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THE BATTALION Page WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1980 White Lightnin’ ‘still’ strikes in Virginia United Press International ROCKY MOUNT, Va. — White lightnin’, kickapoo juice, head- buster, rotgut moonshine — whatev er you call it, folks will tell you., there’s plenty of it to be found in the hills and hollows of southern Vir ginia. Moonshine making is a tradition spanning generations. Residents claim it will be around for genera tions to come — regardless of recent efforts by state and federal “re- venooers.’’ Last week agents of the federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau (ATF) and the Virginia Alco holic Beverage Control Commission began their biggest raid in a decade, arresting 40 people and seizing 39 stills and 3,000 gallons of whiskey in a six-county area. The media loved it — reporters from several major metropolitan newspapers were there to record the event — but area residents were stifling yawns. Kermit “Red” Salyer, a crusading newspaper editor who received anonymous threats when he began writing about moonshine as a public nuisance 27 years ago, called the crackdown “more bark than bite.” “All blown out of proportion,” said Franklin County Sheriff Quint Over- ton, who added he is too busy inves tigating murders, burglaries and drugs to worry about moonshine. “They’ve been making whiskey before I come here in 1959, and they’ll be making whiskey here when I’m dead and gone,” said Overton. “They talk like whiskey’s running in the streets here.” “It’s old as the ages,” said Circuit Court Judge B. A. “Monk” Davis, who is upset because federal officials said lenient judge and lax law en forcement have helped make Frank lin County the major center for moonshine production in the nation. Moonshine continues to flourish in southern Virginia even though production of illicit whiskey throughout the nation has shown a sharp decline, Washington-based ATF Director G. B. Dickerson said. But authorities contend moon shine is no longer the product of bearded, rifle-toting “good ol’ boys” who proudly distill whiskey in the mountains to impress their kin and friends. “The moonshiner of folklore does not exist,” said Dickerson. “Moon shiners are criminals. They are tax thieves who cheat federal and state governments. Their product is usually poisonous and sometimes deadly.” The question that puzzles author ities is just why there is such a large market for moonshine when it co about the same in small quantities booze purchased in state-run liqx stores. Joe, 54, being held at the Frank County Jail on a trespass charge, an expert on the subject. He used make moonshine and still drinks h a gallon a day “when I’m on a drunl He said tradition and taste are t reasons the “juice” is still made. “It don’t make me sick as the oth stuff (store-bought liquor)” Joe sai However, he said, the good sti now has a “kind of sweet taste to it while rotgut “smells and tastes kii of funky.” Asked if moonshine could ever 1 eliminated, Joe said, “I doubt it. imagine a lot of them moonshii makers would starve to death if did.” CHOOSE SAFEWAY BRANDS! Town House Macaroni & Cheese $)) Safeway Corn Flakes ft'iii Cereal FLAKES' n r Lucerne Yogurt r* Edwards Coffee JSsii 18 0z. .... Box Town House Pudding Snacks 4 Ct., 20 Oz. Pica • ••••• I 1% M • I/Ve Gladly Accept U.S.D.A. Food Stamp Coupons! PHOTO & GIFT DEPT. Tfcosff if •mi art ovaitoMe in Hi* following Safeway Store i enfy: Pearland. Katy, Port Lavaca, Bay City, New BratmfeU, Deer Park, TamlMril, Victoria, bath Port Arthur Stares, in Bryan at IMS Briarcrast. in Austin at *411 N. 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The only reason, Kraus claimed,! that he eats garlic and the driver di* likes the smell. The walk, he said, i painful because his leg was injured i a motorcycle accident five years agt The company says the claim by th former philosophy professor at th City College of New York is un founded but Kraus has complaine ! to state and county officials. Kraus, a long-time vegetarian said he has stopped eating garlic o: days he has to ride buses. “But one the authorities make a decision in m favor, I am going to eat more thai ] ever before.” Researchers change sex of lamb fetus By ROSEMARY ALYEA Campus Reporter Animal science researchers a Texas A&M University have con pleted a study that has brought rar chers closer to determining the sex t their herds before birth. The researchers successful! changed sheep fetuses into lamb with the external characteristics or male, but with the chromosomes of female. Dr. Nat Kieffer, a geneticist wit! the animal science department, sai> this discovery could have a great ecu nomic impact on the meat industry Kieffer said ranchers hold hae females to replenish their stock. 1 they had the option of producin' “all-female” herds in any given year ranchers would sell more female and there would be more meat oi the market, with savings being pas sed to the consumer. In the study, the male hormom testosterone was directly injectet into the uterus of ewes in early pre gnancy. This was done through i small incision made along the abdo men, exposing the uterus. “We are the first to use direct in jection in large animals,” Kieffer said. Although other scientists have in jected testosterone into the muscle. 1 and bloodstream of large animals Kieffer said this is the first study tc inject testosterone directly into the uterus. After breeding, the ewes were in jected at different times, but usually between the 10th and 20th day aftei conception. Of 55 lambs born during the six- year study, 53 had the external char acteristics of a male, with 31 being genetically female. However, Kieffer said total sex re versal is not possible with just the injection of testosterone, as was shown in the study. But with new discoveries, total sex reversal is close to becoming a reality, he said. In addition, Kieffer said the study uncovered another important dis covery concerning psycho-sexual be havior, or brain-priming. Psycho-sexual behavior is the in voluntary behavior unique to the separate sexes that is programmed into the brain early in development. The behavior is conditioned by the sex harmones. The males with female chromo somes that were injected 10-15 days or more after conception had normal female characteristics, such as the squatting urination position. Lambs injected prior to 10 days after con ception possessed the standing uri nation stance typical of males. “Our observations of these anim als’ behavior tells us something ab out when the brain becomes primed for psycho-sexual behavior, ” Kieffer said. According to the study, Kieffer said it was concluded that the brain cells responsible for the program ming, or priming, of psycho-sexual behavior are developed after the 10th day of conception. Although Kieffer is interested in continuing the study of sex reversal and brain-priming, he said there are