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- - - Nestle loses cookie lawsuit 1 HARTFORD, CONN. ? Toll House cookies have joined thermos bottles, aspirin, shredded wheat and cellophane as part of the American Language. So ruled a federal judge Wednesday to end a chocolate chip cookie war. The NestleCo.,which had put all its chips on the table in an attemnt to keen exclusive richts to the name "Toll House" 1? "--r ~ o ? cookies, lost its right to the trademark in federal court. Under federal law, a judge can cancel a trademark if it becomes the common name for a product. Thp tnrvcf rp^Ant cn^h pqcp u/ac 1 r\ 1 QRO \t/hpn a fpHpra 1 r*r*nrt A 1 IV UIV/Jl 1 VVVI II OUVI1 VMJV MvJ 111 1 VUi-, Tf HVII U 1 VUV1 Ul VVUI I decided that Monopoly, the popular board game, was no longer a valid trademark. Nestle filed suit last year in an attempt to stop Saccone's Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Mass., from infringing on its Toll House trademark. Saccone was baking chocolate chip cookies and marketing cookies under the Toll House name. IK r* rito tit Mnrf In A\ r\ f n/1 ? + I-* o /A f i nw. giam luaui u nau puivua^wu inw exclusive right to the name Toll House more than 40 years ago from the original owner of the Toll House Restaurant, Ruth Wakefield, inventor of the chocolate chip cookie. Nestle has never produced large quantities of Toll House cookies, instead manufacturing chocolate morsels for use in home-baked cookies. The cookies have become so popular that Nestle sells 240 million chocolate chips a year ? $1 billion worth of chips in me past iu years. Super-hero aids motorists MIAMI (AP) ? Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, move over, Miami now has its own caped crusader ? Kaptain Kendall, who rides around town wearing neon-green leotards, a bright yellow cape and a purple hood and mask, looking for motorists in trouble, Kaptain Kendall was the brainchild of Richard Buttafuoco, manager of Kendall Toyota, which co-sponsors the super-hero along with radio station WWW1-FM, the Miami Herald said Friday. "It's not really a promotion," Buttafuoco said. "It's very needed, someting we wanted to do." Blkuttafuoeo tapped one of his employees for the job, a 24-year-old mechanic identified only as Bary. He first appeared on the streets on Monday, his first customer a man wno nau run oui 01 gas. When Brenda Duffy's car tire blew out on a busy interstate Thursday, Kaptain Kendall was there. "I thought he was just another Miami bozo," Duffy said. But the masked man paused to fix her rush-hour flat. 4,l like to give pople free service," the highway hero said, but he added, "1 did feel silly at first. Who wouldn't?" 'W to plague delinquent debtors HUNTINGTON, MASS, (AP) ? Just as the shameful scarlet "A" marked fallen women in colonial New England, this Berkshire tootlnlls town nas come up wnn a mouern-uay humiliation for delinquent debtors ? the fluorecent 4lW." Fifteen Huntington residents who have refused to pay overdue water bills will have a glow-in-the dark "W" painted on the street in front of their homes. The letters will show town crews where to shut off water, said water commissioner Rosemary Caputo. "It's a double whammy. We hope this will notify their neighbors that these people are not paying their water bills and are sliders," she said. Debtors have until Sept. 23 to pay the bills, some due since 1981 and as high as $500, before paint and shutoff crews are dispatched, Caputo said. "I wouldn't want that in front of my home, would you?" she said. Juvenile robs police chief MILLVILLE. MASS. (AP) ? Police Chief Philip Walsh spends his working life dealing with folks who've been robbed, but didn't really empathize with the victims until it happened to him. "With all the people I've dealt with who had homes broken into ... I thought I had a handle on it ? until it happened to mo an/I I cam hr\u/ it mv famiK/ an/l nn/cplf " ho cai/-l 111V U1IU A JM? UV 11 Ul I VVIVU III J 1U1III1J UIIV* III OVII f IIV OUIU Thursday. Walsh, who came home from a two-week vacation to find his own home had been robbed, said he now realizes why robbery victims lose a sense of security they previously associated with home. ''I tliAiinKt I ?;tiQf iViou hipm ar\'\r\a thrnnoh " lio 1 LIIUV15"1 1 UIIUVIOIWVW VT 11141 lliv J ?