Official reports of the town of Wayland 1942-1944, Part 26

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1942
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 594


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The membership of the Advisory Committee, provided for at the time the article was passed, is as follows :


M. Alice Neale (Town Clerk) Theodore H. Harrington (Tax Collector )


Carlisle D. Scotland (Public Welfare Board )


Fern A. Taylor (Water Board)


Cornelius J. Maguire (School Committee )


James R. Martin (Public Library ) Arthur Holden Dudley (Public Library)


Theodore H. Harrington (Fire Department )


Homer L. MacDonald, (Fire Department )


Rose A. Lizotte (Member-at-large)


Hazel B. Taylor ( Member-at-large)


Respectfully submitted,


CHESTER H. HOBBS, Chairman, GEORGE W. LEWIS, WILLIAM A. LOKER, ROBERT M. MORGAN, WILLIAM J. SCOTLAND.


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REPORT OF THE WAYLAND LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE For the Year 1944


Late in 1942 the Selectmen, acting in cooperation with the State authorities, appointed a Long Range Planning Committee for the Town. The principal function of this committee was to be twofold : (1) to act in an advisory capacity in the coordina- tion and budgeting of capital expenditures, such as for roads, buildings, and equipment, deemed necessary by the various town departments ; (2) in this way to build up a list of town improve- ment projects which could be used in the event of a postwar Federal or State public works program. Thus, not only would the less permanent projects of the 1930's be avoided, but also the Town would be assured of its local voice in the selection of projects which would be of real long-term usefulness to its inhabitants.


The activity of this Committee was delayed in the begin- ning by the unexpected loss of advisory personnel among the State authorities charged with coordinating the work of such committees in the various cities and towns. In 1944, however, the Wayland Committee laid the groundwork for an analysis of the Town's income and expenses over the past ten years, as a basis for determining how much might be spent out of local funds annually for necessary capital improvements, without increasing the tax rate over the average of recent years. This would serve as a guide for the budgeting of such capital expenditures as the Town's various departments recommend to the Town as necessary. The Committee also began a program of discussing with each of the Town's departments its program of postwar projects.


During 1945 the Committee plans to complete its study of the Town's income and expenses for budgetary purposes, and to consult with other departments as to their postwar plans.


ALLAN R. FINLAY, Chairman, B. ALLEN BENJAMIN, Secretary.


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REPORT OF THE KIRBY WHITTIER MEMORIAL COMMITTEE


To the Citizens of the Town of Wayland :


The Kirby Whittier Memorial Committee herewith submit the following report.


In accordance with the terms of the Article in the Town Warrant, a suitable memorial has been duly erected.


We wish to thank the Planning Board, Park and Highway Departments, and all interested parties for their excellent cooperation.


This Committee has requested the aid of the Garden Club in the planning of appropriate shrubberies in keeping with the rural setting of the plot.


We also suggest that this small area of public land be turned over to the Park Department for future care.


WILLIAM F. CURLEY, Chairman, ADDISON SANDFORD, CHARLES F. WHITTIER.


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REPORT OF THE TOWN OF WAYLAND WATER DEPARTMENT


To the Inhabitants of the Town of Wayland :


The Board organized with George W. Lewis, Chairman; Alfred C. Damon, Clerk, and Fern Taylor. Alfred A. Lamarine was appointed Superintendent, John Phylis, Assistant Superin- tendent and Charles Potvin, Engineer. Mrs. Carolyn Lewis was appointed Assistant Clerk.


For your convenience the Water Department Collector will be at the Town Hall, Wayland, on Thursdays, (telephone Way- land 259) and at 2 Damon Street, Cochituate, other week day afternoons, (telephone Natick 464-W).


As disclosed in our report of last year, we were forced to discontinue the six inch well, due to discoloration of water. This procedure caused a serious shortage of water and it became necessary to obtain it elsewhere. Upon request, the Town of Natick Water Department, although pumping at full capacity at the time, employed a night crew, which made it possible for them to meet our urgent demand.


