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1,000.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care-Income
139.00
Blue Cross-School Group
523,74
Blue Cross-Town Group
1,158.05
Blue Cross-Combined Groups
378.05
Moses Wallis Devise-Income
685.37
School Milk Program
2,634.60
Revolving Athletic Fund
74.00
29,774.37
State and County Taxes:
Audit of Municipal Accounts
$441.37
State Parks and Reservations
595.21
County Tax
9,288.62
County Tuberculosis Hospital
5,857.02
County Retirement
2,543.82
18,726.04
1955 Bills:
Old Town Hall Maintenance
$19.54
New Town Hall Maintenance
5.45
Tree Department
7.50
Health
33.88
Street Lighting
312.00
Old Age Assistance
184.65
Schools
1,399.41
Industrial Schools
212.80
Library
25.00
2,200.23
Total Payments 1956 Balance December 31, 1956
$447,324.54
86,471.65
$533,796.19,
Respectfully submitted,
JOAN S. VIROSTEK. Town Accountant
Town of Douglas
Balance Sheet-December 31, 1555
GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash:
Temporary Loans:
General
$86,471.65
In Anticipation of Reimburse- ments
$30,000.00
Petty Advances:
Tax Collector
$50.00
Water Collector
25.00
Federal Taxes
$2,596.53
$75.00
County Retirement System
372.60
Blue Cross and Blue Shield
114.60
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes:
Levy of 1951
Real Estate
$10.20
Levy of 1952
Real Estate
16.24
Levy of 1953
Real Estate
Mowry School Fund
$509.36
Levy of 1954
Sanborn Library Fund
20.44
Real Estate
221.85
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
437.74
Moses Wallis Devise
769.24
Levy of 1955 Poll
2.00
Real Estate
530.86
1,736.78
ANNUAL REPORT
84
3,083.73
6.60
Dog Licenses-Due County Buffington Gift for School Reference Library
70.22
Trust Fund Income:
97.44
Employees' Payroll Deductions:
Levy of 1956 Poll
16.00
Personal
215.48
Real Estate
4,066.82
5,176.89
Aid to Dependent Children: Administration
187.65
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise :
Levy of 1955
$18.45
Levy of 1956
3,585.84
Old Age Assistance:
Administration
837.92
Assistance
2,565.28
Tax Title and Possessions:
Tax Titles
$1,087.85
Tax Possessions
1,861.85
Revolving Funds: School Milk Program
$555.14
School Athletics
103.64
Departmental:
Town Hall
$24.00
Fire-Ambulance Hire
32.50
Tree Warden
5.00
Highway
32.87
Aid to Dependent Children
254.18
General:
Old Age Assistance
69.00
O'd Town Hall Repairs
$165.28
Veterans' Services
102.00
School
183.68
Highway Drainage
678.56
703.23
1,332.90
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TOWN OF DOUGLAS
Federal Grants:
Disability Assistance : Administration Assistance
$8.56
87.52
Aid
2,128.87
3,604.29
5,815.80
2,949.70
658.78
Appropriation Balance:
Revenue:
Civil Defense 489.06
Water:
Rates
$2,107.40
Services
250.72
Non-Revenue : General: High School Addition $1,000.00
2,358.12
Water:
Extensions 793.52
Aid to Highways (Revenue Account) :
State:
Chap. 90 Construction-1955 $8,000.00
Chap. 81-1956
525.00
County :
Chap. 90-Construction-1955
4,000.00
Receipts Reserved for Appropriation :
Road Machinery Rentals $743.08
Compensation Insurance 515.56
Aid to Highways (Loan Account) State, 1956:
Chap. 90 Construction
$6,000.00
Chap. 90 Maintenance
1,500.00
Chap. 81
9,811.60
Overlay for Abatements:
Levy of 1951 $6.12
Levy of 1952
16.24
Levy of 1953
89.97
Levy of 1954
221.85
Levy of 1955
532.86
Levy of 1956
4,019.37
Loans Authorized : High School Addition 250,000.00
4,886.41
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1,258.64
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
1,750.61
County, 1956 :
Chap. 90 Construction
2,000.00
Chap. 90 Mainenance
1,500.00
20,811.60
Loans Authorized and Unissued
1,793.52 250,000.00
Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund 149.00
12,525.00
Unprovided for Accounts:
Underestimates 1956:
State:
Parks and Reservations
Assessment
$247.12
Revenue Reserved Until Collected: Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise
$3,604.29
Tax Titles and Possessions
2,949.70
Departmental
703,23
Water
2,358.12
Aid to Highways
12,525.00
County :
Tax
837.63
Hospital Assessment
9.89
Flood Damage Emergency
10,119.80
11,214.44
Water
91.54
71,131.59
$395,889.92
$395,889.92
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt:
Serial Loans:
Outside Debt Limit:
Water Extension
$7,000.00
T"ator Main Extension (2 % )
. .
