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Show The Utah county commission passed an ordinance last summer prohibiting sale of Sunday beer in unincorporated areas of, the county. The county law is ' now under fire in the courts, in a test suit brought by Earl Anderson, proprietor of the Chalet in Provo canyon. The county has already won a partial victory, but the district dis-trict court judge on the case still must rule on part of the issues. Anderson is not contesting the Sunday ban phase, but the increase in-crease of from $100 to $500 in the county beer license fee. Provo's Sunday beer ban law Drohibits only the sale of beer on this day. It does not close establishments estab-lishments on Sunday which sell beer. Taverns may remain open and sell anything else which is legally allowed ' them, but they cannot sell beer, either over the bar or by bottles, on the sabbath day. SUNDAY BEER SALES END IN LAST OF UTAH COUNTY CITIES Provo will go "dry" beginning r Sunday, Feb. 1, so far as sale of str3' beer on Sunday is concerned thus to )' making the Sabbath-day beer sale ban uniform throughout Utah county. The ordinance passed a month ago reads the law is to take ef-feet ef-feet "on Jan. 25." The city com-mission, com-mission, however, after a conference confer-ence with the city attorney, has concluded that some question exists as to the time of day involvedarid in-volvedarid has decided to solve the question by letting the effective effec-tive date go until the following Week. American Fork, the next-to-last c'ty in the county to allow sale of beer on Sunday, has banned tne practice since Dec. 28. All other utah county cities had ban-"ed ban-"ed !t for some time. |