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The Anniston Star from Anniston, Alabama • Page 12

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The Anniston Stari
Location:
Anniston, Alabama
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12
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12A Amttehm Bfst Thursday, February 12, 1970 Six Still Sites Raided Public Acceptance Due To The Tremdous We Repeat Our Alabama Publishers' Begins By Investigators This Year Tobacco and Firearms have been, made, Hamner Thtf Alabama Press Association Karrino tfe CMM-h onrutof tnnuanHrtn By WILL JONES v- iivioiuii tuvciiiig vcuuuuii, aavs ure ion uiuwia jum uov KSr.vV frfaS Cleburne and Randolph Coud- not reached the top of-the SutaSLSilju Ues saS: "When to organizations behind the stills. here today. The three-day meeting of Alabama's: newspaper executives opens with a speech by Dr. David Mathews, nresident of the Oi uie wihr. jruu vc umre salu: IDejopetoie before.

something like a caste Jaw enforcement system. At the top there are University of Alabama. tour of the university is omcers we nave to Durrow the financiers, then th The dynamiting of a 6,000 gallon distillery in Cleburne -County- Monday brought the-capacity of the stills seized up to 18,200 gallons. The liquor investigators say that the raids are the fruit of planning and groundwork which is paying off rather than any sudden campaign against the moonshiners. TROY HAMNER," agent in charge of the federal Alcohol, scheduled this afternoon in conjunction with journalism day at the school.

The Alabama Professional Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi will join the day's activities. Tonight's speaker is Gay Talese, former Alabama student and authority of "The King away at something before we can produce results." He says that the 14 stills found at the six sites were capable of producing 542 gallons of moonshine daily. This, Hamner said, meant a possible federal tax loss of $6,111 daily, ALTHOUGH NINE arrests dom ana me rower, a uuuk about The New York Times. CE is, lieutenants and then the still hands. The lieutenants are usually as high as you get." The investigators say that there is also a clan loyalty among the moonshiners.

They will sometimes inform on each other, but very seldom will they give any hint as to their boss. Hamner said; "Eventually you hope to develop information from different sources and with a little bit of luck you hope to be able to make a case against the people behind the organization." THE INVESTIGATORS say that four of the distilleries raided could be connected directly with one organization. This, they say, is an interstate organization simply because of Cleburne's proximity with the Georgia state line. But usually they find that moo nshining organizations stick within "fairly well confined areas." Although there is enough moonshining to keep four federal investigators busy as well as four state-ABC agents Hamner thinks that moonshining is heading for a slow decline. "I think illegal distilling is slowly on the way out," he said.

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