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1,388.52
Water
257.78
Insurance
35.90
Telephone
38.80
Engineering
10.00
All Other
106.71
10,195.65
ALPINE AVENUE SEWER
Labor
247.15
Engineering
23.60
270.75
SPRING STREET SEWER
Advertising
3.25
Pipe
1,900.00
1,903.25
REFUSE AND GARBAGE
Refuse
Labor
7,860.45
Trucks
431.09
Gasoline
325.80
All Other
57.14
Garbage
Contract
4,000.00
12,674.48
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HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
HIGHWAY
General Administration
Salary of Superintendent
1,500.00
Salary of Clerk
1,521.50
Office Expenses
13.28
General
Labor
16,557.48
Trucks
1,363.18
Stone, Gravel
4,545.31
Equipment and Repairs
1,371.63
Gasoline and Oil
1,116.40
Tarvia and Road Oil
2,383.24
All Other
44.67
Light
42.77
Telephone
26.00
Insurance
144.50
Fuel
254.78
Travel Expense
391.25
Engineering
29.60
Supplies
82.02
Equipment Hire
468.00
New Equipment
Truck
3,845.00
Load Packer
2,500.00
38,200.61
Hurricane Repairs
Labor
2,565.06
Material and Equipment
1,034.42
3,599.48
LIGHTING
Maintenance Street Lights 10,454.46
UNION STREET REPAIRS
Labor Material
25.70
45.16
70.86
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CHAPTER 90 MAINTENANCE
Labor Material Equipment Hire
557.95 1,383.48 156.00
2,097.43
COTTAGE, CENTER AND OXFORD STREETS REPAIRS
Labor
387.90
Material
147.15
535.05
SCONTICUT NECK ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Labor
974.60
Material
820.62
Equipment Hire
55.00
All Other
10.20
1,860.42
GRANOLITHIC SIDEWALKS
Labor
772.95
Contract
1,195.45
1,968.40
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
PUBLIC WELFARE
Administration
Salaries and Wages
1,501.23
Office Expense
26.33
Travel Expense
29.65
Telephone
11.25
Insurance on Truck
35.90
All Other
36.53
Outside Relief by Town Groceries and Provisions Fuel
555.80
509.00
Board and Care
1,009.65
Medicine and Medical
1,525.41
State Institutions
2,212.50
Cash
8,873.53
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Hospital Care
373.28
Rent
625.00
Clothing
132.73
Burials
225.00
Labor and Trucking All Other
97.63
Relief by Other Cities and Towns Cities
1,323.65
Towns
161.67
19,536.26
INFIRMARY
Salaries and wages
Superintendent
572.00
Other Employees
.1,404.00
Other Expenses
Groceries and Provisions
1,118.54
Dry Goods and Clothing
90.36
Repairs and Replacement
339.56
Fuel and Electricity
720.95
Medical and Hospital
77.02
Telephone
9.00
Laundry
6.18
Expense of Farm
549.61
Purchase of Live Stock
44.05
All Other
29.73
4,961.00
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Administration
Supervisor
81.90
Social Workers
437.70
Clerks
181.09
Office Supplies
23.40
Travel, Telephone, All Other Aid
23.10
Cash Grants
13,853.55
14,600.74
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Administration
Supervisor
1,141.05
Social Workers
1,167.75
Clerk
1,166.95
73
.
