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408 SRLECT77N'S MEETING JANUARY 27, 1931. , A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held at the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building at 7:30 P. M. Messrs. Burnham, Custance, Trask, Blake and Shannon were present. The Supt. of Public Works and Llinor Moakley, Clerk pro -tem were also present. Bldg. Insp. The Board considered the question of closint the Town funeral Office Buildin7 during Mr. Tibbett's to do so. funeral, but voted not Garbage The Board voted to approve the following garbage licenses: license Edward Bunzel, Chester a Fogg, John Sullivan and Manuel Silva. The request for a pool roomlicense from Edward Pool Bunzel and George H: YVood was laid on the table as no license. letters of recommendation accompanied the request. Mr. Norman C. Hooper appeared before the Board in regard to the Fire Dept. appropriation. He said that he Extra men felt the Department needed four extra men, but he hoped for fire that the Board would at least approve of two. He ' dept. explained that they had established a system of desk duty this year and as this kept one man at the desk continually, f he felt that they needed another man. lie did not stress the point of sala-ny increase, but hoped that the Board would consider the matter of the two extra men favorably.. "'he Board decided to take this matter under advisement. At 8 P.M. hearing was declared open upon the application of Pichette & Ahern for permission_ to erect. a garage and repair shop fo^ 20 automobiles and to keept,;; store and sell Pichette & petroleum products and volatile inflammable liquids in Ahern connection therewith at 847-855 Mass. Ave. and to use hearing the premises as a public filling station for the storage, '. keeping and sale of gasoline.to the capacity of 5000 gallons in underground tanks, The Chairman of the Board read the notice of the hearing, and also a letter from the Chief of the Fire Dept. in which he stated that he saw no reason why the Board should not 'P:rant this license. He suggested, however, that the tanks should be installed and inspected before the license was granted. Mr. Joseph R. Cotton of Lexington appeared and spoke in behalf of the petitioners and stated that he felt that the erection of a filling station at this point would be an improvement to the community. He stated that ' there were two old buildings on the premises that were nothing but fire trans, and that the owners intended to either demolish or remove these buildings; that traffic at this point was rather congested, and that the owners intended to have the station set back from the street