* VI V 1111 V/U^ll, nv, said, "But when you find that someone you don't know, some lowlife, has invaded your privacy, it hurts." "It's very traumatic . . he said. Even so, Walsh is luckier than many robbery victims. A 15-year-old juvenile has been charged with the break-in of his home and about 75 percent of the stolen items have been recovered. Expensive bricks go on sale LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND (AIM ? Five thousand bricks from the Cavern Club, the underground cellar where the Beatles first performed in the early 1960's went on sale Satur dav for $7.50 each. Royal Life Insurance Ltd., which bought the Matthew Street site for redevelopment, has cleaned the bricks and plan; to donate proceeds from the sale to the Strawberry Fielc Children's Home in Liverpool. The Sale, which could net up to $37,000, coincides with < two-day convention here celebrating the 20th anniversary o the Beatles' rise to tame. WirE lllfnrkers illi W W V am w W ? (AP) ? Richland County Coroner Frank Barron has signed warrants seeking the arrest of seven persons who allowed the body of a dead construction worker moved last week. Barron signed warrants Friday alleg-1 - 1_ !. ing tnai seven popie wuriuiig <u mc construction site of the Union Camp paper will near Eastover violated state law by allowing the body of 28-yearold George Goodman moved to an ambulance. Goodman, who fell to his death Aug. 15, later was taken to a Columbia hospital. State law says that it is a misdemeanor offense to move or authorize the removal of a body until the coroner MBWW fl mSSS^Bi v;-. Through the looking gl Gretchen Jacobs, a USC media arts stu ment in the department are in working o Car seized fr (AP) ? A state senator has called reports that a bankrupt Scranton nurs than $1 million in Medicaid overpayn The State Auditor's Office has repoi ing Home received $1.28 million in !S The auditor's office said the overpay! Sen. Hugh Leatherman said he is "p criminal actions" against the formei home, the Rev. Alton Newton of Scr Leatherman, D-Florence, said he is fnnHc mau havp hppn illpoallu inve<;fpt television recording station that has n< Newton denied the senator's allegat have no plans to pay." "Medicaid funds are used to provid< blind and disabled, including those South Carolina Department of Social funds for the federal government, wl of the funds. The state provides the i Leatherman, in a meeting of the G< Care Planning and Oversight Comm Nursing Home "Did indeed take a mi put it into other areas." "He went out in the middle of the house)," Leatherman said. The senator said Newton also built mission. Newton, who is the president Lvangelistic Association, challenged Mnrcinn hnmo mui oinij iiuiiiu (AF) ? Investigators have seized car from a state representative becau they believe the vehicle may be link to a federal drug investigation. U. Attorney Henry McMaster said. A 1979 Lincoln Continental h been taken from Rep. Thomas Rhoa D-Bamberg, because Rhoad's s allegedly won the car in a raffle usi tickets bought with drug mom McMaster said Saturday. Witnesses in the Operation Jackj drug smuggling trials testified the i was won in a raffle by Thon ' "Rolex" Ghoad, 36, a principal def ; dant in the drug investigation. Fede I Agents seized the car last Thursday The drug ring is allegedly headed . i . - i\i .1 _ n ??*n t inc younger kiiouu, a nrancnviue f torney, and Barry J. Foy of Columt Neither have been apprehended. r ?. sgally move i investigates the death and agrees to 11 ^nm/M/a/4 frr\m flip HpQth liavc liic uvjvjy amu>ku u um inv V4VU?1> scene. "All these people are nice people," Barron said. "They just violated a state law. They either knew he was dead, or they were totally incompetent." Warrants were signed against James Porter, project safety manager, Ray Sanders, his assistant, Thomas Foster, a safety office employee, Judy - - . xi. r_*_. Hughes, a registered nurse in me saiciy office, and three people Barron said were part of the ambulance crew that moved Goodman's body. The tree were identified as Paulette Kyle, David McLendon and Bix tew X'fH psggggi I : M -Baggy -rj? r" _ : ?? gg , ; S ' : M. ' v S " J SS?