Town annual report of Braintree, Massachusetts for the year 1950, Part 1

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Publication date: 1950
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Annual Report 1950



Mid-Century


town of BRAINTREE


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ANNUAL REPORT


of


THE TOWN OF BRAINTREE


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1640. ICHUSE


For The Mid-Century Year 1950


Preface


"The selectmen, before the annual town meeting, shall at the expense of the town print the annual town report, for the use of the inhabitants, containing the report of the selectmen for the finanical 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 re- quired 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, 49.


Sect. 1. "The head of each Town department and every committee 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 calender 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 dis- tributed 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 15


State Audit 34


Board of Selectmen 37


39


Department of Veterans' Services


43


Jury List


44


Town Accountant


48


Town Treasurer


84


Tax Collector


88


Bcard of Assesso:s 90


Planning Board


92


PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY


Fire Department 93


Police Department 95


Building Inspector 97


Zoning Board of Appeal


97


Tree Warden


97


Sealer of Weichts and Measures


98


HEALTH AND SANITATION


Board of Health


99


Sewer Department 101


PUBLIC WORKS


Highway Department 105


Moth Department 111


Electric Light Commissioners 112


Water Department 116


Engineering Department 119


Braintree Housing Authority 120


Airport Commission


122


Harbor Master's Report 124


Park Department


134


SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES


School Committee 124


Thayer Public Library 135


Board of Public Welfare


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TOWN OFFICERS 1950


Moderator E. Curtiss Mower, Jr., 1951 Town Clerk


Ernest C. Woodsum, 1951


Town Treasurer John W. Harding, 1951


Selectmen John W. Mahar, Chairman, 1951 Raymond P. Palmer, Clerk, 1952 Albert E. Roberts, 1953


Board of Public Welfare Raymond P. Palmer, Chairman, 1952


John W. Mahar. Clerk, 1951 Albert E. Roberts, 1953


Assessors Arthur E. Boynton, Chairman, 1953


Charles R. Furlong, Clerk, 1951 Norris H. Pinault, 1952


Water Commissioners Thomas E. Sears, Chairman, 1952


Willard P. Sheppard, 1953 Joseph Landers, 1951


School Committee Ovidio D. Chiesa, Chairman, 1953 Archie T. Morrison, Secretary, 1951


Gordon W. Bryant, 1952 Sophie G. Blunt, 1953


Helen M. Harmon, 1952 Roger W. Arnold, 1951


Municipal Lighting Board Norton P. Potter, Chairman, 1953


Frank P. Lord, Secretary, 1952 Shelley A. Neal, 1951


Park Commissioners Earl C. Hollis, Chairman, 1953 Charles F. Abell, 1952 Harry F. Vinton, Jr., 1951


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Sewer Commissioners Bernard R. Andrews, Chairman, 1951 Charles C. Temple, 1952 Earl D. Gilliatt, 1953


Board of Health Dean R. Walker, Chairman, 1951 Herbert B. Hollis, Clerk, 1952 John J. Atkinson, 1953


Collector of Taxes George H. Gerrior, Jr., 1951


Tree Warden John F. Leetch, 1951


Planning Board A. Winton Caird, Chairman, 1951 John J. Drinkwater, Town Engineer, Ex-officio Joseph M. Magaldi, Clerk, 1952 Edward J. Rose, 1952


Mitchell W. Gawlowicz, 1951 Ralph M. Soule, 1955


Braintree Housing Authority Frank L. Heaney, Chairman, 1954 Ernest J. Janssen, Vice-Chairman, 1953 William H. Gustafson, Treasurer, 1951 William M. Gustin, Jr., Asst. Treas. Appointed by State Housing Board, 1952 George A. Hitchcock, 1955 F. Ernest Hanson, Secretary, Ex-officio


Trustees of Thayer Public Library Stacy B. Southworth, Chairman, Life Member Gordon W. Bryant, Life Member Ralph B. Woodsum, Life Member


Mabel S. Rogers, 1952 Clara G. Wetherbee, 1952


Trustees of School Fund Arthur L. Hale, Chairman, 1952 Joseph H. Bramble, Clerk, 1952 Charles G. Jordan, 1952 H. Irving Charnock, 1952 Ralph B. Woodsum, 1952 Carroll D. Welch, 1952


Contributory Retirement Board Ralph W. Maglathlin, Chairman


Jonathan W. French, Clerk Joseph W. Cuff


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


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OUR NATIONAL, STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS United States Senate Senator Leverett Saltonstall Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.


