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Coca-Cola USA sponiornd the_
Beauty Pageant held recently In St.
convention. Twenty-one ,
sponsored by a state Elks chapter,
and swimsuit competitions. .The
scholarship. Coca-Cola USA has i
Pageant for more than ZS years,
trophies, cooler bags, and Th
Cleft to right) are William S. Pat
Beanty and Talent; Harold Stc___
Community Affairs. Coca-Cola USA;
and Miss America of EBtdom IMS; Donald P wUson ^
Exalted Ruler; and Marcia Fingal. MiBS Jersey aad pageant first
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Wcrid Food Need Estimates Decfine
During 1985-86, 68 developing
countries will require an estimated
nine million tons of cereals in excess
of estimated Commercial imports to
maintain consumption at existing
(status quo) levels. This is down 2.4
million tons from the previous
estimate in July and 3.7 million
below assessed needs in 1964-85. To
meet minimum nutritional
standards, the countries would need
18.6 million tons, a 730,000-ton
decline from the July projection and
7 million tons less than estimated
1964-85 needs.
Stock rebuilding by the 69
countries would require an
addKfcnal 866,000 toon of cereals in
addition to consumption needs.
However, physical restraints win
allow the countries to absorb only
about 15.3 million tons, 3.0 million
less than the July estimate.
Maximum absorbable food needs
are currently pegged at 64 million
) tons far Sub-Saharan Africa, 54
million in Asia, and one million for
Latin America.
In Africa, additional status-quo
import needs are projected at 15
million tons, down about 14 million
tons from the July forecast, based on
i, a lowered assessment for
Sub-Saharan Africa an upwaiql
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down 1.7 million tons to around 34
million, occurred in East Africa,
where cereal crops have recovered
more than anticipated in July. The
relatively smaU 80,000-too increase
in assessed North African needs
masks a large production-based
decline in Tunisia and a finance
based increase in Egypt.
, Compared with a year earlier,
status-quo needs for the entire Sub
Saharan region are down 40 percent.
East African requirements are down
40 percent, although crop failures
and civil disturbances have
generated needs of 980,000 tons.
Needs are down 770,000 tons in
Southern Africa, 690,000 in West
Africa, and 1.1 million in North
Africa. In contrast. Central African
requirements have declined only
90.000 tons. Stock rebuilding would
add another 000,000 tons to Africa’s
total status-quo needs, with East
Africa alone requiring a further
450,000. In some countries, stock
building needs may be met by
carryover supplies of cereal aid
delivered in 1904-85.
- Status-quo needs for all of Asia,
projected at 3.5 million tons, are 1.2 V
million tons above estimated 1884-85
needs. Since July, South Asian needs
have been revised downward by
900.000 tons, reflecting improved
production in Pakistan and revised
estimates of Bangladesh’s 1904-85
rice production, cereal imports, and
stocks. Pakistan’s status-quo needs,
however, remain large. In Southeast
Asia, needs are higher than
indicated in July, due to a smaller
expected 1985-88 corn crop and a
deteriorating financial outlook in the
Philippines. While Philippine
requirements have bepn revised
upward, they are still betow those of
1984-85. Overall, Asian stock
adjustment needs are low relative to
additional food naods.
for 1965-86 have I
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commercial I -a
estimated 347,000 tons', total Latin
American needs are 1.1 pdfikg tans
below the 1984-05 figure, reflecting
large financial reserves that permit
increased commercial imports.
However, the large-reserves result
mainly from smaller payments on
outstanding debt rather then
reduced indebtedness. Debt service
payments will be high even if
countries reschedule their debt to
the same extent as in previous
years,. South American stock
adjustment* requirements are Ugh
relative to food needs.
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New Income and poverty figures
recently rale—ad by the U S. Owe
Bureau show that poverty remained
at unusually high levels for a noo
■ recession year In 1984 while the
poverty rate for young black chil
dren eat a record high, according tov
! an analysis of the census data by the
Canter on Budget and Policy Pri
-Soritles.,.; v
The center’s analysis also found
that gaps between black and white
Income widened in U84, and that the
gap between low Income and high
income families in the UJS. pew to
its largest point since the end of
World Warn.
