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propriation $2,673.43
D. J. Roach Co., Construction $2,500.41
Publishing
9.00
$2,509.41
Chapter 90, Maintenance 1954
Appropriation $3,000.00
Labor
$753.73
Machinery Rental
572.25
Materials
$1,669.03
$2,995.01
Chapter 90, Maintenance, 1954
Appropriation $24,000.00
Labor
$ 4,214.33
Shovel Rental
894.00
Bulldozer Rental
467.75
Truck Supplies and Maintenance
1,710.01
Backhoe Rental
301.00
Rental of Grader and Other Equipment
1,364.00
Materials
12,770.27
Curbing 2,270.85
$23,992.21
142
Resurface Temple and Winter Streets
Appropriation
$6,000.00
Labor
$1,000.15
Machinery
1,474.50
Materials
2,030.33
$4,504.98
Bluefish River Tide Gate
Appropriation Balance $199.84
Labor 1. $60.05
Hardware
22.81
Install Gates
48.00
Lumber
19.68
$150.54
Street Lights
Appropriation
$3,900.00
Plymouth County Electric Co.
$3,695.34
$3,695.34
Street Lights, Summer Street
Balance of
Appropriation $6.60
Plymouth County Electric Company
$6.60
$6.60
Street Lights, Standish Street and Captains Hill Road
Appropriation
$80.00
Plymouth County Electric Company
$7.95
$7.95
Repairs for Duxbury Fire and Water District
Appropriation
$250.00
Labor
$157.50
$157.50
143
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS BENEFITS
Public Welfare Control Appropriation
$63,400.00
General Relief
Transfers from
Control Account
$9,219.64
Cancelled check 32.50
$9,252.14
Salaries:
K. Deans, Agent
828.84
D. Wentworth, Visitor
330.00
C. Webb, Clerk
312.01
Other Towns
312.48
Cash Aid
3,883.00
Fuel
27.00
Food
1,251.77
Medical
789.22
Board and Care
925.48
Office Supplies
221.46
Mileage Allowance
247.13
Miscellaneous, including Telephone
123.75
$9,252.14
Disability Assistance-Federal Grants
Balance
$1,547.90
Federal Grants
3,280.83
Cancelled Checks
48.70
$4,877.43
Cash Aid
$3,538.20
Medical
397.27
$3,935.47
144
Disability Assistance
Transfers from
Control Account $3,255.01
Cash Aid
$2,870.45
Mileage
109.46
Medical
275.10
$3,255.01
Salary Accounts-Disability Assistance
Transfers from
Control Account $ 818.80
Transfers from
Federal Grants Adm. 300.60
$1,119.40
Salaries :
K. Deans, Agent $640.60
D. Wentworth, Visitor
250.00
C. Webb, Clerk
228.80
$1,119.40
Aid to Dependent Children Federal Grants-Administration
Balance
$ 57.14
Federal Grants
343.36
$400.50
Telephone $33.60
Typewriter Ribbons
1.75
Transfers to Salary Account $276.24 $35.35
145
Old Age Assistance
Transfers from
Control Account
$46,568.23
Cancelled Checks
253.40
$46,821.63
Cash Aid
$33,413.65
Reimburse Cities and Towns
1,695.56
Medical
11,365.41
Miscellaneous Costs
109.15
Mileage Allowance
237.86
$46,821.63
Old Age Assistance Federal Grants
Balance
$ 873.15
Federal Grants
26,941.62
Cancelled Checks
394.00
Distribution of
Recoveries
1,216.73
$29,425.50
Cash Aid
$15,040.66
Medical
2,909.87
Board and Care
5,718.87
Ambulance
30.00
Reimbursement other towns
266.00
$23,965.40
Salary Accounts-Old Age Assistance
Transfers from
Federal Grants Adm. $2,579.00
Salaries :
K. Deans, Agent $1,431.20
D. Wentworth, Visitor
575.00
C. Webb, Clerk
572.80
$2,579.00
146
Disability Assistance Federal Grants-Administration
Balance from 1953
$129.66
Federal Grants
453.15
$582.81
Telephone
$24.60
Transfers to Salary Account $300.60
$24.60
Aid to Dependent Children
Transfers from
Control Account
$2,124.89
Cancelled Check 38.65
$2,163.54
Office Costs
$ 5.87
Mileage Allowance
100.00
Medical costs
346.32
Cash Aid
1,672.70
$2,124.89
Aid to Dependent Children Federal Grants
Balance
$1,127.95
Federal Grants
2,209.70
$3,337.65
Cash Aid
$1,647.75
Medical
191.29
$1,839.04
147
Salary Accounts Aid to Dependent Children
Transfers from
Control Account
$480.72
Transfers from
Federal Grants Adm. 276.24
$756.96
Salaries :
K. Deans, Agent
$414.36
D. Wentworth, Visitor
165.00
C. Webb, Clerk
177.60
$756.96
Old Age Assistance Federal Grants - Administration
