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...have ever carried out. Their quarry: cigarette smugglers. Inside the warehouse, they found three tax-stamp counterfeiting machines-two still in the paper bags brought by the men from the Mercury, the third already mounted and in operation. Fanning out, Vecchio's men raided four other tobacco distributors, confiscated 50,000 cartons of cigarettes and arrested eleven men-including three major wholesalers and Murray Kessler, 52, identified by police as a high-ranking member of the Vito Genovese mob. But, says Vecchio, "it was only a drop in the bucket...
Studies indicate that tobacco smoking is responsible for 85 per cent of lung cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that 84,000 Americans will die from lung cancer this year...
Times are rough right now in Chatham, both for the farmers with their puny, drought-burned tobacco leaves and for the folks in the stores, which are hurting for customers. "Nowadays, you are lucky if you can farm, keep your place clean and pay your taxes," complains Frank Pierce, 56, an archetypal Southern farmer in bib overalls. He says that many farmers are turning to moonshine whisky to see them through. Even so, there is a basic optimism. "Folks can do all right," maintains Mayor Hairston...
...well worth saving. North Carolina's mountaineers know that they could make more money by abandoning their farms and moving to the cities, but most prefer to stay where they are. "I don't need a new job," says Sturgill, gesturing toward his well-tended corn and tobacco fields. "My job here started 200 years...
...small tobacco farmer in Virginia, Fuqua could not afford to go to college, but he did read "books, books, books" on radio and finance. At age 21 he persuaded backers to start a new radio station in Augusta, Ga., for him to run. J.B. soon talked the owner of a bottling company into selling out for a share of future profits. Wheeling and dealing, he was able to buy his own radio station in 1949; by 1953 he had branched into TV. The profits allowed him to use his spare time to serve four terms in the Georgia legislature...