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APR 66 BROWNWOOD--A DISTRICT JUDGE IN BROWNWOOD HAS DENIED AN INJUNCTION WHICH SOUGHT TO STOP THE SALE OF RESTRICTED ITEMS IN COOK'S DEPARTMENT STORES IN BROWNWOOD. BROWN COUNTY ATTORNEY BILL MCCOY HAD FILED A CIVIL COMPLAINT ALLEGING THAT DALLAS-BASED SUNDACO INCORPORATED*-WHICH OPERATES . WOK'S ON SUNDAY--WAS, IN HIS WORDS', A "ShAM AND .A SUBTERFUGE" WHICH HE SAID WAS DESIGNED TO GET AROUND THE TEXAS BLUE LAWS. STATE STATUTE 286-A FORBIDS THE SALE OF CERTAIN ITEMS ON SUCCESSIVE SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS. JUDGE MILBURN SAID HE HAD "NO DOUBT BUT THAT THE FORMATION OF SUNDACO IS A DEVICE TO GET AROUND THE LAW," BUT THE JUDGE SAID "EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT SUNDACO IS A VALID CORPORATION."
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Department store item restriction],
script,
May 18, 1970, 10:00 p.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1333178/m1/1/:
accessed June 19, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.