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William B. Eddy
58
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16
Mar.
3
David Wilson
70
2
18
3
Belmiro Correia
27
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8
George I. Lund
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5
10
12
Clara P. Riendeau (Geroux)
71
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20
Maria Enos (Dias)
48
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20
Frank A. Blossom
75
0
12
23
Alexander A. Dowty
92
3
18
27
Seraphin Rezendes
65
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27
Grace R. Brownell
80
9
10
29
Mary J. Deveney (Challernor) .
74
6
15
Apr.
2
William J. Vincent
40
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4 Annie M. Cromwell (Breason)
72
3
15
9
Margaret A. Maguire (Druhan)
72
6
7
14
Catherine A. Baker
60
7
19
16
Frederick S. Bodzioch
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6
16
19 William Hinkley
68
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8
Laura H. Taylor
86
Mary (Reilly) Downey
74
25
Pierre Etienne Paquette
48
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN-1941 (Continued)
Date
Name
Yrs. Months
Days
19
Alice W. Winsor
74
4
24
22
Manuel R. Gonsalves
45
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24
Wilhelmina S. Duchesneau
62
8
28
27
Katherine V. (Cummings) Riley
68
0
27
Manuel DeRego
60
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30
Howard Rynard
66
2
5
: May
3
Ulric Audette
70
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8
Ella D. Bruce
82
3
29
20
Sheldon S. Rogers
45
11
26
22
Joseph A. Rogissart
75
1
20
28
Helen Marie Wilson
50
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. .
30
Julia H. Cook (Rogers)
72
9
8
June
1
Lois B. Day
66
4
1
4
Almira Martha Willard (Preston)
98
10
2
14
Clara J. Owen (Blood)
52
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26
15
Elizabeth Temple Whitaker
(Snowdon)
10
26
26
Frank Goulart Machado
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1
4
29
Maria Whiting Bruce
58
2
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July
1
Elizabeth F. Card
94
10
10
13
Emma Victorino (Medeiros)
48
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15
William Travis
56
4
12
16
Nathaniel Westgate
37
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18
21
Stillbirth
61
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29
Horace A. Hammond
75
1
13
31
Elise (Guerette) Charbonneau
79
9
19
Aug.
2
Harriet (Collins) Cronin
71
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2
Mary S. Maxfield (Swenson)
71
8
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3 Alice Duckworth
62
3
30
4
John Zarzycki
64
2
7
10
Grace P. Judd
69
10
19
11
Elizabeth Schofield (Lord)
76
.
24
11
Henry C. Gidley
78
7
11
14
Marie Delia Lague (Brouillette)
68
5
25
15
Eliza Dickinson
70
4
4
18
Alexander Price Jr.
66
11
22
27
Nathalie Forgue
88
7
12
28
Helen C. Gifford
77
3
4
28
Thomas H. Kearns
61
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31
Margaret Leech (Dobie)
80
6
27
Lapointe
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1
. Sept. 8 Mary E. Vouhnoutka
29
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9 Sarah E. Hackett
88
9
3
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9
Claribel S. Howland
77
10
27
27 Manuel Ponte
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN-1941 (Continued)"
Date
Name
Yrs. Months Days:
29
Howard A. Pearce
14
11.
3
Oct.
1
Wilfred Sumner
50
11
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9
Louise S. Morris
76
...
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16
John Henry Hughes
91
8
21
24
Amanda Potts
76
11
3
25
Mary Queripel (Wilson)
81
6
12
26
William A. Pease
66
10
10
30
Dennis Fernandes
7
25
30
Ida Stanley
83
0
29
17
Ellery L. Lewis
87
1
11
Nov.
2
Howard P. Dunn
7.6
11
28.
3
Stillborn
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7
Marguerite (Lemire) Chaput
88
6
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10
Frank C. Wood
78
3
11
11
Antone Correira, Jr.
27
20
Stillborn
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Dec.
Manuel das Neves Xavier
89
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9
Margaret Jane (McGowan) Young
74
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13
Jane Belle
7.4
9
3
13
Walter O. Cook
52
0
19
23
Martin John Kristiansen
12
3
15
27
Joseph B. Silva
77
...
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30
Katherine S. Swift
76
11
30%
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Report of Police Department
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen :
Below and on following pages you will find the report of the Fairhaven police department for the year ending December 31, 1941.
