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Operating Negligently
6
Operating Uninsured Motor Vehicle
1
Operating Unregistered Motor Vehicle
2
Operating without a License
6
Operating after Revocation of License
3
Possession of Obscene Pictures
1
Possession of Switch Knife
1
Robbery
7
Receiving Stolen Goods
1
Runaway Boys
10
Using Motor Vehicle without Authority
18
Vagrancy
2
Violation of Probation
2
Disposition of Cases
Committed to Concord Reformatory
2
Committed to House of Correction
12
Committed to State Farm
8
Committed to State Prison
1
Committed to State Hospital
9
Continued Cases
31
Delivered to other Departments
33
Dismissed
5
Filed
19
Fined
47
Not Guilty
8
Probated
5
Released
69
Suspended Sentence
7
Turned over to Military Police
2
Miscellaneous Duties
Accidents reported and investigated 391
Ambulance calls attended
538
Buildings found open and secured
370
Cases investigated
1260
In Memoriam
PATRICK J. COYNE
Born: February 15, 1896
Died: July 9, 1956
Patrick J. Coyne was appointed a member of the Norwood Police De- partment on June 1, 1920, and served as a Patrolman until he was promoted to a Sergeant on April 7, 1936. He was appointed a Lieutenant on January 29, 1944, and appointed Chief of Police, on November 1, 1950, and served the Town of Norwood faithfully until his retirement on July 15, 1952. The Town of Norwood expresses its gratitude for his faithful service, and ex- tends its sympathy to his family.
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Death by Auto Accident
6
Defective streets reported 43
Defective street lights reported
100
Defective water pipes reported
19
Disturbances suppressed without arrest
231
Dogs killed by Police
4
Funeral escorts
119
Lodgers at Police Station
13
Lost children returned to parents
33
Mental Patients
9
Missing persons reported
25
Money escorts
797
Sick and injured assisted
136
Summonses served
294
Suspension of Motor Vehicle License
49
Vacant homes checked 150
I wish to thank the Board of Selectmen, General Manager and the mem- bers of the other Town Departments for their cooperation with the Police Department.
Respectfully submitted,
MARK F. FOLAN Chief of Police
REPORT OF DOG OFFICER
Town Manager
Norwood, Mass.
Dear Sir:
I hereby submit my report as Dog Officer for the Town of Norwood for the year ending December 31, 1956.
Number of Dogs licensed
1247
Males
681
$ 2.00
$1362.00
Females
102
5.00
510.00
Females Spayed
464
2.00
928.00
Kennel Licenses
19 @ 10.00
190.00
Kennel Licenses
2 @ 25.00
50.00
$3040.00
Dog notices sent out
524
Dog complaints investigated
710
Dogs lost and found-to owners
253
Dogs destroyed
108
Dogs lost and found-to non-residents 25
Calls-personal to home of dog owner
730
Dead Dogs picked up
77
Respectfully submitted, MYER DOCTORMAN
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TOWN OF NORWOOD
REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Mr. John B. Kennedy General Manager Town of Norwood, Mass.
Dear Sir:
I present you, herewith, the annual report for the Dept. of Weights and Measures of the Town of Norwood, for the year ending December 31, 1956.
Number of units tested 895
Number of units sealed 874
Number of units adjusted 224
Number of units not sealed 2 Number of units condemned 19
Fees collected and paid to Treasurer ($508.50) shows more than a 10% increase over last year.
This department which should be one of the most interesting of public services is rather regretfully and pathetically the least known and the least recognized or attentively assisted. Its basic function is to preserve the equities between buyer and seller in quantity determinations. This activity concerns practically every individual in our business and industrial life, also, very particularly yours; the largest single industry within the town or country-"The Housekeeping Industry". Since food is the most important item in housekeeping and particularly now when costs are at such a high peak; more concentration of time should be allocated towards its super- visional inspections.
