European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 12. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 higher Coffee prices expected in . Chicago a retail Coffee prices arc expected to Rise soon perhaps by As much As j1.50 a Pound because a drought in Brazil Hiis destroyed a major part of that ration s Coffee crop. No one knows for sure what the ultimate Price will be but there is no question thai retail prices arc going to go up said Dick Pontic a vice president far Slop & shop supermarket co. In Quincy mass. The company has 114 grocery stores in new England. The most in Media signal for Ponte and Soihet merchants across the country Are wholesale prices which have been increasing since last fall. But Ine trouble traces southward to Bra Zil the no. I Corric producing nation where drought destroyed an estimated 40 percent to 65 percent of this season s crap. Major wholesalers in this country have gone through a Serin or Price increases since october the talks on Friday when general foods corp. Increased its Maxwell House Brand by 56 cents a Pound to s3.96 at wholesale Procter & Gamble on wednesday added on 50 cells a Pound bringing its folgers Brand to s3.9s, an increase of si.27 Over its delete Price. Another big american roaster. Chock full o nuts won t say what it charges grocery stores bit has instituted increases comparable to folgers prices also have been rising on the futures Market where traders buy and sell contracts for future delivery to wholesalers leading analysis to expect further hikes from wholesalers. The contract on the Coffee sugar and Cocoa is change in new York for delivery in March was a Little More than jz.60 a Pound on thursday almost double what it was in september analyst Deirdre Mac Leod of Heinold commodities tit Chicago said she expects the futures Price to go to 13 soon and possibly to 13.50 in february. Ponte said his Stop & shop stores now sell Coffee at retail for $2.19 to 2.60, but that was based on previous wholesale prices. Ponte said Stop i shop has not raised prices yet because i is waiting for competitors to make the first move new England prices Ponte said Are usually Well below other sections of the country because of the highly competitive Naturi of food retailing there. Based on the information we have i would t be surprised to see w retail Coffee in new England eventually Polc said. Adding that such increases will be seen nationwide. Whenever there is a change in whole Sale ii has to be reflected at retail said Audrey Mccafferty the manager of corporate news for Kroger co she said most National brands in Cincin Nati where the company is headquartered were increased to a retail Price of $4.09 a Pound last month to adjust for wholesale boasts of 60 to 65 cents. Prices vary at Kroger s 1.300 stores across the country depending on local situations she said but when you have raises of thai magnitude they have 0 be reflected on the supermarket shelves. Bananas in to land Tina Thompson 11, shows off he haul she mate in the Nickelodeon. Toy run in Burkink it Elf. Tini s Post card was selected from hundreds of thousands of entries winning her a shot Al grabbing everything she could in a five minute run through a Bur Hank toy store. She lives in Sioux Falls . Columnist Kraft is dead at 61 Washington a los Angeles times writer Joseph Kraft who Rose from a Job As a teen age sports Stringer to become one of the nation1 most widely read political columnists died Friday at the age of 61. Kraft whose column was Carrara in More than 200 newspapers around the world died at 7 10 p.m., according to Lor Raine Hill a Secretary in the associate director s office of the Washington Hospital Center s patient information office. Hospital officials would not disclose the cause of death Kraft had a history of heart problems according to Lloyd Cutler a former Counselor to president Carter and n Friend of Kraft. Kraft s twice weekly column Wai distributed by the los Angeles times Syndicate to More than 200 american and foreign papers since 19bo, Kraft who travelled around the Globe to interview world leaders was one of two columnists who accompanied presi Dent Nixon on his 1972 trip to China. Kraft who was born in South Orange n.j., on sept 4, 1924, cat his first journalism Job when he was 14 years old As a Stringer for the new York world Telegram covering High school sports. He received a Bachelor s degree from Columbia University in 1947 and attended Princeton University s Institute for advanced study from 1950 to 1951. Lie worked As an editorial writer for the Washington Post in 1951 and 1952, As a new York times staff writer from 1951 to 1957 and As Washington correspond pm for Harper s Magazine from 1962 to 1965. Lie married Polly Winton in january 1960. Radioactive Gas escapes from uranium Plant Piketon Ohio a about 46 pounds of a toxic radioactive Gas escaped into the air during o seven Day period from a uranium enrichment Plant operated by Goodyear atomic corp., the company said the discharge of uranium Cunn Woride which began dec. 27, was discovered by an experimental monitoring system Al the Portsmouth gaseous diffusion Plant in Piketon said Goodyear spokesman Tim he said the discharged material is slightly More radioactive than that which would be found in nature last week 29,500 pounds of the same material escaped from a ruptured tank at a uranium processing Plant owned by Kerr a cock corp. In webbers fulls. Olda., kill ing one person and sending Mure than 100 people to hospitals. Preliminary studies in the Piketon Plant which enriches uranium fur nuclear fuel indicate there have been no and verse effects from Lite discharge on the 30-year-old Plant s 2,000 employees the local population or the environment matched said. The Plant is owned by the . Depart ment of Energy and operated under con tract by Goody cur. Matchett said the department the Feder Al environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio environmental Protection Agency have been notified. Gov. Richard Celeste said in a news re lease that Federal Energy officials told him but Celeste criticized Goodyear for not detecting the discharge before Friday while we were fortunate that the re lease of toxic chemicals did not create As great a problem As it could have i am ext Mely concerned because the incident went undetected for As Long As it did he said. We expect that constant monitoring Means constant  Matchell said the monitoring system is kept constant but the leak was not discovered until a review of the monitoring data was completed  believe residents near the Southeastern Ohio Plant Are in no danger from the leak. Purdue president bans annual nude olympics committee members also expressed another concern allowing students to expose themselves in subzero weather could expose the University to personal injury lawsuits. While insisting that safety was his overriding concern in his decision a caring said he also was mindful of Public relations. The nude olympics he said suggests an immaturity on the part of the students and an uncaring Altitude within the school s administration. It s certainly not a wholesome thing he said. What started As a prank by a few male students during the 1950s has become a full fledged spectacle involving both sexes. Before Bering came o Purdue University officials looked the other Way As crowds gathered for the race on a particularly cold night there s no predetermined Dale. The last runner to drop out of the race is declared the Winner while the committee thai urged the ban included three students other students including some members of the student government have questioned the ruling As has the . It s the one thing a lot of students Sec Ai a Purdue tradition one thing that sell Purdue apart said Ginger l. Thompson managing editor of the Purdue exponent. I m not sure they re going to really be Able to Stop  Only Lime will Tell. Students return monday for the second semester when the race is traditionally held. Beer ing vowed to Lake disciplinary action against any student who defies his order