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Show the toad stool Dewey Capers Jim Todd It's not Halloween, but apparently apparent-ly Salt Lake County Commissioner Marvin G. Jenson got a bad scare last week because of fellow trick-or-treaters Police Chief Dewey J. Fillis and Salt Lake County Sheriff Delmar L. Larson. In what was apparently one of the better practical jokes of the year, Commissioner Jenson was en ticed to go alone up a dark alley and investigate potential riot situations. sit-uations. The three went to the alley in Police Chief Fillis' car since it was unmarked and Jenson's car had large county insignia painted paint-ed on it. Once Jenson bravely left the car, possibly to seek Negroes who just might be armed with shotguns and molotof cocktails, he was aban- doned by our intrepid leaders of police, who suddenly discovered that they had to make a phone call and drove off. We imagine that it must have been quite interesting to have heard the edgy Mr. Jenson's comments when he was finally picked up 15 minutes later. Perhaps submitted as a result of this and similar "scouting expeditions" had something some-thing to do with the police decision to go all out in protecting the LDS temple from riot damage last Sunday. Sun-day. In any case, Mr. Jenson will now have his own unmarked car for any future snooping. Wednesday, the county commission approved a resolution res-olution to remove the signs reading "Salt Lake County" from the front doors of their autos and to replace the "Ex" license plates with regular reg-ular plates. |