Town of Tewksbury annual report 1956-1962, Part 19

Author: Tewksbury (Mass.)
Publication date: 1956
Publisher: Tewksbury (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 1502


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Middlesex ss.


February 26, 1957


By virtue of this warrant, I this day at 9:00 o'clock A. M. served the within warrant by posting up true and attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and at each of the Post Offices and by leaving at least 500 copies at the Post Offices and Town Hall in said Town of Tewksbury, (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.


WALTER J. JOP


Constable of Tewksbury


A true copy, Attest :


ALICE A. PIKE, Town Clerk.


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ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION


Tewksbury, Massachusetts, March 13, 1957


At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in town affairs, held this day at the Town Hall and the So. Tewksbury Betterment Association, the following business was transacted :


Warrant was duly read by presiding officers in Precincts 1 and 2. Registers in ballot boxes showed 0000 and check lists were in order. Polls officially opened at 10 o'clock A. M. and closed at 8:00 P. M. There were 2077 ballots cast in Precinct 1 and 818 ballots in Precinct 2, making a total of 2895 votes.


Election officers were as follows: Precinct 1 - Mamie A. Dugau, Acting Warden, Virginia R. Girard, Acting Deputy Warden, Rose J. McCoy, Clerk, Catherine L. Sullivan, Deputy Clerk; Gloria A. Deputat, Eleanor Spencer, Gladys Collins, Elizabeth Collins, Donelda J. Tou- signant, M. Edwedge McCausland, Mary Mccarthy, Ruby Walker, Beatrice A. Wells, Raymond L. Kelleher, Mary Brown, Grace J. Han- nigan, Helen Eaton, Dorothea A. Holmes, Miriam Sullivan, Alice Marcotte, John R. Craig, Helen B. Ward, Doris Osterman, Thomas C. McCausland, Jr., John E. Hedstrom, Kevin Sullivan, Inspectors.


Precinct 2 - Bertha B. Benner, Warden, Gladys L. O'Connell, Deputy Warden, Florence Richards, Clerk, Jessie Davis, Deputy Clerk; Imelda E. Stenquist, Catherine C. Gleason, Marion H. Blair, Mar- guerite Tibbetts, Helen A. Hair, Viola E. VanHorn, Josephine Pon- delli, Shirley E. Jellison, Mary T. Love and Freda K. Greeno, Inspectors. Official result of count:


Selectmen - Three Years


Pre. l


Pre. 2


Total


Victor N. Cluff


955


320


1275 Elected and sworn


Paul E. Allen


204


165


369


C. Abbott Battles


880


309


1189


Blanks


38


24


62


Board of Welfare - Three Years


Victor N. Cluff


998


301


1299 Elected and sworn


Paul E. Allen


259


204


463


Eugene J. Mclaughlin


744


282


1026


Blanks


76


31


107


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Board of Welfare - Two Years


Pre. l


Pre. 2


Total


Thomas A. Abbott


1008


449


1457 Elected and sworn


John H. Hart


959


310


1269


Blanks


110


59


169


Board of Health - Three Years


Victor N. Cluff


988


292


1280 Elected and sworn


Paul E. Allen


271


210


481


Leonard P. Anderson


706


271


977


Blanks


112


45


157


Assessor - Three Years


Edward J. Sullivan


1356


450


1806 Elected and sworn


John E. Emro


639


328


967


Blanks


82


40


122


Town Clerk - Three Years


Alice A. Pike


1920


740


2660 Elected and sworn


Blanks


155


75


230


Others


2


3


5


Town Treasurer - Three Years


William J. O'Neill


1842


715


2557 Elected and sworn


Blanks


235


101


336


Others


2


2


Tax Collector - Three Years


Louis H. Amiot


1862


706


2568 Elected and sworn


Blanks


215


112


327


Moderator - One Year


As Amended


John Morrissey


617


279


896


895


Alan M. Qua


695


256


951


949


Alfred N. Shamas


723


245


968 Elected and sworn


Blanks


42


38


80


83


School Committee - Three Years


Ernest T. Carey


676


223


899


James A. Johnson


687


335


1022 Elected and sworn


Richard F. Seymour


648


227


875


Blanks


66


33


99


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Tree Warden - Three Years Pre. l Pre. 2


