Property of the Watertown Historical Society An watertownhistoricalsociety.orgOakvilh- Waterttwn TOWN Weekly • TIMES Vol. 7 No. 339 Subscription Price, $3.00 Per Year .. Single Copy, 6 Cents June 3, 1954 Ten Biggest Taxpayers Board Airs Need Of The following is a list of the ten biggest taxpayers here as re- ported by Tax Collector Irving F. Smith. School Construction Scovill Mfg. Co. 65,296.64 Chase Brass & Copper Co.. The Board of Education dipped 50.448.51 into the biggest and most complex Autoyre Company 29,267.79 Proposed Town of school problems—school con- Princeton, Knitting Mills, Inc. struction—at its meeting last 23.261.85 Zoning 'Ordinance Thursday. Watertown Manufacturing Co. The officials learned that de- iein§ Printed spite the new Sl'j million new \ 17,846.70 junior high school that was opened Connecticut Railway & A draft of a, -proposed, new zon- |ihere last fall, overcrowded condi- Lighting Co. and ing ordinance for the town is be- Jtions were cropping up again, in Connecticut Light and ing prepared by the Zoning Com- !the system. More classroom space Power Co., >• 12.224.23 mission,,, it is announced by Chair- J' is needed as the result of record- Taft School 11,000.00 man John V. Abbott. " sized birth rates and new families Seymour Smith Mfg. Co. 10,232.27 The proposed ordinance will be imoving into town. Heminway & Bart let t Mfg., mimeographed and will be avail- !, The school board members found Co. ' ' 9,422.39 able for public study within ;| the problem, made more compli- Watertown Co-operative short time, Mr. Abbott said. \ Association 2,545.62 cated by the fact that the popula- The chairman added that the tion growth is not confined to any The taxes paid by the seven Commission plans to invite vari- factories equal approximately 25 one section but is taking place in ous representative economic inter- various areas. per cent of the total amount of all ests of the town, including busi- taxes to. be collected. As an, edu- It appears to them that the One of the largest single real estate tax payments made to Tax Coi- ness, industry, farmers, home problem is most urgent at Bald- cational institution, The Taft owners, etc., to go over the pro- ler tor Irving F. Smith of Watertown, was received in a cheek of School, is exempt from, paying most win School. Built to house 400 pu- posed zoning regulations, and dis- pils, Baldwin now has close to $49.321.M from the Waterbury Savings. Bank last week. The bank, taxes. However, the" .School, cuss the various features. has been 'making • an annual 600. Though the 7th and 8th 'which annually collects over So00,000 in tax payments for its mortgage Following these conferences, ? grades have been transferred to customers, forwards tax money to twenty different eommiin.ities in payment of $11,000' to the Town, Mr. Smith reported. series of public meetings will be the junior high school, officials the greater Waterbury area besides the Town, off Watertown: Shown held. find that the school enrollment at above, left to right, are: C. Frederick Goodwin, the Bank's Assistant j . , Baldwin has been so rapid that all Treasurer, Mr. Smith and Clareare A. Jessell, VIee-President. emergency hallway and basement Sewers Approved 3rd Salk Vaccine classrooms are full, again. The need for additional facilities For Edward Awe. ! Test On June 8th to accommodate the • Falls Ave. Thousands View ' 25 Pints Of Blood Twenty-five voters at a special area was another problem which meeting of the Watertown Fir? ! The Ihird and final injections for the school board reviewed at its District, last Wednesday approved the prevention, of infantile paraly- Colorful;. Memorial Given Local Person; sis will be administered to children meeting. the installation, of 800 "ft. of sani- : Members also looked ahead and, ffl#m# ^APAVMMMIAC In'issuing an. urgent appeal for tary sewers, in Edward Ave. An of the second grade, who have re- ' ceived the first, two injections on saw that within the next two wJ%MW WC?rt»ITIWIIK»a blood donors for the next visit ofappropriation of up to" $10,000 for :i years, the high, school, and the jun- Thnucanife of wnnlp lined the"th e Bloodmobile, June 14, Red the project, was authorized. June 8. ior high school will be at least Memorial, Day parade route from, The meeting accepted an. area I The injections will 'be given at j,filled to capacity,. Thousands of .people. unea_ the Croscal citizens officia], whs o, disclosehas beed ntha a, tpatien a lo..t the public schools and St. John's Hamilton Ave. to Davis St. Mon- at Waterbury Hospital for 'nearly j along Burton St. and. Edge R.d. Because of these expectations, day afternoon, in tribute to the i into the fire district upon the peti- = Parochial School. The program two 'months, has already been is sponsored by the