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Annual Report 1947
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town of BRAINTREE
ANNUAL REPORT of
THE TOWN OF
BRAINTREE MASSACHUSETTS
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TOWN
INCORPOR ATED
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For The Year 1947
Preface
"The selectmen, before the annual town meeting, shall at the expense of the town print the annual town re- port, for the use of the inhabitants, containing the report. of the selectmen for the financial year preceding said meeting, the report of the school committee, and, except as otherwise provided by vote or by-law of the Town, of such other officers and boards as consider it expedient to make a report, the jury list as required by chapter two hundred thirty-four, and such other matters as the law, or the town by vote or by-law, requires, or as the selectmen consider expedient. If the selectmen neglect or refuse to make the annual town report, they shall severally forfeit fifty dollars." General Laws: Chapter 40, Section 49.
"The head of each Town department, and every com- mittee or board appointed or elected shall on or before the 15th of January report in writing to the Selectmen on their doings during the preceding calendar year and their recommendations for action by the Town. These reports shall be in such form as the Selectmen shall prescribe.
Sect. 2. The Selectmen shall cause to be printed and distributed before the annual Town Meeting the reports of the various Town officers, boards and committees, and shall cause copies of said report to be distributed to each registered voter of the Town who shall apply therefor at the office of the Selectmen."
Town By-Laws: Article V as amended.
Table of Contents
General Government
Town Officers
5
Town Clerk
12
Annual Town Meeting
16
Selectmen
29
Board of Public Welfare
33
Union Village Housing Project
36
Veterans' Services
39
Town Accountant
40
Town Treasurer
71
Tax Collector
74
Assessors
77
State Audit 80
Braintree School Fund
84
Planning Board 86
Jury List
90 .-
Protection of Persons and Property
Fire Department 94
Police Department
96
Building Inspector
99
Tree Warden
100
Health and Sanitation
Board of Health
101
Sewer Department 103
Public Works
Highway Department
108
Municipal Light Board
111
Water Department
117
Engineering Department
119
Schools, Library and Parks
School Committee 120
Thayer Public Library
138
Park Commissioners
148
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Town Officers 1947
Moderator Horace T. Cahill, 1948 (Resigned)
Town Clerk Ernest C. Woodsum, 1948
Town Treasurer John W. Harding, 1948
Selectmen Albert E. Roberts (Chairman) 1950
John W. Mahar (Clerk), 1948 Raymond P. Palmer, 1949
Board of Public Welfare
John W. Mahar (Chairman), 1948 Albert E. Roberts (Clerk), 1950 Raymond P. Palmer, 1949
Assessors Walter B. Skinner (Chairman), 1948 Arthur E. Boynton (Clerk), 1950 Norris H. Pinault, 1949
Water Commissioners
Thomas E. Sears (Chairman), 1949
Joseph Landers, 1948 Willard P. Sheppard, 1950
School Committee
Elmer H. Derby (Chairman), 1948
Herbert O. Boardman (Resigned), 1949 Helen M. Harmon (Appointed) Sophie G. Blunt, 1950 'Archie T. Morrison, 1948 Ovidio D. Chiesa, 1950
G. Ralph Young (Resigned)
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Municipal Lighting Board Norton P. Potter (Chairman), 1950 Frank P. Lord (Secretary), 1949 Shelley A. Neal, 1948
Park Commissioners
Earl C. Hollis (Chairman), 1950 Charles F. Abell (Clerk), 1949 Harry F. Vinton, Jr., 1948
Sewer Commissioners
Bernard R. Andrews (Chairman), 1948 Charles C. Temple, 1949 Clinton I. Bates, 1950
Board of Health Herbert B. Hollis (Elected), (Chairman), 1948 Deane R. Walker (Clerk), 1948 John J. Atkinson, 1949 H. Irving Charnock (Resigned)
Collector of Taxes George H. Gerrior, Jr., 1948
Tree Warden Clarence R. Bestick, 1948
Planning Board
Frank L. Heaney (Chairman), 1950 Helen M. Ellsworth, 1948 Joseph M. Magaldi (Clerk), 1949
Howard J. Williams, 1948 Edward J. Rose John J. Drinkwater, Town Engineer, Ex-officio
Trustees of Thayer Public Library
Stacy B. Southworth (Chairman), Life Member Morrill R. Allen, Life Member Mabel S. Rogers (Clerk), 1948
Ralph B. Woodsum, Life Member Clara G. Wetherbee, 1948
Trustees of School Fund
Arthur L. Hale (Chairman), 1949 Morrill R. Allen, 1949 Joseph H. Bramble (Clerk), 1949 H. Irving Charnock, 1949 Carroll D. Welch, 1949
Charles G. Jordan, 1949 Ralph B. Woodsum, 1949
Contributory Retirement Board
Ralph W. Maglathlin (Chairman) Jonathan W. French (Clerk) Lowell Holbrook
Date following name is the year in which officer's term expires.
