The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

| pertor Of the Convent of Sisters of Mercy of St. Francis parish, who is patient at St. Raphael,s Hospital New Haven where she underwent an operation several weeks ago. She had been in critical condition but recently has been showing steady improvement. She is teacher of the second grade of St. Francis parochial school.
 Seaman 1-c Charlotte s. Leuchars, of the WAVES, daughter of MT. and Mrs. William Leuchars, 15 New street is spending a two weeks leave at the home of her parents.
 Seaman Leuchars is now stationed at Saltwater, Okla, and has been attending Oklahoma A. and M college.
 A son, Joseph Albert, was born February 10 at St. Marj'2 n3spital to MT. and Mrs. Albert E. ChiS- well, 148 High street.
 Extra Assessor Asked
 n UAA NONAOAAAS ILAAC CC ndooCooOlE for the borough instead of two aS at the present time has been in- troduced in the house, 1t was learned today.
 The bill provides for a board of three assessors to be appointed by the board of finance and not more than two of these would be of the same political party. This is a sharp divergence from the present method and apparently rests on success of another bill in the general assem- ply.
 At present there Is no board of finance here but bill to institute one has been introduced in the state senate by Sen. William Painter. Assessors here are now appointed by the board of warden and bur- gesses. The present bill would take away that boards power to name the assessors and transfer it to the finance board
 A copy of the assessors bill which is House Bill 910 lists 1t as intro duced by Rep. Daniel Walsh, CD of Naugatuck. Rep. Walsh claims he had not introduced such a bill and said he was not aware one had been offered until earlier Thursday.
 Joseph Rosko (D). the other local representative, said he does not recall" having introduced such a measure. He added he doesn't know who introduced it. He said he knew such a bill had been offered.
 The bill says the assessors shall be men of good judgment, owners O.: real property and well versed i'll the value of property in said bor- ough," and they would be elected for three-year terms. instead of two years as at present.
 Two assessors under the bill would be appointed before the 18th day of June after the annual meeting of the freemen. One would be named for three years from June Is. 1945, the other for two years, and annual ly thereafter the board of finance would appoint one person to the board of assessors for the term of three years.
 The board of finance would fix and determine the duties and com- pensation for assessors and office personnel. This has been done in the past by the borough board. Un- der the bill the assessors shall name one of their group to act as chair man of the board.
 The bill provides that any va- cancy occurring in the board shall be filled to the unexpired term by a majority vote of the board of fl- nance.
 Announcement that such bill has been introduced came as a surprise Indications were that it was not sponsored by the administration.
 An investigation of the assessors office here was made two years ago by the state tax commissioners of- flee but no recommendation for an increase in the number of asses sors was made. It is not known whether or not this bill is an out growth of that investigation.
 The measure has been referred to the cities and boroughs committee and the date for hearing on it has not yet been announced.
 Under the present setup, one member of party is named as full time assessor and a member of an- other party Is appointed as part time assessor. Each serves two years.
 MT. Comiskey and John Broderick are the assessors at present.