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Show Liquor By The Drink Petition At U Affairs and has Bill Wisner as an advisor. At first the only persons who are sought to sign the petitions peti-tions are Salt Lake County residents. resi-dents. Later the students intend to have the out-of-town dorm students stu-dents sign the petition for their separate counties. A list will be made of the students in the dorms so that they can be contacted. The drive for signatures is also a drive for voter registration. Those students who are not yet 21, but will turn 21 before the election are urged to register. They may do so by going to the County Clerk's Office Of-fice on any weekday between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Citizens Citi-zens may register up to June 15. If By WILLARD MORRIS Chronicle News Editor Supporters of the Liquor by the Drink Petition, started by the Citi-. Citi-. zens for Legal Control of Liquor, will be soliciting signatures for the petition at the University. "The object of the drive is to get people coming to us. We want as many registered voters as possible to sign the Legal Control Petition," said Gary McDonna, a student supporting sup-porting the petition drive at: the University. The goal of these people is to get the referendum put on the ballot for the next election. To get the measure on the ballot at least 43,000 registered voters must sign the petitions. These voters must represent at least 10 per cent of the voting population of at least half the counties, in order that the measure be voted on. The citizens for legal control must obtain 22,000 signatures from Salt Lake County alone. The proposed bill would allow liquor by the drink, served over bars and at restaurants. The measure mea-sure would be on a local option which would allow an area not to participate. For example, if the state adopted the measure, a county commission could then outlaw the measure in all unincorporated areas of the county, with incorporated cities approving the bill if they wanted liquor over the bar in the particular city. The students suporting this petition pe-tition have reserved the Huddle Ticket Booth according to McDonna, McDon-na, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday between the hours of 8:45 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. beginning May 13 and running through the week before finals. About 3,000 student signatures are expected and a drive is on to have the faculty sign the petitions also. The group has received re-ceived recognition from Student students register in this way the are then eligible to sign the lega control petition. The try to put liquor by the drinl on the ballot is meeting less resist ance than before. Gov. Ramptoi thinks the measure should at leas be brought before the public foi their approval. The Taverns Own ers Association is backing the bil for the first time this year. Thi association was worried about li censing problems, but now think; it is a worthwhile objective to ge liquor by the drink in Utah Tht Kearns-Tribune Corporation is als officially backing the campaign McDonna said. The problem is that the campaigi against the measure will start aftei it is placed on the ballot. Even i the legal control measure passec the referendum, the State Legisla ture could pass a law making th( referendum measure illegal. Th( Legislature probably won't do this (Continued on Page 2) Today's Chronicle management has switched hands. Ralph Ma-bey, Ma-bey, editor-in-chief, has given the problem of publication of today's and tomorrow's papers to the junior editors. Jeanie Kempe is editor-in-chief. Utah Prohibition Fought (Continued from Page 1) idded McDonna, since it will be against a majority of the voters of :he state. The major reason the Citizens for Legal Control are circulating the petition is to amend the out-date, out-date, "immoral" liquor laws in this state. They think the current system sys-tem is totally inoperable, since it often forces a person to break a law to stay sober. The present law does not allow a person to carry an open bottle in his car. What if he buys a fifth and takes it to a restaurant? He must then drink the entire bottle and become intoxicated, intox-icated, thus breaking a law, or he can take his open bottle home with him, violating another law. The inoperable state of the law is not the only reason these citizens are pushing for reform. They think the tourism industry in this state could grow if we allowed liq- our by the drink. Industrial development de-velopment is also slowed down, in their opinion, because the people out of state have an odd feeling about Utah, partly because of the outmoded liquor laws. With the problem of liquor being served by the drink illegally, as is often the case now, organized crime is allowed a foothold. In Salt Lake County, according to McDonna, at least 46 illegal clubs, that is psuedo locker clubs, serve liquor over the bar. This law breaking must be stopped, and they think a reform in the law would cease the crime which now runs rampant. |