The Brandon Sun from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada • Page 12

12 THE BRANDON SUN, Sotwdoy, April Wo' family living foodbasket Tomatoes push up total cost with KAYE HOWE FOODBASKET PRICES Ml .95 1.82 .98 I MARCH Sirloin tip rout 1 lb. Slightly higher I Ctntr cut pork 1 lb. I Chicken 1 lb. Ground chuck 1 lb. $21 Cod Fill.t 1 lb.

Butter 1 lb. Tomato 1 lb. Apples 1 lb. A Coffee 1 lb. $20 Frozen pees 1 lb.

Etc medium 1 doi. Breed 24 oz. Whole milk 1 qt. poteto id $19 Peen canned 28 m. I SUE" kgs.

$18 $15 A .95 1.24 1.14 .71 .31 1.52 .48 .88 .42 .56 TV i.4o March .78 'Tlal1-" 1.33 1 A 0 I ZL. L-Zi I Rally King Kennedy, an original "golden girl" of the Shubert Choir, winner of vocal and piano classes at the Rotary-sponsored music festivals, a popular teacher at Earl Oxford junior high in other days, is now Professor Kennedy at the University of Manitoba. Following in the footsteps of her late husband, Dr. Frank Kennedy, her recent career includes setting up an elementary physical education program for children while she was a graduate teaching assistant at the U. of Minnesuta.

After several years of teaching in the Winnipeg school system, she joined the physical education staff at the U. of Manitoba five years ago. Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Clarence King, the latter a music teacher, Kathleen King was a girl of many talents.

She was recently elected to two honor posts: membership in Delta Kappa Gamma, an international honorary society of key women teachers and to the position of executive secretary of the University of Manitoba Centennial Committee preparing for 1977 celebrations. New name Lii Cera blinked as in neon lights from the masthead of Maclean's magazine when the year was a babe. Editor of Crafts, Elizabeth Hay Cera was born and grew to her university age at Virden, Man. where father was town clerk. Her sister, the late Lillian Hay, despite the semi-invalidism occasioned by a drug-prescription error, was the most brilliant of book reviewers in the history of the Winnipeg Free Press.

During Liz Trott's (first marriage name) Toronto years, she taught English and art in assorted high schools, raced the pavements doing stories for a financial magazine. Married to art display director, Rene Cera, of Eaton's Toronto for the past decade, they had retired to his Lenox, Mass. home in the heart of the Tanglewood-Birkshires' country. Every Toronto social occasion of recent years when Liz Cera appeared, she carried a tote containing knitting, crocheting, macrame-knotting. Her page in Maclean's, by curious coincidence, contains directions for fancy knitting, crocheting and macrame-knots.

From around the world, Liz Cera has sent her spontaneous combustion poems wirtten in the contemporary idiom withiio apologies to Japanese Haiku. One that grows wistful over her Prairie beginnings is FLAT VERSE curious how i had forgotten this need for the full bowl of the sky The food basket showed lower prices generally for meats, the 13-cent increase being due mainly to slight increases in tomatoes, apples, peas and pears. Due to Winter Fair activities which tied up the staff, there is no comparison of Brandon prices this month. (12-City Average) including codfish, pears and bread. Itegina: Sirloin dropped 30 cents to $1.68 and eggs dropped 30 cents to 58 cents.

Chuck dropped 22 cents to 56 cents. Tomatoes were up 19 cents at 69 cents, sugar was up two cents at $1.35 and pork rose six cents to $2.34. Apples were down four cents at 26 cents and pears were down two cents at 77 cents. The cost of the 17 items in the food basket was $16.77, 51 cents less than in February. In March, 1975, the basket cost $15.97.

Edmonton: Codfish rose 20 cents to $1.19 and tomatoes jumped 36 cents to 59 cents. Chicken was up 10 cents at $1.09. Pork and chuck dropped 10 cents to $1.65 and 69 cents respectively. Wieners decreased six cents to 89 cents, coffee was down 10 cents at $1.29 and sirloin decreased four cents to $1.75. The price of 14 items in the basket was $14.79, up 20 cents from February.

