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ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures
OF THE
TOWN OF MILFORD
CONTAINING REPORTS OF THE
Selectmen, Highway Surveyor, Treasurer, Tax Collector, Assessors, Town Accountant, Town Library Trustees, Fire Engineers, Sewer Commissioners, Board of Public Welfare, Park Commissioners, Board of Health, Chief of Police, Inspector of Wires, Inspector of Animals, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Town Solicitor, School Committee, Superintendent of Schools and Town Clerk.
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1933
MILFORD, MASS. THE CHARLESCRAFT PRESS, PRINTERS. 1934.
TOWN OF MILFORD.
Incorporated 1780. Population 1930 U. S. Census, 14,741. In Seventh Councillor District. Councillor, Winfield A. Schuster, Douglas. In Fourth Congressional District. Congressman, Pehr G. Holmes, Worcester. In Fourth Worcester Senatorial District. Senator, George W. Knowlton, Jr., Upton. In Eighth Worcester Representative District. Representatives :
Leroy L. Knowlton, Grafton. Elmer C. Nelson, Milford. Number of Registered voters, Feb. 21, 1933, 6,442.
TOWN OFFICERS.
SELECTMEN.
John H. Gardella, Chairman, Timothy W. Hannigan, William J. Hayes.
TOWN CLERK. (Clerk of Selectmen) .
Dennis J. Sullivan.
TOWN TREASURER.
Benjamin J. Clancey.
TAX COLLECTOR.
William J. Read.
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR.
Edward C. Beaulac.
ASSESSORS.
William F. Clancy, Chairman, Term expires 1936, Frederick A. Nealon, Clerk, Term expires 1934, John F. Maher, Term expires 1935.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE.
James L. Ahern, Term expires 1936, Frank J. M. Hynes, Term expires 1934, Fred J. Coleman, Chairman, Term expires 1935.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
James Cervone, Chairman, Term expires 1934, Arthur J. Chambers, Secretary, Term expires 1936, Clifton Tyler, Term expires 1935.
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SEWER COMMISSIONERS. John F. Rooney, Chairman, Term expires 1934, Alfred F. Martin, Term expires 1936, Louis P. Pratt, Term expires 1935.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Alfred B. Cenedella, Chairman, Term expires 1936, William J. Moore, Term expires 1934, Carroll A. Cole, Term expires 1934, Charles F. Curtin, Term expires 1935, Nathan Rosenfeld, Term expires 1935, George F. Grayson, Term expires 1936.
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Thomas J. Nugent, Chairman, Term expires 1935, William K. Coombs, Term expires 1936, Gilbert C. Eastman, Term expires 1936, Stephen H. Reynolds, Term expires 1934, Frederick H. Gould, Term expires 1934, John L. Davoren, Term expires 1935.
TRUSTEES OF VERNON GROVE CEMETERY. Herbert S. Eldredge, Term expires 1935, Arthur L. Maynard, Term expires 1935, Herbert B. Hill, Term expires 1934, Emerson Robinson, Term expires 1934, Frank Roy Hixon, Term expires 1936, Rudolph L. Roy, Term expires 1936.
PARK COMMISSIONERS. Simon P. Hickey, Chairman, Term expires 1934, George M. Fitzpatrick, Term expires 1935, Patrick Carroll, Term expires 1936.
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PLANNING BOARD. Henry D. Barbadoro, Term expires 1935, Leo P. Furcinitti, Term expires 1934.
TREE WARDEN. Michael D. Burke.
CONSTABLES.
Michael Bianchi, Edward Davoren,
Gaetano Bonino, Augustino Chianese,
John C. Strobeck.
Officers Appointed by the Selectmen. TOWN SOLICITOR. William A. Murray.
TOWN ACCOUNTANT. Michael J. Hannigan.
ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Joseph J. Fahey, Chief, William L. Power, First Assistant, Thomas Manguso, Second Assistant.
INSPECTOR OF WIRES. Fred M. Daniels.
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS.
George W. Billings, Chairman, Joseph A. Visconti, John J. Best, Dennis J. Sullivan, (Clerk) Ex-Officio.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. (Classified under Civil Service). Daniel M. O'Brien.
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JANITOR OF TOWN HALL AND LOCKUP KEEPER. Daniel M. O'Brien.
JANITOR OF MEMORIAL HALL. Arthur L. Maynard.
BURIAL AGENT. Charles A. Goucher.
FENCE VIEWERS.
