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Article 8. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 to be paid to the Town of Orleans for Ambulance, Fire and Police Dispatcher Service for the year 1962.
Article 9. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $36.30 to pay the unpaid bills of 1961.
Unanimous Voice Voto.
Article 10. Voted to raise and appropriate a sum of $750.00 for the purpose of holding Band Concerts in the ensuing year. Unanimous Voice Vote.
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Article 11. Voted to raise and approprite the sum of $346.40 for Greenhead Fly Control, as authorized by Sec- tion 24, Chapter 252, General Laws, and authorize the Town Treasurer to pay said appropriation into the State Treasury. Unanimous Voice Vote.
Article 12. Voted: to accept the Annual Report, in- cluding recommendations and reports of the Selectmen and other Town Officers, and raise and appropriate the sum of $229,016.45 for the same.
Recommendations of Dept. Heads and Finance Committee 1962
1. Accountant
$1,828.00
2. Accountant Expense 500.00
3. Assessors' Abstracts 300.00
4. Building Inspector
1,600.00
5. Certification of Notes
10.00
6. Custodian
3,640.00
7. Election and Registration
800.00
8. Finance Committee Expense
75.00
9. Legal Expense
1,000.00
10. Office Clerk
2,072.00
11. Secretary of Finance Committee
50.00
12. Selectmen and Assessor Expense
1,200.00
13. Surety on Bonds
450.00
14. Tax Titles
1,200.00
15. Town Hall 6,500.00
16. Treasurer, Collector, Clerk Expense 1,500.00
17. Bounty on Woodchucks 30.00
18. Ambulance Hire
1,500.00
19. Appeal Board 600.00
20. Civilian Defense 1,000.00
21. Conservation Commission 200.00
Item No.
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22. Dutch Elm Disease 200.00
23. Fire Department 5,650.00
24. Insect Pest and Poison Ivy Control 1,600.00
25. Planning Board 350.00
26. Police Department
10,900.00
27. Sealer of Weights and Measures
180.00
28. Shellfish Protection and Propagation
1,500.00
29 Street Lights
1,066.00
30 Tree Warden 600.00
31 Wire Inspection 350.00
32. Dog Officer Account 100.00
33. Health
1,000.00
34. Inspection of Animals
80.00
35. Town Dump
2,700.00
36. Highways-General
2,000.00
37. Snow
3,000.00
38. Town Landings
7,000.00
39. Veterans' Benefits
3,000.00
40. Welfare Administration
1,000.00
41. Welfare Services
30,000.00
42. Regional School District
89,266.79
43. School
83,916.00
44. School-Out of State Travel
100.00
45. School Lunch
800.00
46. Vocational Education
2,000.00
47. Library
2,500.00
48. Auditorium Note
3,000.00
49. Interest
1,750.00
50. School Notes (Addition)
6,000.00
51. Old Cemeteries
350.00
52. Soldiers' and Sailors' Lots
50.00
53. Christmas Tree 150.00
54. Insurance
1,300.00
55. Memorial Day
150.00
56. Miscellaneous
1,000.00
57. Old Windmill Care and Improvement 1,000.00
58. Public Amusement and Advertising 2,000.00
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59. Recreation Commission 2,000.00
60. Reserve 5,000.00
61. Retirement 2,352.66
62. Town Reports 1,000.00
Total
$304,016.45
Less Transfer from Overlay Surplus
5,000.00
Total To Be Appropriated
$299,016.45
Unanimous Voice Vote.
Article 13. Voted 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 :
Moderator $ 50.00 50.00
Constable
Road Surveyor
50.00
Selectmen ($1,150.00 each)
3,450.00
Assessors ($1,150.00 each)
3,450.00
Board of Welfare ($300.00 each)
900.00
Treasurer, Collector, Clerk
4,300.00
$ 12,250.00
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 14. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 : $2,000.00 to be used in conjunction with $2,000.00 from school funds for a salary of $4,000.00 for a Nurse, and the other $500.00 to be used for expenses, said nurse to be working both as a School Nurse and Town Nurse.
