European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January the stars and stripes Page 19 modern living consumer watch by Mary Neth when it comes to health and Beauty shopping at the commissary instead of cafes often can give you Here s a rundown of some comparative prices on articles carried at both lets take a look at Home both an cafes store and the nearby commissary carried the following 100 tablets for at the commissary and f at cafes Bayer 100 tablets for s3 cents at the commissary and f at cafes of Fernerd denture 40 tablets for 80 cents at the at the cafes 12 at the commissary and at cafes 38 91 cents at the commissary at some products carried by both stores came in different size by figuring out the ounce or Tablet the commissary buys again proved be winners for Volcks nyquil Sells for for 10 fluid ounces at the at the 6 ounces Sells for its not necessary even to figure out per ounce Cost to see where the bargain a sinus costs for 48 tablets at the military supermarket about 18 cents a at where 24 tablets Cost 88 the Cost of each Tablet is a Little Over a 10capsute Box of Contact is 93 cents at the commissary cents a capsule a 20capsule Box of Contact at cafes Sells for cents a Cap buffering was another clearcut Case of commis sary there 100 tablets Cost while at cafes 36 Cost 96 which adds up to the fact that the same 100 tablets would Cost at that cafes there Are savings in buying bandages at the com there you Only pay for 70 Johnson it at the Exchange 30 Cost As to the two stores mainly carry different the Only direct comparison that could be nude was on the Flintstones 100 Tablet package for children at the com compared to at following arc some More Price comparisons with the Les costly commissary Price followed by what youd pay at cafes wipe n 80 for compared to 40 for 74 cents a 3frcent saving on 80 noxzema medicated shaving 6v4 ounces for 68 cents com pared to 11 ounces for a 15cent saving on ii ounces Rise regular 11 ounces for 77 cents compared to 11 ounces for 95 cents regular and menthol saving 11 91 cents com pared electric 3 ounces for 63 cents As compared to the same amount for 84 cents 13 ounces of adorn extra hold hair Spray com pared to 13 ounces for Gillette foot 9 ounces for compared to 6 ounces for Jergens regular lotion Sells for for 15 ounces at the commissary compared to 4 ounces for 68 cents at cafes a savings of 10 cents an ounce baby magic 16 ounces for compared to 9 ounces 5centsanounce shampoos also were better buys at the commissary 7ounces 77 compared to Brack 11 ounces for compared to 15 ounces for a 3centsperounce savings Earth bom Apricot 12 ounces for compared to 8 ounces for a 5centsperounce savings head 4 ounces for compared to ounces for 95 cents an 8centsanounce Sav shopping at the commissary instead of cafes for health and Beauty products often can give you big Ings tame Cream 16 ounces for com pared to 4 ounces for 95 cents a 15centsanounce savings herbal essence 8 ounces for 88 cents compared to the same amount the savings on toothpastes at the commissary is enough to give you a Toothy 7 ounces for 73 cents compared to 7 ounces for Ultra 6 ounce for 92 cents com pared to 6 once for regular and 7 96 cents compared to some commissary deodorants also were Good buys old spice stick 2i ounces for 70 cents compared to the same amount for right 5 ounces for compared to 4 ounces Tor there were some better buys at the cafes one was a special on pol grip adhesive Cream that put it at ounces for 57 cents regular Price is 86 cents compared to ounces for 75 cents at the cafes also offered savings when it came to Petroleum vaseline Petroleum Jelly Sells at 12 ounces for 96 cents at the commis but the cafes Pam eco Petroleum Jelly costs Only 79 cents for 16 ounces half the Price per if Freim on the Range by Wayne Slater Ane Dami the bidders Wear Cowboy boots and the cattle Are but theres something alien about this glimpse of the american heartland at none of it is locally not the auction barn when the Are not the Brick mansion behind wrought Iron Gates nor the grazing land which stretches As far As one can a the owners of this sprawling cattle ranch Arent even Gary a big boned cattleman in leather sold shows and 78 bulls at the november annual and at pretty Good Hes pleased to what Hes act tax tags to talk an the owners the cattle a wealthy West germ family which rarely visits the spread to the picturesque foot Huls of Eastern the heirs to the Daimler Benz bought Flint Hills Hereford ranch from a Wichita oilman about i years ago and Hind Longacre to manage it foreign interests Are buying Large tracts of they include Ger Nan Industrial italian millionaires from the Netherlands and tycoons from they an people who have typically been from landed families in says Marvin agricultural economist for the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas they Are people interested in diversifying their foreign interests Are buying Large tracts of american portfolios but concerned about political stability in their own and they Are quite Good business people and interested in As an investment Farmland has performed better than the Stock Market Over the past by anybody the Mai foreign Hou lop of Farmland is m Kauth Ulyst with the v Sild parches forded Are a department of Commerce study of direct alien involvement in the United states at the end of 1974 shows that million acres of land were foreign owned and that almost 83 million acres were leased by foreign owned american of that Only about 22 per or a million was identified As it Doest include property held for personal holdings of less than 200 acres or tracts owned by Small a few foreign transactions Are known Prince Ucb ten steins farm in Texas red River area the Busonas zoo acre Norris farm in Illinois the Metler Niche acres in Iowa the japanese Mikamo farm in Wisconsin a 2miuion Bushel Grain elevator in purchased by japans 1 trading to remain foreign investors buy land through a series of intermediaries or invest in Large scale american for saudi arabian interests purchased is percent of tie arizon Colorado land and cattle which owns and leases More than a million acres of it operates cattle ranches in several states and has Busi Ness interests in a Bee packing cattle a commodity brokerage a real estate com engineering firms and a the most popular spot for foreign investors is although Porc bases an being made in the Midwest and Over the last four weve sold about million in real estate to foreign some grazing land and some says Reed Oppenheimer of Oppenheimer a brokerage and land management firm in Kansas in 1977 Oppenheimer industries sold million of Farmland to foreign much of it in Missouri and most the firm handled the Sale of acres to a German family and some acres to an italian both from Rich morals Descygnes bottomland in Bates newcomers to the Market Are from the Oil Rich coun although Oppenheimer says much of the Middle Eastern Money is going into food packing and not that not Light he those people Are out to make the highest interest possible on their the germans and French and italians Are looking for something with a Lon term investment Poten something to leave the Waty at the xenophobia of american car Man Aid  from officials la their native families Ottea go to lengths to conceal their in one a West German investor reportedly contacted a Canadian realty which contacted a Wyom ing who contacted a Chicago which hired a Kansas who in turn found a local broker to handle the sate of a Kansas were up against absolute we dont know who buying says the John director of Rural development for the archdiocese of Kansas hearsay is the Only Way local communities find but they usually cant document the capital is coming that we know because the land is being what we dont know is who is doing it Duncan says Hes not ready to say foreign investment of agricultural land is noting that it brings much needed capital into a sagging agricultural we need More and probably More capital than we can generate internally out of profits or even through he