Town of Reading Massachusetts annual report 1955, Part 4

Author: Reading (Mass.)
Publication date: 1955
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 250

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132 voted in the affirmative.

0 voted in the negative.

On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted that the meeting stand adjourned until April 11, 1955 at 7:45 P.M. to meet in the New High School Auditorium

Meeting adjourned at 10:10 P.M.

144 Town Meeting Members were present.

A true copy. Attest:

BOYD H. STEWART, Town Clerk

ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

New High School Auditorium

April 11, 1955

The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Charles P. Howard, at 8:00 P.M.

On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted to take Article 3 from the table.

ARTICLE 3. On motion of Robert G. Clinch it was voted that the Planning Board of the town of Reading as constituted on January 19, 1955 be and the same is hereby authorized and instructed to employ counsel, other than the Town Counsel, for the purpose of defending an appeal filed by one Eva Cole of Reading, to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, of a decree entered in the Superior Court held in

Middlesex County on January 19, 1955, Equity Number 18422, and to defray the expenses of said counsel in relation to said appeal out of funds raised and appropriated by vote passed at an adjourned town meeting held on March 28, 1955 under Article 23.

ARTICLE 3. On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted that the following be chosen to serve as Measurers of Lumber for the ensuing year:

Harold B. Currell Fred F. Smith Maurice H. Donegan

and that the following be chosen to serve as Measurers of Wood and Bark:

Harold B. Currell Thomas E. Brogan Maurice H. Donegan

ARTICLE 3. On motion of Edward C. Emslie it was voted that the Finance Committee be, and hereby is, instructed with the assistance of the Town Accountant and Board of Public Works, to provide in its Annual Report to the Town Meeting for a reporting of all appropriations and expenditures for Sidewalks and for the Water Department under the respective headings of Construction and Maintenance, the practice now followed in respect to Sewers and Drainage.

On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted that Article 3 be laid on the table.

ARTICLE 42. On motion of Kenneth R. Johnson it was voted that the Town accept the report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of a Private Way known as Glenmere Circle and adopt the recom- mendations contained therein, and that the sum of Eight Thousand Five Hundred Eighteen and Fifty one hundredths ($8,518.50) Dollars be appropriated from the unexpended balances of the following ac- counts:

$671.01 from Evergreen Road Betterment Salaries 422.14 from Evergreen Road Betterment Expenses

145.03 from Tennyson Road Betterment Salaries

103.80 from Tennyson Road Betterment Expenses 29.63 from Wentworth Road Betterment Salaries 290.02 from Wentworth Road Betterment Expenses

783.64 from Woodland Street Betterment Salaries

425.02 from Woodland Street Betterment Expenses 2.04 from Resurfacing Streets Account Expenses

and that the sum of $5,646.17 be transferred from Surplus Revenue and that said sums shall be appropriated and transferred for the lay- ing out and construction of said way, said sum to be apportioned as follows: $4,618.50 for Salaries and $3,900.00 for Expenses, and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and instructed to transfer said sums to carry out the purpose of this vote.

Report of the Board of Public Works on the Laying Out of Glenmere Circle

The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having deter- mined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require the laying out of a Town Way under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, substantially in the location hereinafter described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to notice to the owners of land thereof and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a Town Way for the use of the Town running South- easterly and South-westerly from a Town Way now known as Winslow Road as accepted March 27, 1950, to the North-Easterly terminus of a Town Way known as Glenmere Circle as accepted March 14, 1952, substantially as and in the location of the private way known as Glenmere Circle, the Boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows:

Beginning at a point on the Southerly side line of said public town way known as Winslow Road as accepted March 27, 1950; said point being N. 71°-30'-50" E., a distance of 208.42 feet measured along the said Southerly side line of Winslow Road from a stone bound set at the North-Westerly terminus of a curved line having a radius of 20.00 feet and a total length of 31.12 feet, to point of intersection of said Southerly side line of Winslow Road and the Westerly side line of West Street;

