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9,802 38
Vocational Education
397 38
De Cordova
505 24
Ladies Luncheon Club
500 00
Total Estimated Accounts Receivable
$20,081 61
Summary
Appropriation
$104,818 00
Expenditures
104,788 65
Balance
$29 35
Add Estimate Accounts Receivable
20,081 61
Total Credit - School Department
$20,110 96
Net Cost to Town for Schools
84,707 04
(Appropriation minus Total Credit)
Membership by Age and Grade, October 1, 1950
Age
Grade
4
5 6 7 8
9
10
11 12
13
14
15 Total
Kdg.
9 34
43
I
12 44
3
1
60
II
7 43
2
1
53
III
9 30
3
42
IV
13
33
2
48
V
7 28
4
1
40
VI
9 21
3
33
VII
7
19 2
1
29
VIII
18
12
1 31
Totals
9 46 51
55
46
44
39
32
23
20
13
1 379
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
A. Distribution of Minors
by Age and Sex
October 1, 1950
1. Boys
54
196
2. Girls.
46
210
100
406
B. Distribution : Location
1. In Public Day School
96
360
2. Other
1
3. In private schools
3
42
4. Not enrolled in schools
1
2
5. Special - Elementary
1
-
100
406
Vocational School Enrollees October 1, 1950
1. Arlington Vocational Evening Trade 1
2. Boston Technical High School 1
3. Waltham Part-Time Apprentice School 1
4. Lexington Evening Practical Art 1
5. Boston Trade School 1
Total
5
Tuition Pupils Attending Secondary Schools Outside of Lincoln October 1, 1950
School
9
10
11
12
Totals
Concord
14
15
13
21
63
Weston
7
6
7
4
24
Waltham
2
Other
1
. .
. .
. .
-
-
-
Totals
22
23
20
25
90
5 yrs or over and under 7
7 yrs.
and under 16
. .
1
2
. .
-
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Graduated in June, 1950
Grade VIII
Elizabeth Iona Bartlett
David Bugbee Kane
Charles Michael Bliss
Gretchen Kimball
Caroline Harriet Brooks
Camille Rita Maguire
Mary Yerxa Cole
Nancy Morris
Beverly Grace Crowson
Peter Warrington Rice
Edward Robert Danosky
Susan Belle Sherman
Julie Fee Davis
John Edward Smith, Jr.
Daniel Ira DeVeau
David Bearce Swift
Sheila Marie Dougherty
Nancy Mathews Thorpe
Charles Otis Forbes
Henry Lester Willard
Judith Diane Gilman
Carol Sargent Young
Concord High School
William A. Browning
Ann F. Giles
Jean A. Corrigan
Pauline A. Gradeski
Nancy J. Corrigan
Stanley J. Moszka
Robert E. Cullen
Jonathan C. Robinson
Martha Savage
Weston High School Charles Newell Mary Taylor
Robert Browning
Charles Kubik
Honors
David B. Kane DeCordova Medal
Mary Taylor Post American Legion $10 Best Essay on the Constitution of the United States Sears Essay Contest, Second Prize
Richard Thorpe Harvard Book Prize
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE
To the School Committee:
A report of school nursing for the year ending December 31, 1950, is hereby submitted.
Schools have been visited daily. There have been 189 office calls for treatment or advice; 46 pupils taken home and 189 home visits made to check on the cause of absence. Pupils have been weighed and measured twice; scalps and skin examined frequently.
Children entering kindergarten and others new to first grade, came to the Well Child Clinic where they were weighed and measured, eyes tested by the Massachusetts Vision Chart, ears tested by the Maico Audiometer, then they were given astripped physical examination by Dr. John A. V. Davies, of Boston.
To those, when necessary, triple inoculation, vaccination or "Booster Shot" were given. One child did not attend the clinic.
I assisted Dr. Randolph Piper, of Concord, our school physician, with the yearly examination. Our routine is to have a very cursory examination which includes throat, heart, lungs and posture in grades one through fourth, sixth and eighth, while in grades fifth and seventh we again have a stripped physical examination and a Vollmer test (T.B.) 61 pupils receiving this test-5 pupils responded Positive, there- fore chest x-rays at the Middlesex Sanitarium followed. Three cases were negative and two are under observation.
I had the use of the Massachusetts Vision Chart and Audi- ometer from the State Department of Health for all pupils during April and May. Two pupils are wearing glasses and one was referred to the Eye and Ear Infirmary for hearing following the examination.