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Measurers of Wood and Weighers of Hay
Willard P. Sheppard
Matthew McCusker George A. Williams
Measurers of Lumber
John C. Pafford
Shelley A. Neal
Daniel A. Maloney
OUR NATIONAL, STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS United States Senate
Leverett Saltonstall
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
United States House of Representatives Richard B. Wigglesworth Massachusetts Legislature
Senator John D. Mackay Rep. Raymond P. Palmer Rep. Albert E. Roberts
Rep. John L. Gallant
Governor's Council Clayton L. Havey Norfolk County Commissioners Frederick A. Leavitt (Chairman), 1951
Russell T. Bates, 1949 -
Edward W. Hunt, 1949
Town Meeting Members
Precinct 1
John F. Barrett
1948
Kenneth G. Dyer 1948
John J. Foley
1948
Nicola A. Galotti
1948
Milton B. Hallett
1948
Ernest J. Janssen
1948
Charles G. Lord
1948
Joseph M. Magaldi
1948
Horace S. Miles
1948
Nahum R. Pillsbury
1948
Donald Prouty
1948
Roland H. Whitman
1948
Joseph Zanghi
1948
John Alden
1949
Raymond J. Brickley
1949
George H. Cain 1949
H. Irving Charnock
1949
Vito M. D'Acci
1949
Elmer G. Derby
1949
Earl R. Grant
1949
Lawrence W. Guild
1949
Knute Ingmanson
1949
John F. Leetch
1949
Archie T. Morrison
1949
Earl A. Prario
1949
Harry T. Sears
1949
George E. Bowker
1950
Edward T. Foley
1950
Arthur C. Forst (Deceased)
1950
Robert G. Hobart
1950
Henry C. Lake
1950
Arthur F. Lucas
195~
Arthur H. McGibbon
1950
George L. Novelline
1950
John F. O'Rourke
1950
H. Winthrop S. Roberts
1950
Cornelius L. Sullivan
1950
Russell White
1950
Precinct 2
Felix H. Atkinson
1948
Howard B. Blewett 1948
Daniel F. Caskin
1948
Leland H. Crosby
1948
Charles R. Cummings
1948
William D. Ewing
1948
Walter R. Howland
1948
James L. Jordan
1948
Roger Lakin
1948 R. Stanley McConnell
1948
Ira R. Young
1950
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Joseph W. Mulcahy
1948
Otis B. Őakmail
1948
Norton P. Potter
1948
Russell B. Rae 1948
Harvey J. Annis
1949
Olive R. Bean 1949
Herbert O. Boardman
1949
Arthur L. Hale 1949
Leo J. Hart, Jr.