Thence by a curved line to the left, running in a South-Westerly direction, by lands of Henry A. Brodecki and Anna L. Brodecki, having a radius of 20.00 feet a length of 31.42 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence S. 180°-29'-10" E. still by lands of said Henry A. Brodecki and Anna L. Brodecki and by lands of Edward J. Sullivan, Jr., Roy O. Beck and Mary F. Beck, John E. Weed and Virginia B. Weed, and lands of George Roman and Ella Roman a distance of 429.52 feet to an angle point at lands of M. Elwyn Walker and Ruth A. Walker;

Thence S. 71°-30'-50" W., by lands of said M. Elwyn Walker et ux and by lands of Russell C. Copley, Stanton J. Dempsey and Katherine E. Dempsey, Robert E. Webb and Virginia P. Webb an unnumbered parcel of land shown as a future street, lands of Elmer B. Lincoln and Doris Lincoln and lands of Donald T. Teel a distance of 509.00 feet to a point, said point being the Westerly terminus of the Southerly side line of this layout; and at the North-Easterly terminus of the public town way known as Glenmere Circle as accepted March 14, 1952;

Thence N. 18°-29'-10" W., by the North-Easterly terminus of said public town way known as Glenmere Circle as accepted March 14, 1952, a distance of 40.00 feet to a point; said point being at the Westerly terminus on the Northerly side line of this layout;

Thence N. 71°-30'-50" E., by lands of William L. Gordon and Grace E. Gordon, Carl C. O'Brien and Elizabeth C. O'Brien, Howard T. Winter, Friend Lumber Company, and lands of Walter J. Smith and Josephine Smith, a distance of 450.00 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the left, running in a North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 20.00 feet, still by lands of said Walter J. Smith et ux, a length of 31.42 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence N. 18°-29'-10" W., still by lands of said Walter J. Smith et ux, and lands of George E. Earl and Helen D. Earl, George R. Barris and Lottie T. Barris, and lands of Raymond I. Parker and Doris A. Parker a distance of 369.92 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the left, running in a North-Westerly direction, having a radius of 20.00 feet, still by lands of said Raymond I. Parker, et ux a length of 31.42 feet to a point of tangent at the said Southerly side line of Winslow Road;

Thence N. 71°-30'-50" E., along said Southerly side line of Winslow Road, a distance of 80.00 feet to the point of beginning of this descrip- tion.

The above described lines being more fully shown on a Plan en- titled "Glenmere Circle (Extension), Reading, Mass.," dated January 1955, Board of Public Works, James T. Putnam, Superintendent, said Plan being a part of this description.

We determine that no damages will be sustained by any person or persons in their property by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement. All acts in connection with said laying out are done under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, and betterments are to be assessed therefore.

This laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a Public Town Way and named Glenmere Circle, and that the sum of Eight Thousand Five Hundred Eighteen ($8,518.00) Dollars be raised and appropriated for said laying out and for the construction of said way.

(Signed) HAROLD D. KILGORE, Chairman COLEMAN J. DONAHUE, Secretary DOMENICK ZANNI, JR. WALTER S. HOPKINS, JR. KENNETH R. JOHNSON Members of the Board of Public Works Town of Reading

ARTICLE 43. On motion of Kenneth R. Johnson it was voted that the Town accept the report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of a Private Way known as Lothrop Road and adopt the recom- mendations contained therein, and that the sum of Twelve Thousand Six Hundred Six ($12,606.00) Dollars be transferred from Surplus Rev- enue and appropriated for the laying out and construction of said way, said sum to be apportioned as follows:

Seven Thousand One Hundred Six ($7,106.00) Dollars for Salaries and Five Thousand Five Hundred ($5,500.00) Dollars for expenses, and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and instructed to transfer said sum to carry out the purpose of this vote.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Middlesex, ss.

