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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1976)
Prinking in Dallas. I U vote for prohibition as long as I can stagger to the polls 9 t rmtm id GRAND PRAIRIE—-Warning: This article could drivr tow T ^* t »• c»a»ne. if you live or vidt in the Dallas Fori Worth ■wtroplc* and arr inclined tea* ard exotic beverages from time to time. ^n»e problem is the crazy-quilt laws governing the sale of ®® 0 ®°^ lc beverages in the metroplex. the most heavily popu lated area of Texas ■' ^Suehing epnek, easy answers, a visitor called upon the local office of the stale regulatory agency, the Alcoholic Beverage Gommissian There he discovered this sign There is no reason for it . . . it’s just our policy' ~ Among other discoveries: ““The Dallas-Fort Worth Airport came perilously near being the world's largest, driest’airport ““Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboy* football club, gambled and lost that Irving would legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages —•A motorist traveling between Dallas and Fort Worth might encounter virtually every wet. dry, booze, brer, wine and mixed drink combo imaginable. ■* T " Drinking curfews varv from city to city, precinct to pre cinct. ~ ^ dancer on Grand Prairie’s infamous 'strip' is “so big. she d make a tidal wave on a water bed. ” But hack to the dilemma. Because of so-called local option" elections, cities, counties, justice precincts and incorporated cardboard communities can set their own drinking statutes. The basic options include the sale ot l>eer. wine or liquor — Or ail three — for on or off premise consumption, or they can scrap am all. Tor instance, in large sections of Dallas and Fort Worth tipplers can purchase mixed drinks in clubs, hotels and restaur ants Ifthev prefer todnnk in private, they can buy the beverage of their choice at a package store. leaving Tort Worth a motorist finds in Arlington that he can drink freely at any club Imt can not purchase liquor by the bottle. It iv not uncommon to find just the opposite. If the motorist takes a northern route, he'll traverse a totally dry area in Haltom City, find off-premise beer av ailahle in North Richland Hills and uncover a private club — only situation crossing a portion of Hurst. L'p toward Grapevine. D-FW Airport sprawls across both , Dallas County and Tanant (xuinty. The Dallas side is dry. The Fort-Worth side is wet. All our terminals are in Tarrant County.” sighed an airport spokesman “Somehow or another, we got mixed drinks out here It was one of our major concerns — that the worlds largest airport would be dry " If one pauses at the Cobra Club, presumably in Bedford- he finds he can purchase a membership in the private estaMidi- ment for $2 — and he gets a free drink. Moving along toward Euless there s the Fireside Tnn. fi(eelv and legally dispensing mixed beverages as one of the last water ing holes before entering a mmbound s never-never land Then there is Irving. With a population of 115.310. Irvihg is reputedly the largest totally dry city in Texas, a step ahead of Abilene out west. The people here kinda agree with Will Rogers,” a city official chuckled. He said he d vote for prohibition as long as he could stagger to the polls.” It is said that Dallas Cowboys executives expected Irviipg to t Texas St * 1 I ! •: i > Surges cause trouble vote wet when lar sul the decision was made to erect ‘ Stadium in ’ Hell, said the city official, “they didn’t get enough signa tures on the petition to even call a liquor election.” The affluent imbibers thus watch the Cowboys on Surtdav s from private boxes or the Cowboys’ private club. Should one divert, meanwhile, into Grand Prairie, he finds perhaps the wettest and driest portions of the metroplex. With one notable exception, the city is dry except for an occasional private club. U J} That one exception is the strip, a block-long monument to revelry that lies just inside the Tarrant County line where Grand Prairie bumps East Arlington. A visitor is confronted with 10 choices the Foolish Pleasure, the Sadie Hawkins Club, Idle Hour, Golden Saddle. Branding Iron, Sugar Shack, Silver Saddle. Deb’s, Love Bug or the End Club That’s it. There s nothing else on the block No restaurants, no nothing. One tan. however, cross the street and grab a beer.and burger at Carts. And finally on to Dallas, something of an oasis itself, being surrounded hv such dry areas as Irving, Grand Prairie, DeSoto, Lancaster. Richardson. Duncanville. Garland. Farmers Branch and the vast Oak Cliff section. Big D also is renowned for its silk stocking park cities — Highland Park and University Park The exclusive cities lie in the heart of North Dallas' bright lights. University Park is Hi'> W'e drink wet and vote dry,” quip|>ed one resident. Drill rig harbor studied Brown tt Root. Inc started a multi-million dollar harbor aking the Corpus Christi ship canal in 19i5 ex pressly for building the huge off shore drilling rigs. Unfortunately, they inherited some problems with the territory Large passing ships produced surges of three to four feet in the harbor while the maximum fluctuation al lowable during the loading of a rig onto the barges is one or tw*o inches. Any more movement could cause a catastrophe and an expensive pile of junk. Texas A& \! University ocean en gineers under the direction of Drs. John R Herbich and Jack 1>ju took on the task of solving the loading problems. The project was divided into two major tasks,” Lou explained. "The first concentrated on field investiga tions and measurements, while the second was devoted to lalniratory tests. "A student worker was stationed at the site for more than a month col lecting information on tides, cur rents, waves and surges, and ship movement, he said. Two laborat ory test series were also conducted using wave generators and model ships. We tried to see if there was any way we could attenuate the oscilla tions inside the barge slip harbor.” Dr. Lou sakl. “Because of the long time of the oscillations the conven tional breakwater just doesn't work. So, in order to study the problem under controlled conditions and evaluate various wave dampening methods, the laboratory tests were conducted for different types of slip entrances,” he added. Test results revealed that partial blockage of the entrance is not an effective means of reducing the surge." Based on this study, three alterna tives were recommended. These in clude timing of barge loading opera tions, complete blockage of slip entr ance, and bottom pontoon support. The loading of the drilling rig onto the bargee could lie scheduled for a period when no large ships are expected to pass,” Lou pointed out. However, information on ship pas sage is not always correct. Ships have arrived 15 minutes to 10 hours ahead of the announced schedule. ” Observations from the harbor cun only provide about 20 minutes warn ing for inbound ships, less than what is required to load the drilling rig “Complete blockage of the harbor can be achieved, hut tests indicate forces due to water motion in the channel would require great force to hold the portable caisson in posi tion,” he noted. "The solution that is believed to he failure-proof and most economical is to support the kiading barge by pon toons sunk to the bottom of the har bor," Lou said. .After the off-kiadiiig is completed, the barge and pon toons can be floated by pumping out the ballast.” Keel blocks or hydraulic jacks on the pontoons will account for varia tions in barge depth. INVENTORY CLEARANCE EVERYTHING MUST GO! GD FHONJCEf? 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