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There are also many details connected with the bureau which require attention and have to be conducted outside of the regular tour of duty hours.
In concluding this report I wish to extend my appreciation and thanks for the sincere co- operations of the Inspector Buildings Walter Daniels, the Police Department, the Town Electrician Mr. Green, the Superintendent of Schools Mr. Eddy and his Office Personnel, the Principals and Custodians or our schools and Mr. John Spencer, Agent for the Board of Health who have assisted me so grateful in keeping our fire loss to a minimum.
Respectfully submitted Lieut, Warren Newhall Bureau of Fire Prevention
Iron Works Three Centuries Old
The Saugus works was cre- ated three centuries ago prin- cipally through the efforts of John Winthrop, Jr., son of the founder of Boston, and Richard Leader, a merchant of Salehurst, England. Winthrop promoted the plan to develop New England's iron resources while Leader actually estab- lished the works.
CLOCK TURNED BACK 1
The clock is turned back, three centuries as the visitor; enters the quaint Ironmaster's House, with its old Bible box, court cupboard and other pre-, cious antiques. Even the names of the rooms bespeak a bygone, era such names as the Great. Room, the Keeping Room and! the Weaving Room.
AT HAMMERSMITH 1
Here at Hammersmith, as Saugus was then called, they achieved the first large-scale production of iron in the New' World. From their skilled hands came pots and skillets, bar iron which neighboring, blacksmiths worked into useful. forms, and rod iron from which nails were made.
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REFUNDS
The Saugus Advertiser, March 3, 1960
TOWN REPORT Page 13
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Grass Seed
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The Saugus Advertiser, March 3, 1960
TOWN REPORT Page 14
1959 Report Planning Board
Mr. John B. Kennedy Town Manager Town Hall Saugus, Mass. Dear Mr. Kennedy: To the Town Manager: The annual report of the Plan- ning Board for the year 1959 is as follows:
Aside fromour regular duties relative to control and acceptance of new sub-divisions in town, and our additional duties relative to recommendations on zoning to the Annual Town Meet- ing, the Planning Board has concerned itself this past year with an intense effort to insert the basic tenets of the Nord Davis Master Plan into the future of Saugus,
To attain the Master Plan's ultimate goal of a well thought- out process by which the town can broaden its tax base by realizing the maximum use of land which is presently zoned for business and industry, we have welcomed and, when nec- essary, encouraged tax revenue producing business to locate in Saugus, With other departments in the town, we have attempted to create an atmosphere which is conducive to new business locating here.
In 1959, through the vote of the Annual Town Meeting, we were able to increase the lot size requirements of Area "A" west . of the Turnpike to 20,000 square feet. This action guarantees the - 1 future erection of higher 4 evaluated homes in this area since it is economically in- feasible to erect a low price : home on a high price lot. In the same instance, the change of lot size requirements in this area will slow down new con- struction until such time as the town will be able to supply the services and facilities which this new area should have.
This past year we found it necessary to stop constructon in two sub-divisions under con- struction because the sub- dividers were not proceeding with their sub-divisions in the manner to which they had agreed.
A large portion of our time has been used in preparing a loam and gravel removal article which will be clear and concise, and which will be acceptable to the Town Meeting and thus be- come law. The enactment of such an article into a law is a must for the Town of Saugus.
Additional Town Meeting art- Icles which were readied by the Planning Board In 1959 for con- sideration by the 1960 Town Meeting include (a) set-backs on major tax revenue producing highways - (b) a "mutually exclusive" rule in business and industrial areas - (c) adjoining undersized lots owned by one owner to conform to area re- quirements in which they are located to be eligible for a building permit - (d) off-street parking facilities to be provided for all new business con- struction.
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We believe that the people of the Town of Saugus are - beginning to realize that our geographic location is a tre- mendous asset, and that with foresight and intelligence, we can progress rapidly in the next few years. To this end, your Planning Board dedicates itself. Respectfully submitted,
Planning Board
Douglas Waybright, Chairman
1959 Report Superintendent Of Schools
Report of the Superintendant of Schools Sixty-seventlı Arnnal Report Preface
I am sincerely grateful to the Saugus School Staff for the conscientious and frequently dedicated services the mucinbers are rendering to the young people of this community.