The "Spot Checking" of essential food items upon which surprise testings were conducted during the past year totaled some 2263 units: 1610 were found correct, 148 were found under weight, and 505 were found overweight.
There were three complaints brought to the sealer's attention, two of which pertaining to foods were deemed of such a deplorable nature as to have warranted a presentation to the board of selectmen in executive session so as to acquaint the board of the department demands. Such in- vestigations entail some evening hours and one included time on a Sabbath day prior to the prescribed hearings conducted in the state house in which the sealer cooperated with state officials in concluding the propriety of these matters. However, the problems of human element are ever present and must be constantly watched as errors occur whether by design or care- lessness and this phase of work is of a time-consuming and demanding nature involving the study of these prepackaged items.
The past year has seen new developments in devices with the innovation of indicating weight in decimal fractions of the pound. Speed and automation seems to be appearing in every conceivable enterprise and way of life today. Our increased population is indicative of the fact that three of our fuel dealers have increased the number of their metered vehicles which may now well exceed some ten million gallons passing through these tested meters realizing well over a million dollars yearly. There is now a minimum
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of approximately $50,000 retail sales of meat items alone per week in Nor- wood. There has also been a 20% increase of (11% ton) scales in industry. The phase of peddlers and hawkers observed, were less troublesome this year. Now, these and other work phases too numerous to list, together with the growth of consumer and commercial transactions, do warrant provisions for increased and adequate enforcement facilities if this department super- vision is to hold its own and give the proper protection. This report makes it more imperative that inspection activity be adequate from the dual phase of protection of the buyer and protection of the honest dealer against unfair competition.
As previously stated, this department is the least recognized, since all town department salaries were included in the recent study except the Sealer; also, the townspeople have been repeatedly impressed that all budgets were well scrutinized and often times studied repeatedly-yet, the finance committee made recommendations for this department last year without consulting or confering with the Sealer. Obviously, this important law en- forcement department is ironically considered as only a part-time necessity but the general laws prove otherwise.
It is not the intention of the Sealer to cause embarrassment but rather to report the facts and findings as obligated, trusting the electorate in viewing this report, may be more enlightened and provide equitable con- sideration toward their sealer, all of which might at least be equal to other towns of comparable size and performance.
Latest Figues taken from State Reports of Comparably Sized Towns
Units
Fees
Town
Pop.
Salary
Sealed
Collected
Reweighs
Dept. Costs
Walpole
14,000
$1455.
650
$350.00
1200
$331.00
Wellesley
20,000
2509.
941
394.05
527.00
Attleboro
23,809
2300.
404
272.50
388
365.00
NORWOOD
22,000
1400.
874
508.50
2263
560.00
These figures show the smaller town of Walpole (8,000 less) which performs less duties, has more regard for their department than the more progressive and higher classed town of Norwood. The Norwood Sealer has requested an averaged salary of $2500 and can incontestably prove that his departmental report and town is superior to those listed and should at least be compensated equal to the most comparable town of Wellesley.
This advised request is not literally an increased cost of government-it doesn't cost the taxpayer a thin dime because it saves money for the tax- payer-far beyond the cost of the fantastic service.
I wish to thank the Manager, the Board of Selectmen, the Police Depart- ment, officials of the Commonwealth, together with Norwood's merchants, industrial representatives and their respective customers, for their coopera- tion with this department in making it possible to quietly and efficiently realize the achievement of the records herein contained.
Very respectfully,
FREDERICK F. BROWN
Sealer of Weights & Measures
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TOWN OF NORWOOD
REPORT OF BOARD OF ASSESSORS
To the Citizens of Norwood:
The Board of Assessors herewith submit their annual report for the year 1956 together with a statement showing comparison of tax rate recapitulations for the years 1955 and 1956.
A table showing the comparison of valuations, tax rates, and taxes assessed over the past years is attached herewith as a supplemental report.
Organization
On March 27, 1956 Thomas J. Foley was reappointed by the Selectmen as an assessor to serve for the term of three years ending April 1, 1959.
