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The Ked and Black. Thursday. April 28. 1877
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Brickman inspects
kosher butchers
Gallery
Lighter cars cause deaths
^ MIAMI BEACH, Ela. <UPI) -
The Talmud warns Jews to be
wary of butchers, to which
"kosher cop” Frank Brickman
adds a solemn “Amen.”
Brickman has made 92 ar
rests—every one resulting in a
conviction—and sent several
people to jail during his 24
years as Miami Beach Kosher
Inspector, watchdog of the
resort city's kosher butchers,
grocers, bakers and innTceep
ers,
Brickman says substituting
non-kosher for kosher food can
be almost as profitable as
Workers
demand
limits
WASHINGTON UPI) - A-
bout 50 members of the
Carolina Brown Lung Associa
tion demonstrated outside the
American Textile Manufac
turers Institute Wednesday to
reinforce their demands for
strict limits on worker inhala
tion of cotton dust.
The demonstration coincided
with hearings by the Occupa
tional Safety and Health
Administration on a proposed
new standard for controlling
cotton dust in textile factories.
All claiming to be victims
of brown lung or byssinosis -
carried placards charging that
his or her former employer
“took mv breath away.”
Another placard said: “We
swallowed your dust. We won’t
swallow your lies.”
The demonstrators accused
the industry institute of
resisting every effort to limit
cotton dust inhalation and
obtain compensation for brown
lung victims.
‘‘They must now either clean
up their mills or bear the full
responsibility for tens of
thousands of present and
future victims of this terrible
disease,’’declared A.J. Wood,
who heads the group’s chapter
at Greenville S.C.
narcotics peddling.
Using non-kosher flour in
Passover cakes, for example,
can mean profits of 300 per
cent, he said. And switching
regular chickens for kosher-
killed chickens results in an
immediate profit of $1 per
bird.
When the 77-year-old Polish-
born Brickman got his job in
1935, there were 28 kosher food
purveyors at Miami Beach.
Now there are more than 90
such establishments with an
nual sales of $18 million
City Attorney Joseph Wanick
said Brickman, the only kosher
inspector in Florida, is such an
authority on Jewish dietary
laws that rabbis often ask his
advice.
On an average day, Brick
man inspects 10 kosher estab
lishments on Miami Beach. ‘‘I
may inspect some places only
once a month,” he said, “but
those I think may be cheating I
inspect at least twice a
week.”
The most common violations,
Brickman says, are butchers
switching regular chickens for
the kosher variety and bakers
using non-kosher flour.
“It’s a greater sin to eat
Passover cake made of non-
kosher flour that it is to eat
non-kosher meat,” Brickman
explained.
Kosher groceries and delica
tessens seldom try to slip
illegal steaks or lamb chops on
their shelves, Brickman said,
but they sometimes mix non-
kosher processed meats with
proper kind.
Some kosher violations are
the product of desperation.
Nearly a decade ago. Brick
man said the famed Eden Hoc
Hotel—which normally doesn’t
operate a kosher kitchen—a-
greed to cater a 345-guest
Saturday night wedding ban
quet for a Jewish banker’s
daughter. On Friday night,
after th kosher butchers clos
ed for the Sabbath, the banker
added 60 guests.
When Brickman checked the
kitchen Saturday, he found the
necessary 405 steaks for the
banquet. But there weren’t
enough of the metal “kosher
tags” showing the meat had
been properly killed, and the
hotel couldn't produce a sales
receipt from j kosher butcher
for the 60 extra slealcs.
The host resolved the prob
lem by announcing some of the
steaks weren’t kosher and they
had been so intermingled there
was no way to determine
which ones were which
“Even the Jews at the wed
ding who would have eaten
non-kosher didn’t want to stand
up and say so,’’ Brickman
said, “so nobody ate meat that
night and the hotel had to
rebate about half the $16,000
cost of the dinner.”
Brickman's proudest feat
was his arrest of the owners of
a butcher shop a few blocks
from city hall Months of spot
checks failed to turn up evi
dence that some of the shop’s
chickens weren't kosher, and
at one point, the butcher
threatened to sue the city for
harassment.
Convinced the butcher was
cheating. Brickman began all-
night stakeouts of the shop.
Several nights later, he wit
nessed a 3 a m. delivery of 2000
non-kosher chickens and arres
ted the cheaters
“The judge fined them
$4000,” Brickman said. “All
together, what with the costs of
the seized chickens and their
attorneys fees, it cost them
$11,000.”
It’s unlawful in Miami Beach
to post signs or advertise that
kosher food is served at at
an establishment if non-kosher
food is substituted One hotel
had no such sign, but advertis
ed in several Yiddish and
Hebrew language newspapers
in northern states that its food
was strictly kosher.