United States House of Representatives Congressman Richard B. Wigglesworth


Massachusetts Legislature


Senator John D. MacKay Representative Raymond P. Palmer


Representative John L. Gallant Representative Albert E. Roberts


Governor's Council Councillor Clayton L. Havey


Norfolk County Commissioners Frederick A. Leavitt, Chairman, Jan. 1, 1951


Russell T. Bates, 1953 Clayton W. Nash, 1953


Town Meeting Members


Precinct 1


John J. Foley


1951


George H. Cain


1952


Milton B. Hallett


1951


Vito D'Acci


1952


Alfred M. Legg


1951


William J. Dignan


1952


Joseph M. Magaldi


1951


Knute Ingmanson


1952


Horace S. Miles


1951


Archie T. Morrison


1952


B. Joseph Rizzo


1951


Merton L. Pratt


1952


Kenneth G. Dyer


1951


Raymod J. Brickley


1953


Nicola A. Galotti


1951


George E. Bowker


1953


Ernest J. Janssen


1951


Robert G. Hobart .


1953


Charles G. Lord


1951


Arthur F. Lucas


1953


Edward M. McMahon


1951


George L. Novelline


1953


Nahum R. Pillsbury


1951


Margaretta E. Rizzo


1953


Roland H. Whitman


1951


Cornelius L. Sullivan


1953


John Alden


1952


Ira R. Young


1953


H. Irving Charnock


1952


J. Dudley Gannon


1953


Elmer G. Derby


1952


Henry C. Lake


1053


Earl R. Grant


1952


Arthur H. McGibbon


1953


John F. Leetch


1952


John F. O'Rourke


1953


Earl A. Prario


? 1952


Russell White


1953


Harry T. Sears


1952


Precinct 2


Felix H. Atkinson


1951


J. Paul Benson 1952


Joseph C. Avitabile


1951


Arthur L. Hale


1952


William D. Ewing


1951


Joseph Landers


1952


R ger Lakin


1951


Harold T. Lingham


1952


Otis B. Oakman


1951


Harrison T. Smiley


1952


Russell B. Rae


195]


Gordon O. Thayer 1952


John I. Ryan


1951


George T. Woodsum


1952


Daniel F. Caskin


1951


William G. Brooks


1953


Charles R. Cummings


1951


Gordon W. Bryant


1953


James L. Jordan


1951


Chester W. Dailey


1953


R. Stanley McConnell


1951


Earl D. Gilliatt


1953


Norton P. Potter


1951


Earl C. Hollis


1953


Walter Hennessey


1951


Nelson A. Haviland


1953


Robert A. Tenney


1951


Clarence S. Cassidy "


1953


Harvey J. Annis


1952


William Gray


1953


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7


John R. Dallinger


1952


Edward P. Long 1953


Leo J. Hart, Jr.


1952


Frederick J. Klay 1953


Joseph C. Landrey


1952


Richard L. McMasters


1953


Stanley T. Plumer


1952


James H. Starkey


1953


Stacey B. Southworth


1952


J. Stanley McLaughlin 1953


John Q. Wentworth


1952


Raymond L. Strangford


1953


Precinct 3


Chester A. Belyea


1951


Gordon L. F. Belyea


1952


William J. Connell


1951


Clarence R. Bestick


1952


Henry G. Galebach


1951


Charles M. Copeland


1952


Herbert B. Hollis


1951


William J. Hayden


1952


Shelley A. Neal


1951


William F. Lammers


1952


Samuel H. Ripley


1951


Earle B. Terrey 1952


George E. Warren


1951


Austin E. Wynot


1952


Sophie G. Blunt


1951


Marjorie Bates


1953


Helen M. Ellsworth


1951


William B. Belcher


1953


Kenneth N. Gould


1951


Joseph A. Carson


1953


William G. Illiffe


1951


Edwin L. Emerson


1953


Mortimer N. Peck


1951


Leo J. Hart


1953


Ruth C. Scott


1951


George A. Hitchcock


1953


Albert E. Wynot


1951


Will R. Minchin


1953


Alfred W. Beck


1952


Lucius A. Qualey


1953


Roland G. Belyea


1952


Charles D. Curtis, Jr.