Tax Rate for the Year 1956
On April 17, 1956, the Board of Assessors determined the tax rate for the year 1956 to be $51.00 per each one thousand dollars of valuation, an increase of $1.00 over the 1955 tax rate of $50.00. The School Tax Rate was determined to be $16.80 and the General Tax Rate $34.20.
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise
6172 motor vehicles and trailers were assessed for the year 1956 and excise in the amount of $188,628.72 was committed to the Collector of Taxes. The 1956 rate for motor vehicles and trailers was $54.43 per thousand.
Personnel
Due to the increase in the work load. one new employee had to be added in 1956 to the office force. As of December 6, 1956 Joanne T. Lipinsky, a graduate of the Peabody School, and who had filled the position on a temporary basis since February 1956, was appointed as a permanent Junior Clerk-Stenographer.
Appellate Tax Board Cases
There were pending as of January 1, 1956 the following appeals before the Appellate Tax Board :
Levy of the Year
Location of Property
1954, 1955 211 Central Street
1954, 1955 483-489A Washington Street
1954 126 Winter Street
1954 130 Winter Street
1955
95 Washington Street
Owner Athens Realty Trust
Mary M. DeQuattro
Don H. & Elena Fountain Edith D. Davenport et al Edward F. & Katherine E. Shaughnessy
All these appeals were called for hearing in December, 1956 but were all withdrawn following compromise settlements.
During the year an appeal was taken to the Appellate Tax Board on the levy of the year 1955 by Neponset Reservoir Corporation on land on Brook Street and the case is still awaiting a hearing.
Eleven appeals from valuations of the Assessors relating to the year 1956 ' were taken to the Appellate Tax Board during the year.
Respectfully Submitted
WILLIAM J. DALTON, Chm.
HAROLD T. YOUNG
THOMAS J. FOLEY
TABLE OF AGGREGATES OF POLLS, PROPERTY, AND TAXES
Assessed under Date of May 1, for the Following Years: 1872, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905 Assessed under Date of April 1, for the Following Years: 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930
Assessed under Date of January 1, for the Following Years: 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956
Year
No. of
6,725
$1,593,650
$40,183,640
$41,777,290
$51.00
$2,144,091.79
105
50
3,560
4,798
5,091
1955
6,561
1,541,850
36,357,840
37,899,690
50.00
1,908,106.50
5
152
45
3,500
4,517
5,082
1954
6,345
1,501,600
34,247,390
35,748,990
46.80
1,685,742.73
5
153
35
3,500
4,257
5,096
1953
6,249
1,416,550
32,797,270
34,213,820
45.00
1,552,119.90
5
141
43
3,320
4,104
5,090
1952
6,097
1,419,850
30,885,920
32,305,770
41.20
1,343,191.72
6
139
42
3,000
3,897
5,063
1951
5,860
1,434,150
29,243,830
30,677,980
41.80
1,294,059.56
5
146
26
3,000
3,624
5,058
1950
5,581
1,464,850
26,551,480
28,026,330
39.90
1,129,422.99
5
158
24
3,000
3,233
5,076
1945
5,502
1,080,800
23,354,150
24,434,950
31.50
780,714.40
6
192
6
2,200
2,909
5,000
1940
5,232
1,008,350
22,048,760
23,057,110
33.40
780,571.47
12
191
11
3,450
2,736
5,550
1935
4,989
2,913,090
21,464,450
24,377,540
32.60
804,685.83
38
155
8
14
3,382
2,552
5,091.5
1930
4,678
3,770,169
23,262,712
27,032,881
29.00
793,309.56
42
198
7
9
2,540
2,510
6,096
1925
4,497
4,477,510
19,612,360
24,089,870
26.50
647,383.68
114
193
7
81
7
2,369
2,203
6,096
1920
3,716
4,158,640
14,488,848
18,647,488
18.00
354,234.78
147
335
15
86
9
1,438
1,904
6,096
1915
3,296
5,528,300
5,614,895
8,418,385
14,033,280
9.20
134,196.17
370
358
17
70
14
375
1,286
6,130
1905
2,070
1,167,405
4,254,265
5,421,670
17.40
98,477.05
360
375
10
40
300
1,160
6,135
1900
1,670
892,595
3,584,214
4,476,809
18.00
83,922.56
397
328
10
20
1
890
1,069
6,151
1895
1,410
684,795
2,673,970
3,358,765
16.90
59,583.00
358
408
5
202
920
810
6,162
1890
1,096
513,373
2,051,085
2,564,558
16.60
45,398.36
300
410
17
84
698
6,200.5
1885
880
447,014
1,618,928
2,065,942
13.00
28,618.09
271
420
7
129
1
415
6,231
1875
551
448,633
1,343,867
1,792,500
11.80
22,195.81
198
365
...
