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February 28, 1930 WILMETTE LIFE 3 Grade Separation Petition Filed CITIZENS COMMmEE GIRDS FOR TAX FIGHT Urge Taxpayers to Join Drive Against Unequalized Assessed Valuations · The committee appointed by the taxpayers of New Trier township at a mass meeting held at New Trier High school on February 18 to fight the alleged excessivr, disproportionate and illegal valuations that have been placed on the township has formed the North Shore Citizens association, incorporated under the statutes of Illinois, and the membership of New Trier taxpayers in this association is being solicited on the basis of the resolution adopted at the ma s meeting. This resolution provides for the payment of five dollars by each taxpayer, ~o be used in rlefraying the initial costs involved in the fi~ht for an equalized assessment. The Officers Otliccrs of th e Xorth Shore Citizens assoctatwn are: \V. C. Hughes of Glencoe, president; G. ]. Diltz of \Vilmette, secretary; Dan G. Stiles of the First National bank of \Yilmette, treasur ...:r, and C. R . Norman, executive secretary. Members of the Kew Trier tax committee who are representing the various villages in the fight for an equalized assessment are: R. H. \Vallace, R. · F. Doepel and H. S. :Marshall of \Vinnetka ; 0. M. Krembs, George J. Pope, and \V. C. Miller of Glencoe L. C. Ayres and \V. C. ReinhQld of \Vilmette, and P. \V. Selzer of Northfield. The association has already engaged the services of competent lawyers to assist in carrying on its fight. In order to assure any reduction of the assessed valuations made against New Trier property owners it is necesary that a complaint be filed before the Board of Review 011 behalf of the individual property owner and in his own name. Such complaint will be filed and court prpceedings will be conducted, if neces~ry, for New Trier taxpayers who join the North Shore Citizens association. Payment of the five dollar fee to Dan G. Stiles, treas urer, constitutes membership in the as: sociation. Examine Recorda Because of lack of time for checkin~ individual errors, it will be impossible for the association or its attorneys to attempt the correction of errors in the classification, measurement age, etc., of the individual propert; O\vner's buildings. For this reason, the association advises and urges that taxpayers of the township examine the records for such errors. The assoclation 1,1rges, however, that property owners fill out the real estate memorandum blanks mailed to them at once without waiting to get their valuations, if they have not already secured them. These blanks should be mailed to the North Shore Citizens' association, Room 7, 1137 Central avenue, Wilmette, together with the authorization blanks attached giving the association and its attorneys authority on behalf of individual property owners to file and prosecute before the Board of Review complaints a~ainst the 1928 assessment and to institute and prosecute such other legal proceedings for the correction of this assessment as may be deeme_ d advisable by the New Trier Citizens' association or its counsel. Some question has arisen as to the meaning of a paragraph in the authorization blank which reads as follows : "It is understood that I shall not be obligated for any legal or other ex(Continued on Page 9) VILLAGE OF WUEnE State Bank in Formal Opening NAMED AS RESPONDENT Commerce Commission Orders All Parties to Be Ready for Heariag on March 25 P · AGES 32 to 49 in this issue of WILMETTE LIFE contain ·a special section devoted exclusively to the interests of the Wilmette State bank which observ· es the formal opentng of its enlarged banking house, as well as its 25th anniversary, Saturday, March I. The section contains, in addition to news and views pertaining strictly to the bank, numerous interestin.g reproductions of photographs reminiscent of earlier Wilmette. Do not fail to read the Wilmette Bank section! ·The bank extends a cordial invitation to every resident of the community to participate tn the formal opening tomorrow. The doors of the bank \Vill be open continuously from 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. MANN SPEAKS SUNDAY Public Hearing -Wilmette Sunday Evening Club Returns to Congregational Church: Rabbi Louis L. Mann Ia Speaker -The \Vilmette Sunday Evening ciub returns to the Wilmette Congregational church March 2 when Dr: Louis I.. :Mann, rabbi of Sinai congregation of Chicago, will speak on the topic "What tl1 e Disbeliever Believes or the Doubt(·r's Faith." Dr. Mann has twice before appeared at the Wilmette Sunday Evening cl:tb and each time has been greeted by lar~e and appreciative audiences. Few leaders of the Jewish people in the middlewest or nation are better known or more respected. As a speaker he holds a reputation second to none and l1is addresses are always replete with ti.lUch of interest to all auditors. Dr. Mann received the degree c1f doctor of philosophy from Yale uni"ersity in 1920. During ~he years 1920 to 1923 he was a. lecturer on comparative ethi<;s at Yale. At the present time he is vkechancellor of the J cwish Chatauqua society of America and is a prof·~s sional let.:turer in the department of Oriental languages and literaturt:: '- t the University of Chicago. Madame Edith Bideau Normelli, who is also well known to Sunday Evening club audiences, will