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Show Hurricane Demands Further Consideration From State Liquor Comm. HURRICANE, Utah Demanding Demand-ing that they be given satisfaction in their efforts to do away with the local liquor package agency, the City Council of Hurricane have drafted a letter to the commission com-mission setting forth their reasons for asking that the agency be closed and presenting new information infor-mation on the question which was recently investigated by the Liquor commission. The city recently sent the state liquor commission a petition containing con-taining three hundred fifty-four out of a possible three hundred ninety-six who, they say, were eligible to vote, asking that the liquor agency in this city be taken away. In answer to this petition the commission sent representatives representa-tives to investigate the situation with the result that the commission com-mission refused to accede to the petition's demand, claiming that the agency was operating satisfactorily satis-factorily as prescribed by the state liquor laws, and that judging from the liquor sold, there was a demand for the agency. As an answer to this and in (Continued on page A) Hurricane Cify Council Demands Further Consideration of Liquor Comm. (Continued from first page) an effort to receive further consideration con-sideration in this matter, the Cily Council of Hurricane has .drafted I'm following letter: The State Liquor Control Com. West and 2nd. South St. Sih. Lake City, Utah. G.-p.t Semen : In regards lo your letter of Seijieniber 22, 1!).'!7, in which you ''-!uso lo grant our petition filed wih you asking you to remove I'.ickage Agency Number fifty-one. As Mayor and City Council of Hurricane City we are very much i:-oe.tvel with your action in refusing re-fusing lo grant our petition. We feel ymi are very unfair to us and our people. And may we state, we a; .- not of I he frame of mind to give up and say we are defeated. You staled I wo hundred and eight Liquor permits were sold in Hurricane Cily (lie last current Near. I'lease clarify this and tell us how many of these permits were sold to residents of Hurricane. Hurri-cane. Also (ell us how many were sold to men on the Relief rolls. Also tell us how many boys of our Cily under twenty-one years of age you have sold permits to, at some of your stores or agencies. This $1,000.00 per month Liquor Business you boast of in our city, in reality how much of this was sold to residents of Hurricane? We want facts about Hurricane City not the whole East end of Washington County. Also bow much of this Liquor was sold to men on Relief? And was paid for by hungry and suffering Children. Child-ren. Yes, you bet, these hungry children paid for a lot of that whiskey and wine your fine Liquor salesmen brag about selling in our City. Nice clean business, this $1,000.00 per month whiskey business. busi-ness. It all helps to pay big salaries, furnish nice offices with expensive carpets and fine desks. We would like to have you men come and compare the homes of some of your very best patrons to your fine offices. Will you accept the challenge? We object to the insult that Hurricane has so. many whiskey drinkers. Many of your patrons come from other towns to purchase pur-chase Liquor here. A majority of these two hundred and eight permits per-mits sold were probably sold to people of other towns. The same applies to the Liquor sold. And we object to being made a social cessspool to gratify your wishes for big salaries and easy jobs. We are tired of hearing you boast of the millions of dollars you are turning into the state coffers. We object to a vice that even suggests that men use their meager means for anything other than the real necessities of life, when their families are suffering from lack of food and clothing. Here are some facts: In November No-vember 1933, Hurricane voted 88, for State Repeal; 271 against repeal; re-peal; for ratification of the proposed pro-posed amendment to the constitution consti-tution of the United States, 93 against ratification, 315. Now we have our people petitioning you to remove your Liquor from our City, 254 citizens, eligible voters I of Hurricane asking you to take your Liquor out. Taking the last Municipal Election as a basis to figure from, we had 396 people voting. Compare the 354 signers to the Petition, you have 89' r of our voters back of this petition. From this you can see our people are more opposed to Liquor today to-day than they were at the time they were called upon to vote yes or no for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment. Does this mean anything to you men? Will you listen to the plea of the majority? Has the right to pel it ion been taken from the people? lias the majority rule l'u-o gone? I'lease an.-wer. t You say you have done away ; with the Bootlegger. Have you? I If so. tell us who is supplying j whiskey to our boys and girls under twenly-one years of age. Is it legal for minors to buy Liquor from your stores? Bootlegging is the illegal sale of Liquor. So there must be Bootleggers operating all over our state in all our cities and towns. You state in your letter, quote: "It has always been the policy of the Commission to, wherever possible in conformity confor-mity with law, cooperate with communities and cities of the State." Please state what law you would violate if you granted our petition. When you say your policy is to cooperate with the cities, and you refuse to grant a petition such as ours, that is like saying two plus two equals nine. You are wrong, absolutely wrong, you are not willing to cooperate. You say you have fine control of the Liquor, and that it isn't the Control Con-trol of Liquor you are most interested in-terested in. Yet you come out and boast of the $1,000.00 per month whiskey and wine business you have in our small city of twelve hundred people. And justify yourselves your-selves in keeping your business in our city on the grounds that the people here in Hurricane are demanding de-manding your services. When in reality they are asking you to move house. We are convinced you are more interested in the profit this Package Agency returns re-turns to you than you are in the citizens of this community. It is the profits from the sale of Liquor that insures you of fine salaries and easy jobs. In conclusion, please let us refer re-fer you good Churchmen, who have in the past held responsible positions in the Church, to the appeal of Pres. Heber J. Grant to his people assembled at the last General Conference. Quote: "When I read in the papers reports re-ports of the millions of dollars being spent in this state for Liquor I am shocked. We should not let the whiskey people make our Laws. Let us have Prohibition again, at least here in Utah. Drinking under prohibition was not a tithe of what it now is." Very truly yours, J. Harvey Hall, Mayor. And Hurricane City Council Don't form your opinion on high-j high-j er education by the antics of a few I fools who go to college. Littlefield, Ariz. I, Wilma Reber i Reporters Mr. and Mrs. Fav TnM 'l Evelyn Williamson, and M?' M Tobler spent Sunday visH Joh Mrs. Emma Reber. ng w'th Mrs. Sarah McKnight ht !' Mrs. George CtorbrfcL , J' an1 Gene, left Saturday for "J?. sn, , ville. or Minors- ; Mrs. Vinda Reber, Reber, Mrs. Lorna Reberand Minerva McKnight attend Mrs" Primary Union meetine vlr 'hc 1 Bunkerville on Saturday at Louie,. Afton, Ellis, Burdm Max Reber rode after ptf ! over the week-end. " Joseph Frehner and Har Reber made a business trm , Overton on Saturday. 1 lo Mrs. Lefa Reber went to c , Lake City for a week. Salt |