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Protest Is To Be Made Against Plan, Morris Levine Says Saturday; Other Firms To Join In Similar ActionMore Views GivenFarmers Express Opposition To Plan Saturday; Trading Elsewhere Is Threatened By Several In InterviewsA GROUP of Lubbock merchants who arc oppcwd to the installation of pprkinc meters Saturday planned to ask City commission for a hearing, said Morris Lev dir ot ljerine Bros.• Wr will ask the commission not to put m the meters. Levine said.' T have asked E. J. Parsons of J. C. Penney company to ask Mayor Ross Edwards to grant us a hearing. ' May Seek Injunction As a last resort In preventing operation of the meters, the group may seek an injunction restraining the commission from installing the meters.■ We don't want the meters and wr have no use for them. Levine said.He said that A. H. Maas, manager ol Montgomery Ward and Co.. was joining him in the protest to the Cit\ commission, which Thursday voted to install 350 meters as an experiment during a 120-day period.Unable To Contact EdwardsParsons said late Saturday he had been unable to contact Mayor Edwards.After numerous Lubbock persons had expressed an opinion that the rural trade, on which Lubbock depends largelv will be opposed to timed parking, the AvaVanche-.Journal sent a reporter to interview persons living outside the City limits Saturday afternoon. He chose t9 persons as lie met them on the streets, making no eiiorl to influence their opinions.Violent opposition to meters was expressed by the great majority of the men interviewed There were repeated declarations that they would trade elsewhere.Four Favored It Porti-three opposed the system, four favored 11 and the other two were indifferent.Here are the answers Clate Bennett. Acutl — Its the. norst. thing that ever happened to the town.J. C Johnson. Shallowater—Lubbock isn't big enough to have parking meters, and it isn't treating the country oeoplc right.Willing To Pay Nickel j. A. Phelan. Smyer — 1 8Ult;is they're all right. I’m willing to pay a nickel to get a place to park..1 B. Dovle. WoUforth—1 think tliev are alright. The town's growing, anci they'll need them sooner or later
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Lubbock Sunday Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Sun, Jun 14, 1936
Page 14
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