Despite handicaps and "Soft spots", a fine professional spirit, a truly cooperative attitude and a willingness to work generally characterizes the quality of our staff.
Warmly I commend thie Saugus Staff members to you as persons in whom you may impose your confidence.
Fine staff quality is indispensable to the solution of many of tlie formidable problems confronting public school educa- tion; without this quality there can be few constructive solutions.
Rhoden B. Eddy Superintendent of Schools
Saugus, Massachusetts February 10, 1960
Members of the Saugus School Committee
and the Citizens of Saugus :-
This is the sixty-seventh Annual Saugus School Report and my third such Annual Report.
There have been brought into the Saugus School System during the last two years six important educational de- partures designed to benefit the public school education of your sons and daughters.
1. A revision of the high school offering and a reorgani- zation of that offering Into specific 'courses' - or areas of study; each course so organized as to give basic academic preparation to the individual pupil according to his interests, needs and capacities.
(a) At the same time we discontinued the practice of permitting each pupil to select his own pro- gram of studies, almost at will. We returned to the practice of requiring the pupil to select a specific, well-defined program of studies.
2. The practice of grouping pupils, roughly according to their learning speeds has been inaugurated - in those buildings large enough to permit this type of grade organization; this grouping was also adopted by Mr. Ashton Davis in his organization of the junior high school grades.
3. The IOWA TEST OF BASIC SKILLS was adopted two years ago to measure pupils' mastery of the funda- mental skills in grades three through nine. (Skills measured are: Reading, the Language Arts, Arith- metic and fundamental Study Skills.)
4. A basic step in an in- service training program was taken with the establishment of two-day Workshops, preceding school opening, for elementary and junior high school staff members.
(See 1959 Workshop program in appendices.) The pro- fessional values of a Workshop are to be found partly in the program itself, but of equal and possibly greater value, are staff participation in planning the Workshop and the sharing of professional experiences in a com- mon educational venture during the Workshop period. Specific attention has been given to the use of school time by the teachers and a half hour increase in the length of the school day in all divisions of the school system. (Presently disrupted by necessity for two- platooning.)
6. There has been, and there is, and ever-abiding effort to promote the growth of an healthy 'school climate' favorable to effective learning and the development on the part of the pupils of a growing respec: for aca- demic achievement. Confidence, cheerfulness, sym- pathy, understanding and order characterize such a climate. The ideal is there and though perfection may never be attained, it may be hoped for and sought after diligently. Such a climate must, at least, be rec- ognized and appreciated for its worth by every staff member if inter-staff understanding, cooperation and professional attitudes are to prevail,-all of these in the best interest of the children in our schools.
During the last two years particular attention has been given to the purchase of new books and additional equipment, the selection of teachers (to date about eighty-five teachers have been employed), the overall school offering and educational techniques. Beyond attention to the specifies ennumerated
above, there are the innumerable, time-consuming details of administration. In addition, three separate school building studies have been carried on since March 1958, in each of which 1 have been involved to a greater or lesser extent
1. The Committee to Investigate the Need for School Facilities - appointed by the School Committee.
2. The School Building Study by Dr. John E. Marshall - supplementing the study by first Committee.
3. The Saugus Citizens School Housing investigation Com- mittee - appointed by Town Moderator, Mr. C. F. Nelson Prau.
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4. Since late November lhave cooperated with Town Man- ager, Mr. John B. Kennedy and the architectural firm of W. Drummy, Associates, in developing plans for school buildings additions to the Veterans Memorial School and the high school, in accordance with the specifics of the votes of the Special Town Meetings of November 16 and November 23, 1959, authorizing these additions.
School Enrollment Statistttics
School enrollment is a matter of vital importance to every Saugus citizen. The problems to the Town that are raised by the large, steady growth in school population are touched on elsewhere in this Report. Presented in this section are the enrollment figures that are the source of the eductional pro- blems with which the Town must cope.