Charles H. Kimball,
Luigi DeVenuto.
FIELD DRIVER. Peter Gallagher.
CONSTABLES.
John J. Moloney,
P. Eugene Casey, Daniel M. O'Brien,
James J. Fullum,
Thomas H. Heagney,
John L. Keefe,
Clement Moran,
John L. Gillon,
Raphael Marino,
Ernest E. O'Brien,
Arthur Raymond Cross,
Charles F. Gillon,
Edward J. O'Sullivan,
Frank J. M. Hynes,
Prospect Street,
Thomas McDonald.
CHIEF OF POLICE. (Classified under Civil Service). John J. Moloney.
PATROLMEN. (Classified as Police Officers under Civil Service) .
Iginio A. Pantano,
William J. Corbett,
James J. Fullum, Arthur Raymond Cross,
John C. Wilson,
Ernest L. Bagley,
William F. Fitzpatrick,
Ernest A. Lombardi,
James J. Curley,
William R. Cenedella.
RESERVE POLICE OFFICERS. (Classified under Civil Service).
Frank J. Hynes, John E. Allen,
Charles F. McGowan.
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SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS.
William W. O'Brien,
Giuseppe Cellini,
Antonio Santosuosso,
Joseph Renda,
John F. Damon,
William H. Birmingham,
Myron Morey,
Salvatore Micelotti,
John F. Cuddihy,
Antonio Bottuelli,
Herman G. Sawler,
Maurice L. Brittle,
John F. Crowley,
Edward J. O'Sullivan, Taylor Street,
Frank Lamborghini,
Salvatore Salvia,
James J. Cahill,
William J. Carley,
Peter Moran,
Charles J. Dowdell,
Louis B. Greene,
James W. Burke,
James H. Keane,
Kenneth Crandall,
Frank V. Perry,
John T. O'Brien,
Thomas J. Ryan,
Roger Fertitta,
Rudolph Introini,
Lyndhurst A. MacGregor,
William F. McAvoy,
William Scartissi,
Thomas F. Malloy,
William S. Davis,
Winthrop Read,
John J. Donigan,
William N. Prentiss,
James Doyle,
Walter Fitzgerald,
Frank A. Murphy,
Philip H. Sherman,
John F. Desmond,
Edward Rizoli,
John McGrath, John Larson, Frank J. Davoren,
David Davoren,
Oscar A. Williams,
George I. Spindel,
Mark T. Thibedeau,
Arthur L. Reynolds,
George Feeley,
Frank A. Thrasher,
Gaetano Introini, William Taylor,
Cornelius J. Foley,
Peter Cheschi,
Lewis Barrows,
Edward Seastrom, Pasquale Villano, Antonio Carabba,
Michael Di Orio,
Vincent Ferraro, .
Joseph O'Keefe,
Thomas Curley,
Martin Casey,
Alfred P. Henderson, Luigi Iacovelli, Joseph L. Gibbs,
John J. Harrington, Pasquale Iadarola, J. Burke Cahill, Louis Volpe,
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Milton Doxey, Frank I. Ward,
Walter F. Snowling,
Hugh F. Mears,
Otis J. Julian,
Frank DeCesare,
Edward J. Larkin,
Ralph Shirland, Charles H. Kimball, Dominick Bozzini, A. C. Blain, Rosario Longo, Eustacchio Morelli, Albert Bonin.
. Simon P. Hickey (Town Park), George M. Fitzpatrick, (Town Park), Patrick Carroll, (Town Park), Arthur Mabey (State Theatre), Patrick H. Rabbitt (State Theatre), Arthur L. Maynard (Memorial Hall), George L. Harlow (Claflin Property), John Jones (B. & A. R. R.), William A. Birmingham (K. of C. Hall), Harold Trudell (Red Men's Hall), Benjamin Davis (M. H. & F. Bus Co.),
George S. Edmands (Odd Fellows Hall), Antonio DeLuzio (East St. District), James Murphy (Post-Office), Daniel Carey (Milford Iron Foundry), Antonio Marelli (Milford Iron Foundry), John Anderson (Pickett's Straw Factory), Arthur C. Munyon (Golf Links), William H. Forbes (Vernon Grove Cemetery), Louis Rizoli (Driving Park Hall), Charles Frascotti (Plains School), James F. Smith (State Armory), Charles Lundgren (Haskel's Quarry).
