European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Peanut butter crunch on Way the Peanut butter crunch is on its that popular ail american school lunch favor Ite is in Short Supply in the manufacturers representatives predict shortages will also be Felt overseas the army and air Force anticipating have Laid in big we bought All we we still have Peanut said Bill Deputy commander of the air Force commissary system he that its Likely the shortage in the will be Felt eventually in overseas at least in a reduction in the Selec Tion of brands in the the Small Peanut crop Cut in half by last Summers drought has caused an unprecedented Scarcity at the sending prices rocketing and touching off reports of according to United press the Cost of an 1 8ounce Jar of Peanut butter has soared from 99 cents to in some frequently it int available even at the higher in because of the Long pipeline prices lag about three months behind those in the 18 ounce jars Are also up in Price but not at such a the latest troop support Agency Tsa Price Book showed 1 8ounce jars of up from to from to creamy and from to and from 75 to 85 some stores report their shelves have been empty of Peanut butter More than a a up Survey showed big Price increases in every store most store managers said they were being allocated Peanut butter and other types of Peanut products by their whole january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 19 were were completely said Bob manager of a food world store in our warehouse is up a reporter checks Peanut butter Supply prices Are up and stocks Are on a per capita americans consume nine pounds of peanuts Peanut butter accounts for 52 percent of the salted nuts 23 Peanut Candy 21 percent and other products 4 the shortages and High prices Are expected to last months until this years crop reaches the Market place in the Industry spokesmen say that even the 1981 crop could be Short if a Winter drought some store officials predicted housewives will Stop buying expensive Peanut products and switch to Susti they also said hoarding of Peanut butter will Stop when people realize it tends to become rancid if not eaten within a few months of government action to allow larger exports of peanuts into the United states was expected to help hold the line somewhat on the International Trade commis Sion in december recommended the edible Peanut import quota be hiked to 200 million that figure was increased to 300 million pounds last consumer Wolch by Mary Neth John Rolinc of director of grocery Pur chasing for giant which operates 16 supermarkets in northeastern was asked by up about the current level of there is no were on allocation from every there giving us about 20 percent of what we were supplied last its disaster our shelves Are completely empty of Peanut even with the import lifted Well Proba Bly be 75 percent Short of what we me said prices have risen compared to six months the Price is we used to run an and for 99 cents or now its up to were up about 80 to 85 but Price int even a people Are buying up whatever they can Rolinc blamed news reports of an impending pea nut butter shortage for bringing on the shortage it want too bad until the press Story that it would be after press he said his store shelves were cleaned out of Peanut in where 44 percent of the Peanut crop is Tyron coordinator of the Georgia Peanut said the drought and 100 degree plus temperatures combined to Cut the National Peanut crop from million tons in 1979 to million tons in unlike droughts of past the one in 1980 hit All the Peanut producing in addition to they include the second largest followed by North new Mexico and South Spearman said most of the imported peanuts will come from China and both of which produce three times More peanuts than the United other Peanut producing nations Are Brazil and South americans May be surprised when they taste foreign according to its a Bland with very Little of the Peanut cafes reorganizes its Board the army and air Force Exchange serv ice cafes bribery scandal has led to some changes in the Way that organizations Board of directors is that the word from the american logistics association an organization of businesses that sell to the in a report to members about the the which has received National news centers on the 303person cafes buying where employees contract for and Price what amounts to billion a year in consumer so far More than 50 companies have been As a result of investigations there have been 24 convictions about evenly split Between representatives of cafes and officials of companies who offered according to the As a result of the investigation army Gen Richard chairman of the cafes Board of has announced that a Mili tary auditor will be added to the a standing audit committee separate from the finance committee also will be established and the Board will set up a More formal procedure for its reports to the chiefs of staff of the army and the air lbs evening news zeroed in on the scandal with two stories last month one on the other at the same said the the Dallas morn ing news has been regularly running front Page stories on the immediate reason for the news said the was suspension of three sales representative companies who have pleaded guilty to bribery of cafes Dan deeply disturbed that com who pled guilty were still doing business with met with attorneys who had requested Fla Afes not to take this meeting cleared the Way Duane cafes to Fiu spend the the third company had been suspended by cafes on Churchill sales had pleaded guilty to giving 000 to a supervisory merchandising specialist in the cafes toy and Taylor had pleaded guilty to giving to a supervisory merchandising to gain influence in cafes the longer Range reason for the Media continued the Ala is the work of a special task Force made up of the department of Justice Public integ Rity the the air Force office of Spe Cial investigations and the the investigation has been under Way three in this time 11 cafes employees and 15 Vendor companies or individuals have had criminal charges brought against the first lbs Story was an overview of the cafes Mission described findings of corruption and interviewed congressman Melvin and Samuel and the joint chiefs of Daniel reemphasized How seriously his committee viewed the and stated that it must be dealt with immedi it was a memorandum from the joint chiefs of staff that led to the action addition of an auditor taken by the cafes Board of the memorandum was prompted by concern expressed by the House no appropriated fund panel at a 9 meeting be tween the joint chiefs of staff and panel Dan and other members of the House armed services so far the highest level employee convicted As result of the scandal is Walter Lee now serving four years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of bribery and income tax once the second highest civilian officer at the Pur chasing Agency Southwest regional office in san Shepherd pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from a Bible publishing the top civilian official at cafes Headquarters in Dallas also has been implicated in the last Edward the assistant to the commander of was named in a factual resume filed by the attorney in which alleges that a company Selling clothing to cafes paid Money to employees in return for favourable cafes had no comment at the time except to confirm Smith had gone on extended sick since the Onset of the investigation of the general accounting office Gao has published a re effective internal controls needed to pre vent waste in military in the the Gao said that the Exchange management has been slow to recognize instances of unlawful practices and improve controls to deter fraud and among its Gao suggested that exchanges develop a management information system to provide data on the nature and extent of fraud in their operations and develop a management controls system to deter new on the food front whats up on the food front Here Are a few Odds and ends on Avail ability and no availability of some items and what you might expect to see new in the look for different packaging for those cafes hamburger that the word from the defense sup port Region Europe food news published in Wei to minimize the cafes Burger buns Are going to be put up in six pack folded plastic trays in Stead of cellphone in expect to see chocolate Almond marshmallow ice Cream As a replacement for half and 3 gallon containers of till be on hand As soon As the Supply of the latter is there Are some items that you probably wont be see ing for a while at on your local commis says one of these items is the defense personnel support Center disc which pro cures for the reports that it has be unable to buy blackberries for the past two no stocks Are at hand at the european supplies of six Pound cans of corned beef also Are exhausted and there is no indication As to when they will be available the same is True of 29ounce cans of Ham disc also reports that it requested Indus try to provide 29ounce cans of solid pack but received no this Means that As current stocks of Turkey become they will be replaced by cans of solid pack currently there Are no stocks of either canned Turkey or Chicken available at the euro Pean something to look for Flat hot it wont happen but dont be surprised to see such dogs some time in the it seems that a Johns Hopkins univer sity researcher is urging hot dog manufacturers to make six children in Maryland have choked to death on hot dogs since the researcher believes that the Flat dog is less even if a hallowed american tradition would be the Flat weenies  Roll off the