Saturday, November 11, 2017 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 75 cents Groups Veterans Day 2017 reach a deal on sale of alcohol By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Two powerful lobbying groups that have scuttled attempts to legalize carryout Sunday alcohol sales in Indiana with their past disagree - ments announced a deal Friday that could clear a path forward. The Indiana Association of Beverage Retailers and the Indiana Retail Council said in a joint news release that they have resolved dif - ferences that previously led state lawmakers to give up on efforts to overturn the Prohibition-era Sunday carryout sales ban. But the new alliance has apparently created an enemy — the gas station lobby. And it’s unclear whether lawmakers will agree to go along with their proposal during the legisla - tive session that starts in January. “How credible can these groups be when just six months ago each made The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney opposite claims?” said Scot Imus, executive director of the Indiana Petroleum Mar - Saying thanks keters and Convenience Bloomfield Elementary kindergartners, first graders and second graders give high fives to Josh Myers (kneeling) Store Association. That “type of backroom games - and Corey McIntire, both former students at the school, after they gave a presentation Friday for Veterans Day. Students got manship and hypocrisy is the opportunity to see principal Ben Dues try a MRE (meal ready to eat) and ask questions of Myers, who served in the Air exactly what the public Force flying unmanned drones, and McIntire, who served in the Army in a variety of roles included infantry. despises.” Under the agreement, liquor store owners repre - sented by the beverage association will drop their opposition to Sunday sales, In service which they previously argued would allow gro - cery stores to siphon away business on a major shop - to country ping day. In return, retail - ers will oppose a proposal By ALLIE KIRKMAN that would allow conven - The Commercial Review ience and grocery stores to Today, approximately sell cold beer. 558,000 of the 16 million Pearl “The package liquor Americans who served store industry along with in World War II are still Harbor our friends at the Indiana alive, according to US Retail Council are commit - Department of Veterans attack led ted to working directly with Affairs statistics. legislators to successfully One of those 20th-cen - Lee to join draft and pass meaningful tury veterans still active and impactful public policy and sharing his story is the navy that will allow Hoosiers to 100-year-old Paul Lee purchase alcohol for carry - out on Sundays for the first from Hartford City. time since Prohibition,” Originally from Jay Dayton, Ohio. When the said Jon Sinder, chairman County, Lee studied civil attack on Pearl Harbor engineering at Purdue happened, he felt he of the Indiana Association The Commercial Review/Allie Kirkman of Beverage Retailers. University and went on needed to do more for his Gas stations and grocery to work as an engineer at country and joined the stores in Indiana can sell Like many in his generation, Jay County native Paul Lee decided Wilbur Wright Field Navy in 1942 at the age warm beer and chilled to join the Navy following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He served in North (now Wright-Patterson of 26. wine. But the right to sell Africa during World War II as a chief machinist’s mate. Air Force Base) near See Service page 2 carryout cold beer primari - ly belongs to liquor stores, whose owners have used their considerable clout to keep it that way. But that was upended Alabama candidate denies accusation last year when Jay Ricker, MONTGOMERY, Ala. a month before a special as “completely false and ly, no.” He added: “I don’t a wave of concern among the owner of Ricker’s con - (AP) — His party sudden - election. misleading.” remember ever dating anxious GOP officials in venience stores, found a ly and bitingly divided, Moore, an outspoken In an interview with any girl without the per - Washington but little loophole. He started serv - Alabama Republican Roy Christian conservative conservative radio host mission of her mother.” more than a collective ing burritos at two stores, Moore emphatically and former state Supreme Sean Hannity, he did not As for the encounter with shrug from many Repub - enabling him to obtain an rejected increasing pres - Court judge, attacked a wholly rule out dating 14-year-old Leigh Corf - licans in Alabama, which alcohol license typically sure to abandon his Sen - Washington Post report teenage girls when he man, as described by holds a