{"id":522,"date":"2007-08-09T08:09:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T08:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2007\/08\/09\/post-108\/"},"modified":"2014-02-14T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:56:53","slug":"post-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/post-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Big band serenade too much noise for war workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mayor John L. Snyder was controversial in his second stint as York mayor in the 1960s for his K-9 corps and his support of a rainmaker to end a long drought. His first years as York&#8217;s World War II mayor also brought controversy, particularly his support of a noise ordinance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nYork City Council&#8217;s current flirtation with a noise ordinance to reduce vehicular noise and enhance quality of life has a precedent.<br \/>\nLate in 1944, York Mayor John L. Snyder vexed many constituents.<br \/>\nHe wanted to ban playing radios, phonographs, jukeboxes, musical instruments, singing or making any noise between midnight and 7 a.m.<br \/>\nSuch noise was disturbing the sleep of weary war workers and was aimed primarily at the big band sounds played at public places.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCouncil defeated the mayor&#8217;s initiative after debate.<br \/>\nCouncilman Theodore F. Freed made the strongest point.<br \/>\n&#8220;If this ordinance should be passed,&#8221; he said, &#8220;there would be no Christmas caroling this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor John L. 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