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...would take a petition signed by 10 percent of a county's voters to put the issue up to be passed by a majority vote. Oklahoma didn't actually repeal prohibition until 1959, and organizers on both side of the liquor-by-the-drink issue says most of the arid state is still very much in favor of being dry. The only exceptions noted are the counties including metropolitan Oklahoma City and Tulsa, which have grown rapidly (Oklahoma City 45,000 since 1970; Tulsa 35,000 in the same 14 years) with an influx of people--presumably alcohol fans--from...
WHAT THE VOTE could mean, though, is an end in some places to rampant hypocrisy about the liquor laws. When the Oklahoma Legislature turned back prohibition, they allowed for package stores, but only beer with an alcohol content of less than 3.2 percent could be served by the glass, at restaurants and taverns with appropriate licenses. At restaurants and even in the state's 1500 private clubs, patrons ostensibly had to bring their own bottles purchased elsewhere...
...acknowledges Charles Weaver, an administrative assistant at the Oklahoma Alcohol and Beverage Commission, at almost every one of those 1500 clubs you can get an illegal glass of liquor or wine. With only 18 enforcement officers for the whole state. Weaver says the commission has all it can handle in looking after the 840 package stores which are legally licensed to sell liquor...
...pushing for the repeal, Oklahomans for Responsible Liquor Control (ORLC) hit on the themes of being honest about the reality of how much liquor is being sold by the drink--"Come on, Oklahoma, let's stop the nonsense," exhorted one television ad--and how if the illegal trade were licensed in just 15 counties, Oklahoma could net $35 million in yearly tax revenues. "We've had liquor by the drink in Oklahoma for 25 years. We just never admitted it," says ORLC President Michael Williams, "Naturally, I'm tickled to death [about the results of the referendum]. In the long...
...Oklahoma is OK Committee charged that legalizing saloons would lead to increased consumption and would boost the state's highway fatalities from about 1000 in 1983 to as many as 1500 or 1600 because of increased drunken driving...