1953


Earle S. Bucknam


1952


Frank A. Ewart


1953


Mary T. Ellis


1952


John Marr


1953


Richard A. Hunt


1952


Hugh L. Opie


1953


Hugh B. Snow


1952


Albert E. Roberts


1953


Howard C. White


1952


Robert B. Wickwire


1953


Precinct 4


Roger W. Arnold


1951


Harold F. Robinson


1952


A. Winton Caird


1951


Hiram C. Towne


1952


Harlan W. Kingsbury


1951


Richard W. Farnsworth


1952


Minnie C. Lawley


1951


William H. Gustafson


1952


William F. Rogers


1951


Edward E. Palmer


1952


Seward W. Taber


1951


Robert J. Stalker


1952


Harold W. Cairns


1951


Calvin E. Young


1952


Matthew W. Hanscom


1951


Joseph P. Barrett


1953


Robert B. Ladd


1951


J. Frank Dings


1953


Ernest G. Becker


1951


Margaret M. Duffee


1953


Alva M. Dow


1951


Frank J. Kenna


1953


James H. Jenkins


1951


William H. Low


1953


Arthur I. Knowles


1951


Chester W. Nelson


1953


Frank T. Maguire


1951


Laurence A. Trainor


1953


Arthur E. Boynton


1952


Allen C. Emery, Jr.


1953


Walter M. Brock


1952


Andrew M. Gordon


1953


Philip J. Cardarople


1952


F. Howard Hallett


1953


Francis S. Carter


1952


Thomas R. Huleatt


1953


Ovidio D. Chiesa


1952


Thomas H. Matthews


1953


Francis L. Gleason


1952


William J. Stevenson


1953


Walter E. Morrison


1952


Gordon E. Trask


1953


Precinct 5


Fred Belyea


1951


William J. Burns


? 1952


Thomas F. Cassidy


1951


Ray M. Leavitt


1952


G. Vinton Jones


1951


Albert L. Rice


1952


Daniel A. Maloney


1951


Simon B. Rideout


1952


Harry E. Williams


1951


John M. Southwick


1952


8


Robert B. Hill


1951


William Walker


1952


Carl H. Bjorkman


1951


Charles W. Baldwin


1953


Joseph W. Cuff


1951


John J. Canavan


1953


Joseph A. Haley


1951


Henry A. Cohoon


1953


Frank P. Lord


1951


George W. Garland


1953


George E. Pitts


1951


Charles G. Jordan


1953


George E. Wilson, Jr.


