It formerly was 10 cents.
In Toronto, a motorist hit a hole in a road and his car careened into a jewelry store window.
City authorities approved out-of-court settlements of $2,084 to the driver and $5,125 to the storekeeper. The hole was fixed for $7.
“Did you get his license number?” Oregon highway patrolmen asked a motorist after his car was struck by a hit-and-run driver.
“I sure did,” he replied. “I grabbed it as he drove away.”
He handed them the license plate.
SHAKESPEARE ON MOTOR TRAFFIC
Traffic-strangled motorists who tend to long for the “good old days” might well face the fact that things were no better then. In witness whereof we give you this late report on early road conditions by that peerless commentator, William Shakespeare, late of Stratford-on-Avon, England, as recently recorded in the New York Times Magazine:
“The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”