This reminds me when my husband was ransferred to Ft. Rucker, AL in 1972 after he came back from Vietnam and we moved to Ozark, which was dry. Our next door neighbor told us that the garbage man would turn people in when he saw beer cans or liquor bottles in the trash. I thought myself how stupid this is. Should the military, who lived of post just go to the clubs on post, get drunk and then drive drunk home? Thank God it didn't last long after we moved there as they made the city wet.
In 1971 I was in flight school at Fort Rucker, on my way to Vietnam. We were warned to place any Class VI (alcohol) in the trunk when driving off post. That summer the Alabama legislature passed a law which said ABC revenue funded monies could go to wet counties only. The dry counties quickly got with the changing times.