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Resume Buying of N M Pinto Beans
ALBUQUERQUE N M Oct Purchase of New Mexico pintos beans resumed by the surplus commodity administration and will continue for an indefinite period Rep Clinton Anderson said today Washington advices stated that 1 049 900 pounds were purchased October 15 of which 479 900 pounds were New Mexico beans The government purchases stopped May 8 when surpluses on white beans were taken up but with the resumption of buying under British food demands bids on beans will be received every Tuesday until further notice The price on New Mexico pintos has improved because we are shipping pintos to Britain We hope to get it up to five cents a pound on parity with white bean prices Anderson has waged a battle in Washington in behalf of pinto bean surpluses for the British who have specified white beans With government purchases resuming and white surpluses vanishing the New Mexico pinto has come into demand.