Show t ‘Brown-Ba- Law Up Next Year g’ Group Urges Lawmakers’ OK Of Minibottle Table Service The Citizens Council on Alcoholic Beverage Control is asking the Utah Legislature to adopt restau- rant minibottle service at tables during its 1988 annual session In their final report for 1987 council members make a pitch for a bill — “Control of Restaurant Liquor Service" — to do away with liquor lockers behind licensed restaurant counters Beyond that committee members have decided to study “brown-bagging- ” next year a phenomenon now seen in only one state besides Utah They agreed it will be a controversial topic because of implications that the state might have to license all restaurants for consumption even of beer in order to quench Utahns’ brown-bagginhabit In addition the council has g agreed to study the retail sale of beer especially in convenience stores and consumption of alcoholic beverages on tour buses headed to and from “recreational activities in adg drinking-whiledrivin- jacent states” e Meanwhile the restaurant bill is seen as increasing the state's control over liquor in a manner that is while lending “an improvement in social graciousness” said Dr Stanley Altman the council’s chairman Under the measure — supported by restaurant hotel and other tourism-related interests and scrutinized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints — a server would be responsible for bringing minibottles to diners’ tables The present system where patrons must leave their tables to buy minis themselves would be abandoned Servers would be able to monitor consumption better the supporters believe and the system would be more like that which travelers from other states are used to Tourism-relate- d interests see table service as as an economic-developmeand “hospitality” boost In that vein Gov Norm Bangerter said recently that the measure may be worthwhile Some circumstances under the existing format “actually hamper effective control” of liquor staff of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control stated in a re table-servic- y cent eight-pag- e position paper on the subject For instance the paper stresses that “having the sale of liquor take place at a location so far removed from the consumption area does not foster the effective control of consumption of liquor by minors If anything it hinders it” Restaurant personnel have no adult way of knowing if a legal-ag- e who buys the liquor at the front counter later allows a minor under 21 to consume it once it reaches the table the state department’s staff points out “One of the implicit goals of the current system is to provide liquor to patrons in such a manner as to be unobtrusive to those persons who might be offended by liquor” the position paper says “Yet under that system we have people running all over the restaurant minibottles and wine in hand while waitresses bringing setups and beer come from the other direc- tion” The paper concludes: "A system properly initiated would be much simpler for restaurant operators but it would also be simpler for law enforcement agencies to monitor” State Rep Grant Protzman Ogden has said he will agree to sponsor the minibottle bill in the 1988 session after first contemplating protest from the Mormon Church Last summer LDS authorities first indicated that the bill would only heighten liquor consumption which they would oppose They have since withdrawn any public position — either opposition or endorsement — as further changes to the proposal have been made For that proposal Rep Protzman has also drafted an amendment that would prohibit anyone from taking into a restaurant a certain brand of liquor that can be purchased at the restaurant e And should the minibottle bill fail he is drafting a backup measure that would call for a legislative “comprehensive review” of all Utah liquor law for possible reforms such as those the citizens’ council may consider next year Preferring an omnibus measure to “piecemeal” approaches the lawmaker has said that recom table-servic- mendations from an overall review next year could be converted into action for the Legislature's 1989 session Opening up liquor statutes to another review — the last was in 1985 when some reforms were adopted — could bring up several old and new ideas A few years ago for example tourism and restaurant interests pushed for allowing restaurants to begin dispensing minibottles and wine at noon rather than waiting until 4 pm as current law dic- tates They sought parity on dispensing hours with Utah’s private clubs which are allowed to serve liquor at noon Proponents of the minibottle measure say critics have some misconceptions about how the change would affect restaurant employees under age 18 State law already dictates that anyone who sells or handles liquor must be at least 21 even in restaurants they stress The main difference mav mean servers in particular would have to be 21 or older under the table-serviproposal Brown-baggin- g meanwhile is permitted at any hour in any restaurant that allows or is permitted to allow consumption on the premises Controls on brown-baggin- g are solely a city or county power not that of the state with permits or restrictions issued by local authorities Salt Lake City and Ogden for instance require restaurants to have city permits allowing drinking on the premises before brown-baggin- g is allowed In cities or unincorporated areas with no local ordinances on the practice brown-baggin- g would be permitted in table- -service I The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday December 13 1987 Bll FBI Offers $5000 Reward for Arrest Of Killers of 2 Navajo Policemen - MEXICAN HAT Utah (AP) The FBI is offering a $5600 reward for information leading to arrests in the slayings of two Navajo tribal policemen whose charred bodies were found in a burned-ou- t police van hey of people but still were trying to piece together what happened in a remote southern Utah desert area on Dec 4 “We interviewed 40 people today Friday and that makes about 100 people we have interviewed thus far” said Maj Franklin Morris of the Navajo Division of Public Safety “But we still don’t have a real clear picture of the events of last Friday night Dec 4” he said Autopsies of the two officers' bodies were completed Friday at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson but Morris said that Navajo police had not seen the results A spokesman for the medical center would not comment The FBI reward was announced Friday by the Navajo tribal chairman’s office in Kayenta Arix Also medicine men from the Navajo Reservation have been summoned to help solve the case said Walter Atwood a Tribal Council delegate from the area Authorities initially said they believed arrests were Imminent after identifying the spot where the offi- - Roy Lee Stanley Andy Begay Autopsy Complete Killed Dec 4 cere apparently were slain — a bonfire one mile west of Gouldings Utah Navajo police have said Begay and Stanley appeared to have been beaten and shot in the head after responding to a disturbance at the bonfire site shortly before midnight Dec 4 Teeth matching one of the slain officers and four pools of blood were found at the site police said Both officers had provided security at a basketball game at nearby Monument Valley High School earlier Urap that Friday Police believe that before dawn Saturday Dec 5 three or more people took the officers’ bodies and vehicles into Copper Canyon west of Gouldings apparently planning to dump them in Lake Powell But one of the vehicles got stuck on the canyon floor three miles from the lake and both police cars were burned after the bodies were placed in the prisoner compartment of one of the vehicles Navajo police said El EJp M 1km restaurants Wrapping paper by the roll — for those big orders select from over 50 patterns (24" x lOO'l The citizens’ council has also probed drinking on college campuses and sent a letter to University of Utah President Chase Peterson the report notes Members 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