Article 15. Voted to transfer from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, a sum of $4800.00 for the purpose of purchasing and equipping a Rescue Truck.
Article 16. Voted that the Town will assume liability in the manner provided by Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, as amended by Chapter 516 and 524, Acts of 1950, for all damages that may be incurred by work to be performed by the Department of Public Works of
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Massachusetts for the improvement, development, mainten- ance and protection of tidal and non-tidal rivers and streams, harbors, tidewaters, foreshores and shores along a public beach outside of Boston Harbor, including the Merri- mack and Connecticut Rivers, in accordance with Section II of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, and authorize the Select- men to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Commonwealth.
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 17. Voted to accept the provisions of Sections 7-A through 7-D of Chapter 58 of the General Laws, as amended. Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 18. Voted to raise and appropriate, the sum of $1500.00 for the purpose of paining white traffic lines on the town roads, and for the purchase and erection of signs, under direction of the Police Department.
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 19. Not carried.
Article 20. Not carried.
Article 21. Voted to transfer from unapprporiated available funds in the Treasury, the sum of $10,000.00 to be used for the purpose of dredging Rock Harbor, in con- junction with funds from Orleans and the State. Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 22. Not carried.
Article 23. Not voted. 81 No 31 Yes.
Article 24. Voted to adopt the following By-Law : Before the Board of Selectmen shall act upon any petition for the laying out, relocation or altera- tion of a public way over privately owned property, the petitioners shall have prepared by a competent engi- neer, designer or surveyor, specifications and a clear and legibly drawn plan in black India ink upon tracing cloth in suitable overall dimensions, showing the details of
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the road petitioned for, location and name of owners, abut- tors, existing street lines, length and width of the proposed way, drainage disposal, width of turning areas, surface ma- terials and estimated costs, and such other details, services and specifications as the Selectmen may require. The mini- mum of said road layout shall be 33 feet of which the mini- mum clearance and hardened surface shall be 22 feet. The Board of Selectmen will take into consideration the require- ments of the community and if in their opinion, common con- venience and necessity require the same, they shall take the usual steps as provided in Eminent Domain takings. All costs of the foregoing shall be borne by the petitioners. and if the vote of the Town is in the affirmative, approving the doings of the Selectmen thereunto, it shall be a con- dition of said vote that such owners or petitioners shall post a suitable bond with the Board of Selectmen, assuring the completion of said way as prescribed in the plans and specifications, and the Board of Selectmen together with the Surveyor of Highways shall determine that all con- ditions of this By-Law have been complied with, before said bond shall be deemed to have been satisfied.
51 Yes 3 No.
Article 25. Voted to authorize the Eastham School Com- mittee to dispose of certain outdated textbooks.
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 26. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to establish an area of swimming, marked by buoys, all area for moored or anchored boats and a landing for water skiers on Great Pond and to further establish the following Rules and Regulations governing Motor Boating on Great Pond in the Town of Eastham :
(a) Whoever operates upon the waters within the boun- daries of the Town of Eastham a boat propelled by an internal combustion engine, recklessly or negligently, so that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered. shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).
(b) No motor boat shall be used to tow persons on water skis or aquaplanes unless said boat shall be occupied by two
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persons one of whom shall give his full attention to the oper- ation of the boat, and the other of whom shall give his full attention to the person or persons being towed.
(c) All boats shall keep a distance of one hundred and fifty feet from the swimming area marked by buoys and from moored or anchored boats except when leaving or returning to their mooring, or the landing.
(d) No water skiing shall be allowed on Salt Pond or any fresh water pond other than Great Pond.
(e) Hours for water skiing shall be from 7 A.M. to one- half hour after sunset.
