Traffic was controlled to make the event much safer for the pedestrians. “The enforcement that took place was mainly around the public events near the center of town. Duane Downing, of the Nye County Sheriff’s Office. “What most people do not understand is the motors and patrol deputies simply enforce current laws that are on the books,” said Sgt. Some of those comments were referenced here. The Nye County Sheriff’s Office has responded to the claims with its own letter to the editor of the Tonopah Times-Bonanza, which readers can see in the July 6 edition. “My revenues here were lower than the four years that I’ve been here,” McCormick said. McCormick also agreed that too much police enforcement during the festivities led to a decrease in tourism. 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. Var gform gform||(document.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. Track 8: The vicinity of the house and the outbuildings are described. Track 7: Jim Butler’s mother, who came from Sligo and whose surname was Clarke, was a district nurse in the Portmagee area where she met her husband. He explains that his father had had a house built for the district nurses in the 1930s and it was to this house that Jim relocated. Track 6: Jim Butler recalls the decision to move house, which was forced upon him due to the deterioration of Belville house. The Butler family owned the first tractor in the area, bought in 1947. Track 5: The local traditions of farming and fishing in former days.

Track 4: The decision made by Jim Butler’s grandfather to convert to Catholicism. Track 3: The house, orchard and walled garden are described as they were in Jim Butler’s childhood. The division of the family lands is also discussed. Track 2: Jim Butler recalls his father William Samuel Butler who joined the Garda Siochána, and returned to Portmagee in 1923 on the death of his father. Track 1: Jim Butler discusses his ancestry and his early days in Belville House.

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