EXHIBIT 24.2
                                            

      I, JOBETH G. BROWN, hereby certify that I am Vice President
and Secretary of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, with its principal office in the City of St. Louis,
State of Missouri, and as such in charge of its corporate records,
including minutes of meetings of its Shareholders and Board of
Directors.

      I further certify that the Board of Directors of said
corporation at a meeting duly convened and held on the 26th day of
March 1997, as shown by said records, adopted the following
resolution which has not since been amended or rescinded and which
is in full force and effect at the date hereof:

      RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors does hereby authorize
      (a) the proper officers of the corporation to execute a power
      of attorney in the name and on behalf of the corporation in
      favor of August A. Busch III, W. Randolph Baker, and JoBeth G.
      Brown, or any of them (with power of substitution in each) and
      (b) the execution by the directors and officers of the
      corporation, or any of them, of a power of attorney in favor
      of said attorneys, and said powers of attorney shall empower
      such attorneys, or any of them, to do all acts and things and
      to execute any and all instruments on behalf of the
      corporation and on behalf of such directors and officers,
      including the execution of the corporation's 1996 Annual
      Report on Form 10-K or any amendment thereto, which such
      attorneys, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable to
      enable the corporation to comply with the reporting
      requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission in
      respect thereof.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said corporation this 24th day of September 1997.



                   JOBETH G. BROWN                  
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                   JoBeth G. Brown
                  Vice President and Secretary