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Sanger, left, and Powell
Stephen W. Sanger has stepped
down as chief executive officer
of General Mills, Inc., effective
immediately. Kendall J. Powell,
president and chief operating
officer, has been named as Mr.
Sanger's successor. Mr. Sanger
will remain chairman of the
company.
U.S. Bankruptcy judge Jerry
W. Venters on Oct. 3 gave
Interstate Bakeries Corp. an
additional 30 days to either
strike a deal with its largest
union or to develop plans for
a possible liquidation of the
company's assets.
The board of directors of
Nestle S.A.
nominated Paul
Bulcke, the current head of the
Zone Americas
division, as the
next chief execBulcke
utive officer of
the company.
The Agricultural Research
Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has
launched a web portal featuring predictive microbiology
modeling software designed
to assist food processors in
their food safety decision
making process.
Pepperidge Farm, Inc. said
it plans to invest in a new
high-capacity bread production line at its Lakeland, Fla.,
facility, increasing the plant's
production capacity by 31
million loaves per year.
Mark A. Sarvary, executive
vice-president of Campbell
Soup Co. and president of
Campbell North America, is

leaving the company.
The International Association of Operative Millers has
named Melinda
Farris to the
permanent position of executive
vice-president,
the first time
a woman has
served the asso- Farris
ciation in an appointed or elected leadership
position in its 11-year history.

Hamilton, Lanham Machinery Co., Atlanta, were elected
co-chairmen of the Young
Baking Industry Executives
Committee of the American
Bakers Association.
Don K. Vance, a consultant
to the Bakery Division of
Weston Bakeries, Ltd., Toronto, has been named executive vice-president and chief
operating officer of Quality
Bakers of America.

Seaboard Foods has begun construction on a biodiesel plant
built in Guymon, Okla.

Aloysius (Al) J. Blommer, 78,
vice-chairman and director of
Blommer Chocolate Co., Chicago, died Sept. 30 in Milwaukee.

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American Brands, Inc. disclosed it will divest its Sunshine Biscuits, Inc. subsidiary,
the nation's third largest producer of cookies and crackers.

An address on the micro-flora
of wheat flour was given by
Dr. Albert Saeger, professor
of bacteriology at the University of Kansas City, before
the regular monthly meeting
of the Kansas City Section of
the American Association of
Cereal Chemists Oct. 1 at the
Hotel President, Kansas City.

The strongest earthquake to
hit the Los Angeles area since
1971, registering 6.1 on the
Richter scale, on Oct. 1 forced
the evacuation and temporary
discontinuation of operations
at several baking and milling
plants in Southern California.
Most facilities sustained only
minor damage.
General Mills, Inc. plans to
purchase a 100-acre tract at
Covington, Ga., near Atlanta,
as the site of a new consumer
foods production facility.
General Foods Corp., in continuing expansion of its baking operations, has completed
acquisitions of the assets of
The Croissants Bakery, Inc.,
New Haven, Conn.
The board of directors of the
American Bakers Association, in meetings during the
annual A.B.A. convention in
Kansas City, adopted a "new
initiatives program" that directs more A.B.A. resources
into government relations
efforts in accord with the organization's newly approved
"statement of mission."
J.R. Paterakis, H.&S. Bakery,
Inc., Baltimore, and John M.

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Joseph A. Lee, vice-president
of Standard Brands, Inc., said
his company will pay tribute
to the American Bakers Association on the occasion of its
golden anniversary over the
entire N.B.C. network during
the Edgar Bergen-Charlie
McCarthy show Oct. 26,
8-8:30 p.m. The tribute will
reach more than 20 million
listeners.
Cargill, with headquarters
at Minneapolis, opened a
branch office
in Peoria, Ill.,
at the start of
September,
with Robert
McIntyre
T. McIntyre in
charge.
A wheat crop about twice the
normal yield is reported in
a recent Associated dispatch
from atom-bombed Nagasaki.
A Japanese agricultural exporter in the war-torn area,
who has been making a survey in the center of the blast

zone, reports that summer
crops have shown increases
from 50% to 300% over normal yields.
Enrollment in the Milling Industry Department at Kansas
State College reached a new record, 121, for the fall semester.
Broadcasting to the nation
Oct. 5, President Truman
outlined details of the food
conservation program for the
present emergency, disclosing
again that the major savings
of grain are planned through
lessened feeding to live stock
and reduced consumption
of meat and other livestock
products.
Widely known in the milling
and grain trade is Loren W.
Johnson, who
assumed management of the
Kansas Grain
Co. in Kansas
City on Sept. 1,
following its acquisition of the Johnson
Katy elevator of
3,300,000 bus capacity.
A greatly expanded demand
that has developed for family
flour among retail grocers in
the last week or 10 days has
approached the proportions
of a partial run, indicating
a trend toward hoarding by
housewives.
To cooperate with the president's campaign to save food
and to make the most of it for
the macaroni industry, the
National Macaroni Institute
announced a series of spaghetti eating classes throughout the country, starting late
in October.
"Unless we support the Marshall Plan, we might just as
well start preparing for a
third world war," Harry A.
Bullis, president of General
Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, said
in an address at a dinner attended by 260 operatives and
sales and office staff members
of General Mills at the Hotel
President in Kansas City,
Oct. 9. MBN
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