2010 October Preston Hollow

Dallas’ drinking problem

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Will the November election make life easier for a city struggling with cumbersome alcohol laws?

JUST TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE

We have a slide-out garbage bin under our kitchen sink. The bin’s 13-gallon plastic liners don’t take long to fill even with recycling bags scattered throughout the house.

The garbage bin is located in the busiest room in the house, so it collects the most garbage. And without fail, it seems as if every time I slide it out to load something in, it’s overflowing. Sometimes, it’s even overflowing in a way that makes me laugh out loud; there’s no way the person before me could have walked away in good conscience while leaving behind a propped-open garbage lid overflowing with banana peels or empty milk cartons.

The logical thing, when faced with an overflowing garbage bin, is to address the issue: Pull the bag out of the bin, walk about 50 feet (granted, more than half of it outdoors) to the city-provided super-jumbo garbage bin in the backyard, and then load an empty liner in the kitchen bin so the next person isn’t inconvenienced.

The whole process takes less than five minutes. Maybe even less than four minutes. It’s important, it’s the responsible thing to do, and it’s really not that difficult.

Everyone in our house knows it’s important, and everyone knows it needs to be done. But everyone seems to hope that someone else will step up because that’s just the way most of us are. I understand that thought process, because that’s exactly what goes through my mind, too.

I bring this up not because my garbage situation is all that fascinating, but because as we enter another political season, there are some parallels here.

Democracy and voting in this country are no longer the shiny new pennies they must have been 200-plus years ago. With every passing election, fewer of us as a percentage of the voting population take the time to vote. Less than half of us decide most of the elections these days. Often, 10 or 20 percent of us make the call. It takes too much time to do the right thing, so too many of us do nothing at all.

Something that should have changed this

trend and sparked interest in elections and candidates is the internet — in a matter of minutes, anyone anywhere can find out everything about any candidate, any ballot issue, any controversy. We can watch words spill out of the candidates’ own mouths on YouTube, on their own sites, on news sites, on our phones. We can assess their positions, evaluate their intellect, even spar with them online if we (and they) so choose.

But like hauling out the garbage, we generally choose to let someone else do the work. And many of us seem to think we’re getting away with something when we’re too busy to spend a few minutes doing what needs to be done.

I keep telling myself that one day when I find the garbage bin overflowing, I’m going to set my refuse pile on top of the cover or next to the bin just so that someone else will have to complete the task. But as I stand there contemplating my prospective crime, I just can’t do it. After all, if garbage heaps up and I dodge responsibility, I’m trashing my own home, too.

So I dispose of the garbage, and my four or five minutes right along with it. Leaving the chore for someone else just isn’t the right thing to do.

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Q uestion of the Month

what local fall event are you looking forward to attending?

Corn dogs and beer!! I can’t wait for the State Fair of Texas! –Kendall Butler

The Dallas Arboretum’s [Great Pumpkin Festival]! One of my favorite pictures is of me and my two grandsons there.

–Vera l and Stencel Shel By Walk Wag and Run on Oct. 23rd!!

–liS a-Kay Pierotti

State Fair of Texas: Fried Frito-chili pie. Feel the burn. –MarK holland

Pumpkins and fall flowers at the Farmer’s Market. –Mary FiSK S. Farr

Fall calls for the State Fair!! Can’t wait.

–SuS an Ku S tel SK i l ongley

That’s an easy one! It’s a series of events called “Friday night lights”. Nothing better in the fall than high school football! –d arlene elliS on

Friends of the Dallas Public Library’s Literary Lions Dinner with author Alexander McCall Smith on Oct. 22!

–deBorah Brown

State Fair of Texas!! Woo hoo. Bring on the fried food and livestock.

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LAUNCH

Ken Helfman, along with his son Kory, runs the “Cheers” of menswear: It’s the store where everybody knows your name, Ken says. Visit Ken’s Man’s Shop at Preston Royal Shopping Center on any given afternoon and you’ll find several dapperlooking dudes sitting around — glass of wine or a cup of joe in hand — telling tales, or laughing at the elder Helfman’s jokes. But don’t let the joviality fool you; the Helfmans are hardcore haberdashers. These guys can sell cashmere to Texans in August. They know men’s fashion like Landry knew football. But it is their wholehearted appreciation for people and community, to which they have given back in spades, that makes Ken’s more than just a store.

When did you open Ken’s Man’s Shop?

July 29, 1964. It was a Thursday, and we opened at 9 a.m. in the Ridgewood Shopping Center in Garland, Texas. In 1993 we moved to Preston.

Ken, how’d you get into the men’s clothing biz?

My dad and brother were doctors, but during my time in college I really didn’t discover what I wanted to do. As a teen, I worked for a friend of my mom who taught me the men’s clothing business, and I really loved it. In the 1960s I worked in shoe sales for a store in Casa Linda called Persian Peyton’s one day the men’s department salesman asked me to take over during his lunch break. By the time he got back, I’d sold thousands worth of clothes. I wound up becoming a manager, and after that, I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. It really came down to loving people. The business just suited pardon the play on words — my personality.

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KEN’S GAINED A GOOD REP AND FAST. HOW DID YOU GET SUCH MOMENTUM GOING?

