The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-04
CLOSING H OUR LIQUOR CLAUSE
 IS NOT PASSED
Council Gives First Read ing Okeh to Ordinance,
 Minus Section


 dispensaries in Juneau will be sub jected to no closing hour reStric- tions whatsoever, if the City Coun- cil continues to move as it did last night at the City Hall.
 Acting with swiftness that left several liquor dealers in the large audience puzzled for few minutes asto what had happened, the Coun- cil passed through the first read ing a new liquor ordinance. This ordinance, embodying no early morning or Sunday closing hours, must be passed twice more, at two week intervals. before becoming eff fective.
 A rough draft of the ordinance had been presented the councilmen at their last regular meeting two weeks ago. At that meeting hint of opposition to the closing hour restrictions was voiced not only from liquor men in the visitors gallery but from the Council table.
 Clause Is Strfcken
 That opposition apparently had grown during the two-week inter val. When City Clerk A. w Henning read the final draft last night pre- pared by City Attorney H. L. Faulk- ner, the ordinance included, under the label of Section 16," regula- sal. ch1It HnMTl all liquor, beer and wine sales from 1 o'clock ' o'clock every morning and from l o'clock Sunday morning to i7 o'clock Monday morning.
 No sooner had the City Clerk finished reading the bill than Coun- cilman Henry Messerschmidt nov ed the adoption of the ordinance for first reading, providing the dis puted Section 16p be stricken. Councilman Art McKinnon gave second. The vote was unanimous, without Councilman Wallis s. George who is in the States, absent. The large gallery sat quiet. Then, when Mayor Isadore Goldstein asked for opinion on what the Council had just voted, dealers arose and began to speak in protest of the closing clause. They did not comprehend, until it was explained to them, that the Council had eli minated that clause.
 Douglas Will Follow
 In substance, the bill contains no other disputed points, except that, in accord with recent Ter ritorial Board of Liquor Control regulation, the age limit of persons who may enter liquor stores and dispensaries is lowed from 2l to 18I years. However, no liquor or beer may be sold to a person who is younger than 21 years of age.
 Mayor Goldstein announced, be- fore the liquor vote was taken, that Mayor A. E. Goetz of Douglas had told him that the Douglas City Council would copy it's liquor regu- lations after Juneaus
 Before the liquor the liquor ques- tion was raised, councilmen were asked by Glen Sutherland, of Ta- come, to pass an ordinance licensing a past time, which he called "Fas- cination," in Juneau Sutherland said he planned to install the dart game, which would require 15 em- ployees, in the newly opened Ter minal" at Front and Seward Streets
 To Investigate
 Apparently councilmen wanted to know more about the game, describ- ed by it's packers as game of skill and not ea-,bling, for no action was taken other than to appoint a committee of investigation. Coun- cilman Messerschmidt was named chairman, and McKinnon and Beistline were appointed to work with him.
 Telegrams from Seattle and Ta- coma, were received by the Council in answer to queries about the game The Tacoma message called Sutherland high type business man and said municipal authorities had received mo complaints al though the Pierce County prosecut- ing attorney had succeeded in hav- ing the game, which offers mer- chandise orders on stores as prizes, closed.
 A considerable number of Juneau merchants have expressed them selves in favor of the ordinance which MT. Sutherland requests.
 Sutherland said that Tacoma, Spokane, Bremerton, Portland, and Eugene, Ore, all had ordinances licensing the game.
 Sutherland said that Tacoma, Spokane. Bremerton. Portland and
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