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Show Liquor Profits May Now Come To Counties Rampton announced on Dec. 17 that he will recommend recom-mend that the budget session of the Legislature amend the law to . permit distribution of $2 million annually from State Liquor Control Commission Com-mission profits to counties and cities. He said that since the present pre-sent law was enacted providing pro-viding for distribution of $1 million of these profits that profits from state liquor sales probably have more fhan doubled. The money so distributed "will aid some in helping counties and cities in their law enforcement work," ho said. Bowler Committee He described his plan to his Advisory Council on Community Com-munity Affairs. At his suggestion, sugges-tion, Mayor Marion H. Bowler Bow-ler of St. George, council chairman, appointed a committee com-mittee to recommend how the $2 million is to be spent. Present law requires that such money, with local matching match-ing money, be spent only for liquor law enforcement. Gov. Rampton said that in view of difficulty in separating cost of liquor law enforcement from general law enforcement enforce-ment that an amendment may be in order. |