The Dallas Cowboys practiced near the store, in North Lake Highlands off Forest Lane, and Lee Roy Jordon became a customer. Many of the other Cowboys followed. We used to do the Ken’s Big Play Award at Cowboys games, where the player of the game won a suit or sport coat of his choice. That association with the Cowboys ignited a lot of good things.

DID THE COACH SHOP AT KEN’S?

Landry shopped here. Ten years ago, we had a 35th anniversary fundraiser and the Landry family donated one of Tom Landry’s fedoras for the silent auction. It garnered $2,500 of the $100,000 we raised that year.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING IN MEN’S FASHION SINCE THE ’60S?

The leisure suit. The polyester double knit and pastel colors had otherwise distinguished men looking like they worked for Baskin Robbins there’s a difference between fad and fashion. We never sold them.

KEN STARTED KEN’S, AND KORY, WHO HAS TWO SONS OF HIS OWN, WILL TAKE OVER SOMEDAY. KORY, WILL YOUR BOYS GO INTO THE BUSINESS, TOO?

I started when I was 24 and discovered a passion for it. If they have that passion, I’ll be happy to teach them all I know.

KEN’S SEEMS LIKE MORE THAN JUST A STORE. ITHAS A RICH YET HOMEY FEEL AND PEOPLE SEEM TO WANT TO HANG OUT HERE. WHY?

It’s kind of the Cheers of menswear. People like to come visit, drink coffee. I love the relationships that have been built here in the store.

OTHER THAN THE CLOTHES, THERE ARE SOME COOL THINGS AROUND THE STORE. WHAT’S THE STORY? My wife, Jerri, and I shop for antiques to sell as special gifts, and you can find them throughout the store.

WHAT ABOUT THAT GIANT CHESS TABLE NEAR THE FRONT DOOR?

That belonged to my father. He was the chess champion of New York State at age 16 he played blindfolded chess! He was so good at it, he probably could have taken it up as a profession rather than becoming a doctor. Every piece in the store has a story behind it.

EVERYYEAR YOU DO MAJOR FUNDRAISERS, BUT YOU’VE GOT A HUGE ONE PLANNED THIS YEAR. TELL US ABOUT YOUR SUPER BOWL RAFFLE AND ITS BENEFICIARIES.

The Scottish Rite Hospital, as many know, is an amazing institution. They have never charged for a surgery. The Bill Hunt Scholarship fund is in memory of Ken’s first employee, a Garland High School student, who was a phenomenal young man. His reputation brought people into Ken’s. People would say, ‘If Bill works here, it must be a good place.’ When he was still a relatively young man, Hunt had a mental breakdown and eventually took his own life. Along with Bill’s family, I announced the scholarship fund at his Garland class’s 20th reunion. That night, Bill’s classmates wrote $5,000 worth of checks. We’ve presented scholarships every year since. This year, we have two tickets to the 2011 Super Bowl — we are selling 1,964 (for the year the store opened) raffle tickets at $200 each. The money will be evenly split between the two charities, and the winner will receive the tickets plus brunch prepared by Dean Fearing, and a [Lincoln] Town Car to and from the game. Lee Roy Jordon will draw the winner in early January. We figured this Super Bowl was going to be the biggest sporting event Dallas has ever seen, and I wanted to find a way to make it work for these charities.

—CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

October 16th and 17th, 2010

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Live Saturday and Sunday from Ron’s Organics Garden Center, David Yates with the Home Improvement Zone will broadcast live 2:00-5:00pm, with experts in the field of improving your life, your home and your lifescaping. Sunday live 8-9am Ron and Mona Hall cover everything natural, and organic and new ways of living natural both in and out of the home. Both days experts will be on hand conducting seminars with questions and answer sessions.

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WHAT GIVES?

Small ways that you can make a big difference for neighborhood nonprofits

MAKE A DONATION

to Canstruction, an event that turns canned food into life-sized sculptures. The Society of Design Administration will present the work at a display Oct. 9-24 at NorthPark Center. Any extra, donated funds can help expand the project in the future. Stop by and vote for your favorite. At the end of the show, all the cans will be given to the North Texas Food Bank. To learn more, visit ntfb.org.

BUY A NEW BRA seriously, and help support Susan G. Komen for Cure. Wacoal has launched its Fi(gh)t for the Cure campaign, helping women find their correct bra size at special events on Oct. 8 inside Macy’s at NorthPark Center and the Galleria. When you purchase a bra, $2 will go toward breast cancer research. Over the past 10 years, Wacoal has raised more than $2.3 million for the nonprofit. To learn more, visit wacoal-america.com.

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URBAN HERB DAYS

FREE This is your chance to learn everything you ever wanted to know about herb gardens. Local gardening groups will host workshops and lectures at North Haven Gardens starting at 11 a.m. Saturday when Diane Poston of the Herb Society of America will speak on the best times to plant herbs. North Haven Gardens coach Kay Nelson will offer tips for beginners at 1 p.m., and Beth DiGoia of the Herb Society of America shows what to do your herbs after harvesting during the 2:30 p.m. session. There’s another Herb Gardens 101 class at 11 a.m. Sunday if you miss the first one. During the weekendlong event, North Haven Gardens will sell all 4-inch herbs for $1.99. 7700 Northaven. 214.363.5316 or nhg. com. —EMILY TOMAN

10.01-10-02 ST. RITA’S GARAGE SALE

FREE The St. Rita Catholic Community will have a garage sale 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday and Saturday with proceeds benefiting Oblates Missions in Haiti. 12521 Inwood. 972.934.8388 or stritaparish.net.

