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200 1 c� SELECTMEN IS MEETING MARCH 14, 1933, 1 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held In the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 7;30 P.M, Messrs, Trask, Gilereast, Ferguson, O'Connell and Lyons were present. The Supt. of Public Works and Miss Elinor Moakley were also present. Mr. Lawrence G. Mitchell, Agent of the Board of Public Welfare, came before the Board relative to welfare and unemployment relief cases. He stated that he received application for unemployment relief from'Patrick MacKino of 540 Middle Street. He was given three days ori unemployment relief last year. He has Maxino had his co-operative bank payments on the mortgage suspended, case* and now pays $17. per month. He has a wife and three children. His wife has been working to help the family, but has no work now. Mr. Mitchell stated that he had talked to people who knew the family, and they considered this a worthy case. He recommended that he be given three days work a week, and it was so voted. In regard to the application of John Keneally, he stated that he had called twice to see him but no one was , Keneally home. However, he talked with Mr. George Smith in regard case to Mr. Keneally's paper route and he was informed thathe delivers 400 papers for which he gets a cent apiece. He understood that he had no car, but hires a car from the woman he boards with. He owes $84, for the board of himself and his daughter, . Mr, O'Connell requested that Mr. Mitchell investigate and report to the Board whether or not the car he now hires is the same car he owned last year. In regard to Patrick McDonnell, now getting four days a week on Unemployment Relief, Mr. Mitchell informed the McDonnell Board that he is now applying for Soldiers Relief. He has a mortgage -in the Woburn Co-operative Bank and pays $20, per month. He receives $12. per month compensation from the Government, and therefore applied for State Aid, but it would not be granted unless the Co-op. Bank suspended payments and allowed him to pay interest, In regard to the case of Mrs. Faulhefer, housekeeper for Mr. Thornton, who receives three days per week on Faulhefer unemployed, Mr. Mitchell stated that she had thries children and was divorced from her husband. He is supposed to pay $5, a week for the support of the children, but is out of employment and unable to do so. Mr, Mitchell stated that ' he talked with Mr. Copithorne, Public Welfare Agent of Somerville, about the case, and as Mr. Thornton is also a Somerville case, he suggested that the aid be given directly to Thornton rather than the Faulherfer family as a separate