European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 6,1987 the stars and stripes Page Barbecue fans can thank Ford Edison briquettes still made by same 1920 process Parsons . A the Aroma of steaks hamburgers and hot dogs sizzling Over charcoal briquettes permeated Many neighbourhoods on Laborda thanks to Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Ford began making charcoal in Pillow shaped lumps in 1920 to dispose or scraps from his wooden Model t frames and the product was used to cure tobacco and for cooking on ships and trains. Today charcoal briquettes still made by the same process dreamed up by Edison a Friend of Ford arc a major Industry with sales expected to top $430 million in 1987. An estimated 62 million households will Barbecue a meal Over charcoal this year according to the bar Becue Industry  s definitely a growth Industry said Mary Ca Landra a spokeswoman at the association s head quarters in Naperville Iii. That s affirmed by Harold Mccloud manager of the Kingsford products co. Plant nestled amid the Oaks and elms of West Virginia s Allegheny mountains. The company is named for Ford s brother in Law. We run 24 hours a Day nearly every Day of the year said Mccloud. Christmas and easter Are holidays and so is the first Day of Deer Hunting season. I could probably Field a Crew for Christmas but you can forget about the opening Day of Deer  the Kingsford Plant is one of the largest producers in the East supplying charcoal to 16 states from Maine to Florida and Westward to the Ohio Valley. We make a billion briquettes a year Here Sai Mccloud declining to discuss sales and production figures in greater  named . Kingsford manager of the charcoal Plant after it began full production in 1921, and the Ford motor co. Sold bags of briquettes at their dealerships. Before Ford opened his first briquette factory in Iron Mountain mich., cooking with charcoal was risky. Each piece had different Burn characteristics according to archivists at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn  d have a fire that cooked at 600 degrees one time and another time you d have a fire that cooked at 400 degrees said Mccloud. Ours Burn so that cooking temperature of Between 380 and 400 de Grees is  in 1951, Ford sold the business. The Clorox co. Now owns it. The manufacturing process begins when Wood scraps and sawdust arc sucked into a 1,900-Dcgrcc Furnace and reduced to Black Ash the Carbon left after everything else is cooked out of the  Ash then goes to a mixer where sawdust and Coal arc added along with nitrates Lime and Borax to provide for an even Burn and make the mixture stick together. After being steamed the mixture informed into briquettes by presses. We want a Good red glow without a flame that will Cook the food without charring i said Richard Stokes a Quality control supervisor at the Plant. And we Don t want any smoke unless they re pcs quite  the Plant and its i so employees Are important to this economically depressed town of 1,900. God help us if they left said Mariwyn Smith chairwoman of the Parsons chamber of Commerce and editor of the Parsons advocate. Despite the continuous burning the Plant and sur rounding area arc clean. We help out the Little Mills around Here by burning their waste with very Little pollution said Mccloud and All of the broken briquettes dust and other waste gels recycled Back into making  population of american prisons still climbing hits record 570,500 Washington a the  population Rose to a record level in the first six months of 1987, lopping 570,500 nationally and forcing corrections officials to add about 1,000 new Beds a week to keep Pace with the influx. The number of inmates in state and Federal institutions was up 4.7 percent on june 30, compared with last dec. 31, including a 7.8 percent increase in the West the Bureau of Justice statistics re ported. Prison populations Rose 2.5 percent in the South 4.6 percent in the Midwest and 5.1 percent in the Northeast. California s prison population Rose 5,253 to 65,747 As of june 30, account ing for 21 percent of the nationwide in crease so far this year. Criminologists have attributed the in creases to More stringent sentencing by judges and a perception by the Public that police Are cracking Down on crime which has triggered increases in the num Ber of crimes reported to authorities. The Federal prison population Rose 7.3 percent from 44,408 to 47,653 in the six months ending june 30. The population at state institutions Rose 4.4 percent from 500,725 to 522,866. That represented a total prison population change of 25,386 Over the six month period. Five percent of . Prison inmates Are women the highest percentage since record keeping began in 1926. A Short furniture mattress Facto Ryar wire mesh Fence topped by razor wire Chicago Tribune graphic Central Complex includes gym classrooms workshops Law Library Kitchen dining had Chapel since 1980, the number of women inmates has risen 15,000 to More than 28,300, a 111 percent increase. At the same time the number of male inmates increased 71 percent from 225,000 to 542,205. There Are 439 male prisoners per 100,000 men in the . Population compared with 21 female prisoners for every 100,000 women. To producer Quinn Martin is dead at 65 Rancho Santa be Calif. Up1 Quinn Martin one of Hollywood a most successful television producers with shows such As the Fri and the streets of san Francisco died of an apparent heart attack at his Home his publicist said sunday. He was 65. Martin s body was found in a Bath room of his Home saturday morning by his wife Muffet Martin s longtime publicist John Strauss said. Martin s pm productions gave television 16 network series and 20 prime time movies including the fugitive the Fri the streets of san Francis co the invaders Baraby Jones and  Martin sold the company to tall Broad casting co. In 1979 and moved to Rancho Santa be in Northern san Diego county. Martin was born in new York City May 22, 1922. He graduated from Fairfax High school in los Angeles and the University of California Berkeley so a former film editor and a producer with Desilus productions Martin founded pm productions in 1960 and saw i become one of television s major inde pendent production companies. After Selling pm productions Martin still developed motion picture projects through his pm communications com Pany. Free irs booklets explain changes in tax code Washington a the internal Revenue service trying to get americans interested in their tax returns seven months before the filing deadline Mon Day made Public two free publications explaining Many of the hundreds of changes made by the 1986 tax overhaul. We Are trying to get out the message that you can t wait until next april to acquaint yourself with the new Law irs spokesman Wilson Fadely said. He added that the Agency also wants to remind taxpayers once again that they Are required by Law to submit a 1987 w-4 or w-4a lax withholding form to their employer by oct. I. Publication 920 explains major individual tax changes in the new Law which the 1r5 says represents the most sweeping rewrite of the Federal tax code since it was enacted in 1913. Publication 921 explains the business changes. No matter How Many changes were made by the new Law the irs Felt compelled to print on the cover of each Booklet caution at the time this publication was printed. Congress was considering legislation that would change or modify the tax treatment described in some of the discussions printed  the Law Cut individual and corporate tax rates Al most doubled personal exemptions reduced or eliminated several itemized deductions and boosted the Standard deductions for non itemize is. The new booklets Are written in a less formal style and Are More understandable than the usual irs document. They use several tables and flow charts to con Trast the new Law with the old. A two Page six column table outlines All the changes that the average taxpayer is Likely to encounter. The Booklet for individuals has 15 sections each outlining significant changes. One 10-Page Section deals with deductions changes in individual lax cred its Are explained in 1 i pages. Two pages Are devoted to the new method of taxing children s income. The final two pages of publication 920 Are a revised version of a work Sheet of which individuals May calculate whether they Are having enough tax withheld from their paychecks. An employee who fails to file a new w-4 or w-4a before oct. I runs the risk of having too much with held meaning less take Home pay after that Date. Under the Law a single person who has not filed a new form will be withheld As if he or she claimed Only on allowance a married person will be withheld on the basis of Only two allowances. If you filed a new form earlier this year you need not file another before oct. I unless you determine that too Little or Loo much is being withheld. Publication 921 offers extensive explanations of business changes in 10 areas including tax treatment of travel expenses business use of Homes depreciation and the new 80 percent limitation on the deduction for business related meals and entertainment