Wall Street Reports Mixed Action Before Bargain Days
Turbulent trading sees early gains and losses as the market hovers near May lows. Dow Jones noon price up to 582.74 with several blue chips like Polaroid and Merck showing gains while others slip.
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1962
Page
4
Turbulent trading sees early gains and losses as the market hovers near May lows. Dow Jones noon price up to 582.74 with several blue chips like Polaroid and Merck showing gains while others slip.
A mixed New York stock list shows broad readings across many issues with prices and percent changes. The report also covers hog receipts in Georgia and Florida markets, listing bids, weights, and pricing ranges for live hogs, sows, and feeders, with regional receipts and steady market tones.
Hog receipts nationwide show steady to mixed changes with Georgia plants posting 8200 hogs for a 24 hour period ending 7 a.m. Wednesday and Chicago seeing 6000 head. Georgia sows and gilts vary, prices near 16.50 to 17.25 for 190-230 lb barrows and gilts, while Georgia cattle and produce markets report steady slaughter cows and higher calves, with Atlanta produce trading active on peaches, cabbage, greens, beans, and melons.
Widely scattered thundershowers are forecast for Thomasville and surrounding areas through Thursday. The outlook calls for partly cloudy skies, mild temperatures, and southwest winds 6 to 15 mph. Temperatures are expected to run 2 to 5 degrees above normal with rainfall of about 0.75 to 1.25 inches in the southern part of the state.
The County Commissioners form a committee of F. C. Pittman E. J. Willis and Harry Stringer to investigate haphazard garbage disposal across the county. They will tour Colquitt county and other areas where solutions are reported and report back to the board. Local dumping has caused objections near several towns and on the outskirts of Thomasville.
Pavo Jone Methodist Church hosts daily Vacation Bible School sessions from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Miss Onis Mount directs the program with staff including Mrs Raymond Harvey Miss Elizabeth Wood Miss Linda Cooper and other volunteers. A picnic and swimming party Friday will close the event.
Funeral services for Joe H. Fulghum 49 lifelong Thomasville resident were held Tuesday at Dekle Funeral Chapel with the Rev Obie Cone officiating. Burial followed at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Surviving are his wife June Carroll two daughters Mrs Clara Patterson and Mrs Ethel Hurst two sons Joe Lester Fulghum and John L Fulghum a brother L A Fulghum and sister Mrs H C Ellenburg and one grandchild.
Kennedy Chapel Freewill Baptist Church in Patten invites all to an open camp meeting and singing Friday night starting at 8 with a program of songs and worship.
A three state search continues for Frank H Hapley 31 of Ochlochnee after he escaped Monday night from a federal prison camp near Montgomery Alabama. Tapley who began a two year term for misapplying funds from the Bank of Ochlochnee vanished during a 7 pm bed check. Authorities in Georgia Alabama and Florida join the hunt and the FBI suspects possible aid from his wife who is also missing. Tapley and former bank president Clifton P Wurst were sentenced in Thomasville May 22 for misapplying 16289528 from the bank. Wurst is at Tallahassee Penitentiary.
Thomas County rider Billy Long son of Mr and Mrs E T Long Rt 2 Ochloch nee won first prize in junior agronomy at Rock Eagle in the District 4 H Club projects competition. About 76 County youths joined 921 youngsters from 26 Southwest Georgia counties with County Agent W W Bill Whittle and assistants presenting the local delegation.
The Thomas County Chapter of the American Red Cross will dedicate its new office at 115 E. Washington St with an open house Tuesday 5 to 7 p.m. The move to ground floor space improves parking and room for staff and storage, with General Chairman Robert S. Hiers and other chapter leaders welcoming attendees.
MOULTRIE The Elder Josh Davis 82 formerly of Grady County died early today at his home after a sudden illness. Services will be held Friday at Union Hill Primitive Baptist Church Grady County with Elders E J Childs Pelham Roy R Sims Savannah and Prentice Spivey Albany officiating. Burial will be in Union Hill Cemetery. Born March 10 1880 in Mitchell County he was a Primitive Baptist minister serving Southwest Georgia and Northwest Florida. He came to Moultrie from Grady County in 1925 and was a member of New Hope Primitive Baptist Church near Cairo. Surviving are six sons three daughters a brother and a sister 32 grandchildren and 417 great grandchildren.
A State Patrol report says three men escaped injury in two highway wrecks near Boston. At 2:30 p.m. William B. Neal, 56, of Sneeds Fla, and James I. Surles, 63, of Lovette Fla, collided three miles west on U S 84. Another crash at 7:30 p.m. involved J D Denson, 93, Boston, who lost control on U S 84, skidded 300 feet, and halted after veering into a ditch.
A 15-man CAP Cadet platoon led by 2nd Lt Franklin Jones completed an overnight survival drill at Thomasville Municipal Airport. They slept on the ground, navigated by stars and practiced survival techniques, returning to the city this morning. A similar exercise is planned for Saturday night with at least two more in August.
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