1951


Jessie Macgregor


1953


Louise E. R. Alexander


1952


Harold R. Walsh


1953


Robert M. Hutton


1952


Edward D. Cahill


1953


William A. Reed


1952


Joseph P. Cassidy


1953


Percy T. Richards


1952


Alice Davenport


1953


W. Edwin Skinner


1952


Frank D. Learned


1953


William B. Taylor


1952


J. Arthur Stone


1953


Harold R. Graham


1952


Henry H. Storm


1953


Precinct 6


Jack R. Ainsleigh


1951


Mae K. Cannon


1952


George F. Creehan


1951


Elliott C. Jernagen


1952


Frank H. Diekmeyer


1951


George A. Lydon


1952


Helen M. Harmon


1951


Edward J. Rose


1952


Frederick R. Maitland


1951


Charles E. Timmons


1952


Raymond P. Palmer


1951


Robert J. Whitehouse


1952


John E. Cannon


1951


Carl P. Andre


1953


Walter E. Delory


1951


Paul F. Bailey


1953


Reuben H. Frogel


1951


John F. Harkin


1953


Emilio Libertine


1951


Harriet B. W. Kimball


1953


W. Homer Melville


1951


Margaret C. Palmer


1953


Henry R. Davies


1951


John J. Barrows


1953


William R. Cline


1952


Howard R. Beaver


1953


George W. Nelson


1952


R. Alden Elliott


1953


Arthur E. Stenberg


1952


Christopher M. Garland


1953


Ernest M. Wells


1952


Ruby Keigan


1953


E. Chester Wright


1952


John H. Stenberg


1953


Russell H. Wright


1952


Joseph J. Carty


1953


9


Appointed Officers and Committees Police Department


Edward D. Cahill, Chief and Keeper of the Lock-up N. Eric Nelson, Deputy Chief


Albert R. Klay, Lieutenant


Francis T. Maguire, Lieutenant


Everett A. Buker, Sergeant


Leo J. Hart, Jr., Lieutenant


John W. Illingworth, Sergeant


John F. O'Rourke, Sergeant


Earl A. Prario, Sergeant


Patrolmen


Harvey J. Annis John J. Donovan


Albert E. Wynot Henry A. Cohoon


Herbert H. Eno


George H. Faustini


Joseph W. Flaherty


Vincent J. Foti


Joseph C. O. Gagne


William Gallivan


J. Dudley Gannon Frank E. Hull Matthew F. McCusker


Christopher M. Garland (Retired )


J. Stanley McLaughlin John V. Polio


Thomas A. Littlejohn


Edward P. Long


Edward N. Sharon


George L. Novelline


Joseph J. Starkey


James P. Smith


Cornelius L. Sullivan


Russell White ( Retired)


George E. Wilson, Tr.


Reserve Officers


Andrew E. Maguire Thomas H. Walsh


Fire Department


Harry T. Sears, Chief Joseph L. Dennehy, Deputy Chief ( Retired) Edward A. Hennebury, Deputy Chief Walter Hennessey, Deputy Chief (Appointed )


Board of Registrars


Kenneth R. Lingley (Chairman) 1952


Thomas F. Mulligan 1953


Lillian M. Drinkwater 1951 Ernest C. Woodsum, Clerk, ex-officio


Field Drivers


Walter J. Mattie


Mansfield A. Belyea


Felice Zampine


Fence Viewers


John A. Rogers


W. Homer Melville Thomas H. Matthews


Israel P. Weston


Arthur F. Sullivan


Board of Appeal Under Zoning By-Law


Frank A. Ewart, Chairman Earl R. Grant, Clerk


Ralph B. Woodsum Herbert J. Redman, Alternate


Board of Appeal Under Building Code


Ovidio D. Chiesa Joseph M. Duffy Ralph H. Marstin


Airport Commission


William G. Brooks, Chairnian 1953 Robert B. Hill 1953


Harlan W. Kingsbury, Sec. 1951 John W. Murphy 1952


George T. Woodsum 1952


Inspector of Plumbing


10


TOWN ACCOUNTANT BURIAL AGENT BUILDING INSPECTOR DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR WIRE INSPECTOR


DIRECTOR OF VETERANS' SERVICES WELFARE AGENT TOWN COUNSEL


TOWN ENGINEER


SUPT. OF FIRE ALARM SYSTEM


SUPT. OF INFIRMARY


SUPT. OF STREETS


SUPT. OF ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPT.


SUPT. OF WATER DEPT.


SUPT. OF SEWER DEPT.


SUPT. OF PLAIN STREET CEMETERY


SEALER OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES


HEALTH AGENT


INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS


INSPECTOR OF MEATS & PROVISIONS


MOTH SUPERINTENDENT


John Q. Wentworth


FOREST WARDEN


Harry T. Sears


MILK INSPECTOR


Frederick C. Johnson


DOG OFFICER


Cornelius L. Sullivan


James F. Mattie


Seward W. Taber


Earl T. Connors


Finance Committee


Roger C. Noyes, Chairman Harry E. Williams, Secretary 1952


Joseph J. Carty 1951


J. Clark Settles 1953


Seward W. Taber


1951


Horace S. Miles 1951


Carroll D. Welch


1951


Gordon O. Thayer 1951


Elliott C. Jernagan


1952


John O. Holden


1952


Mortimer N. Peck


1953


Gordon A. McGill 1952


Wallace B. Strathdee


1953


Harry J. Aitken 1952


Arthur L. Whitten


1953


Ralph W. Maglathlin George A. Shortle John C. Pafford Daniel A. Maloney Harry G. Barnes George A. Shortle Henry J. Gaffney


