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Coffee prices
Officials blame frost
By JEFFREY MILLS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
leading U.S. coffee company
said today it is selling its prod
uct at a loss and blamed sky
rocketing prices to consumers
on higher costs for imported
coffee beans.
Bill Tower, president of the
Maxwell House division of Gen
eral Foods Corp., told a House
hearing that its recent price in
creases “do not cover current
cost of green beans plus other
higher costs including energy,
labor and packaging.’*
The wholesale price of Max-
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FORT BENNING, Ga.—When the Army wants to land a chopper and there’s place to land
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place to land, Here students from Ft. Benning’s Pathfinder training rappel into a hard to
reach area where they will clear a landing area. (AP)
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well House has been increased i
twice in less than three weeks, I
by a total of 40 cents a pound, i
Tower said the increases have
been necessary because of I
“continually escalating green i
coffee costs in the past year and 1
a half.”
An executive of the Folger i
Coffee Co., the No. 2 coffee <
roaster in the United States, I
told of similar conditions in his 1
company. i
H. J. Lancaster, manager of i
coffee buying for Folger, said,
“We have been surprised' and
disturbed by the dramatic and ]
practically continous increases
in green coffee prices that have
taken place over the past 12
months.
“The rising coffee prices of
the past 19 months have had a
significant negative effect on
Folger’s profits,” he testified.
Members of two subcom
mittees holding joint hearings
on spiraling coffee prices have
blamed the threefold increases
in the last two years on the
government of Brazil, the lead
ing coffee producing nation.
Brazil and the U.S. State De
partment have said a 1975 frost
in Brazil is responsible.
Super tankers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ma
rine architects say it is now
possible to build million-ton
tankers to carry crude oil
across the ocean, reports Na
tional Geographic.
At present the largest tankers
are between 400,000 and 500,000
tons and most of the 4,500 tank
ers now in service are in the
80,000-ton range. But, Geo
graphic notes, there are at least
575 tankers which are 160,000
tons or larger and the demand
for crude oil has pushed up the
size of the ships that carry it.
One oil company executive
estimates that shipping costs
between the Middle East and
the United States are cut by 30
per cent when the crude is
shipped in 250,000-ton rather
than 75,000-ton tankers. Critics
say that these big ships are ill
equipped to deal with the haz
ards of the sea, pointing to re
cent tanker disasters.
Cold remedy
CHICAGO (AP) - Paul Kovi,
restaurateur and wine author
ity, says that wine has long been
thought to have medicinal
value.
Kovi, writing in Sphere
magazine, recalls his grand
father’s remedy for the com
mon cold, which he called “The
Cure of the Two Hats.”
Whenever he felt a cold com
ing on, he took to his bed, cov
ering himself with warm quilts,
but leaving one foot stuck out.
That foot was covered with a
hat. Then he’d call for some
boiled wine. Kovi’s grandfather
said the wine should not only be
hot, but spicy, flavored with
orange peel, cinnamon stick,
cloves and a few peppercorns.
The “cure” required drinking
the wine until he saw two hats.
The next day, Kovi’s grand
father said, he would awaken
“sound as an oak tree” and
feeling ten years younger.
Kovi says that his grand
father lived to be 99, without
ever having the sniffles.
Early geese
SEATTLE, Wash.—Warm, spring-like days have made
the beautiful snow geese more active earlier this year.
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rising and settling over the Skagit tideflats and flying on
to eat in nearby fields. (AP)
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, February 24,1977
Miller is V. P.
Drew Miller, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J.O. Miller of 534 Pine
Ridge road in Griffin, has been
elected to the office of vice
president of the Mercer
University Chapter of Lambda
Chi Alpha, one of the largest
college fraternities with over 200
chapters and colonies in the
United States and Canada.
Grain varieties
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -
The Oklahoma Agricultural Ex
periment Station here has de
veloped a new wheat variety
moderately resistant to the
wheat streak mosaic virus and
a new high-yielding barley vari
ety.
The new wheat, named Rail,
was bred specifically for the
Oklahoma Panhandle and
Western counties
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