UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 26, 1995
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Anheuser-Busch places Cardinals on the market
The Associated Press
ST.LOUIS — Anheuser-Busch announced yesterday that it was putting the Cardinals up for sale to focus on its core businesses of beer, theme parks and aluminum cans.
"We have concluded that this compatible fit," said John Jacob, the brewery's chief communications officer.
Jacob said the company again had achieved record third-quarter sales and earnings, but the challenge of achieving them was becoming increasingly difficult.
In addition to selling the Cardinals, Jacob said the brewery would sell its Eagle Snacks division, which makes pretzels, potato chips, peanuts and other snack foods; close its Tampa, Fla., brewery; and reduce wholesale beer inventories by about one-third.
Jacob said the brewery hoped
our objective that they continue to be able to enjoy Cardinals baseball well into the future.
"I also assure you that we will continue to take every step to provide a winning team to our fans while we continue to own the club. That is why we proceeded with our negotiations with Tony
to sell the baseball club to local buyers and also was selling Busch Stadium and its parking garages.
"St. Louis fans are the best in baseball," Jacob said. "They have been generous in support of the Cardinals and indeed in Anheuser-Busch. It is
La Russa, who is our new manager and one of the best managers in all of professional baseball."
Anheuser-Busch bought the Cardinals in February 1953 from Fred Saigh for $2.5 million. The brewery also assumed $1.25 million in Cardinals' debt.
Under the brewery's ownership, the Cardinals have won three World Series titles and six National League pennants. Attendance at Cardinals games has dropped sharply since the 1980s, when the team won three pennants. The Cardinals, who drew more
than 3 million fans as recently as 1989, drew just 1.9 million in the strike-shortened 1995 season.
The Cardinals last won a pennant in 1987, when they lost to Minnesota in the World Series. Since then, they've finished as high as second only once.
THE NEWS in brief
Teacher found guilty of surgery on live cat
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — A high school science teacher whose classroom operation on a live cat was halted by its loud cries has been ordered to spend 100 hours helping out at an animal shelter.
Mickey Duncan pleaded no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge and was given a deferred sentence and community service. The charge carried a maximum sentence of a year in jail or a $500 fine.
Duncan, helped by at least one student, shaved the cat, attempted to knock it out with chloroform and used a sterile blade to make a 3-inch incision
down its left-rear flank, prosecutor John David Luton said.
Midway through the Oct. 3 demonstration, the cat awoke and began crying loud enough for students in other classrooms to hear. The animal was later treated by a veterinarian and adopted by a student.
Luton said the 25-year-old teacher intended to show the students the cat's organs, and had seen such operations while attending college laboratory classes.
Animal rights activists had called for stiffer penalties, including criminal charges.
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