Balance
$1,436.81
Federal Grants
2,345.53
$3,782.34
Telephone
$52.15
Office Supplies
52.10
Transfers to Salary Account $2,579.00
$104.25
Veterans Benefits
Appropriation
$ 8,662.25
Transfer from Reserve 1,500.00
$10,162.25
Agent's Salary
$ 800.00
Clerk Hire
100.00
Office Expenses
574.57
Ordinary Benefits
5,926.50
Fuel Allowances
981.05
Medical Costs and Dental
440.96
Board and Care
985.60
Reimburse Other Towns
153.00
$9,961.68
148
J. & R. Ford Fund
Income from Fund $171.50
Medical Costs $171.50
$171.50
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
School Department
Appropriation
$222,002.22
Dog Fund
776.78
Refund Accounts
351.71
$223,130.71
School Committee-Costs
$ 21.50
Salary of Superintendent
7,500.00
Superintendent's Travel Allowance
720.00
Clerk in Superintendent's Office
2,817.73
Truant Officer
108.00
Printing, Stationery and Postage
400.79
Telephone
699.84
Other Travel Costs
89.02
School Secretary
1,440.00
Town of Needham, Tuition
128.07
All Other General Costs
56.09
Teachers' Salaries, including
Supervisors and Substitutes
128,868.79
H.S. Text and Reference Books
1,794.05
H.S. Supplies and Work Materiel
4,881.57
Elem. Text and Reference Books
2,234.43
Elem. Supplies and Work Materiel
3,766.70
Transportation :
High School
9,910.47
Elementary School
13,185.84
Janitors' Services
12,467.28
Fuel and Light:
High School
3,794.17
149
Elementary School 3,932.51
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds :
High School-Repairs
9,094.44
Janitors' Supplies
854.66
All Other
387.42
Elementary-Repairs ยท
3,203.52
Janitors' Supplies
1,133.81
All Other
1.80
Furniture and Furnishings :
High School
2,586.95
Elementary
1,735.34
Diplomas and Graduation Exercises
169.74
Insurance
372.52
School Physician
816.67
School Nurse
1,675.80
All Other Health Costs
72.92
$220,922.44
School Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of Fund
Distribution $1,190.19
Dictating and Transcribing Machine
970.00
$970.00
School Department-Out of State Travel
Appropriation $200.00
Travel Costs
$192.72
$192.72
Vocational and Americanization
Appropriation
$1,354.00
Salary, Americanization Teacher
$339.00
Tuition, Trade Schools
289.45
Transportation of pupils
470.52
$1,098.97
150
Adult Education Smith-Barden Funds
Balance from
Prior Years
$1,035.84
1954 Grants
2,362.50
$3,398.34
Teacher-Salary
$1,954.96
$1,954.96
Evening Practical Arts Adult Education
Appropriation
$330.00
Teacher's Salary
$120.00
Town of Pembroke, Tuition
5.85
Janitor's Services
86.50
$212.35
Public Use of School Facilities
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Janitor's Services
$ 49.50
Lights
418.61
Fuel
373.87
$841.98
Elementary School New Wing
Balance,
Available Funds
$ 65,945.08
Balance,
Borrowed Money
280,000.00
$345,945.08
Architect's Fees
$ 2,981.48
C. A. Batson, Construction
265,461.92
Equipment 15,771.41 All Other 41.30
$284,256.11
151
High School Stage Equipment
Balance of Appropriation $674.68
Drape and Scenery
$515.71
$515.71
Duxbury Free Library
Appropriation
$4,000.00
Librarian
$2,281.49
Assistants
1,718.51
$4,000.00
Duxbury Free Library
Hathaway Fund-Books
Balance of Appropriation $169.96
Books Purchased $162.76
$162.76
Duxbury Free Library William Penn Harding Fund
Income
$100.00
Books Purchased $9.77
$9.77
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Unclassified
Appropriation
$570.00
Care of Dogs
$ 18.00
Dog Officer
150.00
Clock Custodian
60.00
Flag Custodians
60.00
Flags and Rope
43.05
$331.05
152
Shellfish
Appropriation Salary, Shellfish Constable
$1,600.00
Transportation Allowance
600.00
Printing and Supplies Outboard Motor
63.66
192.00
$2,455.66
Shellfish Special Account
Appropriation Balance
$542.55
Labor
$ 21.60
Shovel Loader
10.00
Bulldozing and Plowing
210.00
$241.60
Harbor Master
Appropriation
$1,158.00
Salaries :