The large and continuous growth of the Saugus school population is too well known to every citizen and Town official to require any extensive cominent here. The figures point up several significant and obvious facts. Namely: to continuous need for more classroom space to accomodate the pupils - the need for more teachers to teach the pupils - the need to increase auxiliary and special services (guidance, health, transportation, speech, remedial reading) - the need for larger textbook, supply and equipment purchases. Briefly, the need for more funds just " ........ to keep in the same place." (See forword in the SAUGUS SCHOOL STUDY by Dr. John E. Marshall for the quotation.)
Please see the Section FINANCE for information regarding school costs.
Concluding this Section: The School population has increased approximately 30% - or 1050 pupils - since 1953. The average yearly gain approximates 170 pupils a year since 1953
TABLE IN Financial Statement for the Colendor Year - 1959
General Budget Appropriation for 1959 Expended 1959
$2 13. 193.00 212,585.09 (1)
Balance Unexpended
$ 607.91
5alory Budget Appropriatian for Expended Balonce Unexpended
1959
$1.053,834.40
1959 1,045,367.10 (2) 8,467.30
Unexpended General Budgot $ 607.91
Unexpended 5al ary Budget 8,467.30
Total unexpended 1959 $9,075.21
Total expenditures for 1959 (1) plus (2)
$1,257,952. 19
Receipts in 1959
The Town of Saugus received the sum of $208, 887.95 on account af schoals. Cans quently the net cast of operating the schaals in the difference between Expenditures ond Re- ceipts.
The sources of these receipts and the omaunts ore:
Commonwealth of Moss. C. 71-57 A
$ 23.252.00
(Tronsportotlan )
Commonwealth of Mass. C 71-5. 46
6,770.70
(5pecial Class)
Commanwealth of Mass. C. 70-as
amended by C.643 (General 5tote Aid)
$172,755.00
Transportati an ond tuitian (5tote Wards)
4,566.59
5hop Supplies, collectians
263.60
Junk-ald desks, chairs, etc.
150.00
Rentol af 5choal Focilities Evening 5chool
486.00
Misc., damoge ond lost baoks, toll colls, etc.
285.06
Tatol Receipts, 1959
$208,887.95
Summary
Total Expenditures - 1959
$1,257,952. 19
Receipts on Account af 5chools - 1959 208.887.95
Net Cost of 5choals - 1959
$1,049,064.24
Continued on page 1.
TABLE I SEVEN YEAR PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Enrollment Dote
1
2 3
4 5 6 2. 1.6 7 8 175 9 | 10 | 11| 12 | Total | Total | daily
Oct. 1, 1953.
371 J 387 4 357 1 304 1 368 1 345| 15 | 2138 | 311 1 2551 566 | 255 | 218 | 165 | 170 | 808 | 3521
388 | 387 | 403 | 341 1 319 |3631 14 / 2215 1 348 | 2991 647 | 244 1 237 [ 218 | 160 | 859 | 3721 | 200
371 | 394 | 381 | 407 | 341 | 322| 15 | 2231 | 367 | 340| 707 | 301 | 242| 223 | 190 1 956 | 3894 1 173
310 [ 373 | 412 1 3841 405 | 3351 18 | 2237 | 340 | 3551 695 1 328 | 283 | 223 | 209 | 1043 | 3975 | 81
439 1 331 [ 384 1 426 | 394 | 405 4 24 | 2403 1 343 1 3311 674 4 370 | 296 1 259 | 211| 1136 1 4213 / 238
474 1430|355 13831 442 |393| 23|2500 1 425 ! 337| 762 / 327 | 3361 289 | 227 | 1179 | 4441 | 228
439 1 465 | 442 1 3611 371 1 440 | 20 1 2538 | 398 1 426 [ 824 / 321 1 303] 321 1 2621 1208 | 4570 | 129
E st.
29.79%
Oct. 1, 1960.
Est.
1
1
-
1
Oct. 1, 1954.
Oct. 1, 1955.
Oct. 1, 1956.
