Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Apr 1939, 4a

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Usurp Park Area. "The citiýens commiîttee appointed to investigate the operation and ex- penditures éf. the Chicago Park 'dis- trict -inia -report recently.published says, 'motor, traffic bas usur ped large areas of the park system]r, ,par- ticularly -on the lake shore and there is grave danger of further. encroach- ment. Some thougbt should be given by the Park, management, to check- ing this tendency.' "If Evanston feels theneed for larger recreational areas along the lake front, that is a local problem, but such areas should be entirely free from roads except for local con- venience and parking. Any through lake frontspeedway should be de- pressed and the physical difficulties obviously make this prohibitive. Itoaa levàýtiôn iwould eut o fthe view of the lake and a road at grade would hinder convenient access to. Evanston Holdi .Key Evanston holds the key to thez North Shore traffic situation, Ben- nett and Frost declare. They point out that "the obvious ob jective would be to de! lect an* enormous volume o! lake front traffic, which will use the outer drive when it is completed to Evanston to the westward. ,Aj great deal o! the outer drive fraUfici which now uses Foster avenue toi( Western avenue, Linicoln avenue,i MeCormick boulevard, Crawford av-f enue, and Skokie road to reachi North Shore towns will then' con-N tinue along the lake front to Evansý- ton. lHow muchi the' engineers côuld5 not estimate, but, they declare it ist certain that: 1.Traffic at the present terminus of theOuter -drive > ich -now averages Cti ford Groh (right) captain of the'Noethuestern u7iiversiti, Poil. club, recentl, won three. engagements f'rom the New England champion. ,and his teammates Jrom Harvard uniiversity. Mr,. Groh recently received his fencing letter, at Northwestern. He was tied for the Big Ten Foul chamn- pionship and took second place in the Fence-off. Hie is a graduate of New Trier Highschool and is training bis younger brother, Gordon, to become a championship fencer. right-ofmway, partly in the cemnetery and partly in the abutting alley, to Chicago avenue, through a. new sub- WYü'On- 'a ~bridge, 'nd y ftr8ff of a long curve. northwvard into Custer avenue, widened to Oakton street. "As a pai t of either of these plans the extension of Green Bay road is an, essential element. Second Plan Best "Pbysically, the second of these plans is by far the easiest o! ac- complisbment, and is the best solu- tion, since most of the through traf- fie would be diverted toQ Green Bay roaçi or to, Qakton street without hav- ing access to, Evanston streets east of Chicago avenue. Green B3ay road is the logical, througli general traf- fie artery in Evanston. It hasheen improved as a four-lane street north- ward from Ridge avenue to Glencoe. It should be continued south to Madi- son street by widening eixisting sec- tions and by cutting new rights of way. "South of Madison street it would be continued in Custer avenue. Barber Shop Quartet, To. Appear Apr. 2,.8 at Church "Stunt Nigh t",9 The Theta Upsilon Rho comic "Barber Shop" quartet will enter- tain. between acts o~f the coùuing on~ Ëri1a~y evening, April 28. Final, àrrangements weré being completed this week for the stunt night. Seven Wilmette young aduit organizations will present short skits in competition for an engraved tropby. Represented are: the Ep- wortlx league of the Methodist church; the Baptist young people's group; the senior Walther league of the St. John's Lutheran church; the Episcopal young people's group; the Tuxis club of the Presbyterian church; the Congregational yowi g peoplè'fi group; and Theta Upsilon Rho. A board of judges will pick the most entertaining stunt. To date the judges include: Miss Louise Hamiton of. New Trier High sehool; Village President Harry C. Kinne of Wilmette; and Mr. and Mrs. F. Holands of Wilmette. Miss Mildred Farmer and Robert public works some time ago refused to issue a permitfor the erection et the school ýon the'grounds that the village zoning' ordinance did fo aileow this type of construction in a- resideil' are&. IThis vuewv was later sustained by the board of zoning a:. pea.is,:"of which . Robert Kmngery is chairman.. In rulin g on an appeal from the latter decusion by the plaintif!, the Catholic bishop of Chicago,. a corpor- ation sole, Judge. Joseph Burke of the Circuit court ruled for theécliurch auüthorities. This decision was2 the, one sustained by the Suprême court. Not More Danger>uu !'We fail to perceive," the court said, "to wlhat degree a Catholie school of this type will be more' public health than a public school. It is not pointed out to us just how the pupils are any more llkely to jeopardize public safety than publie school pupils. "Nor can we conclude that the prospective students will seriously undermine the general -welfare. As a matter of !act such a school lu promotive of the general wellare. "The __zoning ordinance amounts te a captricious invasion of proper- ty. rlghts and cannot be sustaiite4.» .Weymoutb. Kikland was the at- torney for the biuliop, and F'ranis18X' Busch for the village. Chafrman Entertains Festival Comniittee Mrs. Walter R. Knupfer, chairman o! the Wilmette committee for the .North Shore Music festival, enter-

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