$7,000.00
Water Douglas Center
45,000.00
Water (11/2 % )
45,000.00
$52,000.00
$52,000.00
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Reserve for Petty Cash Advance.
22,140.34 75.00
Surplus Revenue :
General
$71,040.05
Outside Debt Limit:
88
TRUST AND INVESTMENT FUNDS
Trust and Investment Funds:
Cash and Securities:
In custody of Town Treasurer $39,213.34
In Custody of Treasurer of Library Trustees
13,466.96
In custody of Agent
35,074.04
In Custody of Town Treasurer: Myron O. Mowry School Fund $26,692.23 Adiline Pierce Sanborn Library Fund 130.66
Care of Graves of G.A.R. Fund
829,03
Mary South Cemetery Lots Fund
251.63
Monument Fund, Sons of Veterans Post No. 123 115.15
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund 5,016.11
Post War Rehabilitation Fund 6,178.53
$39,213.34
In Custody of Treasurer of Library Trustees: Simon Fairfield Public Library Fund
13,466.96
In Custody of Agent:
Moses Wallis Devise
35,074.04
$87,754.34
ANNUAL REPORT
$87,754.34
TABLE OF ACCOUNTS
TOWN OF DOUGLAS
Jan. 1, 1956 Balance
Appropriations 1956
Income
Source
Total 1956
Expended 1956
Transferred to
Dec. 31, 1956 Unexpended
GENERAL GOVERNMENT:
Selectmen's Salaries
$300.00
$300.00
$300.00
Selectmen's Expense
400.00
400.00
399.84
$.16
Town Accountant's Salary
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Clerical Hire:
Selectmen
650.00
650.00
650.00
Town Clerk
300.00
300.00
300.00
Town Treasurer
750.00
750.00
734.70
15.30
Town Clerk's Salary
500.00
500.00
500.00
Town Clerk's Expense
150.00
$55.00
Reserve Fund
205.00
204.68
.32
Town Treasurer's Expense
400.00
225.00
Reserve Fund
625.00
622.09
2.91
Town Treasurer's New Office Equipment
319.00 Revenue 1956
.08
Reserve Fund
319.08
319.08
Tax Collector's Salary
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Tax Collector's Expense
500.00
105.00 Reserve Fund
605.00
602.56
2.44
.
Town Treasurer's Salary
100.00
100.00
100.00
Jan. 1, 1956 Balance
Appropriations
1956
Income
Source
Total
Expended 1956
Transferred to
Dec. 31, 1956 Unexpended
Assessors' Salaries:
Chairman
600.00
600.00
600.00
Second Member
150.00
150.00
150.00
Third Member
150.00
150.00
150.00
Assessors' Expense
700.00
700.00
697.08
2.92
Town Counsel's Salary
500.00
500.00
500.00
Moderator
15.00
15.00
15,00
Registrars' Salaries
75.00
75.00
75.00
Registrars' Expense
700.00
700.00
700.00
Election Expense
1,000.00
5.25
Reserve Fund
1,005.25
1,005.25
New Town Hall Maintenance
4,200.00
1,585.37
Moses Wallis Devise
675.00
Reserve Fund
6,460.37
6,429.52
30.85
Unpaid 1955 Bills
5.45
5.45
5.45
Old Town Hall Maintenance
400.00
150.00
Reserve Fund
550.00
535.23
14.77
Unpaid 1955 Bills
19.54
19.54
19.54
Old Town Hall Special Repairs
$165.28
$165.28
165.28
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY :
Police Department
10,500,00
10,500.00
10,483.87
16.13
Police Cruiser
1,100.00
1,100.00
1,100.00
1956
Police Church Detail Police Summer Detail
250.00
250.00
229.00
21.00
100.00
100.00
75.50
24.50
Police Lock-up
165.00
165.00
165.00
Fire Dept .- General Expense
3,875.00
40.00 Reserve Fund
3,915.00
3,870.82
44.18
Fire-Insurance on Fire Equip- ment and Personnel
950.00
950.00
940.66
9.34
Fire-Department Equipment
750.00
750.00
741.43
8.57
Fire-Ambulance Fund
300.00
300.00
295.01
4.99
Fire-Forest Fires
500.00
500.00
499.98
.02
Tree Department:
Department General Expense
900.00
900.00
883.80
16.20
Moth Department
400,00
400.00
354.15
45.85
Tree Warden's Salary
100.00
100.00
100.00
Civilian Defense
706.59
300.00
Comm. of Mass.