Town of Reading

Report of the Board of Public Works on the Laying Out of Lothrop Road

The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having deter- mined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity requires the laying out of a Town Way under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, substantially in the location hereinafter described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to notice to the owners of land thereof and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a Town Way for use of the Town running from a Town Way known as County Road as accepted March 19, 1934 in Westerly, North- erly and Easterly directions to said Town Way known as County Road, substantially as and in the location of the private way known as Lothrop Road, the boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows:

Beginning at a point on the Westerly side line of said public town way known as County Road as accepted March 19, 1934, said point being N. 09°-17'-40" W., a distance of 6.41 feet measured along the said Westerly side line of County Road from the Southerly terminus of the said Westerly side line of County Road;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a North-Westerly direction, having a radius of 25.00 feet, by lands of Roy L. Battis and Gladys H. Battis, a length of 38.51 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence S. 82°-27'-20" W., still by lands of said Roy L. Battis et ux, and by lands of Arthur Raedle Nelson and Anna Marion Nelson, Leslie H. York and Irene M. York and by a private way known as Jere Road, a distance of 361.85 feet to an angle point;

Thence N. 31°-22'-00" W., by said Jere (Private) Road and by lands of Henry O. Swain, Jr., and Ruth A. Swain and lands of George H. Varney and Bessie F. Varney a distance of 162.03 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a North-Westerly direction, having a radius of 556.00 feet, still by land of said George H. Varney et ux, and by lands of Wayne E. Whittemore and Alice W. Whittemore and lands of Ralph A. Crosby Trustee, a length of 215.56 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence N. 08°-54'-40" W., by said lands of Ralph A. Crosby Trustee a distance of 42.56 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 138.80 feet, still by lands of said Ralph A. Crosby Trustee and lands of Herman W. Holmberg and Janet A. Holmberg and by a parcel of land marked, "40 feet Right of Way," and lands of Avis G. Sargent, Adelle L. Sargent and Grace E. Sargent, a length of 218.71 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence N. 81°-22'-20" W., still by lands of said Avis G. Sargent et al, and by lands of Bertil R. Swanberg and Thelma E. Swanberg and by lands of Edna M. Kemp and Florence H. Sanborn, a distance of 136.76 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 251.94 feet, still by lands of said Edna M. Kemp and Florence H. Sanborn and by lands of Alfred E. Murphy and Barbara C. Murphy, a length of 98.72 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence N. 58°-55'-20" E., by said lands of Alfred E. Murphy and Barbara C. Murphy a distance of 47.50 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 25.00 feet, still by lands of said Alfred E. Murphy et ux, a length of 39.27 feet to a point on the said Westerly side line of County Road;

Thence S. 31°-04'-40" E., along said Westerly side line of County Road a distance of 41.00 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a South-Easterly direction having a radius of 560.00 feet still along said Westerly side line of County Road, a length of 61.21 feet to a point on said curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a South-Westerly direction, having a radius of 24.42 feet, by lands of Ralph S. Sulmonetti and Phyllis A. Sulmonetti, a length of 41.03 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence S. 58°-55'-20" W., still by lands of said Ralph S. Sulmonetti et ux a distance of 44.89 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a Westerly direc- tion, having a radius of 301.94 feet, still by lands of said Ralph S. Sul- monetti et ux, and by lands of Kenneth L. Snow and Beverly P. Snow a length of 118.31 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence S. 81°-22'-20" W., still by lands of said Kenneth L. Snow et ux and by lands of F. Clarabell Jackson and Wilma E. Buck and by lands of Harold D. Guy and Betty E. Guy a distance of 136.76 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a South-Westerly direction, having a radius of 88.80 feet, still by lands of said Harold D. Guy et ux a length of 139.93 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence S. 08°-54'-40" E., still by lands of said Harold D. Guy et ux a length of 42.56 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a South-Easterly direction, having a radius of 500.00 feet, still by lands of said Harold D. Guy et ux and by lands of Louis Davis and Priscilla T. Davis and by lands of Robert E. Culver and Elizabeth L. Culver a distance of 195.96 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence S. 31°-22'-00" E., by lands of said Robert E .Culver et ux a distance of 44.75 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a South-easterly direction, having a radius of 130.00 feet by land of said Robert E. Culver et ux and by lands of Chester C. Pease, Jr., and Elizabeth B. Pease a length of 150.15 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence N. 82°-27'-20" E., still by lands of said Chester C. Pease, Jr., et ux and by lands of Clifford W. Libby and Charlotte A. Libby and by lands of William W. Kimball, Jr., and Eleanor C. Kimball, a distance of 241.51 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 25.00 feet, still by lands of said William W. Kimball, Jr., et ux a length of 40.03 feet to a point on the said Westerly side line of County Road;

