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May 9 Elizabeth Walker
May 9 Hugh Earl Downing
May 10
Claire Loraine Fleurent
May 14 Richard Thomas Lowton Cromwell
May 14 John Freitas Lopes, Jr.
May 15
Elizabeth Munroe
May 19
William Alfred Jarvis
May 22 Richard Allen Powers
May 24 Audrey Segrid Knudsen
June 3 Nancy Ivanette Tripp
June 6 Madeline Rose Oliviera
June 7
Armand Roland Pinard
June 7
Delores Barboza
June 13 Marjorie Anne Timm
June 19
Michelson
June 19
Dorothy Dee Dunn Dakin
June 25 Ann Parker Pope
June 26 Frank Walmsley
June 28
George Charles Sinioris
June 29
Joseph Francis Rogers, Jr.
July 7 Robert Channing Pickett
July 7 William James Kerwin
July 8 Roger Costa
July 8
July 8 Paul Pacheco Mello Costa
July 8 Albert Charles Picanso
July 13
Mary Margaret LeBlanc
June 24
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BIRTHS RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN IN 1935 - Continued
Date
Name of Child
July 15
Leo Thomas Meekin
July 16 Alfred Francis Rapoza, Jr.
July 16 Marlene Eleanor Crapo
July 21 Laura Doris Blanchette
July 21
Dorothea Nathalie Haskins
July 26 Dolores Furtado Cardoza
July 27 Beverly Ann Tunstall
Aug. 1 Audrey Dunn Patstone
Aug. 1 Maria Souza
Aug. 2 Joseph B. Goulart, 3rd
Aug. 6 Grace Vyra Cornell
Aug. 8 Karin Elizabeth Anderson
Aug. 9 Helen Frances Goulart
Aug. 10 Joan Patricia Marra
Aug. 10 Gilbert Pacheco Medeiros
Aug. 15
Angelo M. Fernandes )
Aug. 15
Antone M. Fernandes) Twins
Aug. 18 Jean Bryson Govoni
Aug. 18 Jean Ann Landers
Aug. 22 Susan Ethel Poor
Aug. 22
Paul Bernard Souza
Aug. 22
Homer Arthur Dupont, Jr.
Aug. 26
William Lackey, Jr.
Aug. 29 James Patrick Sylvia Martin
Sept. 4 Sydney Warburton, Jr.
Sept. 6 Stillborn
Sept. 7
Chase
Sept. 7
Gerald Richard Gonsalves
Sept. 7 Louise Jean Couture
Sept. 10 Joseph Donald Duarte
Sept. 11 Patricia Carol Sherman
Sept. 12 Alberta Ann Souza
Sept. 15 Nancy May Hathaway
Sept. 16
Delores Pavao Lima
Sept. 18 Dolores Thumido
Sept. 18 Evelyn Jane Bachaud
Sept: 20 Edwin Learned Blossom
Sept. 21 Harry Lincoln Richard
Oct. 2 Sandra Ruth Maxfield
Oct. 4 Beverley Ann Bleakley
Oct. 5 Helen Irene Maciel
Oct. 6 Aurore Therese Marie Desjardins
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BIRTHS RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN IN 1935 - Continued
Date
Name of Child
Oct. 8
Maud Ragna Agnalt
Oct. 10
Mary Anne Calassa
Oct. 11
Russell Gilbert Williamson, Jr.
Oct.
12
Young
Oct. 19
David Benjamin Drew
Oct. 19
Macomber
Oct. 20 Ernest Joseph Benoit
Oct. 24 Barbara Louise Reeves
Oct. 25
Jane Holdsworth Leach
Oct. 25
Elizabeth Ann Sylvia
Oct. 30
Mary Irene Alferes
Oct. 31
Dale Alan Stetson
Nov. 1
Nancy Gertrude Barnicle
Nov. 14
William Lee Paull
Nov. 17
Joseph Correira, Jr.
Nov. 17
Francis Edward J. Richard
Nov. 20
Rene James Fredette
Nov. 23
Roberta Elizabeth Norris
Nov. 28
Shirley Carling
Dec.
