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Town Hall
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The sum of $1,665.00 be taken from Free Cash and the sum of $325.00 to be taken from Water Works Treasury.
Article 5. Voted: That the sum of $175.00 be appro- priated to flame-proof the stage curtain and install emergency lights in the upper Town Hall.
Article 6. Voted: That the Town authorize and empower the Selectmen to appoint a committee to study the DeCordova and Dana Museum and park, said committee to report to the Town not later than the next annual meeting with recom-
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mendations as to the best method of approaching and handling the various problems, giving due consideration to the terms of the gifts and attempting to serve the best interests of the Town.
Article 7. Voted: That the sum of $3,250.00 be appro- priated to construct and maintain an ice hockey and skating rink to be located on the Town Ball Field. And that the Moderator appoint a Committee to build, repair and maintain the rink.
Article 8. Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $12,500.00 for the purchase of two 600 gallon triple combina- tion pumping engines as outlined in a contract submitted by the Farrar Company of Woodville, Massachusetts, under date of June 21, 1946.
Article 9. Voted: That the Town authorize the Board of Fire Engineers to dispose of any obsolete equipment which, in their opinion is deemed advisable and that all proceeds from such transaction or transactions return to Town surplus.
Article 10. Voted: That the sum of $250.00 be appro- priated for the use of the Selectmen to continue the compilation of Wills, Deeds, Trust, etc., and the printing thereof and that this sum be taken from free cash.
Article 11. Voted: To postpone indefinitely.
Article 12. Voted: By a vote of 191 for, 54 against, that the Town acquire by eminent domain, purchase, gift or in any other way, in fee, a certain parcel of land situated in Lincoln bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the southeasterly corner of the premises herein described at a stone wall at the intersection of the boundary line between land now or formerly of Harold S. Cousens and land of Sumner Smith with the northwesterly side line of Lincoln Road: thence the line runs southwesterly by said Lincoln Road 232.0 feet to a point at land of the Town of Lincoln: thence northwesterly 152 feet more or less to a point: thence northwesterly 156 feet more or less to a stone bound: thence northwesterly 70 feet to a point: thence northwesterly,
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northerly and northeasterly 102 feet more or less to a stone bound: thence northeasterly 161 feet more or less to a stone bound: thence northeasterly 431.26 feet to a stone bound: thence northeasterly 225.65 feet to a stone bound: thence northwesterly 250.54 feet to a stone bound: thence north- westerly 349.68 feet to a point: thence southwesterly 46.16 feet to a point: thence southwesterly 612.59 feet to a stone bound: thence southeasterly 237.83 feet to a stone bound: thence southwesterly 166 feet more or less to a stone bound: thence southwesterly, southerly and southeasterly 143 feet more or less to a brook at land now or formerly of the estate of William C. Peirce: the last 14 courses and distances being by said land of the Town of Lincoln: thence southwesterly by said brook, by said land of the estate of William C. Peirce, 29 feet more or less to a point at land now or formerly of the estate of Helen O. Storrow: thence north 61° 38' 55" west, passing through a stone bound, 109 feet more or less to a stone bound: thence north 85° 23' 00" west 410.43 feet to a stone bound: thence north 11° 14' 30" west 217.80 feet to a stone bound: thence north 22° 08' 40" west 26.11 feet to a stone bound: thence north 4° 48' 50" west 165.00 feet to a stone bound: thence north 48° 55' 20" west 308.67 feet to a spike in center line of a right of way: thence northeasterly by a line curving to the left with a radius of 867.03 feet, 229.51 feet to a spike: thence north 21° 21' 40" east 281.04 feet to a spike: thence north- easterly by a line curving to the right with a radius of 3,188.66 feet, 268.37 feet to a spike: thence north 88° 16' 10" east 199.92 feet to a stone bound at land now or formerly of Sumner Smith : the last 10 courses and distances being by said land of the estate of Helen O. Storrow: thence south 84° 40' 30" east by said land of Sumner Smith 518.33 feet to a drill hole at corner of stone walls: thence southeasterly by a stone wall by said land of Sumner Smith 230 feet to a brook, thence in a general southeasterly, easterly, southerly and southwesterly direction by the center line of said brook, by said land of Sumner Smith and land now or formerly of Harold S. Cousens, 1,440 feet to a stone wall: thence southeasterly by said stone wall, by said land of Harold S. Cousens 370 feet to the point of beginning containing two parcels of land as follows: Parcel A supposed to be owned by Sumner Smith containing 21.43 acres more or less: and Parcel B supposed to be owned by the Estate of
