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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1977
Page
2
Trading continued to weaken with the Dow Jones average down 6.59 to 808.21 at noon. Citibank and other banks raised prime lending rates amid a year of rate increases, signaling higher borrowing costs. Dow Chemical led the declines after reporting softer third quarter earnings.
National noon prices list includes varied tickers and bid asked quotes across multiple sectors with mixed last figures and changes. Numerous company abbreviations appear, reflecting a broad market ticker snapshot rather than a single dominant event.
The High Point Enterprise reprints a broad stock listing with values for many companies and indices. The page shows extensive figures from the New York Stock Exchange and various corporations, highlighting price movements and percentages.
An OCR fragment from a New York market listing shows various company abbreviations and numbers such as AltecCo, AtlasCM, AtlasCp, Raisin, and recurrent price-like entries. The text is garbled with symbols and incomplete data, lacking a coherent report or narrative.
Market figures show the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 6.59 points to 008.21 while transport and utility sectors trade lower. Bond and public utility readings edge up with minimal shifts across the board as investors assess niche sector performance.
The Associated Press stock averages show noon figures with changes from the previous day and week. The data include various components such as noon values, highs, lows, and month comparisons, reflecting market movement and performance indicators.
Fidel Castro heads home after a six day visit to Jamaica in which he sought to present himself as a moderate ally of the poor. The opposition Labor party criticized him as a communist dictator while Jamaicans who met him saw a leader pledging not to export Cuba's system.
Leaving prison, 83 year old Cornell, the facility’s oldest inmate, moves to a California rest home near the site of the murder of his wife and her 14 year old step daughter. He received the death sentence for the killings and arrived at San Quentin 30 years ago.
In Pleasant Hill Oregon a 15 year old boy Ermol Koch was suspended for hitting a girl who rubbed a pomegranate in his face. His mother confronted Principal Kent Hunsaker and demonstrated by squashing a honeydew melon against the principal a moment later.
Former president Gerald Ford said he will decide after the 1978 elections whether to seek the 1980 presidency. He spoke at a news conference in Whippany New Jersey during campaign stops for Republican gubernatorial hopeful Raymond Bateman. Ford carried New Jersey in 1976.
Evangelist Billy Graham argues censorship won’t stop pornography and calls for a moral and spiritual awakening to motivate voluntary change. He opened a 10 day Cincinnati crusade amid ongoing concerns after Larry Flynt’s conviction and urged the church to confront the issue without heavy censorship.
A federal panel will meet on November 16 to decide if marijuana should be rescheduled from a class with heroin and LSD to one with cocaine and morphine. The move could let physicians prescribe it for some cancer and glaucoma patients while researchers weigh its potential to ease glaucoma eye pressure and chemotherapy-related nausea. Experts caution that evidence is not conclusive and no cure is claimed.
A bronze and wood nymph named Sabrina, long known as the Amherst College prank target, is reported missing from Wesleyan College. In past incidents only, the statue has been dumped in the ocean, shot, and dangled from a plane above a football game, underscoring a century of campus lore.
North Carolina unemployment fell to 4.5 percent in September, the same three year low as 117 300 Tar Heels were unemployed. The number employed declined to 2 496 000, down 36 000 from August, while the national rate stood at 6.6 percent.
Duncan argues he did not intend to defraud the bank and that he arranged special handling of his checking account to keep bank employees unaware of his spending. Defense had urged dismissal, noting similarities to Lance, a Georgia banker who resigned as Carter's budget director amid loan and overdraft controversies but was not charged.
Kuykendall warns the Labor Reform Act could force furniture makers to work with big labor or fund anti union efforts. He argues costs would rise, productivity would not, and many small companies could be driven from the market, despite broad opposition from business groups and consumer advocates.
Dr. Francisco stated Elvis Presley died from hypertensive heart disease with coronary artery disease as a contributing factor. He noted the collected drug amounts did not cause an overdose and the drugs found were prescribed by Presley’s physicians. Autopsy was by Dr. Eric Muirhead at Baptist Hospital with review by UT Center for Health Sciences pathologists and additional toxicologists.
Constable Gerald Wall recalls terrified passengers fleeing as a plane crash near the Mississippi Louisiana border left responders scrambling. Witness Johnny Mote described the plane’s approach and impact, while the group had been traveling from a Wednesday night performance in Greenville South Carolina to a Friday LSU Baton Rouge concert before about 10 000 expected fans.
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