354
6,255.5
1872
472
518,540
1,100,016
1,618,556
11.40
19,397.79
185
405
....
Swine
Sheep
Fowl
Dwelling
Houses
of Land
Assessed
1956
Male Polls
Valuation
of Personal
Estate
Valuation
of Real
Estate
Total
Assessed
Rate per
$1,000.00
Total Taxes
Assessed
Horses
Cows
Other Neat
Cattle
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..
511
6,216
1880
650
456,635
1,338,793
1,795,428
11.80
22,486.32
240
382
10
85
1
4,325
1,759
6,096
1910
2,545
11,460,934
16,989,234
12.80
224,054.57
282
375
320
6,275
Valuation
Acres
.....
COMPARISON OF TAX RATE RECAPITULATIONS OF YEARS 1955 AND 1956
1955 . 1956
Increase
Decrease
Appropriations by Taxation
$3,538,449.89
$3,962,595.61 218,824.67
$424,145.72
Appropriations from Available Funds
173,293.33
45,531.34
Expenses incurred under Hurricane Emergency declared on August 31, 1954
115,619.85
None
$115,619.85
Expenses incurred under Flood Emergency declared on August 23, 1955
None
51,769.27
51,769.27
State Parks and Reservations Tax
3,995.16
3,386.60
608.56
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
3,811.57
2,766.98
1,044.59
State Examination of Retirement System
721.26
139.68
581.58
Metropolitan Sewerage-South System
34,519.50
47,472.50
12,953.00
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Control
10,279.53
None
10,279.53
County Tax and Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment
105,186.01
114,487.73
9,301.72
Overlay
49,658.34
65,128.75
15,470.41
Gross amount to be Raised
$4,035,534.44
$4,466,571.79
$559,171.46
$128,134.11
Estimated Income Tax
$140,040.01
$134,986.09
$ 5,053.92
Estimated Corporation Tax
206,368.05
204,143.05
2,225.00
Estimated Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise
176,000.00
215,000.00
$ 39,000.00
Poll Tax
13,122.00
13,450.00
328.00
Free Cash in Treasury to Reduce Tax Rate
145,000.00
192,000.00
47,000.00
Reimbursement for Hurricane Expenses under Chap. 689, Acts of 1954
92,000.00
None
92,000.00
Public Service Enterprises
920,000.00
1,057,000.00
137,000.00
Other Estimated Receipts and Available Funds
448,019.88
519,350.86
71,330.98
Total Estimated Receipts and Available Funds Net Amount to be Raised by Taxation of Property
$2,140,549.94
$2,335,930.00
$294,658.98
$99,278.92
$1,894,984.50
$2,130,641.79
Assessed Valuation 1955, $37,899,690.00 @ $50.00
$1,894,984.50
Assessed Valuation 1956, $41,777,290.00 @ $51.00
$2,130,641.79
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TOWN OF NORWOOD
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REPORT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Norwood, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
I submit herewith the annual report of the Chief of the Fire Department for the year ending December 31, 1956.