1949
Lowell S. Holbrook
1949
Alfred M. Legg
1949
Harold T. Lingham
1949
Moses P. Marsh
1949
Stanley T. Plumer 1949
1949
John T. Finnegan
1949
William G. Brooks
1950
Benjamin A. Brownell
1950
Gordon W. Bryant
1950
Clarence S. Cassidy
1950
Chester W. Daily
1950
Charles R. Furlong
1950
Earl D. Gilliatt 1950
William Gray
1950
Earl C. Hollis
1950
Harry J. Joyce
1950
Frederick J. Klay
1950'
J. Stanley McLaughlin
1950
Harold E. Norris
1950
Raymond L. Strangford
1950
Joseph Landers
1949
Precinct 3
Andrew J. Alden
1948
Chester A. Belyea
1948
Sophie G. Blunt
1948
William J. Connell
1948
Helen M. Ellsworth
1948
Henry D. Higgins
1948
William G. Iliffe
1948
Earl R. Kellogg
1948
Shelley A. Neal
1948
Mortimer N. Peck
1948
Samuel H. Ripley
1948
Ruth C. Scott
1948
George E. Warren
1948
Albert E. Wynot
1948
Alfred W. Beck
1949
Gordon L. F. Belyea
1949
Roland G. Belyea
1949
Clarence R. Bestick
1949
Earle S. Bucknam
1949
Mary T. Ellis 1949
Nelson A. Haviland
1949
C. Frederick Hedlund
1949
Richard A. Hunt
1949
Albert R. Klay
1949
John E. Morcom
1949
Carroll D. Welch
1949
Howard C. White
1949
Austin E. Wynot
1949
William B. Belcher
1950
Harry W. Bond
1950
Joseph 'A. Carson
1950
Edwin L. Emerson
1950
Frank A. Ewart
1950
Charles W. Gillies
1950
Leo J. Hart
1950
Frank L. Heaney
1950
George A. Hitchcock
1950
Will R. Minchin
1950
Eugene T. Nolte
1950
Lucius A. Qualey
1950
Albert E. Roberts
1950
Charles W. Woodworth
1950
Precinct 4
George L. Anderson
1948
Ernest Becker
1948
A. Winton Caird
1948
Rowena L. Hall
1948
Herbert B. Hollis
1948
Atherton N. Hunt
1948
James L. Jenkins
1948
Harlan W. Kingsbury
1948
Minnie C. Lawley
1948
Frank T. Maguire
1948
William F. Rogers
1948
Nelson H. Seaver
1948
Seward W. Taber
1948
John T. Trefry, Jr.
1948
Arthur E. Boynton
1949
Walter M. Brock
1949
Francis S. Carter
1949
Ovidio D. Chiesa
1949
Theophilus J. Craig
1949
Richard W. Farnsworth
1949
Edith L. French Edward E. Palmer
1949
Walter E. Morrison
1949
Harold F. Robinson
1949
Robert J. Stalker
1949
J. Fred Trainor
1949
Elmer F. Wilcox
1949
John D. 'Aumen
1950
Joseph P. Barrett
1950
Thomas H. Collins
1950
Margaret E. Duffee
1950
Andrew H. Gordon
1950
Drew B. Hall
1950
Stacy B. Southworth
1949
John Q. Wentworth
1949
1949
Alton C. Perry
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Thomas R. Huleatt
1950
Frank J. Kenna 1950
Chester W. Nelson
1950
Victor S. Petterson 1950
Mabel S. Rogers
1950
William J. Stevenson
1950
Laurence H. Trainor
1950
Gordon E. Trask
1950
Precinct 5
Morrill R. Allen
1948
Fred Belyea
1948
Carl H. Bjorkman
1948
John A. Cassidy
1948
Thomas F. Cassidy
1948
Joseph W. Cuff
1948
Joseph A. Haley
1948
G. Vinton Jones
1948
Frank P. Lord
1948
Daniel A. Maloney
1948
Charles F. Travers
1948
Harry E. Williams
1948
George E. Wilson, Jr.
1948
Louise E .R. Alexander
1949
Kathleen A. Bjorkman
1949
William J. Burns
1949
Ray M. Leavitt
1949
Albert L. Rice
1949
Percy T. Richards
1949
Simon B. Rideout
1949
W. Edward Skinner
1949
John M. Southwick
1949
Leo F. Starr
1949
William B. Taylor
1949
William R. Wilder
1949
Charles W. Baldwin
1950
Clarence N. Blair
1950
Amos S. Buker
1950
Charles H. Buker
1950
Edward D. Cahill
1950
John J. Canavan
1950
Joseph P. Cassidy
