The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-11

 use Includes about 400 feet frontage on WaCertown avenue and BIO feet on Huntingdon avenue.
 The lease will be signed by Mayor Frank Hayes and Mrs. E. Louise Fitzgerald, superintendent of the childrens hospital.
 Business Features
 Other action by the board in- cluded: sale of the American Ring Company building for $20,o00; adop- tion of . new city ordinance prohibi- ing the making of any salary pay- ments of such amounts as to cause the appropriation to be expended be- fore the end of the year; appoint meflt of committee to study the municipal athletic field situation.
 An offer of $i2,500 by John O. Herbst for the southern section of the former American Ring property was accepted, over the objections of Alderman 0. Arthur DuBois, who said the sum offered was "ridicu- lous".
 The northern section of the prop erty was sold to the Waterbury Far rel Foundry & Machine O., for $7,500.
 The general opinion among the aldermen was that though the of- fers for the property were low, they were better than no offers at all and would take the property off the city's hands.
 Mir. Herbst was understood to have made his offer on behalf of Wilbur 0. Larson and Frank H. Bailey. Aldermen Thomas Bane and William Kolbeck voted against the sales, while Alderman DuBois, though criticizing the offers, voted in favor of them.
 Equipment now in the two sec. tons of the factory will be re- moved and sold by the city before August 1. A special committee will be appointed.
 Pensions
 The aldermen received notifica- ton that Q transfer of $73i is need- ed to pay several pensions which are increased as result of Senator George T. Culhane's new pension act. Tn addition, other sums will be needed to pay new pensions called for in the act.
 The new ordinance means that salaries in various city departments will have to be fixed on a percent- age basis so that salary appropri- ations will not be exhausted before the end of the year.
 A committee will consider the athletic field situation and re- port back to the board. The fl. nance board has turned down a rec quest by the alderman for $8,000 to provide for maintenance of the field for remainder of the year.
 Several petitions for aldermanic approval of bingo games were re. ceived, and will be taken up with the corporation counsel.
 A request by Postmaster Charles Babin for abatement of taxes on government owned property on Madison street was referred to c committee. It was voted to demolish e building at i6-i8 Lafayette street. The Welton Realty Go. submitted an offer to turn back to the city prop erty on Irvington avenue, on which several assessments are due.
 The following offers for city, owned property were received: Peter Quay, house and lot on Rail- road Hill street, $500; Angelo Dad- dona, lot on Tudor street, $i50: Emil J. 0augler. lots on Ardmore ave- nue, $i00; Robert W. Busch, lot on Raymond street, $i00.
 Transformer Protested
 A protest by Geddes terrace prop erty owners against annoyance caused by 6 transformer was re- ferred to committee.
 The board approved zoning change for Sylvan avenue property owned by Petrone Began, placing 1t in c business district, and set down for August 2 c hearing on peti- ton by Salvatore Mollica for c zoning change, also on Sylvan avenue.
 NEW COMEDY TEAM
 Joyce Compton and Charlie Rug-