> ' . 5 BP^i mW* Hnk;. HhSHI . s ~: % MBi ^T K jflHiH lass dent, cleans a camera lens Saturday. It was part ol rder. om state repre for an investigation of tiate his claims, ing home received more Newton said he c; icnts. his Cowboy's Wes ted Golden Years Nurs- on his television r< 4 J! ;j Tl,n mrnnnJirl - /icuitdiu uvci |jayiii^ni3. i nv* tvan^Lii.^i c nents should be repaid, home issue to get lushing very strongly for gain." r owner of the nursing The state audito anton. or provide documi concerned the Medicaid expenses. i in a steak house and a Auditors found d broadcasting facilities, of land while onl ions and said Friday, "I purposes. Exact figures wi ; healthcare to the poor, Newton failed to in nursing homes. The kept only fist fulls Services administers the Gary Bell, an ai 1C\ r\nrppnt thp hnnpc uv^ii uviuva I \J iiiw U^viivj uv/pc.) rest of the money. nursing home, the meral Assembly's Heath But because DJ ittee, said Golden Years secured their loan? llion or more dollars and The auditor's ol to 15 nursing hon county and built a (steak Golden Years > federal health ci t an earth satellite gospel medicare accredit Leather ma n sa of the Alton Newton make a "full and I Mthprman to substan- Golden Years." receives Medicai a Rep. Rhoad was contacted Saturday se but declined comment. Rhoad, a ed 60-vear-old resident of Branchville, is S. a retired mail carrier and farmer in his first term in the state house of ad Representatives. He hasn't been chargid, ed in the drug investigation. on ng The senior Rhoad's attorney, L*y, Robert Wallace of Charleston, could not be reached for comment about the x)t car's seizure. Jai The vehicle is one of many pieces of ias property seized by agents in the en~ lengthy Operation Jackpot investigara' tion. Operation Jackpot is the came of ' the continuing federal probe of drug bv smuggling ana me people who tinance the smuggling. )ia. ^ The drug operation allegedly I " I dead bodv ' m Banks. It was not immediately known if the safety offfice workers were employed by Union camp or oy uancei construction Co., which is building the $600 million paper mill. Goodman, of Bedford, Va., was working at the 90-foot level of a 173-foot tower when he fell. Barron & said he was killed instantly. Goodman's death was tne tirst ff? fatality at the plant since construction began in April 1981. Barron said witnesses told him % "nobody actually gave an order" to t* move Goodman's body. Violation of the law carries $1,000 | fine and 60 days in jail. H I Br ib i v i ia h sm ^bi ^pnuhy - r^ impt i Photo by Joe Jackson : an annual effort to make sure all equip- \ sentative an provide proof of a $75,000 mortgage on tern Steak House, and a $208,000 mortgage ?mrdino studio accused Lcatherman of using "the nursing exposure in the news media for political r's report said Newton failed to substantiate entation justifying $1.2 million in Medicaid j " ~ I. Newton had charged Medicaid for 24 acres i y four were being used for nursing home I ?re hard to come by, auditors said, because keep books as required by law. Instead, he of invoices and a payroll log. iditor for DSS, told the committee last week to recoup some funds from the sale of the restaurant and the television station. >S is an unsecured creditor, creditors who ; would receive payments from Newton first. tfice has found $2.2 million in overpayments nes. bvas closed last year when it failed to meet are standards and lost its medicaid and ation. if! Hp will the state attnrnev peneral to thorough investigation of the money paid to id overpayments brought in more that $100 million in revenues during a 10-year period, federal officials say. "This car was seized last Thursday (Aug. IX) by Operation Jackpot agents, as other pieces of property have been seized, on our information that it had been purchased with illegal drug money," McMaster said. "At the iriai in ^nariesion, witnesses testmed that one of the absent defendants, Thomas Rhoad had won the car with raffle tickets he bought with drug money." But McMaster declined further exnlanafinn nf fhf> tpi/nrp "Under Department of Justice policies, 1 cannot comment further at this time," he said.