Stocks Slip Slightly as Tobacco Leads Decline
New York stocks finished the day with only slight losses as tobacco shares weakened. Cigarette stocks mostly fell 1 to 3 points, with R. J. Reynolds roughly unchanged. Blue chips including American Tobacco Chrysler and Du Pont eased, while Alcoa rose and GM gained near 1 percent on strong February car sales to date.
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New York
UPI
R. J. Reynolds
American Tobacco
Chrysler
du Pont
Alcoa
New York Closing Stock List Summary
New York closing stock prices include diverse industrials and utilities with notable listings such as Am Motors 16 percent, Boeing Air 52 percent, General Motors 54 percent, Texaco Inc 58 percent, Westinghouse Electric 67 percent, Sears Roebuck 79.5 percent, Penney 46.2 percent, and US Steel 70 percent. Several firms show fractional gains or losses, with many price quotes scattered across major manufacturers, banks, and railroads.
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New York
UPI
Dow-Jones
ANS
ACF Indus
LOF Glass
Air Reduc
Aire
Allied
R.H
Am Motors
Nat Cath Ro
Amn Smelt
Nat Dai
Atsb T
Nat Dist
Amn
Nat
San Amn
Ampex Co
NY Central
Anacon Co
No Am Av
Armco
PacHic 415 Armour Co
Northrp Alr
Atchsn
Philip Mor
Celanese Co
Phillips Pet
Chrys Corp
Radin Corp
Colo Palm
Raythn Mig
Col Brad Sys
Repub
Columbas
Rexall Org
Reyn Met
Con Edison
Rey Tobac Tae
Safeway
St Reois
Sou Pacific
DuPont Co
Sperry Pan
East Alr L
Cal Sbm
el Paso NG
Flinth Co
Swift & Co
Dyna
Tenn Gas
UN Pacific
Ideal Cem
Airett
US Steel
Westy Air
Westy Elec
Jones & L
Woolworth
Kaiser Alu Vogst
S&t
Zenith Rad
Goodsprings Shots Probe Puzzling Hotel Disturbance
Deputies checked a report of gun shots outside the Goodsprings Hotel Sunday night. Several shots were heard by hotel staff but investigators found no victims or suspects.
France boycotts 18 nation disarmament conference in Geneva
President Charles de Gaulle announced France would not attend or observe the Geneva disarmament conference opening March 14, signaling continued stance against East West talks. The U S and Britain would be represented by Rusk and Home, while de Gaulle favored a four power format for later discussions.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Geneva
Foreign Office
France
de Gaulle
United States
Dean Rusk
Britain
Lord Home
Berlin
Russia
West
Soviet Union
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Chanter to Meet At Sands Hotel
The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel holds its spring meeting March 16 and 17 at the Sands Hotel. Executive Vice President William S. Story will speak on the new national buying cooperative launched by the Institute and the National Association of Secondary Materials Industries.
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Rocky Mountain
Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel
Sands Hotel
Institute
Williams
Story
National Association of Secondary Materials Industries
Supreme Court: Counties can be sued for airport noise damages
The court ruled 6 to 2 that city and county governments may be liable for property value losses from low flight paths near airports. The decision upheld a suit against Allegheny County over Greater Pittsburgh Airport, potentially shifting many noise-damage claims from federal to local authorities.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Allegheny County, Pa
Greater
Pittsburgh
Thomas N. Griggs
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
Felix Frankfurter
Douglas
Educators Observe New CASE Economic Literacy Series
Leaders in curriculum development display the CASE Economic Literacy Series five volumes described as the only comprehensive integrated high school economics set. Dr. Galen Jones, director of CASE in Washington, D. C., oversees materials prepared for broader economic education begun in 1953 with a program aimed at expanding American economic literacy.
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CASE
Galen Jones
Council For Advancement of Secondary Education
Washington, D. C
Vietnamese Troops Report Two Viet Cong Kills Totals
Government sources say South Vietnamese forces killed 116 Viet Cong guerrillas in two battles Sunday and yesterday. Paratroopers air dropped into a border outpost ten miles from Cambodia, killing 56 rebels and repelling about 500 attackers. An air strike near Song Be River left 60 Viet Cong dead with evidence of heavier losses. Government casualties were four dead, six wounded, and ten missing at the Tay Ninh outpost.
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Saigon
Upi
Song Be
Phuoc Thanh
Tay Ninh
Southern Nevadans in Service
Robert L. Dickinson, a USN sea man apprentice, serves aboard the USS Renville in the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force based in San Diego. Army PFC Roscoe Baltimore Jr. 20, of 1204 Van Buren Ave, Henderson, took part in Exercise Hailstorm II in Korea, the largest field maneuver there. Captain Robert J. Taub, 26, of 55 Country Club Dr, completed a military orientation course at Brooke Army Medical Center. Army Specialist Five Fred J. Hansen, 25, of 110 Ash St, Henderson, also participated in Hailstorm II. Marine Pvt. Harold L. Kinsey, son of the Kinseys of 1720 Atlantic, finished four weeks of individual combat training at Camp Pendleton.
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Robert L. Dickinson
USN
R. O. Dickinson
Joshua St
Henderson
Renville
Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force
San Diego
Calif
Army Pfc
Roscoe Baltimore Jr
van Buren Ave
Korea
Army Medical Corps
Robert J. Taub
Mildred Kishner
Country Club
Medical Field Service School
Brooke Army Medical Center
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Fred J. Hansen
Ruth T. Carrier
Ash St
Harold L. Kinsey
Ronald D. Kinsey
Atlantic
Second Infantry Training Regiment
Marine Corps Base
Camp Pendleton
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SUN
Aluminum
Charleston
Fremont
Association For Supervision and
National Educational Association
ASCD
William van Til
New York City
Max Lerner
the Sun
Sunfoto
Chanter
William O. Douglas
Griggs
Precision-Pak
Nevada Cooler Pad CO
Cinder Lane
Southern
Bluebell
America
Pierreouis-Guerin
Rene Fraday
Donnarden
Las Vegas
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