New Britain herald., 1928-01-27
FEEL OPTIMISTIC OVER TOWNS PLAN
 Officials Believe Their Scheme Made Favorable Impression
 TEACHERS CLUB BANQUET
School Officials Are Guests-Lamb Elected Lay Delegate-Dance For Benefit of Library-Bowling Notes -Sequassen Election-Briefs.

Plainville officials today felt op-
 timistic over the plan which they
 had submitted yesterday morning at
 the hearing on the elimination of the East street grade railroad cross ing. The members of the public
 utilities commission listened atten-
 lively and apparently sympathe-
 tically to Engineer Joseph x. Me
 kernan and the other men who
 spoke for the substitute plan which the local engineer presented. Chair man Richard T. Higgins and the other commissioners inquired. care fully into both the scheme of the state highway department and that | offered by the town, and the con-
 tinuance of the hearing gave evil dence that the commission would
 seek plan would be fore the best
 interests of all parties concerned. Both proposals involve the crea- tion of elevated road lunctures, and it was this fact which caused most of the discussion and which is eX- | pected to create & major portion of the difficulty in arriving at an agree 1 ment. The state plan calls for the intersection ot East street and Pine
 street-W oodford avenue (with the l trolley line) at level Of 121a feet above the ground, a situation which
 was considered so dangerous that the ! fnyur cl,hsfif,1to v,rnpnSi tion. In this a three-way intersec-
 ton is created where proposed ! runway would join East street at
 right angles. Highway Commis- sioner John A. Macdonald believes
 this more dangerous than that called l for by his plan, while local officials
 say that the opposite is the case.
 1 The suggestion that, when the
 East street crossing was elevated, the
 crossover at East Main street could
 be eliminated by merely fencing if
 off met with stern disapproval from
 the local selectmen, and they are
 determined to fight any plan which would envision this. It would be
 stealing a street from the town, they
 say. The whole proposition is SC
 complicated that it will probably i take a number of months before a decision is reached, and with the 1 public utilities commission manifest ing the fair spirit which 1t did yes
 terday it is considered likely that a
 solution satisfactory to town, state
 and private property owners will
 eventually be found.
 Teachers Club Banquet
 More than 60 persons were pres
 ent at the banquet of the Plainvillle
 Teachers club held last evening, the guests of honor being Superin-
 tendent of Schools Leon C. Staples,
 members of the school committee,
 and their wives. After short bus
 mess meeting, the banquet was
 served by Mrs. A. kronholm of New
 Britain.
 Principal, Orrin l.. Judd of the
 Broad street school was toastmastcr.
 The principal address was given by
 Maurice F, Sheehan of Hartford, VlC VI IIt ShlloI5 llo NGlS 6tDl l abroad by the Carnegie association ;! for the Advancement of Peace. In telling at first hand Political and Economic Conditions in Europe '' he presented a strong plea for world
 peace. Superintendent Staples and Chairman Joseph T. Mccarthy of l the school committee also spoke.
 Miss Nellie BiNby played a piano solo and Miss Madeline Feury sang l The affair was in the hands of the Misses Dorothy Jacobs. Catherine | Mccarthy, Bernice T. Gray Rather inc Torrant and Dorothy Whitney Lamb Lay Delegate
 John l.. Lamb was elected last night to represent the Plainville NJ.
 E. church at the lay electoral con- 1 ference of the New York East Con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal
 church. which will be held in New
 Rochelle, N. Y, on April l3. Charles l c. Seymour will be alternate. This conference elects the men who make the laws governing the Methodist church throughout the world.
 tion with Hartford insurance com