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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1970
Page
7
In Sapphire North Carolina an aging moonshiner joins a growing trend of dismantling stills and quitting illegal liquor. Treasury figures show enforcement and liberalized laws eroding the business, with lawmen reporting declines across the moonshine belt as profits and markets shrink.
West Virginia officials call the drop in illegal stills encouraging yet warn moonshining remains a serious problem. In 1968 authorities seized about 13,000 illicit stills, far below 25,000 at its peak, while experts cite cheaper liquor access and tighter law enforcement as key factors. A new heat-detecting aircraft device is being used to locate distilleries in forested areas, boosting federal efforts to wipe out illicit production.
Alfred Schroath 65 a Clarksburg autodealer and one of six key figures in a state bribery conspiracy two years ago died Friday in Hollywood Florida Services set for Monday afternoon at Clarksburg Hospital. He was free on bond pending appeal of his 1968 conviction and had received a four year prison term and 10000 dollar fine from U S District Court in Charleston.
Dr. I E Buff urged students at the University of Kentucky to organize for a national law to end strip mining. He cited Letcher County Kentucky being leveled by Bethlehem Steel mines and accused Rockefeller of playing both sides.
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