Dow Jones Net Change Rises Slightly
The Dow Jones shows a modest gain with a net increase of 2.21 points, moving up 0.02 from the previous close while remaining 0.02 higher on the day. Investors watch market data for direction amid cautious trading.
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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1963
Page
7
The Dow Jones shows a modest gain with a net increase of 2.21 points, moving up 0.02 from the previous close while remaining 0.02 higher on the day. Investors watch market data for direction amid cautious trading.
The NY closing stocks list shows wide activity across sectors with notable bids from National Biscuit, General Motors, Goodyear and Sears Roebuck amid mixed gains and declines. Key performances include Avco and Parke-Davis advancing while Bethlehem Steel and Union Carbide show modest moves.
Market note on Nevada light and power firms with price moves and rate talk. Mentions First Western and Southwest Gas as neighbors to the sector plus brief context on the Nevada utility landscape.
In London the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ordered Kenneth Margarin, 34, struck off for unprofessional conduct after he supplied penicillin to a farmer to save a sick cow without first examining the animal. He has filed notice of appeal.
Noble Frank Smith a Bataan survivor and his wife seek congressional relief to cancel a 1421 debt claimed by the government for aid given to his war stranded wife and son in Philippine camps. Senator Douglas vows to introduce a bill. Rep Arends notes public confusion. State Department cites WWI funds.
Eight Marines testified at the general court martial of Sgt Carlton L Slay that he struck and humiliated them for infractions such as smiling in ranks and taking crackers from the mess hall during a five week period in 1962. The case follows earlier guilty pleas by four other drill instructors at the same training center and the trial was to resume after a two day break.
Santa Monica California UPI reports bandleader Ray Hutton age 44 and John Franklin Curtis 42 a tool company owner will wed April 15 at the Little Brown Church of the Valley after obtaining a marriage license.
Paris police report writer Jean Brochet known by pen name Jean Bruce, 42, killed when his Jaguar at Luzarches north of Paris struck a truck at about 120 mph. He had just returned from Los Angeles where he oversaw TV presentation of his OSS 17 spy stories.
Glidden Paint Co. announced it acquired 51 percent of Salchi of Milan for $1 million. The Italian paint firm will be renamed Glidden Salchi and move operations with about 200 workers to a new plant in the Common Market region.
Los Angeles businessman Robert Craven asked Attorney General Kennedy if Alcatraz could be sold for a wax museum. The Rock, retired as a prison, could fetch upwards of 5 million, Craven said, envisioning tours and crime prevention potential. He stressed a commercial, tourism value in San Francisco Bay landmark.
West Hollywood deputies, seeking Lenny Bruce, arrested four people on narcotics charges after finding marijuana debris and a cigarette in an upstairs apartment. The tenants Diane Lee Skelyon and Beverly Jean Brown, both 20, and two men, Larry Loyd James and Bruce N. Thomas, faced possession charges. Bruce remains sought on Chicago warrants and local narcotics and obscenity cases.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told parliament that Britain 50,000 family doctors and dentists will receive roughly a 14 percent pay increase under the national health scheme. General practitioners would earn about 7,742 dollars yearly and dentists about 6,720 dollars.
A restaurant delicatessen located just north of the Sahara Hotel is noted in the record. The entry records its position relative to the hotel and identifies the establishment as a food service venue in the area.
Elard Chipandale known as the Reptile Man was sentenced to death for the 1959 murder of a nine year old girl in Blantyre Nyasaland. Odreck Kaseci also received the death penalty for hiring him to commit the crime. The defendant said he transformed into a crocodile to commit the attack but declined to demonstrate his powers in court.
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