1,009.11
520.05
489.06
Dog Officer
50.00
50,00
50.00
Inspector of Wires
75.00
75.00
75.00
Sealer
60.00
60.00
60.00
G. O. C. Expense
100.00
100.00
50.23
49.77
Tree Dept: Unpaid Bills 1955
7.50
7.50
7.50
HEALTH:
Health Agent
50.00
50.00
50.00
Health Expense
3,270.00
90.00
Reserve Fund
3,360.00
3,339.02
20.98
Meat Inspector's Salary
25.00
25.00
25.00
Animal Inspector's Salary
75.00
75.00
75.00
Health-Unpaid Bills 1955
53
33.50
Revenue 1956
34.03
33.88
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HIGHWAYS:
Highways, Chapter 81
5,325.00
19,525.00 State Allotment
24,850.00
24,846.91
3.09
..
.
2.52
Jan. 1, 1956 Balance
Appropriations
1956
Income
Source
Total
Expended 1956
Transferred to
Dec. 31, 1956 Unexpended
Highways, Chapter 90 Maint.
1,500.00
1,500.00
State Allotment
1,500.00
County Allotment
4,500.00
4,499.43
.57
Highways, Chap. 90 Const. 1955
16,000.00
16,000.00
16,000.00
Highways, Chap. 90 Const. 1956
2,000.00
2,000.00
County Allotment
6,000.00
State Allotment
10,000.00
10,000.00
Highways, Chap. 90 Const.
Wallum Pond Rd.
7,227.01
7,227.01
6,852.14
374.87
Highways, General Expense
2,650.00
300.00 Blanket Insurance
2,950.00
2,937.19
12.81
Highways, Snow Roads
6,000.00
6,000.00
Revenue 1956
600.00
Reserve Fund
12,600.00
12,598.15
1.85
Machinery Maintenance Account ..
500.00
10,227.32
Machinery Rentals
10,727.32
10,707.97
19.35
W. C. Insurance
1,000.00
515.69
W. C. Insurance Fund
1,515.69
1,515.69
Bridges
500.00
500.00
496.73
3.27
Railings
500.00
500.00
499.88
.12
Street Lighting
3,750.00
3,750.00
3,744.00
6.00
Unpaid Bills 1955
312.00
312.00
312.00
Equipment Insurance
500.00
500.00
453.08
46.92
Sidewalks
300.00
300.00
299.98
.02
D. C. Sidewalks
300.00
300.00
291.52
8.48
Sander
2,500.00
2,500.00
2,500.00
.
1956
Office Equipment Drainage, Northeast Main St.
325.00
325.00
325.00
.... . .
1,000.00
1,000.00
901.21
98.79
Special Maple
351.06
a228.71
St. Culvert Acct.
579.77
579.77
Special Maple St. Culvert Acct.
228.71
228.71
a228.71
Highways, Special Grader Repairs
50.71
50.71
50.71
Flood Emergency, Ch. 698
.