270.52
Office Supplies
71.83
Printing and Postage
196.80
Telephone Travel Expense and All Other
97.64
Aid
Cash Grants
131,555.13
Other Cities and Towns
1,354.60
136,775.32
SOLDIERS' RELIEF
General Administration
Clerk
355.77
Stationery and Postage
82.38
State Aid
370.00
Military Aid
660.00
Soldiers' Relief
Cash
5,470.20
Fuel
36.74
Medicine and Medical Attendance
791.10
Hospital Care
199.75
All Other
44.17
War Allowance
38.00
8,048.11
VETERANS REHABILITATION
Stationery and Postage 3.35
JULIA A. STODDARD FUND
Cash Grants
880.00
Postage
2.75
882.75
JAMES RICKETTS FUND
Care of lot
4.50
ANDRUS SPRIIT FUND
Recording Fees
9.40
Town Infirmary
118.96
128.36
74
23.57
SCHOOLS
ELEMENTARY AND HIGH
Salary of Superintendent
4,490.00
Clerk in Superintendent's Office
1,720.13
Truant Officer
175.00
Printing, Stationery, Postage
140.07
Telephone
698.00
Travel Expense
212.86
School Census
76.00
Office Supplies
84.77
All Other
620.74
Teachers' Salaries
Elementary
88,838.95
Evening
288.00
High
51,765.28
Text and Reference Books
Elementary
1,124.17
High
1,156.93
Supplies
Elementary
2,704.24
High
2,393.11
Tuition
Elementary
192.45
Evening
56.25
Transportation
Elementary
4,265.54
High
2,061.35
Janitors' Services
Elementary
8,723.30
High
8,822.15
Evening
1,179.57
Fuel and Light
6,263.72
Elementary High
3,892.96
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds
Elementary
2,133.72
High
1,505.19
Miscellaneous Operation
Elementary
764.80
High
854.97
Outlay
Elementary
589.85
High
733.32
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Health Elementary High Graduation Exercises Elementary High
2,095.68
650.50
56.25
55.16
Petty Cash High
10.00
201,394.98
Special School Repairs
10,001.96
School Repairs, Hurricane
252.43
State Retirement System
28.88
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
Tuition
4,335.10
RECREATION
PARK DEPARTMENT
Labor
4,504.90
Equipment
752.00
Loam
15.00
Trees
176.50
Insurance
14.00
Gasoline and Oil
46.85
New Equipment
1,000.15
All Other
22.22
6,531.62
UNCLASSIFIED
MEMORIAL DAY
Care of lot
15.00
Bands
118.00
Flowers
152.00
Flags
15.00
300.00
RENT FOR MILITARY ORGANIZATION
Veterans of Foreign Wars
175.00
SMALL CLAIMS
Claim
30.00
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UNPAID BILLS OF PRIOR YEARS
Approved by Annual Town Meeting 325.52
PUBLICITY
Plumbing
8.28
BICYCLE REGISTRATION
Printing
3.90
Tools
5.75
9.65
POST WAR PLANNING EXPENSE
Engineering
147.40
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE
WATER DEPARTMENT
Administration
Foreman
380.80
Printing
17.25
Operation
Purchase of Water
1,164.93
Water Services
393.28
Equipment
65.10
All Other
3.51
2,024.87
SCONTICUT NECK WATER SYSTEM
General Expenses
Engineering
2,107.50
Trenching and Laying Pipes
16,373.53
Pipe and Fittings
5,815.67
Valves
799.31
Hydrants
894.95
Meters
886.50
All Other
10.82
26,888.28
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UNION WHARF
Salary of Wharfinger
300.00
Light
9.00
Repairs and Replacements
880.23
Water
15.00
Engineering
70.00
All Other
19.54
1,293.77
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
INTEREST
Temporary Loans
In Anticipation of Revenue
360.19
General Loans
3,605.00
3,965.19
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS
Temporary Loans
In Anticipation of Revenue
151,400.00
General Loans 40,500.00
191,900.00
AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
AGENCY
Taxes
State Tax and Veterans
Exemption
11,556.23
County
23,214.47
Licenses
Dog Licenses for County
1,834.40
Agency
Federal Withholding Tax
25,317.37
Blue Cross
1,383.30
Contributory Retirement System
7,330.95
Trust and Investment
Rogers Elementary School Fund
131.25
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Post War Planning Contributory Retirement Stoddard Fund
15,412.50 137.50 1,091.99
87,410.05
REFUNDS
Taxes
763.02
Motor Vehicle Excise
43.59
Sewer Connection Deposits
604.87
Estimated Receipts
110.15
Sidewalk Deposits
