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Herrold Henson, a Linotype operator in Florence, seat of Lauderdale, and a former bootlegger ("I used to haul a little"), recalled driving across the Tennessee River to Colbert County, standing outside in line for 45 minutes, buying his fill and sharing with friends a half pint of bourbon in the car on the way home, such was the giddiness here. Before Colbert went wet, people in Florence had to drive 65 miles to the east, to Madison County, to buy a legal drink. In fact, of the 18 counties that constitute north Alabama, only that one was wet. Bringing...
...establishments that serve alcohol have opened in Colbert County, and the availability of hooch has profoundly changed the region. Just one example: in the old days, it was a matter of honor for the people of a dry county, when traveling to a wet county, to offer to haul liquor back home to their friends. "Now the whole nature of our hospitality has been altered," said Wade. With booze so close, he observed, "if you have to go to Georgia, all you can offer is to bring back some peaches...
...press attention at this point in the campaign and thus could test themes and sharpen positions with slight risk of committing a fatal gaffe. This time around, however, they are already in the hot glare of television cameras. That kind of exposure encourages rhetorical posturing and, over the long haul, may discourage voter interest...
...budget allows for snow emergencies, but since Proposition 2 1/2 we can no longer haul it off the streets." Deputy City Manager Richard C. Rossi said last week...
Anarchy may be too mild a term for the situation in the 75-sq.-mi. triangle, where bandits, remnants of China's pre-1949 Nationalist army, and more than half a dozen "liberation armies" scramble for their share of the $800 million annual opium haul. Last February Thai armed forces ousted the region's biggest opium smuggler, Khun Sa, and his 3,000-member Shan United Army from their luxurious mountain aerie in the border town of Ban Hin Taek. Khun Sa fled back to Burma, and his departure created a power vacuum that lesser warlords...