Bids for the installation of a Gravel Filter well, to be installed at the Pumping Station, were submitted by D. L. Maher Company, Lane New York Company Inc., and Edward F. Hughes. The contract was awarded to D. L. Maher Com- pany as their bid of $5,600 was the lowest submitted.


D. L. Maher started operations in August and in Septem- ber the well was completed, producing 750 gals. of water per minute.


The well is a modern type gravel pack well, 24-inch in diameter by 60 feet in depth, surrounded by a 12-inch gravel pack filter, insuring good clear water.


The addition of this well to our present pumping system insures an ample supply of excellent water but does not solve


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the problem of pumping equipment which we must face in the near future.


Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W. LEWIS, Chairman, ALFRED C. DAMON, Clerk, FERN TAYLOR.


Report of Superintendent of Water Works


SERVICES


New installations 10


Renewed in street 5


Repaired in street


22


Calls to shut off and turn on


133


Total services December 31


1,121


MAINS


No extensions were made. There were no main leaks and no repairs were needed. The main system was flushed twice.


HYDRANTS


All street hydrants were inspected and repairs were made where needed. Total hydrants Dec. 31 : street 184, private 7.


LEAKS


Service pipes in street 20


PUMPING STATION AND WELLS


The new 24-inch well was put into service October 7. In August the condition of the well supply made it impossible to keep up with the amount of water being used. Arrangements were made with the Natick Water Department by which the town was supplied with water starting August 14 until the danger was over.


Gallons of water pumped from wells to the distribution system 147,405,413


Largest week, August 5 5,685,000


Smallest week, December 1 1,952,000


The station was operated every day in the year. Overtime pumping amounted to 969 hours.


ALFRED A. LAMARINE.


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REPORT OF THE CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS


The following report for the year of 1944 is respectfully submitted by the Cemetery Commission.


The year was more than ordinarily fruitful in the matter of gifts for perpetual care, eight new funds having been estab- lished by gifts or bequests for that purpose, as follows :


January 15-Townsend Fund $100.00


Gift of Marion M. Townsend ; for perpetual care of lot 50, Sec. G., Lakeview Cemetery.


May 11-Webster Fund 100.00


Bequest of Walter E. Webster, for perpetual care of lot 3, Sec. A., Lakeview Cemetery.


May 15-Lucy M. Hughes Fund 150.00


Bequest of Lucy M. Hughes, for perpetual care of lot 160, Extension, North Cemetery.


May 22-Griffin-Nye Fund 425.00


Gift of Viola M. Griffin and Rachel Nye, for perpetual care of lots 42-36-24, Sec. B., Lake- view Cemetery.


October 14-Dr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Sparks Fund 150.00 Gift of Mrs. Ernest E. Sparks, for perpetual care of lot 43, Sec. G., Lakeview Cemetery.


November 4-Dr. Oscar Albert Dudley Fund 200.00


Gift of Arthur H. Dudley, for perpetual care of lots 7-79-95, Sec. C., Lakeview Cemetery.


December 2-Melvin J. Gray Fund 100.00


Gift of Melvin J. Gray, for perpetual care of lot 92. Sec. F., Lakeview Cemetery.


December 30-J. Sidney Stone Fund 250.00


Gift of J. Sidney Stone, for care of lots otherwise unprovided for, and perpetual care of lot 157, Extension, North Cemetery.


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The total of these gifts is $1,475.00 and they provide for the care of twelve lots; increasing to 139 the number of lots under perpetual care, and the amount of the invested funds to $25,200.00. Unfortunately the returns on invested funds are, at present, at so low a figure that the amount available from these funds is less than from the fewer funds of several years ago.


Fifty-one lot owners paid for the care of their lots through the year, small sums amounting in all to $185.00. The slight but steady increase in these two items, year by year, leads us to hope that this increase may be due to a gradual awakening of lot owners to the fact that it is their responsibility to provide for the care of their lots.


Ten new lots were sold; seven in Lakeview, two in the North Cemetery and one in the South; and final payment was made on one previously sold in the North Cemetery. The total receipts from this source was $375.00.


