The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11

public school buildings of the borough were awarded yesterday afternoon at special meeting of the town school committee held at o'clock in the office of Supt. of Schools H. E.. Chittenden. The Union City Lumber 6 Coal Company were given the contract to supply eighty Brook school at price of $6.75 per ton. Forty tons are to be de- Iivered at once and forty tons in December. The Union City com pany's bid was the lowest for soft coal The NaugaLuck Fuel Com pany was awarded the contract to supply 150 tons of clean Lehigt buckwheat coal, 390 tons of egg size antracite and 40 tons of stove size antracite. Their bid for antracite was the lowest received. The price per gross ton of egg delivered being $12.79, the Buckwheat price $8.62 d gross ton and the stove size $13O7 q gross ton. Three concerns sub- mitted bids, the Union City Coal X Lumber Company, The Naugatuck Fuel Company and w. F. Clark Coal Company The Clark Company bid and the Union City Coal Company's 8 bid on egg and stove size antracite were the same, $13.08 for egg and S13.38 for stove. The Clark bid for bituminous was $6.S0 per ton and the Naugatuck Fuel.
 The Clark Company asked $8.93 for buckwheat and the Union City Company.
 The egg coal will be delivered as follows: 17O ton to the high school. 12O ton to the Salem school, 50 ton to the Rubber avenue school, 40 ton othe Oak street school and 10 ton to the Beebe street school. The stove coal will be delivered Is ton to Groveside school, ton to Pond Hill, 10 ton to Milvii1e and 10 ton to the Hop Brook Kindergarten. 70 tons of buckwheat will be delivered to the Central Avenue school and 50 tons to the Prospect street school.
 Set Minimum Ages.
 Minimum ages at which children may enter the kindergartens and first grades of the public schools were set by the town school com mittee at their special meeting held yesterday afternoon. Children To be admitted to the kindergartens must be at least four years and nine months old and to enter the first grade classes they must be at least five years and nine months old. Heretofore there has been no set age at which children might enter these grades. There has been a number of enquiries as to age which children would be admitted to both the kindergarten and the first grade and the committee de- cided to set a minimum.
 Adams Attends Last Meeting.
 Austin l.. Adams, who refused a re nomination as member of the due to the stress of other business attended his last meeting as a member of the com mittee The entire committee was present at the session and expressed their regrets that MT Adams was not to continue as member after the May election. The untiring work he had done while a member of the committee was praised and the hope was expressed that at some future time when MT Adams stress or business has a let up that he would see fit to return as member of the committee. His place on the committee will be taken by Emil Mannweler who was nominated al the republican party convention 10 succeed MT Adams. The nomina- tion is equivalent to election.
 The schools of the borough will close for the summer vacation on June IS. On April A, the schools will close for a one week vacation. This will be the final vacation be- fore the closing sessions in June.
 Returns From Hospital.
 James Pietro of Wilson street who has been a patient at St Mary's $ hospital since Wednesday, when lie was injured by flying fragments of iron pipe which burst while being tested under high pressure on High street by employees of the Waterbury