The Daily Leader from Pontiac, Illinois • Page 4

'Middleman' revenues rise while farmers' returns fall Eric and Martha Nagler Folksingers to conclude current Community concerts Eric and Martha Nagler, contemporary folksingers who draw from the six-generation oral tradition of the Beers family, will appear at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 29, at Pontiac Township High School aduitorium. Their concert will be the fourth and last in the American Bicentennial Season of concerts sponsored by the Pontiac i Association's for 1975-76. Members are asked to be seated by 2:45 p.m.

The Beers family tradition comes naturally to the duo since Martha Nagler is a daughter of Bob and Evelyne Beers. The Naglers have preserved and built upon the Beers family foundation and their music reflects the evolution of a family and the marriage of a centuries-old tradition with the contemporary concerns of life, its sanctity and the celebration of it, to Columbia Artists Management, Inc. Martha Nagler lived on a Montana ranch for much of her childhood, attending a one-room school, learning to ride, and to cook and keep house in the old fashioned way. In the early 1960's her family moved to St. Petersburg, N.

where she finished her schooling before joining her parents for a performing career. She has appeared throughout the United States, South America and India. Her other artistic talents are writing poetry, cooking, sculpture and pottery. Erie Nagler, raised in New York City, took up folk music at 14 and became intrigued with a song's ability to act as a time machine, conveying to modern society the essential qualities of those who lived in a simpler, more fundamental, time. He plays all the stringed instruments of folk music, including banjo and guitar.

The couple met at a musical gathering of friends in 1967, wnen Nagler was working in educational research in Albany By BRIAN B. KING Associated Preu Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Revenue for those who handle food products between the farm and the home kitchen continued to climb last month while returns to the farmers continued' to slip, new Agriculture Department figures show. For example, a composite retail price for all cuts of choice beef which exerts a significant influence on over-all price statistics showed a drop in the retail price of 1.3 per cent from December. At the same tune the farm price for those cuts was dropping 12.1 per cent and the returns to others in the meat- marketing process together rose 14,2 per cent. For the 60-plus U.S.

farm-produced foods used by the USDA's Economic Research Service in its monthly "market- basket" study of the price spreads between farms and food stores, charges for assembling, processing, transporting and distributing the food rose 1 per cent to make four consecutive months of increases. From 1973 to 1974, those i 68 20 per cent; N.Y Married a year later, they througn 1976 9 per 0 Ml" cent. Marketing costs had risen, tired of city life they moved ce fa S' returns Were into a (W-year-old log house on fay i. 8 per from Dea small farm near the hamlet of cem 5e Killaloe Ont. Their primitive- In of the consu mer's hke daily Me there harkens middlemen last month back to that of Martha Naglers 59 5 cents up U9 per great grandfather, George ent from Decem be r) up 4.57 Sullivan.

Cub Scout Pack 175 holds blue, gold banquet DQ. BANANA SPLIT SALE only Reg. 7Sc Two fresh banana slices lopped with three mounds of Dairy Queen, whipped cream, a a a pineapple. Firsl come, lirst servadl TODAY Dairy Queen LeT'S ALL GO TO DAIR-V QUEEN" 802 N. LADD PONTIAC More than 110 guests and family members attended the recent Blue and Gold banquet of Cub Scout Pack 76.

Guests included the ministers of the sponsoring institution, the First United Methodist Church, their families' and the family of institutional representative, William Fairfield. Highlighting the evening was the pine wood derby race and the presentation of trophies to the winners. Winners were: Den 1, Mathew Brading, 1st; Dan Rayburn, 2nd; Den 2, Brett Sandidge, 1st; Jason Vogel, 2nd; Den 3, Bob Leenders, 1st; Troy Woodburn, 2nd; Den 4, Brian Wilson, Glenn Seemayer, 2nd. Jason VogePs entry was judged the most original, that of Brett Sandidge to be best design. Named best finish and grand champion of the race was the entry made by Bob Leenders.

Receiving one year service stars were Cub Jimmy Uphoff, Dean and Mary Hamilton, Joe Stock and Ruthanne Uphoff. Welcomed as a new member and Bobcat was Charles Ifft. Cubmaster John Rhode and his assistant Joe Stock advanced Ron Hansen and Daniel Rayburn to the rank of Wolf. Advancing to Bear rank were Scott Huxtable and Tom Rhode. Denners cords were awarded to Brent Barnes and Mathew Brading.

Glen Seemayer received both gold and silver Wolf arrow points. Troy Woodburn earned a Wolf silver arrow point and Jimmy Uphoff received two silver points. Awarded the Bear Gold arrow point were Scott Huxtable and Tom Rhode. Rhode also received the Bear silver arrow point, along with Brian Wilson. Webelos Scott Spiess was awarded the scholar and citizen activity badges.

Tom Rhode was advanced into the rank of Webelos. The attendance award was given to Webelos. Rhode announced the Cubs will tour the State Police headquarters and radio facility this Saturday, meeting at the church at 1 p.m. Den 3, under the leadership of Mrs. Jerry Keck, assisted by Mrs.

James Woodburn, presented a skit featuring puppets of four former Presidents. Singing was led by Mrs. Dean Hamilton and Jerry Keck. The Rev. David Bultemeier offered the invocation and Den 3 led the flag ceremony.

The next Pack meeting will be March 23. per cent from October and down less than 1 per cent from January 1975, when the farm- to-retail price spreads were at record levels. The farmers' share had risen 1.5 per cent from January to 'January, but was down 1.7 per cent from December and 6.04 per from October, the ERS figures showed. Wholesale and retail price changes lag one or more months behind farm-price activity, USDA economists point out. And some other economists, notably some of those at the FOGARTY ELECTRIC -Prompt Service Free Estimates Phone 844-5364 or Odell 998-2062 NOW AVAILABLE at Your AP FOOD STORE Look for the Book-Magazine Racks.

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Over-all changes in the price- spread since December were caused by sharp increases by eggs and beef, partially offset by declines in bakery, cereal and oilseed-product lines, the ERS report said. For farmers, price decreases were sharpest for poultry and fresh fruits, followed by meat animals and milk. For beef, the American National Cattlemen's Association, which conducts a more limited survey than USDA, reports the lowest average retail prices since last March, with total beef production this year up 7 per cent. On Monday the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service issued a special "food marketing alert" to say that beef, especially that from grain-fed animals, 'is "plentiful" for the first time in almost a year. But if prices to ranchers and foodlot operators for those steers do not pick up through increased retail demand, "the quantity of beef available for consumers during the late 1970s could be significantly restricted," AMS said.

While the ANCA survey of five cuts in 19 cities showed an average price of $1.38 a pound, the ERS marketbasket data for all cuts showed $1.49 nationally as an average 11.9 per cent above a year before. In another statement this week the AMS said the con- troversial revised quality-grading standards for beef, which went into effect Monday after a Ifrroonth delay, will be closely watched for price effects. Some consumerists say they will be to the disadvantage of the grocery-buyer, and the USDA says they will help producers. Larry Read, 32, Pontiac, was sentenced Monday to one year's conditional discharge and fined after he pleaded guilty to a one count of aggravated battery. Judge William Caisley, presiding in the general division of Livingston County circuit court, ordered the sentence.

Read was charged with hitting Joseph E. Richey Jan. 23, Daily Leader, Pontiac, ni. Page 4 1976, in the parking lot at the Fiesta Restaurant. A second count of aggravated battery filed against Read was dismissed on a motion by John G.

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