“Who reads northern Jewish
newspapers?” asked Brick
man, who is fluent in Hebrew,
Yiddish, Polish, Russian and
German. “I do.”
The result was another fine
Brickman’s arrests some
times put people behind bars.
In March the operator of a
Kosher pizza parlor—one of
five in the city—was sentenced
to five days in jail for failing to
obtain the city’s $115 annual
kosher food license.
WASHINGTON (UPI' - The
push to save energy through
lighter, smaller cars will result
in more highway deaths unless
the government orders air
NASHVILLE, Tenn. UPI) - A
pearl white Cadillac with a
golden glow, one of singer
Elvis Presley’s early acquisi
tions was rolled into place
Tuesday at a new wing of the
Country Music Hall of Fame
The car originally cost
$40,000 but another $40,000 was
added in customizing it. It is
said to be one of Presley’s
favorite cars.
Col. Tom Parker, the sing
er's longtime manager, and
RCA Records donated the
limousine to the museum.
The car’s hand-rubbed finish
gets its golden glow from gold
d ist mixed with the paint. The
exterior features both chrome
and 24-karat gold plated
fixtures.
The interior is gold and
white with all the customized
features intact. It has a
bags installed in all new autos,
an insurance executive sales
man said Wednesday.
Donald Schaffer a vice
president of Allstate Insurance
24-karat gold-plated television
set and 45-rpm record player,
monogrammed gold brush and
ccmb set, gold telephone and
gold bar.
The car’s roof is inlaid with
gold copies of a number of
Presley's hit singles. The roof
will be raised and lowered as a
tape narrates highlights of the
singer’s career
We wanted to avoid having
the car look like one of those
on display in airports," said
Diana Johnson, director of
Jthe museum.
“We’re more interested in
interpretive displays, so Gen
eral came up with the idea of
removing the roof completely
so people could see all of the
interior Finally we settled on
counterweighting the roof, so
that it can be raised and
lowered leaving the car’s
appearance intact,” she said.
Co., which has backed the air
bag concept for years, made
the prediction as the Depart
ment of Transportation began
a new look at the seven-year
old issue
Transportation Secretary
Brock Adams, as one of his
first acts in office, voided a
plan worked out by his
predecessor. William Coleman
under which some automakers
would have begun a voluntary
program to install air bags in
about a half-million cars
beginning with the 1980 model
year.
Adams has asked for com
ment on alternatives ranging
from doing nothing to ordering a
complete switchover beginning
with the 1981 model year.
He said that he was
concerned that Coleman’s de
monstration program "repre
sents a 5 to 8 year delay in
any decision to install passive
restraints in all passenger
cars.
Schaffer, m testimony sub
mitted in advance of the first
of two days of hearings into the
reopened isue, said only 20
per cent to 30 per cent of car
passengers use seat belts.
Elvis' special car
placed in museum
Alleged spy says
he was blackmailed
LOS ANtjELES (UPI) - An
alleged spy testified at his trial
Tuesday that he was black
mailed into stealing classified
documents for the Russians
because he indiscreetly blurted
out to a friend that he knew
about a secret, illegal CIA
operation against Australia.
Christopher J. Boyce, 23, a
former security clerk at the
TRW aerospace firm who han
died communications with the
CIA, testified he made the
remarks after drinking and
smoking marijuana He said
liquor and drug use was ram
pant in the sensitive TRW
office.
Boyce said he told Andrew
Daulton Lee about the CIA
Australian operation, and Lee
used the information to force
him to spy for Russia.
Boyce and Lee who is stand
ing trial separately, were char
ged with espionage for alleg
edly selling to Russian diplo
mats in Mexico City documents
Boyce microfilmed at TRW
The FBI said they collected
$70,000
U S. District Court Judge
Robert Kelleher, at the request
of federal prosecutors, ruled
that Boyce could not be asked
questions that would reveal the
nature of the Australian opera
tion.
Boyce said he told Lee he
handled information about an
operation involving “continu
ing deception against the Aus
tralians” and wanted the in
formation made public without
involving himself
Lee said his father had
influential friends, Boyce said,
so he wrote an unsigned letter
describing “violations of law
against the Australians” to be
passed to them
Three weeks later, he said,
Lee called to say he had sold a
copy of the letter to the
Russian Embassy in Mexico
City and would reveal Boyce's
indiscretion to his superiors
unless Boyce obtained more
material to sell to the Soviets,
forcing him into 18 months of
spying before they were
caught
Boyce admitted he micro
filmed documents for lee to
take to Mexico City, but said
he did everything he could to
sabotage the effort
He admitted going with Lee
to Mexico City, where they
were guests of honor at a
dinner in the Russian Embas-
say, and taking $15,000 of the
Russian payment
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