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Show Committee forms to reopen Penrose "The urgent issue here tonight is to open Penrose," said Dr. James McEntire, speaking before a group of about 125 citizens last night. They were gathered in an effort to put pressure on the City Commission Com-mission to re-open Penrose. A plan of action that had been organized earlier by the officers of the committee, was presented to the people. The first step involves the circulating of a petition. The petition will be presented to the Commission in several weeks and they will be given a chance to reconsider the problem, and vote on the matter. If the petition is ignored and Penrose remains closed, then the committee plans to start a law suit against the Commission. According to Mark Miner, a Salt Lake lawyer m charge of the legal affairs for the committee , "We'll win because we nave the law on our side as well as the equity. They have no right to arbitrarily close the stureet, and whoever heard of running traffic survey by closing a street for nine months?" Finally the people at the meeting were asked to help in applying pressure to the Commission. "All of you are here tonight because you resent being a second-class citizen, which is what the closing of Penrose Drive has made you. If we were to close every street in the city on which traffic is annoying, we wouldn't have one street left open in the city, except Penrose," said Mrs. Roy Darley, another committee com-mittee member. Suggestions for support include writing letters to the commissioners and the newspapers, circulating petitions, buying bumper stickers and making donations for the lawsuit. |