Richard A. Hunt


John J. Drinkwater Harry T. Sears


Patrick T. Donahue


John Q. Wentworth


Ernest T. Fulton


George N. Watson


George F. Brousseau


Albert A. Drollett


Calvin E . Young


Frederick C. Johnson


James F. Mattie


James F. Mattie


SLAUGHTERING INSPECTOR


HARBOR MASTER


ASSISTANT HARBOR MASTER


1953


11


Town Clerk


Ernest C. Woodsum-Town Clerk


Receipts Dog Licenses Sporting Licenses


1949 $3,097.40


$3,018.40


1,984.00


2,073.25


Vital Statistics


1949


1950


Births


467


443


Marriages


257


272


Deaths


229


274


Town Election


Number of ballots cast-4027


Precinct


1A


213


Precinct 1B


567


Precinct


2


766


Precinct 3


775


Precinct 4


793


Precinct 5


491


Precinct 6


422


For Moderator


1A


1B


2


3


4 720


5 398


6 .


Total


E. Curtiss Mower, Jr. 175


426


622


662


342


3345


Blanks


38


141


144


113


73


93


80


682


For Town Clerk


Ernest C. Woodsum


190


450


672


702


724


429


359


3526


Blanks


23


117


94


73


69


62


63


501


For Town Treasurer


John W. Harding


185


419


662


690


710


403


348


3417


Blanks


28


148


104


85


83


88


74


610


For Selectman (For Three Years)


Raymond J. Brickley


45


191


195


86


83


81


117


798


Thomas H. Matthews


47


19


56


143


301


108


71


745


Albert E. Roberts


106


326


463


489


371


244


186


2185


Richard Williams


10


12


23


35


23


46


28


177


Blanks


5


19


29


22


15


12


20


122


For Board of Public Welfare


(For Three Years)


Raymond J. Brickley


51


199


202


89


88


79


112


820


Thomas H. Matthews


47


19


67


147


297


108


69


754


Albert E. Roberts


98


311


444


475


365


239


188


2120


Richard Williams


11


13


25


36


25


49


30


189


Blanks


6


25


28


28


18


16


23


144


12


1950


Assessor (For Three Years)


Arthur E. Boynton


133


333


544


677


665


380


338


3070


Vincent Sorgi


72


207


175


67


93


103


65


782


Blanks


8


27


47


31


35


8


19


175


Water Commissioner (For Three Years)


Willard P. Sheppard


178


418


661


660


702


410


349


3378


Blanks


35


149


105


115


91


81


73


649


For School Committee (For Three Years)


Sophie G. Blunt


110


249


387


425


409


258


228


2066


Ovidio D. Chiesa


133


306


462


500


597


287


243


2528


Robert B. Wickwire


118


273


362


407


387


250


215


2012


Blanks


65


306


321


218


193


187


158


1448


For Board of Health (For Three Years)


John J. Atkinson


106


194


431


564


508


348


283


2434


B. Joseph Rizzo


96


354


305


175


250


120


114


1414


Blanks


11


19


30


36


35


23


25


179


For Sewer Commissioner (For Three Years)


Earl D. Gilliatt


173


423


667


636


684


393


337


3313


Blanks


40


144


99


139


109


98


85


714


For Municipal Lighting Board (For Three Years)


Norton P. Potter


176


419


660


656


712


396


336


3355


Blanks


37


148


106


119


81


95


86


672


For Park Commissioner (For Three Years)


Earl C. Hollis


174


416


682


656


710


393


335


3366


Blanks


39


151


84


119


83


98


87


661


For Tax Collector


George H. Gerrior, Jr. 177


440


699


669


719


408


350


3462


Blanks


36


127


67


106


74


83


72


565


For Tree Warden


John F. Leetch


176


461


675


648


706


394


333


3393


Blanks


37


106


91


127


87


97


89


634


For Planning Board. (For Five Years)


Ralph M. Soule


169


415


665


629


675


373


322


3248


Blanks


44


152


101


146


118


118


100


779


Braintree Housing Authority (For Five Years)


Andrew M. Gordon


64


173


241


156


249


139


141


1163


George A. Hitchcock


115


257


378


529


466


276


227


2248


Blanks


34


137


147


90


78


76


54


616


Trustees Thayer Public Library (For Two Years)


Mabel S. Rogers


165


372


685.