Dr. Harold Ehrlich, Boston, replaced Dr. Barron in April at the Dental Clinic. I assist at the clinic each Monday a.m. and Thursday p.m.
The general health of our pupils has been good.
With sincere appreciation of the help and cooperation given me by Mr. Manges and the teachers with whom it has been a pleasure to work.
Respectfully submitted,
MARIAN N. OBER, R.N., School Nurse.
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NOTICE Business Meeting, Monday, March 5, 1951, at 7:30 P.M.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County: GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln, qualified to vote in Town Meeting for the Transac- tion of Town affairs, to meet in the Town House in said Lincoln, on Monday, the fifth day of March next at 7:30 o'clock P.M. then and there to act on the following articles except Article 1 and also to meet in said Town House on Saturday, the tenth day of March next, at 12 o'clock Noon, then and there to act on the following Article 1, by posting a copy of this Warrant, by you attested in each of the Post Offices, and in some other public place in said Town seven days at least before the fifth day of March next.
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March tenth will be open at 12 o'clock Noon, and may be closed at 7 o'clock P.M.
Article 1. To bring in their votes for the following Town Officers and any other officers required by law, to be elected by Australian Ballot, viz:
One Moderator for three years.
One Town Clerk for one year.
One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years.
One member of the Board of Assessors for three years.
One Treasurer for one year.
One Auditor for one year.
One member of the School Committee for three years.
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One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Board of Health for three years.
One Tree Warden for one year.
One member of the Trust Fund Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Trustees of the Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Planning Board for five years.
One Director for the deCordova and Dana Museum and Park for four years.
Article 2. To bring in their votes for any committees, commissioners, trustees, and other officers, required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise.
Selectmen
Article 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.
Selectmen
Article 4. To fix the salaries and compensation of the several elective officers of the Town and to determine whether any Department, Board or Committee shall be authorized to employ for additional compensation any of its members and to fix additional compensation of such members.
Selectmen
Article 5. To raise and appropriate money for the neces- sary and expedient purposes of the Town and enact anything . in relation to the same.
Selectmen
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Article 6. 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 January 1, 1951, 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 Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Selectmen
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to conduct services on Memorial Day, the thirtieth of May, appoint a committee, raise and appropriate money, or take any other action relative thereto.
By Petition
Article 8. To see if the Town will erect a memorial to the Dead of World War II, appropriate money for same or take any action relative thereto.
World War II Memorial Committee
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $3,000.00 for the use of the Civil Defense Committee or take any action relative thereto.
Selectmen
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote for the Moderator to appoint a committee of five to investigate and study the provisions of Chapter 662, the Acts of 1949, the act relative to the organization of union health departments, and deter- ยท mine the desirability of Lincoln joining with one or more of the following towns: Acton, Bedford, Carlisle, Concord, Lexington, Maynard, Sudbury and Wayland or others to form
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a union health department, this committee to report its findings to the next town meeting; and that $100 be appropri- ated for the use of the committee.
Board of Health
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-law by striking out Sections 2 to 23 inclusive thereof, as amended, and substituting therefore the following Sections 2 to 15 inclusive, or take any action relative thereto:
Section 2) Definitions
In this by-law the following terms shall have meanings as described below:
a) Structure: An entire building, including appurten- ances thereto, or any construction upon which human effort has been expended and which extends more than eight feet in length or breadth and seven feet in height, measuring to the extremities of all parts.
b) Dwelling: A structure, house, or building which is used or occupied in whole or part for residence.
c) Family: Any number of persons living together as a single economic unit.
d) One-Family dwelling: A dwelling designed for one family.
e) Two-Family dwelling: A dwelling designed for or occupied by two families.
f) Apartment house: A dwelling occupied by more than two families, or a structure occupied by one or more families above a first floor used for non-residential purposes.
g) Rooming or boarding house: A dwelling in which the family resident therein provides eating and/or sleeping accommodations for not more than three paying guests.
h) Hotel or Lodging House: A structure or part thereof, or a group of structures on a single lot, where space is used for sleeping or feeding more than three persons as paying guests, regular or transient.
