Market Dive Deepens as Auto Stocks Drag Dow
The stock market weakened broadly at midday with the Dow Jones average down 14.63 to 648.23 as auto shares and glamour issues led declines. Analysts cited weak durable goods data and rising consumer prices for September, with bankers forecasting slow recovery. GM, Ford, Chrysler slipped while IBM and Xerox fell amid disappointing earnings. The NYSE all-stocks index slid to 37.85 as Storm Drilling led Amex volume declines.
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Avon
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Xerox
IBM
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High Point Enterprise Rates and office details
The High Point Enterprise announces subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, Sunday only, and mail options with per year and per month costs. It notes carrier and distributor responsibilities, and credits Ward-Griffith Company as national advertising representative.
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Charlotte meets with students and officials on four high schools visit
Charlotte and Boston students and administrators meet to discuss desegregation and ongoing racial understanding. Dwight Covington says progress comes with time and judging individuals. Charlotte teens admit lingering racial clashes but show effort to make desegregation work. Last week a high school closed early after large scale racial fighting.
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Farmers To Slay More Cattle In Dubuque
In Dubuque Iowa about 1 000 calves will be slaughtered Saturday at the Dubuque Packing Co Calves will be processed free of charge and about 65 000 pounds of meat will be shipped to hurricane victims in Honduras Red Cross in Honduras has agreed to distribute the meat said Chuck Stoltz vice president Farmers in Wisconsin Iowa and Illinois had offered meat for Honduras after calves were killed and dumped in trenches last week
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Dean Admits Using White House Fund
Former White House counsel John W Dean III testified that in 1972 and 1973 he personally used 4850 withdrawn from a secret 350000 White House fund. He said the money helped fund a honeymoon trip and other expenses, later repaying part of it, with details tying to the Watergate cover up trial proceedings.
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Campaign rhetoric and impeachment era trials described
The Ford administration faces domestic and global peace concerns as Democrats critique the president. Democratic National Chairman Strauss responds to Ford’s warning about Democrats harming world peace. The article also covers a funding probe involving Kalmbach and Dean, with Dean confirming payments to keep critics quiet. The Ehrlichman Haldeman Mitchell Mardian Parkinson trial concerns conspiracy and obstruction charges and perjury counts.
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Kissinger Reaches Moscow for Nuclear Arms Talks
Henry A. Kissinger flew to Moscow to press a new nuclear arms control accord with the Soviet Union. He met with Andrei A. Gromyko as Nancy Kissinger accompanied him. In Copenhagen he praised Western European relations and cited Nixon era achievements in foreign policy.
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Tax fairness and energy measures target living costs
Wage price restraint aims to reassure business and labor that costs will moderate and living costs will be manageable. Proposals include tax equity for all with higher minimum taxes and estate taxes. Efforts to curb oil prices seek alternative fuels and tougher mileage standards within two years. Policy also weighs the impact of dollar-tightening on the middle class.
New Test For Cancer Announced
Scientists at the Medical College of Virginia report a still experimental cancer test is 87 percent accurate overall. The pill capsule fat carries radioactive carbon and after 20 hours exhaled air is measured for carbon dioxide tracing fat breakdown linked to tumors. In known cancer cases accuracy reached 90 percent across about 160 tested individuals.
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J B Gibson Named President of NANC Inc
J B Gibson of High Point is elected president of Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina during the 77th annual meeting in Pinehurst October 6 9 succeeding R S Chic Webb Jr of Asheville. Gibson previously served as president elect and received the W C Coghill plaque for leadership.
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R. S
Chic) Webb, Jr
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Gibson
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