(f) The above rules and regulations are to be enforced by any police officer authorized to make arrests in the Town of Eastham, and the violations of the above rules and regulations shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 27 Voted : to dispense with the reading of the minutes. Unanimous Voice Vote
There being no more business to come before the meeting, adjournment came at 8:45 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
L. ISABELLE BRACKETT. Town Clerk
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ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION FEBRUARY 20, 1962
The annual election of officers was held on February 20, 1962 in the Eastham Town Hall, the meeting being called to order at 10:00 A.M.
The following persons having been appointed to act as Election Officers and tellers were duly sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk :
Walter E. Gavin, Lorna Horton, Alfred Mills, Maurice Turano, Helen Carron, Esther Turner, Bertha Perreault and James Clancy.
The Polls opened at 10:00 A.M. and closed at 6 P.M. The ballot box was examined and found to register zero (0). At 6:00 P.M. when the Polls closed, the ballot box registered 559, and the voting list showed a like number as having voted.
Following is a result of the voting :
MODERATOR-One Year
*Fred G. Lapiana, Jr.
482
Blanks 77
SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS,
BOARD OF WELFARE,
BOARD OF HEALTH
-Three Years
George Bridgwood 74
Freeman Hatch, III 118
James Leach 93
Velma D. Macpherson 11
*Maurice A. Moore 180
Phillip J. Schwind 83
CONSTABLES-Three Years
*Harvey T. Moore
Blanks
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
-Three Years
James R. Davis 204
Helena Hayes 69
*Marcia C. Nickerson 263
Blanks 23
LIBRARY TRUSTEE
-Three Years
Ruth Curtiss 150
*Dorrice M. Mayo 381
Blanks 28
PLANNING BOARD
-Five Years
*Harry Taylor 452
Blanks
107
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HIGHWAY SURVEYOR -One Year *Nathan A. Nickerson Blanks
499
RECREATION COMMIS- SION-Five Years
*Fred G. Carey, Jr. 461
60 Blanks 98
QUESTION
Shall the Town pay one half the premium costs pay- able by a retired employee for group life insurance and for group general or blanket hospital surgical and medical insurance ?
Yes 334 No 150
Blanks 75
*Elected.
As the Town Clerk read the results of the voting those who had the largest number of votes were declared elected by the election officers.
L. ISABELLE BRACKETT
Town Clerk
February 23, 1962.
The following appointments to the Finance Committee were announced by the Moderator, Fred G. Lapiana, Jr. :
Clayton O. Horton 3 years
Otto E. Nickerson 3 years
William Hoffman 3 years
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INVENTORY OF TOWN PROPERTY
Town Hall
Land and Building $110,000.00
Furniture and other Property $15,000.00 22,000.00
Total $125,000.00 42,000.00 5,000.00
Fire Department
20,000.00
Town Storage Building
5,000.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
6,000.00
6,000.00
Moth Department
2,500.00
2,500.00
Highway Department
1,000.00
1,000.00
School
170,000.00
10,000.00
180,000.00
Library
15,700.00
4,000.00
19,700.00
Old Windmill
10,200.00
10,200.00
Town Landings
10,000.00
10,000.00
Defense Center
1,000.00
1,000.00
Cemeteries
250.00
250.00
$341,150.00
$61,500.00
$402,650.00
INSURANCE IN FORCE ON EASTHAM TOWN PROPERTY
December 31, 1962
Personal Property
$ 46,000.00
Town Hall
133,500.00
Town Storage Building
6,000.00
School
245,700.00
Library
25,800.00
Fire Station
19,000.00
Fire Tower
6,000.00
Old Windmill
6,000.00
Two Comfort Stations at Beaches
2,000.00
Compensation and liability insurance necessary is carried on the basis of payroll totals.
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REPORT OF SALE OF TAX POSSESSION LAND
Sale Costs
Sale Price Gain
Acreage
1
$32.44
$250.00
$217.56 .39
Respectfully submitted,
MAURICE W. WILEY, Chrm.