special election reserved for restaurants. ate bid on Friday as fears that he had sexual contact was in his early 30s. Corfman in Thursday’s on Dec. 12 to fill the seat That set him up to sell grew among GOP leaders with a 14-year-old girl and Asked if that would Post article, he said, “It previously held by Attor - carryout cold beer — until that a once-safe Senate pursued three other have been usual for him, never happened.” ney General Jeff Ses - lawmakers intervened. seat was in jeopardy just teenagers decades earlier Moore said, “Not general - The story has produced sions. Lebanon insists that Saudis return prime minister BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese offi - The U.S. added its voice to those Saudi capital that he was resign - ments by the Saudis against Iran that included members of the cials insisted Friday on the urging that Hariri be allowed to ing. that followed have deepened the Iranian-backed Hezbollah mili - return home of Prime Minister return to Lebanon. A political cri - The announcement from the mystery about Hariri’s fate and tia. He cited meddling in Lebanon Saad Hariri from Saudi Arabia, sis has gripped the country and Saudi-aligned Hariri jolted led to rumors that he is being and elsewhere in the region by and the leader of the militant shattered the relative peace main - Lebanon and thrust it back into held in the kingdom against his Iran and Hezbollah in his deci - group Hezbollah said the Saudis tained by its coalition govern - the regional rivalry between will, despite his denials. sion to step down, adding that had “declared war” on Lebanon ment ever since his stunning Saudi Arabia and Iran. The move For the past year, Hariri has Iran’s arm into the region will be by holding him against his will. announcement Nov. 4 from the and exceptionally strong state - headed a coalition government “cut off.” Weather In review Coming up Portland Board of Works Monday — Results from Friday was chilly with the and there is a 60-percent chance has scheduled a special meet - tonight’s South Adams High temperature peaking at 33 of rain showers in the afternoon. ing for 2 p.m. Friday in the School girls basketball game degrees in Portland. The low will be 41. mayor’s office at 321 N. Merid - against the Blackford Bruins. Expect partly cloudy skies Skies will be partly cloudy ian St. It will include a vote to today with a high of 40. Tonight’s Monday with a high of 46. award a contract for addition - Wednesday — Coverage low will be 29. For an extended forecast, see al testing at the former site of of a special Jay School Board Sunday’s high will climb to 47, page 2. the book bindery on Wayne meeting to discuss a contract Street. with teachers. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local Saturday, November 11, 2017 Service ... Continued from page 1 dropped these guys off, about 40 “You sure do feel like you’re cigarette lighters for his fellow her father told of his time in “It was the thing to do for the or 45 men, and said, ‘You know, out there without any protec - servicemen out of the German the war. country,” Lee said. “A lot of my if they Germans come back, tion,” Lee said. parts. “He has never told us too friends were in and it was just sorry. No one is going to come But those memories aren’t Another fond memory is many stories about the war something that I thought I get you.’” the experiences Lee enjoys playing baseball. until most recently within the should do.” Lee said he wasn’t scared looking back on from serving “We had a baseball team the last few years,” she said. “It After boot camp, Lee was sent though even when the men could in Navy for three years. It is second year we were there. We was just about the camaraderie to Bizerte, Tunisia, where he see ships in the distance, not obvious in the veteran’s smile won the playoffs in our area. of being with the other guys.” served as a chief machinist's sure if they were from Germany that he appreciates reflecting They flew us to Iran for the After returning home from mate. or France. on the little moments he North African playoffs and we the Navy in 1944, Lee went on Lee was responsible for mak - “He said one time there was a shared with his mates during got beat there,” Lee said. “I had to work for IBM for 28 years. He ing parts and repairing planes ship off shore and they all just the war more than 70 years lots of fun playing with the also got married and start a and ships for the military. had their rifles and stood along ago. team. family, which he said is his “When they took the men to the shore, but nothing ever came In his free time when he was - “Those are the things I like biggest accomplishment in life.