European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Liquor by flip drink in some still a hot Issue by Doug Mclnnis Raleigh news and observer in Bob Sauters downtown the pipe a customer who wants a drink must employ an old Southern custom he pours it from a bottle wrap Ped in a Brown paper Selling liquor by the drink is illegal in As it was across All of North Carolina before the legis lature decided two years ago to give each area the right to vote itself wet or remain the restaurants in Greenville can serve Beer and and residents can buy hard liquor at state run package but Selling liquor by the drink remains restaurants such As the pipeline Are limited to pro Viding customers with drink is from where More Liberal alcohol Laws today he leads an Effort to make Greenville an Oasis for liquor by the drink in the midst of tobacco growing Pitt a referendum is scheduled in so it 47 years after prohibition was swept away with the 21st amendment to the liquor by the drink and other measures connected to alcohol remain a hot Issue in selected spots around the nowhere More than in the the trend in North Carolina has been toward liquor by the eight counties and 26 cities have voted themselves wet since illustrating a gradual easing of Southern liquor the Issue goes Well beyond liquor Laws affect numerous segments of the among them restau hotels and of the multimillion Dollar distillery the inability to serve liquor by the drink also affects now Well convention centers draw in North the greater Raleigh chamber of Commerce Felt liquor by the drink would help attract we had some hotels say they  locate in the state without says de the Chambers executive nor did the prevailing Brown bag approach do much for the regions image in bidding for new it did not put our Best foot Forward when we were enter Taining Industrial Garland but in states where drinks can be municipal coffers can swell As a North Carolina imposed a tax of almost on every gallon of liquor sold by the thus generating million in the last fiscal year for state and local the stakes Are High All the Way profits run 35 to 40 cents on each Dollar Sauter on if you make a dime on every Dollar you youre doing he mixed drinks Are a highly profitable item for restau As Freddie owner of a Greenville res puts a restaurant can charge for a scotch and water and have Only 50 cents invested in the seventy percent of americans according to the distilled spirits Council of the United a distillers in liquor including bar reve were an estimated the spirits Council the Council that state and Federal taxes took billion of the spirits group considers a county dry Only if it is without a single outlet to buy liquor either by the bottle or by the by that Only 15 states still have dry and 11 of them Are outside the Only South Dakota and West Virginia still have dry even though the along with the rest of the has liberalized its liquor Laws Over the it has not been without a the fight to legalize liquor by the drink went on for roughly a decade in North Carolina before the legis lature assented to the wishes of and convention interests in that the political infighting made for headlines Day after Day before the Battle ended in while the metropolitan areas of North Carolina quickly exercised their options to allow liquor by the some other areas did not in a univer sity town of More than liquor by the drink went ant drink message in Down to defeat at the polls in the first attempt to legalize it in in that Greenville and sur rounding Pitt county voted the City voted for while voters in the More conservative Rural areas car ried the election for the anti liquor this Only the City is and the referendum stands a better Chance of the debate is a microcosm of the larger Battle that was fought in the state legislature two years restaurants and others who favor liquor by the drink Are up against aggressive anti liquor which often have Strong Church group liquor traffic has no redeeming social says Wilmer Public relations director for the South Ern Baptist the nations largest protestant with million despite cries of economic the liquor Industry appears to stay on the sidelines in liquor Law the spirits Council favors pro liquor legislation but avoids direct intervention in efforts to change according to Duncan a Council at Joseph Seagram the new Yor based a spokesman we take no position at new York times news service Elizabeth Schneider Hopes film will raise Mary Jones women Are demanding to image of secretaries around the be treated As full fledged human new York times Marilyn Yee 3 Sandra Orr when the Bosses Arent the place runs very nine to five secretaries laugh loudest new York times Greg Stewart 3 restaurateur Bob Sauter left favors liquor by the drink Frank Steinbeck by Georgia Dullea new York times Jennifer a 27yearold Secretary in a new York advertising was taken to lunch Over the holidays by her in invited him to the they could see nine to she suggested the new comedy about three oppressed clerical workers who get even with their Macho  that be great fun he laughed and said hed Robinson recalled the other night As she drifted out of a movie theater in Man but then he kept cancelling out at the last min i took she pointed to her Raymond to judge by his was no happier with the movie than Many of the youre Mccarthy i thought it was snapped is because youre not a secretaries Are the ones who laugh loudest at nine to around new secretaries Are walking away from this movie talking of How they identify with the Lily Tomlin character trained men who were promoted Over or the Jane Fonda character my first Day at work after 15 years at the office machines terrified or the Dolly Parton character the Boss makes a pass at a its always the girl they on the other feminists who wince at the word express mixed feelings about the having read in the Advance publicity that the script was with the help of the activist group working women National association of office which Speaks for clerical workers in 45 some feminists were expecting a Pink Collar workers Call to i was hoping for another Norma said a 31 year old clerical worker named Suzanne referring to the film that so powerfully dramatized the struggles of a Blue Collar Union but in afraid this movie wont rally the workers the Way Norma Rae even Goetz has seen the movie twice searching the screen for signs of the issues and goals of women office a new York affiliate of the National to which she there she conceded with a Small for the Low women clerical workers earn Only 59 cents for every Dollar men make in similar the movie brought that there was the secrecy the person at the next desk must never know what youre this came and then there is the office wife role that the Wom an behind the typewriter or the data machine or the Steno pad is somehow expected to in darkened movie clerical workers Exchange knowing smiles these As they watch their counterparts on the screen carrying out duties that never appear on a Job a Secretary must be a they who serves Coffee and snacks to the Boss a personal who buys birthday presents for the wife a who administers his Eye drops a who tends plants and in the Mary she and other women did not protest when cast As the office we were brought up to do these i it seemed to us a natural Extension to do them in the but today Many More women Are demanding to be treated As full fledged human the movie reflects this i but does the movie accurately reflect the anger of some office workers do real life secretaries Harbor grisly fantasies of shooting or poisoning the Boss and shoving him out the office window but several secretaries interviewed confessed that at times they have been tempted to lock the Boss in the closet and throw away the the plot of nine to in which the female workers hold the Boss taking Over the office and boosting morale and May not be As far fetched As some reviewers seem to think to judge by the talk recently in a chinese restaurant near times Square where a group of clerical workers was discussing the i dont have violent Sandra was but now and then i find myself wishing the Boss would never come Back from when the Bosses Arent the place runs very the secretaries really show their there were nods around the a Grin spread across the 29yearold face of Janet who works in a Law i sometimes fantasize that the Boss is in my she you that Hes sitting in front of a typewriter and in standing Over watching every muttering cant you get that done Elizabeth Schneider had no Only Hopes that the movie would serve to raise the image of secretaries around the right she it could not be worse at when you Tell people youre a do you Ever notice How quickly they move on to someone else the message is youre a weve got to change Page 14 the stars and stripes february the stars and stripes Page 15