Board of Selectmen
LIST OF JURORS
Prepared under Chapter 243, General Laws, as amended.
NAME
OCCUPATION
MAIL ADDRESS
George A. Dickie
Retired
North Eastham
Edward Benz
Cottage Rentals
North Eastham
James W. Flint
Salesman
Eastham
William Hokkanen Banker
North Eastham
August F. Franz
Maintenance Man
Eastham
Ernest Mazzarella
Retired
Orleans
Edward G. Benz
Cottage Colony
Owner Eastham
Respectfully submitted,
MAURICE W. WILEY, Chrm. LUTHER P. SMITH MAURICE A. MOORE
Board of Selectmen.
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BREWSTER - ORLEANS - EASTHAM AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION, INC.
January 8, 1963
Board of Selectmen
Town of Eastham
Eastham, Mass.
Gentlemen :
The Ambulance Association has completed another successful year of service to the Area.
Our Ambulance has traveled 18,594 miles during 1962 ; carried 263 patients on 248 runs. Oxygen was administered 16 times. Twenty three of these runs were to Off-Cape points, including Fall River, Taunton, Providence, Littleton, Georgetown and the Boston Area. The 248 runs were dis- tributed as follows :
Brewster
52
Orleans
151
Eastham
36
Other
9
Total 248
Our Financial Statement is as follows :
RECEIPTS
Brewster
$1,500.00
Orleans
3,000.00
Eastham
1,500.00
Donations
3,680.00
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Interest Members Dues Oxygen Special Donation
146.01
8.00
112.50
50.00
Total Receipts
$ 9,996.51
Funds on Hand January 1, 1962
Operating Account
$3,505.63
Replacement Fund
3,092.73
6,598.56
Total
$16,595.07
EXPENSES
Gasoline & Oil, Etc.
$ 935.89
Repairs to Ambulance
308.59
Equipment and Supplies
86.90
Drivers & Helpers
4,658.00
Storage of Ambulance
365.00
Standby
547.50
Meals (Drivers & Helpers)
238.30
Laundry
63.56
Salary-Assistant Treasurer
300.00
Supplies-Assistant Treasurer
41.59
Insurance on Ambulance
391.41
Bond-Assistant Treasurer
60.00
Postage
10.00
Audit
50.00
State Filing Fee as Corporation
5.00
Filing Cabinet-Assistant Treasurer
61.20
Total Expenses $ 8,122.94
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank (Replacement Fund)
6,684.10
Cape Cod Trust Co. (Operating Account)
1,788.03
Total $16,595.07
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It will be noted that our operating expenses have been steadily increasing. During the past year our operating expenses came to $8,122.94, while our operating income remained at $6000.00; the difference having been made up out of an operating reserve we had built up.
It will be noted that our operating reserve has dropped from $3505.83 to $1788.03. It will become necessary in the very near future to ask for an increase from the Towns.
Your Ambulance Association stands ready to serve you day or night. We have well-trained drivers and help- ers. Both the drivers and their assistants have performed an excellent job, and deserve a vote of thanks.
All donations and interest are placed in a special Fund, and are reserved for replacement of our ambulance, when needed.
Respectively submitted,
URBAN S. LIVINGSTON President
WARRENTON A. WILLIAMS Treasurer
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REPORT OF THE EASTHAM APPEAL BOARD
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
The year 1962 has been an extremely eventful one for the people of Eastham and the Cape, and it has witnessed the first full year's operation of the Cape Cod economy after the establishment of the National Seashore on August 7, 1961.
