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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.”
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‘Garlic breatl
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United Press International
HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — A
84-year-old man says a bus drive
discriminates against him because h
eats garlic.
The driver for Sunrise Coach Lin
in Long Island’s Suffolk County wi
not stop in front of Arthur J. Krau
house, making him walk 300 fee
Kraus said.
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