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1999

newly expanded plant of Mrs.
Smith's Bakery of Stilwell, Okla.

A major competitior of ethanol
was dealt a severe blow July
27 when a panel of experts
proposed the phasing out of
methyl tertiary butyl ether as a
pollution reducing agent.

Ellen R. Marram, former
president of Nabisco Biscuit Co.
and more recently the president
and chief executive officer of
Tropicana Products at The
Seagram Co. Ltd., has joined
efdex, an Internet-based trading
and communications company,
as president and c.e.o.

The board of directors of
Schmidt Baking Co., Inc. named
Thomas S. Bowyer Jr. president
and chief executive officer of
the 113-year-old family-owned
company, effective July 23.

 1979
W.R. Grace & Co. relinquished
its position as the world's
largest pasta manufacturer in
announcing the sale of Barilla
S.p.A., Parma, Italy, to a joint
Italian-Swiss holding company
for $65 million. The holding
company, Finabarilla S.p.A. is
headed by Italian industrialist
Pietro Barilla, whose family
had sold the pasta company to
Grace in 1971.

Kellogg Co. has engaged
Goldman Sachs & Co. to handle
the sale of its Lender's bagel unit,
according to a story published
in the July
26 issue of
Advertising
Age magazine.
Saputo Group Inc., a Quebecbased manufacturer and
distributor of cheese, announced
a preliminary agreement to
acquire all of the shares of
Culinar, Inc. for C$380 million in
a cash and stock transaction.

A virtual explosion in the applications of
near infrared
re f l e c t a n c e
instrumentation is under
way at Technicon Industrial Systems,
Tarrytown, N.Y. Lee Perlman, senior vice-president and general
manager, Technicon Industrial
Systems, in an interview with
Milling & Baking News, pointed
to important breakthroughs for
the company in the N.I.R. field
over the past several months.

Scanning technology for the
inspection of pies and a magnetic system for ingredient inspection are among a range
of technical innovations in the

William D. Smithburg, 41,

executive vice-president of U.S.
Grocery Products at The Quaker
Oats Co., has been elected to
succeed Kenneth Mason as
president and chief operating
officer, effective Oct. 1.
ADM Milling Co. has
purchased H. Dittlinger Roller
Mills, New Braunfels, Texas, a
division of Chickasha Cotton
Oil Co., it was announced
last week by H.D. (Joe) Hale,
president of ADM Milling.
Agriculture/food planning
will be an important part of the
activities of a new consulting
firm, The Planning Economics
Group, Boston.
The group was
established
by former
management at
Data Resources,
Inc., Lexington,
Mass., including Scherr
Dr. Bruce A.
Scherr, a vice-president.
Holsum Bakery Co. of Fort
Wayne, a subsidiary of Lewis
Bros. Bakeries, Anna, Ill., has
purchased Dietzen's Bakeries,
Inc., Kokomo, Ind.

1939
The Majestic Flour Mill, Aurora,
Mo., owned by the Charles B.
Stout interests of the DixiePortland Flour Co., Memphis
and Kansas City, was destroyed
by fire July 26.
Samuel Knighton, head of
Samuel Knighton & Sons Inc.,

former president of the New
York Produce Exchange and
past president of the National
Federated Flour
Clubs, now
the National
Association
of Flour
Distributors,
and one of
Knighton
the most
prominent flour
distributors in America,
died July 27 at his home in
Brooklyn. He was 72 years old.
Announcement was made by
the Strietmann Biscuit Division
of the United Biscuit Co. that a
tract of land had been acquired
in Ariemont, a suburb of
Cincinnati, for the construction
of a new biscuit plant to cost
about $2 million.
Herman Steen
has been elected
vice-president
of the Millers'
National
Federation by
the board of
directors.

Steen

Flour is being offered in
hermetically sealed gas-proof
tins of flour pounds each by
McDougalls Trust, Ltd. on
British markets to assist in
the accumulation of stocks in
homes and elsewhere for war
reserve purposes.
Larry L. Brietenbauch, 47,
general manager of the Stanard
Tilton Milling Co., Alton, Ill.,
died suddenly Aug. 5 of a heart
attack. MBN

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