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i) Lot: The whole area of a single parcel of land under one ownership. Whenever such a parcel is divided on a plan which has been recorded or filed at the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds the term "lot" as used in this by-law shall mean a lot as shown on such plan; or a lot may be defined as a single parcel on the plot plan accompanying applica- tion for a building permit.
j) Street: A public way, a way opened or dedicated to public use, or a way plotted and laid out for ultimate public use, whether or not constructed.
k) Street line: The sideline of a street or way, as de- termined by deeds and plans recorded at the Registry of Deeds; where no line is thus legally established, then a line parallel with and twenty feet distant from the center line of a travelled way
1) Use: The act of using land or structures, or where the context permits, the erection, construction, repair, enlargement, or alteration of a structure intended for use.
m) Accessory use: A use which in the Town of Lincoln is customarily incidental to the principal use to which it is accessory.
n) Non-conforming use: A legally existing use which does not conform to the zoning regulations for the district in which it is located.
0) Private garage: Covered space for the housing of motor vehicles, no more than two of which belong to others than the occupants of the lot on which such space is located.
p) Service station: A structure or lot used for the sale of gasoline and oil or for servicing or storing motor vehicles, other than a private garage.
q) Automobile repair shop: A shop or garage for the repair of motor vehicles, other than a private garage or service station.
Section 3) Administration
a) The provisions of this by-law shall be administered and enforced by the Inspector of Buildings.
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b) No application of any kind shall be approved unless the plans, specifications and intended use set forth in said application conform in all respects with this by-law, or unless the applicant has secured a written permit from the Board of Appeals, pursuant to Section 11 below.
c) Any application for a new or altered use of land or structure shall be accompanied by a specific reference to the subject lot as recorded in the Registry of Deeds, or by two copies of a plan of the lot, drawn to scale, showing the entire recorded ownership, all existing structures, all abutting streets, and the exact area and boundaries of the parcel to be assigned to the subject use. A record of such application and plan shall be kept on file.
Section 4) Zoning Districts
a) For the purpose of this by-law the Town of Lincoln is divided into 3 classes of districts, designated as follows:
Single Residence Districts, General Residence Districts, Commercial Districts.
b) Said districts are established as shown, defined and bounded on the map accompanying this by-law, entitled Zoning Map of Lincoln, Mass., dated February 1, 1951, and filed with the Town Clerk. Said map and all explanatory matter thereon are hereby made a part of this by-law.
Section 5) Single Residence Districts
In a single residence district no lot shall be used and no structure shall be erected, maintained, altered, or used for any purposes other than the following, including accessory uses :
a) One-Family detached dwelling, provided that there shall be only one such dwelling per lot.
b) Rooming or boarding house.
c) Church, parish house, religious or denominational school, not conducted for profit.
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d) Publicly operated building, school, park or area dedicated to municipal use or service.
e) Farm, greenhouse, nursery, truck garden; stand for sale of farm produce by a resident of Lincoln, pro- vided that a major proportion of all products sold shall have been raised within the Town and pro- vided further that space for customers' cars is avail- able off the right-of-way of the street.
f) Office or studio operated or maintained by a person resident in the structure, or a customary home occupation conducted in a dwelling structure or accessory building by a resident, provided that not more than one person not resident in the structure is employed therein. In such cases one sign of not more than two square feet in area may be displayed.
g) Accessory uses, including private garage, private stable, or farm buildings used as part of the operation of a farm.
h) Subject to permission of the Board of Appeals, as provided in Section 11 below, the following:
private school, cemetery, hospital, sanatarium, nursing home, or charitable institution ; use of land or structure by a public utility; community club not conducted for profit; conversion of a one- family dwelling existing at the time this by-law was originally adopted into a two family dwelling, provided that the exterior appearance be not significantly altered, and provided further that the lot appurtenant to said dwelling have an area of at least 60,000 square feet.
i) Subject to permission of the Board of Appeals, as provided in Section 11 below, a sand or gravel pit or the removal of soil, loam, sand or gravel from a property not in public use. In granting a permit therefor the Board shall specify such limitations and safeguards as it may deem appropriate. This pro- vision shall not limit the removal of excess material from a property when such removal is incidental to the construction of an approved structure or street.
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Section 6) General Residence Districts
Uses permitted in a general residence district shall be the following, and no others:
a) Any use permitted in a single residence district subject to the same restrictions as are prescribed therein.
b) Two-family dwelling, provided that there shall be only one detached dwelling per lot.