10.23

PHECPTA PROGRAM FREE Author

Colleen O’Donnell will speak about how to bring the generosity out of your children in “Help Your Children Experience the Joy of Giving” 7 p.m. at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church as part of the Preston Hollow Early Childhood Association’s series. 9800 Preston. phecpta.org.

10.12 SENIOR EXPO FREE

The Jewish Community Center will host its Senior Expo, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., providing information on retirement communities, health care and screenings, plus a wide selection of arts and crafts, jewelry, books and movies. Dave Lieber, a Fort Worth Star-Telegram investigative columnist, will talk at 1 p.m. about how to protect yourself from scams. 7900 Northaven. 214.739.2737 or jccdallas.org.

10.30 PSALMS AND SONNETS $15-$25 The Texas Voices presents its fall concert at 6:30 p.m. at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, featuring choral music by Ralph Vaugh Williams, John Rutter and Brian Edward Galante; Dallas composers Debra Scroggins, Joel Martinson and Steven Gutheinz; and guest organist Clarice Candamio. 9200 Inwood. thetexasvoices.org.

FIFTH QUARTER

W HETHER THE y scoRE d the winning touchdown or got their butts kicked, every team deserves a treat after the big game. Lovers Pizza & Pasta accommodates the winners and losers with its community atmosphere. “We like family together,” owner Benini Zeqiri says. “That’s what people like about us.” That, and the authentic Italian food. The recipes came from Zeqiri’s uncle, who owned a restaurant in Venice some 30 years ago. He moved to New York City, eventually made his way to Dallas, and opened Brothers Pizza. Zeqiri tried his hand at the business with the first Lovers Pizza & Pasta location at Lovers and the Tollway — hence the name. The menu includes homemade salads, pastas, seafood, sandwiches and, of course, gourmet pizza. The white pizza combines freshly made Alfredo sauce with mozzarella cheese, steamed broccoli, red peppers, mushrooms and spinach. But it really comes down to two key ingredients, Zeqiri says: “For pizza, the No. 1 things are cheese and sauce.” —EMILY

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CHUBBY’S $ When looking for a restaurant to have breakfast, lunch or dinner, we all want a place that serves up variety, hearty helpings and even bigger portions of friendliness. The Touris family has developed a recipe that delivers all of the above at a good price. With four locations in the Metroplex, Chubby’s Family Restaurant provides a rustic setting with down home cooking. Catering available. Locations: 11331 E. NW Hwy. 214-348-6065 and 7474 S. Cockrell Hill Rd. 972-298-1270.

EL TIZONCITO $ New location at Forest Lane, this Mexico City taqueria is a Dallas must-visit. The décor offers a casual experience that corrects the misconception of an original Taqueria. The Tacos al Pastor shaved down from the vertical oven and the unique Tamarind Margarita are a must-try. “What a pleasant surprise.” George Bush. “Excellent service complements exceptional food.” Gary Fisher. “Best Tacos in Dallas.” Mico Rodriguez. Sun-Thurs 10am-11pm Fri-Sat 10am-1am. Catering available. 3318 Forest Lane Suite 100 Dallas TX 75234 972.247.8797

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SPANN RECOVERY RED ($15) CALFORNIA >

Red blends — red wines made with more than one grape often misunderstood in the United States. We tend to think of them as somehow inferior to varietal wines — those made with just one grape because they need more than one grape because the quality of the first grape isn’t very good.

In fact, nothing is further from the truth. Some of the world’s greatest wines are red blends, like French Bordeauxs and Rhones and some of the best Napa Valley cabernet sauvignons. And many California wines that say they are varietals may well have more than one grape in them. That’s because federal law allows producers to include up to 25 percent of another grape or grapes without changing the name of the wine or saying so on the label. Which means that your $12 bottle of pinot noir may be only 75 percent pinot, and one-quarter something else (often syrah).

So, as the weather turns cooler, give red blends another look. You’ll be surprised at what you find, as these wines demonstrate. All of these wines are available at Central Market:

This California wine is made with four grapes, including one that is white. Look for lots of fresh red fruit, low alcohol, and the quality and value that Peirano is known for. Serve this with hamburgers or any other end-of-the-season backyard cookout.

The best

Bordeaux can cost thousands of dollars a bottle, which means value is often in short supply. Fortunately, the Goudichaud (made of merlot and cabernet) offers look at how dark and complex red Bordeaux can be. This is a wine for those who like to pair wine with cheese.

Betsy and Peter Spann are former Casa Linda residents who moved to Sonoma to make wine, where they focus on blends. The Recovery Red has six grapes, and tastes of red berries. It’s wine, but not especially heavy.

