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4 THOY DAILY NEWS riday October 12 1973 Millers turn wheat in to marketable flour I Mr The rising cost of an American staple NOTE: A soaring worldwide demand' for wheat is reflected the price of bread on the supermarket shelf Today in the second of a three part series the Troy Daily News traces what happens to the valuable grain between field and flour By ANN WILLIAMSON Troy News Staff Writer In early July when the heads hang heavy on the stalks the combines roll into the fields and commence the wheat harvest WMr 4y X1 jjLift £fi iKrfedME gghHBEjn IBfcngfllfles Mill manager Harry Thrush holds finished product The soft red winter wheat grown in Miami County and the rest of Ohio is not the type of wheat used in the making of bread It is the hard red winter wheat grown in the Plains states that is used in bread production Local wheat is milled into flour for baking cookies cakes crackers etc The protein rich hard red winter wheat is more suitable for bread It does not dry out so quickly as does the soft variety This explains why a cake dries out more quickly than a loaf of bread Durum is still another type of wheat grown in the northwestern states and used to make spaghetti noodles and macaroni i After the wheat has been bought by local elevators it is in turn sold to millers Although the types and varieties of wheat may differ the milling process for all varieties is the same In earlier times almost every community had a flour mill But with industrialization most of the small mills have disappeared giving way to a few huge grinding plants However there is one small mill still thriving in this area Nagel and Son Mills located in Pyrmont three miles southwest of Brookville The mill grinds out a high quality pastry flour which it sells to individuals as well as large bakeries Harry Thrush the manager of Nagel Mills buys wheat from various local graineries such as in Tipp City for 10 to 15 cents above the price paid by the elevator to the farmer now paying anything from $480 to $510 for a bushel of said Thrush The finished pastry flour is now sold for $13 per 100 lbs and $675 for a 50 lb bag A month ago a 100 lb bag sold for $10 and in mid August the same bag sold for $9 trying to hold the price down now We hope it rise any more nn 1 Mon Sat 7 1 am Sunday 8 10 pm Prices effective thru Monday Oct 151 973 Scot Pride Queen of Scot VANILLA I ICE CREAM ORANGE JUICE 1 I 09 1 1 12 OZ 4 VCARTON CAN A O' i i A nrM I ir 16 oz Cans 16 oz Cans Whole Kernel or Cream Style STOKELY I STOKELY CORN I I GREEN BEANS I Jj CZ 4 Vo 89jJ Semi Boneless 74 Sliced Pork Loin DINNER STYLE 1 I HAM I I PORK CHOPS 1 A Take Advantage of Our Big 25c DINNERWARE SALE A Different Piece Will Be eatured Each Week This eatured Item DINNER PLATES See Troy Daily News or Complete Details "Miami County's pangles 1490 Main 1 75 and Rt 41 Quantity Rights Reserved finest Supermarket" MARKETS Accept ood Stamps but we be sure" said Thrush "This mill is the first pneumatic mill in the United claimed Thrush "We opened here in ebruary of 1958" In a pneumatic system the wheat and flour are driven through hoses by air under pressure as if they were liquids Pneumatic systems are being installed in mills around the world to replace the old screw conveyor and bucket elevator systems Upon entering the system wheat is run through grinders The next major step introduces the broken particles of wheat and bran into a huge boxlike sifter where they are shaken through a series of cloths" or screens to separate the larger from the smaller particles Pneumatic systems are also completely sealed and self cleaning which makes it easier to keep a mill spotless and dust free Dust is one of the greatest hazards in milling A single spark in a flour laden atmosphere will produce an explosion The smaller particles of endosperm reach the bottom of the sifter Here they are graded by size and carried to separate purifiers In a purifier a controlled flow of air lifts off bran particles while bolting cloth separates and grades coarser fractions by size and quality The outside of the kernel is called the bran The lining between the bran and the white endosperm (flour) is called the middling Small amounts of the bran and middlings are used in breakfast cereals Most of it however is used in the feed for stock It is at the end of the milling process that the flour is bleached and enriched An enrichment formula would include a combination of thiamine niacin riboflavin and iron Mills in the Great Plain states then send the flour to bread bakeries across the country After the flqur has been through the various stages of grinding the Pyrmont mill sells it to the Keebler Baking Co in Cincinnati the Richmond Baking Co and Bluebird Bakeries in Dayton Many local families also buy their flour for home use here It is interesting to note here that grocery stores have recorded a declining family trade in flour during past years This reflects a decline in home baking and a trend towards commerically baked products including breads TOMORROW: The baking of bread I A 'g" a Jp'r i I Win Xs rX 1 A 7 in ''WR Xwfel These machines grind 135 pounds of wheat into 100 pounds of flour Automated movies come to Troy is coming to Troy and if you think poor English wrong is the name of the former Sherwood Cinema reopening tonight in the Sherwood Shopping Center under new management is the name given to all theaters owned by American Automated Theaters Inc of Oklahoma City lessee of the theater constructed just two years ago AAT is a franchise operation and the local licensee is James Powellwho recently moved to Troy from Arlington Heights Ill And the management and ownership of is not all new according to Powell who says that the theater will be almost totally automated opens and projector is turned he continued we use oniy one projector because all tle film is on one automatic transport mechanism This gives complete continuity to the film there are no sudden bursts of sound or different light levels as is sometimes experienced with the conventional two or three projector Lang said theater patrons will notice a difference in screen lighting not using the old carbon element lamps The projector has a Xenon lamp which gives uniform lighting all over the screen Lang said that with the carbon element lamps formerly used was always a hot spot right in the middle of the screen with that area being tbe brightest and the lighting becoming dimmer towards the All booking will be done by AAT according to Powell who said that the theater would show no rated films going to show PG and GP movies primarily and probably an occasional but definitely nothing rated Powell said the theater will open tonight with and that the first five weeks of bookings will be movies never shown in the Troy area before Upcoming features will include "Oklahoma and "The Thief Who Came to I Dinner Mayflower Thea ter showed "Jeremiah earlier this 1 summer) The box office will open nightly at 6:30 with the show starting at 7 pm matinees will be offered every Saturday and Sunday beginning Oct 20 Automated equipment still being installed in the theater yesterday will control total operation of the house lights sound levels and the showing of the films according to AAT Sound and Projection Engineer Ken Lang theaters have no said Lang operator merely threads the projector and then presses a button The automation equipment does the rest" "The house lights go down the curtain Trojans report seeing UOs A series of felt in some areas of Troy last night plus the appearance of Jupiter Mars and Venus in a cloudless sky triggered numerous reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UO) according to Troy police Officers say they received dozens of telephone calls reporting sightings but could offer no definite explanation The were probably sonic booms from high flying aircraft according to one officer who said he definitely heard and felt the sound at his home in Meadowlawn Officials at Wright Patterson Air orce Base in Dayton say no aircraft from that field were flying at super sonic speeds last night but did indicate that overflights could have been made from other air bases in the country Scotts Year End Sale! 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