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Nabisco Ltd., the Canadian
subsidiary of Nabisco Inc.,
will close its Harnois cookie
bakery at Joliette, Que.,
effective July 23.

1999
The board of directors of
Lance, Inc. has elected Paul
A. Stroup III as chairman,
succeeding Scott C. Lea.

1979

China Peregrine Food Corp.
and Lance, Inc. said they
had reached a definitive
agreement for exporting
Lance's private label snack
foods to China.

Entenmann's, Inc. will expand distribution of its products to the Midwest through
acquisition of the Burny Bakers Division of Beatrice Foods
Co. by Warner-Lambert Co.

The Federal Trade
Commission has issued an
early termination notice
under the Hart-Scott-Rodino
Act in connection with the
acquisition by ConAgra, Inc.,
Omaha, of Holly Ridge Foods,
a supplier of turnovers to
supermarket in-store bakeries,
food service/institutional
customers and quick-service
restaurant markets.
Barilla Alimentare S.p.A.
has moved to expand its
participation in the cracker
business through acquisitions
of the Swedish Wasa crispbread
business from Novartis.

Construction of a milling division
headquarters office for Seaboard
Allied Milling Corp. is under way
in suburban Kansas City, at Merriam, Kas., with completion scheduled within 14 months.
Construction is under way at the
Bogasari Flour Mill in Jakarta that
will raise it to the rank of the world's
largest at a single location.

Rogers C.B. Morton, 67, a former flour miller who gained
considerable fame in national
politics, died April 19 at his

and flour warehouse of General
Mills, Inc. at Buffalo.
James F. Bell, chairman of General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis,
will make the principal formal
address at the 37th annual
meeting of the Millers' National Federation in Chicago.

Richard G. Myers, executive
vice-president of Seaboard
Allied Milling Corp., and Mrs.
Marty Firmage were married
in Kansas City April 17.

G. Heileman Brewing Co.,
Inc. has announced that it has
reached a tentative agreement
to acquire Our Own Bakeries,
Inc. of Marquette, Mich.

Agreement in principle for the
merger of Great Plains Wheat,
Inc. and Western Wheat Associates, U.S.A., Inc. into a
single organization financed
by wheat growers to bolster
export sales was reached at a
meeting of a merger task force
in Denver last week.

The board of directors
of Rogers Foods Ltd., an
Armstrong, B.C.-based flour
milling and
food technology
company
affiliated with
Japan's Nisshin
Flour Milling
Co., Ltd., plans
Bell
to promote
Victor Bell to
president of the company.

estate on the Nye river on
Maryland's Eastern Shore. In
addition to serving in the U.S.
House of Representatives, Mr.
Morton held cabinet posts
in the administrations of
President Richard Nixon and
President Gerald Ford.

Interstate Brands Corp. will
build a new $5.3 million baking plant at Boise, Idaho, to
replace two Eddy Bakeries
plants acquired by I.B.C. at
Boise a year ago.

1939

Excavation has already begun on
the new $2 million cereal plant

Just two blocks south of the Trylon and Perisphere, the theme
center on the grounds of the
New World's Fair in New York,
stands the Wonder Bakery - the
unique exhibit of the Continental
Baking Co.
Paul Ross, secretary of the
Goerz Flour Mills Co., Newton, Kas., and vice-president
of the Whitewater Flour Mills
Co., Whitewater, Kas., was
severely injured in an automobile accident.
L.A. Cushman Jr. was elected
president of the Purity Bakeries Corp., Chicago.
Control of the
Clyde Milling
& Elevator Co.,
Clyde, Kas.,
passed May 1
to John I. Pickerill who has
Pickerill
been elected
president and
treasurer of the company.

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