Harbor Master
$600.00
Assistant Harbor Master
100.00
Wharfinger
100.00
Channel Markers
35.75
$835.75
Parks and Playgrounds
Appropriation
$1,275.00
Labor
$717.94
Trucks
93.38
Materials
347.70
Grader Hire
64.00
Mowing
7.00
All Other
23.60
$1,253.62
$2,464.00
153
Town Field Improvements
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Labor and Trucks
$1,112.65
R. B. Delano, C.E.
66.00
Water
93.15
Asphalt
217.66
Gravel
150.00
Grass Seed
131.50
Shovel Rental
84.00
Move Bandstand
141.00
$1,995.96
Memorial Day
Appropriation
$425.00
Geraniums
$184.50
Duxbury H.S. Band
75.00
All Other, including Flags
122.39
$381.89
Fourth of July
Appropriation
$950.00
Bands for Parade
$717.00
All Other Costs
233.00
$950.00
South Shore Mosquito Control
Appropriation
$5,500.00
Participation in Project
$5,500.00
$5,500.00
Mosquito Control (State)
Appropriation .
$1,500.00
State Reclamation Board
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
154
Myles Standish Cellar Lot
Income from Fund $33.30 Labor on Lot $33.30
$33.30
Greenhead Fly Control-(State)
Appropriation $1,500.00
State Reclamation Board
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
Town Hall Recreation Center
Appropriation
$1,181.00
Directors
$577.00
Telephone
103.50
Fuel
278.62
Repairs
57.66
Lights
129.36
Water
16.00
$1,162.14
Expense of Tax Title Foreclosure
Balance from
previous years
$ 723.33
Ch. 60, Sec. 50B
1,600.00
$2,328.33
Legal Costs, Tax Title Foreclosures
$1,325.15
$1,325.15
Print and Deliver Town Reports
Appropriation Printing Reports
$2,207.00
Delivering Reports
$2,116.67 90.00
$2,206.67
155
Partridge Academy, Historic Marker
Appropriation $100.00 Sign, Materials and Painting
$17.56
$17.56
Aid to Agriculture
Appropriation $100.00 Participation, Aid Program $100.00
$100.00
Hydrant Rental
Appropriation
$550.00
Town of Marshfield $550.00
$550.00
Town Retirement System
Balance
$ 461.80
Appropriation
3,968.00
$4,429.80
County Treasurer
$3,968.00
$3,968.00
Bay Road Land Damages
Appropriation
$165.00
Land Damage Award
$50.00
$50.00
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
Appropriation
$2,500.00
Transfer from Reserve
132.51
$2,632.51
Compensation Insurance Policy
$2,632.51
$2,632.51
156
Group Accident Insurance Fire and Police Departments
Appropriation
$200.00
Insurance $118.09
$118.09
Fire Insurance Schedule
Appropriation $5,400.00
Insurance Policies
$2,653.30
$2,653.30
Sale of School Houses
Receipts from Sales
(including deposits)
$9,000.00
Revenue Stamps
$10.80
$10.80
Civil Defense
Appropriation Balance
$1,026.86
Telephone $123.75
Maps
20.00
$143.75
CEMETERIES
Cemetery Department
Appropriation
$13,361.00
Sale of Lots 420.00
Income from Perpetual Care Funds 3,149.54
$16,930.00
Salary, Cemetery Superintendent $3,500.00 Salary, Secretary 240.00
157
Office Supplies
241.35
Labor
9,276.15
Loam
562.50
Shrubs
30.75
Equipment and Materials
1,192.97
Trucks and Mowers
922.60
Rolloway Mower
350.00
Reset Granite Post
100.00
Water
36.80
All Other Costs
116.18
$16,569.30
Cemetery-Out of State Travel
Appropriation
$40.00
Attend Association Meeting
$40.00
$40.00
Cemetery Department-Truck
Appropriation
$1,200.00
Truck
$1,190.00
$1,190.00
Boomer Square
Appropriation
$60.00
Labor
$55.25
Fertilizer
4.75
$60.00
Cemetery Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of Income Distribution $185.50
Fertilizer
$75.50
$75.50
158
George H. Wood Fund
Fund Income $24.50
Flowers $24.50
$24.50
F. & H. Partch Flower Fund
Fund Income
$2.50
Flowers $2.50
$2.50
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
