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30.20
N. E. Metal Culvert
2,023.05
2,023.05
Stone's Oil Service
24.73
24.73
Curtis, R. T.
4.00
4.00
Brodmerkle, N.
29.76
$
29.76
Rice and Gadaire
119.80
119.80
Jandris & Sons
604.00
604.00
Mass. Correctional Inst.
320.00
320.00
Stone, F.
35.10
35.10
International Salt Co.
155.35
564.75
720.10
E. F. Edson Co.
57.80
57.80
Bleiler Equipment Co.
75.71
75.71
Dwelly, Mrs. R.
34.40
34.40
Concord Woodworking Co.
104.62
104.62
Young, R.
58.50
58.50
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Transglobal Steel Company
187.34
187.34
Total Material
$ 2,312.25 $
3,385.26 $
4,618.65 $
2,278.10 $
12,594.26
Grand Total
$ 13,199.65 $
5,999.81 $
11,998.65 $
8,629.80 $
39,827.91
1961 Contract Labor
$ 33.60
Materials
200.00
Total
$
233.60
FINANCIAL REPORTS
87
88
ANNUAL REPORTS
Purchase and Maintenance
Maintenance of Equipment
Beard Motors
$ 14.95
Carroll Motor Sales
118.80
Dyar Sales & Machinery
40.00
Goldstein and Gurwitz
304.57
N. Gordon & Sons
250.52
Haynes Welding
5.50
Herrick Welding
29.00
Klem Tractor Sales
235.95
Lane, John
9.65
Richards, George
156.30
Varney's Garage
485.68
Total
$
1,650.92
Lights, Fuel, Etc.
W. R. Bentley
$ 1,064.78
Mass. Electric Company
30.70
Radio Oil Co.
61.60
N. E. T. & T. Co.
157.73
Zelnia, Joseph
10.00
Total
S
1,324.81
Equipment
Eastern Equip. Sales
$ 12.90
Gar-Wood Equip. Inc.
17.80
Kelly Square Tires
482.58
Transglobal Steel Co.
304.80
Tri County Cont. Sup.
178.00
Total
$
996.08
Supplies
Butler's Store
$ 1.50
City Auto Parts of Spencer
39.25
Bennie Cotton
75.00
Finan's Express
20.90
Hardwick Farmer's Exchange
6.45
R. T. Quigley
25.11
Rice & Gadaire
5.80
W. M. Steele Co.
7.70
Total
$ 181.71
Insurance
Krussell Insurance Agencey
$ 238.88
Total
$ 238.88
Total Purchase & Maintenance
$ 4,392.40
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FINANCIAL REPORTS
Street Lights Mass. Electric Co.
$ 490.01
$ 490.01
Land Taking Approval Milton O. Fountain
$ 140.00
$ 140.00
Ware Corner Road Drainage Labor
$ 44.25
Holden Trap Rock Co.
39.05
$ 83.30
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE and VETERANS' BENEFITS Public Assistance
Town Account
Administration Quaboag Welfare District $ 350.00
Old Age Assistance
Cash grants
$
5,297.30
Medical aid, board
and care
411.35
Paid to other cities
and towns 102.70
$ 5,811.35
Aid to Dependent Children
Cash grants
$
254.10
Medical payments 127.60 $ 381.70
General Relief
Medical payments
$
128.20
Provisions 20.00 $ 148.20
Medical Aid for the Aged Medical payments and allowances $ 774.70 $ 7,465.95
Federal Account
Old Age Assistance
Cash grants
$
7,046.90
Medical payments 591.30
$
7,628.20
Aid to Dependent Children
Cash grants
$
430.50
Medical payments 6.00
$ 436.50
$
8,074.70
Veterans' Services
Cash Allowances
$
656.00
Fuel
90
ANNUAL REPORTS
Holt Coal Co.
$ 82.00
Medical Aid
137.20
Provisions
80.00
Agent's expenses
$ 299.20 44.80
$
1,000.00
SCHOOLS and LIBRARY SCHOOLS
General
Salaries
School Committee $ 125.00
Superintendent 318.49
Clerk, Supt's Office
410.96
Printing and Postage
28.50
Travel Expenses
648.66
School Census
15.00
Elem. Supervision
212.08
All other
141.58
S
1,900.27
Salaries, Teachers
Rinehart System $ 250.00
Elementary
19,800.08
Special Teachers
1,381.54
Substitutes
390.00
$
21,821.62
Text Books and Supplies
NEDA Title 3
$ 27.42
Text and Reference Books
1,170.22
Supplies
1,117.87
$
2,315.51
Tuition
$ 23,288.39
Transportation
High School $ 8,703.80
Elementary 10,304.00
Vocational Ed.
