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1 L 1 SELECTMEN'S MEETING Nov. 19, 1935. A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Ferguson, Lyons, Potter, Clark and Giroux were present. The Clerk was also present. Mr. James J. Carroll, Town Clerk, appeared and New Mr. Giroux was sworn in as Selectmen for a term to expire Members. in March, 1937, and Mr. Clark was sworn in for a term to expire in March, 1936. Mr. Carroll then retired. The Chairman presented the bond of Tax Collector- Tax Elect, William S. Scamman, in the amount of $25,000.00 Collectors to run until March 1936. Mr. Lyons moved that the bond Bond. be accepted and Mr. Potter seconded the motion, and it was so voted. At 8:00 P.M., hearing was declared open on the application of Marjorie Pierce for permission to main- tain a one car garage at 59 Forest Street. Miss Pierce and Mr. Daniel A. Gorman, Jr., appeared in favor of the application. Mr. Gorman presented plan of the proposed garage. Mr. Lyons moved that the permit be granted subject to the approval of the Building Inspector. Mr. Potter seconded the motion and it was so voted. At 8:05 P.M., hearing was declared open on the application of the Edison Elec. Ill. Co. for permission to erect and maintain one pole on Watertown Street at the Cambridge -Concord Turnpike. No persons appeared in opposition. Mr. Lyons moved that the permit be granted, and Mr. Potter seconded the motion, and it was so voted. At 8:15 P.M. a group of twelve persons owning prop- erty in the vicinity of Sylvia Street appeared before the Board to protest against the maintenance or con- tinuance of the junk yard owned by Leo A. Boynton at Sylvia Street. Mr. E. Zacharias of Medford, who owns a douse located on the lot next to the junk yard,_ presented a petition signed by nineteen property owners in the vicinity together with some snapshots of the junk yard. The majority of the signers were property owners on Sylvia Street and Taft Avenue. The Chairman read the petition and stated that the reason that Boynton was conducting a junk business was that the business was established before the Zoning Law went into effect. A Mr. Roberts of 31 Sylvia Street stated that he purchased his house in 1922 and that there was no junk business being conducted then. He stated that some time after he moved there, Boynton built a small garage in which he stored paper and he continued to use this building until he built a second garage. Pierce Garage Hearing. Pole Location Complaint Re: Boynton Junk Yard.