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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1968
Page
13
A garbled OCR style listing shows percentages next to company names such as American Airlines American Motors Boeing and General Electric. The text mixes stock-like figures with multiple corporate entities and partial figures, lacking coherent narrative or clear events.
Cincinnati market notes show cattle and hogs with steady to higher bids across classes, calves and feeders moving, with detailed price ranges for slaughter steers heifers cows bulls and hogs. Washington reports 80 million cars 16 million trucks and about 340 000 buses in use per new DOT figures.
C C A reader asks about gifting securities to a church retirement home and selecting holdings for growth and income. Roger Spear analyzes a portfolio valued near one hundred thousand dollars and recommends selling Coleman Cable and, depending on prospects, holding or redeeming other listed stocks while noting growth potential in Ipco Hospital and Sperry Rand.
AP reports farm and retail egg prices in Ohio. Carton large A sold 57 to 61 delivered to major cities. medium 49 to 54. small 35 to 40. Retail carton large A 61 to 66. medium 55 to 60. hens 6 to 7. Poultry fryers 14 to 16 percent, potatoes 3.35 to 5.25.
Chicago grain markets show varied moves across crops with soybeans and corn posting modest gains while oats and rye fluctuated. Prices listed for Sep Dec Mar May Jul and other contracts reflect slight daily changes and routine closing levels.
The stock market opened mixed with several major names moving up or down. American Telephone fell, Jersey Standard rose, Chrysler declined, Sperry Rand gained, Ford rose, Eastman Kodak held steady, White Consolidated dropped, Westinghouse advanced, and RCA rose as the 60-stock average climbed to 342.8.
A sneak thief took 265 from an envelope on the desk in the rear of Clark Station on N. Verity Parkway. Manager Robert Cox of 126 N. Main St. said an employee placed the money on the desk and forgot to put it in the safe.
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