Section 7) Commercial Districts
Uses permitted in a commercial district shall be the follow- ing, and no others:
a) Any use permitted in a general residence district, including as a right those uses listed in Section 5h, and including subject to permission of the Board of Appeals those uses listed in Section 5i.
b) Apartment house, hotel or lodging house.
c) Retail store or service establishment.
d) Business or professional office; bank.
e) Restaurant or other place for serving food.
f) Place of business of caterer, confectioner, decorator, dressmaker, optician, mortician, craftsman, or mem- ber of a building trade, and similar uses.
g) Service station, provided that repairs shall be limited to minor changes and adjustments and provided that gasoline pumps and equipment shall be so located that vehicles can not be serviced unless they are entirely on the service station lot.
h) Automobile salesroom, provided that no display of vehicles for sale shall be permitted closer to the street line than the major structure on the same lot.
i) Sign or display advertising goods or services available on the lot provided that no sign or display shall project beyond the street line, shall be illuminated other than by indirect white light, or shall have a gross area of more than 30 square feet.
j) Subject to permission of the Board of Appeals, as provided in Section 11 below, the following:
Theatre, moving-picture house, bowling alley,
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skating rink or similar commercial amusement place, but not including outdoor moving picture or dancing establishments;
Lumber, fuel, feed, or ice establishment; yard for the keeping of materials or equipment by con- tractor, landscape constructor, or landscape gar- dener; automobile repair shop.
Light manufacturing and similar activities, pro- vided that such proposed activities will not be offensive, injurious or noxious because of noise, vibration, smoke, fumes, dust, odors, danger of fire or explosion, or other characteristics detri- mental to a dominantly residential town.
Any permit granted under this subsection (j) shall be subject to the provision that no storage of materials appurtenant thereto shall be permitted between the street line and the front line of structures on the subject lot, or if there be no structure, within 40 feet of the street line.
Section 8) Height Regulations
a) The maximum height of any structure in a single residence district shall be 35 feet or three stories.
b) The maximum height of any structure in a general residence or commercial district shall be 30 feet or two and one-half stories.
c) In determining the height of structures any floor level shall be counted as a story if it is to be used in part for sleeping rooms, or if it is higher than three feet below the average ground level around the exterior walls of the structure. A half-story is that portion of a structure under a sloping roof, the cubic contents of which are never more than half of those of the story below; if the cubic contents are greater than half, it shall be deemed a story. Limitations of height shall not apply to chimneys, ventilators, sky- lights, towers, spires, tanks, silos and other features usually carried above roofs, if such features are in no way used for living purposes.
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Section 9) Area and Yard Regulations
a) Except as hereinafter specified, there shall be pro- vided for each dwelling or other main structure or use a lot with a minimum area as follows
Area
In single residence districts . 40,000 sq. ft.
In general residence districts 12,000 sq. ft
For dwellings in commercial dis- tricts 12,000 sq. ft.
Under no conditions shall there be less than 6,000 square feet of lot area for each family to be housed on said lot.
b) Except as hereinafter specified, there shall be pro- vided for each dwelling in any district and for each main non-residential structure in a residential dis- trict a lot having at least 80 feet of frontage on a street, at least 80 feet from side lot line to side lot line between said street and such structure and the short- est distance taken through such structure, from side lot line to side lot line, shall be at least 120 feet.
c) The provisions of paragraphs "a" and "b" shall not prevent the use of lots, legally established at the time these provisions were first adopted, which are not non-conforming as to width or area, but no such lot shall be changed as to size or shape so as to de- crease its area or width.
d) No more than 25 percent of the area of any lot may be covered by structures.
e) No structure or part thereof in any district shall be so located as to extend within 40 feet of a street line, except that this shall not apply to uncovered steps.
f) No structure or part thereof in a residential district, and no dwelling or part thereof in a commercial dis- trict, shall extend within 20 feet of a side or rear lot line. This restriction shall not apply to accessory buildings in residence districts, provided that the distance from any part of such structures to the lot line shall exceed its height above the ground level.
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g) No accessory or main building shall at any points be less than 10 feet apart unless they conform to build- ing code regulations relative to fire safety.
