Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Mar 1938, p. 57

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from Evanston to Lake Bluff, in- clusive, are renewing their efforts to secure better routing and control of motor vehicles, particularly f reight trucks, Marion T. Martin of Lake Forest, president of the association announced' this week. Want Traffic Routes Steps taken during the last f ew days to achieve this objective include an earnest plea f romf the, association to the Uniform Motor Vehicle Iaws commission at Springfield to give local communities- adequae authorjty to establish their own traffic rue through towns; renewal of the, peti- tion to have -the Route 42 markers removed f rom Sheridan road'.so.that it can be. restored to its proper status as a mere connecting link between. the. North Shore towns and further development of the proposed *zone Plan" for the routing of tbrough motor trucks on the North -Shore. Cite& Benefits "Proper routing of motôr traf6c along the_ North Shore, ini keeping with the needs and residential char- ac ter of -the area will save livés, pre- vent untold property damage and benefit the entire Chicago territory," said Mr. Martin. "This is true of reslidenitial districts elsewhere but it is, particularly 50 of the towns and cities between Evanston and Lake Bluff. inclusive. These conimunities are predorninantly residential ini char- acter but they lie directly ini the.path of heavy through traffic to and froni Chicago and industrial cities like Waukegan, Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee. UÛless home owners and" others who want to preserve the resi- dential character of the North Shore take. special. care, unwise. traffic rout- ing will seriously congest 'residential streets, damage pavements and prop- erty values and further jeopardize human lives." "'Zone Control" Plan The "zone control" plan, Mr. Mar-,. ELECTRU.C. 't! uff or e e e 4d, IVowé * fînd out for.yourslf ... right ini your own home... how truly EASY ironiug can be! No more heavy lifting, pushing, pressing-but, instead, simple automatic action-everything clone w/dl.Von are sr4tedL There's nothing owners are nopeiui mai p4L llà of the new motor vehicle law f or the State, of Illinois will flot prevent the towns and cities concerned from establishing zone areas such as Out- lmeýd, or 'aking other local provi- sions for efficiency truck routing. OTRER DEAL RS *1.80 ARE OFFERINO TUE $3.00 CERTWIÇATE FRU WITII MCU DEMONSTRATION OF AN ELECTRIC IRONER UIMITED TIME OQNLYI.

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