At the annual town meeting I sought-and was granted -- $2,000 additional funds for the police department and stated that I foresaw increased police activity over 1940. I said that I hoped, by curtailing, that this additional $2,000 would enable the depart- ment to have two men in the cruiser car at all times. Actual ex- perience, however, has shown that the department was about $1,000 short of attaining the efficiency goal I had set. If the town wants the protection it should have with the nation at war and with prices rising a still larger appropriation will be needed.
A comparison of the 1941 report with that for 1940 reveals in- creases in the number of offenses prosecuted, arrests, telephone calls, complaints, reports, accidents, persons injured in accidents, radio calls and auto transfers and in the amount imposed in fines.
The state informs us that its Fairhaven measuring device in Route 6 shows increased traffic of 13.6 per cent. No doubt a part of this increase is accounted for by the many convoys to and from Camp Edwards. When one of these convoys passes through town it is neccessary for this department to use additional manpower in handling ordinary traffic and in facilitating the passage of the convoy.
Fairhaven's excellent record of no highway fatalities in three years was marred in 1941 by a highway death. The depart- ment points out to Fairhaven drivers that an out-of-town driver was responsible for this fatality.
It continues to be the policy of this department to do its ut- most in removing bad drivers from the highways, thus doing its
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part to help Fairhaven keep the lowest compulsory insurance rate in the state. I want to record my appreciation of the splendid co- operation given the police by Chairman Victor O. B. Slater of the Fairhaven Committee on Street and Highway Safety and by the schools of Fairhaven. This cooperation has meant much in pre- venting many accidents.
Here are two facts I want to bring to your attention: 1) The blackout regulations requiring business establishments to be dark offer criminals and saboteurs a better opportunity than they have had heretofore and at the same time require police officers to be more on the alert than ever before. 2) The Fairhaven police de- partment should have more regular police officers added to its roster in order to function properly.
Respectfully yours,
NORMAN D. SHURTLEFF,
Chief of Police.
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OFFENSES
Males Females Total
Assault and Battery
9
1
10
Assault on a Police Officer
1
0
1
Attempt to Break and Enter in the Night- time and Commit Larceny
1
0
1
Being a Delinquent Child
27
7
34
Being a Neglected Child
0
1
1
Being an Unlicensed Operator
10
2
12
Being Present at Gaming
5
0
5
Breaking and Entering and Larceny in the Nighttime
1
0
1
Desertion and Neglect of Family
1
0
1
Disturbing the Peace
4
0
4
Doing Injury to Personal Property
1
0
1
Drunkenness
43
2
45
Failing to Stop When Signalled to Do So
1
0
1
False Affidavit to Registrars of Voters
1
0
1
False Alarm of Fire
2
0
2
False Answer at an Election
1
0
1
Fornication
5
1
6
Gaming on the Lord's Day
7
0
7
Hunting Without License
1
0
1
Illegitimate Children Law Violations
1
0
1
Larceny
1
2
3
Law of the Road Violations
1
0
1
Leaving the Scene of an Accident After Injury to a person
1
0
1
Leaving the Scene of an Accident After Injury to Property
5
0
5
Milk Laws Violations
1
0
1
Neglect of Family
6
0
6
Neglect of Minor Child
0
1
1
Operating a Motor Vehicle After License was Suspended
3
0
3
Operating a Motor Vehicle After Right was Suspended
1
0
1
Operating a Motor Vehicle so as to En- danger
10
1
11
Operating a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor
14
0
14
.
