Business: Cattle Party

Down upon El Paso's 217 bars last week swooped ten inspectors dispatched by the Texas Liquor Control Board to enforce the State law against the sale of hard liquor by the drink. El Paso never took Prohibition very seriously because Mexico's gay Juarez was always just across the Rio Grande River over 2^ toll bridges. Lately the city has been wide-open in defiance of State law. What annoyed the city's barkeepers last week was that the inspectors arrived two days before the 40th annual convention of the American National Livestock Association brought 1,500...

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