Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rudolph had announced earlier that he was tentatively reducing the $3 parking meter fine to $1 for most offenders. Vellucci, who had previously ridiculed several of Rudolph's programs, hailed the reduction as a "victory for all law-abiding citizens of Cambridge...
Defending his $3 fine at a recent City Council meeting, Rudolph stated that the penalty was necessary to clamp down on "meter feeders" who monopolize parking spaces all day with eight nickels. However, Vellucci and most Cambridge merchants felt that the "excessive fine" was driving away business and unduly penalizing motorists. The money the Court House has taken from parking fines is exorbitant, Vellucci says...
Under the new plan, "honest violators" who are a few minutes overtime on a meter will be fined $1. But "meter feeders" observed by policemen will be tagged for the $3 fine...
...scheme represents a compromise between Rudolph and Vellucci. Neither of them want parking regulations to show any mercy for the "meter feeder," and Rudolph certainly does not want to antagonize the Cambridge shopper...
...Rains Dust." At the Lazaro Cardenas irrigation dam, the waters barely touch the base of the wall. The dam holds only one-eighth of its 3.2-billion-cu.-meter capacity. For the first time since the dam was completed in the 1940s, no water will be available this year to irrigate the newly seeded cotton fields below. It has not rained at all this year, and in 1962 only six inches of rain fell, the lowest record in memory. "In La Laguna," goes the expression, "it doesn't rain water, it rains dust." Last month, 30 blue-painted trucks...