Moonshiner claims moonshine gains despite revenooers
Yukon West Virginia AP report on moonshine conflict with federal agents. Jack Shiner, a 44-year-old, estimates 50,000 gallons produced over 20 years costing the government over 500000 in unpaid taxes. He describes revenue men as honest and recalls an undercover agent who posed as a cab driver to trap him.
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Yukon
W. Va
Virginia - West Virginia
Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division
Jack L. Shiner
Atlanta
Shiner
Revenooers
Moonshining Warily Fights in Appalachia Endures Losses
Federal Alcohol Tax Division agents face extreme danger in moonshine suppressions. Over a decade, 10 agents killed by gunfire, 14 by exposure or accidents, and 21 wounded, with 355 assaulted and 634 injured in the line of duty. In a Virginia border raid a moonshiner turned out to be a pretty widow with six children, illustrating dangers and unexpected moments in a perilous occupation. The trade concentrates in Kentucky and the South, with 10 million gallons seized last year and a tax loss exceeding 100 million dollars, while much uncounted liquor remains consume.
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Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division
Py Ted
Virginia-West Virginia
New York
Moon Test Center Quietly Severs Gainesville Ties
Louise Loveless living near the Pearl River watches as NASA plans erase Gainesville Mississippi and nearby towns to build a 141000 acre test complex for Saturn and Nova boosters. By 1964 many communities will vanish and the site will host towering engines tested for moon missions at Canaveral and Michoud.
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Westonia
Bayou la Croix
Flat Top
Mrs. Loveless
Gaines
Hancock
Pearl River
Miss
St. Tammany Parish
NASA
Mississippi
Gainesville
Clarence L. H. Webb
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Cape Canaveral
Fla
The
Space Agency
One Less Village After Vermilion Annexation
Ohio trimmed 738 villages to 737 as Vermilion-On-the-Lake and Vermilion were united by annexation. Secretary of State Ted W. Brown affirmed the proceedings with Erie County voters approving in November 1961 and Lorain County voters in May 1962. Vermilion-On-the-Lake sits on the Erie Lorain line.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Vermilion-On-the - Lake
Ted W. Brown
Erie County
Lorain County
Vermilion-On - the-Lake
Erie-Lorain County
Fire department aided by Airesearch staff aid grieving family
The Dale Brownell home burned to ashes in Phoenix. A crew from the nearby Airesearch Co. plant arrived with a sizable cash gift, having collected for a man they had never met who was affected by the fire.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Dale Brownell
Airesearch Co
Brownell
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