Oct. 1, 1957
Oct. 1, 1958.
Oct. 1, 1959.
490 420 : 460 1 440 1 360 1 370 1 20 ) 2560 1 450 1 4101 860 1 415 |295 | 300 | 300 1310 | 4730 | 160
(IP.G.) 7 Yr. Gain 1049
359.00
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discussing the nature of and educational welfare of the school population. There is no smug satisfaction intended; we are doing many things relatively very well; we have on the whole a fine staff of people; we also have many unmet needs that must have more attention. We can do better sonie of the jobs that need to be done, but these tasks can not be accomplished by a wave of the hand or a curt order; most of these jobs depend upon the pro- fessional understanding of a truly conscientious teacher working in an atmosphere of cooperative endeavor.
We know that Saugus is making a real effort to support ils schools within its ability to do so. We are trying to secure maximum 'mileage' from the school dollar in behalf of the ed- uc ation of your sons and daughters. Yet, with the steady increase in the numbers of children to be educated and in the face of other advancing cost factors more and more support is nec- essary - and beyond our direct control. ʻ
I urge a careful reading be given the Reports of the Prin- cipals and Supervisors. There is to be found in these Reports valuable information, not only concerning the school offering, but also concerning school needs and problems.
I am grateful to the School Committee for the attention the members have given to the work of the schools throughout the year and the deep interest the members have taken in forwarding the welfare of the whole school system.
Respectfully, Rhoden B. Eddy Superintendent of Schools
1959 Report Town Clerk
To the Town Manager I hereby submit my report as Town Clerk of the Town of Saugus for the year 1959:
During the year, 762 birth re- cords were received. These were recorded and copies were made and sent to the Secretary of State and to the Town or City where the parents resided.
There were 187 marriage re- cords received and recorded. Copies were made and sent to the Secretary of State.
Records of Death numbered 210. Copies were made and sent to the Secretary of State and to the Cities and Towns where the deceased resided.
The following Town Clerk's
Fees were received:
Marriages $ 376.00 Financial statements . 2,365.00
Discharges .97.00
Business Certificates .. 15.00
Certified copies 336.25
Poll book 39.00
Pole locations 72.00
Gasoline registrations .28.50
P a id to Town Treasurer .. $3,328.75
The Town Clerk's Department collected the following dog lic-
enses for the year 1959:
811 Males at2.00 ........ $ 1,622.00 121 Females at 5.00 ........ 605.00
559 Spayed females at 2.00. 1,118.00
4 Kennels at 10.00. .40.00
1 Kennelat 50.00. .50.00
1496 $ 3,435.00
Less credit over-
payment 1958 2.00
$ 3,433.00
Fees paid to Town
Treasury 373.75
Paid to Treasurer Essex County $ 3,059.25
The following licenses were collected for the Board of Sel- ectmen:
Liquor .. $ 16,245.00 Victualer. .430.00 Entertainment .365.00
Juke Box. 550.00
Junk 20.00 Peddler .. .10.00 Auctioneer. .. 6.00
Gasoline. 1.00
Auto dealer. 250.00
2nd Hand Furniture dealer .. 5.00 Scrap Iron. 10.00
Golf Driving Range
10.00
Mininature GolfRange .. .10.00
Pool & Bowling. .28.00 Taxi licenses. .32.00
Paid to the Town
Treasurer.
$ 17,972.00
The following Hunting and Fishing Licenses were issued lor the year 1959, by the Town Clerk's Office.
