Sweet Memories

The law has not only a long arm but a long memory. Last week, three years after the end of sugar rationing, it reached out and grabbed one Stanley Klinger, of Long Island, N.Y.

Klinger worked in the OPA's Manhattan office. There, said the Government, he let some black-market friends buy 6,000,000 Ibs. of sugar at the OPA price of $6.38 a 100-lb. bag, sell it to soft-drink manufacturers for as much as $25 a bag. In return, said the Government, Klinger & friends collected $5 a bag in kickbacks, clearing an estimated $300,000. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Klinger, three other OPA officials and three sugar dealers, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Maximum penalty: $10,000 in fines and two years in jail.

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