333.20
Expenses to Meetings
92.54
$ 19,433.54
Janitor's Services
Center School $ 1,200.00 $
1,200.00
Fuel and Light
Fuel $
1,2 05.38 $
1,205.38
Maintenance of Building Repairs $ 1,007.21
Janitor's Supplies
192.57
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FINANCIAL REPORTS
All Other
85.26
$ 1,285.04
Furniture and Furnishings
New Equipment $
1,035.56
Rent Supt's Office
51.60 $
1,087.16
School Health
Physician
$ 100.00
Nurse
460.93
All Other
21.37
$ 582.30
Schools
All Other
Diplomas
$ 12.60 $
12.60
$ 74,131.81
School Lunch
Salaries $ 1,317.50
Food and Supplies
2,707.35
$ 4,024.85 $
4,024.85
Regional School Planning Committee Printing Brochures $
48.77 $
48.77
Library
Salaries and Wages
Librarian
$
348.75
Trustees
45.00
$ 393.75
Books and Periodicals
Books
$ 297.22
Periodicals
36.05
Bicentennial Booklets
48.00
$ 381.27
Fuel and Light
Stone's Oil Service $
352.81
Mass. Electric Co. 34.34
$ 387.15
Insurance
Krussell Ins. Agency
$ 138.60
Supplies
34.30
Petty Cash
$
20.07
All Other
$
53.95
$ 1,409.09
RECREATION and UNCLASSIFIED Bicentennial Celebration
Materials and Supplies
Heald Bldg. Supply $ 33.60
Holden Hardware 8.67
Lincoln Signs
50.00
92
ANNUAL REPORTS
Sawyers
61.83
R. T. Quigley
10.56
C. R. Dean
7.50
Leroy Spinney
46.29
Chester Rood
4.56
$
223.01
Bicentennial Anniversary
Decorations, Trophies, etc.
C. C. Lowell
$
3.35
Norman Drolet
75.93
Belchers
20.00
Classic Trophy
104.00
Fuller Regalia
23.49
Mary Troy
9.48
Esther Rood
2.18
Candid Lines
16.16
London Display
122.30
Photographs, etc.
Worc. Photo
$ 4.65
Wheatons
23.40
$
28.05
Entertainment
Leo Bassett $ 86.00
Gilbertville Brass Band
150.00
Orange Pioneers 100.00
Millbury Fife & Drum
75.00
Powers Star Harmony
75.00
Mt. Carmel Crusaders
100.00
Rutland Drum & Fife
100.00
Lithuanian War Vets
75.00
Oxford Drum and Fife
75.00
Barre High School
75.00*
Pilgrim Fellowship
20.00
C. A. Hanson
25.00
C. S. Lyman
16.00
$ 972.00
*Returned
Stationery and Printing
Barre Gazette $ 484.40
Wm. Sampson
46.00
C. F. Lawrence
44.10
$ 574.50
Food, catering etc.
Levenson's
$ 85.00
M. H. Laipson
4.46
S
376.89
93
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Ethier's Market
15.69
Table Talk
41.25
James Cowan
16.16
Yankee Products
8.50
Town Talk
9.60
Trifilo's
17.29
Mary E. Spinney
35.35
S. N. Ziff
33.00
Marvell Mann
179.04
Hoods
4.54
Hillcrest Dairy
11.55
$
461.43
Arbor Day
Brewer Tree Co.
$ 35.00
Insurance
Krussell Ins. Agcy $ 182.74
G. T. Corvelle
36.00
$
218.74
All other
$
72.61
$ 2,962.23
Care of Town Common
Supplies
Athol-Orange
Lumber Co. $ 31.68
Holden Hardware
1.21
$ 32.89
Labor
Stephen Casault $ 75.00 $
75.00
$ 107.89
Wright Park Maintenance
Materials
Jamara Bros.
$ 21.00
Labor
Stephen Casault
$ 90.00
$ 111.00
Memorial Day Observances
Oakham Congregational Church $ 135.00 $ 135.00
Barre Gazette
Town Reports $ 510.90 $
510.90
4-H Club
Expenses
Eva Grimes
$ 26.04
Charles Turner 7.50
Weston Mfg. Co.
6.00 $
39.54
Materials and Supplies Alice Foley $
67.32
$ 106.86
94
ANNUAL REPORTS
Assessments
Worc. County Retirement
Worc. County Treasurer $ 628.41 $
628.41
Worcester County Tax
Worc. County Treasurer $
2,842.34 $
2,842.34
State Parks and Recreation
Commonwealth of Mass. $
285.82 $
285.82
Cemeteries
Cemetery Committee Salaries $ 45.00
General Maintenance
Wages and Salaries Superintendent
$851.20
Laborers
246.55
$ 1,097.75
Materials
Jamara Bros.
