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Show Taxicab Companies Seek Higher Rates Taxicab companies of tigden have ; appealed to the board of city com-i com-i missioners asking that the ordinance I providing that the maximum charge for Iransportatlpg a passenger one milo be revised in order that higher rates can be charged The companies complain that the ordinance was passed fifteen years ago1 when the use of motor driven vehicles wai not gi neral and uuolled to cabs drawn hy horses Thev set forth thai recently the cost and maintenance of taxlcabl has Increased irreatly and gasoline prices, are extremely high. A ii vUli.ii of the ordlnan.-e is asked which will allow taxi companies to charge reasonable and adeouate rates. The mutter was referred to the city attoinej for Investigation. |