Show SL y JT i LAl UKE E cry Attack Sail Lake 1 Taxi System Peti Petition io City Heads eads To Authorize V Vets Vets' ts' ts More Licenses Salt Lake City's taxicab servi service e eIs Is inadequate under the monopoly system Salt Lake post No 2 of the American Veterans of World orld War II charged Friday in a petition to the city commissioners commissioners commis commis- to authorize additional li licensing n- n cen censing ing of war var veteran taxi opera opera- tors A taxicab committee headed by Keith leith Belnap p senior vice commander com corn mander and Arthur Richardson oh adjutant asked the city to revise its pr present s nt taxicab b ordinance to encompass these changes Issuance of at least 30 more licenses t to individual operators or companies who will not employ more than four drivers Preference to World War Var I and II veterans A requirement that every li licensee licensee 11 be obligated to supply taxicab taxicab taxicab taxi- taxi cab service for a specified number numb r of hours each week We submit that that- the number of taxicabs taxicabs' now authorized Is insufficient insufficient in insufficient in- in sufficient to serve this city's population population lation in excess of the petition reads The present system whereby a n virtual monopoly is granted to two largo companies has failed according to the It is common knowledge that our taxicab taxicab taxicab taxi- taxi cab service is in far tar too large a measure unreliable inefficient and andIn In inadequate The Thc veterans also pr protested tested the preferential space allotments now given to the larger companies at hotels and depots These spaces ought to be open to all operators whatever the color of the cabs they said The petition filed with the city recorders recorder's office probably will come up before the thc commission meeting Tuesday the office said |