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1 1 LJ SELECTMENIS MEETING APRIL 20 1940. A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 7:30 P.M. Chairman Giroux, Messrs. Potter, Locke, Rowse and Sarano were present. The Clerk was also present. At 7:30 P.M. Mr. Joseph A. Boss, Supt. of the Water and Sewer Dept., appeared before the Board. The Chairman read a letter from Mr. Harold Conant of 47 Lincoln Street requesting that a fence be placed around the cement pool at the old water works on Lincoln Street. Mr. Conant thought this should be done in order to prevent children from falling into the pool. Mr. Ross said that, requests had been made previously by the Park Dept. for a permanent fence to en- close this well, but the necessary funds had not been granted, He said that he had discussed the matter with Mr. Garrity and they felt that a temporary protection might be afforded if snow fence was placed around the well. It was decided to borrow enough snow fence from the Highway Dept, to do this and to consider the matter of a permanent fence prior to a fall Towyn Meeting, Pool at old water works. The Clerk informed the Board that there were about 135 applications for the position of Supt. of Public Works. Supt. of The applications were divided among the members and the Public Chair*an requested them to go over them and be prepared to Works. discuss the matter at the meeting on April 9th, At 7:40 P.M. the following members of the Board of Library Trustees appeared before the Board: Mrs. Putney, Mr, Chapman, Mr. Handley, Mr, Brayton, Mr. Putsch, Mr, Ames, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Ralph Nason, Librarian, was also present. The Chairman said that the purpose in calling the meeting was to discuss the matter of the Clarke Street land so that there would be some understanding on the matter before the article came up on April 8th at the Town Meeting. He said the actual question was the use of money from the Veteranst Memorial Fund. Some time ago, the Library Trustees voted in favor of the purchase of the land and later the suggestion was made that the money be taken from the Veterans' Memorial Fund. Mr. Chapman said there was no formal vote on the latter, but those who talked it over had no objection to it. The Chairman said that next question was how any additional wing to be built should be named. He said if the funds were going to be used, undoubtedly there would have to be something in the vote putting a moral obligation on the Town that a new wing should be known as *the Veteranst Memorial Wing*: He read the vote passed -in 1925 with -rela- tion to the use of the Veterans' Memorial Fund.