![]() ![]() McCormick wouldn’t go as far as Marsh, who called for an increase in Tonopah’s 25 mph speed limit, though he agreed there was too much enforcement during Jim Butler Days in Tonopah. I saw motorcycle cops out there that as soon as they were done ticketing somebody within moments, they were pulling somebody else over.” “The police presence was ridiculous quite frankly,” McCormick said. ![]() John McCormick, general manager of the Mizpah Hotel, agreed with Marsh on several points he made in his letter. “Under these circumstances, I would recommend the city’s fathers cancel Butler Days.” “Many businesses reported that sales dropped significantly, below what a normal weekend would usually be,” Marsh wrote in the letter published June 22 in the Times-Bonanza. He also called for an increase of Tonopah’s 25 mph speed limit, which he called unrealistic and a speed trap for locals and motorists passing through. Marsh also pointed to other businesses reporting that there was a significant drop in sales that weekend, as compared to what a normal weekend would produce. ![]() In a letter to the editor to the Tonopah Times-Bonanza, Marsh also said tourism could be affected during future Butler Days, as he said the number of citations handed out caused “many visitors to state they would not return for any future Butler Days because of the intimidating effect of such police activity,” Marsh’s June 2 letter stated. It was a complete over-intimidation of the people that were there.” “I don’t think anybody minds having enforcement,” Marsh said. Marsh said local residents and visitors don’t mind enforcement, but it was more of an intimidation factor that he didn’t think was acceptable during the event that occurred from May 22-29. “People were afraid to leave their houses for fear that if they did anything-stepping across the street the wrong way-that they’d get arrested,” said Jim Marsh, owner of the Tonopah Station hotel-casino and a Kia and Chrysler Jeep dealership franchise in Las Vegas. The celebration of Tonopah’s founder Jim Butler has been known as a time of rejoicing and remembrance.īut the town’s citizens and hoteliers saw a different picture during the May event - with some saying the level of enforcement by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office during the weeklong Jim Butler Days event was too high, leading to a suggestion that Butler Days be canceled. ![]()
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