Town of Eastham Annual Report 1952-1956, Part 36

Author: Eastham (Mass.)
Publication date: 1952
Publisher: the Town
Number of Pages: 840


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POLLS TO OPEN AT 12:00 NOON and MAY CLOSE AT 6:00 P.M.


Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to have a black- board at the front of the Hall, showing the effect on the tax rate of the various articles in the Warrant, or take any action relative thereto.


No recommendation required.


Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to elect a Town Director for the Cape Cod Extension Service.


No recommendation required.


Article 3. To sec in what manner the Town will vote to dispose of its refunded dog tax.


Recommended that the Town place the refunded dog tax at the disposal of the Public Library.


Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to bor- row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue


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of the financial year beginning January 1, 1957, and issue a note or notes therefor, payable in one year and renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.


Recommended.


Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of reimbursement for the financial year beginning January 1, 1957, and to issue a note or notes therefore, payable in one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period or less than one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.


Recommended.


Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money not to exceed $1,000.00 for the establishment and maintenance of a free bed in the Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Mass., for the care and treatment of persons certified by the Selectmen to be residents of the Town and unable to pay for such care and treatment, in accordance with Chapter 111, Section 74, General Laws, or take any action relative thereto.


Recommended $500.00.


Article 7. To see if the Town will ·vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell property taken under Tax Title pro- cedure by the Town, and raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for this purpose, or take any action relative thereto.


Recommended.


Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to pay a bounty of fifty cents (50c) each for woodchucks killed within its boundaries during the ensuing year and raise and appro- priate the sum of $30.00 for this purpose, or taken any ac- tion relative thereto.


Recommended.


Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from unappropriated available


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funds in the Treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 81 High- ways, or take any action relative thereto.


Recommended $4,00.00.


Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $800.00 for the purchase of a Police Cruiser, and the present Cruiser to be traded in as a credit towards the new one.


Recommended.


Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 to be paid to the Town of Orleans for Ambulance, Fire and Police Dispatcher Ser- vice for the year 1957.


Recommended.


Article 12. To act on the Annual Report, including recommendations and reports of the Selectmen and other Town Officers, and see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds in the Treasury sums of money for the same, or take any action relative thereto :


Recommendations of Dept. Heads and Finance Committee 1957


Department


1. Accountant


$1,416.00 250.00


2. Accountant Expense


1,500.00


4. Appeal Board


500.00


5. Assessors Abstracts


200.00


6. Auditorium Note


3,000.00


7. Building Inspector


1,300.00


8. Certification of Notes


10.00


9. Christmas Tree


175.00


10. Civilian Defense


780.00


11. Custodian


2,912.00


12. Dog Officer Account


52.00


13. Dutch Elm Disease


100.00


14. Election and Registration


550.00


15. Finance Committee Expense


25.00


3. Ambulance Hire


148


16. Fire Department 4,085.00


17. Health 900.00


18. Highways-General 1,500.00


19. Insect Pest Control and Poison Ivy


1,750.00


20. Inspector of Animals


80.00


21. Insurance


600.00


22. Interest


3,000.00


23. Legal Expense


1,000.00


24. Library


1,500.00


25. Memorial Day


150.00


26. Miscellaneous


1,000.00


27. Office Clerk


1,392.00


28. Old Cemeteries


350.00


29. Old Windmill Care and Improvement


500.00


30. Planning Board


250.00


31. Police Department


8,500.00


32. Public Amusement and Advertising


500.00


33. Public Welfare Services :


a. Aid to Dependent Children


8,000.00


b. Disability Assistance 2,500.00


c. General Relief 2,000.00


d. Old Age Assistance


20,000.00


34. Public Welfare Administration


1,652.00


35. Recreation Commission 1,500.00


36. Reserve (Transfer from Overlay Surplus) 5,000.00


37. Retirement


1,025.51


38. School


88,595.00


39 School Lunch


800.00


40 School Notes (New Building)


7,000.00


41. Sealer of Weights and Measures


120.00


42. Secretary of Finance Committee


50.00


43. Selectmen and Assessor Expense


900.00


44. Shellfish Protection and Propagation


1,500.00


45. Snow


1,000.00


46. Soldiers' and Sailors' Lots


50.00


47. Surety on Bonds


350.00


48. Tax Titles


1,500.00


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49. Town Dump


1,800.00


50. Town Hall 4,700.00


51. Town Landings


4,500.00


52 Town Reports


1,000.00


53. Treasurer, Collector, Clerk Expense


1,050.00


54. Tree Warden


300.00


55. Veterans' Benefits


3,900.00


56. Vocational Education


500.00


57. Wire Inspections


250.00


TOTAL


$201,369.51


Less Transfer from Overlay Surplus


5,000.00


$196,369.51


Unanimously approved.


Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and compensation of all elective officers of the Town as provided by Section 108, Chapter 44, General Laws, as amended, and raise and appropriate sums of money for salary :


Department Head


Recommendation


Moderator


$ 25.00


Constable


50.00


Road Surveyor


50.00


Selectmen ($600.00 each)


1,800.00


Assessors ($600.00 each)


1,800.00


Board of Welfare ($300.00 each)


900.00


Treasurer, Collector, Clerk


3,500.00


$8,125.00


Recommended.


Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to pay the unpaid bills of 1956. Recommended.


Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of holding


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Band Concerts in the ensuing year, or take any action rela- tive thereto.


Recommended $450.00.


Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the Treasury, the sum of $1,000.00 for Greenhead Fly Control, as authorized by Section 24, Chapter 252, General Laws, and authorize the Town Treasurer to pay said appropria- tion into the State Treasury.


Recommended.


Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds in the Treasury the sum of $400.00 for the purpose of purchasing and installing a water cooler in the lobby of the old Town Hall.


Recommended.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 to be spent as salary and use of car for a Town Nurse, said nurse to be working both as School and Town Nurse, or take any action rela- ative thereto. (By Request.)


Recommended $1,350.00.


Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds in the Treasury, the sum of $12,000.00 for an addition to the fire station and changing the heating system, or take any ac- tion relative thereto.


Recommended, Yes 5; No 1.


Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept the layout of the relocation and widening of a Town Way, (Nauset Road so-called), from the junction of Doane Road and Nauset Road, near the home of Walter MacPherson, to Route 6 in North Eastham, with the boundaries and measurements as reported and recommended by the Select- men under date of January 29, 1957, and will authorize and instruct the Selectmen to take by purchase, gift or eminent domain any lands or interests in fee, in any lands within the lines of said layout, necessary for this purpose, and for


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this purpose raise and appropriate a sum of money not ex- ceeding $500.00.


Recommended $500.00.


Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the Treasury, a sum of money for the permanent construction of Doane Road (so-called), from Little Creek Road (so- called), easterly to the Parking Lot, it being the terminus of said road, or take any action relative thereto.


Recommended.


Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $500.00 to be spent for commemorating of the First En- counter, in connection with arrival of the shallop from the ship Mayflower, or take any action relative thereto.


Recommended.


Article 23. To hear the reports of Committees and to do or act on anything which may legally come before this meeting.


No recommendation required.


You are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Post Office in North East- ham, and the Post Office in Eastham, seven days at least before the date 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 said meeting.


Given under our hands and seals this 31st day of Jan- uary, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hun- dred and Firty-Seven.


MAURICE W. WILEY, Chairman LUTHER P. SMITH BERNARD C. COLLINS Board of Selectmen


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INDEX


Accountant's Report


10


Ambulance Committee Report


55


Annual Town Election


104


Annual Town Meeting


97


Appeal Board Report


65


Assessors' Report


50


Audit Report


57


Balance Sheet


39


Barnstable County Health Department Report


67


Births


94


Building Inspector's Report


70


Charts for 1956


52


Civilian Defense Director's Report


71


Collector's Report


47


Comparative Figures of Article 12


144


Deaths


96


Eastham Improvement Association Report


Fees Collected


49


Finance Committee Report


Fire Chief's Report


Highway Surveyor's Report


Insurance in Force


Juror List


Librarian's Report


Library Trustees' Report


93


Marriages


95 2 80


Planning Board Report


81


Police Chief's Report


82 40


Recapitulation-1956


85


Registrars of Voters' Report


49


Salaries and Wages


111


Sales of Tax Possession Land


42


School Building Committee Report


87


School Reports


115


Sealer of Weights and Measures Report


84


Selectmen's Report


7


Shellfish Constable's Report


88


Social Worker's Report


89


Town Clerk's Report


93 3


Town Officers


43


Treasurer's Report


44


Tree Warden and Moth Superintendent's Report


79


Town Warrant for 1957


145


Special Town Meeting. Sept. 26, 1956


106


Special Town Meeting Warrant


108


Special Town Meeting, November 26, 1956


110


Vacationists Hand Book


114


72 73 75 43 42 77 78


Notice of Town Office Hours


Old Windmill Report


92


Licenses Sold


Recreation Commission Report


Town Property





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