—Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, May 6,1978
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March food basket prices up 8 cents
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania’s average retail
food basket cost the con
sumer eight cents more in
March than in February,
according to the monthly
food basket survey report
released today by
Agriculture Secretary Kent
Shelhamer.
Shelhamer said that the
statewide average of 14 food
products sampled in rural
and urban stores was $10.89
compared to $lO.Bl in
Leadership
conferences set
READING - The first
session of the 4-H Public
Affairs Leadership Program
was conducted recently at
the Berks County
Agricultural Center, near
here. Nineteen youths from
Berks County participated in
this first of three all-day
sessions.
During the 7% hour day,
topics such as group
building,
clarification, goal planning,
role negotiation and com
munity functions were
discussed in depth. Even the
luncheon was designed into
an exercise of task
management.
At the meeting, officers
were elected and installed as
follows: president, Karen R.
Sattazahn of Womelsdorf;
vice-president, Clay Henry
of 110 Werstler Avenue in
Gilbertsville: secretary,
Susan Beth Stallone of 65
Cardinal Road in
Wyomissing; and news
reporter, Timothy J. Frei of
1649 Westwood Road in
Wyomissing.
The advisors for the group
are: Barbara Stratton,
Extension assistant - pulblic
affairs leadership; Dr. W.
Harry Schaffer, Community
Resourse Development
agent of the Pennsylvania
State University
Cooperative Extension
February. “The March
survey a second straight
month of food price u>
creases after a seven month
decline,” Shelhamer said.
“This reflects seasonal
changes in supply patterns
as well as a five-cent in
crease in the cost of coffee.”
Food basket costs had
risen 32 cents in February
after reacing a record high
last July at $10.96.
The monthly survey,
conducted by the
Service; and Mae D. Bleiler,
Extension home economist.
Their next meeting will be
Saturday, May 13. They plan
to have elected and ap
pointed government officials
present to discuss local
government operations.
The major objectives of
the 4-H Public Affairs
Leadership Program are to
teach a process for group
leadership, to develop an
awareness of community
services and operations, and
to encourage participants to
become future community
leaders. The program is
being sponsored by the
Berks County Cooperative
Extension Service of tne
Pennsylvania State
University.
values
The trucking industry’s
safety record has seen a
steady decrease in accident
rates in the past three
decades. The near com
pleted Interstate System
where the fatality rate is half
that of non-interstate
systems, has contributed to
this improved safety record.
Estimates based on data
obtained from state highway
authorities and the
Department of Tran
sportation show accidents
for tractor semi-trailers at
4.70 per million miles
compared to 11.36 for
passenger cars.
Agriculture Department’s
Bureau of Rural Affairs,
compared the prices of 14
sample “food basket” items
in rural and urban stores and
is aimed at providing con
sumers with retail food price
trend information.
According to the survey,
the average food basket
price in March was highest
in the northwestern part of
the state at $11.14. Lowest
prices were recorded in the
northcentral region of the
state where the food basket
cost an average of $10.65.
Four of the six regions
showed food price increases
during the month, with the
greatest increase in the
southwest central region
where the cost of the food
basket rose 51 cents. Prices
declined 33 cents from
February to March in the
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northeastern region of the
state.
The difference in the cost
of the food basket purchased
in urban and rural stores
stood at 2.51 per cent. The
food basket cost an average
of $10.77 in urban super
markets compared to $11.04
in rural stores.
The spread between
namebrand and Storebrand
items decreased to about 10
per cent during the survey
period. A comparison of
eight of the 14 food basket
items showed the average
price of namebrand items to
be $7.92 while the same
Storebrand items cost only
$7.12. February figures had
shown a 92 cent or 12 per cent
difference, between
Storebrand and namebrand
items.
Items increasing in cost
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during the March survey cheese, from $1.63 to $1.66 a
include fresh pears, up from pound.
47 to 48 cents, a pounds items, which decreased in
coffee, from $3.32 to $3.37 a cost were cabbage, from 29
pound; bread, from 37 to 38 to 24 cents a pound; canned
cents a pound loaf; com- peaches, from 36 to 35 cents
flakes, from 66 to 67 cents a a pound; and eggs, from 83
pound; whole chicken, from to 81 cents a dozen large
58 to 59 cents a pound; eggs. Potatoes, canned com
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$1.09 a pound; and American about the same in cost.
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