1950
Ralph P. Chadbourne
1950
Henry A. Cohoon
1950
Alice Davenport
1950
Frank D. Learned
1950
Jessie Macgregor
1950
Walter B. Skinner
1950
William Walker
1949
Precinct 6
Jack R. Ainsleigh
1948
John E. Cannon
1948
George F. Creehan
1948
Walter E. Delory
1948
Frank H. Diekmeyer
1948
Reuben H. Frogel
1948
Helen M. Harmon
1948
Emilio Libertine
1948
W. Homer Melville
1948
Russell Oliver
1948
Raymond P. Palmer
1948
G. Ralph Young
1948
Mae K. Cannon
1949
Catherine O. Delory
1949
William F. Dugan
1949
Edward P. Long
1949
William F. Mullaney
1949
George W. Nelson
1949
Ernest W. Oxton
1949
Edward J. Rose
1949
Edward A. Saunders
1949
Arthur E. Stenberg
1949
Ernest M. Wells
1949
E. Chester Wright
1949
Paul F. Bailey
1950
Howard R. Beaver
1950
Joseph J. Carty
1950
Alfred O. Fitch
1950
Christopher M. Garland
1950
John F. Harkin
1950
Ruby Keigan
1950
Harriet B. W. Kimball
1950
Alan C. Litchfield
1950
Margaret C. Palmer
1950
John H. Stenberg
1950
Charles Littlewood
1950
Appointed Officers and Committees
Police Department Edward D. Cahill, Chief and Keeper of the Lock-up N. Eric Nelson, Deputy Chief
Everett A. Buker, Sergeant
Albert R. Klay, Sergeant
Earl A. Prario, Sergeant
John F. O'Rourke, Sergeant
John W. Illingworth, Sergeant
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Harvey J. Annis George H. Faustini William Gallivan Frank E. Hull Frank T. Maguire George L. Novelline Cornelius L. Sullivan George E. Wilson, Jr. Leo J. Hart, Jr. J. Dudley Gannon
Patrolmen
Henry A. Cohoon Joseph W. Flaherty Christopher M. Garland Edward P. Long
J. Stanley McLaughlin Edward N. Sharon Russell White Albert E. Wynot Herbert H. Eno
Reserve Officers
Herbert Lewis
James P. Smith Thomas H. Walsh
Fire Department Fred A. Tenney, Chief Harry T. Sears, Joseph L. Dennehy, Deputy Chiefs
Board of Registrars
Roger Lakin (Chairman) 1949 Thomas F. Mulligan, 1950
Lillian M. Drinkwater 1948 Ernest C. Woodsum, Clerk, ex-officio
Field Drivers
Walter J. Mattie Mansfield A. Belyea Felice Zampine
Fence Viewers
Kenneth R. Lingley W. Homer Melville Arthur E. Boynton
Inspector of Plumbing
Israel P. Weston
Arthur F. Sullivan
Board of Appeal Under Zoning By-Law
Frank A. Ewart, Chairman
Ralph B. Woodsum
Earl R. Grant, Clerk C. Frederick Tarbox, Alternate
Board of Appeal Under Building Code
Ovidio D. Chiesa Joseph M. Duffy Lawrence S. Joslin (Deceased) Ralph H. Marstin, (Appointed)
Airport Commission
William G. Brooks 1950 George T. Woodsum 1949
Frank L. Heaney 1950 John W. Murphy 1949
Harlan W. Kingsbury 1948
TOWN ACCOUNTANT Ralph W. Maglathlin
BURIAL AGENT George 'A. Shortle
BUILDING INSPECTOR John C. Pafford
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DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR
Daniel A. Maloney
WIRE INSPECTOR Harry Barnes
DIRECTOR OF VETERANS' SERVICES
George A. Shortle
WELFARE AGENT
Henry J. Gaffney
TOWN COUNSEL
Jonathan W. French
TOWN ENGINEER
John J. Drinkwater
SUPT. OF FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
Fred A. Tenney
SUPT. OF INFIRMARY
Patrick T. Donahue
SUPT. OF STREETS
John Q. Wentworth
SUPT. OF ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPT. Ernest T. Fulton
SUPT. OF WATER DEPT.
