A. Opening

     Information called in by the campus correspondent:

     The Mallory College Food Cooperative opened with flying banners and rock music yesterday. Provost Thomas Palmer and a college alum, Louis Truett, '54, founder and president of the ShopRite supermarket chain, were on hand to send off the manager, David Green, and his staff of a dozen students in their program to bring students a low-cost campus grocery. The school turned over a basement room in the F.L. McCoy dormitory to the student entrepreneurs after Green complained that students were paying exorbitant prices for basics in town.

B. Lobby

     Call from Mildred Cahan:

     The Freeport League of Women Voters will send a 10-person delegation to the state capitol, leaving 8 a.m., Monday, to talk to members of the state legislature about a minimum wage bill, introduced last month and now in the Senate Labor Committee, that would exempt several types of workers from the state minimum wage law. To be exempted: hotel, restaurant and laundry workers, hospital aides, domestic workers, nonclassified municipal and state clerical workers. The local league last week endorsed the stand of the state organization opposing the bill. Mildred Cahan, chairwoman of the local chapter, said, "The bill clearly is aimed at the low-income female worker who now barely makes $6 an hour, a wage enabling her to bob up and down in a sea of poverty."

C. Trip

     Peter Hay, BPOE secretary, press release:

     The Freeport Elks Club announces that 42 of its members and their wives have signed up for a trip this summer to Russia, and 16 will be going to China. The Russian contingent leaves July 15 for 2 weeks: the Chinese group leaves Aug. 15 for 15 days. One couple, Mr. and Mrs. Dale L. Himmelstein, will make both trips. "These will be our 21st and 22nd countries since Dale retired three years ago," Mrs. Himmelstein says. He was a clerk at United Airlines in Freeport for 30 years "and never left the state until his retirement," she adds.