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Helen O. Storrow containing 5.68 acres more or less; or how- ever said parcel or parcels may be bounded, measured and described, all as shown on a "Plan of Land in Lincoln, Mass," dated January 18, 1946, Everett M. Brooks, Civil Engineer, on file in the Town Clerk's office; with all the trees and shrubbery thereon standing and all rights pertaining thereto for school purposes and purposes incidental thereto, and together with a right of way forty (40) feet wide for all purposes for which ways are commonly used, over land of the Estate of Helen O. Storrow between MacIntosh Lane, and Baker Bridge Road near the top of Storrow's Hill, said right of way to include twenty (20) feet on each side of the center line of the private way known as Storrow Farm Road except so much thereof as is included in Parcel B above, and that there be and hereby is appropriated for said purposes the sum of $12,000.00.
Article 13. Voted: That the Moderator be instructed to appoint a Building Committee of five members, authorize the same to engage an architect to develop plans and specifications for an elementary school and Town auditorium and appro- priate the sum of $5,000.00 for such expenses as the Committee may incur. And that the reports just made to the Town by the Committee on Needs of Lincoln School, and the Special Committee on School sites be accepted as final reports with the thanks of the Town.
Voted to adjourn at 9.55 P.M.
WILLIAM H. DAVIS, Town Clerk.
Committees Appointed
Article 6. Dr. Robert L. DeNormandie, Chairman, Richard J. Eaton, Edith B. Farrar, Allen W. Jackson, Fred- erick H. McKelvey, Ethel A. Newton, Frederick B. Taylor.
Article 7. James A. Hutchinson, Jr., James L. Cunning- ham, John B. Garrison, David Todd and Hayward Peirce.
Article 13. William N. Page, James DeNormandie, Charles K. Fitts, Margaret M. Norton, and Kenneth G. Farnsworth.
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STATE ELECTION November 5, 1946
WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln:
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Lincoln, duly qualified to vote in the election of State and County officers, to assemble at the Town Hall, on Tues- day, November 5th, at 12 o'clock Noon, to give in their votes for the following officers, viz: Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General, Senator in Congress, Representative in Congress, Councillor, Senator, Representative in General Court, District Attorney, Clerk of Courts, Register of Deeds, County Commissioner and any other officers required by law to be chosen in the month of November of the current year.
All officers enumerated above are to be designated and voted for on one ballot, and also the questions:
QUESTION NO. 1 Law Proposed by Initiative Petition
Shall this measure, which by amendments of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.), provides for payment by the Commonwealth of adequate pensions to deserving citizens sixty-five years of age or over in need of relief or support, who shall have resided in the Commonwealth not less than five years immediately preceding the date of application for such pension, and who shall have resided in the Commonwealth continuously for one year immediately preceding said date of application, which is further described as follows:
The measure, by amendments of General Laws (Ter. Ed.), c. 6, provides for an old age pension commission of three per-
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sons, one to be a qualified physician, another to be an attorney at law and a third to be a non-professional person, who are to be appointed and may be removed for cause by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Council, and are to serve under the Governor and Council. Not more than two members of said Commission shall be members of the same political party. Original appointments of members shall be for one, two and three years respectively, and thereafter appointments are to be for three years. Such members are to devote their whole time to the work of the Commission during business hours and be engaged in no other business, occupation or pro- fession. One of their number is to be designated as chairman by the Governor and shall receive a salary of $6,000.00, and each other member, $5,500.00 per year, with their necessary expenses. The commission is empowered to make and enforce rules and regulations as it may deem necessary in the perform- ance of its duties and as may be approved by the Governor and Council.