1,028.00
Federal
1,035.00
3,584.63
935,497.22
Cash On Hand December 31, 1946
$125,686.34
$1,061,183.56
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ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS - 1946
ACCOUNTS
Balances
Carried Forward
Appropriations
Credits
Trust Funds
and Grants
Payments
Balances
to Revenue
Balances
Forward
Transfers to
Other Accounts
Selectmen's Salaries
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
Selectmen's Office Expense
2,750.00
$6.50
2,726.38
$30.12
Treasurer's Salary
1,567.60
1,567.60
Treasurer's Office Expense
3,500.00
3,492.20
7.80
Town
Collector's Salary
2,300.00
2,300.00
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Town Collector's Office Expense
2,700.00
2,669.85
30.15
Tax Title Expense
$632.56
1,500.00
32.20
1,412.33
752.43
Assessors' Salaries
4,920.00
43.45
4,963.45
Assessors' Office Expense
1,156.00
1,146.21
9.79
Salary of Moderator
25.00
20.00
5.00
Salary of Auditors
300.00
300.00
Election and Registration
4,800.00
4,674.88
125.12
Town Meeting Expense
800.00
796.34
3.66
Legal Expense
500.00
105.00
395.00
Planning Board
125.00
118.67
6.33
Safety Council
62.00
25.00
37.00
Board of Appeals
75.00
38.57
36.43
Town Hall
7,100.00
11.00
6,580.30
530.70
Town Hall Repairs
5,000.00
4,807.03
192.97
Town Hall, Hurricane
2,849.11
2,849.11
Town Hall, Scenery
400.00
400.00
Police Department
22,653.00
22,652.63
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Purchase Police Cars
1,800.00
1,632.09
167.91
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ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS - 1946-Continued
Fire Department
18,500.00
83.02
18,583.02
Fire Alarmı
950.00
519.94
430.06
Salary Supt. Fire Alarmı
360.00
360.00
Conversion of Fire Truck
1,200.00
1,068.43
131.57
Forest Fires
100.00
100.00
Hydrant Rental
8,910.00
8,910.00
Care of Trees
4,500.00
4,476.55
23.45
Salary of Tree Warden
200.00
200.00
Insect Pest Extermination
300.00
300.00
Sealer Weights and Measures
1,000.00
974.86
25.14
Building Inspection
1,200.00
450.00
1,633.85
16.15
Building Inspector's Salary
500.00
: 500.00
Civilian Defense
683.21
373.63
309.58
Insurance on Town Buildings
652.75
4,800.00
82.35
3,947.98
963.76
623.36
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
1,500.00
623.36
2,112.38
10.98
Colonial Club Repairs
3.57
3.56
01
Board of Health
3,750.00
2,244.18
1,505.82
Salaries Board of Health
720.00
720.00
Dental Clinic
500.00
274.50
225.50
Diphtheria Immunization
75.00
75.00
Public Health Nursing
1,000.00
1,000.00
B. C. Tuberculosis Hospital
9,012.86
9,012.86
Shellfish Inspection
1,400.00
1,250.00
150.00
Sewer Maintenance
9,500.00
2.35
9,502.35
Sewer Office Expense
170.00
168.34
1.66
Salary of Sewer Commissioners
525.00
525.00
Huttleston Avenue Sewer
5,200.00
Alpine Avenue Sewer
293.06
270.75
22.31
Collection of Rubbish
8,300.00
411.30
8,674.48
36.82
Collection of Garbage
4,000.00
4,000.00
Mosquito Control Maintenance
1,200.00
1,200.00
Highway Department
30.400.00
30,355.61
44.39
Highway Department, Hurricane
15.40
3,600.00
3,599.48
15.92
5,200.00
Spring Street Sewer
7,000.00
1,903.25
5,096.75
ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS - 1946-Continued
ACCOUNTS
Balances
Carried Forward
Appropriations
Credits
Trust Funds
and Grants
Payments
Balances
to Revenue
Transfers to
Other Accounts
Salary Supt. of Highways
Highway Dept. Truck
6,345.00
155.00
Street Lights
10,454.46
47.68
Union Street
200.00
70.86
129.14
Chapter 90 Maintenance
700.00
1,398.28
2,097.43
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Cottage, Center, Oxford Streets
540.00
535.05
4.95
Sconticut Neck Road Construction
1,862.75
1,860.42
2.33
Granolithic Sidewalks
1,000.00
1,968.40
15.83
Public Welfare
18,000.00
93.00
17,895.37
197.63
Public Welfare Administration
1,800.00
1,640.89
10.61
148.50
Infirmary Aid to Dependent Children
5,150.00
16.96
4,961.00
205.96
Aid to Dependent Children Adm.