Twenty-seven burials were made in the town cemeteries in the course of the year, as against thirty-nine last year and thirty-six in the previous year. Three of these were in the South Cemetery, six in the North, and eighteen in Lakeview.


Due to the shortage of help and the restrictions on tools and materials, little has been attempted this year beyond the upkeep of the grounds ; and the cost of this has been kept within the funds available, in spite of higher costs of labor and materials. Restoration work in the North Cemetery would better wait for more favorable circumstances.


In the past ten years your Commissioners, balked in their endeavors to secure additional land adjoining Lakeview Ceme- tery, have developed to the limit the area at hand. A short and unnecessary piece of roadway between sections B and C has been discontinued and its area made into desirable lots; and, at small expense to the town, two great depressions have been filled in and graded, making a very considerable improvement in the appearance of the grounds. About 90 lots have been created in this way, putting off for several years the absolute necessity of securing additional land for cemetery purposes; and the lots so created have a value of over $3,000.00, a considerable part of which has already been realized for the town.


In the ordinary course of events three years more will see


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the last of these lots taken. Your Commissioners expect, therefore, to present a proposition looking to the acquisition of additional land later in the year or at the annual meeting for 1946, and trust that the voters will consider these facts.


JAMES FERGUSON, Chairman, WARREN D. VALENTINE, Clerk, MARTIN EDWARDS, Cemetery Commissioners, Town of Wayland.


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INDEX


Assessors' Report 122


Board of Fire Engineers, Report of the 130


Board of Health, Report of the 133


Board of Park Commissioners, Report of 175


Board of Public Welfare, Report of the 140


Board of Selectmen, Report of the 76


Building Committee-Re: Civic Center in Cochituate 183


Building Inspector, Report of the 176


Cemetery Commissioners, Report of the 188


Chief of Police, Report of the 129


Commissioners of Trust Funds, Report of 115


Committee on Public Safety, Report of 179


District Nurse, Report of 137


Finance Committee, Report of the


16


Budget for 1945 19


Highway Department, Report of the


139


Inspector of Animals, Report of 134


Jury List-1944 74


Kirby Whittier Memorial Committee, Report of the 185


Long-Range Planning Committee, Report of the 184


Middlesex County Extension Service, Report of 135


Milk Inspector, Report of 134


Moth Department, Report of 131


Officers of the Town of Wayland 3


Planning Board, Report of the


126


Public Library, Report of the 172


Results of Primaries and Election 55


Results of Town Election, March 6 53


Road Commissioners, Report of 138


School Department Report :


School Organization 144


School Committee, Report of the 145


School Calendar 145


School Entrance and No-School Signal 146


Financial Statement 147


Superintendent of Schools, Report of the 150


Headmaster of the High School, Report of the 156 Graduation Exercises, Class of 1944 159


Supervisor of Music, Report of the 161


Art Supervisor, Report of the 162


Supervisor of Physical Education, Report of the 164


School Physician, Report of 165


School Nurse, Report of


166


School Dental Clinic 167


Supervisor of Attendance, Report of the 168


Registration of Minors 168


Membership by Age and Grade 169


Organization of Teaching Staff, January 1, 1945 170


Sealer of Weights and Measures 132


Tax Collector, Report of the 116


Town Accountant's Report :


Receipts 79


Expenditures 83


Recapitulation of Receipts and Expenditures 97


Water Accounts Receivable 99


Reserve Fund 100


Estimated Receipts-1944 101


Excess and Deficiency 103


Statement


104


Town Clerk's Report :


Births 65


Deaths 68


Marriages 70


Dog Licenses-1944 73


Town Treasurer, Report of 106


Tree Warden, Report of 131


Veteran's Rehabilitation and Reemployment Committee 181


Votes Enacted at the Annual Town Meeting, March 8 31


Votes Enacted at the Special Town Meeting, June 5 52


Warrant for Annual Town Meeting 9


Water Department, Report of the 186


Superintendent of Water Works, Report of 187


Wayland Town Map, Report on the 128


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