Lewdness
5
0
5
89
Males Females Total
Operating a Motor Vehicle Without Hav --
ing a Certificate of Registration in Possession
1
0
1
Operating a Motor Vehicle Without Lights
1
0
1
Operating an Uninsured Motor Vehicle
3
0
3
Operating an Unregistered Motor Vehicle
3
0
3
Probation Conditions Violations
1
0
1
Rape
1
0
1
Shellfish Laws Violations
2
0
2
Sodomy
4
0
4
Speeding
10
0
10
Statutory Rape
2
0
2
Threatening Bodily Harm
2
0
2
Trespass
1
0
1
Unlawful Appropriation of a Motor Vehicle
4
0
4
Using Profane and Indecent Language in a Public Place
1
0
1
TOTAL LOCAL OFFENSES
206
18
224
TOTAL OUT-OF-TOWN OFFENSES
22
2
24
TOTAL OFFENSES
228
20
248
DISPOSITIONS OF LOCAL CASES
Males Females Total
Dismissed
12
6
18
Not Guilty
34
0
34
Filed
57
7
64
Released Without Arraignment
14
1
15
House of Correction-Suspended
2
0
2
Fined- Suspended
29
0 29
Probation
11
1
12
Continued
10
1
11
Shirley School for Boys
4
0
4
Shirley School for Boys-Suspended
3
0
3
Lancaster School for Girls
0
1
1
State Farm
2
0
2
House of Correction
6
1
7
Nolle Prossed
4
0
4
Fined
8
0
8
Fined-Committed
4
0
90
Pending in Superior Court Defaulted
Males Females Total
4
0
4
2
0
2
TOTAL DISPOSITIONS
206
18
224
ARRESTS BY MONTHS
Males Females Total
January
27
2
29
February
10
0
10
March
10
2
12
April
14
1
15
May
6
2
8
June
11
2
13
July
20
2
22
August
7
0
7
September
13
1
14
October
12
0
12
November
4
0
4
December
14
0
14
Total Arrests for Local Offenses
148
12
160
Total Arrests for Out-Of-Town Offenses
21
2
23
Total Arrests
169
14
183
ARRESTS BY AGES
Males Females Total
6-10 years
0
1
1
11-15 years
11
2
13
16-20 years
29
2
31
21-25 years
25
2
27
26-30 years
22
0
22
31-35 years
17
1
18
36-40 years
8
2
10
41-45 years
14
0
14
46-50 years
10
1
11
51-55 years
6
0
6
56-60 years
5
0
5
61-65 years
1
1
2
Total Arrests for Local Offenses
148
12
160
Total Arrests for Out-Of-Town Offenses
21
2
23
Total Arrests
169
14
183
91
Fines imposed in Fairhaven cases $1,525.00
Court fines received by the town 40.00
Telephone calls etc. January 1 to December 31, 1941 30,964
Complaints January 1 to December 31, 1941
1.917
Reports January 1 to December 31, 1941 2,421
Resident arrests 90
Non-resident arrests 69
Arrests, no addresses
1
Stolen Property Reported to the Value of
$4,708.06
Stolen Property recovered to the Value of
$2,820.25
Number of persons injured in automobile accidents 95
Number of persons killed in automobile accidents
Number of Motor Vehicle Accident Reports filed with the police department 71
Number of dead bodies found 7
Number of doors found unlocked or open
40
Number of windows found unlocked or open
31
Number of street lights reported out
253
Number of occasions when all street lights were reported out
1
Number of occasions when sections of the town were reported without street lights
1
Number of Motor Vehicles Sales and Transfers filed with the police department
Class 1 676
Class 2
205
Class 3
10
Individual
302
1,193
Number of children lost and returned to their homes Motor vehicle licenses and rights suspended or revoked 119
36
Motor vehicle registrations suspended or revoked Radio calls
9
4,552
Traffic. checkup s 354
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POLICE DEPARTMENT EXPENDITURES
Chief Norman D. Shurtleff
$2,085.73
Regular Men
8,732.55
Spare Men
2,473.80
Flashlight Batteries and Bulbs
11.76
Telephones
327.72
Maintenance of Automobiles
1,133.25
Printing
39.50
Stationary, Postage, Office Supplies
55.75
Physicians
28.00
Traveling Expense
60.50
First Aid Supplies .
.21
Supplies
16.22
Office Expense
39.70
Furniture and Fixtures
23.95
Equipment for Men
14.16
Street Directory
15.00
Photography
15.50
Gun Repairs
5.00
Subscription
2.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
$15,080.30
Unexpended Balance
1.30
$15,081.60
APPROPRIATION ANNUAL TOWN MEETING RESERVE FUND
$15,000.00
81.60
$15,081.60
Report of the Board of Assessors
To the Board of Selectmen :
The Board of Assessors submit the following report for the year 1941.