PUBLIC WEIGHERS AND WEIGHERS OF COAL. Joseph P. Shaughnessy,
Benjamin Vitalini, Grace Doherty,
Harold Shaughnessy, James B. Lester, Helen Morgan,
Helen Shaughnessy, Lewis F. Aldrich,
W. Ramus Vitalini, Daniel M. O'Brien,
Michael Nugent, Harold M. Curtiss,
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Philip P. Clarke, Frank T. Ballou, Elmer I. Goddard,
Batista J. Vitalini, Charles A. Brisson, William St. George,
PUBLIC WEIGHERS.
Myron Morey, George A. Moore, Clarence D. Burnett, John P. Arata.
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK.
Benjamin Vitalini,
Frank Murphy,
George Spindel,
Charles H. Brisson,
Elmer I. Goddard,
William N. Prentiss,
Lewis F. Aldrich,
Edward J. O'Connor,
Leo F. Ross,
Ernest H. Johnson,
Batista Vitalini,
W. Ramus Vitalini, Louis Streeter,
Smith Fielding,
Harry A. Macuen,
Arthur C. Johnson,
George A. Moore,
John F. Damon,
Frank J. M. Hynes,
James J. Cahill,
Nathaniel Spindel,
Philip P. Clarke,
Louis Kempton,
Joseph P. Shaughnessy,
Albert Taylor,
Myron Morey,
John P. Remick,
Ada B. Daniels,
Appointed by Director, Division of Animal Industry.
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS. Dr. Benjamin F. Hartman.
Appointed by State Forester.
FOREST FIRE WARDEN. Joseph J. Fahey. GYPSY MOTH SUPERINTENDENT. Michael D. Burke.
Harry A. Macuen, Ada B. Daniels, Daniel B. Watson,
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Appointed by Board of Public Welfare. ALMONER. John T. O'Brien.
TOWN PHYSICIAN. John V. Gallagher, M. D.
SUPERINTENDENT OF TOWN FARM. Maurice L. Brittle.
Appointed by Board of Health. INSPECTOR OF MEATS AND PROVISIONS. Jeremiah Macchi.
ASSISTANT INSPECTOR OF MEATS AND PROVISIONS. Dr. Benjamin F. Hartman.
SANITARY INSPECTOR. James F. McDonough.
PHYSICIAN. Francis H. Lally, M. D.
NURSE.
Anna M. McKenna.
INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING. (Classified under Civil Service) . John E. Higgiston.
Appointed by Sewer Commissioners. SUPERINTENDENT OF SEWERS. Alfred F. Martin. Clerk, Charles J. Ferrante.
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Appointed by School Committee.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS AND SECRETARY OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Almorin O. Caswell.
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS. John M. French, M. D., John V. Gallagher, M. D.
ATTENDANCE OFFICER. Raphael Marino.
Appointed by Engineers of the Fire Department. SUPERINTENDENT OF FIRE ALARM.
Joseph J. Fahey.
CLERK OF ENGINEERS. Frank Calzone.
Appointed by Selectmen.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
Walter L. Adams, Chairman, Term expires, 1934, Alton H. Metcalf, Term expires 1934, Frederick T. Cahill, Term expires 1934, William H. Casey, Term expires 1934, Patrick H. Lally, Term expires 1934.
Myron Morey, Secretary, Term expires 1935, J. Roy Kerr, Term expires 1935, Michael S. McMahon, Term expires 1935, Norry Miett, Term expires 1935, Marcus W. Rose, Term expires 1935.
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P. Eugene Casey, Term expires 1936, Rudolph Mainini, Term expires 1936,
Walter E. Corbett, Term expires 1936, Angelo Barbadoro, Term expires 1936, Lyndhurst A. MacGregor, Term expires 1936.
TRUSTEES OF NORTH PURCHASE CEMETERY.
Myron Morey, Mabel F. Kinney, Jennie Morey,
May Bickford, Nelson Morey, James A. Tyler.
TOWN APPROPRIATIONS
Raised and appropriated at the Annual Town Meet- ing, March 6, 13, 15, 20 and 22, 1933.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Moderator
$ 106 88
Selectmen
1,500 00
Finance Committee Secretary .
45 00
Accountant (Salary and Expenses)
1,900 00
Treasurer (Salary and Expenses)
1,650 00
Treasurer's Bond
256 00
Tax Collector (Salary and Expenses)
3,950 00
Tax Collector's Bond
512 00
Assessors (Salaries and Expenses) . .
