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468 <br />al <br />oil <br />SELECTMEN'S MEET-ING <br />MAY 51 1936. <br />' <br />A regular meeting of the Board of.Selectmen was <br />held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at <br />7:30 P.M. Chairman Ferguson, Messrs. Potter, Giroux, <br />Clark and Ross were present. The Clerk was also present. <br />Mr. Trask stated that the material being excavated <br />from Tower Road was being used to cover the dump at <br />Dumps. <br />Pleasant Street and that a fence was going to be <br />erected across the front of the dump so that there <br />would be no more dumping on the property. Mr. Trask <br />stated that he did not know where the Town might find <br />a new dump, that all it had now was the one on Lincoln <br />Street and the one at the Public Works Building. <br />Mr. Trask reported with regard to the traffic <br />Lights at <br />lights at Pleasant Street, and stated that the State <br />Pleasant <br />Dept: of Public Works would not put in anything but <br />Street. <br />the same type of light as we have every place else, <br />that is either blinkers or trip lights. The State <br />feels that it is best to leave the lights as they are <br />now until the street is completed. <br />Letter was received from Mr. A. B. Tenney calling <br />the Board's attention to the traffic signals at the <br />' <br />intersection of Watertown Street and the Concord <br />Turnpike. Mr. Tenney said that two or three times <br />there had almost been serious accidents due to the fact <br />that the lights on either side of the State Road on <br />Lights at <br />Watertown Street are in synchronism so that when a car <br />Watertown <br />approaches Lexington at the same time one is driving <br />Street. <br />toward Boston on the green lights which operate <br />simultaneously, the car going toward Boston is making <br />'the <br />a left hand turn onto State Road is very apt to be <br />in collision with the car coming from Belmont. He <br />thought that either of the two signals should be <br />delayed. <br />Mr. Clark stated that the timing of the light at <br />Watertown Street had been changed and he t hoigght that <br />they now operated too slowly. Mr. Trask stated that <br />he would check up with the State to see what they could <br />do about the matter. <br />Mr. Trask stated that the minimizing of the <br />mosquito pest menace at the Winning Farm could be done <br />Mosquito as a State project. The present District Engineer who <br />menace at has Lexington territory, has found that there are some <br />Winning Farm.State Funds left over from last Fall that can be used ' <br />for such projects. Mr. Trask said that it was a <br />question of how much of a project the Board wanted to <br />make of it. He said it was a question of draining a <br />