Stock Market Edges Higher Amid Thin Volume
New York stocks advanced early with a 0.38 percent UPI index gain as 1,173 issues traded before noon. Winners included Texas Instruments, Fairchild Camera, Zenith, Motorola, Collins Radio, Litton, IBM and Xerox, while Admiral, Magnavox, Shell Oil and several carriers showed mixed or slight losses amid uneven demand.
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Texaco
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US Steel
Severance Tax Proposal About Timber Defeated in Senate
In Baton Rouge Senator Fieldon Mitchell of Montpelier failed to revive his constitutional measure to raise the timber severance tax. A substitute motion by Senator Jamar Adcock to indefinitely postpone the bill won 26 to 9. Mitchell argued timber taxes are unfairly low and that the public isn’t informed about tax burdens.
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Jennings
Mitchell
Louisiana
Daily Lectures on Faith Healing Begin This Week
Daily lectures on faith healing will start at 7 p.m. Monday at Church of God, 813 Montgomery Ave., West Monroe. Rev. C. Dudley, pastor, stated speaker T. W. McGraw, a former Biloxi businessman, will discuss his claimed healings of cancer and other diseases.
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Montgomery Ave
West Monroe
C. Dudley
T. W McGraw
Biloxi
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