Late Markets Show Mixed Moves in New York Trade
A lively but irregular session in New York stocks saw gains in some favored shares while blue chips drifted lower or barely changed. Dow up 1.26 to 649.93 at noon, rails and industrials mixed, with Boeing lifting aircraft stocks. government bonds eased. Reports from New Orleans and Chicago noted firmer hogs and mixed farm prices while grain futures weakened on profit taking and harvest progress.
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du Pont
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Associated Press
Chicago
Horn
Oklahoma
April Output In Arkansas Shows Gain
El Dorado Arkansas Special production data from the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission notes April crude and condensate output from 138 pools in Southern Arkansas averaged 81 416 barrels daily, up from March. Gas plant processing in South Arkansas averaged 294 808 cubic feet daily, down from March. Six refineries processed 74 533 barrels daily, up from March. April saw 47 wells completed statewide, including 27 oil and condensate producers and 20 dry holes.
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Reservoir Near Bastrop Drowns Woman at New Lake
In Bastrop County a 32 year old Negro woman died after slipping into the recently opened Bussy Lake reservoir on the north bank while fishing. Mary White, 52, of near Collinston, later drowned sometime before 3 pm Thursday. Relatives found her gear on shore and notified authorities. Fire Chief Woodall and Lt. Freeman recovered the body from the 22,000 acre reservoir.
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Mary White
Collinston
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Woody Woodall
Julius Freeman
Tranquilizers Used In N M Buffalo Hunt
A band of Ute Indians in northwest New Mexico stalked a buffalo using a tranquilizer pellet gun. The aim was to tranquilize the animal without harming it as one of seven herd members kept for ceremonial use. The cow left tribal lands in southwestern Colorado and wandered toward Cedar Hill in New Mexico.
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Colorado
Cedar Hill
Pay Increases Dominate Louisiana Legislature Weekend
Louisiana lawmakers return home to debate expense increases and education bills. Gov. Davis rejects a $5,000 annual expense pocketbook while backing higher monthly allowances. The Senate Finance Committee reviews the general appropriations bill after House approval. LSU board term limits and voter qualification reforms also fuel debate amid political tension.
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Louisiana State University
Sylvan Friedman
LSU
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Blames Chinese For Japan Visit Blockade
President Eisenhower, aboard the St. Paul en route to Formosa, believes Chinese Communists aim to sabotage his Tokyo trip with anti American propaganda. He also suspects Khrushchev pulled Moscow's invite, linking it to the U2 incident and spiking the Paris summit.
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Formosa
Soviet Union
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Sverdlovsk
Paris
Edith Piaf Awakens From Brief Coma in Paris
Parisian singer Edith Piaf woke from a coma and told reporters she nearly died. Her manager Lou Barrier was at her bedside as doctors reported she had passed a crisis and was much improved after three days unconscious.
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Edith Piaf
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United Gas Rate Hikes Questioned
The Federal Power Commission will hear arguments on July 12 regarding two United Gas Pipe Line Co rate increases totaling about 13 million dollars annually. The increases have been collected subject to refund, with one set at nearly 9.98 million dollars effective April 1, 1956, and the other at 5.86 million dollars effective November 16, 1956. The case centers on exemptions to a decision by examiner Samuel Binder on three major issues, potentially disallowing about 6 million dollars of the proposed increase.
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Federal Power Commission
United Gas Pipe Line Co
Shreveport
Samuel Binder
Binder
Virginia Candidate Switches Parties in Local Race
Virginia report says Homer Dahman, a teacher and lawyer, lost a GOP nomination bid for Cass County state’s attorney by over 600 votes to Dick Mills on April 8. Despite the defeat, about 55 voters wrote him in on the Democratic ballot.
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Homer Dahman
Cass County
Dahman
Dick Mills
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