3,100 00
Publishing Poll Lists
100 00
Certifying Town Notes
125 00
Town Solicitor (Salary and Expenses)
1,080 00
Town Clerk (Salary and Expenses)
1,400 00
Elections, Registrations and Town Meet-
ings
2,000 00
Town Hall
2,100 00
Memorial Hall .
1,000 00
Memorial Hall Insurance .
544 96
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Police Department $ 20,990 60
Court Fees (General Laws) 75 00
Maintenance of Traffic Signals 500 00
Fire Department (Pay of Members) 18,435 00
Fire Department (Incidentals, Repairs)
2,700 00
Fire Department (Brush Fires) 350 00
Fire Department (New Hose) 700 00
Hydrant Service
12,200 00
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Rifle Practice .
300 00
Inspector of Wires .
300 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures 550 00
Tree Warden (Gypsy Moth Suppression)
100 00
Tree Warden (Care of Trees) . 700 00
Dog Officer
100 00
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Health Department .
$ 15,000 00
Inspector of Animals
300 00
Inspector of Plumbing
300 00
Dental Clinic
1,500 00
Worcester County T. B. Hospital
3,801 25
Sewer Maintenance .
7,000 00
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Highways (General)
$ 29,000 00
Oiling Streets .
2,000 00
Sidewalks
1,000 00
Street Lighting
16,560 00
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Public Welfare:
(General and Mother's Aid) . $ 100,000 00
State Aid 850 00
Military Aid
900 00
Soldiers' Relief
25,000 00
Care of Soldiers' and Sailors' Graves
100 00
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARY
School Department
$ 195,000 00
Town Library .
2,400 00
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Town Parks
$
1,800 00
Playgrounds
1,100 00
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Printing Town Reports 1,209 60
Repair Park Sidewalks
100 00
Park Department (Unpaid Bill)
24 75
Workmen's Compensation Insurance Pre- mium 1,500 00
Damage to Persons and Property
1,000 00
Flowage Rights (Clark Heirs)
69 00
Memorial Day, G. A. R. 150 00
Memorial Day, American Legion 150 00
Memorial Day, Spanish War Veterans 50 00
Armistice Day, Veterans of Foreign Wars 150 00
Worcester County Extension Service 50 00
Reserve Fund
5,000 00
Land Damages East Main Street (1928)
561 61
Removal Abutment, Medway Street (un- paid bill) 22 50
CEMETERIES
Vernon Grove Cemetery . $ 1,750 00
North Purchase Cemetery 50 00
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
Interest
$ 19,000 00
Maturing Debt .
36,000 00
Purchase of a Portable Brush Fire Pump, Hose and Other Necessary Equip- ment ยท
1,200 00
Welfare Department, Unpaid rents . 3,900 00 Installing Sanitary Toilets, Fountain Street Schoolhouse 400 00
Purchase of Tools, Trucking or Teaming
4,000 00
Extension of Sewer System on Fountain Street 900 00
Town's Share of the Cost of Providing the Worcester County Tuberculosis
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Raised and appropriated at a Special Town Meeting, July 24, 1933.
Paying an execution rendered against the Town in favor of one Odilon Martin of New Bedford in a suit vs. John F. Nagel, in which the Town was charged as Trus- tee in said amount arising out of the reconstruction of West Street, $1,412.56.
Raised and appropriated at a Special Town Meeting September 18, 1933:
Public Welfare (Additional) $ 40,000 00
Soldiers' Relief (Additional) $ 1,500 00
Plumbing Inspector (Unpaid Bill of 1932) $ 200 00
Extension of Sewer System on Fountain Street (Additional) $ 500 00
Total Amount Raised and Appropriated $ 610,851 71
Dog Tax of 1932 Appropriated for Town Library $ 1,314 08
A true copy of the records.
Attest:
DENNIS J. SULLIVAN, Town Clerk.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN
The present Board of Selectmen assumed office March 7, 1933. The chief problems confronting the new Board were:
1. Increasing Cost of Town Government.
To reduce the cost of Town government, in so far as the same was possible, was the immediate task of the Board. A reduction, to some extent, was accom- plished under the leadership of the Board through the cooperation of the Town officials and employees who voluntarily made a ten per cent contribution of their wages and salaries, by the interest displayed in Town government by the Taxpayers' Association and by the Finance Committee. Appropriations for ordinary ex- penses were thus reduced at the annual Town Meeting, and rigid economy was practiced in all Town departments to the end that the cost of government to the taxpayers of Milford be less burdensome. As a result, the cost of ordinary expenses of government in Milford for 1933 was $575,404.11 as against $619,767.50 in 1932. Put in an- other way, this reduction represents about $3.00 in the tax rate, $1.00 of taxes being required for about each $15,000.00 appropriated.
