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Thursday, September 5,1985AThe Battalion/Page 5b ;s r g in Brit- md slepi I -• Arthur I id routed I mortally ters from lort d'Ar- rennyson »’e embel- ing it into with dm- regarded is merely ters, since fantasy ot lly every- s legend; nnbridge- nd Arthu- ting is that my finger gin of the I on mouth I" histon retells At- >f Merlin elaborate lerlin ast est Wale rthur. Hf ist anothet ids iagrie are kuled , teeteraif nity. nsort wilt ary apan ; as explaii by attnh vity to the to dismis as fictioni riously. torical en- in a serie lack to the ts refer to t both At- lived ha« thy dollop i the field I Whiskey Museum has thousands of artifacts Scientist believes fire-ravaged gully may hold victims of Custer's Last Stand Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — In a fire- blackened gully on the Montana prairie, an Arizona scientist sus pects he has found the graves of the remaining victims o( Custer’s Last Stand. Twenty-eight of the bodies of the 266 soldiers who were slaugh tered 109 years ago have never been recovered. The University of Arizona’s C. Vance Haynes, an Indian wars buff since boyhood, has a hunch that they are at the bottom of a thread of an arroyo called Deep Ravine. But Haynes won’t be able to prove his theory until at least next year. Mud in the ravine pre vented excavation this summer. “As near as we can tell, those guys are still there,” Haynes said. He believes they are entombed in a cut in the stream that was “at least six feet lower than it is to day.” Haynes bases his belief on dif ferences in soil texture in the ra vine, which is a half-mile from the Little Big Horn River. Haynes, a geologist, archaeolo gist and authority on stratigra phy, the arrangement of soil and rocks in layers, spent two recent weeks at Custer National Battle field, near Crow Agency, Mont., with a team of excavators that for a second summer tried to resolve some of the controversy over the battle. Gen. George Armstrong Cus ter, in one of history’s more clas sic imprudences, thought on June Twenty-eight of the bodies of the 266 sol diers who were slaugh tered 109 years ago have never been recov ered. 25, 1876, that he could easily overpower Sitting Bull and his Sioux Indians. To his fatal surprise, he was outnumbered 10-1 by the Sioux and Cheyenne. Not one of the troopers from the Seventh Cav alry commanded by Custer sur vived. Most of the troopers were bur ied in the field, and most of their officers in military cemeteries around the country. Custer was interred at West Point, N.Y., where he had grad uated in 1861, one cadet removed from “the goat” — the scholastic bottom of the class. But the remains of 28 mem bers of Troop E never have been accounted for. Indian accounts suggested the men were trapped — and annihilated — in Deep Ra vine. So that is where Haynes looked. A wildfire in 1983 wiped out vegetation on the rolling range- lands and helped the excavators by exposing the soil for their search. The scene, Haynes said, is about a third of a mile from where Custer fell. Eroded soil has washed in above where Haynes believes the bodies to be. Unfortunately, the ground-wa- ter level in the ravine bottom was so high that Haynes’ backhoe bogged down in the mud. That precluded any real removal of the overlying dirt. Haynes hopes to return next year to sift the site by hand. His chances are uncertain. Over the past two summers, the archaeologists have uncov ered literally cases of artifacts: bones, buttons, bullets, weapons and the like. These, they say, will help settle such riddles as the relative battle positions of the Indians and the doomed soldiers. But National Park Service offi cials were deeply divided from the beginning, and still are, over the philosophical Question of whether parks should be exca vated at all. “This is supposed to be the last year,” Haynes said. “But w r e hope we can make a case for going back and testing for those guys.” While in Montana, Haynes made another discovery. He pin pointed on the Yellowstone River the location of an earlier encoun ter between Custer and Sitting Bull, in 1873. That time, Custer won. And he gloated in his official report, Haynes recalled, that he had taught Sitting Bull a lesson he would never forget. “He was right,” Haynes said. “Sitting Bull didn’t forget.” White appoints Houston attorney to Texas Water Commission post Associated Press BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Emma Getz came to Bardstown to inspect her labor of love: the world’s only museum dedicated to the history of whiskey, founded by her late hus band. Oscar Getz, an owner of Barton Brands distillery, established the museum in 1957 in an old home and later moved it to the Bardstown dis tillery. It contains artifacts, docu ments and memorabilia from the American whiskey industry that the Chicago philanthropist collected over 50 years. After Getz’s death in 1983, the distillery decided it didn’t want to maintain the museum, so last year it moved to Spalding Hall, a former Catholic college built in 1826. Several other sites were consid ered for the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. However, the four-story hall behind St. Joseph’s Proto-Cathedral was selected after local officials asked that the tourist attraction remain in the Nelson County town of 6,000, about 30 miles south of Louisville. Mrs. Getz, 85, who is currently writing a book about the 61 years she and her husband were married, helped pay for some of the renova tion work. The museum includes a house shaped whiskey bottle filled around 1840 by E.C. Booz, a distiller from Philadelphia whose name led to the term booze. Also on display is a stone from George Washington’s still and a copy of a tavern grant issued in 1832 to Abraham Lincoln in Illinois. Hun dreds of whiskey bottles and adver tising novelties are in a room made to look like a bar. A copper still that was confiscated in 1952 in Hardin County is on dis play, with the government’s permis sion, as well as a bottle that is said to have been chipped in a raid by Carry Nation, the liquor foe from Garrard County. “Whiskey has never been included in the history of our country,” al though it is one of the country’s old est businesses, said Flaget Nally, one of the museum’s curators. She says many of the artifacts help tell the history of the country from the late 1700s to around 1920. Associated Press AUSTIN — Houston attorney John O. Houchins, a classmate of Gov. Mark White at Baylor Law. School, will be a compromise ap pointee to the Texas Water Commis sion, the Austin American-States- man said Wednesday. The American-Statesman said White’s choice of Houchins was an attempt to settle differences between environmentalists and proponents of water development projects over the next member of three-member commission. Houchins has no background on water issues.. 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According to the suit, Campbell sold at least 167 medical-research partnerships resulting in illegal tax deductions of more than $100 mil lion during the tax years of 1982 and 1983. The potential tax loss to the gov ernment was $26.5 million in 1982 and $23.6 million in 1983, according to the complaint. T he complaint seeks a permanent injunction against the sales of the partnerships. The IRS also is asking that Campbell be required to dis close the names of all investors in the tax shelters. Such a disclosure could mean bills for back taxes, plus interest and pe nalties, for his investors, an IRS spokeswoman said. Justice Department attorneys said the partnersnips also were sold in 1984 and 1985, but would not esti mate in what amount. Campbell’s secretary said he was out of the country Wednesday and could not be reached for comment. In in a prepared statement, his at torney said the research in question was “productive and successful” and “financed through the totally honest and legal use of the research and de velopment deduction enacted by Congress to encourage just this kind of scientific program.” The attorney refused to provide details on Campbell’s business activ ities or his professional background. Under U.S. tax law, investors can deduct from gross income the total amount invested in research. But the IRS alleges that Campbell and his firm “were and are inflating the cost to investors of . . . research so as to inflate tax benefits attributable to such research.” According to Tuesday’s filing, Campbell puts together $600,000 partnerships to fund the activity of Coral Monoclonal Antibody Re search, a Brazilian enterprise in which Campbell owns a majority in terest. 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