National the school board decided it could war dead of Watertown and, Oak-given, 25 blood transfusions. | tion of Julien Deschenes. • not make any commitments to ville. „ "~ Arthur P. Hick cox was modera- Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Middlebury which had inquired- • It was a perfect day with clear The blood was desperately need- Parents of first and third grade ed, and was forthcoming without I tor and Roger K. Tillson was clerk about sending its students here blue skies. The brilliant colors of i of the meeting. pupils, who wish their children, to to the junior high school and the the' parade units gave color and fanfare, because men and women •participate in, the program, are in the past months have "given a high school. - Middlebury has no impressiveness" to the ceremonies. • asked to return, the acceptance !i high school of its own. ' ' Among the groups marching in pint to save a, life". „ StrawberrySupper 1 forms promptly. ,. | the parade were the Watertown It is important that the blood 'The board decided to make a High'School band in height orange bank be replenished — for who The Ladies Society of the Union full investigation of the situation, and gray uniforms; the. Fourth knows who will be the man or Congregational Church, will hold, | Commencement and plans to set up a special com- ,,Degree Knights of -Columbus in. woman or child who next will face its •annual strawberry supper June mittee to obtain information about the • 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the church school population, growth,, building on local I hall. Mrs. Raymond, Ellis, presi- \AtTaftJune11 activity, birth rate trends, sec- needs, the Chapter officials called dent, is general chairman. Twelve boys from the Water- I tional development and, other data attention to the tragedy on the I! Other members of the commit- bury area are among the ninety- \ (Continued on Page Sixteen.) Bennington, May 26. The full fa- : tee are: Mrs. Fred Dickinson. three members of the graduating j cilities of the Red Cross blood cen- kitchen chairman, Mrs. Harry I class of The Taft School, whose I Boundary Straddle ters in. New York City and Newi Hassell, Mrs. William, Speraw, | sixty-fourth commencement exer- England were offered, the com- j Mrs. Samuel Zbell, Mrs. Ernest i cises will, be held Fndd> June 11 Complicates Taxes mander of the Naval Hospital, in i. Bell, Mrs. William Garms, Mrs. at. 11 a.m.. in the Bingham Audito- Newport.- In, addition Red Cross Frank Viele, Mrs... Ernest Schreier rium. They are Da\ id Burke, For Oakville Co. offered, other services, such as es- Sr.,, Mrs. Harold Booth, Mrs,. Bart Roger Dionne, Francis Fitzgerald, tablishing a canteen service for I Continued on. Page Sixteen 1 (Continued, on Page Sixteen) The. average taxpayer may , servicemen's dependents at Quon- dread tax payment day, but. his <• set po,:mt Naval""Base plight is simple compared'to what) Six'Red Cross staff members, the Oakville Company Division of j are now at tne scene of the Ben. League Of Women Voters Backs Scovill Manufacturing Company j n,ington disaster, and 25 volunteers- has to go through before it can far e ma,kin,g surgical, dressings at tally up its tax bill. When this | tne Navy's request. 400 volunteers Manager Plan And Consolidation Division paid its local property • gave bloo- - d- at the hospital follow- taxes on. May 28, a total of $99,941, ing a public appeal. The Watertown-Oakville League Herein three different systems it was spread three ways. 'The At least, 200 volunteers are of Women Voters, at its 'meeting levys and, collects taxes three Town of Watertown received $65,-1 needed*to"assure' the'town's'quota May 27, voted, unanimously to budgets are drawn up, three dif- 296: the Oakville Fire District,l of 150 pint- -s on Jun- e 14- , aMt the support, a new Council-Manager ferent boards have borrowing au $10,234; -and the City of Water- Junior High School. The blood- charter that will consolidate the thority; three groups purchase of bury, $24,410. mobile will be there from 12:45 to town government and two fire dis- flee supplies, equipment, etc Eact1 All this comes about because 5:30 pJB. citiaens are asked to tricts. of the governmental units carry this 102 year old pin making firm ,,caJ J the chapter House 2-2684 and The action, was" taken following on these functions separately straddles- the boundary between | make ^ appointment. a talk by Mrs. William Sullivan Thus there is a crying need foi the City of Waterbury and the on the subject: "Pin-Pointing Town consolidation' in our fiscal policy. Town, of Watertown, and is par- Government Problems." The ""The change to Representative tially located, in' the Oakville Dis- meeting was held at the home of Town Meeting plan without an ex- trict of Watertown.