Fort Worth, Texas-Based Bakery to Drop Conviction Appeal.(Originated from Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas)

Aug. 27--Mrs Baird's Bakeries, convicted last year of criminal price-fixing, said yesterday that it will drop its appeal of the conviction in exchange for a federal amnesty that promises to close the book on its antitrust troubles.

The Fort Worth-based bakery said that under the terms of the deal it will still pay its $10 million fine and complete the 2,500 hours of community service assessed last year. But the agreement protects the bakery from additional court action involving any other past anticompetitive activities.

The company was convicted in February 1996 on charges that its schemed to fix wholesale bread prices charged to supermarkets in …