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WITH YOUR WINE

New Orleansstyle red beans

What better way to enjoy fall’s cooler weather than with this Crescent City favorite? Serve it with plenty of white rice, some coleslaw or potato salad, and the red blend of your choice. Red beans are, of course, kidney beans, but New Orleans brands like Camellia that say “red beans” seem to provide the best results.

Serves six to eight, takes 3 to 4 hours

1 lb dry red beans

8 c water

1 ham bone or 2-3 pork neck bones or 1 lb smoked sausage, cut in 3/4-inch pieces

2 onions, chopped

1 bell pepper chopped

1/2 rib celery, chopped

2 Tbsp garlic, chopped

2 bay leaves

Red pepper, black pepper and salt to taste

1. Put everything but the salt into a heavy pot, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer, partially cover, and cook until the beans start to get tender, 1 to 2 hours depending on the beans.Check the beans periodically; add more water if necessary.

2. When the beans start to get tender, add salt. Carefully remove the ham bone or neck bones, carefully remove the meat, and put the meat back in the pot.

3. When the beans are done, in another hour or so, mash some of the beans against the side of the pot to make the mixture creamier and thicker.

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What does it take to get a drink in this neighborhood?

Navigating through 100 years of complicated laws is the current answer. After November, however, that may change.

Story by Jeff Siegel & Emily Toman

Timeline of liquor laws in Texas

1843

Republic of Texas passes what may have been the first local-option measure in North America. This means each community in the state can decide its own liquor laws, setting the scene for 167 years of confusion.

1845

TEXAS LAW BANS SALOONS, BUT IS RARELY ENFORCEDAND IS REPEALED IN 1856.

1903

Local option voting takes most of North Texas dry, except for Dallas and Fort Worth.

1887 Prohibition amendment to Texas Constitution fails, and state remains “local option”: A county, city or justice of the peace precinct can vote wet or dry. This means that parts of the same county can have entirely different liquor laws.

1917 DALLAS VOTES DRY.

Illustration by Jynnette Neal

1919

TEXASADDS PROHIBITION AMENDMENTTO STATE CONSTITUTION.

1911 The only proper attitude for “any Christian man and thoughtful citizen,” said Texas Baptists, was one of ceaseless and truceless hostility against the entire liquor oligarchy, local, county, state, and national, root and branch.”

1920 FEDERALPROHIBITION BEGINS.

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has been as much a part of Dallas as 100-degree days and the Cowboys.

In this, our wet-dry boundaries affected everyone. In dry areas, of course, residents have had to drive across town to buy a bottle of wine or a six-pack and couldn’t even order a drink in a restaurant until 1971. Even today, the private club limitations in dry areas that went into affect in 1971 make it more difficult to order liquor in Oak Cliff and North Dallas than in Lakewood. And even residents in wet areas feel the difference. If you live in a wet part of town that borders a dry area, you witness the Friday night flight to the liquor stores that guard the border.

All of this could change next month. If voters approve the two issues on the ballot, every restaurant in the city, regardless of wet-dry status, will be able to sell beer, wine and spirits without the private club paperwork, and retailers with the appropriate state licenses will be able to sell beer and wine.

In this month’s magazine, we look at the history of Dallas’ wet-dry status, our unique (and often frustrating) liquor laws, the role religion has played in keeping Dallas dry, and what it will mean to our neighborhood if voters approve both issues.

1929 Colliers magazine reports that Dallas, despite Prohibition, is wide open — reporter Owen P.White bought liquor in six places in a twoblock stretch of downtown, and there were more than a hundred others in the city.

1935 Two years after federal Prohibition is repealed, Texas voters repeal state prohibition. Local option returns; areas that were wet before Prohibition are wet again. In Dallas, only Oak Cliff, with beer sales, is wet.

1940

The town of Preston Hollow (not yet annexed by Dallas) votes dry, 97 to 49.

1944

DALLAS COUNTY VOTES WET, 47,343 TO 23,540.

2010

DALLAS’ WET-DRY ELECTION GOES TO THETEXAS SUPREME COURT, WHICH WILL DECIDE WHETHER THERE ARE VALIDENOUGH SIGNATURES TO HOLD THE REFERENDUM. IF THERE ARE, IT WILL GO TO VOTERS IN NOVEMBER.

1956 OakCliff

votes dry, 17,123 to 15,403, and remains dry after elections in 1957 and 1960 fail to reverse its status.

1971

VOTERS APPROVE LIQUOR BY THE DRINK IN A TEXAS-WIDE REFERENDUM. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TEXAS HISTORY, RESTAURANT PATRONS WILL BE ALLOWED TO BUY COCKTAILS.

t’s almost impossible to overstate how important next month’s wet-dry election is in Dallas’ social and cultural history. It’s not only the biggest wet-dry election in U.S. history since the end of Prohibition, but

also a landmark moment in Dallas. Since

almost 100 years

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been dry in one form or another. It

1976: Addison votes wet, 242-70 in one of the first successful wet-dry elections in Dallas County since Prohibition. In this, it is the beginning of the end of the dry laws that had dominated Dallas for more than century. Most of the city’s suburbs would follow suit, in some form or another, over the next two decades.

2004:

Carrollton votes wet for retail beer and wine sales (6,197 to 3,173) and for restaurant alcohol sales 6,759 to 2,595).