George N. Watson
SUPT. OF SEWER DEPT. George F. Brousseau
SUPT. OF PLAIN STREET CEMETERY Albert A. Drollett
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Victor E. Swanson
HEALTH AGENT Frederick C. Johnson
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS James F. Mattie
INSPECTOR OF MEATS AND PROVISIONS
. James F. Mattie
MOTH SUPERINTENDENT
John Q. Wentworth
FEDERAL HOUSING AUTHORITY, MANAGER
George A. Shortle
FOREST WARDEN
Fred A. Tenney
MILK INSPECTOR
Frederick C. Johnson
DOG OFFICER
William F. Lammers
SLAUGHTERING INSPECTOR
James F. Mattie
HARBOR MASTER
Harry T. Sears
ASSISTANT HARBOR MASTER
Seward W. Taber
FINANCE COMMITTEE Arthur W. Moffatt (Chairman), 1948 Roy W. Lawson (Secretary), 1949
Joseph J. Carty 1948 Lawrence W. Guild 1948
Stanley H. Richards
1948
Seward W. Taber 1948
Thomas B. Hutchinson
1949
John E. McLeod 1949
Robert Whitehouse
1949
Harry E. Williams
1949
Raymond J. Brickley
1950
Ralph P. Chadbourne
1950
William F. Dugan
1950
Harry J. Joyce 1950
Roger C. Noyes
1950 E. Curtiss Mower, Jr. (Ex-Officio)
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Report of Town Clerk
Ernest C. Woodsum-Town Clerk
1946
No. of Employees 2
Budget $4,947.25 5,129.00
Expenditures $4,943.69 5,129.00
Receipts
1946
Dog licenses
$2,621.80
1947 $2,290.60
Sporting licenses
2,503.75
2,054.25
Vital Statistics
1946
1947
Births
463
449
Marriages
311
301
Deaths
251
260
Town Election
Number of Votes Cast - 5035
Precinct 1
855
Precinct 2
984
Precinct 3
1015
Precinct 4
977
Precinct 5
679
Precinct 6
525
FOR MODERATOR
1
2
3
4 856
5 544
6
Total 4166
Horace T. Cahill
634
793
879
121
135
64
868
FOR TOWN CLERK
Ernest C. Woodsum
674
798
918
893
589
463
4335
Blanks
181
186
97
84
90
62
700
FOR TOWN TREASURER
John W. Harding
656
788
908
850
557
439
4198
Blanks
199
196
107
127
122
86
837
FOR SELECTMAN (For Three Years)
Henry D. Higgins
275
331
489
451
277
294
2117
Albert E. Roberts
550
625
507
501
388
217
2788
Blanks
30
28
19
25
14
14
130
FOR BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE (For Three Years)
Henry D. Higgins
266
321
485
449
268
274
2063
Albert E. Roberts
544
616
481
487
379
227
2734
Blanks
45
47
49
41
32
24
238
1
Scattering
1
Blanks
221
191
136
460
:
12
1947
2
FOR ASSESSOR (For Three Years)
Arthur E. Boynton
127
204
331
446
283
230
1621
Carlton H. Dyer
173
119
24
27
21
15
379
Charles R. Furlong
225
335
49
41
43
26
719
William G. Iliffe
66
94
203
151
68
83
665
Ralph R. Nesbit
34
29
9
11
11
6
100
Donald Prouty
112
74
103
73
59
30
451
Herbert F. Stackhouse
89
88
258
196
166
106
903
Blanks
29
41
38
32
28
29
197
FOR WATER COMMISSIONER (For Three Years)
John F. Leetch
458
447
223
218
144
87
1577
Willard P. Sheppard
311
452
692
650
475
393
2973
Blanks
86
85
100
109
60
45
485
FOR SCHOOL COMMITTEE (For Three Years)
Roger W. 'Arnold
132
132
181
272
116
83
916
Howard B. Blewett
222
278
339
211
208
196
1454
Sophie G. Blunt
218
240
423
202
218
196
1497
Ovidio D. Chiesa
306
334
467
587
244
147
2085
John W. Donovan
164
214
130
139
137
83
867
Thomas F. McSharry
193
265
59
58
67
59
701
Grace Neal Trefry
150
176
204
271
174
126
1101
Blanks
325
329
227
214
194
160
1449
FOR MUNICIPAL LIGHTING BOARD (For Three Years)
Joseph P. Barrett
312
288
229
323
268
207
1627
Norton P. Potter
428
591
692
588
348
259
2906
Blanks
115
105
94
66
63
59
502
FOR BOARD OF HEALTH (For Three Years)
John J. Atkinson
669
777
866
841
565
440
:4158
Blanks
186
207
149
136
114
85
877
FOR SEWER COMMISSIONER (For Three Years)
Clinton I. Bates
673
782
852
818
550
434
4109
Blanks
182
202
163
159
129
91
926
FOR PARK COMMISSIONER (For Three Years)
Earl C. Hollis
695
843
859
824
544
429
4194
Blanks
160
141
156
153
135
96
841