9,732.40
Flood Emergency, Ch. 699
387.40
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PUBLIC WELFARE:
Welfare Salaries
400.00
400.00 5,000.00
400.00
Welfare Relief Expense
5,000.00
Clerk-Welfare
500.00
Aid to Depnedent Children
100.00
a200.00
Federal Grants
Old Age Assistant
b1,600.00
Federal Grants
2,400.00
2,400.00
Aid to Dependent Children
2,000.00
2,000.00
1,908.55
91.45
Disability Assistance
1,000.00
40.00
Reserve Fund
1,040.00
1,039.14
.86
Old Age Assistance
22,000.00
22,000.00
21,335.58
664.42
Unpaid Bills 1955
184.65
184.65
184.65
Federal Grants:
A. D. C. Aid
1,130.77
1,297.15
Federal Grants
2,427.92
299.05
2,128.87
Disability Assistance
149.12
424.00
Federal Grants
573.12
485.60
87.52
Old Age Assistance
4,322.78
15,700.87
Federal Grants
20,023.65
17,458.37
2,565.28
A. D. C. Administration
111.36
276.29
Federal Grants
387.65
a200.00
187.65
Disability Assistance Admis ..
8.56
Federal Grants
8.56
8.56
O. A. A. Administration
1,289.48
1,148.44
Federal Grants
2,437.92
b1,600.00
837.92
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS: Veterans' Agent 750.00
750.00 750.00
.
.
.
.
3,526.53
1,473.47
Main Street, "C" Street and North Street
.
Jan. 1, 1956 Balance
Appropriations
1956
Income
Source
Total
Expended 1956
Transferred to
Dec. 31, 1956
Unexpended
Veterans' Service Dept. Expense . .
200.00
196.25 405.95
594.05
SCHOOL AND LIBRARY:
School Committee
215.00
215.00
215.00
Schools, General Expense
121,598.30
121,598.30 121,598.30
Unpaid Bills 1955
1,399.41
1,399.41
1,399.41
Industrial Schools
1,000.00
1,000.00
977.58
22.42
Unpaid 1955 Bills
212.80
212.80
212.80
Library
3,500.00
400.82
Dog Fund
3,900.82
3,861.40
39,42
Unpaid 1955 Bills
25,00
25.00
25.00
Library-Special Roof Repairs
242.00
242.00
220.29
21.71
Library-Special Building Repairs
1,200.00
1,200.00
1,200.00
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED:
Sp, Highways
Blanket Insurance
1,600.00
1,600.00
654.98
300.00
645.02
Memorial Day
500.00
500.00
494.10
5.90
Printing Town Reports
600,00
600.00
597.40
2.60
Recreation Program
300.00
300.00 Reserve Fund
600.00
559.05
40.95
Care of Town Clock
60.00
60.00
60.00
.
200.00 1,000,00
3.75
Veterans' Benefits
1,000.00
1956
ENTERPRISE AND CEMETERIES:
Water Commissioners' Salaries
300.00
300.00
Water-General Expense
300.00 11,170.00
11,170.00
11,170.00
Water-Truck Purchase
225.00
.
225.00
a225.00 . .
Water-Standpipe Repairs
241.45
241.45
b241.45
Water-Oxford Road Extension . .
2,000.00
2,000.00
1,884.77
c115.23
Water-Martin Road Extension
85.16
85.16
d85.16
Water-Gilboa Ct. Extension
126.68
126.68
e126.68
Water-Special Wixtead Court
Water Pipe Replacement
793.52
Water a, b, c, d, e,
793.52
Cemetery-Douglas Center
350.00
350.00
215.40
134.60
Cemetery-Pine Grove
150.00
150.00
150.00
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT:
Interest
1,150.00
625.35
Reserve Fund
1,775.35
1,775.35
Debts
8,500.00
8,500.00
8,500,00
MISCELLANEOUS:
Reserve Fund
3,000.00 Overlay Surplus
3,000.00
Overlay Surlpus c2,910.68
89.32
c-Transfer to Sundry Accounts
.
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WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING Monday, February 11, 1957 10:00 A.M.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
WORCESTER, SS.
To any Constable of the Town of Douglas in said County,
GREETING :
In the name of said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Douglas who are qualified to vote in elections and Town Affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Douglas on MONDAY the eleventh day of February, 1956, A.D. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, to wit:
Article 1. To elect a Moderator, a Town Treasurer, a Town Clerk, two Constables, an Agent of the Moses Wallis Devise, a Tree Warden, each for a term of one year; one Selectman, one Assessor, one Member of the Board of Public Welfare, one Trustee of the Simon Fairfield Public Library, one Recreation Commissioner, one Water Commissioner, one Cemetery Commissioner, two mem- bers of the School Committee, each for a term of three years; one Cemetery Commissioner for a term of one year to fill a vacancy; and to obtain a full expression, voters should vote on the following question:
"Shall Chapter thirty-two B of the General Laws, authorizing any county, city, town or district to provide a plan of group life in- surance, group accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and group general or blanket hospital, surgical and medical insurance for certain persons in the service of such county, city, town or district and their dependents, be accepted by this town?"
