Town annual report of Braintree, Massachusetts for the year 1944, Part 13

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Publication date: 1944
Publisher: The town
Number of Pages: 228


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Thirteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 1 for a term of three years ;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 1 for a term of two years to fill a vacancy ;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinet 1 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy;


Fourteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 2 for a term of three years;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 2 for a term of two years to fill a vacancy ;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 2 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy ;


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Fourteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 3 for a term of three years;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 3 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy ;


Fourteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct + for a term of three years;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 4 for a term of two years to fill a vacancy ;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 4 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy ;


Thirteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 5 for a term of three years ;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 5 for a therm of two years to fill a vacancy ;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 5 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy ;


Twelve Town Meeting Members in Precinct 6 for a term of three years;


One Town Meeting Member in Precinet 6 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy.


The polls will be opened at eight o'clock in the forenoon and will close at eight o'clock in the evening.


You are further directed to notify and warn the said inhabitants qualified to vote as Town Meeting Members, to meet at the Town Hall in said Brain- tree on Monday, the nineteenth day of March, 1945, at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :


Article 1. To choose all Town Officers, except those elected by ballot.


Article 2. To hear and act upon the report of the several boards of Town Officers, and committees, and choose any committee the Town may think proper.


Article 3. 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, 1945 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 the provisions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.


Article 4. 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, 1946, 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 the provisions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.


Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to. authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money for general municipal pur- poses under the authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1933 as amended, or take any action relative thereto.


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Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appro- priate a sum of money for a Reserve Fund for extraordinary and unforseen expenditures during the current year.


Article 7. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for Liability Insurance, Insurance on Town property and Workmen's Compensation, or take any action relative thereto.


Article S. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for Interest and Maturing Debt the present year, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 9. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the Norfolk County Hospital Assessment, for maintenance and repairs.


GENERAL GOVERNMENT


Article 10. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for General Government for salaries and expenses for the following departments and other purposes, or take any action relative thereto.


1. Moderator


2. Finance Committee


3. Selectmen


4. General Government Incidentals


5. Accountant


6. Town Engineer


7. Assessors


8. Treasurer


9. Tax Collector


10. Town Clerk


11.


Election


12. Local Defense


13. Registration


14. Law


15. Maintenance of Public Buildings


16 Contributory Retirement System


17. Rationing Board


PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY


Article 11. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the protection of persons and property, or take any action relative thereto.


1. Life Guard at Sunset Lake


2. Building Inspector


3. Board of Appeal under the Zoning By-Law


4. Sealer of Weights and Measures


5. Tree Warden's Department


6. Moth Department


7. Fire Department


8. Police Department


9. Military Protection


Article 12. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 6B, providing the authority to appropriate money for the purchase of uniforms for the members of its Police and Fire departments.


Article 13. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Section 16B of Chapter 147 of the General Laws as amended, providing for one day off in six (6) for members of its Police Department.


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HEALTH AND SANITATION


Article 14. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Health and Sanitation, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 15. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the maintenance and operation of the Water Department, the same to be taken from the revenue of the Department, and the unexpended balance of 1944, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 16. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to appro- priate from the income of the Water Department for the salaries of the Water Commissioners.


Article 17. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Street Lighting.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to include in the Tax Levy for electricity used for Street Lighting, the sum of Eighty-two Hundred Dollars ($8,200) as appropriated under Article 17 of the Warrant for the 1945 Annual Town Meeting, and that said sum together with the income from Sales of electricity to private consumers, or for current supplied to Municipal Buildings or for Municipal Power, and from the sales of appli- ances and jobbing during the current fiscal year, to be appropriated for the use of the Municipal Light Plant, the whole to be expended under the direc- tion and control of the Municipal Light Board for repairs, renewals, new construction and operating expenses of the plant for the fiscal years, as defined in Section 57, Chapter 164, General Laws, and that, if said income shall exceed the expense for the fiscal year, such excess shall be transferred to the construction fund of said plant and appropriated and shall be used for such additions to the Plant as may thereafter be authorized by the Municipal Light Board.


Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department, the sum of Three Hundred Forty-five Dollars ($345) for the salaries of the Electrict Light Commissioners.


Article 20. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purposes of the Sewer Department to be expended by the Board of Sewer Commissioners, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 21. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate for salaries of the Board of Sewer Commissioners.


HIGHWAYS


Article 22. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Highway Department, including labor, repairs, and building sidewalks, stone roads and removal of snow; repairs to highways, Town ways and bridges; oiling and tarring of streets; purchase of equipment for said department; and collection of rubbish; or take any other action relative thereto.


Article 23. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, BLANCHARD BOULEVARD, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same; or take any action relative thereto.


Article 24. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, CAPE COD LANE, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same; or take any action relative thereto.


Article 25. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, ABBOTT STREET, so called, from present point of acceptance to Parkside Avenue; as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, or take any action relative thereto.


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Article 26. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, PARKSIDE AVENUE, so called, from present point of acceptance to Abbott Street, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 27. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, STATEN ROAD, so called, from present point of acceptance to Abbott Street, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 28. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, CURTIS ROAD, so called, between Pearl Street and Randall Avenue, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise or appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 29. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, ACORN STREET, so called, from Howie Road to Park- side Avenue, as laid out by the Selectmen, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 30. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, HOWIE ROAD, so called, from Acorn Circle to Acorn Cirele, as laid out by the Selectmen, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 31. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, ACORN CIRCLE, so called, from Acorn Street to Howie Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 32. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, STONEWOOD LANE, so called, from Walnut Avenue to Bircheroft Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 33. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, BIRCHCROFT ROAD, so called, from Walnut Avenue to Stonewood Lane, as laid out by the Selectmen, or take any action relative thereto.


TOWN FOREST DEPARTMENT


Article 34. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the use of the Town Forest Committee; or take any action relative thereto.


PARK DEPARTMENT


Article 35. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the general uses of the Board of Park Commissioners, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to place under the exclusive control of the Park Department a parcel of land now held by the Town on Tax Title foreclosure proceedings described as follows: Lots 1513 to 1528 inclusive, 1534 to 1549 inclusive, Plots 49 to 56 inclusive and 36 to 42 in- clusive, Plan 3038 on file in the Assessors' Office, containing approximately 33,600 square feet and 35,680 square feet, respectively, a total of 59,280 square feet of land, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 37. ON PETITION. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to appropriate for the improvement of Watson Park, including the erec- tion of a suitable marker commemorating the man for whom the Park was named.


CEMETERIES


Article 38. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the improvement of Cemeteries, or take any action relative thereto.


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SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES


Article 39. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Public Schools, or take any other action relative thereto.


Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and instruct the School Committee to take such stops by petition to the Court or otherwise as would permit them to abolish the practice of giving French medals and substitute therefor a high school scholarship or take any other action relative thereto.


Article 41. ON PETITION. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the improvement of the Hollis School grounds for the purpose of protecting the Hollis Field or take any other action relative thereto.


Article 42. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Public Library, or take any action relative thereto,


Article 43 To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to acquire by gift, purchase or eminent domain a lot of land on the northwesterly corner of Central Avenue and Washington Street, for the purpose of con- structing thereon a public library and appropriate a sum of money for said purchase or take any other action relative thereto.


Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to accept the transfer of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) from the Braintree Electric Light Department to the general funds and establish a special reserve of said fund for later appropriation for the purpose of constructing a public library or take any other action relative thereto.


SOLDIERS' BENEFITS


Article 45. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Soldiers' Relief, War Allowance, State and Military Aid, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the Observance of Memorial Day, or take any action rela- tive thereto.


