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 2003
Brendan J. Donnelly, head of
the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas
State University, director of
the International Grains Program and the driving force
behind a multi-million dollar
expansion at K.S.U., will step
down from his post July 1,
2004.

joined executives of Rich Products Corp. in celebrating the
grand opening of the expanded Rich Products par-baked
dough manufacturing plant in
Fort Erie, Ont.
Dawn Food Products, Inc. has
entered into a supply agreement with Panera Bread Co.
to supply bakery ingredients
and sweet goods to the national bakery/cafe chain.
Flowers Foods Bakeries
Group has expanded distribution of its line of bread,
buns and baked foods in the
northern Virginia region.
Bernard Manischewitz, former president of B. Manischewitz, died Sept. 20 at his
home. He was 89.

A recent shot of construction
work at the Kansas State University grain science complex.
Kevin J. Hunt and David P.
Skarie have been named cochief executive officers and
president of Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.
An estimated 32 million
American adults are on highprotein, low-carbohydrate
diets, according to a new
Harris Interactive survey.
Short- and long-term strategies to improve productivity
and profitability of Interstate
Bakeries Corp. were outlined
Sept. 23 at the annual meeting of shareholders by James
P. Elsesser, chief executive officer, and Michael D. Kafoure,
president and chief operating
officer.
Ofﬁcials of the Ontario government

 1983

was announced Sept. 20 by
Lauren H. Batty, chairman
and chief executive, and pre-

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Batty

vious president.
Pepsi-Cola Co. on Sept. 19
announced its approval for
the use of an 80% level of 55%
high-fructose corn syrup in
Pepsi-Cola and Pepsi Free
post-mix fountain syrups.
McKesson Corp. has engaged
Morgan Stanley & Co., a New
York investment banking
company, to seek a buyer for
its pasta-manufacturing subsidiary, C.F. Mueller & Co.

John Paterakis, president of
H&S Bakery, Inc., Baltimore,
has been nominated for
election as chairman of the
American Bakers Association
at the organization’s annual
convention next month in San
Francisco.

Fresh Start Bakeries, one of
two wholesale baking operations of CFS Continental, Inc.,
Chicago, will break ground
next month for construction
of a $6 million bun baking
plant in the Union Pacific Industrial Park of Kansas City,
Kas.

Robert D. Stuart Jr., 67, will
step down as chairman of the
board of Quaker Oats Co. at
the annual meeting of shareholders Nov. 9. William D.
Smithburg, 45, president and
chief executive officer, will
succeed Mr. Stuart as chairman.

Don K. Vance
has been elected
president of the
Taystee Division of American Bakeries
Co. and a senior Vance
vice-president
of the corporate parent.

Joseph A. Signore, 49, has
been elected president and
chief operating officer of ITT
Continental Baking Co., it

Marc Rich, a leading commodity trader, and his business partner, Pincus Green,
have been indicted by a federal grand jury on 51 counts
of tax evasion, mail and wire
fraud and racketeering. The
indictment is the result of an
18-month-long investigation
of Marc Rich & Co. AG.
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange is considering significant changes in its functions,
both in futures trading and
cash market activities, to assure its continued existence
and growth.

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1943
Edgar H. Evans, chairman
of the board of the AcmeEvans Co., was
honored Sept.
14 by his associates at a
dinner at the
Lincoln hotel in
celebration of
his fiftieth year Evans
of active leadership in the service of the
Acme-Evans organization.
Producers of foodstuffs in
Canada should have no fear
of a collapse of demand
when the war ends, William
Mabane, Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food
in Great Britain, said in Ottawa Sept. 14.
A survey of the views of
millers, grain handlers, bakers and flour jobbers on the
duration of the war, made by
Clem L. Beckenbach, flour
broker of Kansas City, points
to expectations of the cessation of hostilities in Europe
within six months.
Experienced bakers and
cooks are urgently needed by
the United States Navy for
service with the Seabees, according to an announcement
of the recruiting headquarters in Washington.
Promotion of a captaincy was
received Sept. 27 by Hymie
J. Sosland, contract officer in
charge of flour procurement
at the Army Quartermaster
Depot. Captain Sosland was
in the grain business as secretary of Goffe & Carkener,
Kansas City, before entering
the Army a year ago February.
J.L. Welsh of the
Butler-Welsh
Grain Co.,
Omaha, Neb.,
was elected
president of the
Grain and Feed
Welsh
Dealers’ National Association in St. Louis Sept. 26-27. MBN
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