The Department answered a total of 545 alarms during the year 1956, classified as follows:
217 - Box alarms 3 - Second alarms
289 - Still alarms 36 - Special assistance
These are further classified as to types of fires in the following:
26 - Misc. such as: refrigeration, gas-leaks, etc. 43 - Automobile accidents and fires
71 - Aid to persons 136 - Building fires 21 - False alarms 19 - Inhalator calls 11 Calls for mutual aid rendered 3 Calls for mutual aid received 214 - Brush and woods fires
One hundred twenty (120) inspections made and permits issued for fuel oils, inflammable fluids, gasoline, gasses, blasting and complaints investigated. Fire drills were conducted in our public and parochial schools.
I would like to mention at this time that I have recommended to the school committee that automatic sprinklers be installed in every school in the town of Norwood. I know it would be costly, but if the program should take care of one school a year, until the job is done; it would save the town a lot of money over a short period of time. In these days where we are losing more than 20 schools and churches a day throughout the country through arson, accident or otherwise, I think this would be a wise investment.
In addition 55,200 feet of various size hose was laid, 2006 feet of ladders raised, including the aerial ladder, and 255,799 gallons of water used during the year 1956.
The estimated valuation of both buildings and contents endangered by fire in 1956 was $4,032,950.00 with actual loss resulting of $123,190.00 of which loss, $104,191.00 was covered by insurance and the same amount paid, leaving an un-insured loss of $18,999.00.
During the year, periodic departmental drills were held by officers of the department. Instruction was given on firefighting and rescue evolutions as well as fire prevention matters and first-aid instruction. The drill program has been intensified and will be maintained as the personnel of this depart- ment grows.
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My membership in the various fire chiefs' organizations has proved ex- tremely valuable. I feel that the membership and attendance at these conferences is most beneficial to me, the department and the town as well. Modern fire fighting procedure and technique as well as changes in general laws are generally the topic of these meetings and information obtained is relayed to the officers and men of the department.
My budget of 1957 estimates contains no recommendations for station improvements, including panting and repairing pending the report of the committee, appointed by the Town Meeting, as to the necessity of a new fire headquarters and town meeting action thereon. I have previously sub- mitted to the Honorable Board of Selectmen a 5-year plan detailing the department needs to modernize and render a more efficient department. In this report I recommended construction of a 5-door fire headquarters which, in my opinion, will meet our needs for many years to come. The present station is inadequate, in a very undesirable location as to traffic conditions. On three or four days a week it is next to impossible to leave the station on short notice. As you well know quick response is most important in our operation. Over-crowded conditions prevail in every respect.
Last year saw the abolishing of the Call Fire Force in Norwood. Legal entanglements prevented the appointment of 6 permanent fire-fighters, authorized by the Town Meeting in September, to replace the Call Men. I am expecting, and recommending at the earliest possible town meeting that this authorization again be passed and my 5-year program be further advanced.
I am also recommending the purchase of a 1000 gallon engine to replace the present Engine #1 which has reached the age where it will be costly to keep in repair and maintain. Our records indicate this equipment was a partly rebuilt truck following a serious accident in 1940. I feel it is no longer reliable.
Appended to this report is my 5-year plan which was submitted to the Honorable Board of Selectmen following my appointment as Chief of your department. This report details in greater length all of my recommendations to give Norwood a completely modern, efficient fire department. I sincerely hope that each and every citizen will take the time to read and study the same, thereby, becoming acquainted with my problems and plans to solve them.
In Retirement
Mr. Henry Otis Millin joined the fire department in April 1932. He served the Town of Norwood faithfully until he was officially retired October 25, 1956. An illustrious career of devotion to duty came to an end on this date. We wish him many happy years in his retirement.
