Market Suffers Second Decline
The Dow .Jones average of 3) industrials lost 6.22 to 9 72.61 on the heels of a 15.74 c rop Thursday. That left the a /erage with net declines of 15.19 for the week and 2.67 f ir February.</br></br>Turnover in NYSE-listed issues, including activity in t i o s e stocks on other n arkels around the country, tt taled 31.19 million shares.</br></br>The dayÛªs damage would h[ive been considerably worse had it not been for some late buying that s lowed up with the Dow d iwn more th,an 12 points lnlf an hour before the c osc.</br></br>Brokers said some traders e 'idently decided to cover s lort positions taken earlier a id do a little bargain hunt-ii g before the market closed f >r the weekend.</br></br>The selling that domi-n ited most of the session was attributed partly to the psychological letdown that ri suited from the DowÛªs in,a-b iity to break through the -rOOO level in several tries earlier in the week.