The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-22

a new one-story care-taker's house at Fulton Park, of brick construc- ton with terra -cotta trim, and all improvements. Painting and repair ing fire houses. Water proofed the roof, and pointed the City Hall. Repainted and repaired all city bridges. Wiring and repairing all public buildings. Clerical assistance furnished the following departments. City welfare, probation officer, h- brary, and town clerk. Title search ing of the Waterbury Land records. general indexing of land records of the city of Waterbury, prior to 1763, as required by the state law.
 School Work
 The board of education has bene- fited by the following projects, first one calling for repairing and paint ing of Duggan school, this project was originally started under the EZRA and was 5% complete when taken over by the WPA on Noyem- Der 8th, 1936. This is one of the oldest schools in the city, and was in a very dangerous condition, the ceilings were hazard to the lives of the children, these ceilings as well as side walls were repaired, parts of the flooring throughout the rooms relayed. interior of building repainted, on September 21st. 1886 this project was 886 complete. An other. profitible project is the re- claiming of high school text books, to the number of 62,857 up to Sept tember 18th, 1886 this project has saved the city the immediate pur- chase of 10000 text books. An other calling for repairs to windows, shades, and roofs on 18 grade schools. The largest single project in this class calls for the renovating and repair interior and exterior) Wilby High scsool.
 Although this school has only been opened since 1918, the con- struction of same had not been over supervised, the outcome of which requires the present expenditures of $58, 8,o7228 appropriated as follows, Federal Funds $51, ,260.70 City of Waterbury $6,8l1.58 Plasterers who had anticipated only repairs to ceil- ings, found in such condition that the entire ceiling had to be replaced with 3 coat plaster job. A dan- gerous condition was constantly above the Students, unknown to them.
 Students Aided
 The students of the Waterbury high schools have made a very en- viable record in. the world of sports. in spite of the fact that the city maintained no Athletic Field. But by next spring those same students shall trot out on one of the finest Fields in the East, thanks to the WPA who made this possible through its appropriation of $62,901.
 The Projects in this City are numerous and diversified, there be- ing 50 Projects allocated to the City, 9 of these have been con- pleted, 35 are in progress while 3 remain to be started. These Pro- jects include Farm to Market Roads, Rip Rap Wall along the Naugatuck river. Slopeing Chase Parkway, replacing bridge over Beaver Brook, that was carried away with the spring flood, this is modern concrete structure being 26' long and 2S wide. Then there is the traffic survey, this project has proven very popular with the cit- izens traffic safety committee, Mo- tor Vehicle Department, and the Board of Education, this, project is closed down at present to permit 1t to be rewritten. word is expected daily to reopen. The project to provide free bedside care by reg istered nurse for needy patients. This nurse acts as one of the staff of the Visiting Nurses Association, her duties consists of staff nursing. attending acutely sick persons and chronic cases, people who because of financial circumstances cannot pay for needed attention of nurse. x Sewing Project
 Another outstanding project is the sewing project, which has a personel of 51 women and man, IT of these women are widows, 19 SC parated, 2 supporting disabled husbands, while 8 are single. each of these married women are sup porting from 2 to 6 children. This project was taken over from EZRA on November 2nd. 1885. there are no production records available previous to December 23rd, 1895. But from December 2Srd, 1885 to June 4th, 1936 9,67S garments were made, the project was closed from