European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Mash by Eric associated press in probably the Only Guy in the country who gets paid for talking says Roger a Public relations Man for Jack tar Daniels in of in not so sure i could Rel talk any other Jack the nations oldest registered pursues a Folksy Public Fri for two decades a National and Campaign has shown the hollow in which m Jack began producing his whiskey just after the civil War and the people who make it h there have been a Tew perhaps j most embarrassing was an and proclaiming Jack Daniels used Only sugar Maple for its charcoal the accompanying photo showed two employees chopping Down a huge youd be amazed How Many people wrote us about says Bra i just wrote them All Back and said we really do Burn sugar but our advertising Agency was kind of City and oar Guys figured that if they didst know the they were just going to Cut Down the Dearest Damn that sort of Candor has carried Jack Daniels a Long so in that the distillery had to quit Selling its whiskey in some parts of the country to avoid running out the whiskey has to age four or five so planning is a Daniels officials anticipated a 10 or 12 per cent in crease in but were stunned by a per cent gulp last distillery officials say their whiskey contains the Best water in the pure Limestone Springwater from Cave Springs which flows Winter and summer at precisely 56 Jack Daniels is officially called ten Nessee sour Mash it differs from Kentucky bourbons because its filtered through 10 feet of crushed weve got three men who taste Sam Ples of the whiskey As it comes out of these says and if any of them decide it Doest taste we change thais our Quality the Only other sour Mash whiskey maker in the state is the George Dickel distilling about 20 Miles up the they form the linage of Tennessee whiskey and were in their says Dickel president Ralph but its not such a bad Shadow to be a Friend of mine once told Daniels got the name but Dickens got the and that 1 Dickel As Well As Daniels has less Whis key than it would weve told All our distributors that they cant have any More whiskey through next year than they had last Dupps dickers distillery takes its water from Cascade so pure it Doest require and were doing All the other things that George Dickel including letting the sour Mash stand for 24 says i dont think any other distillery has done that since the turn of the Cen they make a Damn Good Al though in not saying it is perfect like says Brashears of Jack you theres three kinds of liquor Drinkin f ight in liquor and lovin he swirling a Glass of the Amber liquid in his this heres Damn Good Drinkin liquor and its almost lovin just 1977 Okefenokee guide Clay Purvis poles his boat in water Channel so Low a motor  be by Wayne King new York times the Okefenokee swamp derives its name from a Seminole word land of the trembling in Normal great areas of the swamps 680 Square Miles will Roll and quake Tike a water bed when Man or animal walks across causing shrubs and even Small Cypress Trees to tilt and a lot of places the trembling Earth solid said 25yearold Clay a swamp guide who was Poling a Flat bottomed boat through the narrow channels into the the water is Down two feel or the lowest its been since 54 and and that when almost the whole swamp burned for he every body says it will happen the prolonged drought that has ruined crops across the South has also so depleted the Mirror like coffe Ebrown Waters that normally surround the Boles of the stately Cypress that Many of the Trees now stand on dry land criss crossed by narrow Riding Down one of past Dahlia like Pond ulies and hollow Pitcher plants lowly digesting trapped Purvis stepped out onto the apparently solid rocked up and and the Earth began to billow and right he you still got pretty much water underneath this vegetation that matted together to form the trembling Spatt Erdock roots Twining to Gether and picking up then other plants growing on it you can fall so you walk soft and think but Many the water is out from under and the Earth is Down on dry the drying out poses no immediate threat to but it is forcing aquatic and amphibian life turtles and the great alligators into deeper pools and into the increasingly narrow dredged boat the dropping water level in the called boat has already forced the elimination of All but the shortest tourist the boats were Purvis and there were the peat explosions they could Block the boat Trail behind so we just gave it the Okefenokee is actually a vast peat us water slowly flowing with the Waters Low and heated by the the so called peat explosions accelerate and become As Purvis poled through the shimmers of bub Bles churned to the amid some of Large slabs of matted peat suddenly burst to the they could Block the the peat is lifted by accumulations of methane a byproduct of the swamps organic a match lighted Over the escaping Gas will often ignite causing a Brief crackle of Reddish flame Over the velvet the flammable Gas itself is not it docs serve As a reminder that the is a tinder Box at Low the vegetation is exposed and dries Purvis sex and then you get lightning or a campfire and its if the peat is dry it will Start to just Inch and you cant put it it might Burn Down 10 feet you wont see any then it will shoot up in a Grove of just such a situation occurred in a disastrous series of five fires in 1954 and 1953 after a severe about acres Wen burned in the swamp and another acres of adjoining the fire took its loll of swamp but the devastation was not even though the flames left much of the swamp blackened and in Recagni remember the fire would leap to the top of the Trees and go through and then youd figure it was but it would Mill be recalled Jimmy assistant manager of the Okefenokee swamp a private and nonprofit Agency Iran chased to operate the in sure it would kill but most wildlife say an animals instincts Tell him to get out of the some get trapped and most badly were the swamps Freshwater Many of which fell prey to the Kalliga during the present the alligators Are amid forced by the receding water into the Gator Breeding and feeding areas cleared by the great the swamps aquatic and amphibian life Are easy game for the night Hunting As food u depleted the picture is Likely to then famine could the Alligator population is in Good shape in any up from in 1970 to in with Only specimens longer than five feet a daytime foray five into the swamp turned up Only la part because much of the area is now inaccessible to boats Ami the bigger Alli Are congregating at the whereas in Normal times males stake out and defend their own territory were getting a lot of Gator Purvis they wont try to bite a but once i was out and a big of female came up and bit the de fending her they just defend but they sure like i they like to eat i dont know what it but  go after we had that old Hes the big 13 or 14 that stays near the he went after a woman dog and you Oscar being so he kindly does what be so he just eat swallowed him the woman like to have a the stars and stripes Page 13