550.00
548.11
1.89
Old Age Assistance
86,250.00
408.15
86,627.12
31.03
Old Age Assistance U. S. Grant
1,156.93
50,364.35
46,282.61
5,238.67
Old Age Assistance Adm.
2,200.00
2,169.47
30.53
Old Age Assistance Adm. U.S. Grant
28.04
1,678.78
1,696.12
10.70
War Allowance W. W. No. 2
932.27
10.00
38.00
904.27
State Aid
370.00
130.00
Military Aid
500.00 500.00
160.00
660.00
1,246.45
3,029.49
3,029.49
Aid to Dependent Children Adm. U.S. Gr.
285.07
199.08
85.99
Aid to Dependent Children U. S. Grant
15,100.00
13,853.55
Balances
Forward
1,500.00 6,500.00 10,502.14
1,500.00
984.23
ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS - 1946-Continued
Soldiers'Relief
5,000.00
2,350.00
10.00
6,980.11 3.35
379.89
Veterans Rehabilitation
38.80 $769.75
182,637.00
1.87
19,051.61
201,394.98 252.43
.15
35.45 1,065.10
Schools, Hurricane
382.84
130.41
Vocational School
4,000.00
335.10
4,335.10
School Repairs
716.50
10,000.00
7,846.37
2,870.13
Rogers and Oxford School Repairs
3,000.00
2,155.59
844.41
Park Department
4,933.00
600.00
5,531.47
1.53
Park Department Truck
1,100.00
1,000.15
99.85
Memorial Day
300.00
300.00
Unpaid Bills of Prior Years
325.52
325.52
Small Claims
297.01
30.00
267.01
Veterans of Foreign Wars
350.00
175.00
175.00
Publicity
27.05
75.00
8.28
93.77
Post War Planning Expense Acct.
2,500.00
147.40
2,352.60
Veterans Memorial Committee
150.00
150.00
Union Wharf
1,500.00
993.77
506.23
Salary of Wharfinger
300.00
300.00
Water Department
2,500.00
2,024.87
475.13
Sconticut Neck Water Project
27,474.90
.77
26,888.28
587.39
Debt
40,500.00
40,500.00
Accrued Interest
3,605.00
3,605.00
Interest on Revenue Loans
500.00
360.19
139.81
$49,553.17
$599,358.88
$6,757.22
$75,844.54
$692,048.44
$8,261.11
$25,380.90
$5,823.36
Elementary and High Schools
Report of Police Department
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :
Below and on the following pages you will find the report of the Fairhaven police department for the year ending December 31, 1946.
Police Department Personnel
The roster of the Fairhaven police department for 1946 was as follows:
Chief of Police
9 Regular Police Officers (active)
2 Policewomen
42 Spare Police Officers
45 Reserve Police Officers
27 Special Police Officers
126 Total for 1946
Ambulance Service
During 1946 our ambulance ran up a mileage of 1575 miles. One hundred twenty-nine patients were transported on the authority of physicians-or of police officers in emergency police cases. Some of these trips were to Boston hospitals and to other distant points-Pondville Cancer Clinic, for example. The 1946 average cost per patient-exclusive of negligible payroll items -was $1.46.
Police Training and Instruction
In the middle of December arrangements were com- pleted for regular and spare officers of this department to enroll for six weekly instruction periods to be sponsored by Chief Clarence H. Brownell and Lieut. James S. Hervey, a graduate of the FBI National Police Academy, of the Dartmouth police department.