Thence S. 09°-17'-40" E., by said Westerly side line of County Road a distance of 100.05 feet to the point of beginning of this description.

The above described lines being more fully shown on a Plan en- titled, "Lothrop Road, Reading, Mass.," dated January, 1955, Board of Public Works, James T. Putnam, Supt., said Plan being a part of this description.

We determine that no damage will be sustained by any person or persons in their property by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement. All acts in connection with said laying out are done under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, and betterments are to be assessed therefore.

This laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a Public Town Way and named Lothrop Road, and that the sum of Twelve Thousand, Six Hundred Six, ($12,606.00) Dollars, be raised and appropriated for said laying out and for the construction of said way.

(Signed) HAROLD D. KILGORE, JR., Chairman WALTER S. HOPKINS, JR. DOMENICK ZANNI, JR. KENNETH R. JOHNSON Members of the Board of Public Works Town of Reading

ARTICLE 44. On motion of Walter S. Hopkins, Jr. it was voted that the Town accept the report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of a Private Way known as Jere Road and adopt the recom- mendations contained therein, and that the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Fifty-seven ($1,557.00) Dollars be transferred from Surplus Revenue and appropriated for the laying out and construction of said way, said sum to be apportioned as follows: Eight Hundred Fifty-seven ($857.00) Dollars for Salaries and Seven Hundred ($700.00) Dollars for Expenses, and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and instructed to transfer said sum to carry out the purpose of this vote.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Middlesex, ss.

Town of Reading

Report of the Board of Public Works on the Laying Out of

Jere Road

The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having deter- mined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require the laying out of a Town Way under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, substantially in the location hereinafter described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to notice to the owners of land thereof and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a Town way for the use of the Town running South-Westerly from a private way known as Lothrop Road to a dead end, substantially as and in the location of the private way known as Jere Road, the boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows:

Beginning at a point on the Southerly side line of said private way known as Lothrop Road said point being S. 82°-27'-20" W., a distance of 328.63 feet measured along the said Southerly side line of Lothrop Road from the Westerly side line of a public town way known as County Road;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a South-Westerly direction, having a radius of 150.35 feet by lands of Leslie H. York and Irene M. York and by lands of Ralph A. Crosby Trustee a length of 83.85 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence S. 50°-30' W., still by lands of said Ralph A. Crosby Trustee, a distance of 39.92 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left running in a South-Westerly direction, having a radius of 30.00 feet, still by lands of Ralph A. Crosby Trustee, a length of 26.87 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in South-Westerly, Northerly and North-Easterly directions, having a radius of 50.00 feet, by lands of said Ralph A. Crosby, Trustee and by lands of Norman E. Jones and Margaret E. Jones, Marion D. MacDonald and by lands of Henry O. Swain, Jr., and Ruth A. Swain, a length of 246.64 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 30.00 feet, still by lands of said Henry O. Swain, Jr., and Ruth A. Swain, a length of 26.87 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence N. 50°-30' E., still by lands of said Henry O. Swain, Jr., and Ruth A. Swain a distance of 40.67 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 40.00 feet, still by lands of said Henry O. Swain, Jr., and Ruth A. Swain, a length of 57.15 feet to a point of tangent at the South-Westerly side line of said Lothrop Road;

Thence S. 31°-22' E., along said South-Westerly side line of Lothrop Road, a distance of 67.39 feet to an angle point;

Thence N. 82°-27'-20" E., along said Southerly side line of Lothrop Road a distance of 57.47 feet to the point of beginning of this description.

