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Show Chamber Registers Prolest May 8, 1974 Mayor John Price City Hall Park City, Utah 84060 Dear John: A number of the merchants who belong to the Chamber of Commerce contacted me this week and complained about a situation which oc-cured oc-cured last Sunday that both they and the Chamber of Commerce would like not to see happen again. I am referring to the unusual un-usual amount of people loitering, loit-ering, drinking beer, and otherwise being a public nuisance on the main street, in Park City. As you may also be aware, a motorcycle gang, the Sundowners, Sun-downers, rode freely through out the Park City community Sunday carrying pistols and knives. Until the point of the arrival ar-rival of the "Sundowners" and the concurrent public nuisance of the beer drinkers drink-ers and loiterers on the street, the Park City Merchants Mer-chants Community was enjoying en-joying a very prosperous day. At the point this took place all of the customers depart ed from Park City for Salt Lake taking their families and exclaiming that Park City was no place for children chil-dren or families on aSunday afternoon. One of the merchants told me that when he asked the police why nothing had been done on this situation, he was told that, "no one had filed a complaint." It is my view that since there are laws on the books against public drunkenness and loitering, these laws should be enforced without regard to whether or not a complaint was filed. It is also my view that Park City needs some method of controling motorcycle gangs who pack pistols and long bladed knives. Accordingly, in behalf of the merchants of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, I respectfully respect-fully request that city government gov-ernment crack down on public pub-lic drunkenness, loitering, and the appearance of motorcycle motor-cycle gangs. If you fail to do this you are inviting disaster to the Park City business community. com-munity. One more week end such as last week end can finish off our market of people who live on the Wasatch Front. I hope your administration administra-tion will crack down on these problems. Sincerely, Charles W. Akerlow Executive Director |