2007:

How long has liquor been a political debate?

Wet-dry has always beencontroversial in Texas. In 1887, a leading anti-Prohibitionist, R.Q. Mills, accused the media of bias in its reporting of the wet side during the fight over adding a Prohibition amendment to the state constitution: “The Prohibitionists had a monopoly with our reporting,” and he said the media who had criticized his position were guilty of fraud.

Andin1920,prominentDallasphysician Dr. CurticeRosserexchangedletterswithhisfriend

William Jennings Bryan, the thrice-failed Democratic presidentialcandidate,aboutthemostimportant issues in the upcoming presidential election. They agreed it would be war profiteering, the ratification of theTreaty of Versailles (that ended World War I) and Prohibition.

If Dallas goes wet, will Preston Hollow residents notice?

Sure.

But seeing beer and wine on the shelves of a store like the Whole Foods at Preston and Forest will come only as a pleasant surprise, says Vaughn Miller, president of the retail division of Henry S. Miller Realty Services. The firm owns Preston RoyalVillage,amongotherDallas commercial real estate.

“This will help retailers and restaurateurs who are normally burdened by getting a private club permit,” Vaughn says of a successful wet vote. “I think it will be unnoticeable. It will not have any effect whatsoever on the residents of Preston Hollow.”

Ourneighborhoodhascertainly thrived without it. Five years before theCity of Dallas annexed the town of Preston Hollow in 1945, residents voted 97-49 to ban alcohol sales. The Feb. 25, 1940, Dallas Morning News article quotes Ira P. DeLoache, who owned and developed much of the area during that time:

“Preston Hollow voted dry to protect the community from damage resulting from undesirable places opening up along Preston

Did Dallasites make moonshine?

Stills and corn liquor are not just hillbilly doings. In 1936, reported a Dallas newspaper, police raided a still in the “North Dallas Negro district” near what is today Cole and Lemmon. They seized 950 gallons of mash, but the still’s operators escaped — even though the newspaper reported that the police had staked out the house for most of the night.

Road,” he says. “I’m sure the vote was not against liquor as such, but to keep its sale from getting too close to our doors.”

In the wake of Prohibition, the story reassures that the vote would not outlaw the purchase of alcohol or “halt cocktail parties.”

The original Preston Hollow boundaries extend only from the Tollway to Preston and Walnut Hill to Northwest Highway.The 1940 dry vote did not affect the area known today as Preston Center, so that’s where retail business began to grow, says Tom Solender, a Preservation Dallas board member studying Preston Hollow history.

Solender says developers such as DeLoache built the neighborhood primarily as a residential area. Unlike other pockets of Dallas, such as Lake Highlands and Oak Cliff, Preston Hollow hasn’t undergone major redevelopment or even changed demographically. It remains a “country home community.”

“It was always an area that had higher income than everyone else,” he says.

Reason enough for retail giants such as Whole Foods and Tom Thumb to open at the dry intersections of PrestonRoyal and Preston-Forest — and stay.

“The real issue these days has to do with sales tax,” Solender says, referring to the argument of whether a wet Dallas would mean more city sales tax revenues. “It’s not really about alcohol anymore.”

“This will help retailers and restaurateurs who are normally burdened by getting a private club permit.”

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How does getting a drink in a wet area differ from a dry area?

Is most of Dallas still dry for religious reasons?

Religious groups have traditionally taken the lead in fighting wet-dry elections in Texas, and they played a key role 50 years ago when Oak Cliff went dry. But there doesn’t seem to be much organized religious opposition to November’s two wet-dry ballot issues.

Does this mean that neighborhood churches don’t care about the issue any more? Or that Dallas is less religious than it used to be?

No on both counts, several religious leaders say. It’s not so much that alcohol isn’t important; rather, it’s that other issues have become more important, and abstinence isn’t the issue it once was. In addition, Dallas has changed significantly from the smaller, predominantly mainstream Protestant city of the 1960s and 1970s to a million-plus population urban center that includes more Catholics, Jews and non-denominational Protestants — all of whom are less concerned about alcohol.

“We’re just getting to this point later than other cities,” says George Mason, pastor at the moderate Wilshire BaptistChurch. “The city is more diverse, and we have more people who have different attitudes about this subject.”

Also, says Rev. Tim McLemore of SMU, alcohol is no longer the good vs. evil issue that it has traditionally been among the mainline Protestant groups that have been in the forefront of the U.S. temperance movement. Mason says this is even true for some conservative Baptists.

“We have knowledge about the benefits of the limited use of alcohol that we didn’t have 100 years ago,” says McLemore, who notes that the United Methodists have changed their views to allow “judicious use” of alcohol. “So we’re less inclined to take a black and white view.”

Finally,churcheshavelessinfluenceovertheir members than they did two and three decades ago. Times were, Mason says, if the church said not to drink, believers didn’t drink. These days, that veto power is largely gone.

“The city is more diverse, and we have more people who have different attitudes about this subject.”

What’s all this about “Class B retailers”?