259 Ser. No. 1 Res. Citizen Fishing at 3.25 ........ $ 841.75 233 Ser. No. 2 Res. Citizen Hunting at 3.25. 757.25 80 Ser. No. 3 Res. Citizen Sporting at 5.25 ... .420.00 42 Ser. No. 4 Res. Citizen minor fishing at 1.25 ...... 52.50 26 Ser. No 4A Res. Citizen Female fishing at2.25 ... 58.50 1 Ser. No. 9 Alien Fishing at$7.75. .7.75
3 Ser. No. 7 non-Reseident
Fishing at 2.75 .. .8.25 1 Ser. No. 6 Resident Citizen Trapping a 7.75. .. 7.75
36 Ser. No. 15 Resident Citizen Sporting (Free)
7 Ser. No. 7 Duplicate License at.50 .3.50
688 $ 2,157.25
Fees paid to the Town Treasurer ... 161.25 Paid to Division of
Fisheries & Game ...... $1,996.00
Acting for the Board of Reg- istrars, the Town Clerk's De- partment filed all Census slips, made records of all residenis brought inby the Census Takers, reviewed and brought up to date the voting list of the Town of Saugus which numbered 9715. All candidates nomination papers were checked to verify signa- tures on said nomination papers, and further the Town Clerk's Department handeled all the de- tailed work for the municipal election and for the subsequent recount.
A recount of all the votes cast for Selectman at the Mun- icipal election on November 3, 1959, numbering 19 candidates, was held on November 16, 1959. The Board of Registrars hand- led the recount expediently and judiciously, and further the re- sults of which proved the mun- icipal election was conducted with a minumum of error.
In addition to the foregoing activities, records were made of Town Meetings for the Town of Saugus, annual and special, for which permanent records are kept in the office of the Town Clerk, and certified copies of all votes taken are furnished to various departments and town, city, county and State boards. Records are also kept by the Town Clerk's department for the Board of Selectmen, per- manent records are available in the Town Clerk's office to all Town Departments and various boards throughout the Common- wealth, All Selectmen's corres- pondance is handled by the Town
1959 Report Treasury Department
Herewith is submitted the Report of the Treasury Dept. of the Town of Saugus for the year ended December 31,1959. The duties of the Town Treasurer are to receive and disburse all monies of the Town, borrow temporary money in anticipation of revenue, if necessary, and to float all Bond Issues. The Treasurer is cus- todian of all Trust Funds, Cem- etery Perpetual Care Accounts and the Contributory Retire- ment Fund. Tax Titles and Tax Possessions also come under the jurisdiction of this office.
Cash in Treasury, January 1. 1959 $ 659,697.23 Receipts to
December 31,1959 4,537,994.65 5.197,691.88
Expenditures to December 31,1959 4,691,594.84
Cash in Treasury 506,097.04
December 31.1959
Bank Statements Show cash Bal., as of Dec.31,1959, as follows:
Saugus Trust Co. $ 507,621.92
Merchants National 200.64
National Shawmut
First National 1,428.31
Boston Safe Deposit
and Trust Co. 10,299.48
Petty Cash 50.00
National Shawmut, 4,537.19
Spec.
Land Sale Account 100,000.00
in Safe Keeping
$ 628,825.96
Add: Deposits in Jan. 1959, applicable to 1959 23,978.29
$ 652,804.2ª
Deduct: Checks
outstanding
146.707.21
Cash in Treasury $ 506,097.04 December 31,1959
The following Trust Funds are in the custody of the
Treasurer:
Surplus War Bonus Fund $ 829.03
Postwar Rehabil-
itation Fund 21.90
Benjamin N. John-
son Library Fund 144.64
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
Cash in Savings Acct. 88,119.69 Securities 120,000.00
Contributory Retire-
ment Fund
Cash in Checking
Acct.
75,759.38
Securities
219.000.00
$ 503,874.64
With an amount of $2,850.00, tax titles were brought up to date and redemptions showed an income of $10.574.64. Respectfully Submitted Phyllis E. Dodge Treasurer
Clerk's Department, in addition to keeping a permanent file of a 1 } Selectmen's correspon- dance.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN T. RAICHE
Town Clerk
Be Informed
Read Your Annual
Town Report
The Saugus Advertiser, March 3, 1960
TABLE III School Finances Per Pupil Costs
Saugus is grouped with sixty Massachusetts towns, and four -small cities, having population in excess of 10,000 people. In this group of sixty-four communities TABLE IV shows how Saugus has stood in the matter of expenditures per pupil over the last three years.
