European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes saturday november 30, 1991 faces n places hard times snuff out lights of tycoon s Christmas display Copeland from wire reports Fried Chicken tycoon Al Copeland a famous collection of 1.5 million Christmas lights that form a twinkling fantasia of elves snowmen Reindeer and santas will remain packed away in the dark confines of a warehouse this Holiday season. Copeland founder of the now financially troubled Popeye fast food Empire began in 1977 a amassing the display that has grown to include 60,000 strings of lights. He first mounted them on the Lawn of his Home in Metairie la. The Christmas Light show grew every year until 1985, drawing hordes of sightseers who created traffic jams but riled neighbors who did not appreciate the uproar and congestion caused by the crowds. The Louisiana supreme court ruling in a Lav suit filed by Copeland a neighbors in 1985, ordered that the show must be moved to another location. Copeland had his lights set up the next four years at the new Orleans Headquarters of Popeye and Al Copeland enterprises but by 1990, was negotiating to have a Public Park in Metairie become permanent Host of the display. Last fall officials of the Louisiana department of agriculture contacted Copeland about moving the display to the grounds of the state Capitol in Baton Rouge. Copeland agreed and the lights became a major attraction in the capital during the Holiday season. According to Bud Corson assistant to the state agriculture commissioner negotiations with Copeland for the return of the lights to the state Capitol for a second year broke Down Early this month. Al Copeland enterprises entered chapter 11 financial reorganization proceedings in april according to a spokesman at Popeye  attack no excuse the prisoner mumbled a a in a having a heart attack a but the judge sentenced him to the maximum term for grand theft. Leon Walton 41, Cleveland was sentenced wednesday while lying on his Back on a cell floor in Cuya hoga county common pleas court. Walton had collapsed and was gagging clutching his Chest and appeared to be Drifting in and out of consciousness according to witnesses. But judge James Kilbane who called Walton a cunning Faker consulted with a nurse who had examined Walton and declared him in Tiptop shape. The judge ordered deputies to lift Walton from his holding cell floor adjacent to the courtroom and into a wheelchair. When the deputies refused to obey those instructions Kilbane ordered the court reporter his Bailiff the defense lawyer and the deputies to gather in the holding cell for sentencing. A now what do you have to say for yourself a asked the judge after sentencing Walton who was still on the cell floor. Defense lawyer Tom Shaughnessy said the incident left him flabbergasted. A How could 1 effectively represent a Guy who slaying there on his Back saying a Yea Aua a Shaughnessy said. A my feet Are 6 inches from his face and in a saying a in a trying to help you  a a what a going to happen when the poor Guy wakes up it was just the wrong thing to  some courthouse workers said that twice before judges had tried to sentence Walton for stealing Tbone steaks Worth $30 from a supermarket. Each time Walton had slipped into what one Bailiff called his a Fred Sanford  a i knew with that big crowd that gathered it  look Good a said Thomas Kilbane the judges son and Bailiff. A but this Guy was just a bad  Deputy Frank Fenn said he has watched Walton suffer seizures since the mid-1970s. Apparently the Prospect of going Back to prison increases Walton a cart rate and makes him weak in the Knees Fenn  in the Kremlin Robert Haas admits the Prospect of opening a Scottie Mcbean russian style Coffee shop inside the Walls of the Kremlin constitutes grounds for a a reality check.�?�. But that a what Haas who operates the Scottie Mcbean gourmet Coffee shop in suburban Worthington Ohio plans to do. Hass and Scottie Mcbean corporate accountant James Sharvin will Fly to Moscow Early next year for the second time since october. They Hope to close a Deal with their russian investors that will Lead to the october 1992 opening of a Coffee shop and cafe for Kremlin workers. Later they want to open  for Kremlin visitors. Haas said his a Kremlin blend which combines to just clowning around one of Philly s finest shows that police officers have of sense of humor too. Officer Val j. Mcginnis grins and wears it when a Clown Sticks a balloon on his nose during thursday s thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia. Bust european Beans and a Milder american variety will be among 35 kinds of Coffee sold at the Kremlin shop. In a few Days he said his special blend will be served during a government reception at the Kremlin. The whole idea began with a Chance meeting Haas had in september with several soviet government officials who were guests of the Ohio department of natural resources. A few Days later several of the officials eager to get involved in private business in Moscow visited his Scottie Mcbean Coffee shop. A the question was popped a would we be interested in doing business in Russia a a Haas said. The rest As they say is  cutting Corners today its easy and its convenient. 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