The Daily Monitor Leader

Liquor Control Is Tightened
State Promises Severe Crackdown

LANSING, March 28-(AP)- William P. Edmonson, chairman of the State Liquor Control Commission, disclosed today the commission is pursuing a steadily stricter policy of liquor law enforcement, partly as the result of urgings of Brig. Gen. William Kunzig, retired army officer whom Governor Kelly recently appointed commission business manager.

As Kunzig announced he had recommended more frequent license suspensions in serious violation cases, Edmonson declared that since last December the commission has been "bearing down on deliberate violators."

Edmonson said the stricter policy was enacted last December, several months before Kunzig took office.

Edmonson asserted "when Gen. Kunzig joined us he expressed himself as in complete sympathy with the stiffer policy and hoped he could go even further. Our records show we are suspending more licenses."

Kunzig made it clear that enforcement policy is a matter for the commission itself, but he said "the enforcement division is under my jurisdiction and we prepare the cases of violations

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To be submitted to the commission.
Naturally, we are interested in the results."
Kunzig asserted that he had recommended the suspension penalty for more serious offenses such as permitting gambling and violations of various Sunday laws, but he declared there still were minor offenses for which fines would be proper.
"A lot of people," Kunzig declared, "pay a fine rather easily but if they were closed up for a while they would realize the seriousness of their offense."
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