Article 47 ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to renew its lease with Braintree Post No. 86, Department of Massachusetts, the American Legion, of the Legion Building for a term of five years, from January 18, 1946, at $1.00 per year, reserving. one room for polling purposes, or take any other action relative thereto.


Article 48. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to renew the appropriation of Three Hundred Dollars ($300) to the Braintree Post No. 1702, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, for rent of a Hall to conduct Meetings and other functions of the Post and Ladies' Auxiliary.


Article 49. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to authorize transfer of title to the lot of land located on Allen Street, East Braintree, formerly the cite of the old East Braintree Fire Station, to the Braintree l'ost No. 1702, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.


PUBLIC WELFARE


Article 50. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Public Welfare Department, including Aid for Dependent Children, and Adequate Assistance to Certain Aged Persons under the pro- visions of Chapter 118A, General Laws, or take any action relative thereto.


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MISCELLANEOUS


Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the payment of printing of the Annual Report of the Town of Braintree for 1944, or take any other action relative thereto.


Article 52. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the Planning Board, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 53. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the care and maintenance of property acquired by the Town under Tax Title Foreclosure procedure, or take any other action relative thereto.


Article 54. To see if the Town will vote to amend its By-Laws by inserting therein a new article to read as follows: "Article 10A. No license in any form other than a renewal shall be granted by the Selectmen or Licens- ing Board for the sale of alcoholic beverages at any location within the Town within five hundred (500) fect of any church or school building."


Article 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for the purchase of war bonds or other bonds that are legal investments for savings banks, for a postwar rehabilitation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5, Acts of 1943.


Article 56. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 31 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, and all amendments thereto, as applicable to the labor and official service of the Town, and to appropriate the sum of three hundred ($300) dollars for the necessary labor registration cost, or take any other action relative to and for the purpose of placing under classified Civil Service certain employees of the Town not already so classified by the previous acceptance of other provisions of the law.


Article 57. To see what sums of money, in addition to that appropriated under any other article, the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for Land Damages.


Article 58. To see what distribution the Town will vote to make of the income of the Thayer Fund.


Article 59. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to meet the payment of certain bills contracted prior to Jannary 1, 1945, or take any action relative thereto.


Article 60. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and direct the Assessors to use any sums or sums of money from Free Cash toward reduction of the 1945 Tax rate.


Article 61. To see what action the Town will take to provide a program for Post-War Rehabilitation and/or reconstruction.


Article 62. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for the purpose of rehabilitating the historical Oak Tree situated on Town property known as the French Estate in South Braintree, the work to be supervised by the Selectmen, or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 63. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to provide and enforce a system of identification designed to restriet the use of the bathing facilities at Sunset Lake, or aet in any manner relative thereto.


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Article 64. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to provide adequate sewage for the proposed bathhouse at Sunset Lake, or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 65. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower the Selectmen to appoint a committee to investigate the need and advisability of providing a small local hospital for the care of the Town's returning veterans and report its findings and recommendations.


Article 66. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sun of money for the construction of seats at various places in the Town for the convenience of pedestrians.


Article 67. To sce if the Town will vote to sell to the Old Colony Council, Boy Scouts of America, Plot No. 5, Plan No. 1106, foreclosed tax title property.


You are directed to serve this Warrant by posting true and attested copies thereof in one or more public places in each Voting Precinct in said Town of Braintree, ten days at least before said fifth day of March 1945, and by publishing the same once each week for two successive weeks in the Braintree Observer, the first publication to be at least eight days before said meeting.


Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereto, to the Town Clerk, before said meeting.


Given under our hands at Braintree, this first day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five.


HENRY D. HIGGINS, Chairman HENRY H. STORM, Clerk ALBERT E. ROBERTS Selectmen of the Town of Braintree


A true copy. Attest :


JOHN J. HEANEY Constable of Braintree


Braintree, Massachusetts, February 16, 1945


Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I hereby notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as expressed therein, to meet at the time and places mentioned, for the purposes therein mentioned.