Texas’Class B system dates to 1971, as a companion to a law allowing restaurants and bars to sell liquor by the drink. Before that, no restaurant in Texas was allowed to sell liquor — even in wet areas (although they could sell beer and wine). Customers brought their booze with them from home, and the restaurant sold them setups — mixers, juices and the like. The reason for the law? Retailers who thought liquor by the drink would cost them sales successfully lobbied state legislators, who gave them a monopoly on selling liquor to restaurants, bars and private clubs (restaurants that serve liquor in the state’s dry areas). Retailers said they would lose business because consumers would stop buying liquor at their stores to bring to restaurants. So the legislature agreed to give them the monopoly to make up for the lost sales.

Retailers who sell liquor to restaurants and private clubs are called Class B retailers, after the name of the license they obtain. They include some of the state’s best-known retailers, including Sigel’s and Goody Goody in the Dallas area. Texas is one of three states — Kansas and South Carolina are the others — with this fourth tier of distribution: manufacturer, distributor, retailer and restaurant. The other 47 just have three — manufacturer, distributor and restaurant.

According to this 1971 state law, every restaurant in Texas, whether it’s in a wet or dry area, must purchase liquor from a Class B retailer. The November election would not change this law; it would simply eliminate private clubs in Dallas and make every restaurant a restaurant, in terms of how it can purchase and sell alcohol.

The difference between private clubs and restaurants is that liquor can be delivered to restaurants in wet areas, whereas private club restaurants in dry areas must travel to a Class B retailer’s warehouse to pick up liquor — Sigel’s is near Harry Hines and Preston, and Goody Goody’s is in Addison, for example. Private clubs must also buy their beer and wine from ClassB retailers, while restaurants in wet areas can buy beer and wine dir ectly from the distributors. Class B retailers also buy their beer and wine from distributors, which translates to a markup when the retailers sell it to private clubs.

What does this mean for consumers? Typically, but not always, they’ll pay more for alcohol in a private club.The extra tier adds cost to the product, and restaurants usually pass that onto their customers. >>

Before 1971 customers brought their booze with them from home, and the restaurant sold them setups — mixers, juices and the like.

Private club restaurants in dry areas must travel to a Class B retailer’s warehouse to pick up liquor.

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How do Texans outside of Dallas like their liquor?

Alcohol has never been especially popular with Texans. When Prohibition began in 1919, 199 of the 254 counties were dry; 43 were practically dry, including Dallas County. Even today, according to the Texas AlcoholicBeverageCommission, 29 of the 254 counties are still dry, and only 43 are completely wet.

It could be worse … what if the state owned our liquor stores?

In 18 states (and one county)intheU.S., thestateownsthe liquorstores.These arecalledcontrol states,andthough therearedifferences in how eachstate defines control (some statesallowprivate retailers to sell wine or beer, for example), the result is that what is for sale is controlled by the state.

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BENEFITS

ThisisalegacyofProhibition;the political compromise that made repeal possible allowed each state to pass its own liquor laws.

Pennsylvaniahastakencontrolone step further. Currently, grocery stores in Pennsylvania can’t sell wine. Instead, the state liquor authorities have installed wine vending machines, from which the customer can buy wine, similar to buying a soft drink or a candy bar from a vendingmachine.Similar,butwitha couple of exceptions.

The consumer puts his or her driver’slicenseintothemachine,where ageinformationonthebarcodeis processed. The photo on the driver’s license is matched with a video image of the buyer at the kiosk, and a state liquor board employee monitors each transaction to confirm that the video of the buyer matches the driver’s license.

How is it that Dallas County is dry yet parts of Dallas are wet?

DALLAS COUNTY VOTES

WET, 47,343 TO 23,540.

The basis forTexas’ wet-dry laws is local option, which does what it says: Local voters can decide whether to sell alcohol in their locality. It’s one of the cornerstones of the Texas liquor system, says Lou Bright, former general counsel for the Texas Alcoholic BeverageCommission.

“The priority is that local voters always have the final say, and can’t be forced to change their local preference by someone from outside their locality,” Bright says. “This doesn’t mean that it’s not confusing or can’t be ambiguous, but that’s always the principle.”

How confusing? Consider what happened in 2006, when a group of North DallasandLakeHighlandsresidents tried to schedule a wet-dry election for theirrespectivesectionsofthecity.

TheTexas Supreme Court ruled that thewet-dryelectioncouldn’tbeheld because the election was designated for the current Justice of the Peace precinct boundaries, when it should have been designatedfortheboundariesestablished in 1877, when the area went dry.

State law defines localities three ways and uses the principle that the larger locality, such as a city, can’t force a smaller locality, such as a JP precinct, to change its behavior:

precincts are not voting precincts, but legal and administrative divisions within a county. One JP precinct can be dry, while the one next to it in the same city or county can be wet. Interestingly, Dallas’ wet-dry boundaries don’t follow the current JP lines, but older, less-welldefined JP boundaries.

it sounds. A JP precinct that’s dry can’t beturnedwetinacitywideelection unless all of the precinct is within the city.This was one of the issues in the run-up to the November election, when there was some doubt as to whether the JP precinct in Oak Cliff that went dry in 1956 was contained within the city of Dallas.Turns out it was.

it sounds, and for many of the same reasons. When Lubbock voted wet in 2009, the drys claimed that part of the county was dry from previous elections, and that a city-wide election couldn’t affectthoseareas—whichincluded in court.>>

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Dallas’ wet-dry boundaries don’t follow the current Justice of the Peace precinct lines, but older, less-well-defined JP boundaries.