1
Illegitimate
Dec. 9 Irene Marie Bissonnette
Dec. 10
Bowen
Dec. 11
William Brazil
Dec. 12
Gordon Vieira Aquiar
Dec. 16
Antone Alves
Dec. 22
John Joseph Regan
Dec. 22
Delores Ann Caton
Dec. 26
Margaret Ann O'Leary
Dec. 31
Martin
Dec. 31
Ethel Ruth MacMillen)
Dec. 31
Edith Rae Mac Millen ) Twins.
Parents be sure to Record the Birth of your Child with given name in full*
READ THE LAW
"Parents, within forty days after the birth of a child, and every householder, within forty days after a birth in his house, shall cause notice thereof to be given to the clerk of the town where such child is born .* * * *" - Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 6.
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN IN 1935
Date
Groom
Bride
Jan. 5 Joseph Viera
Jan. 5 Frank Perry Aguiar
Jan. 19 Edward Leroy Chase
Jan. 19 Walter Gordon Vieira
Feb. 2 Clifford Colin Howcroft
Feb. 2 Antone Henry DeTerra
Amelia Mary Chmiel
Feb. 11 Joseph Augusto Castelejo
Feb. 13 Walter Thomas Bousquet
Feb. 13 Antone Mello
Feb. 14 Joseph Abel Dulong
Feb. 22 William Valentine Dean
Feb. 23
Roland Theodore Benoit
Rolande Marie Guillotte
Florence Olivine Ouimette
Alice Mckenzie Livesey
Feb. 28 Edward Joseph Audette
Jennie Matthews
Lena Justina Tetreault
Stella Patlo
Elsie Morris Johnson
Mildred Dorothy Rogers
Olivia Edna Berry
Edith Alberta
Maria Laronda Delia Toomey
Estefania de Mello
Germaine Irene Rainville
Frances Muriel Nickerson
Amelia Cardosa Eleanor Frances Correia
Apr. 27 May 4 Charles E. Tobey
May 11 Francis Joseph Pacheco
May 18 Hector Sequin
May 25 Frank Goulart Marshall
May 27 Antone Gonsalves
June 1 Alfred Saul Brunette
June 1 Candido DaRoza
June 1 Manuel Pimental
June 1 Norman Eugene Branchaud
June 12 Lionel Albert Lemieux
June 15 Warren Clinton Burt
june 17 James Nicholas Conway, Jr.
June 22 Frederic Howland Taber, Jr.
Mary Silvia Alvernaz
Elsie Silva
Beulah Marjorie Paull
Emily Marie Rego
Gladys Winterbottom
Mary Gloria Mello
Lillian Mary (Taylor) Perry
Anna Sylvia Virginia Nunes Stuart
Mar. 2 John Gean Baptiste Desjardins
Mar. 5 Edward Joseph Gonsalves
Mar. 14 Carleton Herbert Landers
Mar. 31 Ralph Churchill Tripp
Apr. 10 Harvey Leonard Duxbury
Apr. 20 William Lackey
Apr. 22 Francisco Frates Lopes
Apr. 26 Peter Mickal Mickelson
Apr. 2' Henry Roderiques
Arthur Ludge Gaudreau
William Edward Athearn
Apr. 27 Apr. 27 Apr. 27 James Medeiros Apr. 27 Charles Marshall Frates Walter Machado Frates
Helena Margaret Silva
Marion (Pierce) Towle
Mary Rezendes Mello
Dorothy Vivian Pacheco Catherine Frances Silva Marion Reis
Maude Doris Mosher
Florinda Augusta Fernandes
Mary Andrade Aurilla Reynolds
Loretta Alphonsine Rioux
Muriel LeFavoue Shurtleff
Charlotte Mary Allen
Helen Starr Williams
Doris Maudaline (Demoranville) Chase
Feb. 23 Walter Russell Chace
Feb. 26 Antone Machado
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN IN 1935 - Continued
Date
Groom
Bride
June 24 John Robert Dickson
June 29 Manuel Tavares
June 29 Lewis Arnold Padelford
June 29 Henry Allen Silveira
June 29 Joaquin Rose
Christine Robertson McLeod
Veronica Blechinger
Eveline Florence Bramwell
Florence Catherine MacQuarrie
July 6 Anibal Medeiros
July 12 Robert Brightman Burrell
July 13 Ruy Pinto
July 13 Alfred Lawrence Tetreault
July 16 Joseph Louis Folger
July 17 Joseph Caetano, Jr.
