From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 20, 1973:

On the day Lawrence voters had gone to the polls to vote on the airport issue, only one liquor store in town was open. Bill Underwood, owner of Underwood’s Retail Liquors, 1215 W. Sixth, had apparently been the only retail liquor dealer in Lawrence to know that elections not involving candidates were exempt from state laws requiring liquor stores to close while polls were open. The ruling had come to light when Lawrence police had gone to Underwood’s store to arrest him for opening on that day. Underwood explained that he had contacted the attorney general’s office the previous week to verify that the closing law did not apply to bond elections. Underwood said that there was nothing new in the law and that his store had been open during similar previous non-candidate elections. However, some other Lawrence retailers later said they believed Underwood should have contacted them, with one of the store owners grumbling that Underwood had “pulled a fast one.”