635


721


374


328


280


Clara G. Wetherbee


160


360


696


617


711


362


318


3224


Blanks


101


402


151


298


154


246


198


1550


Precinct 1 Thirteen Town Meeting Members (For Three Years)


*George E. Bowker


340


*Raymond J. Brickley


374


Charles F. Crowley


202


*J. Dudley Gannon


389


* Robert G. Hobart Evelyn M. Legg


436


*Henry C. Lake


33.2


292.


* Arthur F. Lucas


384


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* Arthur H. McGibbon 335


Helen A. McMahon 200


*George L. Novelline 334


*John F. O'Rourke 433


Joseph W. Parker 257


Lewis W. Pollard 190


Ernest S. Reynolds


253


* Margaretta E. Rizzo 363


H. Winhrop S. Roberts


324


Frank Santosuosso


238


Vincent Sorgi


269


Wallace B. Strathdee 247


*Cornelius L. Sullivan 380


*Russell White 404


*Ira R. Young


381


* Elected


Precinct 2 Fourteen Town Meeting Members (For Three Years)


* William G. Brooks


469


*Gordon W. Bryant 442


* Clarence S. Cassidy


361


*Chester W. Daily 440


Henry B. Fall


314


*Earl D. Gilliatt 401


* William Gray


383


*Nelson A. Haviland 338


* Earl C. Hollis


482


*Frederick J. Klay


424


*Edward P. Long


366


*J. Stanley McLaughlin Bert S. Richards, Jr.


311


* James H. Starkey


357


*Raymond L. Strangford 464


Alfred J. Thomas, Jr.


307


John T. Trefrey, Jr.


290


* Elected


Precinct 3 Fourteen Town Meeting Members (For Three Years)


A. William Albert


329


* Marjorie Bates 364


*William B. Belcher


461


Hyman H. Borax


111


* Joseph A. Carson


437


*Charles D. Curtiss, Jr. 417


*Edwin L. Emerson 435


*Frank A. Ewart 456


Dwight A. Griggs


244


*Leo J. Hart


443


Frank L. Heaney


348


*George A. Hitchcock 458


Donald A. Hollis


323


Charles W. Mann


332


* John Marr


375


*Will R. Minchin


460


*Hugh L. Opie


403


Rodney C. Powers


300


*Lucius A. Qualey Ruth W. Shuster


323


* Robert B. Wickwire 435


* Elected


Precinct 4 Fourteen Town Meeting Members (For Three Years)


*Joseph P. Barrett


458


*J. Frank Dings 437


*Margaret B. Duffee


459


* Allan C. Emery Jr. 396


Paul B. Foley


205


Ora N. Fuller 314


*Andrew M. Gordon


439


*F. Howard Hallett 402


*Thomas R. Huleatt


498


Robert T. Jones 201


*Frank J. Kenna


396


*William H. Low James F. Mattie


297


*Chester W. Nelson Vera K. Robinson


359


Herbert A. Rowell


230


* William J. Stevenson


505


*Laurence A. Trainor


467


*Gordon E. Trask


521


* Elected


Three Town Meeting Members (For One Year)


*Harold W. Cairns


45.7


*Matthew W. Hanscom 453


Lillian E. Killam 400


*Robert B. Ladd 459


* Elected


14


361


*Thomas H. Matthews


495


412


George W. Perkins


312


480


* Albert E. Roberts


491


450


* Richard L. McMaster


454


Precinct 5


Thirteen Town Meeting Members (For Three Years)


*Charles W. Baldwin


319


*Edward D. Cahill 353


*John J. Canavan


281


*Joseph P. Cassidy 295


Harold J. Clancy


186


*Henry A. Cohoon


302


* Alice Davenport


300


David B. Flockhart


233


*George W. Garland.