July 20 William Jackson
July 20 Raymond Laurence Crocker
July 21 Manuel Parent
July 26 Adel Whittaker
July 27 Roger Arthur Armand Lague
July 29 Albano Thomas Fernandes
July 29 William Theodore DesRuisseau
Aug. 7 William Wentworth Harris
Aug. 9 John Isaac Barney
Aug. 12 Richard Joseph Taylor
Aug. 17 Reginald Curtis Reed
Aug. 18 David Erhard Hector
Aug. 20 Lloyd Ellsworth Burgess
Aug. 22 John Robert Winterbottom
Aug. 24 Dennis James Varney
Aug. 24 Rudolph Bernard Blechinger
Ang. 25 James Samuel Collins
Aug. 28 Edward Page
Aug. 29 Milton Stetson Lincoln
Aug. 31 James Watson Stott
Aug. 31 Albert Charles Fermino
Sept. 2 George Valentine Emin
Sept. 2 James Brown Lanagan
Sept. 2 Manuel Pacheco Soares
Sept. 2 Herman Bartholomew Corrie
Sept. 5 Louis Andrew Beaulieu
Sept. 9 Joseph Rego Torres, Jr.
Eva Marsh
Juliette St. Armand
Eva Ida Pearson
Eugenie Grace Bissonnette
Maria Estrella Laurence
July 3 Albert Francis Ford
July 4 Clarence Joseph Bartlett
July 4 Joseph Lewis Souza, Jr.
July 6 Norman MacDonald
Mary Alphonse Mello
Lillian Elizabeth Woodacre
Laura Marie Ramos
Marie Evangeline Casey
Winifred Evelyn Cameron
Belmira Semenica
Henrietta Best
Grace Veronica Terry
Marie Emilie Daigle
Agnes Ellen Ventor
Gertrude Jordan Marie Anna Laura Flora Moquin
Lily Mae Thomas Alice Georgette Cloutier
Gertrude Agnes Albert
Ethel May Caldwell
Rosamond Mae Spencer
Ellen Christine Dahl
Ada Albin
Mabel Hilton Harvey
Alice Crowther
Josephine Perry Almeida
Lucia Braley Milliken
Margaret Mary Taylor
Dorothy Ruth Manning Veronica Ann Myndrala Ida Perry
Bernice Rosalie Balthazar
Delphine Agnes Brown Louise Rose
Irene Della Prud-homme
Geraldine Pauline Sophie Doris Mattos
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN IN 1935 - Continued
Date
Groom
Bride
Sept. 14 Antone Vital Rego
Sept. 14 Albert Camara
Sept. 14 Angelo Cambra
Sept. 21 Bernard Joseph Mc Mahon
Sept. 21 Charles Ponte
Barbara Louise Gifford
Sept. 28 Albin Gomes
Ida Marie Daigle
Sept. 28 Thomas DeTerra
Ellen Louise Sheehan
Oct. 1 Alfred Ferdinand Martin
Anna Bronislawa Ochab
Mary Mello
Lillian Marie Rogers
Carolyn Blake Lewis
Oct. 12 Albert Pothier
Anita Poisson
Oct. 12 Oswald Sanchez Rodrigues
Oct. 16 Joseph Ferreira
Oct. 23 Gordon Graham McCabe
Oct. 31 Manuel Medeiros
Nov. 9 Edmund K. Small
Edith King Miguel
Simone Ida Casavant
Dolores Marion Silva
Edith Emily (Peck) Fairbairn Yale
Mary Loudres Costa
Doris Elvin Macomber
Anna Regina Ciarla
Marion Pearl Rezendes
Myrtle Hazel Tickle
Gladys Edwina Majndle
Nov. 28 Joseph Martin
Fannie Freitas
Margaret Mary Harrison
Nov. 30
Manuel Barcellos
Nov. 30 Alfred Lewis Faria
Dec. 4 Clarence Eugene Perron
Dec. 20 Harry Edward R. Pate
Dec. 21 Fleming Denton Wertz Dec. 23 Everett Clifton Sherman
Dec. 26 Caesar Martin
Rose Mary Joaquin
Rosamond Dexter Burgess
Rose Moniz Souza
Anna Mary Smith
Oct. 5 Charles Edward Souza
Oct. 7 Antone Jesus Anthony
Oct. 10 Edward Stanley Wilber
Rose Duarte Mello
Ethel Furness
Nellie Benjamin James
Mary Botelho Moreira
Nov. 20 Richard Francis Morey
Nov. 23 Joseph Pauline
Nov. 23 Ovila Riendeau, Jr.
