SENATE PANEL OKS LIQUOR BILLS

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 29, 1992                   TAG: 9202290272
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Greg Schneider
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short
SENATE PANEL OKS LIQUOR BILLS
The Doe Run Lodge and the Woodberry Inn both should be oases of liquor in dry counties along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a Senate committee said Friday in endorsing a series of cork-loosening bills.
The Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services also backed a bill to let package-store customers pay for liquor with credit cards.
And the committee said restaurants should be able to sell more drinks and less food and still qualify for liquor licenses.
Both the credit-card and the dry-counties bills were sponsored by Del. Clifton Woodrum, D-Roanoke. No one spoke against either measure, and both cleared the committee by lopsided voice votes.
Virginia allows no bars; any place that sells mixed drinks has to do 45 percent of its business in food. Del. William Robinson, D-Norfolk, introduced a bill to let the businesses sell 35 percent food for the next two years.
All three bills will go to the full Senate next week.
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