University Daily Kansan, March 30, 1984 Page 8
CAMPUS AND AREA
Bar owners say age increase would curtail their revenues
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
Local bar managers yesterday predicted that a bill that would raise the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer from 18 to 15 would decrease their revenue
Yesterday, a five-member, special Senate committee passed the bill, sending it to the Senate floor for discussion on Monday.
"I think the whole thing is phony," said Doug Compton, owner of Cogburns, 737 New Hampshire St., and Bullwink Bar, 134 Tennessee St.
"THE LEGISLATURE has no right to tell 18-year-olds that they can pay taxes and go to war," he said, "but they can't sit down and have a beer."
Compton said that determining the age of bar patrons was already a problem. If the bill passes, he said, it would be even more difficult.
The bill would lead to a 15 percent to 20 percent revenue loss for the two
"Due to the failing economy, there will be fewer drinkers anyway, but to raise the drinking age would hurt all consumers in the long run." Compton said.
He said bar owners were being unnecessarily blamed for the drinking-related deaths of 18-year-olds in the state.
"IF THE BILL is passed, it won't make the roads any safer," he said. "How about the millions of people between 25 and 30 who die in drinking-
related accidents? You might as well raise the drinking age to 30."
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., said the bill was a political and emotional issue that had not been dealt with rationally.
"The bill is making a mackery on the law," he said. "There will be just as many 18-year-olds sneaking in and out of our school." The olds getting into the 21 bars now, he said.
Wallace said that if the bill passed, the law would not only cut the revenue of his bar by 35 percent, but that it would also cut the revenue of the store stores, the stores and the treasures of people in Lawrence that held liquor licenses.
ANNE MCCLURE, co-owner of Louise's Bar, 109 Massachusetts St., and Louise's West, 1307 W. Seventh St., said the passage of the jaw would not have a large effect on their revenue.
we're mostly concerned now with the people that would get a hold of the fake ID's" she said. "If the bill is passed, we will have to spend a considerably larger amount of time discriminating between the legitimate and fake ID's."
LOUISE'S WEST would not be affected by the bill, McClure said, because the bar's patrons are older.
"I would be glad to see it turn 19 instead of 21," she said. "For the last three or four years, the Legislature has been trying to do something to drinkage age idea. If the bill would possibly might be the forces to be up a little bit."
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