Nov. 25 Waldemar Noya Damas
Nov. 25 Walter Edward Mellor
Nov. 27 Raymond Warner
Nov. 28 Leslie Curtis Allen
Nov. 28 John Freitas Nov. 28 Frederick Dexter Browning
Mary Szala
Alice Mary Fletcher
Mary Correia
Edith Marion Anderson
Helen Gerula
Winnifred Irene Dugdale
Mabel Irene (Stewart) Hayes Alice Aurado
Nov. 11 Joseph Perry Rezendes
Nov. 19 William Bibby Howarth
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN IN 1935
Date
Name
Years Months Days
Jan. 2 Sarah Emma Churchill
73
6
Jan. 2 Manuel Freitas
62
-
Jan. 4 Elizabeth Smith Strahan
76
Jan. 5 Clarence W. Hammond
78
11
11
Jan. 14 Ilenry Fournier
34
Jan. 15 Gilman E. Hook
73
8
26
Jan. 16 Dennis A. Glennon
57
Jan. 23 Joseph Sylvia
66
Jan. 24 William M. Paull
65
4
19
Jan. 25 Clarence E. Benson
70
5
17
Jan. 26 Agnes V. (Duff) Telford
38
11
Jan. 27 Carl H. Winterbottom
Jan. 30 Theatonio M. Gonsalves
52
2
9
Feb. 5 Mary Alice Eastwood
64
1
24
Feb. 8 Idella M. Libby
68
10
5
Feb. 8 John L. Baker
65
Feb. 13 Charlotte Hammond
55
11
2
Feb. 16
George Cabral
48
4
8
Feb. 25
Frederick M. Rothwell
57
3
&
Feb. 26
Catherine Nicodemisen
4
16
Feb. 28
Corbit C. Elliott
65
11
5
Mar. 1 Mary Elizabeth Akin
73
4
1
Mar. 6 Edith Haskell
57
3
Mar. 8 Martha H. Clark
88
7
2
Mar. 8 Louise R. Macy
75
2
18
Mar. 30
Mary Luiz Souza
61
11
30
Apr.
3
Joaquin
9 hrs. 20 min.
Apr. 4 Annie M. Redding
87
1
1
Apr. 5 Earle Granville Greenleaf
65
?
30
Apr. 6 Ernest Costa
69
Apr
6 Antonio A. Fernandes
61
10
27
Apr. 11 Genevieve Augusta Pacheco nee Gonsalves
59
1
Apr. 1-
Frank Buraczynski
53
7 hrs.
Apr. 14
Agnes Joaquin
19
Apr. 1. James F. Evans
80
Apr. 16 Elsie May Furtado
-
6
Apr. 21
Susan Bumpus
63
8
1
Apr. 26
Fred A. Rounsevell
79
1
2
-
-
-
Jan. 31 Mitchell Witkowicz
33
4
14
20 hrs.
Feb. 18 Mary E. Mello
Apr. 14
Leo Millette
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN IN 1935 - Continued
Date
Name
Years Months Days
Apr. 28
Martha E. Dean
60
2
17
May 1 Richard Porter
70
7
May 4 Sarah Hampson
65
1
20
May
5 Mary Broadbent
57
8
May
7 John Q. Ryder
73
-
3
May
7
Edward R. Dillingham
76
3
27
May
8 Mary E. Buckley
65
11
15
May 14 Mary E. Winslow
59
2
5
May
18 James Booth
65
4
9
May
21 Ella J. Mallery
60
10
23
May
23 Adiel H. Hathaway
71
3
28
May 25
Charles D. Cowan
52
9
4
June
4
Clara A. Corey
22
11
23
June 9 Antone Kratovil
79
June 12
David McGill
74
6
7
June 18
Earl Burgess Negus
45
6
6
June 23
Martha Hasson
50
June 24
John J. Rollins
73
June 24
Dakin
-
5 hrs.
