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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, July 23, 1975
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his very own fire engine in the background. He received Charles, 111., fire department. (UPI)
the 1946 Dodge fire engine for his fourth birthday a couple
Hotdog vendors
rap ‘harassment’
NEW YORK (UPI) — ”1 have the sales
tax,” said Vassilli Mastorias, selling hot
dogs beneath a blue and yellow umbrella
over his sidewalk cart. “I pay the income
tax. I have the license. They don’t bother
me.”
Vassilli may be the exception.
Hotdog vendors’ union chief Morris Horn
said Monday police were harassing his
members — issuing 20 summonses a day to
some.
Horn, of the Frankfurter Vendors Union,
called the crackdown “Moscow tactics.”
He said “high hat” merchants were behind
a campaign that brought thousands of
summonses in the past two weeks.
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Pity the poor hotdog vendor, said the vendors’ union chief
TJ* J. Monday. He is being harassed by the police because “high
11 Igtl hat” city merchants want to put him off the streets. A city
official said only 2,500 of 13,000 street peddlers in New
I - York have the proper license and there was an
I lit I enforcement campaign underway in response to
complaints. This 1975 filer shows a hotdog pushcart on a
city street. (UPI)
Coffee may go up
United Press International
Coffee drinkers around the world may
find the price of their morning cup rising
sharply because of severe frost damage to
Brazil’s 1976 coffee crop.
The worst cold wave in 50 years has
destroyed between 70 and 80 per cent of
Brazil’s 1.2 billion coffee trees, which
produce one-third of the world’s coffee.
The United States buys about 60 per cent of
Brazil’s coffee exports.
The damage could affect the world
coffee supply in 1977 as well as next year,
causing shortages that would drive prices
still higher.
U.S. coffee roasting and manufacturing
firms refused comment on the immediate
impact of the frost on retail prices. But
sources on the London coffee market the
world’s largest coffee exchange — said the
consumer may have to pay at least 40 per
cent more in 1976.
Prices of coffee for future delivery had
soared 62 per cent over a two-day period
by early Tuesday, and prices were driven
higher by bargainhunters at the end of the
session.
In Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Coffee
Institute predicted 70 per cent, or half of
bunch of criminals,” Horn said. “They’ve
been handcuffed. They’ve been put in a
paddy wagon. They’ve been jailed.”
The Fifth Avenue Association, which
represents a number of plush midtown
shops, takes credit for the crackdown.
“It’s true,” said Michael Grosso, the
association’s executive vice president. But
he said they want to be rid of “all street
hawkers,” not just hotdog sellers.
“If it were just one little pushcart, we
would say nothing,” Grosso said. “But-1
counted eight in three blocks the other day.
The umbrella peddlers, the ones with
cheap jewelry and all the different food
hawkers — they are littering.”
next year’s estimated crop of 28 million
bags of coffee, may be lost. Brazil
normally produces about 25 million bags,
although this year’s crop, already
harvested, is only about 21 million bags.
Camilio Calazans, president of IBC, said
“for this year we have enough coffee to
meet both our external and internal
demands.” But Calazans said Brazilians
probably will have to pay more this year
for their customary cup.
Brazil suspended exports pending an
exact determination of the crop loss.
A spokesman for a major U.S. coffee
firm with interests in Brazil said the frost
may have damaged 80 per cent of Brazil’s
crop and cut 1976 production to 12 or 13
million bags.
“The frost was so severe that the
Brazilian government and private trade
interests are estimating the damage will
reduce the 1977 crop to only 14 or 15 million
bags,” he said.
“Because of the seriousness of the
frost,” the spokesman said, “the crop will
not come back in one year as it normally
would under less severe conditions.” He
predicted only a modest recovery in 1977.
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Youngster got real fire truck for birthday'
BATAVIA, 111. (UPI) — Mention the words fire engine
and 4-year-old August Gering’s eyes get as big as can be.
He has a craze for fire engines.
So it was routine a couple weeks ago when August’s
birthday rolled around and he got another shiny red fire
engine from his mom and dad — except this time his
parents drove up in it.
A bona-fide, 19-foot fire engine.
They parked it in August’s yard at his family’s rural
home outside this western Chicago suburb, sirens wailing
and engine revving.
And they told August happy birthday.
“It was Augie’s mother’s idea,” explained his aunt,
Mary Sue Bowman. “She found out this thing was up for
auction at the St. Charles fire department. Her husband
didn’t have too many objections. I think he’s having as
much fun as anybody."
John and Elynor Gering submitted a bid for ssll. They
found out July 7 they had bought themselves a fire truck,
one that still was in use. The next day they drove it home
and presented it to Augie, whose birthday was on the 11th.
“He was just thrilled,” Mrs. Bowman said. “He told
everybody he saw, ‘I got a 1946 Dodge fire engine. It’s all
mine. It’s for my birthday.
“He likes to climb around in the back end of it. He
doesn’t want to be the chief. He wants to be fireman Augie
and fight fires. I think he’s got every toy fire engine there
is ... Every time he asks for a present it’s another fire
engine, another hook and ladder.”
His hobby is gaining followers. Ever since Augie’s
birthday, his yard has been crowded with a dozen other
playmates, spraying each other with the hoses, letting the
sirens whine or just pretending they are fighting a blaze
Sometimes, Gering, a truck driver, will drive the whole
crew around the 30-acre lot, with Augie in his lap and his 6-
year-old sister Kate close by.
It all makes Augie talk softly but firmly about his
future. “I’m going to be a fireman,” he says.
“My dad’s gonna be a fireman, too.”
Not enough fertilizer
MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala.
(UPI) — Fertilizer production
and agricultural productivity
may not be able to meet the
world’s food demands beyond
1980, according to a Tennessee
Valley Authority scientist.
Dr. Lewis B. Nelson, manag
er of agricultural and chemical
development at the TVA’s
National Fertilizer Develop
ment Center here, said fertiliz
er production facilities now
being planned and built should
balance the supply with the
demand by 1980. But, he said
that will carry a minimum $25
billion price tag.
“With the exploding popula
tion of the developing nations,
vast amounts of capital for
fertilizer production and distri-
bution facilities would be
required,” he said. “Even if
this capital could be obtained,
developing countries have nu
merous constraints that hold
back use of fertilizers and the
adoption of techonology.”
Writing in the current journal
of the National Association of
Colleges and Teachers of
Agriculture, Nelson said the
United Nations estimates “that
the current shortfall in 100
developing countries totals
about 2 million tons of fertilizer
a year. They say this is enough
to raise about 16 million tons of
grain, the normal consumption
of about 100 million people.”