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What am I actually voting on?

Dallas voters will decide two issues in November’s wet-dry election:

1. Whether to eliminate the private club regulation for restaurants that sell alcohol in dry areas. The private club rule, in place since 1971, requires restaurants to admit customers into the restaurant’s club so they can buy alcohol. It also requires the restaurant to keep a paper trail of club members.

2.Whethertoallowthesaleofbeer and wine, but not spirits, at retailers throughouttheentirecity.Currently, only one-third of Dallas — roughly White Rock Lake to Irving and downtown to Walnut Hill — is wet for retail sales.

Neither issue is dependent on the other. Voters can elect to allow retail sales but keep the private club restrictions, or vice versa.

FOR INFORMATION VISITDALCOELECTIONS.ORG.

If the Texas Supreme Court decides there are enough signatures to hold the referendum, the election will be held Nov. 2. Registration to be eligible to vote in the election ends Oct. 4. Early voting runs Oct. 18-29.

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Temple Emanu-El weddings exhibit brings congregation together

Suzi Greenman had a broken arm that day. She tied the bouquet of white tulips onto her cast — only lightweight flowers would do. But you’d never know the difference from looking at the 1966 photograph of the happy bride and groom.

“It was a beautiful ceremony,” Greenman says. “We were married in Lefkowitz Chapel, and it’s still one of my favorite chapels in the church.”

She’s one of the many local Jewish families represented in “Weddings: A Family Affair” at Temple Emanu-El.The exhibit includes old photographs and artifacts from members’weddingdays,datingbacktothe late 19th century. Two timelines run alongside the display — the history of Temple Emanu-El and the history of Dallas. Some of the earliest Temple members were pioneers of the city as the church grew to be one of the largest Jewish reform congregations.

GerryCristol, the church’s archivist whose committee organized the exhibit, says that with the establishment of the railroad in 1872, these Jewish families helped launch Dallas’ commercial center.

“It’s a cliché about Jewish merchants, but it’s true,” she says. “It’s a wonderful history.”

The archive committee rotates exhibits yearround at TempleEmanu-El, a congregation with about 2,800 members. Co-chair Joyce Goldberg came up with the idea for the weddings exhibit as a way to involve the whole congregation. They placed a notice in the church bulletin, calling for members to contribute their photos and memorabilia, including prayer books and wedding lingerie. Goldberg says this display has seen more participation than any other.

“It’s very personal. It brings back their own memories of when they got married,” she says. Goldberg’s family also has space in the show, tracing back to her father, Rabbi Gerald Klein, who served at Temple for more than 50 years.

“Everyone seems to know someone in the exhibit.”

Greenman was born into the TempleEmanu-El congregation and served as president 1999-2001. Her family’s case in the exhibit includes the wedding of her great-grand-

“It’s very nostalgic and creates a sense of family, which is at the heart of every congregation.”

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OPENING SPREAD// A temporary collection of photos, clothing and family heirlooms is currently on display celebrating the history of Jewish weddings at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas.

ABOVE&BELOW// Suzi Greenman, Temple-Emanu-El member and past president of the congregation, looks through the display, which includes her own family’s artifacts.

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parents, Simon and Beccie Linz, part of the Linz Bros. jewelry company. It operated downtown and later in Preston Center, the current Tin Star storefront, before selling to Zales in the 1960s.

But it wasn’t until she saw the exhibit in its entirety that Greenman realized she was related by marriage to Philip Sanger of the department store Sanger Bros., who also helped found TempleEmanu-El in 1875.

“It’s very nostalgic and creates a sense of family, which is at the heart of every congregation,” Greenman says. “This is our religious home where we have celebrated all our major milestones.”

She recently added one more artifact to her family’s display a vase passed down from her great-grandmother Beccie Linz. The inscription reads “My Friends, 1893,” and about 50 different signatures are written on it.

“It’s kind of like an autograph book you’d have at a party, but she used a vase,” Greenman says. “It represents all the early Jewish families of Dallas. My husband’s been telling me for years I should add it to the archives.”

Goldberg says “Weddings” is more than just a bunch of old photographs. It represents Temple, then and now.

“It’s not just something that happened a long time ago,” she says. “It’s also the present.”

So, members have filed through the exhibit, gasping and giggling about how their friends looked all those years ago. Many members have since moved away, but Cristol says they always come back.

“There’s something to come back to.”

—EMILY TOMAN

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THE GOD I DON’T BELIEVE IN

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Among the soaring spires of Oxford, a professor by the name of Richard Dawkins is “standing up” for the cause of atheism. Dubbed by Time Magazine as “The New Atheists”, Dawkins, Sam Harris and their friends, who refer to themselves and their followers as “Brights”, decry religion, along with its “outlandish hopes and inexplicable beliefs”, in favor of sheer rationality.

So what’s new about the “New Atheism”?