June 28
Joseph D. Metivier
45
1
13
July 2 Marcellina Pina
17
July 4 Frank Souza
52
July
9 Albert Frederick Sauer
47
8
21
July
11 Fayette E. Randall
91
5
-
July
12 Kurt R. Kuechler
59
7
13
July
12 James Souza
21
10
-
July 19 Stephen C. Lowe
77
6
20
July 25 Henry Huddleston Rogers
55
6
28
July 27 Frank H. Arruda
36
7
Aug. 1 Maria Costa Flora
50
Aug. 3 Amy (Woodward) Whitworth
88
-
-
Aug. 7 Lydia W. Macy
70
9
29
Aug. 13 Rebecca Grindrod
69
2
23
Aug. 15 Angelo M. Fernandes
80
9
Aug. 17 John Carl Spaniel
37
6
13
Aug. 18
George Lawrence
36
1
6
Aug. 28 Florence Louise Williams
50
9
11
80
6
May 27 Ann E. Dvorak
June 3 Adolphe Benoit
74
5
28
-
-
7 hrs.
.Aug. 16 Mary J. Holt
Aug. 6 Margaret Patterson Habicht
78
May 13 Georgianna M. Blier
36
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN IN 1935 - Continued
Date
Name
Years Months Days
Sept. 2 Fanny Harrison
82
11
18
Sept. 5 Ernest W. Candage
68
11
9
Sept. 6 Stillborn
Sept. 8 Jeremiah J. Regan
49
1
4
Sept. 21
Henry Francis Dyson
48
1
15
Sept. 23
Florence Theberge
14
3
3
Sept. 24
Antone Moniz Cabral
56
Sept. 24
Thomas Livesey
47
10
15
Sept. 27
Lewis O. Pardee
86
9
22
Oct. 4
Frederick L. Ramsdell
54
5
22
Oct. 5 Alfred F. Rapoza, Jr.
59
5
23
Oct. 18 Henry F. Harrington
51
-
-
4
16
Oct. 28 Anna P. Rose Sylvia
62
Oct. 31
William H. Page
88
3
23
Oct. 31 Katherine Guillette
37
6
17
Nov. 1 Clifford H. Verville
43
-
-
Nov. 10
Albert Saunders
20
10
13
Nov. 15
Caroline Nye Young
2
9
14
Νον. 18
Jose Leiihares Cruz
45
Dec. 4 Bertha T. Pardee
49
Dec.
5 Catherine E. Fish
63
Dec. 10
Stillborn
Dec. 11
John B. Nolin
22
Dec. 17 John Markarian
74
Dec. 19 Joao Lewis
63
Dec. 24
Joseph Souza
23
11
-
Dec. 24
George Henry Goode
68
8
17
Dec. 25
Ellen Holgate
63
8
20
-
Sept. 13
Diogene Boulay
70
2
19
Oct. 5 Sarah Sheehan
Oct. 21
Mary Anne Calassa
76
14
11
()ct. 25 Annie B. Nickerson
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Report of Police Department
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the People of Fairhaven:
Below and on following pages you will find the Annual re- port of the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1935.
At the close of my 1934 report I reviewed the work accomp- lished by the department and mentioned some of the demands for increased police service. I foresaw the daily need of at least two additional officers and more work for spare men. Moreover, I foresaw the need of improving our facilities in order that we might transact business more expeditiously.
These adjustments were made after the Town Meeting in February, the Town Meeting Members having increased the police appropriation to $18,000. They are to be congratulated upon their making our community a safer place in which to live, and appreciation of the men and I heartily goes out to them, as they have saved us many problems which otherwise would have caused us unjustified worry.
