European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday March 1, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 White lightning making Kentucky comeback Frankfort by. A the time honoured outlawed profession of Moon shining is making a comeback in Kentucky where 76 of the 120 counties prohibit the Sale of liquor in any form agents say. A Fei distillin8 poetically halted in Kentucky during the 1960s but started making a comeback in 1980, Carl Harmon a 29-year Veteran with the state alcoholic Bever age Council said recently. Last year Abc axes chopped up eight stills. On wednesday authorities in Eastern Kentucky s Breathitt county raided 11 Homes and arrested nine people on charges of Selling alcohol in dry territory said sheriff Dean Spencer. Almost 3,000 cans of Beer were confiscated along with 245 half pints and one fifth of liquor he said. N Harmon says liquor control agents Are having a Tough time cracking Down on Moonshiner and bootleggers be cause of diminishing Federal support. We do a lot of undercover work like buying from a Bootlegger in dry territory said Harmon supervisor for the Abc s Western District. One of the big problems with our people is that because there s so few of them the often have to work that Lias led to life threatening situations for the state s23 Field agents he said. Although Only one agent was killed while on an investigation in the mid 60s, Bruce Bennett knows the dangers his name was rumoured to be on a hit list three years ago when the Homes of three Bell county officials were bombed. It s just a hazardous position said Bennett Abc supervisor for Southeastern Kentucky. I consider it the most hazardous position in state Law to make matters worse support from Federal agents is being reduced while the new illegal distillers Are becoming older Harmon said. State rep. Tom Jones is sponsoring a Bill in the general Assembly that would give hazardous duty retirement pay to Abc Field agents who have a starting salary of about$1,000 a month. Jones thinks the big Money in the liquor business is the reason for illegal operations. He said Field agents often working alone and undercover sometimes have the Odds against them. A 71 work in ni8htclubs that Are dimly lit Jones be got people that Are mildly intoxicated or heavily j Harmon said today s liquor lawbreakers Don t Bac Down you can mix drugs and booze together and you be go tone wild person he said. In the old Days Harmon said Moonshiner had a lot Louis l amour has gone straight to his fans to protest what he Calls unauthorized editions of his stories. Another publisher has taken some of l amour s stories from his current Book of Short stories and put them into another Book Appeal up photo Book of the same name. At left is the cover of one of the two new authorized l amour editions by Bantam books. At right is the Back cover of the Book with his request that fan read Only the authorized books. More principle in their ways of fending off the opposition often pulling string across the path to a still to warn reve Yuers to stay away. The new offender who mixes drugs with alcohol has created new problems As have cuts in the number of agents with the . Bureau of alcohol tobacco an firearms Harmon said. Tuat s kicked a lot of duties Back on us Harmon Haven t gotten any bigger but we be assumed a lot George Teston at s assistant special agent in charge for Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia said the Federal government is now concentrating on Large illegal distilling operations mostly in Virginia Georgia and the Caroli Nas. He said the Federal Force in Kentucky started to decline in the late 1970s because the state no longer had Large illegal operations that were considered a threat to the National Revenue. Federal agents generally Aren t responsible for shutting Down Small stills or enforcing local liquor Laws he said. For Bennett and other Abc agents Small production stills and liquor sales in dry counties Are the targets. I consider bootlegging a cancer in society. I think it Breeds All types of crime Bennett said. I feel that we doa great Deal of boy gets a 0,000 Affer in teacher yanks his Tongue w1ster, okla. A an insurance company paid $10,000 to an 11-year-old boy in an out of court settlement after he sued when a substitute teacher pulled his Tongue to get him to be quiet in class the boy s lawyer says. Attorney Bill Perceful said the unnamed teacher told the boy if you can t hold your Tongue i la hold it he said the boy Jason Christopher Graham who was 10 when the incident occurred bled because tissue connecting his Tongue to the Bottom of his Mouth was slightly torn. J Perceful said thursday that the $10,000 payment settled a suit he filed against Wister Public schools in Leflore county District court seeking $25,000 and claiming Jason s civil rights had been violated by cruel and unusual punishment. He said the boy s Tongue was pulled oct. 10, 1984, when he was a 10-year-old fifth grader. He since has transferred from Wister to Poteau schools. Wilma Phillips the boy s grandmother and guardian who is a registered nurse said she took him to a Hospital emergency room. I was flabbergasted she said. "1 decided they were just not going to do that to my grandchild. They were jus not going to do it and get away with Wister school superintendent Wayne Ballew said the boy did not seem to suffer any ill effects after the Tongue pulling incident. He said the substitute teacher was Dis missed that Day. Jason said he already is thinking about what to do with his share of the settlement i m going to College he said. Food terms Lite lean attacked As vague Washington a when is lean really fat Lite actually heavy in calories and both words at least confusing often it seems in the american supermarket. So rep. Jim Cooper d-tenn., and the consumer oriented Center for science in the Public interest have set out to do some thing about it launching a drive thursday to get Legal definitions set for the words Lite and the struggle for a svelte Waistline and healthy heart have built the diet food business into a $2-billion-a-year and growing Industry with both legitimate and questionable claims being loudly touted in the marketplace according to consumer advocates. Millions of Consumers Are trying to Cut their calories Cut their fat Cut their sodium and millions Are being deceived Michael f. Jacobson head of the Center told a news conference. Consumers have at least been confused if not outright deceived by use of the terms on food labels added Cooper announcing his new Bill to set a Legal Standard for the words. It is consumer health that is at stake. Nothing is More important he said. " Lite and mean seem to be the most commonly used product descriptions perhaps exceeded Only by new and while there Are rules governing phrases such As Low or reduced calorie rules affecting the widely popular Lite and lean Are either ambiguous or confusing Cooper said. Current rules allow such strange Labelling As one Brand of Lite Beer containing More calories than another company s regular Beer a snack Chip labelled Lite because it has a lighter texture than the firm s regular product and a Light fish that has More than twice the calories of the same company s regular version. He said his proposal would provide definitions for the two words regardless of How Lite is spelled to counter confusion m the marketplace. While some products Are labelled Light the spelling Lite seems to have become More popular on la Bels. We think a Bill like congressman Coop or s is essential Jacobson said citing the example of a legally labelled sausage that said it was made from lean meat but turned out to contain 50 percent fat. Under the Bill products labelled lean or Low fat could contain no More than 10 percent fat by weight and no More than 2 Grams of fat per serving. The definition of Lite would be a com Parison to the regular version of the com Pany s product. To use the term the product would have to contain either one third fewer calories one half less fat or three quarters less sodium than the regular ver Sion. For prepared meat products such As hot dogs and cold cuts the fat reduction would be one third to use the word Lite rather than one half but the calorie and sodium requirements would be the same. In addition to the lean Labelling allowed at 10 percent fat these products could say they were extra lean if they contained 5 percent fat or less. In addition to the Center for science in the Public interest Cooper said his Bill has the backing of the american association of re tired persons the american Public health association the consumer group Public voice and the american heart association
