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Some are, many are not. "Raw agricultural products," meaning those that go from grower to buyer without processing, are exempt from price controls. They include fruits and vegetables sold at the supermarket produce counter, but not meat and eggs, which are trimmed, packaged or otherwise "processed." Imported foods, like other foreign goods, are surtaxed on entry to the U.S. and are not subject to price controls on original sale, but are thereafter...
...Salandini, now 43, has been a passionate promoter of Cesar Chavez's efforts to organize California farm workers. Lately, wearing a serape with Chavez's stylized eagle emblazoned on it, Salandini has been saying Mass on an ironing board in front of the Palm City house of Grower Robert Egger, a key figure in a farm labor dispute. He has refused repeated orders of San Diego Bishop Leo T. Maher to wear vestments other than the serape, and to stop using corn tortillas as Communion bread. (Wheat tortillas would apparently be acceptable under recently authorized changes...
Grisly Mess. The grim series of discoveries in Yuba City began one morning two weeks ago, when Goro Kagehiro, a Japanese-American grower who has orchards just north of town, glanced down between two rows of peach trees and noticed a freshly dug hole about the size of a grave. When he returned that evening, the hole had been completely covered up. Uneasy, he came back next day with the deputies, who soon found the first dead man. What followed turned into a grisly mess that outranks the more gruesome mass murders of the recent American past: the 1966 killing...
...Antle, a lettuce grower, and Dow Chemical Corp, jointly obtained an injunction a week ago against United Farm Workers' strike and boycott activities. Antle's contract with the Teamsters' Union provided the grounds for the injunction...
Hearings on the injunction against UFW strike and boycott activities begin in Salinas, Calif., today. Bud Antle, a grower contracting with the Teamsters, and Dow Chemical Corporation jointly brought the injunction against Chavez. Dow owns 17,000 acres of Antle's land...