The increased appropriation helped to bring into the town treasury an amount of money derived from court fines which probably will not be found to have been equalled in the past and which probably will not be exceeded in the future. Interesting comparisons may be made by consulting these figures :
Year
Appropriation Fines Imposed Fines to Town
Offenses
1932 $18,000. $1,335.00 $159.26 245
1933 $15,000. $1,481.00 $48.50 263
1934 $15,000. $2,786.00 $1,272.80 463
1935 $18,000.
$3,079.80 $2,349.90 409
Highway Safety
Always striving toward the goal of complete safety on the highways, we have carried on our usual rigorous activities in that direction. The larger appropriation made it possible for us to prosecute more traffic cases in court. We have found it possible to check traffic more thoroughly than formerly. Also, we have found more time than has been available in recent years for considering the many other important angles of this worth-
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while phase of our work. As announced earlier in the year through the press, I have been given definite assurance that more suitable traffic lights will be installed at Adams Street and Hut- tleston Avenue in place of the ones now in use. Perhaps this change will have taken place by the time this report reaches your hands. My recommendation that new lights be located at Adams Street and Huttleston Avenue was made only after careful study and after having officers count east and west traffic. From 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. August 25, 1935, a day when there was not a maximum flow of traffic, 12,717 automobiles used Huttleston Avenue at Adams Street.
Following two very bad accidents, numerous minor mishaps, and a great many narrow escapes at Adams and Coggeshall Streets, I recommended that Stop signs be placed there by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works. Early in October I received word that my recommendation would be followed, and on October 17 the signs were erected. I am confident that these signs will prove their worth.
Eight more intoxicated driving cases were prosecuted in 1935 than in 1934. My men and I maintain an anxious vigil over Fairhaven streets for the man or woman who would operate a motor vehicle after using intoxicants in defiance of law, common sense, and the rights of other people.
This department was instrumental in a case which resulted in the suspension of an airplane pilot's right to operate aircraft.
Last summer the Fairhaven Highways Department erected signs on Manhattan Avenue restricting the speed of vehicles. Much favorable comment has come of my recommending this action, and only one accident in the vicinity was reported.
I think nearly everyone will agree with me that whatever suc- cess is attained in highway safety work is due to the efforts of the law enforcement agencies and help from other authorities having equipment or services available. The men and I firmly believe that we have done everything within reason to foster the safety of our streets. In this project we have had the splendid cooperation of the Fairhaven Highways Department, the Massa- chusetts Department of Public Works, and the Massachusetts De- partment of Public Safety.
Almost every speeding complaint received by us involves Main Street, and almost every speeding conviction resulted from evidence obtained on Main Street. I hope these convictions will have not only their intended effect upon the men and women against whom court action was taken, but also a profound effect upon all others who know of them.
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The Accident Record
Quite naturally, you turn to the accident record to compare safety work with results, and it is with pride that I make that comparison.
The department cannot take full credit for a favorable accident record; neither can we be justly expected to shoulder the blame for a poor one. Luck can, and often does, affect the accident record. Conversely, adverse factors beyond our control are cer- tain to present themselves occasionally.
In 1934 eighty-five persons were injured and three were killed in fifty-three accidents. In 1935 only seventy persons suffered injuries in forty-seven accidents. No lives were lost, and only a few of the accidents can be regarded as being serious.
I hope that we can continue our safety work unabatedly and that future accident records will as correctly represent our work as does our current record.
This Insurance Business
Last fall when new insurance rates applying to personal injury indemnification became known, the press throughout the state wrote a great deal about the changes.
Perhaps local folks will be interested in a concise explanation of how these changes affected them. Three things were ac- complished. First, protection of passengers became optional. Secondly, the cost of protection has been lowered. Thirdly, the cost of protection has been prevented from rising.
For complete coverage, Fairhaven's rates on certain risks fell from $28 and $33 to $27.50 and $30.85 respectively.
Again referring to complete coverage on these same risks, Fair- haven's rates have not risen from $28 and $33 to $34.70 and $37.10 respectively as is the case in a neighboring community.
The savings to owners of cars garaged in Fairhaven is 50c and $2.15 for the risks I have cited because the rates fell.
The additional, though perhaps theoretical, savings to owners of cars garaged in Fairhaven is $6.70 and $4.10 because rates did not rise.