RECAPITULATION Appropriations
Include all Appropriations voted since 1940 Tax Rate was fixed
Total Appropriations, certified by Town Clerk $477,412.97
Total Appropriations taken from Available funds $476,173.75
Deficits due to abatements in excess of Overlay of prior years
1924 $ 24.65 1927 $ 40.82 1933 $ 14.03
1935 $ 10.34 1925 $ 14.58
1932 $ 8.96
1934 $ 13.82 1937 $221.36 1939 $890.66
$1,239.22
State, Tax and Assessments 1941 1940
Estimates
Underestimates
State Tax
$31,350.00
State Parks and Reservations
517.74
State Audit
1,646.27
$33,514.01
$33,514.01
County, Tax and Assessments
County Tax $19,859.10
$19,859.10
Overlay of the current year
$13,010.57
Gross amount to be raised
$543,796.65
Estimated Receipts and Available Funds
Income Tax
$46,532.64
Corporation taxes
17,003.19
Motor Vehicle & Trailer Excise
18,444.05
Licenses
3,305.50
Fines 320.20
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Trust Funds
12.50
Special Assessments
463.47
General Government
834.10
Protection of Persons & Property
606.43
Health & Sanitation
2,861.30
Highways
18,440.22
Charities
25,623.94
Old Age Assistance
29,824.08
Soldier's Benefits
1,380.45
Schools
7,389.06
Water Department
1,226.25
Interest
4,376.30
Veterans Exemptions
129.25
Total Estimated Receipts
$178,772.93
Overestimates of previous years
to be used as available funds Parks & Reservations
$32.61
Total Estimates and
Available Funds
$178,805.54
$178,805.54
Net amount to be raised by Taxation on polls & property
$364,991.11
Tax
Number of Polls 3575 at $2.00 each
$7,150.00
Total valuation Personal Property
$978,680.00
$32,296.44
(Tax rate $33.00
Total valuation Real
Estate $9,864,990.00 $325,544.67
Total taxes levied on polls & property
$364,991.11
Betterment and Special Assessments
Amount Comm. Int. Total
Sewers
$ 6.21
$ .36
$ 6.57
Excise on certain ships
and vessels. 1/3 of 1%
$234.67
$241.24
$241.24
per $1,000.00),
Total amount of 1941 Taxes on Polls and Property and of assessments added to taxes as committed to Collector $365,232.35
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Table of Aggregates of Polls, Property and Taxes As Assessed January 1st., 1941
Number of Persons assessed
Individuals All Others
Total
On Personal Estate only
178
18
196
On Real Estate only
3552
36
3588
On both Personal & Real Estate
349
8
357
Total number of persons assessed Number of Polls assessed
3575
Value of Assessed Personal Estate
Stock in Trade
$33,400.00
Machinery
23,380.00
Live stock
52,720.00
All other Tangible Personal Property
869,180.00
Total assessed value of Personal Estate
$978,680.00
Value of Assessed Real Estate
Land exclusive of Buildings $2,284,010.00
Buildings exclusive of land 7,580,980.00
Total value of Assessed Real Estate
$9,864,990.00
Total value of assessed Estate
$10,843,670.00
Tax Rate per $1000-$33.00
Taxes for State, County or Town Purposes, including Overlay
On Personal Estate
$32,296.44
On Real Estate
325,544.67
On Polls
7,150.00
Total Taxes Assessed $364,991.11
Number of Live Stock Assessed
Horses, (1 year old, or older) 53
Neat cattle
Cows, (1 year old, or over)
693
Yearling's.
79
Swine
63
Fowl
4714
All other, Goats
26
Number of Acres assessed
7497
Number of dwelling houses assessed
3005
4141
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Recapitulation of Motor Vehicles for 1941
Date
Number
Valuation
Excise Tax
1st
2/21/41
1667
$283,230.00
$10,571.08
2nd
3/14/41
343
72,300.00
2,627.32
3rd
6/20/41
873
268,800.00
8,459.14
4th
6/24/41
60
13,920.00
335.27
5th
9/10/41
323
98,580.00
1,973.23
6th
11/13/41
157
41,480.00
584.93
7th
12/29/41
77
34,510.00
245.64
Total for 1941
3500
$812,820.00
$24,796.61
Copy of Valuations and Abatements to State Treasurer
Valuation :
Real & Personal Property, Jan. 1939
$10,621,910.00 None
Real & Personal Property, Dec. 1939
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1939 total levy
17,409.88
Real & Personal Property, Jan. 1940
10,765,480.00
Real & Personal Property, Dec. 1940
13.40
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1940 total levy
19,884.09
Real & Personal Property, Jan. 1941
10,843,670.00
Real & Personal Property, Dec. 1941
None
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1941 total levy
$ 24,796.61
Abatements
Taxes, Real & Personal 1939
Motor Vehicle Excise 1939
In 1939 $12,836.36
In 1939
$681.74
In 1940
3,725.61
In 1940
101.18
In 1941 465.46
In 1941
Taxes, Real & Personal 1940
Motor Vehicle Excise 1940
In 1940 $10,207.63
In 1940
$1,212.85
In 1941 568.40
Taxes, Real & Personal 1941
In 1941 $5,666.60
In 1941
$1,655.21
In 1941 135.67
Motor Vehicle Excise 1941
This is to certify that the information contained in the foregoing, is complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
CHRISTOPHER J. BIRTWISTLE,
For the Board of Assessors.
