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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1937
Page
11
Stock averages show 30 industrials with net change down from yesterday. Prices: 91.6 current, 93.0 prior, 93.8 month ago, 79.0 year ago. 1937 high 101.6, low 89.6 in 1936, 1937 low unseen. Sales today total 779,430 shares.
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The report lists daily bond averages with changes and year/month figures, noting 1937 high at 99.0 and 1936 high at 98.2 as benchmarks. It also cites sales totaling 7,480,000 and mentions a shift in Alabama execution methods, referencing Silena Gilmore as the sole woman executed since the switch to electric chair a decade ago.
Mount View Junior High will present the Merry Minstrel a black faced play next Friday night May 14 at 7 30 p m. The cast includes about forty students directed by Juanita Sterne and Betty Cubb edge Admission will be charged. The program also lists the baccalaureate sermon May 23 and commencement May 27 with a full order of events and participants.
Alderson residents host relatives and friends over the weekend including Joe Fletcher of Roanoke with Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Lucile Neal Edith Warren of Lawton visit, Marion Bondurant of Bassett stays with his mother. Margaret Eleanor Raine and Carlton Disharoon return from CCC camp in Kentucky. Rossey family from Scotsdale Pennants visit. Fossil fish skeletons found in Lompoc California diatomite deposit after a long-ago catastrophe.
A Washington daybook item says the senate post office committee debated indefinitely a bill to grant contractors lasting star route contracts without bidding. The delay ended as post office officials began awarding contracts to the low bidders, angering New England senators who saw Hoover-era contractors displaced.
Scott's Scrap Book by R. J. Scott notes a 1930 French stamp picturing Reims Cathedral priced at 65 cents unused and 5 cents used.
The Senate rewrote the measure to let New England contractors keep existing contracts without competitive bidding. It passed 50 to 24 as more Democrats joined the winning side. Opponents of the principle backed the amendment to aid this year's contractors. The bill moved to conference with the House, though doubts remained about enforcing the amendment against low bidding contractors.
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