Article 2. To choose all other Town Officers for a term of one year.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highway Maintenance, or take any action in relation thereto.
Aritcle 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
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or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or take any ac- tion in relation thereto.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury or from funds available under the provisions of Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Construction or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and com- pensation of all elective officers of the Town as provided by Section 108 of Chapter 41, General Laws as amended, and including that of:
The Moderator, Town Treasurer, Town Clerk, three Selectmen, three members of the Board of Public Welfare, three Assessors, Col- lector of Taxes, Agent Moses Wallis Devise, three Trustees of the Public Library, Tree Warden, three Cemetery Commissioners, six members of the School Committee, three Water Commissioners, two Constables, three members of the Recreation Commission and to raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor.
Article 7. To consider the report and recommendations of the Finance Committee and to see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate to defray the necessary and usual expenses of the several departments of the Town including appropriations for Selectmen's Clerical hire, Treasurer's Clerical hire, Town Clerk's Clerical hire, Police-Church Detail Police-Summer Detail, Fire Department Equipment, Insurance on Fire Department and Person- nel, Civilian Defense, Ground Observer Corps, Police Lock-Up, Fire Department Ambulance, Workmen's Compensation Insurance Ac- count, Street Lighting, Equipment Insurance, Veterans' Benefits, Li- brary, Blanket Insurance, for the observance of Memorial Day, for the upkeep of the Town Clock (so-called), Maintenance of Highway Machinery and for the care of Cemeteries.
Article 8. To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Fund.
Article 9. 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 for the financial year be- ginning January 1, 1957, to issue a note or notes therefore, 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 Section 17, Chapter 44 of the General Laws as amended.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to pay unpaid 1956 bills in the following Depart- ments or Accounts: Veterans' Service Department Expense, Snow
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Roads, Schools, Industrial Schools, Memorial Day, Water Depart- ment and Treasurer's Expense .
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of new office equipment for the Town Treasurer's Office, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Special Repairs at the Fire Station on Cottage Street, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to sell the present Town Ambulance to the Douglas Volunteer Firemen's Association for the sum of One ($1.00) Dollar and to see if the Town will vote to purchase another Ambulance from the Douglas Volunteer Firemen's Association and to raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars for the extension of the sidewalk in Douglas Center along Route 16, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Special Repairs to the Highway Department Grader, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred ($300.00) dollars for the Recreation Ac- count, with said sum of money being used specifically for the opera- tion of the Little League in the Town of Douglas for the ensuing year or take any other action in relation thereto.
Aricle 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars for the Recreation Ac- count, with said sum of money being used specifically for the opera- tion of the Intermediate League in the Town of Douglas for the en- suing year or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate an additional sum of money for the replacement of the existing water main on Wixtead Court with a water main of at least six inches in diameter, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars for the Reserve Fund, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of
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fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars from Overlay Surplus to the Reserve Fund, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to make any increase in salaries of Town Employees (elective or appointive) retroactive to January 1, current.
Article 22. To see if the Town will authorize the Assessors to use twenty thousand ($20,000.00) dollars from Free Cash in the hands of the Treasurer to reduce the Tax Levy for the year 1957, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Following Article included at request of Taxpayers' Association of Douglas:
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the various department heads to submit a tentative budget for their department by December 1st of each year for the ensuing year beginning in 1957.
The following article is included in the warrant at the request of the Douglas Democratic Town Committee:
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to furnish a listing in the annual town report, in alphabetical order, of the names and addresses and salaries or wages earned by each person elected or appointed to town office, (these wages listed shall only be those paid by the town) or take any other action thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of seven hundred ($700.00) dollars from the Machinery Rentals Fund to the Machinery Account or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars from the Workmen's Compensation Insurance Fund to the Workmen's Compensation Insurance Account, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 27. To transact any other business that may legally come before the said meeting.
THE POLLS WILL CLOSE AT SIX O'CLOCK P.M.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Post Office at East Douglas and at the Insurance Office, formerly the Post Office at Douglas, SEVEN days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
HEREOF fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.