TABLE IV
No. Towns Spending More Than $400 per pupil 1
1
No. Towns Spending Between $325- $344 per pupil 2
4 12
No. Towns Spending Between $300-$324 per pupil
6
11
10
No. Towns Spending Between $275-$299 per pupil 9 13 20
No, Towns Spending Between $250-$274 per pupil 15 19 12
No. Towns Spending Less Than $249 per pupil 30 14 4
This Table presents many interesting facts, chief of which is the fact that all towns are spending inuch more per pupil now than they were three years ago. For example: In 1956- 1957 nearly half the towns (47% of them) were spending less than $249 per pupil, while three years later (in 1958-1959) only 6 1/4% of the towns were spending as little as $249 or less per pupil.
1958-1959 1957-1958 1956-1957
Highest Per Pupil Expendi-
ture
$458.65
$432.42
$403.79
Median Per Pupil Expendi-
ture (App.) 293,22 273.86
255.48
Lowest Per Pupil Expendi-
ture
229.02 198.38
204.68
Saugus Spent Per Pupil
256.94* 244.16 **
221.01 ***
State of Mass. Average Per Pupil
324.51
296.15
275.57
* In 1958-1959 Saugus was 58th - 57 Mass. Towns spent more than Saugus. 6 Mass. Towns spent less than Saugus. ** In 1957-1958 Saugus was 55th - 54 Mass. Towns spent more than Saugus. 9 Mass. Towns spent less than Saugus. *** In 1956-1957 Saugus was 55th - 54 Mass. Towns spent more than Saugus. 9 Mass. Towns spent less than Saugus.
(Source of figures: Massachusetts Department of Education)
Public Law 874 Funds
In 1959 the Saugus School Committee received $31,682.00 from Public Law 874 Funds (Federal Funds paid to those communities having the children of employees in certain federal defense and service agencies). During 1959 the School Committee spent from these moneys:
Junior High School Repairs
Furniture (Desks, chairs, etc.)
Equipment
Junior High School lockers, Safe, Inter-com Sound Equipment, Tele- visions, Vertical Miller, and etc.
13,738.36
Books
3,001.00
1,128.37
3,500.00
Miscellaneous
1,229.13
Heating Systems
Care of Grounds 3,715.50
School Investigating Committee
2,811.60
Note: At the time of this report, it is known that the School Committee has encumbered the sum of $10,000 to reduce the total amount of the 1960 General Budget.
Iowa Tesis Of Basic Skills
References throughout this Report are made to the IOWA TESTS OF Basic Skills. This test is used widely throughout the United States to measure the abilities of school children in fundamental skills of learning. In Saugus the tests are ad- ministered to all pupils in grades three through nine.
The standards of the IOWA TESTS are established by the authors from the scores of thousands of tesis administered to school children, in the public schools in all types of communities and all types of schools throughout the country, to whom the tesis were given for the purpose of establishing valid norms (measures of achievement). The particular test now inuse was renormed in 1957.
The scores are stated in terms of grade achievement. For example: the figures 3.6 means that this is the normal score for a child in the sixth month of his third year in school; the score 8.4. means that this is the normal score for a child in the fourth month of the eighth grade. A third grade child taking the test in the sixth month of the third grade and making a score of 3.8 means that he is two months above the normal score; a child taking the test in the sixth month of the eighth grade and making a score 8.1 means that he is five months below the nor- mal score for the eighth grade.
The median score is the middle score for a group of pupils; half the group have scored above the median and half have scored below the median. Any staff member will be pleased to explain the test results in detail.
Please see Appendix B for the February 1959 IOWA TEST SCORES in Saugus.
Summary
This Report attempts to tell you something about the condition of your school system - something of its accomplishments - something of its needs and problems. In every instance we are
$2,686.00 2,705.80
Library
Survey Consultant
4,364.75
4,688.42
2 No. Towns Spending Between $345-$390 per pupil 1 2
TOWN REPORT Page 16
1959 Report Public Health Nurse
December 31, 1959
To the Board of Health Saugus, Massachusetts Gentlemen:
I hereby submit my annual re- port as Public Health Nurse for the year ending December 31, 1959. I. Tuberculosis
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