| Show pooch ooch Proves Best Witness at Hearing on Proposed Dog Law t r Witnesses Draw Jeers During Testimony Before City Off Officials a Lovers of Canines Vie With Those Who Hate Them in Airing Views on an Control Measure Commission Takes Problem Under Advisement Dopey probably was the best witness of all when Salt Lake dog lovers pleaded their cause at a lively public hearing before I city commissioners Thursday or Dopey is just a dog a nondescript nondescript nondescript script pooch a combination of Spitz and fox terrier but he was sort of an object lesson at the hearing at which 45 persons aired views on a proposed dog control ordinance More than persons m filled ed the commission chambers to ov overflow overflow- ing They booed hissed and gave out catcalls They swarmed around the commission table and bickered for fora a chance to be heard Dopey only dog which showed up behaved himself well He trotted around on the outskirts outskirts outskirts out out- skirts of the crowd cocked an interested ear but gave no sound He didn't bark once didn't misbehave misbehave misbehave mis mis- behave the slightest Demonstrates Control Commissioners paid no attention to Dopey but observers remarked remarked remarked re re- re- re marked that his conduct was such as to show that a dog can be controlled controlled con con- trolled and control is the object of the ordinance which would subject subject subject sub sub- to possible death penalty any dog stepping off the owners owner's premises premises premises prem prem- without being on a leash Dopey is the pet of Miss Virginia Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia Farmer 44 South State street who was the only dog owner to take a pet to the hearing Upshot of the two-hour two hearing was that the commission referred the proposed ordinance to the committee committee committee com com- of the whole reserving decision decision decision de de- de- de on one of the most controversial controversial controversial contro contro- subjects it has ever imposed upon itself The score kept by Frank Shields deputy city recorder in indicated indicated indicated in- in a preponderance of testimony testimony testimony mony on the side of dog lovers Mr Shields said that 24 persons testified in behalf behal o of dogs and 21 S persons spoke against t them em Audience Proves Troves Noisy At times the hearing became al almost almost almost al- al most disorderly with witnesses subjected to boos and remarks from the spectators Mayor Ab Jenkins had to warn the crowd to tobe be orderly and refrain from interfering interfering interfering inter inter- fering with persons speaking Dogs were charged with a list listI I I of offenses ranging from damaging damaging 1 ing lawns to carrying germs germs- They 1 I were defended on the other hand as as protectors of property and 1 necessary factors in a childs child's life q Bill Richards 12 son of Mr and Mrs Edward F F. Richards 1319 Laird avenue led off in the cause of youth Bill a student at Uintah school read into the record a petition petition petition peti peti- tion signed by schoolmates which pointed out that proposed ordinance should be protested on three poin points ts Presents Petition One One One-It It would be discriminatory in permitting wealthy people to keep dogs and denying poor persons persons persons per per- sons to do so because of requirements requirements requirements require require- ments that dogs venture off property property property prop prop- erty only when accompanied by byan byan byan an owner or handl handler r and on a leash People Two Two People who desire to have dogs would w have to expend considerable considerable considerable con sums of money to fence in premises and would create a demand for materials needed for forwar forwar forwar war purposes and divert sums of money from purchases of war bonds Three Three Ample Ample ordinances and laws already cover corer this matter matterand matterand matterand and passage of such a proposed ordinance would merely give satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- faction to a few selfish individuals who take more interest in their individual property rights and self- self comfort than in the pleasure and happiness of children of the community com com- Protests Recorded Protests to the proposed ordinance ordinance ordinance nance were placed in the record by two Bryant lower JOYer division high school students Joyce Romney 15 daughter of Mr and Mrs W V. W. W Romney First avenue and Clark Johnson 15 son of Mr and Mrs Charles C. C Johnson Third avenue First witness James W. W Pax- Pax man 1413 Westminster avenue said he represented a group of ol property owners who believe that the city cannot a not be beautified as long as dogs run loose He asked adoption of the ordinance Lafayette Hanchett Third avenue said that dogs nullify efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts to keep premises good to look at Ralph A. A A Badger apartment house operator who said he pays a year in property taxes contended that We have a right to ask that our premises be protected protected protected pro pro- from dogs Submits Evidence E Mrs Lillian McGillis 1418 Eleventh Eleventh Elevi Elev Elev- i East street submitted physical cal evidence in the form of an overshoe smeared with dog manure manure manure ma ma- nure which she said was an indi inch I cation of how dogs litter up a lawn awn Lillian Taylor secretary of the Ute Salt Lake Humane society said that hat property owners should fence in n their property if they wish it t protected and rapped the proposed ordinance as class legislation You are going to have grief if you pass this ordinance she warned commissioners Mrs Laura McCurdy Clark representative representative representative rep rep- of the Intermountain Kennel club said that every child is the better off oft for having a dog She said that dog control is needed but that commissioners can find a a. middle ground and not pass this ordinance Asks Laws Tabling Mrs John W. W Hyslop Humane society president submitted a resolution resolution resolution res res- asking the commission to table the ordinance which she said has no place in a democracy She proposed that commissioners commission commission- ers meet with a committee representing representing representing the society kennel clubs and other groups to draft some other form of control Frank Quist Eleventh East street and J. J M. M Anderson East Thirteenth South street both asked that controls be enforced and the latter charged that dogs have been shown to be germ c car car- r- r This statement prompted Dr M. M Lowry Allen Eighth avenue to speak as a medical man and anda a dog owner and deny that dogs are any more carriers of germs than are humans Offers Clubs Club's Services Calvin Pierson president of the Intermountain Kennel club and president of the Salt Lake Dog Training club reiterated Dr Lowrys Lowry's Lowrys Lowrys Lowry's Low- Low rys ry's assertion and offered services services services ices of his organization without charge to the public for dog train train- ing He said his organization fa favored favored favored fa- fa a requirement to keep dogs on leashes when not on the owners owner's owners owner's owners owner's own own- ers er's property Luther H H. Crockett Jr secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of branch III National Association Association Association As As- of Letter Carriers told of instances of mailmen being bitten bitten bitten bit bit- ten by dogs and asked for strict control Letter carriers bear scars of attacks by uncontrolled dogs he asserted B. B L. L Rose an attorney told the committee that dogs have been criticized for causing damage and injury If the dogs could speak for themselves I wonder if they would not ask How many lives have we saved he said |