The measure strikes out Chapter 118A of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.), and inserts in its place a new chapter entitled "Adequate pensions for certain aged citizens."
It is provided that pensions hereunder shall be paid from the date of application therefor, but in no event before the appli- cant reaches the age of sixty-five. The Commission shall render a decision in not less than thirty days from the date of application for a pension or a request for an increase of the amount thereof. Such pension shall, wherever practicable, be paid to the aged person in his own home or in lodgings or in a boarding home, which for the purposes hereof shall include any institution providing shelter, care and treatment for aged persons which is not supported in whole or in part by public funds; provided, that no inmate of such a boarding home or institution shall be eligible for a pension under this chapter while being cared for under a contract. Such pension shall be paid by check or in cash which shall be delivered to the pen- sioner at his residence, if he so requests, and shall be paid semi- monthly unless the pensioner prefers less frequent payments. Such pension shall be on the basis of need and the amount thereof shall be determined in accordance with budgetary standards established by the Commission. Budgetary stand- ards shall be such as to enable an individual pensioner to
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maintain a standard of living compatible with decency and health. Such pensions, except as hereinafter provided, shall be at the rate of not less than $48.00 monthly. The pen- sioner's budget at such times as may be required shall include medical care, if recommended by a recognized physician, eye- glasses, if recommended by a recognized optician, dental care and false teeth, if recommended by a recognized dentist.
In computing the pensioner's payment under this chapter, the Commission shall deduct from the pensioner's budget or the minimum payment, whichever is greater, the amount of income the person paid or to be paid a pension hereunder may be receiving from any source, and may deduct therefrom such reasonable amount as may be deemed to represent the finan- cial value of board, lodging or other assistance which is being furnished to such persons from any source.
Upon the death of a person drawing a pension, whose funeral cost does not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars and in whose estate there are insufficient assets to cover the full cost of the funeral, the Commission shall pay to the funeral director the difference between the assets and the cost of the funeral, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
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Expenses for medical, hospital and other services rendered to a pensioner, which remain unpaid at the time of his death or commitment to an institution as an insane person, shall be paid directly to the person rendering such services.
No pension under this chapter shall be discontinued nor shall the amount thereof be decreased until the expiration of fifteen days after notice has been given by the Commission,to the pensioner.
Provision is made by which a person receiving a pension may be absent from the Commonwealth on a visit without having such pension suspended.
It is provided that General Laws (Ter. Ed.) c. 273 20, which relates to the support of parents by children, shall not apply when parents are eligible to receive a pension.
Provision is made that there shall be set up in the Commis- sion a subdivision of appeals under the jurisdiction of a super- visor of appeals. Any person aggrieved by the failure of the Commission to pay an adequate pension under this chapter, or by the failure of the Commission to approve or reject an appli-
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cation for a pension or a request for an increase in the amount thereof, within thirty days after receiving such application or request, shall have a right to a fair hearing, after due notice, upon appeal to the subdivision of appeals in the form and manner prescribed by the commission; provided that such appeal is received by the subdivision of appeals within sixty days after official notice of the action taken by the Old Age Pension Commission has been received by the applicant or pensioner. The decision of the subdivision of appeals shall be final and binding upon the Commission.
The Commission or any interested person aggrieved by any decision in any proceeding before the subdivision of appeals may obtain judicial review of such decision by filing, within twenty days of the date of mailing of such decision, a petition for review thereof in the district court within the judicial district wherein the pensioner or the applicant for a pension lives.
In any proceeding for review the findings of the subdivision of appeals as to facts shall be conclusive, such proceedings shall be heard in a summary manner and given precedence over all other civil cases. From the decision of a district court upon review an appeal may be taken to the Supreme Judicial Court.