Eastham, itself, is in a rather unique position relative to the Seashore area and its citizens are perhaps more aware of its existence and a part of its operation than those of any other Cape town. Our own "Salt Pond" lies at the so-called "gateway to the Park." The old Coast Guard Station at the easterly end of Doane Road has been taken over by the National Park Service and established as its official headquarters. Many of the Park officials have taken up residence in our town and a number of our towns- people are presently employed at the Park of- fice. The initial perimeter survey to establish the boun- daries of the Cape Cod National Seashore has been com- pleted by a local surveying and engineering firm with offices in the neighboring town of Orleans but with the majority of its personnel residents of Eastham. Our own Town Hall has been the site of numerous hearings and discus- sions relative to the National Seashore, as well as a favorite meeting spot of the Seashore Advisory Commission among whose members are listed several from Eastham.
This constant and daily awareness of the existing fact of this National Seashore should alert us all to the tremen- dous external economic force to be exerted upon such a relatively small area by the future potentially millions of vacationers from every corner of the United States. The resultant great pressures for expanded housing, and com- mercial and industrial interests to serve the demands of the public in that part of the Cape towns adjacent to but not included in the Park area, should point out to us all the
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extreme importance of adequate zoning properly adminis- tered.
For those who continue to live in the Park area, and in order to - "further preservation and development of the Cape Cod National Seashore in accordance with the purposes of the Act of Congress of August 7, 1961 (75 Stat. 284,291) ; to prohibit commercial and industrial uses there- in; to preserve and increase the amenities of the town; and to conserve natural conditions, wildlife and open spaces for the education, recreation and general welfare of the public .- " Eastham plans, at its annual town meeting, to adopt a section 5-B under its zoning code, thus creating a fifth type of district to be known as the "Seashore District". Any applications for variances or exceptions within this area will be carefully scrutinized by the Secretary of the Interior who, under the ordinance to be adopted, "-is authorized to withdraw the suspension of his authority to acquire, by condemnation, property which is made the subject of a variance or exception that, in his opinion, fails to con- form or is in any manner opposed to or in- consistent with the purposes of the Cape Cod National Seashore."
In the light of our new geographic and economic situa- tion relative to the Cape Seashore, your Appeal Board again urges that you, as individual and interested citizens, review your present planning and protective by-law regulations to determine if, in your mind, they are providing the protection you wish while at the same time allowing for and en- couraging the economic and business growth which you must surely desire for your town. Your Town Planning Board is the initiating authority for any proposed changes in plan- ning or zoning regulations and, its members, as civic-minded and public-spirited citizens, will welcome constructive, well- thought-out suggestions and proposals.
Only seven applications for hearings were received by your Board this year and, of these two were not officially heard before the members because of either withdrawal or postponement at the request of the petitioners or their ap-
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pointed representatives. This drastically reduced number of hearing applications calls numerous possible explanations to mind, among them the hopeful possibility that the Zoning By- Laws of the Town are functioning well and are being ac- cepted and respected as desirable safeguards for property values, or, perhaps, that larger projects of a possible contro- versial nature are being held in abeyance until the event- ual economic impact of the National Seashore becomes more clearly defined. At any rate, those cases which were initially submitted are listed below, in chronologial order of hearing, under the names of the appellants, and the final disposition of each case is indicated briefly. Anyone desiring further information regarding these hearings and any restrictions and/or stipulations which may have been imposed in some instances, may find and examine the files in the office of the Town Clerk ..
1. March 14 Francis R. Gladu Denied
2. March 28 Lewis C. and Yvonne M. Wright No
Decision ; case referred to the Planning Board
3. April 25 Frank E. and Esther Gould Granted
4. August 29 Katherine W. Murphy Denied
5. Sept. 12 Henry L. and Stella Moreno Application withdrawn by appellants at time of hearing.
6. Nov. 7 Warrenton A. and Claire B. Williams Granted
7. Dec. 26 William and Kathleen V. Carlo Postponement requested pre- vious to hearing date
At the last annual Town Meeting held on Feb. 19, 1962, Articles 20, 22, and 23 proposed amendments to the Zoning By-Law in order to extend the areas covered by Commercial Districts C and D, but all three were defeated.