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This instruction is made possible by the cooperation of the FBI, which organization will provide an instructor for each session. I feel sure that this training and instruc- tion will be well worthwhile and will benefit this depart- ment greatly.
Following the police training and instruction periods, a First Aid refresher course is to be given-presumably by the American Red Cross. Instruction in the use of the Inhalator and in the prone pressure method of artificial resuscitation is planned.
The Traffic Situation
Not unlike every other community, Fairhaven has a traffic situation which has grown worse from that which prevailed in war years. The causes are well known: The easing of the new car supply, removal of wartime restric- tions, better quality gasoline, more drivers, and the seemingly irresistible desire to drive fast. Your police department has received complaints throughout the year which indicate that speeding on all of our main streets is cause for alarm.
Under the present setup officers regularly assigned to patrol and cruiser car duty do all the traffic work. How- ever, these men have a great deal of routine police work to do-most of which does not come to the notice of the public as a whole-, court work, and complaints to investi- gate. For these reasons time which can be devoted to traffic work is limited.
I have planned to insert in my budget request for 1947 enough money to provide 2-car police service for Wednes- day, Sunday, and holiday afternoons during a part of the year. With the second car assigned to traffic I think there will be a tendency to cut down the speeding and to check violators.
Accidents
The accident record serves to substantiate the speed- ing complaints and to justify the spending of more time and money in traffic work. There were 112 persons in- jured in 65 accidents in 1946; but only 76 were injured in
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45 accidents last year. Non-injury reportable accidents increased from 37 in 1945 to 64 this year. That we had one fewer death offers but little consolation.
Bicycle Registration
The compulsory registration of bicycles required a great deal more of our time in 1946 than in the previous year. The increase in Fairhaven's population and the greater availability of bicycles probably account for our registering more than twice as many in 1946 than in 1945. Three hundred eighteen registrations were issued this year, and it has been necessary to order additional plates for early 1947 delivery.
Increased Business Forecast
Probably the increases in bicycle registrations and in accidents typify the trend of police business as more people, generally speaking, means more police activity. The extensive construction of new homes on Sconticut Neck, the many new home and rebuilding projects in other parts of town, and the "tight" housing situation in Fair- haven mean "more people." To a policeman "more people" means more automobiles, more bicycles, more ambulance runs, more emergencies, and more routine work.
Appreciation
At this time I wish to thank the Board of Selectmen, the other town departments, the press, Radio Station WNBH, the businessmen, and the public for the coopera- tion given this department in the past year.
Again I thank Chairman Victor O. B. Slater and Mr. Raymond T. Babbitt of the Fairhaven Committee on Street and Highway Safety, the Superintendent of Schools, and the schools of Fairhaven who continue to do excellent work in promoting safety in Fairhaven.
Respectfully submitted,
NORMAN D. SHURTLEFF Chief of Police
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OFFENSES
Males
Females
Total
Accessory Before the Fact to As-
sault with a Dangerous Weapon 1
0
1
Accosting a Female with Offen- sive Acts and Language
1
0
1
Adultery
1
0
1
Assault and Battery
11
2
13
Assault with a Dangerous Weapon
2
0
2
Being an Unlicensed Operator
3
0
3
Breaking and Entering and Larceny in the Nighttime
5
0
5
Breaking Glass
1
0
1
Being a Delinquent Child
23
3
26
Carrying a Revolver
1
0
1
Disturbing the Peace
5
0
5
Drunkenness
18
2
20
Evading Taxi Fare
1
0
1
Failing to Stop When Signalled to do so
2
0
2
Fornication
0
1
1
Fugitive from Justice
1
0
1
Giving False Name and Address to Police Officer
1
0
1
Illegitimate Children Law Violations
4
0
4
Larceny
9
0
9
Leaving the Scene of an Accident After Injury to a Person
1
0
1
Leaving the Scene of an Accident After Injury to Property
6
0
6
Neglect of Family
8
0
8
Neglect of Illegitimate Child
1
0
1
