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Show SHED TEAR IN THIS SLOT FOR NICKELS PARKING METERS GOT City's Coffers Won't Cough; Up Jitneys Spent by Holiday Drivers We hate to (poll your day, folks, ' but duty compels us. All you motorists who dropped pen-nlei pen-nlei and ntckeli Into parking meter Thursday didn't have to. ' It was Columbus Co-lumbus day and a legal holiday. - . So, the comparatively few motor- 1 Ists who parked downtown without paying the meters (polk estimated more than two-thirds of the meter were being paid) got free parking, because be-cause police did not Issue tickets. The . parking' meter ordinance ex- ' empts use of the machines on Sundays , and legal holidays, and Columbus day ' la made a legal holiday by state statute. stat-ute. ' But don't try to get 'your nickels ' and pennies, back. They'll go into ' the city treasury and stay there, because be-cause the meters, while then have lots of gadget Inside, have none that will Issue a receipt. Next , time, Mr. and Mrs. Motorist 1 just remember that legal . holldcy angle. . ..... IP. S. The guy who wrote thl Isn't wry smart, either. He Just remera bered he put his car on a parking lot and paid a dime this morning.! ; v. , J I v v . -Mi , ' TOO LATE, SHE FOUND SHE'D WASTED HER NICKEL Miss Wilms Anderson is cheerful, anyhow, after paying meter |