JOHN J. HEANEY Constable of Braintree


Braintree, Massachusetts, February 23, 1945


Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as expressed therein to meet at the time and places mentioned, for the purposes therein mentioned.


special committee for a survey of salary standardization, employment classi-


JOHN J. HEANEY Constable of Braintree


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ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


SCHOOL DEPARTMENT


OF THE


Town of Braintree


FROM


December 31, 1943 to December 31, 1944


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT


SCHOOL COMMITTEE


MR. ARCHIE T. MORRISON, Chairman 555Liberty Street, South Braintree MRS. ALIDA N. STEVENS, Recording Secretary 75 Tremont Street, South Braintree MR. HOWARD B. BLEWETT 188 Hollingsworth Avenue, South Braintree MRS. SOPHIE G. BLUNT 259 Washington Street, Braintree MR. G. RALPH YOUNG


68 Cedarcliff Road, East Braintree MR. ELMER G. DERBY 2 Wildwood Avenue, South Braintree


SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


MR. C. EDWARD FISHER


10 Tremont Street, South Braintree Office Tel. BRA. 0782 Office Hours on School Days, 3:00 to 4:00 P.M.


SECRETARIES


MISS EDNA E. WOODSUM MISS ESTELLA M. DEMERS Office Hours: 8:00 to 12:00, 1:00 to 5:00 on days when schools are in session


MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE


Second Monday evening of each month, except July and August, at seven o'clock in the School Committee offices.


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Report of the School Committee


January 25, 1945


TO THE CITIZENS OF BRAINTREE:


The past year has been a very trying one because of conditions which made it difficult to find personnel to fill the vacancies in our teach- ing staff, operating, and maintenance personnel. The services took many of our teachers and it was no easy task to replace them. The requirements of the various essential industries made it difficult for us to get and keep janitors and still remain within the operating budget. However, we carried on having in mind that we must continue our teaching at the educational level that we have set, maintain the health and comfort of the scholars, and assure the operation and maintenance of the school plant. We believe that we have passed the worst point and that the conditions that brought about this situation should get better instead of worse.


We are conscious of the obligation and challenge that lie in the post-war period, and looking toward that day we are hopeful that the citizens will again provide the necessary appropriation to build the addi- tion to the High School. You will recall that $250,000.00 for this pur- pose was appropriated early in the war but that prices rose to such an extent and the procuring of material became so difficult that much more money was needed than appropriated, and it was decided to postpone the work until some future date.


At that time it was decided that the High School would be rebuilt so we could go back to a single session instead of the two-session plan that we have had for the past thirteen years. It is a fact that Braintree is the only town in the Commonwealth that is unable to accommodate its entire High School population in a single session day, making it necessary to have our Freshmen come in the afternoon. The rebuilding of the school should correct this situation and should also provide the additional facilities for a program that encompasses social and domestic sciences for the girls and industrial trade training for the boys.


You will recall that you also appropriated money to set up courses for preliminary training of these subjects in the seventh and eighth grades of the Grammar Schools, but, unfortunately, the plan has not been wholly successful because the seventh and eighth grade students are prevented from proceeding with that program when they get to the High School and will not be able to do so until facilities are provided in the rebuilt High School. This is not only of importance to the sev- enth and eighth grade students year by year, but particularly will these 1:ew subjects be necessary in the post-war period when our educational system will be called on to meet the demands that will be made on it by post-war training programs.


The rebuilding of the High School is of the greatest importance. I doubt if Grade AI rating in college certification of our High School graduates will be much longer enjoyed if we do not promptly correct the situation in the High School by providing the necessary facilities expected of and provided for by every other town in the Commonwealth with the lone exception of the town of Braintree.


Another matter that I would earnestly call to your attention is the need for rehabilitating and bringing up to date the school buildings. This is in addition to the ordinary expenditures for repairs and mainte- nance. This program of renovating would bring the lighting, toilet. and seating facilities up to date. A definite program could be set up




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