All of these savings to owners of Fairhaven cars were made possible through a rezoning of the state, which was made necessary and possible because of the accident record reflecting changed hazardousness.
Insurance men have praised our department for being re- sponsible for a favorable accident record.
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Thought Food
Just as it is the business of insurance companies to indemnify their assureds against loss or damage, so is it our business to protect property owners against loss and damage and persons against injuries and loss of life. To be sure, this indemnification and protection do not relate to precisely the same risks, but there is, nevertheless an unmistakable relation between them.
In Fairhaven there is assessed real and personal property ag- gregating $11,288,220. and, up to October 25 only, registered motor vehicles subject to an assessed valuation of $366,920. The total of these two figures is $11,655,140. Please bear in mind that not all registered cars are included, and that unassessed personalty is omitted. Do not forget, too, that we have no way of evaluating the safety and lives of human beings. Using only these very conservative figures, the cost of policing the town is about sixteen per cent of one cent for each dollar in the $11,655,- 140 assessments. How inexpensive police protection must be, did we but know the exact cost!
Suppose we look at this thing from another angle. This time we will disregard the fact that we protect all the property in the town, and assume that all our time and effort goes to protect the people. According to the last Federal census there were 10,930 persons in Fairhaven. Using this figure as a basis, simple division shows that we spend about $1.65 to offer police protection to each resident. Incidentally, we find this is a very low cost when it is compared with smaller costs in other towns having even smaller populations.
Police protection must be worth more than insurance because it contemplates prevention rather than the making good of losses. Yet, whoever heard of insurance on property at .0016 per dollar or on lives at $1.65 per person?
These facts place the Fairhaven Police Department among those police departments which are the most economically operated. In even the success which we have attained I find contentment, be- cause that success has been realized at a cost both far below its worth and below that which can well be afforded.
Property Stolen and Recovered
By using considerable of our added man power in investigative duties we have kept in closer contact with the objects of our attack upon thievery. I am of the opinion that this follow-up work is chiefly responsible for our reporting only $3,660.98 in thefts the past year. This figure compares with $6,279.32 for 1934. Although thefts and recoveries are not absolutely de-
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pendent one upon the other, there is some relation between them, and we have, therefore, seen recoveries fall from $6,403.20 in 1934 to $2,814.34 in 1935.
ERA and WPA
In 1935 the officers have used a great deal of time in delivering ERA employment assignments. To those who were not con- nected with ERA it is necessary to explain that each of these consisted of name and address of worker, project number and location. name of foreman, date and time to report for work, rate of pay, identification number, administrator's signature, date of issue, and space for the foreman's use. Each was in triplicate. The fact that there were 1,047 of these triplicate as- signments delivered gives some idea of how much work and expense the ERA made for the police. In the first part of the year the officers were hampered by ERA workers who moved without notifying either the ERA Administrator or the police of their new addresses. In these cases time had to be used in locating the persons for whom work was intended. These cases were so numerous that the men were usually in too much doubt to leave an assignment at any address unless the designated worker was there. This condition required many return visits to houses from which occupants were only temporarily away. Most of these difficulties have been overcome, however, and recent months have seen the ERA assignments distributed in the least possible time. Even so, the point I want to emphasize is that the delivery of ERA work notices has used time which, if there had been no ERA, could have been used in performing more orthodox types of police service. Also, 234 WPA employment notices have been distributed. Each of these consists of six copies. Besides ERA and WPA work slips seventy-eight other work assignments were delivered by police.
Department members who have delivered these assignments have met with mixed emotions in the different homes. Some recipients are mildly thankful. The wives and children of others have cried with joy at the prospect of work for the family bread- winners. Others, even when outdoors in their own yards, have refused to approach the police car to get their work papers!
Two New Protective Features
Two new police services have been introduced in recent months.
Fiscal officers of social organizations and collectors for local business houses occasionally find themselves in possession of con- siderable cash at times when banks are closed. To these men we have opened our facilities to the extent of our acting as a de- positary until such a time as the banks have opened.
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Although we do not prefer to anticipate certain possibilities, it is frequently our duty to do so. With this thought in mind we have kept a stringent watch over mail movements whenever cir- cumstances have seemed to warrant our attention.
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