Total


Walter R. Doucette


1298


538


1836 Elected and sworn


Edward J. Hogan


439


144


583


Kenneth W. Holden


311


111


422


Blanks


29


25


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Trustees Public Library - Three Years


Dorothy Fitzgerald


1692


648


2340 Elected and sworn


Harold J. Patten


1660


591


2251 Elected and sworn


Blanks


724


384


1195


Others


1


3


4


Trust Fund Commissioners - Three Years


Roy G. Lanner


1732


649


2381 Elected and sworn


Blanks


345


168


513


Others


1


1


Highway Commissioner - Three Years


Chester M. Roper


1020


372


1392 Elected and sworn


Wilfred P. Breen


476


171


647


Nelson P. McArthur


512


222


734


Blanks


69


53


122


Park Commissioner - Three Years


Frank P. Sherlock


1773


669


2442 Elected and sworn


Blanks


304


148


452


Others


1


1


Water Commissioner - Three Years


Eben A. Prescott


1402


445


1847 Elected and sworn


Andrew T. Kilpatrick


518


289


807


Blanks


156


84


240


Others


1


1


Planning Board - Three Years


Jerome A. Carpenter


963


444


1407 Elected and sworn


Robert W. Lacey


887


286


1173


Blanks


227


88


315


Planning Board - Five Years


Thomas P. Sawyer


1026


376


1402 Elected and sworn


John C. Barker


945


373


1318


Blanks


106


69


175


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Question : Shall Section 69C to 69F inc., of Chap. 41 of the General Laws, providing for the establishment of a Board of Public Works exercising the powers of certain other departments and town officers, be accepted?


YES


742


324


1066


NO


1151


413


1564


Blanks


184


81


265


Attest: ALICE A. PIKE


Town Clerk


SPECIAL TOWN MEETING


Warrant and Action thereon


May 8th, 1957


Middlesex, ss.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Tewksbury in said County:


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in town affairs to meet and assemble at Town Hall in said Tewksbury on Wednesday the 8th of May, 1957 at eight o'clock P. M. to act on the following articles:


Meeting was called to order at 8:00 P. M. by Moderator Alfred N. Shamas. John J. Kelley and Walter R. Doucette were sworn as tellers and the meeting proceeded.


ART. 1. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the use of the committee appointed under Article 59 at the annual town meeting of 1957 for the purpose therein set forth, or take any action in relation thereto.


1954 School Building Committee


Voted to indefinitely postpone. Majority vote.


ART. 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower a committee of five members to be known as the Junior High School Building Committee to supervise, execute or perform any duties necessary or desirable to carry out the action voted by the town under Article 15 of the Warrant for Special Town Meeting Sept. 12, 1956 with special reference to expanding the present High School and for the construction, equipping and furnishing of a


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750 pupil Junior High School, including the employment of pro- fessional service, technical advice, securing plans, specifications, and bids for the building of said school plant and to accept in the name of the Town the lowest responsible bid submitted, and to execute all legal documents for contracts, approve all expenditures and vouchers for services rendered, for material supplied in con- nection with the same, or take any action in relation thereto.


1954 School Building Committee


Voted to refer to long range planning committee established under Art. 8 of this meeting.


ART. 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the use of the committee appointed under the fore- going article for the purpose of converting the present High School Plant of 320 pupil capacity to a Junior High School Plant with a capacity of 750 pupils; including land acquisition, alterations. additions, new structures and equipment of same and determine whether the money necessary for same shall be raised by taxation, by transfer of available funds in the treasury, or be borrowed under the authority of Chap. 44 of the General Laws or of Chap. 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended or take any action in relation thereto. 1954 School Building Committee


Voted to refer to long range planning committee established under Art. 8 of this meeting.


ART. 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower a committee consisting of five members to be known as the Elementary School Building Committee to supervise, execute or perform any duties necessary or desirable to continue the carrying out of the action voted by the town under Art. 15 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of September 12, 1956 with special reference to a 12 room Elementary School: and in addition to supervise, execute or perform any duties necessary or desirable for procurement of professional service, technical advice, bid plans and specifications, for erection of same, and authority to accept in the name of the town the lowest responsible bid submitted, and to execute all legal documents for contracts, approve all expenditures and vouchers for services rendered for material supplied in con- nection with same, or take any action related thereto. 1954 School Building Committee


Voted to refer to long range planning committee established under Art. 8 of this meeting.


ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for use of the committee appointed under the foregoing article for the purposes therein set forth, including land acquisition,


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equipment of same and determine whether the money necessary for same shall be raised by taxation, by transfer of available funds in the treasury, or be borrowed under the authority of Chap. 44, of the General Laws or of Chap. 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended or take any action in relation thereto.


1954 School Building Committee


Voted to refer to long range planning committee established under Art. 8 of this meeting.


ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower a committee consisting of five members to be known as the High School Building Committee to supervise, execute, or perform any duties necessary or desirable to continue the carrying out of the action voted by the town under Art. 15 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of September 12, 1956, with special reference to constructing a Senior High School on a separate site, and in addition to supervise, execute or perform any duties necessary or desirable for procurement of professional service, technical advice, bid plans and specifications for erection of same, and authority to accept in the name of the town the lowest res- ponsible bid submitted, and to execute all legal documents for contracts, approve all expenditures and vouchers for services rendered, for material supplied in connection with same, or take any action related thereto. 1954 School Building Committee


Voted to authorize and empower a committee consisting of five members to be known as the High School Building Committee to super- vise, execute, or perform any duties necessary or desirable to continue the carrying out of the action voted by the town under Art. 15 of the Warrant for Special Town Meeting of Sept. 12, 1956, with special reference to constructing a Senior High School on a separate site, and in addition to supervise, execute or perform any duties necessary or desirable for procurement of professional service, technical advice, bid plans and specifications for erection of same, and authority to accept in the name of the town the lowest responsible bid submitted, and to execute all legal documents for contracts, approve all expenditures and vouchers for services rendered, for material supplied in connection with same, and that the Moderator appoint the committee.


Committee appointed by the Moderator under this article consists of Thomas J. Mullane, Nelson P. McArthur, Daniel G. O'Connor, James A. Johnson and Mrs. Roger D. Harsch.


ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for use of the committee, appointed under the foregoing article for the purposes therein set forth, or take any action in relation thereto. 1954 School Building Committee


Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for use of the


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committee appointed under Art. 6, and that this committee report back at a Special Town Meeting not later than Sept. II, 1957.


ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower a committee to function as a School Planning Committee with the purpose of answering the State of Massachusetts request and the Town's need for a long range school building program and the purpose of carrying this program, and in particular, each project, through the stages of demonstrated need, approval of educational specifications, and site. 1954 School Building Committee


Voted to authorize and empower a committee to function as a School Planning Committee with the purpose of answering the State of Massachusetts request and the Town's need for a long range school building program and the purpose of carrying this program, and in par- ticular each project, through the states of demonstrated need, approval of educational specifications, and site with committee to be formed to include the currently elected members of the School Committee together with four appointed by the Moderator.


Committee appointed by the Moderator under this article consists of Joseph Aubut, Mrs. Anthony Anderson, Miss Beverly Bennett, and Ralph Peters.


ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the use of the committee appointed under the fore- going article for the purposes therein set forth, or take any action in relation thereto. To see if the Town will furthermore vote to the use of this committee any monies left as residue in the following appropriations:


a) The survey appropriations Article 16 of the Town Meeting of September 12, 1956.


b) The Article 16 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of September 12, 1956.


1954 School Building Committee


Voted to transfer residual amount in fund voted under Art. 16 of Sept. 12, 1956, and that money be expended by Committee formed under Art. 8.


