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FORM 4 OMB APPROVAL
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ---------------------------
[ ] Check this box if no longer WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 OMB Number: 3235-0287
subject to Section 16. Form Expires: September 30, 1998
4 or Form 5 obligations may STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Estimated average burden
continue. See Instruction 1(b). hours per response.... 0.5
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility
(Print or Type Responses) Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting | 2. Issuer Name AND Ticker or Trading Symbol | 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s)
Person* | | to Issuer (Check all applicable)
Vermylen David B. | Keebler Foods Company (KBL) | _____ Director _____ 10% Owner
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(Last) (First) (Middle) | 3. IRS or Social | 4. Statement for | _____ Other (specify below)
| Security Number | Month/Year | __President - Keebler Brands____
| of Reporting | N/A |----------------------------------------
677 Larch Avenue | Person (Voluntary) |-------------------------| 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
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(Street) | | Date of Original | _X_ Form filed by One Reporting Person
| | (Month/Year) | ___ Form filed by More than One
Elmhurst Illinois 60126 | | N/A | Reporting Person
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(City) (State) (Zip) | TABLE I - NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security | 2. Transaction| 3. Transaction| 4. Securities Acquired(A)| 5. Amount of| 6.Owner-| 7.Nature
(Instr. 3) | Date | Code | or Disposed of (D) | Securities | ship | of
| (Month/Day/| (Instr. 8) | (Instr. 3, 4, and 5) | Beneficially| Form: | Indirect
| Year) | | | Owned at End| Direct | Bene-
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| | | | Amount | (A) | Price | (Instr. 3 | Indirect| Owner-
| | Code | V | | or | | and 4) | (I) | ship
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share | 4/9/98 | G | V |100,318 | D | N/A | 100,318 | I | (1)
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(1) On April 9, 1998, the Reporting Person transferred 100,318 shares of Common Stock in the form of a gift to the David B. Vermylen
Declaration of Trust dated August 22, 1997 (the "Trust"). The Reporting Person is the trustee of the Trust, the beneficiaries of
which are the Reporting Person and various members of the Reporting Person's immediate family.
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). SEC 1474 (7-97)
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained
in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number.
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FORM 4 (CONTINUED) TABLE II - DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security| 2. Conversion| 3. Transaction| 4. Transaction| 5. Number of | 6. Date Exer- | 7.Title and Amount
(Instr. 3) | or Exercise | Date | Code | Derivative | cisable and | of Underlying
| Price of | | (Instr. 8) | Securities | Expiration Date | Securities
| Derivative | (Month/Day/ | | Acquired (A) | (Month/Day/Year) | (Instr. 3 and 4)
| Security | Year) | | or Disposed | |
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| | | | (Instr. 3, | Date | Expir- | | Amount or
| | | | 4, and 5) | Exer- | ation | Title | Number of
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| | | Code | V | (A) | (D) | | | |
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8. Price of | 9. Number of | 10. Ownership | 11. Nature of |
Derivative | Derivative | Form of | Indirect |
Security | Securities | Derivative | Beneficial |
(Instr. 5) | Beneficially | Security; | Ownership |
| Owned at End | Direct (D) or | (Instr. 4) |
| of Month | Indirect (I) | |
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Explanation of Responses:
/s/ Thomas E. O'Neill July 30, 1998
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**DAVID B. VERMYLEN Date
By: Thomas E. O'Neill, as Attorney-In-Fact
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a)
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form
are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number.
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LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned, David B. Vermylen, hereby constitutes and appoints Thomas
E. O'Neill and Nichol McCully, and each of them, with full power of substitution
and resubstitution, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents to:
(1) execute and deliver for and on behalf of the undersigned (i) any and
all Forms 3, 4 and 5 relating to Keebler Foods Company (the "Company")
required to be filed in accordance with Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") and
the rules thereunder and (ii) any and all schedules relating to the
Company required to be filed in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
Exchange Act and the rules thereunder (together, the "Forms and
Schedules"), in the undersigned's capacity as an officer, director
and/or controlling person of the Company and in and all other
capacities pursuant to which such Forms and Schedules may be required
to be filed by the undersigned;
(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
Forms and timely file such Forms and Schedules with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this power
of attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and
conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to such attorneys-in-fact and agents full
power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights
and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and
powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact and agents, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 or Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act.
This power of attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file the Forms and Schedules with respect
to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact and agents.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this 20th day of April, 1998.
/s/ David B. Vermylen
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