Report of the Auditors
February 12, 1942.
We hereby certify that we have examined the accounts of the Tax Collector, Treasurer, Selectmen and School Committee of the Town of Fairhaven for the year ending December 31, 1941 and find them correct.
Charles E. Shurtleff Harold B. Dennie Joseph H. Allen
Auditors
Report of the Highway Department
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
The following is the annual report of the Highway Depart- ment for the year 1941.
We have sealed with tar on the Sconticut Neck Road 4500 yards of main road and 12000 yards under Chapter 90 Mainten- ance.
We have covered 4000 yards of road with asphalt and pea stone, a treatment which should have been applied to many more of our streets as recommended last year, but could not be done because adequate funds were not provided.
There are many new streets in town which will be a total loss unless they are taken care of properly in the near future. We have reconditioned several miles of Cinder roads on Sconti- cut Neck, grading and widening them where necessary and this improvement has influenced a considerable number of land own- ers to build new homes. All gravel roads have been scraped and reconditioned and all principal streets have been patched and re- paired where and when needed, but many streets have been patched so many times that rebuilding will be absolutely necessary soon. We have made much needed improvements to many side- walks in all parts of the town.
Bridge Street between Adams Street and Huttleston Avenue Extension has been in very bad condition for several years and under a Chapter 90 Special Appropriation reconstruction was started in October and when work was suspended for the winter by order of the State Officials in December, 500 feet of under- ground drain and 600 feet of surface drain with man holes and catch basins had been installed and the sub base completed and rolled and everything is now ready for surfacing with bituminous concrete, and the work will be completed in the Spring of 1942.
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During the year we constructed 111 yards of Granolithic Sidewalks under an old appropriation whereby the property owner paid one half the cost.
During the Summer the building on Union Wharf housing the Fishermen's "Shacks" replacing the one destroyed during the Hurricane of 1938 was planned, supervised and built by this de- partment using Fairhaven labor and paid for out of a special ap- propriation for hurricane damage provided in 1938. This building has electricity, water, toilet and wash room and provides an office for the Wharfinger and Shellfish Inspector. Repairs have also been made on the Wharf surface and road bed made necessary by several unusually high tides and strong winds.
During December we furnished and made a house to house- delivery of "Sand for Defense" to the citizens who had provided receptacles as instructed.
Rubbish and Ashes Collection-By careful planning and ex- ercising the strictest economy we were able to operate through the year without exceeding our appropriation and furnish the us- ual service, but it was not possible to extend the collection service to parts of the town not now covered although we received num- erous requests from those sections and we have just received a petition from a group of citizens and taxpayers on Weeden road asking for regular collections in that section.
Service for the larger settlements on Sconticut Neck not now covered by our regular route has been demanded, all of which means we must add two to four days a month to our pres- ent schedule.
For several years the Summer visitors living off the main roads have been dumping rubbish, (often mixed with garbage) along the sides of the roads, in brush on private property and in the Mosquito Control ditches, creating an unhealthy and unsightly condition.
New houses have been built in several sections on Sconticut Neck resulting in an increase in taxable property and population.
The department has received requests from time to time for the collection of rubbish and ashes from these other sections es-
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pecially since the beginning of the installation of the water ser- vice on Sconticut Neck and the residents and homeowners, the majority of whom are taxpayers, feel that they are entitled to the same public services as furnished to other parts of the town.
This problem cannot be further overlooked and must be .dealt with now.
Respectfully submitted, ALFRED J. TRIPANIER,
Supt. of Highway Dept.