The decreases in those departments over which the Se- lectmen have immediate control have been decreased in 1933 from 1932, as is shown by the following table:
Department
1932
1933 $1,395.60
Selectmen
$2,084.99
Town Solicitor
2,072.73
1,080.00
Elections, registrations and
Town meetings
3,678.54
2,297.06
Town Hall
2,955.15
2,764.70
Soldiers' Relief
36,883.44
26,640.20
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We hope, therefore, that the citizens may conclude with us that we have contributed something in 1933 toward reducing the cost of Town government. For ex- ample, under Soldiers' Relief, a fund directly disbursed by the Board, on May 2, 1933, there were eighty-seven recipients receiving $622.20 weekly. On November 21, 1933, just before the beginning of the C. W. A. activities, this had been reduced to forty-nine recipients at a cost of $355.25, weekly. All these cases were treated on an equitable basis after investigation. When it appeared a recipient had returned to industry, or for other causes had become ineligible, his name was taken off the list, and while the Board strove to deal with each case equi- tably and fairly, a substantial saving resulted to the tax- payers.
2. Inability of the Town to Liquidate Uncollected Taxes.
In March, 1933, the Town held approximately $35,- 000.00 in tax titles. This represented property taken or sold by the Tax Collector for payment of uncollected taxes. While the Tax Collector's books, by reason of these takings, showed that the tax had been paid, never- theless the tax titles were of no direct advantage to the Town. This situation existed in many municipalities throughout the state. To remedy this condition, the Legislature passed an act (Acts of 1933, Chapter 49) creating the Emergency Finance Board and empowered it to approve applications by those municipalities whose financial condition warranted to borrow money from the Commonwealth for ordinary maintenance expenses of an amount not exceeding the total sum represented by tax titles. Upon the passage of this Act, the Town immedi- ately filed an application to borrow on its tax titles, au- thorization therefor having been given at a Special Town Meeting. After a hearing at the State House, ap- proval was given and the Town of Milford was one of the first in the Commonwealth to change its tax titles into
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ready money and thus make available the necessary funds to carry on the business of government.
The repayment of this loan to the state is not made by the Town, but as each taxpayer redeems his property, the money goes direct to the State Treasurer and the Town is given credit on its loan. At the date hereof, approximately $7,000.00 have thus been repaid, and the loan reduced that amount. The effect of this has been to make available the tax money, and at the same time extend the period of payment for the taxpayer.
3. Unemployment.
In March, 1933, unemployment of our people was a calamity existing in every city and town in the country. This condition existed for over two years. The new ad- ministration under President Roosevelt immediately set up governmental machinery to meet the situation. It is fair to say that your Board acted promptly and expedi- tiously in taking advantage of every piece of emergency legislation that the Town of Milford and its people might benefit thereby. Credit is due in this connection to Rep- resentative Elmer C. Nelson, who co-operated from the beginning with the Town officials in all matters arising out of these remedial acts.
The direct result of unemployment was the rapidly increasing cost of public welfare, a burden which no Town situated as Milford could continue indefinitely to withstand. The federal government passed an act by which municipalities were granted one-third of its wel- fare cost in 1933. Prompt action was taken by the Town under this law, suitable applications made, and as a re- sult three instalments have been given to the Town, amounting to $19,117.51.
To further relieve the cost of public welfare caused by unemployment, the Commonwealth passed an act where- by municipalities were empowered to borrow from it a sum not exceeding the excess of its welfare cost in 1932 over that expended by it in 1929. (Acts of 1933, Chapter 307.) Upon the passage of this act, a Special Town
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Meeting was immediately called, the matter was approved by the Selectmen, and after a hearing the Emergency Finance Board loaned the Town under this act the sum of $100,000.00. This loan is payable in five years at the rate of $20,000.00 per year.