Section 10) Non-Conforming Uses
a) Nothing in this by-law shall prevent the continuation of a non-conforming use of lot or structure.
b) No increase in the extent of the non-conforming use of a structure or lot may be made.
c) Wherever a non-conforming use has been changed to a more restricted use, it shall not again be changed to a less restricted use.
d) Wherever a non-conforming use has been abandoned for a period of more than one year it shall not be re-established and any future use shall conform to this by-law.
e) Wherever a structure, or part thereof, put to a non- conforming use is destroyed or damaged, it may be reconstructed substantially as it existed prior to such destruction or damage and may continue to be used for the same or a more restricted use; provided that reconstruction is in fact commenced within a year following the date of such destruction or damage.
Section 11) Board of Appeals
a) A Board of Appeals is hereby established in accord- ance with Section 30 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, as amended. Said Board shall consist of five members each appointed by the Board of Selectmen for a term of five years provided that only one term shall expire each year; there shall be two Associate Members, each appointed by the Board of Selectmen for a period of four years, one term to expire every second year, to serve on said Board of Appeals in case of a vacancy, inability to act, or interest on the part of a member.
b) The Board of Appeals shall adopt such rules of pro- cedure and exercise such powers and duties as are consistent with paragraphs 3 through 9 of section 30 of Chapter 40 of the General laws, as amended. Said
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rules of procedure shall include provision for sub- mission of petition in writing, for advertising and holding hearings, for keeping records of proceedings, for recording the vote of each member upon each question, for setting forth the reason or reasons for each decision, and for notifying the parties at in- terest, including the Building Inspector and the Planning Board, as to each decision. The powers and duties of the Board of Appeals shall include the power to determine action in the cases set forth in paragraphs "c", "d", and "e" below.
c) The Board of Appeals shall hear and decide appeals taken by any person aggrieved by reason of his in- ability to obtain a permit from the Building In- spector acting as enforcement officer under this by-law.
d) The Board of Appeals shall hear and decide requests for special permits as provided in sections 5-h, 5-i, and 7-j of this by-law.
e) The Board of Appeals shall hear and decide requests for variance from the terms of this by-law where, owing to conditions especially affecting the lot or use in question, a literal enforcement of the provisions of the by-law would involve substantial hardship to the appellant, and where the desired relief may be granted without detriment to the public good and without substantially derogating from the intent or purpose of this by-law.
f) In carrying out the provisions of paragraphs (d) and (e) above, the Board may impose, as a condition of its decision, such restrictions as to manner and dura- tion of use as will in its opinion safeguard the legiti- mate use of the property in the neighborhood and the health and safety of the public, and conform to the intent and purpose of this by-law, such restrictions to be stated in writing by the Board and made a part of the permit.
g) No petition considered under paragraphs (d) or (e) above which has been unfavorably acted upon by the Board of Appeals shall be again considered on its
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merits by said Board within two years after the date of such unfavorable action, except with the written consent of all members of the Planning Board.
Section 12) Amendments
The Planning Board may, or upon written petition of ten citizens shall, initiate proceedings for the amendment of this by-law or map, pursuant to the provision of Section 27 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended.
Section 13) Conflict of Laws
Where this by-law imposes a greater restriction upon the use, height, and area of structures or the use of premises than is imposed by other by-laws, the provisions of this by-law shall control. The invalidity of any section or provision of this by- law shall not invalidate any other section or provision hereof.
Section 14) Penalty
Whoever violates any provision of this by-law shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offense. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
Section 15) Effective Date
This by-law shall take effect as provided by Section 32 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended.
Planning Board
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $467.03 to pay the following unpaid 1950 bills.
Highway Department White Motor Co. $229.31
School Department Boston Edison Co. 176.77
Town of Arlington 12.00
General Heat & Appliance Co. 48.95
Treasurer
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee to revise the Town By-Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
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Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 820 of the Acts of 1950, which provides for an increase in the annual amounts of certain pensions, retirement allowances, annuities and other benefits payable by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions to certain former employees and persons claiming under them, or take any other action relative thereto.
Treasurer
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to take any action on House Bill #157 which is, "An act restricting the use of lands abutting the highway now known as route 2 in the towns of Belmont, Arlington, Lexington, Lincoln and Concord."
Selectmen
Article 16. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $5,000 to be used by a committee appointed by the moderator to study further the building needs of the Lincoln Schools, said sum to be supplied from free cash, or take any other action relative thereto.
School Committee
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at or before the time for the meeting aforesaid. Given under our hands this 12th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one.
EDMUND W. GILES, H. BIGELOW HILLS, J. O. WILSON, Selectmen of Lincoln.
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