The new figures show that the
national poverty rate declined from
15.3 percent in 1M3 to 14.4 percent in
1384. The number of Americans
below the poverty line in 1984 was
33,700,(|00. However, 14.4 percent
was the highest year since 1988 and
was far above the poverty rates of
toe 1970s.
“Poverty always comes down
when the economy emerges from a
recession,” center three tor Robert
Greenstein said. “What is deeply
disturbing about these figurediaftat
despite economic growth, poverty
came down so little - lees than one
percentage point
"The 1984 poverty rate was far
above toe poverty rates in 1978 and
1977 when unemployment was at
about the same levels as it was in
1984, ” be added. .
The center warned that since un- -
employment has stopped dropping
in 1985 and since wages in 1985 are
lower than in 1984, no further signi
ficant drop in poverty is expected in
1985.
“The modest drop in poverty in
1984 seems to be all toe reduction
we’re going to get for some time
unless federal policies change,”
t—" —
Greens tein commented. “This
means that poverty may be stuck at
a new plateau where eighty-nine
million more Americans 'art in
poverty than in the mid-1970s.”
The center's analysis also noted
an alarming trend toward taersased
poverty among children, especially
minority children. Approximately.
21.3 percent of all children were ptor
in 1964, a rate one-third greeter than
in 1976 and 1677, even though un
employment rates ware about the
same in these three years.
Moreover, while poverty among
all U.S. children dropped some from
1963 to 1964, the decreese occurred
entirely among white children. Par
young black children, poverty hit an
all-time high.
Of black children under the age of
six, 91.1 percent, more than one of
every two were poor in 1964, the
Census BUreeu report shows. This is
the highest level ever recorded since
the Bureau began collecting data on
poverty among young black chil
dren in 1970.
“The figures for poverty among
Mack children are very troubling,”
Greens tein noted. “It is hard to
understand how White House com
munications director Patrick Bu
chanan can hail the new poverty
figures as ‘unambiguous good
news.’” *
The new census data also show
widening gaps between both rich
and poor and blacks and whites, ac
cording to the center’s analysis.
While median family income for
whites rose last year, there was no
statistically significant Chung* in
median black family income despite
the economic recovery (median
family income is the income of the
typical family; at the median in
come, half of all families have
higher incomes while half have
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lower incomes).
Moreover, from 1M0 to 1984, white
median income went up slightly (by
$7t, after adjusting for inflation),
but black median family income Mi
by $680 -Substantially widening the
S^EELSSE1 *'
pical ruac*
’ .^^Chis same pattern ahows up in
widening gaps ketweaa rich sod
. poor, the center found. It reported
that the census data show gaps
between rich and poor in America to
be greater than at any otter time
; since the end of World Warn •*££
/;•{*«* poorest 40 percent of Ameri
can families received a smeller
share of the national income in 1984
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than at any time aim* the Capua
Bureau began collecting this ('
1M7. At the same Urn* the
thleet 40 percent received a
•hare o# the national income
any time since 1*47.
•'The new census data nrevide
persuaaive evidence that theptas
al the racowv are nt
hrtn* evenly shared, and that both
budget cuts of recent yean and
growing inequality of income are
hdpteg to keap poverty raise Ugh
despite some recovery from the
recession,” the center stated.
Further evidence af the iHdening
ppbppm^^ud^oor show up
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It took a certain pioneering spirit to travel the
long road from homemaker (6 being the only
black female beer distributor in America. But
with a little encouragement from us, Essie
Askew has not only made it along that rocky
path but has gone on to prosper. She is a leading
distributor of Coors beer in Illinois. Her special
Combination of business savvy and spark has
allowed growth and expansion for her company
and for the smooth entry of Coors into Illinni*
Coors undoubtedly has a fine future in that
state. For with distributors like Essie Askew,
you can rest assured that “The Best of the
Rockies” will always be there.
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