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Show Tipsy Drivers Pay $18,888 In Five Years Drunken drivers paid Bait Lak City 118.888.50 during th last five years, L. L Acomb, chief clerk of the police court, reported Tuesday. Terming th practice of driving while under th Influence of Intoxicating In-toxicating . liquor an "expensive sport," Mr. Acomb reported 684 drunken driving cases had been handled through th court In th five-year period, -w ' . "This number of course does not represent all th drunken driven because all of them were not caught. Those who got away have been lucky to far, but th odda are against their getting away with It for long," he said. During th last four, yean, traffic traf-fic ' violators enriched th city treasury by S200.199.9t In fines. Minor traffic violators contributed contrib-uted fl08.823.49; speeders. S57,-027.75; S57,-027.75; hit-run drivers, 82812.50; reckless driven, S13.203.75, and drunken driven, (18.532.50. Minor traffic violation! for the four-vear period numbered 80,788; speeding. 5341; hit-run, 131; reckless reck-less driven, 815, and drunken driven, driv-en, 597. |