Report of the Planning Board
Board of Selectmen, Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen :
The annual report of the Planning Board is submitted here -- with :
The Planning Board held ten meetings during the past year. two of which were public hearings. The order of business at these meetings was as follows:
February-Layouts for Gilbert, Raymond and Bernese Streets, westerly from Sconticut Neck Road, were approved. Layout for eliminating the curve on Sconticut Neck Road, just south of the railroad tracks, was approved.
March-Board voted to notify our Representative; Mr. F. Eben Brown, and our senator; Mr. Joseph Francis, that it reconi- mends that the State take over Huttleston Avenue from the bridge to Adams St., but with the proviso thatthe "islands" and trees be left intact. The Board voted to notify the Chairman of the Dept. of Public Works that it favors the removal of car tracks on the south side of Washington Street and to widen Washington Street to this extent, due to increased traffic along Washington street be- cause of Camp Edwards. The Harbor View situation was dis- cussed also at this meeting.
April-The Harbor View situation was discussed jointly with the Board of Selectmen. The Board of Selectmen promised to have the town engineer make a survey of Harbor View and report at a later date. At this meeting, the Board received about fifty entries from High School students in connection with it's annual HIGH SCHOOL PLANNING CONTEST.
May-At this meeting, the Board examined and classified about 50 entries received from High School students in connection with it's annual Planning Contest. This year the students then- selves were allowed to pick out whatever Community Project they thought would best benefit the town. In past years, a speci- fic project was used as a basis for the contest. The Board had difficulty deciding which of the entrants was the best as many of. those received were exceptionally good. However, first prizes
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were won jointly by Erwin Dexter, with a project to convert the Washington Street School into a Community Center; and Robert W. Proctor, with an exceptionally fine "Rotary Traffic" layout for the corner of Huttleston Avenue and Main Street. Other win- ners were Geraldine Ghimussi, Phyllis Roberts, Arthur Costa, Mary Ann Thatcher and Mary Cordoza.
May-Second Meeting-The Harbor View matter was again discussed. Maps showing both the old and proposed new layouts were submitted to the Board and the Board of Selectmen by Mr. Corse. The Selectmen voted to turn the matter over to the Plan- ning Board with power to obtain legal information as to "land court" problems.
June -- The Harbor View matter was again taken up. En- gineer Samuel H. Corse reported that it would take approximately 20,000 yards of fill to raise the elevation 6 feet and approximately 14,000 yards of fill to raise the elevation 5 feet. The estimated cost per yard of fill was given by Mr. Corse as $1.00 per yard. Pending legal advice with reference to land court possibilities, no definite action was taken.
September-Petition was received from Joseph Desrochers, 27 Sycamore St., Fairhaven, to rezone from residence to business classification, land on Howland Road and Sycamore Street. Board voted to attend the State Planning Board convention in Boston October 3 and 4.
October-Public Hearing was held in connection with peti- tion from Joseph Desrochers, 27 Sycamore Street, to rezone his land at the corner of Howland Road and Sycamore Street from residence to business classification. Board voted not to recom- mend this proposed change of zone.
December-Public Hearing was held in connection with pe- tition from the Hathaway Machinery Company to rezone fromn residence to industrial classification their land along the west side of Main Street, south to the south line of the so-called Arden pro- pertyand westerly to the present industrial ,area, or water front as the case may be, also their property located on the east side of Main Street, extending along the south side of South Street, east- erly to Fort Street. Board voted not to recommend such rezon- ing, there being present many abuttors who protested against the proposed change.
During 1942, the Planning Board hopes to be able to aid in working out a concrete plan for Harbor View. This is a problem
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that cannot be settled without taking into consideration every le. gal angle.
In regard to the various planning and zoning contests held in the High School, these contests have been declared of inestimi- table value in building up and creating civic interest.
The Board soon hopes to announce the 1942 subjects and we appreciate the very fine cooperation and interest manifested by the Supt. of Schools, the Principal of the High School, as well as the various High School teachers. This will be the fifth annual contest.
Again, it is well to remember that the Fairhaven Planning Board is one of the very few boards in the Commonwealth that has a rule requiring the payment of a fee when a rezoning peti- tion is received. The fee is $5.00 and has done much to eliminate needless expense, time and trouble, besides cutting the operating expense of the Board. The moneys obtained from fees is paid to the town treasurer.
It is with deep regret that we learn that Mr. S. Bates Coy has decided to move from Fairhaven. Mr. Coy has been a mighty fine planner and his removal from Fairhaven is not only a loss to the board, but to the town itself.
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