be the soloist this Sunday. Madame Normelli has- appeared before north shore groups in concert · on many occassions and has never failed to delight. Her scheduling for this week's Sunday Evening club marks a deft final touch to the completeness of the program. New Trier Tri-Ship Club . Plana .Mother-Son Banquet The Tri-Ship club of New Trier High ~chool is making plans for a motherand-son banquet to be held at the school on Thursday, March 20. Tht mothers rarely "go places" with their sons, and this will give them an opportunity to do so. The principal feature of the program will be a talk by Jess Pugh, well known Indiana humorist. Last year the Tri-Ship boys entertained their "dads," but this year the mothers are to be the guests. Wilmette as a municipal corporation this week became a respondent, jointlv with Ch:cago, North Shore and · ~lit waukee, ·he Chicago and North Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific (Rapid Transit Lines) railroads, in the grade separation case now pen1ing before the Illinois State Commerce commission. A petition asklllg for an order requiring elevation or depre!:l:,ion of tracks through the village has been filed before the state bo1v in behalf of the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce. This information came to light Wednesday when it was also disclosed that the hearing on the petition filed in behalf of the North Shore Grade Separation committee, representing the viiloges of Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe .~nd Highland Park, had been continu~d to March 25 at the request of counsel for the railroads. In conjunction with the grantmg of the continuance, however, the commission entered. an order that both parties in the case be ready to proceed with the hearing at that time, indicating that no further continuances will be granted. · A Legal Requirement In naming the Village of Wilme~te, as a corporation, as a res·pondent, the A public hearing on the proposed Chamber of Commerce has followed a modification of the present zoning laws legal requirement made mandatory on them by the failure of the Village to to permit the establishment of buffer state its !"osition before the commission. zones for apartments around the ccn- ft.s the Village is, with the utilities, tral business district, has been cal!Pd ~itally concerned in the elevation or for 8 o'clock Monday evenit,g, uepressio'l of the tracks and the proMarch 17. gram cannot proceed without their The hearing wilt be conducted by a official cognizance of it, the Chamber zoning commission composed of Robert had no other course to adopt in pushStoddard, chairman; . Frederick }. mg the project. Newey, Frank C. Huffman, Lloyd. C. \Vithin the coming few days, 1n Ayres and Julius D. Roth and will Le order .will be presented to the Village of held in ~he auditorium of the Byron 'Nilmette to appear before the ComStolp school. mission on March 25 to show reason The petition requesting the chan~es why the state body should not grant in the building and zoning codes was the plea of the Chamber. This again submitted to the Wilmette Village follows t11e course prescribed by laws board February 18 and was immediately governing the case and was the prorereferred to the commission. The re- dure followed recently with the railquest wls signed by 174 property roads when the petitions were filed in owners and was sponsored by the Lehalf of the North Shore Grade Greater VJilmette association. A de- Separation committee. Briefly, the Viitail map showing proposed changes lage may follow either of two courses. wilt be published in the next issue of It may cuntinue as a joint respondent \VILMtTT'E LIFE. with the railroads or it may file a petition with the Commission concurring in the Chamber of Commerce's plea for COMMERCE CLUB MEETS gradt separation and asking that the The Commerce club of New Trier proceedings against it be dropped. High school has been invited to meet at R. R. Aaka Continuance the home of Dorothy Pettinger, 1424 The request for a continuance wai \Vilmette avenue, Wilmette, this Frifiled by attorneys for the Chicago. day night, February 28, at 8 o'clock. North Shore and Milwaukee railroad. Coi:nsel for the North Shore Grade separation committee a'greed to the request, which set the date for the next hearing for March 11. However, counPages sel for the North Western railroad disBank Section ............ 32-49 sented to the date, asking that the Book Comment ........... 62 hearing b,. set for March 25. This was opposed by attorneys for Boy Scout News .......... 56 stringently 1he north shore villages and resulted in Church News .............. 12 the order for all parties to be reac!y Classified Ads .......... 78-80 for procedure on March 25. To this, Club Activities ............ 60 all finally agreed. C ailed on Zone Change Petition In This Issue Editorial-shore Linea .... 52 Girl Scout Alaira .......... 26 Journeys 1Drourh Old Trier.28 Junior Life ............... 18 Music Page ............... 54 Real Estate ............ 64-H Society News ............. 58 GIVE MUSIC PROGRAM At the Tuesday evening meeting of thP Friendly circle at the Methodist church, a musical program was fur· nished by the three young Ruff broth· ers, Warren, Howard, and Gordon. A group of . trios, duets, and solos for violin, flute, and clarinet were given-, with Mrs~ Ruff at the piano.