Neglect of Minor Child
1
0
1
Obstructing an Officer
1
0
1
Operating a Motor Vehicle after License was Suspended
2
0
2
Operating a Motor Vehicle after Right was Suspended
1
0
1
Operating a Motor Vehicle Without Having Operator's License in Possession
1
0
1
87
Males Females
Total
Operating a Motor Vehicle So as to Endanger
4
1
5
Operating a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of Intoxi- cating Liquor
7
0
7
Speeding
5
0
5
Taking Shellfish Without a License
3
0
3
Tenant Law Violations
1
0
1
Threatening Bodily Harm
6
0
6
Unnatural Act
1
0
1
Wilful Injury to Real Property
3
0
3
TOTAL LOCAL OFFENSES
142
9
151
OFFENSES IN ARRESTS FOR OUT-OF-TOWN POLICE
31
2
33
TOTAL OFFENSES
173
11
184
DISPOSITION OF CASES
House of Correction Suspended
7
1
8
Not Guilty
11
1
12
Dismissed
31
0
31
Filed
29
2
31
Fined
10
0
10
Lyman School for Boys
2
0
2
Grand Jury
3
0
3
Lancaster School for Girls
0
2
2
Shirley School for Boys
4
0
4
Probation
3
0
3
Pending
11
0
11
House of Correction
1
1
2
Released Without Arraignment
6
1
7
Fined-Suspended
13
0
13
Continued
7
1
8
House of Correction and
Probation
1
0
1
State Farm
2
0
2
Defaulted
1
0
1
TOTAL DISPOSITION OF LOCAL OFFENSES
142
9
151
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ARRESTS BY MONTHS
Males
Females
Total
January
12
2
14
February
4
1
5
March
5
0
5
April
7
1
8
May
4
0
4
June
3
0
3
July
15
0
15
August
5
0
5
September
2
2
4
October
11
1
12
November
9
1
10
December
22
1
23
Total Arrests for Local Offenses
99
9
108
Arrests for Out-of-Town Police
26
2
28
Total Arrests
125
11
136
ARRESTS BY AGES
6-10 years
1
0
1
11-15 years
11
3
14
16-20 years
18
0
18
21-25 years
13
0
13
26-30 years
9
2
11
31-35 years
17
1
18
36-40 years
9
1
10
41-45 years
8
0
8
46-50 years
3
0
3
51 55 years
6
1
7
56-60 years
2
1
3
61-65 years
2
0
2
Total Arrests for Local Offenses
99
9
108
Arrests for Out-of-Town Police
26
2
28
Total Arrests
125
11
136
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1946 POLICE DEPARTMENT EXPENDITURES
Chief Norman D. Shurtleff
$2,607.16
Regular Police Officers
12,840.46
Spare Police Officers
4,886.34
Telephones
328.73
Auto Maintenance
1,334.39
Ambulance Maintenance
188.18
Radio Maintenance
134.34
Supplies
20.37
Office Expense
47.00
Stationery, Postage, Office Supplies
49.27
First Aid Supplies
6.79
Traveling Expense
33.80
Flashlight Batteries and Bulbs
19.82
Auto Hire
5.22
Out-of-State Travel
7.25
Memberships
10.00
Physicians
20.00
Photography
12.50
Subscription
3.00
Equipment for Men
23.56
Printing
54.45
Town Clerk's Fees
20.00
Total Expenditures
$22,652.63
Unexpended Balance
.37
Appropriation Annual Town Meeting
$22,653.00
Fines imposed in Fairhaven cases
$880.00
Fine money received by the town
$20.00
Telephone calls, etc. January1 - December 31
27,769
Complaints January 1-December 31
2,046
Reports
2,431
Resident arrests
72
Non-resident arrests
36
Stolen property reported to the value of
$4,555.56
Stolen property recovered to the value of
$10,430.31
Number of Motor Vehicle Injury accident reports
filed with the police department in 1946 65
Number of persons injured in automobile accidents
112
Number of persons killed in automobile accidents
2
Number of non-injury accident reports filed under
Section 1, Article IX, Traffic Rules and Regulations
64
90
Number of dead bodies found 4
Number of doors found unlocked or open 42
Number of windows found unlocked or open 3
Number of street lights reported out
297
Number of Ambulance cases
115
Ambulance mileage 1575
Number of Motor Vehicle Sales and Transfers filed with the police department:
Class 1
130
Class 2
105
Individual
368
603
Number of children lost and returned to their homes Number of traffic checkups 244
17
Number of the above checkups which resulted in operators' licenses and rights being recommended suspended 66
Number of operators' licenses and rights suspended or revoked 85
Number of motor vehicle registrations suspended or or revoked 7
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Report of Highway Department
For the Year 1946 -
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The Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen:
In addition to our regular maintenance work on the Streets, Roads, Sidewalks and Drains we performed much extra work including twenty-two tar surfacing jobs on over five and one-half miles of hard surfaced streets thus im- proving their condition for several more years and we have scheduled forty-four more tar and asphalt sealing jobs for the ensuing year approximating eleven miles of streets that need this treatment as soon as possible.
