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86 SELECTMEN'S MEETING p MARCH 25, 1930. A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held at the Selectments Room, Town Office Building at 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Burnham, Custance, Blake, Shannon and Trask were present. The Supt. of Public Works and the Clerk were also present. Bids were 'received on the loan of $150,,000 as follows: Faxon Gade & Co. 3.36 $150,000 Bank of Commerce & Trust Co. 3.38 loan. First National Bank 3.49 Atlantic National Bank of Boston 3.50 Lexington Trust Company 3.2999 The bid was awarded to the Lexington Trust Co. At 8:08.P.M. hearing was declared open on the application of Maurice P. Ahern and Bertha V. Pichette to conduct and maintain a garage and repair shop for automobiles, and to keep, store and sell petroleum products and volatile and inflammable liquids in connection therewith, at 851 Mass. Avenue, Lexington. The -Town Counsel, S. R._Wrightington was present and read the application to the hearing.. Mr. Joseph R. Cotton appeared for the owners and presented a map showing the location of the Pichette & huilding in which the business was requested to be Ahern operated in. The map also showed all of the houses _Hearing. in the immediate vicinity with respect to the location of the business. He presented also a petition signed by many of the persons in the immediate locality and others from outside. He stated further that some of the persons in the vicinity would not sign the petition, either for or against it, but the only objectors -that actually made objections were Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Crown and Mr. Norman A. Pero. Mr. Cotton'stated that with the exception of Calvin 'Childs' Garage, there was no repair shop from Arlington Heights line up to the centre of the Town, and that this property is located in the business district. He stated that he did not want totake too much of the Boardrs time inasmuch as a hearing had been held previously and all the conditions stated at that time. He stated that Mr. Childs repaired only Ford cars and there is no other place in the East end of the town where other cars can be repaired. Mr. Cotton called attention to the scope of the interrogation that the Board should go into; stating that primarily the Board is acting u,4der the authority of the Fire Marshall who delegated his power to the Board of Selectmen, and as he understood the law, he felt that the statute in regard to this is different in a case of a gasoli#e d 1