In closing my first annual report, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the officers and permanent men of the department for their fine spirit and cooperation during the year, to all Town Officials who have so ably given their time and help, to our Police Department for their cooperation and help, and to the Fire Departments of Westwood, Dedham, Walpole and
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Canton for their aid during the year. To each and every citizen of Norwood my sincere thanks for their kind support, and extend to all a most cordial invitation to visit their fire station and better acquaint themselves with the operation of your fire department.
Respectfully submitted, HARRY J. BUTLER Chief of Department
5-YEAR PROGRAM FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT
Honorable Board of Selectmen Town of Norwood Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
At the beginning of this year, I discussed with you the overall problems of the Norwood Fire Department. They are many and varied and all costly to rectify. As a result of this and other meetings, I was commissioned to submit a written report enumerating these problems together with specific recommendations to correct the same.
It was further suggested that these recommendations be submitted in such a manner as to enable the town to go forward on an annual program basis to meet the needs of the Fire Department.
The following report is therefore presenting a five-year program which will provide a modern and efficient fire department properly manned, equipped, and housed.
Recommendation A - Manpower:
The manpower situation is acute for two reasons.
1. A permanent force of 27 men and 4 officers is not adequate to afford proper protection for a community as heavily populated as is Norwood, or for a department answering as many alarms.
The distribution of this force provides nine men and one officer on duty at all times provided we are operating with a full complement. Depletion of the manpower is caused by vacations, sickness, or ambulance duty. It has been a costly, but necessary expense to employ substitutes for prolonged illnesses and vacations.
A further concern of mine is the constantly rising number of simul- taneous alarms, for which there is literally no adequate manpower available which does not entail serious delay.
Delayed alarms and delay in answering alarms is the difference between a small and easily controlled fire and one which rages out of control and means serious losses. Much valuable time is lost in sounding a recall of men off duty, and mutual aid from other towns.
Neither of these two aids are minimized herein, nor do I propose to recommend an addition to the department which would entirely eliminate
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the necessity of employing both of these. I am recommending, in my opinion, a proper balance of relation between men on duty, men subject to recall, and mutual aid from other towns.
2. Norwood has 8 call firemen on its payroll, and this call men setup has never been clearly defined, or authority to make it work, manifest. Of these 8 part time firemen, 2 are members of the Police Department; 2 are members of the Electric Light Department; 2 are totally disabled and are unable to respond to fires. The remaining 2 are, theoretically available for fire duty, if in town and not working at their regular employment. Gentlemen, may I repeat, in case of a real serious disaster or emergency, six of these men would not be available to the fire department. Again, because of the number of alarms your department answers each year, the employment, or replace- ment of call men is not possible. Industry and town department heads refuse to release men as often as is required to permit answering these alarms.
In the year 1955, the town of Norwood spent approximately $12,000 for salaries of call men and substitutes, all of which would be eliminated by the adoption of the following proposal:
That the complement of permanent firefighters be increased from 27 privates and 3 officers to 50 privates and 6 officers, not including the chief of the department.
That the increase in manpower be instituted on the following annual basis:
1957 5 privates and 1 Lieutenant
1958 5 privates
1959
5 privates and 1 Lieutenant
1960
4 privates
1961 4 privates and 1 Lieutenant
This increase in personnel would permit the department to operate with three crews consisting of 17 men and 2 officers. A first alarm assignment would consist of 1 officer and 12 men responding to same, and 1 officer and 3 men remaining in quarters available for response to a second fire or as a second alarm crew along with our recall and mutual aid program.
Recommendation B - Equipment:
Our present fire fighting apparatus consists of the following:
1 1927 Seagrave 750 gallon pump.
1 1938 Maxim 750 gallon pump (rebuilt in 1940.)
1 1949 International 500 gallon pump (Engine #3.)
1 1953 International 500 gallon pump (Engine #4.)
1 1945 85-foot aerial ladder.
As you are aware, the 1956 budget contained funds for the replacement of the obsolete Seagrave. A department whose function it is to protect a community the size of Norwood cannot operate efficiently with old or inade- quate equipment.
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