Ledger-Enquirer from Columbus, Georgia • 27

Ledger Enquirer Business Thursday April 6 1 995 Airline chairman introduces Coke competitor during stop in Atlanta Associated Press ATLANTA Virgin Atlantic Airways Chairman Richard Branson entered Coca hometown with his own new competitor Virgin Cola overtake Coke around the rest of the world in my the 44 year old entrepreneur predicted doubt do it in where Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola dominate Branson was in Atlanta mainly to tout a long sought agreement giving Atlanta based Delta Air Lines entry into Heathrow Airport via Virgin Atlantic Airways He presented Delta Chairman Ronald Allen a Coca Cola director with samples of Virgin Cola give one to Allen said with a laugh referring to Coca Cola Chairman Roberto Goizueta Sale of WLTZ falls through End of minority tax certificate program sinks the deal station is no longer for sale By Mick Walsh Staff Writer Just when the staff of WLTZ TV had memorized the lyrics to Eyes of comes the news that the proposed sale of the station to Houston business woman Ruth Allen Ollison has fallen through The $43 million deal which was initiated a year ago with the filing of paperwork for ederal Communications Com mission approval went up in smoke Wednesday Broadcasting (of Sa vannah) will continue to own and operate Channel said Bob Walton the vice president and general manag er transfer of the station to Piney Creek Broadcasting company) has been called The reason: Recent Congres sional action ended the minori ty tax certificate program Un der that program minorities (Ollison is an African Ameri can) received tax breaks as an encouragement to purchase ex isting radio and television sta tions Snuffed with the cancellation of the sale was a proposed marketing agreement between Ollison and WXTX TV owner Jack Pezold in which Pezold would make all programming decisions for WLTZ an NBC affiliate Under the original terms of the sale Pezold loaned Ollison much of the money with which she was to buy the station That drew complaints from both WRBL and WTVM Each filed a petition to deny the application for assignment of the license to Ollison arguing that in effect Pezold would control two stations in the same market Walton who was scheduled to retire once the sale was finalized will remain on So too will program director Ron Bartlett are already under way for future program ming and enhancement of pro duction said Walton Ollison who recently left her job as a news producer at KHOU TV in Houston could not be reached for comment Walton said that the station is no longer for sale Dollar takes another battering US foreign banks buy about $2 billion of American currency but financial markets shrug off rescue effort Associated Press WASHINGTON The Clinton administration this time joined by Japan Germany and rance mounted another effort Wednesday to rescue the dollar but financial markets shrugged it off and continued to batter the US currency The ederal Reserve and the other central banks spent about $2 billion buying dollars ac cording to estimates from cur rency traders The massive dollar buying the first coordinated effort since March 2 had only a short term impact Almost im mediately after it was over the dollar resumed sliding against both the Japanese yen and the German mark In late New York trading the dollar was quoted at 8604 yen down from 8621 late Wednes day and at 13725 marks down from 13785 on Tuesday the bearish market sentiment towards the dollar this is just a license for curren cy speculators to make said Michael Evans head of a Boca Raton la economics consulting firm Since the first of this year the dollar has lost about 13 percent of its value against the yen and the mark Private economists said it was hard to predict how far the dollar could decline Any quick turnaround they said would require higher interest rates on the part of the ederal Reserve But since US financial mar kets so far have taken the decline in stride ana lysts said it was unlikely the ed would feel compelled to boost interest rates an eighth time a move that some fear could throw the nation into a recession The dollar buying on Wednes day marked the second time this week the ed has inter vened It purchased an estimat ed $15 billion to $2 billion in dollars on Monday Analysts said that the amounts governments can ex The massive dollar buying the first coordinated effort since March 2 had only a short term impact Almost immediately after it was over the dollar resumed sliding against both the Japanese yen and the German mark pend even when acting togeth er pale in comparison to the $1 trillion