Interest
Appropriation
$13,697.50
Interest Paid
$13,117.50
$13,117.50
High School Bonds-(Wing)
Appropriation $20,000.00
Bonds Retired
$20,000.00
$20,000.00
Elementary School Bonds
Appropriation $15,000.00
Bonds Retired
$15,000.00
$15,000.00
Sea Wall Loan
Premium
$
10.00
Appropriation
2,000.00
$2,010.00
Notes Paid
$2,000.00
$2,000.00
159
Elementary School Wing-Bonds
Premium
$
254.80
Appropriation
$15,000.00
$15,254.80
Bonds Retired
$15,000.00
$15,000.00
Unpaid Bills of 1952
Appropriation $53.81
John P. Condon Corp. $53.81
$53.81
Unpaid Bills of 1953
Appropriation $469.28
Unpaid Bills of Previous Year $397.97
$397.97
REVOLVING FUNDS Athletic Association
Balance from 1953 $ 297.30
Received from
Athletic Association 1,005.53
$1,302.83
Miscellaneous Services and Supplies
$1,123.41
$1,123.41
School Lunch Program
Balance from 1953
$ 2,064.22
Receipts in 1954
28,536.56
Refund
36.00
$30,636.78
160
Salaries
$ 7,137.82
Food
19,375.37
Gas
335.54
Equipment
1,110.12
Telephone
109.41
Garbage Removal
491.00
All Other
93.34
$28,652.60
Liquor Ad Deposits
Deposits to cover Ads
$24.00
Duxbury Clipper $24.00
$24.00
Planning Board Deposits
Balance from 1953
$24.00
Deposits from 1954
40.00
$64.00
Publishing Notices
$20.00
Registered Mail
6.80
Refunds
24.00
$50.80
AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
County of Plymouth, County Tax
$30,827.13
Rockland Trust Co., Withholding Taxes 29,137.91
Plymouth County Treasurer, Retire- ment Funds
5,153.26
Plymouth Savings Bank, Perpetual Care Funds 1,557.68
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan As- sociation Perpetual Care Funds 6,500.00
Plymouth Savings Bank, Cemetery Gen- eral Care and Improvement Fund 1,085.00
161
Division of Fish and Game, Sporting Licenses 715.00
Plymouth County, Dog Licenses
1,260.20
Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Parks and Reservations 1,081.05
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
836.08
Plymouth County Hospital, T.B.
8,817.45
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank :
Hathaway Fund, Principal 3.75
Hathaway Fund, Income
1,690.30
$88,664.81
School House Sale, Deposits
Cash Deposits
791.30
Deposits Refunded $341.30
$341.30
TRANSFERS FROM RESERVE
Reserve Fund $5,000.00
To Workmen's Compensation Insurance $ 132.51
To Town Clerk's Department 52.50
To Veterans Benefits
1,500.00
To Health Department
700.00
To Snow and Ice Removal
1,500.00
$3,885.01
REFUNDS
1954 Real Estate Taxes $1,269.36
1954 Personal Property Taxes
36.94
1954 Poll Taxes
6.00
1953 Real Estate Taxes 88.00
1953 Personal Property Tax
8.60
1954 Excise Taxes
2,376.80
1953 Excise Taxes
496.01
162
Building Permit Refund
1.00
Estimated Receipts 1.03
Excess & Deficiency-Refund to Dux-
bury Fire and Water District Tax Title
27.20
$4,310.94
Total Expenditures $1,084,640.51
APPROPRIATION BALANCES RETURNED
TO TREASURY
Selectmen's Department
$ 595.58
Treasurer's Department
31.11
Accounting Department
13.54
Accounting Department, Out of State Travel
70.00
Assessors' Department
317.23
Tax Collector's Department
68.40
Town Clerk's Department
.44
Finance Committee
40.00
Appeal Board
52.74
Planning Board
1,105.25
Election and Registration
299.99
Town Historian
.75
Town Office
1,285.70
Fire Department
659.76
Fire Dept., Out of State Travel
137.40
Police Department
178.29
Insect Pest Control
643.77
Control of Dutch Elm Disease
1,511.91
Tree Department
536.70
Forest Fire Department
1,595.24
Sealer of Weights & Measures
88.04
Bounties
60.00
Health Department
117.94
Town Dump
37.75