FOR TAX COLLECTOR
George H. Gerrior, Jr. .. 717
799
885
851
582
458
4292
Blanks
138
185
130
126
97
67
743
FOR TREE WARDEN
Clarence R. Bestick
664
754
798
779
522
420
:3937
Blanks
191
230
217
·198
157
105
1098
13
FOR PLANNING BOARD (For Three Years)
Frank L. Heaney 597 777 830
813
541
418
3976
Blanks 258 207 185
164
138
107 1059
Precinct 1
THIRTEEN TOWN MEETING MEMBERS (For Three Years)
*George E. Bowker
459 * Arthur H. McGibbon 514
*Edward T. Foley
429
*George L. Novelline 519
*Arthur C. Forst 508
*John F. O'Rourke 580
Lewis H. Gould 412
*H. Winthrop Roberts
500
Arthur J. Guilbert
305
*Cornelius L. Sullivan
517
*Robert G. Hobart
517
*Russell White
513
*Henry C. Lake 473
*Ira R. Young
445
TWO TOWN MEETING MEMBERS (For One Year) (To Fill Vacancy)
* Milton B. Hallett 597 *Charles G. Lord 671
Precinct 2
FOURTEEN TOWN MEETING MEMBERS (For Three Years)
Hutchadew Babaian
319 *Earl D. Gilliatt 450
Nicholas L. Basile
297
* William Gray 434
*William G. Brooks 560
*Earl C. Hollis 529
*Benjamin A. Brownell
543
James Hough 292
*Gordon W. Bryant
516
*Harry J. Joyce
449
*Clarence S. Cassidy
436
*Frederick J. Klay 492
*Chester W. Daily
538
*J. Stanley McLaughlin
537
Carroll P. Daiute
380 *Harold E. Norris
511
William D. Dyer
407 *Raymond L. Strangford 592
*Charles R. Furlong
576
James V. Tedesco 251
1 ONE TOWN MEETING MEMBER (For Two Years)
(To Fill Vacancy)
*Leo J. Hart, Jr.
790
ONE TOWN MEETING MEMBER (For One Year) (To Fill Vacancy)
*Russell B. Rae
766
Precinct 3
FOURTEEN TOWN MEETING MEMBERS (For Three Years)
*William B. Belcher
611 *George A. Hitchcock 650
*Harry W. Bond
703 Harold W. Johnson 429
* Joseph A. Carson 653
*Will R. Minchin 692
Laurie P. Cotton 460
673
*Frank A. Ewart
*Charles W. Gillies
550
* Albert E. Roberts 620
*Leo J. Hart
568
*Charles W. Woodworth 678
*Frank L. Heaney
577
*Eugene T. Nolte Hugh P. Opie 438
618
*Edwin L. Emerson
644 *Lucius A. Qualey 687
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*Arthur F. Lucas
513
Precinct 4
FOURTEEN TOWN MEETING MEMBERS (For Three Years)
*John D. Aumen
624 *Frank J. Kenna 615
*Joseph P. Barrett 656
*Chester W. Nelson 664
*Thomas H. Collins 573
*Victor S. Petterson 662
John M. Corcoran 522
*Mabel S. Rogers 661
*Margaret M. Duffee 623
*William J. Stevenson 702
*Andrew H. Gordon
551 *Laurence A. Trainor
562
*Drew B. Hall 653
*Gordon E. Trask 655
*Thomas R. Huleatt
679
Scattering 1
ONE TOWN MEETING MEMBER (For One Year)
(To Fill Vacancy)
*Ernest G. Becker
200
William J. Mccullough 161
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George G. Haworth
71
Joseph C. Mischler 182
Lillian E. Killam
198
Precinct 5
THIRTEEN TOWN MEETING MEMBERS (For Three Years)
*Charles W. Baldwin
371
*Henry A. Cohoon 387
*Clarence N. Blair
359
* Alice Davenport 365
*Amos S. Buker 405
John Goodhue 299
*Charles H. Buker
381
*Frank D. Learned
335
Everett A. Buker
280
*Jessie Macgregor John E. Ryan
412
*Edward D. Cahill
491
*John J. Canavan
386
*Walter B. Skinner 423
*Joseph P. Cassidy
444
Harold R. Walsh
280
Precinct 6
TWELVE TOWN MEETING MEMBERS (For Three Years)
*Paul F. Bailey
308
*Harriet B. W. Kimball 305
*Howard R. Beaver
288
* Alan C. Litchfield 291
*Joseph J. Carty
331
*Charles Littlewood 289
* Alfred O. Fitch
366 Edward J. Lydon
225
O. William Freier 276
*Margaret C. Palmer
333
*Christopher M. Garland
287
*John H. Stenberg 323
*John F. Harkin 357
Franklin B. Thompson
285
*Ruby Keigan 330
ONE TOWN MEETING MEMBER (For One Year)
(To Fill Vacancy)
"Jack R. Ainsleigh
411
# Elected.
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246
*Ralph P. Chadbourne 393
Annual Town Meeting
'Article 1. To choose all Town Officers, except those elected by ballot.