daily market in curren cy trading almost never does any good and it is not a particular surprise that it is not doing any good this said David Wyss an economist at DRI McGraw Hill in Lexington Mass Economic indicators take sharpest fall in almost a year Economists deny that country is nearing a recession Associated Press WASHINGTON The main eco nomic forecasting gauge re corded its sharpest drop in 19 months in ebruary Big stock market gains prevented it from falling even further signs point to slower growth and moderation of in flation said econo mist Carl Palash of MCM Mo neyWatch financial advisers in New York City are no signs of a The Commerce Department said Wednesday the Index of Leading Economic Indicators declined 02 percent matching the drop of July 1993 The index had been flat in January after rising 02 percent in December The index is designed to help predict activity six to nine months down the road Three straight moves by the index in the same direction are consid ered a good indication of where the economy is headed The price of stocks was one of only three of the 11 components that advanced in ebruary The stock market which has been rising strongly fell 12 points at the opening Wednes day but later came back The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 104 Analysts said the Commerce Department report had little impact but the falling dollar was giving investors the jitters dollar risk to inflation must be said Allen Sinai of Lehman Brothers The government intervened on currency markets for the second time this week in an effort to prop up the value In another report Commerce said wholesale inventories in creased 12 percent in ebru ary and were up 15 percent in January The January figure was revised upward from the original estimate of 06 percent Analysts said higher invento ries could lead to a cutback in production but do not portend a severe economic decline NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Companies discuss building phone network Associated Press ATLANTA BellSouth Corp and Northern I 7 Telecom Ltd said Wednesday I they are in talks for an agree ment to develop a personal communications systems net work in three Southeastern I states BellSouth through its subsid iary BellSouth Personal Com munications Inc has been working for more than a year to design a wireless network for digital telephone service company recently received fed eral authorization to market 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Va Gerut 20 402 15 15 15 GerNew 16 427 12 12 12 GIANT 252 6 6 6 Gillete 12 26 4242 83 82'Zg 83 Glamis 06 2331 9 8 9 Glaxo 109 17 10209 23 23'4 23 Glened 2379 10 10 10 GlbGvl 42 703 6 5 5 GlbHIt 758 11 11 11 GlobHi 127 265 10 10 10 GlncPI 67 648 8 8 8'Z: GIObM 10912486 4 4 4 GIObNR 414 7 7 7 GlobPriv 17 1830 11 11 11 GIObTR 50 489 6 6 6 STOCKS LOCAL INTEREST Sales Tds High Low Close Change Actava Group (ACT) 6 97 97 97 7 ALAC (AL) 272 41 407 407 AmSouth (ASO) 63 317 317 317 7 Barnett Banks (BBI) 262 467 467 467 Bell South (BLS) 609 607 607 607 7 Carmike (CKE) 18 207 20 20 7 Coca Cola (KO) 1116 587 577 587 7 Delta (DAL) 325 637 62 62 17 ieldcresl (LD) 142 23 227 23 7 1st Union (TU) 453 437 427 437 NC lowers Industries (LO) 24 18 17 18 7 Hilton (HLT) 119 767 757 76 1 Home Depot (HD) 1227 437 437 43 Interstate Bakeries (IBC) 144 147 147 147 NC Johnston Industries (Jll) 1 107 10 107 NC Mart (KM) 3389 14 147 7 Knight Ridder (KRI) 93 56 56 567 7 Lowe's Inc (LOW) 280 357 34 357 7 Mead (MEA) 341 54 53 53 7 PepsiCo Inc (PEP) 1433 407 39 40 Russell Corporation (RML) 123 297 287 297 Shoney's (SHN) 164 107 10 10 NC Southern Company (SO) 1265 217 207 217 SunTrust (STI) 74 53 53 537 7 Synovus(SNV) 110 207 197 207 Total System Svcs (TSS) 7 16 16 16 United Technologies (UTX) 129 697 68 69 7 Vulcan Materials (VMC) 71 577 567 56 7 Wal Mart (WMT) 2329 26 25 26 Westvaco (W) 169 427 417 42 7 A Courtesy ot Robert Thomas Securities A OVER THE COUNTER SECURITIES These quotations are the NASDAQ representative inter dealer prices as of approximately 4 pm Pric es do not include markup markdown or commis sion Courtesy of RobertsThomas Securities Bld Asked American Buildings Co 167 167 Apple 347 34 Apple South 157 157 Atlantic SE Airlines 18 197 Bank South 197 197 BigB 147 147 9 9 Consolidated Coke 297 297 Cott Corp 87 8 Douglas Lomason 177 18 LAG inancial 10 107 Healthdyne Inc 97 107 Hechinger 11 InterCel 127 13 Interface 14 147 Intermet 7 87 Lance 17 MCI Communications 207 Regions inancial Corp 367 Shoe Carnival 47 47 Shorewood Packaging 16 167 Southtrust Bank 21 7 21 United Cities Gas 167 WestPoint Stevens 157 157 Worthington 20.