The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-02

sive, he explained
 Although the minimum age to en ter Kindergarten was once set at years and nine months by Septem Der, enrolment in kindergarten here was so small that all who hay applied have been accepted, re gardless of whether they were unde this age, the superintendent stated There are only 2 of kindergarten age in Hop Brook Kindergarten, h' said.
 The superintendent then suggest. ed that the board should in tht near future consider extension oI transportation and closing of "cer. tain small schools" with pupils ir those schools being carried by buse: to similar grades in the larger schools. we could feed to the lower grades children from small schools and hardly know they were there," Supt. Chittenden stated. Atty. Henry Freeman brought out during the discussion that there are 1000 employed at the U. g., Rubber company here and said total factory figures for Waterbury only showed 36,000 employed. He expressed the opinion that. there are 25,00O per sons here now, including those who work in local factories and live in other towns or cities.
 Supt. Chittenden said that if the same number contiues in grammar schools 300 will enter the high school next year and only 150 will be graduated.
 There would be 1900 in the local high school if there was not a mortality" that is if some did not drop out of school each year, he said.
 No appointments were made by the board. The superintendent ex- plained that it was necessary be- causce of the large number taking the commercial work in the high school to name Miss Helen Brennan to do substitute work there for two periods daily. "s
 It is only a temporary measure and if enrolment drops, the plan of last year will be adopted. Il wouldn't do any good to appoint regular teacher, he explained, be- cause there isn't a room for one :r1 the high school.
 100 Percent Vaccination K.
 Vaccination of children entering local school for the. first time was practically 100 percent, he said There were one or two cases where children were too i'll to be vaccinat- ed, check-up by School Nurse Miss Elizabeth Leary shows. The vaccina- tion was ordered this year and 2S4 were vaccinated, indicating prejudice against vaccination : here is prac- tically nil. The board authorized the super intendent to transfer Miss Celia Reynolds from third grade Prospect street to grade 5, Rubber avenue, and Miss Katherine Kane from grade 5, Rubber avenue to grade 3, Prospect street. Both teachers re- quested the change, MT. Chittenden said, because Miss Kane lives near CT to Prospect and Miss Reynolds near to Rubber avenue.
 Many Text Books Repaired
 A total of 1,54O textbooks have been repaired by the employees of the WPA book repair project in the schools here in a period from last February to the last week in Sep- tember, the superintendent report ed. This at cost of only $50 to the school department for ma terials. It is fine record, he added parising the man in charge of the work. The workers average about 65 books week.
 A much higher enrolment in the night schools indicates considerable interest here, Superintendent Chit tenden declared. Although some drop off, he expects most will con- tinue. There is a strong demand ;n Naugatuck for such classes as type writing, comptometry, etc, is the public night schools. In his opin- ion the local course in compto- metry is the most extensive of any such class in public night schools in the state. The school has F comptometers and the rubber com i pany lends 1t eight more, allowing 60 in three shifts to use them II the course of an evening. In answer to a question, he said occasionally one or two come from out of twr to attend night school classes here
 At Trade School
 Nine pupils from here attend the Bridgeport trade school, the super intendent announced. Round trips monthly cost them $6.67 each which enables the town to keep within Its expense of $l0O per pupil. The same is allowed tho-e who use autos. The town gets about 50 percent back from the state for each $l00 ex- pended. IT. -e wishing to enter must be through eighth grade anc over 14 years of age. Most of the boys from here who attend are ir the first or second year f high schoo when they leave to attend. trade school. They are taught to be ma. chinists, auto mechanics, carpen- ters or electricians.
 Trade School
 The following pupils and fnethot of transportation are attending thl Bridgeport State Trade School:
 James Ashmore. car: Lewis Behl. man, train: Norman ]. Benson train: stephen Bilez, car: Rober' Crandall, train: Edmund Oaikus car; Frank Garlenski. train; Adam Jankowski. car: Charles Wasola car. There is considerable interest In this type of education.
 Three Court Cases
 Three court cases were heard In borough court today. tho first in. Q