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Show Council To Hear Merchants, Consider Banning Peddling The meeting originally scheduled sched-uled last. Friday between city council members and local merchants mer-chants to study proposals for the banning or regulation of peddling within the city limits has now been postponed until the next council meeting, Nov. 3. At last week's council meeting, meet-ing, members discussed proposed ordinances. General sentiment was in opposition to the Green River, Wyo., ordinance, which bans all house-to-house peddling, soliciting, and canvassing within city limits as a nuisance. Instead members seemed to prfcfer form"of ordinance that i would allow certain exemptions, especially for farm produce and other home-grown commodities, or one that would require companies com-panies or individuals engaged in door-to-door selling to buy a long-term license. The latter alternative al-ternative would eliminate the possibility of an outside company com-pany buying a license, and then sending a flock of salesmen to canvass the entire town within a day or two. Local merchants, who pay taxes tax-es and buy from and sell to local loc-al people, have naturally resented re-sented outsiders coming into Roosevelt to conduct short, exhaustive ex-haustive selling campaigns within with-in the community. Earl Dillman, local attorney who has assisted the council in its discussions, favors the modification mod-ification of the Salt Lake City ordinance, which is not as severe se-vere as the Green River ordinance ordin-ance and allows a few exemptions. exemp-tions. The Salt Lake ordinance, according to Dillman, imposes a fee high enough that peddlers can't compete with local business busi-ness houses, but yet does not eliminate peddling altogether. |