No court cases involving decisions of the Board are pending as of the year end and none was initiated during the year.
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In order to fill the vacancy created by the departure, in late 1961, of Philip S. Horton Jr. and family for the Virgin Islands the Board of Selectmen appointed Lt. Col. Stillman D. Covell to membership on the Board to raise it to the full complement of five regular members and two alternates. However, after Town Meeting time, member Ralph L. Ormsby chose not to be reappointed, and, as no new member was appointed by the Selecmen, your Appeal Board pro- ceeded to carry on its duties through the past year with only six members.
A willing and interested volunteer was finally located in the person of Edward L. Philbrick Jr. whose December appointment is welcomed heartily by the Board.
The remaining members, besides your chairman, are as follows: Mr. George D. Dickie, Mr. Harold Jennings, Mr. Edwin A. Johnson and Mrs. Catherine De Ville. Many thanks to all of the above for the generous giving of their time and their genuine interest in the proper development of our town.
Mrs. De Ville continues her proficient functioning in the dual capacity of both clerk of the Board and associate member, and her continued cooperation and faithful at- tendance are much appreciated.
Another familiar face on hearing nights is that of Town Building Inspector, Ralph L. Rogers, and our thanks go to him also for his choice comments and helpful sugges- tions.
As a final message and in order that the words may possibly come before a few more eyes than previously, I should like to repeat some personal thoughts expressed earlier which I believe to be rather important: Although it will be impossible to determine for several years what
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the final impact of the Park on the Cape will be and how much it will accelerate the growth of industrial, commercial and residential enterprises, it is encumbent upon the lead- ers and planners of all the affected towns to study the situ- ation carefully, to seek qualified professional help and guid- ance where deemed necessary, and to map out a strategic program of well-planned zoning and land development in order to take full advantage of whatever particular natural attractions and facilities each town has to offer. This must be accomplished in such a way that the most benefits ob- tainable from each given situation will accrue to the local. year-around populace while still providing our many thou- sands of annual visitors with the fairest and most equitable return on their vacation dollar.
Respectfully submitted,
DAVID L. MEAD. Chairman Board of Appeals
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EASTHAM BOARD OF TRADE
The Eastham Board of Trade was formed in the fall of 1959, with the purposes of uniting the business people of Eastham on subjects of general welfare; to present a united effort behind any project of opinion expressed by the majority of its members; to be used by business people in Eastham to freely express themselves on all matters of mutual interest.
The most important function of the Eastham Board of Trade is the operation of the Information Center on Route 6. Since its establishment in 1960, the number of inquiries at the Information Center has increased from approximately 3200 to this year's total of 7257. As most inquiries come from groups of at least two persons, and often from larger families, a far greater number than the 7257 callers actually tabulated were served. We estimate conservatively that operation of the Information Center brought an additional $100,000 of business into Eastham.
The services of the Information Center are available to the entire town, and are in no way limited to members of the Board of Trade. We believe that we have an excel- lent opportunity to benefit Eastham in that our Center is the first Information facility available to travellers coming off the Mid-Cape Highway.
Credit for the successful operation of the Information Center goes to Peg Campbell, Linda Lea VanderMay, and Sally Woodworth, all of whom carried on the actual oper- ation capably and cheerfully. Mrs. Mary A. Chase, owner of the land, has very kindly given the Eastham Board of Trade a three year lease at no cost, running until June
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1964. The Highway Department of the Commonwealth has installed permanent road signs directing people to the Information Center.
During the year many mail inquiries for the summer season are received by the Eastham Board of Trade. These inquiries are distributed to all who request them, by means of weekly listings which are duplicated and mailed.
Other activities of the Eastham Board of Trade have been the sponsoring of the annual Christmas Party for children at the Eastham Post Office, the annual Board of Trade Smorgasbord, and discussion of many problems and projects affecting the Town of Eastham.
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