288


* Charles G. Jordan


346


*Frank D. Learned


279


*Jessie Macgregor


306


*J. Arthur Stone


259


*Henry H. Storm Richard Williams


255


Scattering


3


* Elected


One Town Meeting Member (For Two Years)


*Harold R. Graham Scattering


239


Jerome V. Johnson 135


1


* Elected


One Town Meeting Member (For One Year)


* Robert B. Hill


41 Scattering


15


Elected *


Precinct 6 Twelve Town Meeting Members (For Three Years)


*Carl P. Andre


241


* Paul F. Bailey


296


* John J. Barron


227


*Howard R. Beaver


308


*Joseph J. Carty


289


*R. Alden Elliott


264


*Christopher Garland


254


* John F. Harkin


306


*Ruby Keigan


316


*Harriet B. W. Kimball William Smith


248


* Margaret C. Palmer


304


John K. Symons


194


161 * Elected


One Town Meeting Member (For Two Years)


* Russell H. Wright


331


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Elected


One Town Meeting Member (For One Year)


* Henry R. Davies 330


218


*John H. Stenberg Frank Yakola


:


265


303


* Harold R. Walsh


277


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Annual Town Meeting


ARTICLE 1. To choose all Town Officers, except those elected by ballot.


Voted: To elect three Measurers of Wood and Weighers of Hay: George A. Williams, Matthew McCusker and Willard P. Sheppard.


Voted: To elect three Measurers of Lumber: John C. Pafford, Shelley A. Neal and Daniel A. Maloney.


ARTICLE 2. To hear and act upon the reports of 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 beginning Jan. 1, 1950, 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 Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws .- Unanimously carried.


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 be- ginning January 1, 1951, and to issue a note or notes therefor pay- able 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 Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws .- Unanimously carried.


ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money for general municipal purposes under the authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1933 as amended, or take any action relative thereto .- Unanimously carried.


ARTICLE 6. To see what action the Town will take to establish the salaries of the elective Town Officers.


Voted: That Article 6 be considered in conjunction with Arti- cle 8.


ARTICLE 7. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to ac- cept the provisions of Section 111D of Chapter 41 of the General Laws as inserted by Chapter 384 of the Acts of 1949 entitled: "AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE GRANTING OF VACATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE REGULAR OR PERMANENT POLICE AND FIRE FORCES IN CERTAIN CITIES AND TOWNS."-No action.


ARTICLE 8. To see what sums the Town will raise and appropri- ate or transfer from available funds to pay interest and maturing debts, and for charges, expenses and outlays of the several Town De- partments and for a Reserve Fund for the ensuing year. (For amounts appropriated, see Town Accountant's Report, Recapitulation.


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ARTICLE 9. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote that any Public Office in the Town may remain closed on any or all Saturdays, subject to the provisions of Section 110A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, or take any action relative thereto.


Voted: That any Public Office in the Town may remain closed on any or all Saturdays during the months of June, July, August and September.


ARTICLE 10. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to lease to Braintree Post No. 86 American Legion and/or Braintree Post No. 86 American Legion Incorporated, the Legion Building, so-call- ed, for a term of five years beginning January 18, 1951 at a rental of One Dollar per year, the Town reserving the right to use one room therein for polling purposes, or take any other action relative there- to.


Voted: That the Selectmen be authorized to lease to Braintree Post No. 86 American Legion and/or Braintree Post No. 86 Ameri- can Legion, Incorporated, the Legion Building, so-called, for a term of five years at the rental of $1.00 per year, the Town reserving the right to use one room therein for polling purposes, said lease to pro- vide that it may be cancelled at the direction of the Selectmen in the event the building be required for other public purposes.


ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate or transfer from available funds the sum of $600.00 to assist the following organizations in defraying the expenses of Memorial Day in the amounts set against their names, namely: $250. for Braintree Post No. 86, American Legion; $250. for Braintree Post No. 1702, Veterans of Foreign Wars; $100. for Antietam Camp No. 3, Sons of Union Veterans of Civil Wars, or take any other action relative thereto including the appropriation of a larger sum .- No action necessary.


ARTICLE 12. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to enter into an agreement for the acquisition, instal- lation, maintenance and operation of parking meters in the Town, or any part thereof, as they deem proper and expedient for the con- trol of parking on the highways and to raise and appropriate money therefor, or take any action relative thereto .- So voted.


ARTICLE 13, To see what sums of money the Town will vote to appropriate from the income of the water Department for the salar- ies of the Water Commissioners .- No action necessary.




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