Voted: To elect John C. Pafford, Shelley A. Neal and Daniel A. Maloney for Measurers of Lumber.
Voted: To elect George A. Williams, Matthew McCusker and Willard P. Sheppard for Measurers of Wood and Weighers of Hay.
Article 2. To hear and act upon the reports of the several boards of Town Officers, and committees, and choose any committee the Town may think proper.
Voted: That Article 2 be taken up in conjunction with all other articles.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year be- ginning January 1, 1947, and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with the provisions of Sec- tion 17, Chapter 44, General Laws .- So Voted.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year begin- ning January 1, 1948, and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with the provisions of Sec- tion 17, Chapter 44, General Laws .- So Voted.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money for general muni- cipal purposes under the authority of and in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1933 as amended, or take any ac- tion relative thereto .- So Voted.
Article 6. To see what action the Town will take to make changes, if any, in Standard Rate Ranges, so-called, and the Employment Classi- fication Plan adopted at the Annual Town Meeting of 1946.
Voted: That, with the exception of Sections 6 to 10, inclusive, dealing with Vacations, Leave of Absence, Sick Leave and Jury Duty, the operation of the Standard Rate Ranges and the Employment Classification Plan adopted at the Annual Town Meeting of 1946 be suspended until such time as a Town Meeting shall vote otherwise.
'Article 7. To see what sums the Town will raise by taxation or otherwise to pay interest and maturing debt, and for charges and ex- penses of the several Town Departments for the ensuing year and to appropriate the same. (For amounts appropriated, see Town Account- ant's Report, Recapitulation, page 56).
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 559 of the Acts of 1946, entitled, "AN ACT AUTHORIZING INCREASES OF THE AMOUNTS OF PENSIONS PAYABLE TO CERTAIN FORMER PUBLIC EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE BEEN RETIRED" .- So Voted.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 6, Chap- ret 576 of the 'Acts of 1946, entitled, "AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE RETIREMENT OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE POLICE FORCE
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OF THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION AND OF POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREMEN IN CERTAIN CITIES AND TOWNS" .- So Voted.
Article 10. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Braintree Post No. 1702, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, for rent of a Hall to conduct meet- ings and other functions of the Post, or take any other action relative thereto .- No action necessary.
Article 11. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to provide off the street coasting, or take any action relative thereto .-- No action.
Article 12. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the eradication and prevention of "Dutch Elm" disease, so-called, or take any action relative thereto .- Voted $300.00.
Article 13. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for site improvement or completion at "Union Village", so-called and other expense not chargeable to Federal Funds, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $684.00, of which $300.00 shall be used for playground supervision at Union Village and $384.00 for playground equipment at Union Village, both to be expended under the direction of the Union Village project manager.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to amend its By-Laws by inserting a new article to read as follows: regulating the operation of Plants and Machinery in the Town of Braintree in certain cases:
Section 1. No person, firm or corporation operating a plant or machinery the operation of which is excessively noisy and disturbing to the reasonable peace and quiet of the proximate neighborhood shall operate the same or cause the same to be operated in the Town of Brain- tree before the hour of seven o'clock A.M., or after the hour of six o'clock P.M. of any day without a per- mit thereof first having been obtained from the Town Clerk of said Town. A person, firm or corporation shall be deemed excessively noisy upon the written complaint to the Town Clerk of ten citizens. 'Any appeal from the decision of the Town Clerk shall be heard by the Board of Health Commissioners whose decision shall be final.
Section 2. The Town Clerk in using his discretion in the issuance of such permit, shall take into consideration the emer- gency of the occasion and the reasonable necessity, the emergency considered of such operation upon any day or days after the hour as above set. The permit may cover a day or a period of days not to exceed three. The term emergency as used above shall be defined as being anything which shall effect the health, safety or well being of the community.
Section 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating the pro- visions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense. -- No action.
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