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Show OPEN PICTURE SHOW FOR LIBERTY PARK Incomo Is Guaranteed to City; National Highway Advertising Association Petition Denied. Permission to establish an open-air motion picture theater at Libertv park was c,jven to E. P. Phippen by the city commissioners yesterdav on recommendation recommen-dation of Ilebcr M. vclls, park commissioner. com-missioner. Phippen has agreed to pay the cit 2o per cent of his pros? receipts, and when his contract expires he will turn over to the city his equipment, pro-idou pro-idou the city dosircs to take it. Tho thcator will be located near the check, stand in the park. t It will have a canvas roof for protection from raiu. and the pictures will be shown from twilight until closing time. On the advice of the city attorney that the eitv cannot legalTy allow the use of public, streets for advertising purposes, the commission denied the petition pe-tition of the National Highway Advertising Ad-vertising company for permission for advertising lamp posts on sonic of the streets. Instructions to prosecute an appeal to the supreme court from the judgmeui tn the district court in the case of Alex-andor Alex-andor Stott and others against the city was civen to the city attorney. This: case involves the validity of a specin sidewalk tax. Tho city attorney advised ad-vised that ho is confident the supreme court will reverse the judgment. |