Bread, peas and pears were not available. In March, 1975, the basket cost $14.04. by CATHY McKERCHEK The Canadian Press A dip in tomato supplies caused by a delay between Mexico's winter and spring crops resulted in increased tomato prices across Canada in March, says a spokesman for the Ontario Food Council. However, the spokesman said that tomato prices are expected to decrease within the next few weeks as the Mexican spring crop appears on grocery store shelves. A monthly Cross-Canada Survey by The Canadian Press found that tomato prices increased in 10 of 12 supermarkets checked.

In Edmonton, the price jumped 36 cents a pound to 59 cents, while Winnipeg had a 34-cent increase to 59 cents. In Saint John, N.B., the price jumped 30 cents to 89 cents. The food council spokesman estimated that the arrival of the Mexican crop will cause the price to drop by between 10 and 20 cents a pound. Meat consumers got a break in March as beef prices continued to decline, the survey showed. Prices fell in seven cities surveyed, Ottawa had the largest decrease on a heef cut 35 cents to $1.63 a pound for sirloin tip roast.

Larry Campbell, director of information for the Meat Packers Council of Canada, said in an interview Wednesday that the beef slaughter rate this year is about seven-percent higher than in the first three months of 1975. "It's part of a long-term cycle," he said. "A few years ago, producers were getting a good return for their beef, and this acted as an incentive to expand. "Now, there is a continuing large supply which should last until about the end of the year." However, he said the price of steaks is expected to increase in late Apr 1 and early May, "when people start thinking about barbecues." 1 He added that pork prices remain high because of a low hog slaughter rate. The slaughter rate this year is down 15 per cent from the first three months last year.

The CP survey of 17 items in the food basket is conducted in the same supermarkets in 12 cities on the last Tuesday of each month. The basket includes one pound each of sirloin-tip roast, centre-cut pork loin roast, topgrade chicken, ground chuck steak, all-beef wieners, frozen cod fillets, butter, tomatoes, frozen green peas, drip-grind coffee and apples. Also included are one dozen medium white eggs, one quart of whole milk, a 24-ounce loaf of white sliced bread, 10 pounds of potatoes, a 28-ounce can of halved pears, and two kilograms of granulated white sugar. Some findings, compared with February, as well as the total price for March, 1975, are: Ottawa: Sirloin dropped 35 cents to $1.63 and pork rose seven cents to 1.68. IngersolO CHEESE SPREAD It Vs 1" jt Nabisco SHREDDIESV 24 oz.

pkg. (680 g) SKIM MILKY 4 POWDER 5 lb. poly bag (2.27 kg) cents and cod rose two cents to $1.21. Coffee decreased three cents to $1.46, bread was down two cents at 39 cents and chuck decreased one cent to 68 cents. The price of 14 items in the basket was $14.30, up 37 cents from February.

Tomatoes, peas and pears were not available. In March, 1975, the basket cost $13.74, not including peas and pears. Toronto: Pork increased 30 cents to $1.86 and tomatoes were up 20 cents at 79 cents. Chuck rose 12 cents to 98 cents. Both sirloin and wieners decreased 10 cents to $1.78 and 88 cents, respectively, while coffee, at $1.57, was down 10 cents.

decreased 10 1 cents to Bread dropped eight cents to 43 cents, butter was down three cents at $1.09 and chicken was down four cents at 88 cents. The cost of 14 items in the basket was $14.73, up seven cents from prices for the same 14 items in February. Peas, apples and pears were riot available. In March, 1975, the same 14 items cost $14.55. Winnipeg: Tomatoes rose 34 cents to 59 cents and pork rose 14 cents to $2.79.

