Show What Readers Think Claims Parking Meters Not Upheld by Courts Editor Telegram In your editorial edi edl- tonal of recent date you state that the park-meter park cases that have been taken to the supreme court have been won by the cities that contended that the ity city had a perfect right to turn the the peoples people's streets into into parkIng parking park park- parking ing lots and impose an an additional tax on the already overtaxed car oar owner He now has only eight different taxes to pay Well the city attorney should consult any legal journal the Western Court Reporter or the decisions decisions decisions' of 01 the Iowa supreme court which outlawed about park-meters park in Inthe the state of Iowa April 8 1940 The Sioux City Journal of that date says The merry jingle of the Sioux City car owners' owners money into the parking meters along Sioux City business streets has ceased for for- ever Public Safety Commissioner Commission Commission- er Sturgeon said last Jast night no further effort e would be made to tax motorists for parking leges in the streets His announcement followed a state supreme court ruling earlier In the day outlawing the parking meter system in Sioux City itT and 15 other cities in the I state nf Tn n The Salt Lake City attorneys attorney's office knows very well that if these parking metes meter violations ever come before re th the supreme su su- preme court with the Iowa de de- dc elsion b before fore It the city would not stand 8 a chance The streets belong to the people peo pee pie not the city commission ers eril says the supreme court of Iowa and no one hasa legal or moral right to lease them for profit The city says sas the court can regulate the hours of parkIng parkIng parkIng park- park Ing but cannot rent the parkIng parkIng parking park- park Ing privileges A careful survey of the parking parkIng park park- ing problem shows that the park- park meters have not solved the tint trat- tic fic problem at all aU We still sUU have to drive around just like we used to to find a parking place and every year is wrung from the car owners through these illegal park me Frank V. V W. W Joesten |