Page 10 THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1960 Tobacconists blend ‘prescriptions’ United Press Internationa] NEW YORK — Fred Gilbert and Rich Weisberg fill prescriptions in their jobs. They’re not druggists or opticians. The two veteran pipe smokers are “tobacco pharmacists.” They’ll help you find your own personal prescription for that some- times-elusive “perfect” smoke — even if that means a chocolate-mint flavored pufiF. ipe s ticular people,” said Gilbert, owner of Gilbert’s Pipeline Ltd., a specialty 1 E>CAS .ajuuuuuuuuui Money tossed to wind United Press International URBANA, Ill. — Police say a tran sient who has done “some things that weren’t entirely normal” apparently ripped up hundreds of $10, $20, and $50 bills and tossed them into the wind. 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The stores specialty blends are ab out 25 percent higher than regular commercial tobacco, but less expen sive than high quality imports. And how about a comparison be tween regular commercial tobacco and the shop’s special smoke concoc tions? “Ours is natural, no chemicals, no additives — real high quality tobacco from the top of the plant,” Weisberg said. Wrinkling his lips like a French chef asked to compare rabbit with chestnuts to hot dogs, he added, “Some of that commercial stuff is gar bage, floor sweepings." isolated trailer park where he once lived. Police Lt. Charles Gordon said, “As long as the money was his, as far as we can determine, other than lit tering, there have been no laws broken.” Residents of the Lincoln Trailer Home Wednesday discovered hun dreds of dollars ripped into 1-inch pieces blowing along the ground. Police recovered $300 of shredded money but said three times that amount may have been caught by residents. rt Sweet profits roi from Tootsies I ( United Press International NEW YORK — Smile when you say 'Tootsie Roll ” —raos! do — but don’t laugh. Tootsie Roll Industries, the company that makes the little the brown and white wrapper familiar to generations ofAmei NYSE-listed firm with sales of $69.6 million in 1979. Managei pushing hard to make it even bigger. Tootsie Roll management is unusual. Melvin Jordan, cl the board, and Ellen R. Jordan, president, are the husband] who have made the company, whose name is a national uul their personal and their business goal. “While we are at all times conscious of our responsibilitiesiui| company, we re small enough to run in the style ofafamilycoi said Ellen Jordan. “We know all of our employees, their families and their pi The Jordans commute between their Boston home, Tootst] headquarters in Chicago and their vacation home in NewHani| "We do tend to take our business home with us. We soi differ about company policy,” she said. "But we use our strengths — we each handle those areas in which we havee her husband said. This is not to say the Jordans are drudges. An attractive, pei couple, they bicycle, sail and occasionally golf. Both slendet, claim they “eat candy all day.” “We’re high on candy, we nibble at it all day — both oun competitors’, to see what they ’re doing — and our weight hasnii more than a few pounds in years," she said. But per capita consumption of candy is down, and in an reach their 1978 goal of doubling sales by 1982 the Jordans# at volume. They’re introducing new products, pitching their ing to adults as well as children and expanding markets Although the 1979 sales of $70 million were up from $61.33 in 1978, profit margins have been cut by the soaring pri«^| primary ingredient in their products — sugar. 1975 and 1976 sales skidded when sugar prices exploded, candymakers to raise prices and reduce sizes. Jordan pointed with pride to the fact that despite soaring Tootsie Rolls can still be bought for a penny, the same price Leo Hirschfield, the immigrant founder of the company who rolled the first familiar roll 84 years ago and named it for his The first Tootsie Rolls were the first penny candy toim wrapper and all of the ten million rolls produced daily arestiii jimijy) vidually wrapped — no small factor in making it one of ^(owa^cr gui popular Halloween “trick or treat” handouts. 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