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Show County Officials Zap Deep Throat The Opera House on Park City's Old Main was busted Tuesday night, before the second showing of Linda Lovelace Love-lace and her big mouth hit the screen. Deep Throat, the contro'-ersial flick that has been banned in many theatres across the countrv was confiscated con-fiscated by Summit County authorities after its debut on Monday night (Feb. 17.) It was shown Monday night before the expectant crowd was allowed to see it a second time on Tuesday. District Attorney Robert Adkins, County Sheriff Ron Robinson, and Park City Marshal Larry Henley were on the scene with a pair of handcuffs and "seven deputies", according to Theatre Manager Dave Neil. The manager was then (Continued on Page 7 tiree) whether they be the city those local authorities are, proper, in this case Park City or whether they be the Summit County authorities is still in question. As of this writing, it is doubtful as to whether or not the question of jurisdiction jurisdic-tion will be tested in the courts. In a sidewalk interview on Main the Mayor expressed regret that the incident had happened. "I feel responsible for the whole thing," he said. "I told him he could show the movie and I feel like I led them into this." Park City's counciling attorney at-torney Carl Nemelka was a consultant to the Mayor in iis d e c i s i o n to allow the f movie to run. 'I felt Carl Iliad had more experience with this kind of thing, so I I spoke with him about it," Price stated. 4 Deep Throat (Continued from Page One) taken to Judge James Kilby , and later was transferred to the county jail in Coalville and booked. Neil was arraigned ar-raigned onSaturday andfined $200 and put on six months probation. 'When I asked who was the authority in this town, John Price said, 'I am' " stated Neil. "I asked if it was okay to run it and he said, fine, run it." "He also said that if I had any trouble to call him." District Attorney Bob Ad-kins Ad-kins said, "It would have done him no good to call the Mayor because the theatre operator was prosecuted under state statute, not a city ordinance." The scene of the shut down, The Park City Opera House. "I wouldn't have shown the film if the Mayor had not said it was alright," said Neil. ... The film was taken under the State Statute which reads that a person is guilty if he knowingly distributes or of fers to others a film that has already been determined as pornographic. The UJ3. Sup- I reme Court however, has I deemed in recent years that J what is pornographic and what is not will be left up to I local authorities but who-" |
