Life Ins
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Piedmont Aviation
Eacee , Ei Coke
Piedmont Nat Gas
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Lutitity
Laborites push for early Geneva talks on Viet Nam peace
At the Labour party convention Brown urged Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to join him in reconvening the 1954 Geneva conference. He outlined a six point peace plan including Viet Cong representation, immediate cease fire, US and North Vietnamese troop withdrawal, a neutralized Vietnam, and an international peacekeeping supervision. Demonstrators outside demanded peace in Viet Nam.
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Viet Nam
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Dean Rusk
Johnson
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New York
Heepen
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
South Viet Nam
International Control Commission
Forecast North Carolina and South Carolina Cool and fair conditions
North Carolina sees fair, cool weather with frost possible in mountains tonight and Friday. Temperatures range from the mid 30s in mountains to around 40 elsewhere tonight, highs Friday 60s in mountains to mid 70s elsewhere. South Carolina remains mostly fair and cool with clouds near the coast.
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South Coast
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Housewives Call Off Picketing in Raleigh
A North Carolina group of housewives canceled plans to picket Secretary Freeman at the Raleigh City Auditorium over high food prices. Leader Betty Barber said a phone talk with Republican candidate James Gardner led to scrapping the protest and shifting efforts to defeating Rep. Harold Cooley in November 8. Gardner sought to unseat Cooley while Cooley defended farmer interests and warned the pickets were misdirected.
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Agricule
Freeman
Raleigh City Auditorium
Betty Barber
Siler City
James Gardner
Barber
Gardner
Cooley
Secretary of Agriculture
Officials appoint four to city commissions in High Point
The City Council officially appointed Herman Bernard to the Redevelopment Commission and Mrs. Norman Anne to the Historical Commission along with Mrs. Sarah Jones and Mrs. Leo Mortimer to the Human Relations Commission. Bernard fills the vacancy from I. Paul Ingle’s resignation after his move to the Greensboro High Point Airport Authority.
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State Will Seek Death Penalty for Jack Ruby
Texas district attorney Henry Wade says the state will seek the death penalty again for Jack Ruby after a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversal ordered a new trial. Ruby’s 1964 death sentence was overturned citing errors in allowing testimony about his post Oswald remarks. Wade plans a rehearing motion by Oct 20 to uphold the murder conviction.
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Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
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Wade
Ruby
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Texas
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Oswald
Dean
Coastal campaign Irving yields high Viet Cong surrender intake
Reports show 6 859 South Vietnamese killed and 40 149 enemy dead as Operation Irving advances. Marines seize Hill 484 after 15 days of ridge clearing and repel North Vietnamese grenade and automatic fire. Safe conduct passes led Viet Cong to surrender to the 22nd division on the western flank. Ground action remained slack.
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Hill 484
Brink's Mastermind Joseph McGinnis Dies in Prison Cell
Ten years after the Brink’s cash robbery, Joseph F. McGinnis was found dead in his Walpole State Prison cell at 63 from an apparent heart attack. He had been identified as the mastermind of the 1950 theft in Boston, with about $1.2 million stolen and only around $4,000 recovered. He and others received life sentences.
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Joseph F. McGinnis
McGinnis
McGin
Massachusetts State Prison
Walpole
Russians Treated Him Cordially
Peace Corpsman Thomas Dawson, detained for three weeks after wandering near the Soviet Iranian border, says Soviet interrogations were four hours daily but officials treated him cordially. Dawson, 24, from Annapolis, returned to the United States for a reunion with his mother and sister. He walked along a shallow stream near the Caspian Sea not realizing it was the border. He hopes to return to Iran after a brief rest.
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United States
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