The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-13
Especial to the Democrat)

AN~MN~~@~NA
 Naugatuck, March 13-The bor ough court has no right to sen tence a man to the town farm be cause the town farm is neither l; veformatory nor a jail. Frank w Eaton. member Of the public wei fare board said last night at tn, regular meeting of the board. Th' financial report of the board fol the II months ending Feb 2; showed there is an unexpendeC balance of $3,233.19 and indica tions are a slight deficicit in tho budget may be incurred.
 MT Eaton was referring to tho recent sentencing of local mar to the town farm after the lattci had been arrested on an intoxica. ton charge. The court ordered him to spend GO days in jail. Dep. uty Judge Hugh Hearns presided.
 Eaton Objects
 In the opinion of Mir Eaton the court had no right to sentence him in this fashion, "As under stand it," he stated, tho town farm is refuge for people in need. I never regarded it either as a reformatory or as a jail. ob- 5ect most strenuously to such a sentence"
 When 1t was pointed out by Board Member Richard Parkinson that similar sentences had been Imposed before, MT Eaton replied "I don't care whether they have done so before or not. It is still wrong.
 T think Secretary Cox would be justified in refusing to send Q mar out there at the order of the court. If he deserves to go to jail, let him go there and if not, discharge him. It was pointed out that the man in question had been town charge, until a short time ago when he was put to work on the -CWA where ho worked for q month and a half before he was arrested.
 MT Eaton replied that although this man might belong at the town farm. 1t was not by being sen- fenced there.
 T think if a case like that should come up again, we should have to take some action in re- gard to it, he concluded. Warden Whittemore supported MT Eaton in his remarks, saying such sentenc- ing of men by the courts to the town farm reflected on the people there.
 Pasho Request Tabled
 The board had a suorum present f1,, kr G,.e.k st,, 1I.x.,. all the board members being on hand. Supt Cox reported that Ralph Pasho, manager of the Gem theater, was planning some exten- siye alterations in the theater and wanted to secure an option for renewal for five year period Of his lease to the theater. He would renew at an increased rental price, he told Supt Cox, according to the latter.
 However the lease does not ex- pire until 1886 and Board Mem- bers Eaton and Louis De Carlo pointed out that it did not seem within the jurisdiction of this boa.d to act on matter which properly should be decided upon by the 1886 board. MT Eaton re- marked that no lease was ever ap- proved by the board for MT Pasho and indications were for the mo- ment that some old disputes might be dug up but MT Eaton agreed that MT Pasho has done an excel lent job and seems quite consider ate of the needs of the town in re- gard to his theater.
 However. he pointed out that some years ago an attorney had been consulted on a similar move in regard to the town farm and had told the board the authority should have to be received for such action at a meeting of the free. men.
 Warden Whittemore agreed with the views of these members and it was decided to shelve the proposal and attempt to get such power at the freemen's meeting after the spring election.
 Mistake in Lease
 A mistake, either in recording the amount or in the lease itself was revealed when the matter Of when the lease on the town farm now taken by Superintendent of the town farm, Elmer Anderson, expires, came up.