Chuck was up 10 cents at 99 cents, milk rose four cents to 55 cents, eggs rose two cents to 84 cents and chicken rose one cent to 99 cents. Sirloin decreased 10 cents to $1.99, apples were down 19 cents at 40 cents and coffee dropped 10 cents to $1.33. The price of 11 items in the food basket was $12.69, up 26 centa rom the price for the same 11 items in February. Codfish, bread, potatoes, peas, pears and sugar were not included. In March, 1975, the food basket cost $15.02, not as though life were some kind of ache that needed this kind of cupping.

Christine Macleod, known to hundreds of nurses who took their professional training at Brandon General Hospital in the "Macleod 1923-1945, writes with characteristically firm hand to young friend, Ruth Donaldson Harwood, I'll be 93 on May 20. Under separate cover we are writing Jack Lord and.Fje:0 about the latest xiproff by the Honolulu Beach Boys branch of Mafia "Intrt Our roriginal experience was first day on Waikiki. We walked with a package of purchases down to the beach to join friends. Maria of CBC was talking to Cesar Romero, stretched out six-foot-four getting the sun. Putting our package on the sand, we took out camera, walked 10 feet closer to the two pepole racing their talk in Spanish, snapped two pix; turned around to discover the package was gone.

A half dozen beach boys formed a crescent just beyond. One of them had purloined the package of 10-dollar purchases.) Young Brandon couple on a February holiday, drove their rented car to a Honolulu beach area. The iady carefully hid her purse as carefully as possible in a car before they moved out and locked up. Two cars away a duo of beach boys were sitting on a curious location, the top of the luggage compartment. They were the look-out pair.

The Brandon couple chose a spot on the beach not 200 yards from their car, the latter fully in view. Two hours alter they discovered the lock picked, the purse gone containing flight tickets, travellers' cheques, credit cards and two hundred in cash. The pineapples may be sweet but tourist treatment is sour! Anna Wall, officially an acting magistrate with limited powers in the absence of the magistrate for Brandon, reported Christmas season experience aboard a Caribbean cruise ship. One of 800 passengers, she noted in the day's program of events a meeting for all service club members, an assembly with certificate presentations to maintain attendance for their back-home service clubs. She walked into salon to discover 20 or so assorted Kiwanians, Rotarians and Kinsmen of Canada.

She was the sole woman. Question marks popped in every pairs of eyes. She explained that she was a Quotarian, a member of an international women's service club patterned on the classification system of Rotary Int. She reported that her home town club at Brandon, Man. had just fulfilled a service pledge ($1,200) in supplying therapy play equipment in Assiniboine Centre for handicapped children.

The information resulted in a cordial welcome and a gathering into the fellowship with fellow service club people. yr time when w- must 'ph perfect- rIckPs pjJJJH kkr WOMEN MEN! STOP! THINK! OF YOUR FUTURE NOW HWDMSMG PAYS TOP SALARIES! let Pollock Beauty School Help you Plan your Professional Career! Write or call your nearest POLLOCK BEAUTY SCHOOL 369 Colony Winnipeg Brandon Ph. 942-0606 Ph. 72746,0 A sore that doesn't heal, or a lump that doesn't disappear may not mean cancer but, when you recognize a change in your normal state of health, a medical check-up is your best bet, says the Canadin Cancer Society. ii Chicken rose 27 cents to cents, potatoes were up cents at $1.35, apples increased 14 cents to 32 are honored 0 S9 28 Golden Delicious APPLES Canada Fancy Grade 5 Maple Leaf BOLOGNA By the piece Sliced BEEF LIVER it WM ff $100 pj pj 55 lb.

kW mkW jm 0 4 49 in invitmon The residents and staff of Hilkrest Place cordially invite you to attend our Annual Spring Tea to be held Tuesday, April 6, 1 976 from 2 4 p.m. IN RETAIL QUANTITIES ONLY SALES "COPYRIGHT EATON'S Featured will be a croft sale, bake table and a while eepfionl table. We (he todies of the Royal Purple os servers. 1 940) CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED.