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Show Parking Penalized!! (Editor's Note The News editor and many others have long been fully cognizant of the ready wit of Olof Mickelson of Richfield, district dis-trict ottorney for the sixth judicial district and retiring state chairman chair-man of the Democratic party. Not, however, until the following appeared ap-peared in last week's Richfield Reaper did we realize that he was as witty on paper as he is verbally. Knowing the ins and outs of Mickelson's recent activities, no one could long be in doubt, however, how-ever, that it was he who penned the folowing:) I haven't had time to write to you for awhile. I have been so busy dodging traffic tags. The first one I received was in Salt Lake. It came up this way. Sam Cline, a Democratic lawyer from Milford, and I decided to go up to the Capitol theatre and see May West. When we got to the place I noticed a nice wide open space so I parked my car in this space. When I came but I had a traffic tag pinned to my car, stating I had parked in a pedestrian lane. I looked around for signs but the only sign I could see close by was "Utah State Liquor Store No. 7." Apparently I had cut off the trail of the customers to one of the liquor stores, which, of course, is a serious offense in itself. But May West put on a good show we saw it through twice. The next tag I got was in Dillon, Dil-lon, Montana, on my way to Canada. Can-ada. When I pulled my car up at night there were a lot of other cars around and I thought "this looks like a good place." When I got out in the morning, mine was the only car there and I thought "gosh, these boys sure get out early here in Montana". When I got over there a little tag read, in part, as follows: "Welcome to Dillion," signed by the police department. de-partment. What it said in between there is nobody's particular business. busi-ness. The third tag I got for over-parking over-parking was Saturday night at a meeting of the state committee. I had parked too long in one place as state chairman. I settled the first tag by having ing Barney Flannigan take it to the secretary of the mayor, and that took care of that. I settled the second in Dillon by running into Canada. That settled that. The third was settled by Governor Gov-ernor Blood's friends. And that settled that. However, I have got a lot of valuable val-uable information about parking rules in various parts of the country, coun-try, and I hope it will he of benefit bene-fit to me in the future. GUESS WHO. |