49.00
Equipment
R. T. Quigley $ 80.95
Gas and Oil
C. S. Lyman & Son
20.83
All Other
R. T. Quigley $ 20.06
Wirthmore Stores
33.00
T. S. Dogolowicz
68.37
Hardy's Garage
2.16 $ 123.59
$ 1,417.12
INTEREST and MATURING DEBT Interest
Temporary Loans
Anticipation of Revenue
Worc. County
Nat. Bank $ 164.98
Anticipation of Reimbursement Worc. County
Nat. Bank 260.25 $ 425.23
General Loans
Fire Station
Worc. County Nat. Bank $ 162.50
School Building
Worc. County
Nat. Bank 125.00 $ 287.50
97
ANNUAL REPORTS
TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Worcester, ss.
To either of the constables of the Town of Oakham, in the County of Worcester:
GREETINGS:
In the name of the Selectmen of the Town of Oakham, County of Worcester, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Oakham qualified to vote in elections, and in town affairs to meet in the town hall, known as Memorial Hall, on Monday, the fourth day of March next at 12M at which time the polls will be opened. Polls will be closed at 8 P.M.
The business meeting will open at 8 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To hear the annual reports of the several town officers and to act thereon. Her
Article 2. To choose one Selectman, one Assessor, one member of the School Committee, one Library Trustee, and one member of the Cemetery Committee, all for three year terms; one member of the Cemetery Committee for a two year term; one Planning Board member for a five year term; a Moderator, Collector of Taxes, Treasurer, Auditor, Tree War- den and three Fence Viewers for one year terms, all on one ballot.
Article 3. To choose all the necessary town officers and committees for the ensuing year not required to be elected by ballot.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to fix the salaries and compensation of all elective officers of the town as pro- vided for by Section 108, Chapter 41 of the General Laws.
Article 5. To see what compensation the town will allow for men and equipment used in repairing highways and open- ing roads during the ensuing year.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds in the treasury such sums of money as are necessary to pay salaries, expenses and outlays of the several town departments for the ensuing year.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to authorize the treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen to borrow during the current fiscal year, in anticipation of the revenue of said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current
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expenses of the town, giving the note or notes of the town therefor, these notes to be paid from the revenue of said fis- cal year.
Article 8. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate or appropriate from available funds in the treasury a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highway Maintenance, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 9. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate or appropriate from available funds in the treasury a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds in the treas- ury a sum of money for the improvement of New Braintree Road under Chapter 90 Highway Construction, or tak any action relative thereto.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $500 from the Overlay Surplus for the purposes of a Reserve Fund, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $1,000 or any other amount from the Highway Mach- inery Fund to the Highway Machinery Account, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to authorize and instruct the Board of Assessors to appropriate the sum of $5,000, or any other amount from available funds in the treas- ury for the purpose of reducing the tax levy for the current year, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to accept any trust funds which may be left to the town for the care of ceme- teries, or for any other purpose.
Article 15. To hear the report of the Oakham Bicenten- nial Celebration Committee and to act thereon.
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $500 to oil a section of Foley Road, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to accept Sec- tion III of Chapter 41 of the General Laws as amended by Chapter 15, Acts of 1937, providing for vacation for certain town employees, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $340 for vacation pay for the highway employees, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 19. To see if the town will vote to accept Sec- tion 6C of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, authorizing the town to appropriate money for the removal of snow and ice
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from such private ways within its limits and open to public use as may be designated by the selectmen, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to accept Section 6F of Chapter 40 of the General Laws authorizing the town to make certain repairs on private ways which have been opened to the public for six years or more, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to abolish the office of Town Auditor as provided by Chapter 41, Section 55.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to increase the salary of the members of the School Committee to $325.00 per annum, the clerk of the committee to receive $125.00 and the other two members $100.00 respectively, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to purchase Dean Reservoir together with all rights appurtenant or con- nected with the same, including the dam at said Reservoir, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $1700 to meet the cost of purchase and legal expenses incurred in acquiring the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to petition the Massachusetts Electric Company to install one street light on North Brookfield Road in the vicinity of property owned by Adam Chestna, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $5,123.18, or any sum less than this amount, from available funds in the treasury, if and when such funds are received from the Commonwealth, for the permanent repair of a section of Barre Road, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a resuscitator and to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 to meet the cost thereof, or take any action relative thereto.
And you are required to serve this warrant by posting attested copies in at least three public places in said town seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of holding meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hand this ninth day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three.
ROGER H. LONERGAN WALTER W. NELSON JOHN P. O'DONNELL
Board of Selectmen
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