The possession by an applicant for pension under this chapter of assets consisting of cash, active securities or inactive securities, or any combination of such assets, shall not dis- qualify him from receiving such pension; provided, that the total of such assets, figuring the present cash value of such inactive securities at the sum determined by the Old Age Pension Commission does not exceed the sum of $300.00.
A person is not to be disqualified from receiving a pension because of the ownership of an equity in vacant land from which there is insufficient income to provide to his budgetary needs or minimum payments, or the ownership of an equity in real estate by an applicant who resides thereon or who, in the opinion of the Commission is residing elsewhere because of physical or mental incapacity, provided that if such equity on the basis of assessed valuation exceeds an average of $3,000.00 during the five years immediately preceding application for the pension, the applicant shall execute a bond in the penal sum for the amount of the equity in excess of $3,000.00 con- ditioned on repayment to the Commonwealth of all amounts
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paid as such pension without interest, such bond to be secured by a mortgage on the applicant's real estate. Provision is made for the recording of such bond and mortgage without a fee and the apportionment of the proceeds realized from any of them between the Federal Government and the Common- wealth.
A person is not to be disqualified from receiving a pension by reason of the ownership of a policy of group insurance or of a policy of insurance in an amount not exceeding $1,000.00 or of a policy of insurance in an amount not exceeding $3,000.00, having a cash surrender value not in excess of $1,000.00, if such policy has been in effect not less than fifteen years.
No pension shall be granted to an applicant who at any time within five years immediately prior to the filing of an application for such pension has made an assignment or trans- fer of property so as to render himself eligible to such pension. No pension shall be subject to trustee process or assignment, and no applicant for a pension, who knowingly makes any false statement or perpetrates any fraud or deception in rela- tion to his application, shall be granted any pension nor be eligible for one during one year thereafter. A person, his executor or administrator shall be liable in contract to the Commonwealth for expenses incurred by it for a pension paid to such person under this chapter if such person or his estate is in possession of funds not otherwise exempted thereunder. If an application for a pension under this chapter is effected by the eligibility of the applicant to receive aid under General Laws (Ter. Ed.), c. 115, which relates to State and Military Aid and Soldiers' Relief, the applicant shall be entitled to exercise such options and execute such waivers as may be necessary to receive the pension which he seeks.
All cities and towns in the Commonwealth shall furnish suitable headquarters for the carrying out of the duties of the commission in such cities and towns.
The measure further provides that there shall be established and set up on the books of the Commonwealth a separate fund, to be known as the Old Age Pension Fund, consisting of receipts credited to said fund under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) c 64B, G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 128A 15, as amended, G. L. (Ter. Ed.), C. 138 27, as amended, and all proceeds of taxes assessed under Acts of 1941, c. 729 9 and 9A.
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The Old Age Assistance Fund as in force immediately prior to the effective date of this act is hereby continued in existence, but shall hereafter be entitled "The Old Age Pension Fund."
It is provided that all civil service employees in the Depart- ment of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth, including the supervisor, referees and employees of the subdivision of ap- peals in said department or of any city or town, employed in the administration of the Old Age Assistance Law on the effective date of this proposed measure, shall be transferred to the service of the Old Age Pension Commission, retaining their present civil service seniority retirement rights and any step increases from the minimum pay of their grade earned during their service with said department or said bureaus.
It is provided that all records and property used in the ad- ministration of the Old Age Assistance Law and which are the property of the Commonwealth are to be transferred to the Old Age Pension Commission.
This act shall take effect on March first, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, - which proposed law was approved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 125 in the affirmative and 79 in the negative, and on which the Senate did not vote,
- be approved? YES. NO.
QUESTION NO. 2
Law Proposed by Initiative Petition
Shall this measure which provides that no labor union may be operated or maintained unless there is filed with the Com- missioner of Labor and Industries a statement signed by the President and Treasurer setting forth the union's officers, aims, scale of dues, fees, fines, assessments and the salaries of the officers.