Public Health Nurse
155.20
Vital Statistics
12.25
163
Highway Department
1,655.06
Snow and Ice Removal
567.33
Bridge Department
105.91
Town Landings
217.89
Street Lights
204.66
Public Welfare Control
932.71
Public Welfare, Out of State Travel
200.00
Aid to Dependent Children
38.65
Veterans Benefits
200.57
School Department
2,208.27
School Dept., Out of State Travel
7.28
Vocational and Americanization
255.03
Evening Practical Arts, Adult
117.65
Public Use of School Facilities
158.02
Unclassified
238.95
Shellfish
8.34
Harbor Master
322.25
Parks and Playgrounds
21.38
Town Hall Recreation Center
18.86
Printing and Delivering Town Reports
.33
Fire Insurance Schedule
2,746.70
Cemetery Department
361.24
Interest
580.00
Duxbury Beach Sea Wall Notes
10.00
Elementary School, New Wing Bonds
254.80
$21,046.86
1954 APPROPRIATION BALANCES RETAINED
Assessors' Map $ 87.47
Fire Department, Emergency Lighting Equipment 8.27
Police Department Car, 1954
36.00
Tree Department, Hathaway Fund
38.57
Dump Truck for Tree Department
251.00
Town Forest Improvements
48.80
Poison Ivy Control 39.92
164
Highway Department, Hathaway Fund
543.08
Box Type Sand Spreader 5.94
Industrial Tractor for Highway Department
620.86
Bridge Department, Hathaway Fund
170.68
Town Landings, Hathaway Fund
43.27
Ch. 90 Highway Construction 1953
164.02
Ch. 90 Maintenance 1954
4.99
Ch. 90 Construction 1954
7.79
Bay View Road, Construction
1,622.90
Blodgett Avenue
6.04
Captain's Hill Road
186.97
Longview Road
154.43
Old Colony Road
101.27
Pilgrim By-Way
230.08
Pine Ridge Lane
757.68
Resurface Temple and Winter Streets
1,495.02
Resurface Standish and Temple Streets
30.01
Land Damage, Toby Garden Street
205.00
Bluefish River Tide Gate
49.30
Street Lights, Standish Street, etc.
72.05
Highway Department, Repairs for D. F. & W. District
92.50
Bluefish Tide Gate, Search
42.00
Evening Vocational Classes, Adult
68.00
School Department, Hathaway Fund
220.19
Elementary School Expansion Committee
141.90
Elementary School, New Wing (available funds)
14,109.16
Elementary School, New Wing (borrowed money)
47,579.81
High School Stage Repairs
556.45
High School Stage Equipment
158.97
Library Books, Hathaway Fund
7.20
Library Books, W. P. Harding Fund
90.23
Special Shellfish Account
300.95
Propagation of Shellfish
336.69
Town Field Improvement
1,004.04
Memorial Day
43.11
Mosquito Control
150.00
Greenhead Fly Control
200.00
165
Eradication of Rag Weed
100.00
Expense of Tax Title Foreclosure
1,003.18
Job Evaluation Study
500.00
Building Code Committee
200.00
Winter Street Purchase of Land
25.00
Partridge Academy, Historic Marker
82.44
State Census, Jan. 1, 1955
200.00
Fish Ladders, Island Creek
179.70
Town Retirement System
461.80
Bay Road Land Damages
115.00
Church and Tremont Street Awards
52.00
Valley and Franklin Streets-Awards
4.85
Congress Street-Awards
6.00
Group Accident Insurance
81.91
Builders Risk Insurance
250.00
Civil Defense
883.11
Cemetery Department, Truck
10.00
Cemetery Department, Hathaway Fund, Truck
110.00
Unpaid Bills of 1953
71.31
$76,418.91
CEMETERY TRUST FUND ACCOUNT
Total Amount of Cemetery Perpetual
Care Funds-January 1, 1954
$112,220.07
Dividends added to Trust Funds in 1954
3,033.96
New Funds added in 1954:
Dorothy Mae Bassett
$100.00
Mrs. Warren D. Bigelow
400.00
Alvah R. Boynton
150.00
Everett Clapp
400.00
Winnifred E. D'Amelio,
200.00
Natalie S. Goodale
300.00
Joel D. Harvey
150.00
John Hathaway
100.00
Marie Helen Hunter
400.00
166
Ida May Lewis
300.00
Myron C. Linde
200.00
Atherton Loring, Jr.
