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Show MARKING ZONES TO MOTS White Lines for Parking and Red Lines to Be Left Clear The first shot in Ogden's now automobile auto-mobile parking system was fired early this afternoon when police officials began marking non-parking areas on Washington avenue and painting lines on the pavement to provide "stalls" for cars where parking is to be permitted. per-mitted. Various sections have beenj set aside in front of certain stores whore parking will not bo permitted. These zones will be marked with red lines in the form of boxes. White lines will be used where parking is allowed. The new parking arrangements have been made necessary as a result of the great Increase of motor vehicles in Ogden and the complaints of merchants mer-chants that their delivery wagons have been unable to get near tho curbs in front of their stores, according to J. Ray Ward, commissioner of public safety. Provisions have been made to open a new parking area on streets surrounding the city hall and motorists motor-ists are urged to use tho new space". Police protection will be given machines ma-chines that are parked in the new dis trict.- No automobiles will be allowed to be parked on Washington avenue between be-tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets tomorrow whilo the marking of tho street is boing completed. It is planned to leave a space of ten inches between cars that are parked in the "stall" marked with white lines. The new system will soon bo drafted draft-ed Into an ordinance and violaters will bo prosecuted, Mr. Ward said. |