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1999
Lance, Inc. said it signed an
agreement to acquire Cape Cod
Potato Chip Co., Inc., Hyannis,
Mass., a producer of premium,
kettle-cookies, potato chips and
other salty snacks.

Harrisburg, Pa., area were
returning to normal last week
after some of the plants experienced loss of production as
a result of the March 27 accident at the Three Mile Island
nuclear reactor.

Berkshire Partners L.L.C., a
Boston-based private equity
investment firm, and manager of Fresh Start Bakeries,
Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the
food service baking operation
from Campbell Soup Co.
The Hain Food Group, Inc.
has agreed to acquire the
outstanding stock of privately held Natural Nutrition Group, Inc., a leading
producer and marketer of
natural and organic food
products.
Financier Carl C. Icahn has
acquired an ownership stake
in Delicious Brands, Inc., a
Des Plaines, Ill.-based cookie
marketer.
C. Michael
Clendenin, a
longtime sales
executive in the
baker 's yeast
industry, died
April 10. He
was 52 years old.

Clendenin

1979
Operations at several flour
mills and baking plants in the

The North Kansas City flour mill
of ADM Milling Co. - the fourth
largest milling operation in the
nation - was extensively damaged April 10 by an explosion of
undetermined origin.
The first increase in dues for
the American Bakers Association in five years, 7% across
the board, won the approval
of the executive committee
and the board of governors
at the spring board meeting
held at the Cerromar Beach
hotel in Puerto Rico.
Zen Noh, Japan's National
Federation of Agricultural
Cooperative Associations,
announced plans to construct
a $55 million export grain
elevator on the Mississippi
river at Convent, La., about
45 miles north of New Orleans.
Campbell Soup Co. is negotiating to acquire German

Village Products, Inc., a Wauseon, Ohio, manufacturer of
pasta products.

amendment to the new law
deferring some minor provisions to Jan. 1, 1940.

W.E. (Bill)
Lanham Jr. has
been named
executive vicepresident of
Lanham Machinery Co., it
was announced Lanham
by W.E. Lanham, chairman of the board.

Ill-fated Czechoslovakia is
no more. The dismemberment that commenced last
September has been completed. Germany has annexed
Czechel and taken Slovakia
under her "protection." The
entire proceedings have been
conducted with a brutality
and duplicity unexampled in
political history.

Borck's Country Home Bakers, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn.,
has acquired Sue Ellen High
Country Kitchens, Denver, from Arnold Bakers/
Oroweat Foods, Greenwich,
Conn.
Lawrence D. Williams Sr.,
president of the Creamette
Co., died of a heart attack
at his office in Minneapolis
April 9. He was 58.

1939
Samuel M. Flickinger, president of the S.M. Flickinger
Co., Inc., and one of the nation's ranking wholesale and
retail grocers, died in Miami
April 4. He was 74.
In the face of a statement issued
by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace indicating coolness toward
proposals for the extension of
the effective date of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act, Representative Clarence
F. Lea of California introduced
legislation providing for an

Considerable concern is being shown in some quarters
at the economic position in
Germany and Italy. It is being
suggested that if the people
in these countries were given
access to greater supplies of
food, their rulers would be
less bellicose.
The Diamond Flour Mills at
The Dalles, Ore., owned by
Kerr Gifford & Co., Portland,
is undergoing renovation
preparatory to its re-opening.
The mill has not operated for
more than 10 years.
O.H. (Jack) Horner, of Horner
& Wyatt, prominent mill and
grain elevator
engineer, died
April 13 in
Kansas City of
a staphylococcic bloodstream Horner
infection. He
was 51 years old. Mr. Horner
had been ill only a few days,
the infection resulting from a
boil on his nose. MBN

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