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Residents prepared for major damage, surprised by mildness of hunk
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) — As her lit
tle brother played “Go Fish” nearby with a pack
of homemade cards, Cara Crowley pulled out
her laptop to peck out the first lines of an es
say about how she spent her summer vacation.
“Today we’re stuck in an old high school,’’’
the 9-year-old Fredericksburg, Va., girl read
aloud yesterday as she sat on the floor in the
lobby of West Carteret High School.
The storm forced her family to flee their
rented condo at Atlantic Beach on Bogue
Banks Island, about 25 miles from Morehead
City. ‘“The hurricane came,” she wrote. “We
couldn’t have picked a better target.”
But compared to past North Carolina hur
ricanes like Fran, Bonnie and Bertha, Hurri
cane Dennis missed the mark. For all the in
convenience he caused, Dennis was little
more than a blowhard.
“A mullet blow is what we call this,’’ Jeff
Tbrnage, a line serviceperson for Carolina
Power & Light Co., said as he surveyed
downed power lines on Atlantic Beach. “Just
a lot of wind and rain.”
Although some residents of North Caroli
na’s fragile Outer Banks were surprised by the
high winds and rain, there was a sense things
could have been a lot worse to the south along
the Crystal Coast.
In Morehead City, an empty tin grain silo
on U.S. 70 blew down, and the Sanitary Fish
Market lost its awning and some roof. Down
the road at the ’60s and ’70s Museum, a ply
wood cutout of late rocker Jim Morrison took
a ride on the storm.
TV Hood ventured out onto a pier at Nags
Head and said it was a rough trip.
“The wind’s blowing 50 mph and I weigh
220 and it was blowing me around,” Hood
said as winds toppled a sign at a convenience
store across the street.
By midday yesterday in Morehead City,
people were already venturing into the trash-
and limb-strewn streets. On the waterfront.
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by Dennis.
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just about every other island ontheii
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five-day vacation.
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as tax hike, new settlement looms
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The
country’s leading cigarette man
ufacturers have raised wholesale
prices 18 cents a pack, anticipat
ing a tax increase and the costs
of a $206 billion settlement with
the states over health care ex
penses.
The move is likely to increase
retail prices by about 22 cents
per pack, analysts said.
Analysts said past data indi
cates that the roughly 8-percent
price increase will reduce de
mand, but not so much to hurt
profits.
“It clearly shows that the in
dustry has the ability to offset
higher costs with higher prices,”
Roy Bury, an analyst at Brown
Brothers Harriman, said.
Philip Morris USA, the world’s
biggest tobacco maker, initiated
the increase last Friday, It was
matched by competitors.
Cigarettes currently cost be
tween $2.50 and $3.25 a pack,
depending on the region of the
country.
Spokesperson at Philip Morris,
Brown & Williamson Tobacco
Corp., and RJ. Reynolds Tobac
co Holdings Inc. all confirmed
the increase yesterday but re
fused to comment.
A spokesperson at Lorillard To
bacco Co. did not return phone
calls.
The price increase is the sec
ond largest in industry history,
behind a 45-cent increase in No
vember.
That increase followed a $206
billion settlement with 46 states
suing the industry to recover
costs of treating ill smokers.
The industry previously set
tled for $40 million with the four
other states.
Now, the industry faces further
cost increases, including a 10-cent
increase in the federal excise tax
set for Jan. 1, and an increase in
settlement expenses from about
46 cents per pack to about 50
cents, Morgan Stanley Dean Wit
ter analyst David Adelman said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who drove up the
price of a computer company’s stock by posting a fake
news story on the Internet was sentenced yesterday
to five months of home detention and five years of
probation.
Gary Dale Hoke, 26, of Raleigh, N.C., also was or
dered to pay $93,000 to investors who bought PairGain
Technologies Inc. stock, then sold at a loss after the com
pany denied the bogus report that it was about to be
bought for $1.35 billion.
Rejecting the prosecution’s request for a prison sen
tence, the judge questioned whether part of the blame
for the scam was the lack of Internet safeguards to pre
vent posting of false messages.
Hoke, a former PairGain employee who did not
profit from the hoax, pleaded guilty to two counts of
securities fraud.
He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison
and up to $1 million in fines per count.
In a separate settlement with the Securities and Ex
change Commission, Hoke admitted disseminating
fraudulent information about Thstin-based PairGain and
agreed to comply with federal antifraud regulations in
the future.
The April 7 hoax pushed up PairGain stock more than
30 percent. TVading on the stock that day amounted to
13.7 million shares, about seven times its average volume.
The price of PairGain stock fell back to $9.38 per
share when the company issued a statement denying
such a deal was in the works.
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