ART. 10. To see is the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase or by eminent domain a tract of land consisting of approximately two hundred acres for school purposes, namely the erection of school buildings, playgrounds, and other school facilities, in accordance with Chap. 40, Section 14, and Chap. 79 of the General Laws as amended, said parcel of land being bounded and described as follows:


Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Pleasant Street about 1700 feet west of the intersection of Pleasant Street and


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Helvetia Street; thence southwesterly 300 feet; thence southeast- erly 200 feet; thence south 80 feet, southeasterly 880 feet; thence northerly 690 feet; thence easterly 440 feet; thence southeasterly 280 feet; thence southwesterly 510 feet; thence easterly 340 feet to the westerly side line of Helvetia Street; thence southerly and southeasterly by the westerly side line of Helvetia Street 1040 feet to a point; thence southwesterly to the high water mark of Round Pond; thence along the southerly and westerly shore line of said pond 2000 feet to a point; thence southwesterly 450 feet; thence southerly 220 feet; thence southwesterly 300 feet; thence southerly 190 feet; thence southwesterly 140 feet; thence southerly 480 feet to the northerly side line of Chandler Street; thence southwesterly along the northerly side line of Chandler Street 100 feet; thence northerly 470 feet; thence southeasterly 180 feet; northwesterly by lines totaling 1950 feet; said lines being approximately 300 feet north of the northerly side line of Pine Street and approximately parallel to the side line of Pine Street; thence westerly along the northerly side line of Pine Street 50 feet; thence northwesterly 300 feet; thence westerly 360 feet parallel to and 300 feet north of the northerly side line of Pine Street, to the easterly side line of N. E. Power Co. easement; thence northerly along said easement line 925 feet; thence southwesterly 435 feet to the easterly side line of Whipple Street; thence along the easterly side line of Whipple Street 50 feet; thence northeasterly 450 feet; thence northerly along the easterly side line of aforementioned easement 1200 feet; thence northeasterly 270 feet; thence northwesterly 300 feet to the southerly side line of Pleasant Street; thence along the southerly side line of Pleasant Street 100 feet; thence southeasterly 300 feet ; thence by lines totaling 2030 feet said lines being approximately 300 feet; thence by lines totaling 2030 feet said lines being ap- proximately 300 feet; thence by lines totaling 2030 feet, said lines being approximately 300 feet south of the southerly line of Pleasant Street and parallel thereto; thence north 300 feet to the southerly side line of Pleasant Street; thence southeasterly along the southerly side of Pleasant Street 100 feet to the point of beginning.


All distance in this description being approximate and containing approximately 200 acres, and to see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from excess and deficiency account for such taking or take any other action in relation thereto. 1954 School Building Committee


Voted to adopt this article as amended and authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase or by eminent domain a tract of land consisting of approximately 200 acres for school purposes, namely the erection of School Buildings, Playgrounds, and other school facilities, in accordance with Chap. 40, Sec. 14, and Chap. 79 of the General Laws as amended, said parcel of land being bounded and described as follows: (See description in Article 10).


Amendment: That the Selectmen be authorized to take any portion


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of the described premises and that the purpose of the taking include the following: The erection and maintenance of Highway Dept. buildings, Library buildings, new Recreation buildings, Meeting Houses, Public Works buildings, recreational purposes and all municipal activities. The sum of $100.00 was voted to be raised and appropriated under this article.


ART. 11. To see if the Town will vote to ratify and confirm the action taken under Art. 48 at the 1957 Annual Town Meeting relative to increasing the number of members on the School Committee from three to five in the following manner:


in 1958 two members shall be elected for three years, and one member for one year;


in 1959 two members shall be elected for three years;


in 1960 one member shall be elected for three years; thereafter two members shall be elected each year for three years except that every third year one member shall be elected for three years.


and take any other action relative thereto. School Committee


Voted to ratify and confirm the action taken under Art. 48 at the annual 1957 town meeting relative to increasing the number of members on the School Committee from three to five in the following manner: (See Art. II).


ART. 12. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower the School Committee as the sole agency of the town to prepare educational specifications for school buildings and to transmit such specifications to such other committees as may be formed for the purpose of constructing school buildings, with action under this article to include the preparation of educational specifications for Projects 2, 3, 4, voted under Art. 15 of the Special Town Meeting of Sept. 12, 1956, or take any other action relative thereto.


Voted to authorize and empower the School Committee as the sole agency of the Town to prepare educational requirements for school buildings and to transmit such requirements to such other committees as may be formed for the purpose of constructing school buildings with action under this article to include the preparation of educational re- quirements for Projects 2, 3, 4, voted under Article 15 of the Special Town Meeting of September 12, 1956.


