The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-31

Naugatuck, Dec. 31-Three of the four Naugatuck youths who volun- teered to form the first local quota in the selective service are now at Camp Edwards, Falmouth, Mass. They are: Edward Niski and John ZelinSki who are in the signal corps, and Ronald Doolittle, who is learning to be an ambulance driver in the medical corps.
 The fourth member of the local quota, Vincent Deptula, is a member of the ski troops at Lake Placid.
 It is expected that about January 18th another contingent from Nau- gatuck will enter the U. s. army. It has, been learned here unofficially that the local quota at this time is eight, although no official word had been received up to this morning.
 There are four volunteers now who have passed physical examinations here and are classed as IA. These are: James Milton Robinson, order number 400, now of New York but who resided in Naugatuck at the time of the draft; Emile Joseph Pilon, order number AT, of Vol colt; Arthur E. Ludgewait, order { humber 584, of 63 New street; and Vincent M. Krzykowski, order num- Der 266, of 19 Brennan street. These four have volunteered.
 AS there are eight needed for the draft, local quota, four more will be selected on the basis of order num- bers from the group listed as IA.
 The selective service board will meet Thursday to continue classif1- cation of those who have recently taken physical examinations and to do other work. Virtually all of the second batch of questionnaires sent out have been returned and most of the classification work of this group has been done. As yet no order has been received to send out the next group of approximately 312 questionnaires or 10 per cent of the : total who registered here.
 Physical examinations of regis trants are being conducted at the average of about six. per each doctor on the medical board per week. They have not yet been held in the draft headquarters at the Beebe street school because as yet medical supplies have not been re- ceived.
 The clerical staff at the head quarters has made 1t much easier now for registrantS to ascertain their order numbers by listing the order numbers next to the serial numbers of the registrants.
 Appointment Rumored
 Reports have it that there may be an appointment discussed or made at the January meeting of the board of education Thursday at p. m. in the high school. It has been re- ported there will be vacancy in the high school teaching ranks soon and it is possible the appointment for such vacancy will be made Thurs day.
 It has been reported there are several candidates for the post and if the appointment does come up Thursday, in all probability the board will go into a "star chamber" session to discuss the candidates. This has been it's usual procedure when appointments are to be made, unless some agreement has been reached before the session.
 The board may take final action upon the lease of the Beebe street school for the headquarters of the local service board. Final action has been withheld pending insertion of 8 clause giving the school depart ment the right to cancel the lease on a 30-day notice, If it is necessary to use it for school purposes.
 The school board has made no in- dication that the lease should re- ceive final approval from the board of warden and burgesses. In the Gem theater lease, Borough Atty. James P. Sweeney has indicated that the borough board should give final approval after the welfare board has indicated its intentions.
 Just why similar action by the borough board should not be re- quired in connection with the Beebe street school has not been explained. It would seem to the layman that the rule which would apply to the Gem theater lease would also apply to the leasing of a school for pur- poses other than school purposes, but the board of education has, at its meetings, apparently ignored the similarity to the Gem theater mat ter.
 Recently the welfare board ap- proved terms of lease for the Gem theater but pointed out that the borough board must still give its ap- provul before the lease becomes ofi- cial.
 Some Factories To Work
 There will be only skeleton staff employed at the U. s. Rubber foot