Liqour Bill Recommended.

The City Council Public Safety Committee voted 3-0, member Charlie Bastin was absent, to recommend four separate Council bills to align City ordinances with State statutes dealing with restaurants selling intoxicating liquor.

The only variance from State regulations would be allowable hours of operation on Sunday. The Committee voted at an earlier meeting to have Sunday hours mirror those of package liquor stores. The Council rejected an attempt to expand packaged Sunday hours from 1 p.m. to noon last month.

The proposed ordinances would establish license fees of $75 for Monday through Saturday sales and $300 for Sunday sales. State statutes make these fees the highest allowable and are the same as packaged stores.

On a motion by Committee member J.D. Whitledge, the Committee voted unanimously to not include an emergency clause. The emergency language allows the bill to move to second reading at one Council meeting with two-thirds approval of the Council. Without the language, it takes a unanimous vote of Council members present to advance.

The Public Safety Committee heard of several different ways to sell liquor by the drink from Jim Anderson of the State Division of Liquor Control durin’ their meeting Monday. Another allowable license is for fraternal organizations. If they qualify as a nonprofit under federal regulations, the City doesn’t have much choice but to allow them either. There is just such a legal battle goin’ on in Miller at this time.

The Committee is also proposin’ an ordinance that would require any liquor outlet to be at least 300 feet from churches or schools, up from the current ordinance of 100 feet.

The only other option explored by the Committee is limitin’ the number of licenses issued. This is not bein’ recommended at this time, but is a possibility.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Metcalf Auto Supply

Click & Clack
TALK CARS

by Tom & Ray Magliozzi

Dear Tom and Ray:

My wife and I have a 1992 Nissan Sentra with 84,000 miles on it. My wife is kind of stingy with our expenses and attends a lot of garage sales on Saturday mornings. Typically she wakes up about 6 in the morning and drives about 40 miles total, stopping at about 25 sales around town. She does find a lot of good bargains, but I wonder if the short drives and frequent starts and stops are wearing the car down.

I really cannot ask her to stop going to these sales, since she is addicted to them and she also met me at a garage sale. Please advise. - Roger

RAY: Well, let’s hope she’s not out shopping for her next husband at these garage sales, Roger!

TOM: We’ll assume that’s not the case. I think this is one of those times when we have to be marriage counselors instead of car advisors. The answer is, yes, she is putting some extra wear and tear on the starter motor and the brakes by making all of those short trips. But so what? It’s only once a week. And besides, that’s what the car is for.

RAY: This is one of these cases where you just have to say, "What’s a little wear and tear on a car in exchange for sharing my life with this wonderful person?"

TOM: Besides, you’re probably making the car-repair money back twice over with all of those bargains she picks up at the sales. I mean, how much would you have paid for that 1956 Flab-O-Matic exerciser if you had to buy it new at full retail?