Not much, except that now these scholars are calling upon the bland and the semi-committed in the churches to jump off the fence on their side since, in their view, religion is, at best, irrational and, at worst, a mask for hatred and division in the human family.

There are, of course, lots of arguments to level against atheism. Rejections of God assume that only that which is measurable and observable is true. Scientific method becomes its own god, and the idea that some things can be real but not provable is dismissed as ludicrous.

While I deeply appreciate the importance of intellectual thought and the wellspring on knowledge that comes from scientific research, the mind has its limits, and life lived strictly within those limits is devoid of wonder and awe. Such a view is to settle for less than who we are, to miss the essential part of our humanity, which includes what we might call the spark of the divine.

Pascal put his finger on it when he said, “the heart has its reasons, that reason knows nothing of.”

Having said all that, I have another reaction to atheism, and it’s disconcerting: I wonder if we religious folks haven’t been at least partially responsible for their lack of belief. C.S. Lewis (also of Oxford) used to ask his atheist friends, “Tell me about the God you don’t believe in. It may be that I don’t believe in that God either.”

You say you don’t believe in God? Which God? The God who spun the whirling planets into space and yet loves each person as a unique reflection of the divine image? Or do you reject the gods of hatred, prejudice, ret-

ribution and violence that too many of your friends seem to worship?

What god are you rejecting?

I must be honest and admit that more than one professing atheist has come to their conclusion because of believers they don’t want to be like, who presented a god they wanted

no part of. This reminds me of Dallas author Dave Burchett, who wrote the book “When Bad Christians Happen to Good People”. The title speaks for itself; we know exactly what he’s talking about.

Someone recently passed along a quote that elucidates: “To judge God by how ‘Christians’ act is like going to a kindergarten orchestra concert and come away saying that Beethoven was a terrible composer.”

Author Ann Rice recently announced that she was no longer going to call herself a Christian. It wasn’t that she didn’t believe anymore — she just didn’t want to be identified with the judgmentalism and bigotry she too often observed in people who call themselves Christian.

For me, I’m going to hang in there. But I’m not ready to condemn her for her decision. After all, I wonder what Jesus would say?

Blair Monie is senior pastor of the Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church (phpc.org). The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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C.S. Lewis used to ask his atheist friends, “Tell me about the God you don’t believe in. It may be that I don’t believe in that God either.”

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cHA rG es of $294 In cA lI forn IA? tH ey weren’t HI s.

John Parteli was surprised by the phone call. He hadn’t been to c alifornia, and definitely did not spend hundreds of dollars at a gas station in the wee morning hours. Luckily, his credit card company spotted the charges and informed him about the crime, and suspended the card before more damage could be done.

“Somehow someone got my A tM debit card number and used it in Sacramento, c alif.,” he says. “ t hey used it at a c ircle K for $294 at 3 o’clock in the morning.”

Parteli believes someone may have actually made a fake card with the number or was able to use it in some other method. t he card company reported that four other charges were also attempted after the card’s use was suspended.

“Luckily, c hase realized it was a strange purchase, and they put a hold on the account until they got hold of me,” Parteli says.

At the same time Parteli was on the phone with c hase, the customer service agent said that someone was again attempting to fraudulently use the account number at

business

that very moment at a Macy’s department store in c alifornia.

Parteli is not sure how someone got his account number, but did receive a letter from a hotel company at which he had stayed in Austin, which explained that its system had been hacked. He believes his account number had perhaps been stolen during the security breach.

“You hear about identity theft all the time, but you never think it will happen to you,” he says.

Dallas Police c pl. Gerry Monreal says it is important never to give out any personal information to phone solicitors or unknown email addresses.

“Always keep your credit card receipts, and never give out your social security number, PIN, or credit card numbers. t here are a lot of times [criminals] will call asking for personal information.”

the Victim: John parteli

the c rime: Investigation of credit card abuse

date: thursday, Aug. 19

time: 3:20 a.m. location: 6800 block of norway

He advises neighbors to thoroughly check their credit card statements at the end of each month for unfamiliar purchases.

—SEAN CHAFFIN

Hot MAMA Aprons, a local business started by Sparkman resident Jennifer Carr, has expanded and is now being sold by retailers across the Southwest and in California. For ordering details, visit jenrosiedesigns.com.

community

tHe dAll As Are A pArkInsonIsM socIety will meet at 1 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 18 at the University Park United Methodist Church, 4024 Caruth. Attorney Richard M. Barron will speak. For details, call 972.620.7600.

dr. Jeff wArren was named the new Park Cities Baptist Church senior pastor. He previously served on staff for 11 years. The church is at 3933 Northwest Highway. tHe nortHAVen trAIl will begin construction in early 2011 as discussed at a recent community meeting. The first phase of the project extends from Central to Preston. Learn more at northaventrail.org.

education

Alex A de l A GArz A, a sixth-grader at St. Monica’s Catholic School, was among eight Hispanic students to receive a scholarship from the Jethusby Fund of the Catholic Foundation. The award supports Hispanic families struggling to pay Catholic school tuition.

AnItA HArdwIck was named the new principal at W.T. White High School, replacing Orland Riddick who took another position with Austin ISD. Hardwick previously served as principal at Franklin Middle School and Withers Elementary.

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