We installed 165 new and newly painted street name signs replacing those lost or destroyed during the hurri- canes of 1938 and 1944 and placed some at locations where no signs have existed heretofore and also erected or re- placed about 50 traffic control signs.
We completed the repair and replacement of the granolithic sidewalks damaged or destroyed at the time of the last hurricane and also constructed 598 square yards of new granolithic sidewalks under the special appropria- tion which shared the cost between the Town and the prop- erty owner.
As voted at the last annual Town Meeting we graded, rolled and tar surfaced a part of Cottage, Center and Oxford Streets.
We erected steel posts and installed removable chain barriers for the temporary closing of part of Union Street south of the Rogers School as requested by the School De- partment.
We did considerable work on Union Wharf Town Property including filling holes and resurfacing the Wharf and road and sidewalks and repainted the Fishermen's Shacks.
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We constructed a new section of road improving the . curve in Sconticut Neck Road a short distance south of the railroad bridge completing the job that was started in 1941 and deferred until funds were available.
RUBBISH COLLECTION
We received the new truck equipped with the Load Packer Body on November 6th, 1946 and immediately put it into operation and after the men became familiar with the operating mechanics we obtained favorable results, re- ducing the daily number of trips to the dump and eliminat- ing one man from the crew.
With the introduction of this new equipment we were obliged to make some changes in our former methods and practices and discontinue oil drums, tall barrels of all types and large bulky objects making it necessary to formulate some new rules so that the householder would be properly informed, and as the people become familiar with the new rules and co-operate with us our efficiency improves and we sincerely thank the householders for their understanding and co-operation which is very much appreciated.
We believe it will be demonstrated that we can render better service with the new equipment at a lower cost to the taxpayers.
Respectfully submitted,
ALFRED J. TRIPANIER, Superintendent.
REPORT OF THE POST WAR PLANNING COMMITTEE
No meetings were held until November, when the com- mittee was called to elect a new chairman in place of Mr. Victor O. B. Slater, resigned. Mr. William Tallman was nominated and elected and has accepted the position.
Respectfully submitted,
MABEL L. POTTER, Secretary.
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Report of State Audit
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxation Division of Accounts State House, Boston 33 January 9, 1947
To the Board of Selectmen Mr. Walter Silveira, Chairman Fairhaven, Massachusetts
Gentlemen :
I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Fairhaven for the period from October 21, 1945 to September 21, 1946, made in accord- ance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Herman B. Dine, Assistant Director of Accounts.
Very truly yours,
FRANCIS X. LANG Director of Accounts
FXL:GEM
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Mr. Francis X. Lang Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation State House, Boston
Sir :
As directed by you, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Fairhaven for the period from October 21, 1945, the date of the previous examination, to September 21, 1946, and report thereon as follows:
The financial transactions, as recorded on the books of the several departments receiving or disbursing money for the town or committing bills for collection, were ex- amined and verified by comparison with the records in the offices of the treasurer and the accounting officer.
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