500.00
Walter A. MacPherson
300.00
Louise B. Meehan
200.00
Waldo B. Reed
200.00
Clarence A. Ricker
200.00
George L. Schirmer
100.00
Louise S. Scott
200.00
Ada M. Soule
200.00
Sidney C. Soule
400.00
Dorothy R. Sutcliffe
200.00
Agnes C. Troy
300.00
Clara Hunt Turner
400.00
Myra C. Wadman
100.00
Donald D. Walker
300.00
Georgiana L. Winsor
200.00
$6,500.00
Previously Established Funds were
Increased by the following amounts:
William H. Cushing
$100.00
Elijah Delano
100.00
Julia Bradford Holmes
200.00
Mayflower Cemetery Fund
300.00
Henry Nickerson
150.00
George Sampson
300.00
James Allen Simmons
200.00
Mark L. Sinnons
100.00
$1,450.00
Total Trust Funds and Dividends $123,204.03
167
Amount Withdrawn from Income for
Care of Lots in 1954 3,149.54
Balance December 31, 1954
$120,054.49
Total Trust Funds Reported
December 31, 1953
$108,194.31
Funds added in 1954
7,950.00
Total Principal December 31, 1954
116,144.31
Accumulated Interest
3,910.18
$120,054.49
TOWN OF DUXBURY
Balance Sheet-December 31, 1954 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Planning Board Deposits 13.20
General
$348,129.50
Advanced for Petty:
Collector
250.00
Town Clerk
25.00
$348,404.50
Accounts Receivable:
Taxes:
Levy of 1953:
Poll
4.00
Personal
61.92
Levy of 1954:
Poll
68.00
Personal
3,659.84
Real Estate
32,924.64
Old Age Assistance 5,460.10
Old Age Assistance, Administration 1,099.09
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise :
Levy of 1953
327.90
Disability Assistance 941.96
Levy of 1954
5,987.58
Disability Assistance, Administration 257.61
6.315.48
Agency :
Dog Licenses, due County 1.80
Tailings-Unclaimed Checks 860.49
Eben Ellison Beach Fund -- Gift
133.60
168
Ship Weathervane Trust Fund
60.50
Old Age Assistance Recovery
3.102.20
Federal Grants:
Aid to Dependent Children $ 1,498.61
Aid to Dependent Children, Adm. 88.91
36,718.40
9,346.28
Cash :
Tax Titles and Possessions: Tax Titles Tax Possessions
3,655.86
93.85
3,749.71
Smith-Barden Fund for Adult Education Revolving Funds: School Lunch Athletic Association 179.42
1,984.18
Aid to Highways:
2,163.60
Ch. 90 State
13,006.76
Ch. 90 County
7,003.39
Appropriation balances, General
76,418.91
20,010.15
Sale of School Houses
8,989.20
Sale of Cemetery Lots
460.00
Health
200.00
Disability Assistance
203.07
Public Welfare
1,474.50
Aid to Dependent Children
378.92
Old Age Assistance
1,164.53
Cemetery
341.00
Dutch Elm Disease
69.50
Veterans Benefits
1,481.73
Revenue reserved until collected : Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise 6,315.48
5,313.25
Sea Wall Assessments 8,769.55
8,769.55
Tax Title and Tax Possession 3,749.71
Departmental 5,313.25
Aid to Highways 20,010.15
44,158.14
169
Levy of 1954
13,608.07
34,784.85
Overlay Surplus
Overlays Reserved for Abatement :
Levy of 1953 65.92
13,673.99
Unapportioned Sea Wall Assessments Unprovided for or Overdrawn Accounts: Underestimate of 1954 County Tax 681.34
1,443.38
Departmental:
Balance Sheet-Continued
Cemetery General Care and Improvement Fund-deposit in excess of fund
460.00
Legal Overdraft, Carol
9,512.23
Legal Overdraft, Edna
978.15
11,631.72
Excess and Deficiency
2,151.65 242,875.97
$440,912.76
Reserve for Petty Cash Advances 275.00 Overestimates of 1954: Plymouth County Hospital 2,147.40 State Parks and Reservations 4.25
$440,912.76 170
NET FUNDED OR FIXED DEBT
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$570,000.00 Elementary School Wing Loan
$265,000.00
Duxbury Sea Wall Notes
16,000.00
$570,000.00
High School Wing Loan Elementary School Loan
105,000.00
184,000.00
$570,000.00
TRUST ACCOUNTS
Trust Funds, Cash and Securities
$183,352.92
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$120,054.49
Agnes S. Ellison Trust Fund
1,045.67
F & H Partch Flower Fund
311.19
George H. Wood Cemetery Fund
1,030.08
Thomas D. Hathaway Fund
2,929.69
Myles Standish Cellar Fund
1,643.33
Lucy D. Hathaway Trust Fund
23,102.28
Jonathan & Ruth Ford Fund
28,688.83
Post War Rehabilitation Fund
132.69
William Penn Harding Library Fund
1,085.64
Lucy A. Ewell Cemetery Fund
538.82
Stabilization Fund
1,678.91
Cemetery Perpetual Care and Improvement Fund
1,111.30*
$183,352.92
171
$183,352.92
* $460. received from Sale of Cemetery Lots has been deposited temporarily in this fund.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF DUXBURY