Voted to adjourn to 8:00 P. M. May 9, .1957.


Thursday, May 9, 1957, due to lack of quorum, meeting was post- poned to Thursday, May 16, then to Monday, May 20, when it was unanimously voted to indefinitely adjourn.


Arts. 13 - 28 inclusive, not acted upon.


ART. 13. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and


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appropriate or transfer from available funds to be used for the purposes of altering and repairing the roof on the North Street School; said funds to be used in conjunction with the balance remaining in the money appropriated under Article 8 of the Special Town Meeting September 22, 1955 and ratified by Article 82 of the Annual Town Meeting, March 7, 1956, or take any other action relative thereto. School Committee


ART. 14. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to develop an area of the newly acquired State land for a recreational park, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen


ART. 15. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and ap- propriate to carry out the previous article. Board of Selectmen


ART. 16. To see what sum of money the Town will appropriate to establish a sidewalk project on Route 38 in conjunction with the Department of Public Works or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen


ART. 17. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Patten Road from Whipple Road to Shawsheen Street or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners


ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to transfer $17,562.07 from the E & D Account to rebuild Trull Road from River Road to An- dover Street. The sum of $17,562.07 be transferred from the proceeds received from the State under the provisions of Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956. Road Commissioners


ART. 19. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Shawsheen Street from Main Street to the Billerica line, or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners


ART. 20. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Foster Road from Chandler Street to Shawsheen Street, or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners


ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to transfer $1,000.00 ap- propriated under Article 70 of the Annual Town Meeting Warrant of 1956, to the Board of Health to correct the unsanitary con- ditions at the gravel pit bounded by Pond, Pine and Whipple Rd. Board of Health


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ART. 22. To see if the Town will transfer from the E & D Account, raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $4,000.00 for an electronic coded horn system for the Fire Station, or take any other action in relation thereto. Chief of the Fire Department


ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,400.00 for the purpose of installing 400 feet of six inch water pipe in Helvetia Street, to a proposed new Professional Building of Lawrence M. McCartin, M. D., provided that the cost of said water installation has been first deposited with the Town Treasurer and applied to estimated receipts, and to authorize the Water Dept. to do such work and expend such money, or take any action in relation thereto. Water Commissioners


ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E & D the sum of $500.00 to replace the safe in the Water Department Office or take any other action relative thereto. Water Commissioners


ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E & D Account the sum of $5,000.00 for a survey by a recognized public water system engineer, for the pur- pose of locating new well fields and to make a report at the next Annual Town Meeting. Said sum to be expended by the Water Commissioners. Water Commissioners


ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to name James A. Johnson and Alan M. Qua members of the Building Committee named under Art. 59 of the 1957 Annual Town Meeting, for the purposes of constructing, equipping and furnishing an addition to the Shaw- sheen School or take any other action in relation thereto.


Shawsheen Addition Building Committee Loella F. Dewing, Chairman O. Rex Read John P. Murphy


ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to strike out the last line of Section 2 of Article 18, which was voted at the Annual 1956 Town Meeting. Said line to be stricken out is quote, "Loam or gravel removed for construction purposes must be disposed of within the Town," or take any other action relative thereto.


George P. MacLaren, Jr.


ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $472.25 to pay the expenses incurred by Alexander Suprenant as the result of an accident while on Police duty, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen


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And you are directed to serve this warrant, by posting attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and in the Post Office and by leaving at least five hundred (500) copies at the Post Office and at the Town Hall in said Town, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.


HEREOF FAIL NOT, AND MAKE DUE RETURNS OF THIS WARRANT, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of Meeting as aforesaid.


Given under our hands this twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.


VICTOR N. CLUFF, Chairman JOHN D. SULLIVAN JOSEPH J. WHEĻAN JOHN H. HART GEORGE A. O'CONNELL Selectmen of Tewksbury


A true copy, Attest :


WALTER J. JOP Constable of Tewksbury


Middlesex, ss. Tewksbury, Mass., May 1, 1957


By virtue of this warrant, I this day at 9:00 o'clock A. M. served the within warrant by posting up attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and at each of the Post Offices and by leaving at least 500 copies at the Post Offices and Town Hall in said Town of Tewksbury, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.




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