The above described lines being more fully shown on Plan entitled "Jere Road, Reading, Mass.," dated February 1955, Board of Public Works, James T. Putnam, Supt., said Plan being a part of this description.

This laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a Public Town Way and named Jere Road, and that the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Fiftyseven ($1557.00) Dollars be raised and appropriated for said laying out and for the construction of said way.

(Signed) HAROLD D. KILGORE, Chairman KENNETH R. JOHNSON WALTER S. HOPKINS, JR.

Members of Board of Public Works Town of Reading

ARTICLE 45. On motion of Walter S. Hopkins, Jr., it was voted that the Town accept the report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of a Private Way known as Batchelder Road and adopt the recommendations contained therein, and that the sum of Eight Thou- sand and Four Hundred Sixty ($8,460.00) Dollars be transferred from Surplus Revenue and appropriated for the laying out and construction of said way, said sum to be apportioned as follows:

Four Thousand Six Hundred Sixty ($4,660.00) Dollars for Salaries and Three Thousand Eight Hundred ($3,800.00) Dollars for Expenses, and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and in- structed to transfer said sum to carry out the purpose of this vote.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Middlesex, ss.

Town of Reading

Report of the Board of Public Works on the Laying Out of Batchelder Road

laid out as a Town Way for the use of the Town running Westerly and Northerly from a County Way known as Haverhill Street as ordered by the County Commissioners in 1933, to a dead end, substantially as and in the location of the private way known as Batchelder Road, the boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows:

Beginning at a point on the Westerly side line of said Haverhill Street, said point being located in a Northerly direction along the said Westerly curved side line of Haverhill Street, having a radius of 1356.35 feet, a length of 323.95 feet from a drill hole in a County stone bound set at a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a North-Westerly direction, by lands of Norman J. Atkinson and Carol G. Atkinson, having a radius of 60.00 feet, a length of 103.96 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence N. 68°-58'-10" W., still by lands of said Norman J. Atkinson and Carol G. Atkinson a distance of 73.37 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a North-Westerly direction, having a radius of 100.00 feet by lands of Melvin C. Sverker and Violet L. Sverker and by lands of Robert E. Marchand and Louise Marchand a distance of 142.04 feet to a point of curve;

Thence N. 12°-24'-50" E., still by lands of said Robert E. Marchand and Louise Marchand and by lands of Alban G. Sheehan and Mary C. Sheehan, Peter Govostes and Alice Govostes, Anthony J. Dileso and Francis M. Dileso and by lands of Charles Laquidara Jr. and Joan L. Laquidara a distance of 373.87 feet to a point of curve;

Thence by a curved line to the Right running in a North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 2040.00 feet by lands of said Charles Laqui- dara Jr. and Joan L. Laquidara a length of 79.35 feet to a point, said point being at the Northerly terminus of the Westerly side line of this layout;

Thence S. 75°-21'-29" E., by the Northerly terminus of this layout to lands of Oscar W. Batchelder and Dorothy J. Batchelder a distance of 40.00 feet to a point, said point being at the Northerly terminus of the Easterly side line of this layout;

Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a Southerly direction by lands of said Oscar W. Batchelder and Dorothy J. Batchelder and by lands of Walter Vetromile and Lillian G. Vetromile, having a radius of 2000.00 feet, a length of 77.79 feet to a point of tangent;

Thence S. 12°-24'-50" W., still by lands of said Walter Vetromile and Lillian G. Vetromile, and by lands of Bradley S. Stevens and Helen A. Stevens, Domenic C. Scavangelli and Mary C. Scavangelli and lands of Alvin L. Macleod and Mary E. Macleod a distance of 373.87 feet to a point of curve;

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Town of Reading Massachusetts annual report 1955, Part 4

Author: Reading (Mass.) Publication date: 1955 Publisher: The Town Number of Pages: 250

Author: Reading (Mass.)
Publication date: 1955
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 250