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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1977
Page
2
The Dow Jones average rose 2.16 to 839.48 as gains outweighed early losses in a cautious session. Investors weighed the 0.5 percent rise in the wholesale price index for last month, the largest in five months, while awaiting weekly Federal Reserve data on money supply and inflation controls.
Financial listings show scattered stock prices from the New York Stock Exchange with various tickers and percentage changes. The High Point Enterprise notes the market data excerpt among local content, indicating contemporary financial commentary within the newspaper.
A dense OCR dump shows varied company names and stock figures with percentages and codes. It reads like a market page fragment listing firms such as Texaco Texinst TexUtii CocaCola International and others, with numeric figures likely prices or indices and percentages.
A garbled AP dividend table outlines stock terms and footnotes. It lists percentages and symbols for various issuers including Warrants Ex rights ex dividends and notes on liquidity dividends and classifications. The snippet ends with copyright and disclosure that figures are unofficial.
Paris AP reports former French Ambassador Hervé Alphand describes John F Kennedy as loving pleasure and women which he says pushed him toward scandal. Alphand, friend of the Kennedy family, cites his 1956 66 posting and notes Kennedy’s desires could provoke political attacks in a puritan nation.
A San Francisco Examiner contest on pettiest office procedures drew quirky tales from anonymous workers. A shipping clerk details three weekly restroom trips before malinger accusations, and a secretary wins a dinner for sniffing a boss’s closet shirt scents for an out of town meeting.
The 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre born 1898 in Seville for a creative poetic writing rooted in Spanish lyric traditions and modern currents. The prize carries $145,000 and was announced after a brief brewing of the decision.
Chapel Hill AP UNC is pioneering a program to train social workers for blind patients. Lecturer Tom Baldwin says adult blindness brings trauma similar to losing a spouse and social workers must understand stages of grief and unique needs. The program for master’s degree candidates covers counseling, family support, nutrition awareness, and budget guidance.
An off duty officer and two bystanders were killed at the Smoky Mountain Club near Newport Tennessee. Ruble G Williams known as Butch turned himself in to police shortly before 9 a.m. on three counts of first degree murder. Williams had been arrested by Officer Medford in November 1976 on Knox County charges and was arraigned later today.
RALEIGH AP State corn farmers form the Corn Growers Assn of North Carolina to handle organization and marketing. William V Griffin of New Bern named interim director as the group works to unify growers and promote local corn interests.
A research balloon mistaken for a UFO landed in a cotton field south of Halifax North Carolina after a night-long flight across Tennessee and much of the state. Halifax County Sheriff W C Bailey posted a deputy to guard the craft as researchers begin to examine its contents. The balloon rose Monday from the National Balloon Center in Malden Missouri on a Bristol University UK mission.
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