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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"
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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(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
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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
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(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
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have no plans to pay."
"Medicaid funds are used to provid<
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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
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(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
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"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
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office, and three people Barron said
were part of the ambulance crew that
moved Goodman's body.
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of the Alton Newton make a "full and
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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"Under Department of Justice
policies, 1 cannot comment further at
this time," he said.