A special task force will review complaints that beer sales in the tiny northwest Nebraska village of Whiteclay are fueling alcoholism across the border in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation under a bill gaining preliminary approval.
Senator Tom Brewer of Gordon tells colleagues four Whiteclay liquor stores provide the poison destroying Pine Ridge in South Dakota. . .
Senator John Lowe Senior of Kearney tells colleagues he would normally support the interests of the business owners who run four liquor stores in Whiteclay, but he says the devastation alcoholism has caused on the reservation cannot be ignored. . .
If approved, the bill would create a task force of five legislators with non-voting members from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs.