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ANNUAL REPORT
Given under our hands this twenty-ninth day of January in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.
ROBERT J. FROST, Chairman LOUIS A. CALLAHAN WILLIAM J. WALLIS Selectmen of Douglas, Mass.
Douglas, Massachusetts January 29, 1957
A true Copy, Attest:
HARRY S. BROWN Constable of Douglas
In Memoriam
During the year 1956, the Town lost three of its employees who had served it in their various capacities, long and faithfully.
WALTER BARTON PINE, who was named to the Board of Registrars in 1940, passed away on October 31, 1956 after a long illness. As a member of the Board he had come in contact with many citizens and made many friendships.
KENNETH EDWARD McMAHON, was our Sealer of Weights and Measures, having been ap- pointed to that position in 1946. His performance in this capacity was efficient and painstaking.
EDWARD HERBERT BALCOM, was a mem- ber of our Cemetery Commissioners, having been elected to that office in 1943. He was very in- terested in that position and in the care of the Town cemeteries and kept them up to a high standard.
These three who had served the townspeople for so long will be missed by their many friends and associates.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF DOUGLAS
GLA
I
SS
INC
746
RP
D
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
December 31, 1956
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TOWN OF DOUGLAS
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Member
Term Expires
WILLIAM J. DUNLEAVY, Chairman
1957
MRS. FELIX VECCHIONE, Secretary
1958
HAROLD BUXTON
1957
JOSEPH T. ROCHE
1958
MRS. FRANK I. PENDLETON
1959
JOSEPH VIROSTEK
1959
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS - H. DEANE HOYT
Office At the Douglas Memorial High School Office Hours: 8:45 A.M .- 12:00 P.M .; 1:00 P.M .- 3:15 P.M. When School is in Session Other Hours by Appointment
Telephone: East Douglas 6-3332
Secretary to the School Committee and the Superintendent of Schools
School Physician
School Nurse
Supervisor of Attendance
Mrs. Clifford N. Ballou Dr. Raymond H. Spooner Mrs. Mabel Brown, R.N. Victor Nelson
HOURS OF SCHOOL SESSIONS
Douglas Memorial High School
8:45 A.M .- 2:30 P.M.
East Douglas Elementary School
8:45 A.M .- 11:45 A.M.
Douglas Center School
12:45 P.M .- 2:45 P.M. 8:45 A.M .- 12 Noon 1:00 P.M .- 2:45 P.M.
The School Committee submits the following report for the fi- nancial year ending December 31, 1956.
The appropriation for the schools amounted to
$121,598.30
The expenditures amounted to
$121,598.30
We have been informed that these reimbursements to the town have been authorized:
General School Fund
$22,577.89
Union Superintendent's Salary
1,860.95
School Transportation
11,908.00
Tuition and transportation-State Wards
1,031.06
Special Class
1,687.00
Physically handicapped children
828.33
4
ANNUAL SCHOOL REPORT
Receipts:
3.60
Sale of Supplies
36.00
Sale of School Furniture
206,36
Tuition from other towns
40,139.19
Total Receipts
$81,459.11
This reduces the Net Cost of the Schools to
EXPENDITURES OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT For the Period Ending December 31, 1956
1956
1956
1957
EXPEND-
BUDGET ITURES BUDGET
GENERAL EXPENSES:
School Committee, Superintend
ent's and Secretary's salaries
$5,950.00
$5,885.87
$6,125.00
EXPENSES FOR INSTRUCTION:
Teachers, High School
42,766.65
41,837.25
45,216.65
Teachers, Elementary
600.00
630.00
600.00
Substitute Teachers
2,700.00
2,650.13
2,700.00
Supervising Teachers
2,600.00
2,270.00
2,600.00
Home Instruction-Special Class
2,500.00
2,611.14
2,500.00
Text Books
2,300.00
2,489.95
2,500,00
Supplies
300.00
128.52
300.00
Visual Education
$79,483.30 $77,191.53 $82,716.64
EXPENSES FOR OPERATION:
Janitors
3,000.00
3,422.03
3,400.00
Fuel
585.00
744.78
700.00
Light and Power
450.00
475.97
450.00
Telephone
600.00
702.99
800.00
Janitor's Supplies
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