The President and Treasurer of a labor union is required to file annually with the Commissioner of Labor and Industries a detailed statement in writing setting forth all receipts and expenditures of the union which shall be open to the public, and the said Commissioner is given the power to summons witnesses and records; and there is a penalty of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 for whoever fails to file a state-
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ment or whoever knowingly makes a false statement, - which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 50 in the affirmative and 154 in the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 6 in the affirmative and 24 in the negative, - be approved? YES. NO.
To obtain a full expression of opinion, voters should vote on all three of the following questions:
(a) If a voter desires to permit the sale in this town of any and all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "YES" on all three questions.
(b) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages only to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on question one, "YES" on question two and "NO" on question three.
(c) If he desires to permit the sale herein of all alcoholic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on questions one and two and "YES" on question three.
(d) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold and in addition other alcoholic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "NO"on question one and "YES" on questions two and three.
(e) If he desires to prohibit the sale herein of any and all alcoholic beverages whether to be drunk on or off the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on all three questions.
1. Shall licenses be granted in this Town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whiskey, rum, gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic beverages)? YES NO
2. Shall licenses be granted in this Town for the sale therein of wines and malt beverages (wines and beer, ale and all other malt beverages)? YES NO
3. Shall licenses be granted in this Town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises? YES NO
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1. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed horse races be permitted in this county? YES NO
2. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed dog races be permitted in this county? YES NO
"Shall the General Court enact legislation requiring jury service by women, with such reservations as it may prescribe?" YES NO
"Shall sections one to twenty-eight inclusive of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, authorizing any city or town to establish a contributory retirement system for its em- ployees, be accepted by this Town as applicable to all of its employees except teachers who are eligible for membership in the teachers' retirement system?" YES NO
The polls will be opened at 12 o'clock Noon and may be closed at 7 o'clock P.M., and you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in each of the Post Offices, and in one other public place, seven days at least before the day appointed for said meeting, and to make sea- sonable return with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk.
Hereof fail not. Given under our hands this fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six.
SUMNER SMITH, A. A. SCHAAL, H. BIGELOW HILLS, Selectmen of Lincoln.
On the reverse of the Warrant is the following:
October 24th, 1946.
I have served this Warrant by posting attested copies at both Post Offices and the Town Hall, seven days before the date of said meeting.
JOHN J. KELLIHER, Constable.
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In accordance with the provisions of the above Warrant the polls were declared open at 12 o'clock Noon by the Warden H. Bigelow Hills, the ballot box was inspected and the following ballot clerks duly sworn: Helena A. Dee, Joseph Frazier, Manley B. Boyce, Bertha V. Bowles, D. Everett Sherman and William O. Causer, at 6.55 P.M. it was moved, seconded and so voted to keep the polls open until 8 P.M., at which time they were declared closed by Sumner Smith, with the following results. Total number of ballots cast 864.
Governor
Robert F. Bradford, Republican 711
Maurice J. Tobin, Democratic 147
Horace I. Hillis, Socialist Labor
2
Guy S. Williams, Prohibition 0
Blanks
4
Lieutenant Governor
Arthur W. Coolidge, Republican 669
Paul A. Dever, Democratic 178
Alfred Erickson, Prohibition
0
Francis A. Votano, Socialist Labor 5
Blanks
12
Secretary
Frederic W. Cook, Republican 715
Benedict F. Fitzgerald, Jr., Democratic 130
Malcolm T. Rowe, Socialist Labor 3
Blanks
16
Treasurer
Laurence Curtis, Republican. 698
John E. Hurley, Democratic. 144
Laurence Gilfedder, Socialist Labor
4
Charles E. Vaughan, Prohibition 0
Blanks
18
Auditor
Thomas J. Buckley, Democratic 189
Russell A. Wood, Republican 650
Pearl J. McGlynn, Socialist Labor. 2
Robert A. Simmons, Prohibition 1
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