To further meet the unemployment situation, the fed- eral government inaugurated an elaborate system of public works, it to furnish thirty per cent of the cost of labor and material and the municipality to raise seventy per cent. The Selectmen immediately submitted the fol- lowing projects for consideration:
1. Walling up Charles River on Town property, Central Street North.
2. Cleaning and improvements to Cedar Swamp Pond.
3. Erection of addition to the Milford High School.
4. Erection of new sidewalks throughout the Town.
5. Erection of a new Imhoff-trickler plant at sewer beds ;
and other lesser improvements. After consultation with the Emergency Finance Board, it appeared that the project of an addition to the High School and of the Imhoff-trickler plant would be considered. Immediately a Special Town Meeting was called and authority given to petition the P. W. A. to borrow funds for the High School and the sewage plant, thirty per cent of which was to be a grant. Several hearings were held, a loan for the addi- tion of the High School, amounting to $250,000.00, was acted upon favorably by the Emergency Finance Board and the State Board of the Federal Public Works Ad- ministration. The sewer project was laid on the table for the time being; the Board not considering that Mil- ford could at this time finance the seventy per cent of the obligation.
This High School project is now under consideration by the Public Works Administration at Washington, and the Board has communicated with the two United States
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Senators, the Congressman from this district and other officials in an effort to secure prompt and favorable action. If this project is allowed, an adequate addition to the High School will be built, employment will be given both the skilled and unskilled trades, and the Town will pay but seventy per cent of the cost.
In November, 1933, the federal government instituted a great civil works program under the Civil Works Ad- ministration to continue its drive to relieve the cost of public welfare and to relieve unemployment during the coming winter. Each city and town in the state was allotted so many jobs. Milford's allotment was 297. The Town officials acted promptly to take advantage of this program. Milford was among the first seven municipali- ties in the state and was the first Town to receive a grant under this plan.
Thirteen projects were approved, jobs were allotted to 702 persons and an average payroll of $9,000.00 has been paid out in Milford each week. The Soldiers' Relief Fund has been reduced from 49 recipients as of November 21, 1933, to 16 as of December 31, 1933, and the amount has been reduced from $355.25 to $132.50 weekly during the same period.
The C. W. A. is scheduled to expire February 15, 1934, but your officials will continue, so long as they hold office, to keep in touch with events, to act promptly when action is required, and to ever be on the alert to the end that Milford will receive her share of the benefit that may in the future be provided for.
The repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment once again legalized the sale of intoxicating liquors. By fixing the fees at a reasonably high level, applicants of standing in the community have been attracted to the business, and the surprising total of $19,154.00 has been added to the Town's income, thus relieving the taxpayer to that ex- tent.
In conclusion, we feel that the times are so uncertain, the future outlook so unlike anything that has heretofore
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existed in this country, the changes in the business and social set-up have been so rapid and unprecedented that we hesitate to commit the Town to any definite recom- mendations of policy for the ensuing year. Rather let the action meet the condition as it may arise, for by co- operation and mutual help of all the citizens great good can be accomplished when and if the necessity may arise.
We thank all of the other Town departments for their good will shown us during the year, and we express our gratitude to the citizens for their patience and under- standing of the local problems that have arisen.
We cannot close this report without making note of the services rendered to the Town by the Town Solicitor during the year.
In addition to the regular work of his departments he devoted much of his time and ability in connection with all the Public Works projects, and this without extra compensation.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN H. GARDELLA, TIMOTHY W. HANNIGAN, WILLIAM J. HAYES,
Selectmen of Milford.
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REPORT OF THE HIGHWAY SURVEYOR
To the Voters of the Town of Milford:
I hereby submit my report as Highway Surveyor of the Town of Milford for 1933.
As in 1932, the General Appropriation for the High- way Department, as well as the sidewalk and oiling streets appropriation, were reduced to more than fifty per cent over previous years, with the intention that the Welfare Department was to furnish all labor. This labor was furnished up until the period when the CWA proj- ects were started. Since that time the Welfare Depart- ment has been unable to furnish labor.
If the CWA projects continue into the coming spring and summer, or if business in general revives, it will mean that I will still be left without labor assistance from the Welfare Department, and it is necessary that at least ten laborers be with this department for at least forty weeks in the year.
The expense of the early snow and ice storms of this year has been far in excess of the small balance I had left in this department. However, I have been able to meet all labor payrolls but must carry all bills for truck hire, plowing and snow removal over as unpaid bills.
From the General Appropriation for this department comes the cost of all materials, salaries of superintend- ent, drivers and laborers, supplies, repairs to buildings and machinery, gas, oil, snow plowing and removal, and all other general expenditures.
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