
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990                   TAG: 9006200110
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY

A U.S. attorney in Brooklyn said he will seek indictments against a subsidiary of Getty Petroleum Corp. and one of its officers for an alleged conspiracy with a customer to evade federal gasoline excise taxes in 1985. Getty said it considers the allegations without merit. Getty Petroleum owns the Getty Mart (formerly Hop-In Food Stores) chain based in Roanoke.

Ames Department Stores Inc., which has been in voluntary bankruptcy since April 25, said Tuesday that it had a much larger net loss - $431 million - in the first quarter that ended on April 28 than the year before, while its revenues dropped slightly. The increased loss was blamed on the cost of store closings and non-recurring writedowns in inventory.

Sara Lee Knit Products Inc. plans a dedication Thursday of a Hillsville sewing and packaging plant designed to employ up to 850 people. The ceremony will be at 10:45 a.m., followed by plant tours and a luncheon.

Stewart Sandwiches Inc. of Norfolk has settled a suit that charged it with selling pre-packaged sandwiches that contained a potentially life-threatening bacteria, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.

The Senate Agriculture Committee voted Tuesday to support dairy farmers by setting a minimum government price of $10.10 per hundred pounds of milk for the next five years, well below recent market prices.

by CNB