637
14OT STANDI
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31
1954
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Year Ending December 31, 1954
SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Term Expires
Morrison M. Bump, Chairman
1956
Mrs. Elizabeth Nickerson, Secretary
1956
Albert P. Richards
1957
Earle C. Grenquist 1955
Dominic LaGreca 1957
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Everett L. Handy
SECRETARY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT
Miss Helen F. Hanigan
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REPORT OF THE DUXBURY SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Duxbury :
The past calendar year has been a most pleasant one for the members of your School Committee. It is our hope that you will agree with us that considerable progress has been made in nearly all phases of our work and the work of our fine associates - the . administrators, teachers, supervisors and all other members of the staff of the Duxbury School system.
Again, as in previous years, we call your attention to the very fine detailed report made to you by our Superintendent of Schools. This report will be found on succeeding pages and we are sure that your careful study will be rewarded in full measure by your increased knowledge of our current program, our present prob- lems, and our hopes and plans for the future. There is little we can add to this report that will increase your understanding in any of these fields. We would prefer in these few paragraphs to call your attention to the many fine pepole and organizations with whom we have had contact and pleasant dealings during the past year.
First of all we are pleased to report that all of our teachers have exhibited the highest possible degree of cooperation with our policies and requests. It seems to us that no School Committee could ask for better spirit or cooperation than has been shown during the past year. In addition we commend our teaching staff for the seriousness with which they have tackled their primary jobs. All of the youngsters of Duxbury have benefited. We thank our teachers, one and all.
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Once again the School Committee wishes to call public atten- tion to the fine services rendered to us and to the town by the Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Everett L. Handy. We can pay him no greater tribute than to express this gratitude in the Annual Town Report. It has been a great pleasure to work with him throughout the past year. His sound judgment and tireless energy are only two of the fine qualities from which your School Com- mittee, your School Department and the Town as a whole derive almost daily profits.
Our Elementary School under the able guidance of its Princi- pal, Mr. J. Donald DeLong, has grown tremendously in size during his few years with us. Mr. DeLong's forward approach to many of the educational problems confronting him should provide many long range benefits for our youngsters. We call particular atten- tion to his efforts to promote closer cooperation between parents, teachers and school authorities in the common approach to the better education of each individual youngster.
This past year saw the return to active service in the Dux- bury Schools of our High School Principal, Mr. Rodney R. Wood. Mr. Wood has been most fortunate to be able to return from his two years of military service in the Navy and to find his High School in such excellent shape. His military replacement, Mr. Hugh O. MacFarlane, did an excellent job during his absence. We wish all luck to Mr. MacFarlane in his new assignment out in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and offer Mr. Wood all possible cooperation as he again picks up the reins. We are most grati- fied with the fine job already being done by Mr. Wood in this early stage of his return to us. We wish there were space here to also give full credit to the many other persons in non-teaching and non-administrative positions who have all contributed im- measurably to what has been a fine year.
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