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

DATE: FRIDAY, February 19, 1993                   TAG: 9302190169
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY . . .

Medical Sales Associates of Jackson, Miss., a subsidiary of Littlefield, Adams & Co., has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with the Veterans Administration to make and sell a wheelchair support system. Littlefield Curtis Yonts, head of Littlefield, which also owns Collegiate Pacific and Personal Screening in Roanoke, said the contract will account for "a good portion" of Medical Sales' estimated 1993 sales of $40 million.

Hershey Foods Corp., the Hershey, Pa., operator of a chocolate plant at Stuarts Draft and a pasta plant at Winchester, said Thursday it will redeem on March 15 all $1 million of its outstanding 7 percent Sinking Fund Debentures due Nov. 1, 1997, for 100 percent of the principal amount plus any accrued interest, and its outstanding 9 1/2 percent Sinking Fund Debentures due March 15, 2009, $7.5 million at 100 percent of their principal plus interest and $34.5 million at 104.015 percent of principal plus interest.

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