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"Voted that Jolin Bliss William cking Dan& badwell Stephen Sterline & James Harriner be a Counter to apply to the Town for their concent that we be Set of a District of Town
ANNUAL REPORT
WILBRAHAM
MASSACHUSETTS
1962
The feature section in the front of this Town Report is intended as a glimpse of the town as it was more than 200 years ago, before it became a Town.
Wilbraham was incorporated as a Town June 15, 1763. Therefore, the Town Report for 1963, which will be published and distributed next year, will cover the highlights of our town affairs for its two centuries as a Town.
Opposite Page: Here we see a copy of the Warrant Articles and Precinct Meeting Notice for that last year before Wil- braham became a Town - The Year of Our Lord ~ 1762.
Cover: You will note that the public proclamation being made by the Town Crier on the cover of this Report, is the 200th anniversary date of the Town.
The cover and all sketches by: Richard C. Stevens
Concerning the Name of our Town. (Which originally included both Wilbraham and Hampden.)
The Indians called the area "Minnechaug," which means "Berry land," and they burned it over every year, probably to promote the growth of berries and to better raise their corn. According to the early settlers, "a deer could be seen from mountain to mountain."
The original Springfield settlers called it the east "Outward Commons," or "Mountains of Springfield." It was purchased for Springfield in 1674 by Elizur Holyoke and others, from three Indian families, for 180 fathoms of wampum.
In 1741, it was incorporated as a district, or parish, for the support of a minister, and became known as the "Fourth District," or "Fourth Parish."
The name Wilbraham was chosen when it was incorporated as a town June 15, 1763. According to the Peck History, the most likely accounting for the name is that the ancestors of the Pynchons and the Stebbins families came from Wil. burgham, England. The inhabitants objected to the name, which is said to mean "Wild Boar's Home."
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Concerning the First Settlers.
In the summer of 1730, Nathaniel Hitchcock came out from Springfield cleared and broke up two acres of ground, and erected a log hut on the west side of our present Main Street about one-half mile south of our center village.
After sowing his two acres with wheat, Hitchcock returned to Springfield to spend the winter and make the few preparations which were necessary to remove his wife, whom he had married that year, to his hut by the "Mountains." In the following spring, May 1731, he came out with his wife to his narrow field and low hut, and resided here a full year, with no neighbors nearer than Springfield, nine miles away.
The settlement grew at the rate of one family a year for the first four years. By 1741 there were 26 settlers.
During this period all public business, both municipal and ecclesiastical, was transacted in Springfield. The first set- tlers were struggling with stubborn soil, and with the beasts and birds for the necessities of life and security of their persons. It was a period of hard labor, poor returns and patient endurance.
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Concerning the First School.
This information is scanty, but we do know that in 1737, when there were 11 families, the appropriation was 3 pounds. (One pound equalled about 3 days work.) In 1740, there were 38 children and the appropriation was 6 pounds.
In 1752, the first schoolhouse was completed and cost 6 pounds.
By 1762 there were 2 schools, the appropriation that year was 90 pounds, and there were then about 475 people in the town.
The Testament was the school text-book as well as the oracle of the church. Dilworth's spelling book was their guide in spelling. Of geography nothing was taught; of arithmetic, but little.
Concerning our Early Roads.
Prior to 1763 a few roads were laid out within the precinct by the town of Springfield and some by the County. How. ever, they were mere cart, or bridle-paths, leading from one neighbor to another. No work appears to have been done but to pick up a few stones, make crossings over brooks, and cut away brush which tended to intrude the path.
Concerning Dipping Hole Road.
On a Sabbath morning in winter, probably about 1737, it is told how a certain Miss Peggy, clad in her "Sabba day" fixings and finery, mounted her horse and started for the distant sanctuary, passing along the highway which leads off to the westward from our West Street about midway between Springfield Street and Ludlow village. While crossing a shallow marsh, over which the trail led, the thin ice broke under the combined weight and the horse, the fixings, the finery, and Miss Peggy, were all dipped in the freezing water. The place has since been known as "Peggy's Dipping Hole."
Concerning the Legend of Kibbe's Shirt.
An alarm was once raised in Wilbraham that the Indians were coming. It was on this wise: One Kibbe went into the woods on Sunday, to get his cow, and not having the fear of either God or the law before his eyes, he took his gun in case he should meet any game. Not long after he left home, the report of two guns was heard, and Kibbe came running back in great apparent trepidation, saying he had been fired at by two Indians, and that there were more lurking in the woods. The whole country was alarmed, and the woods were scoured in search of the "salvages." None were found, nor any traces discovered. Suspicion began that all was not right with
Kibbe. A more particular examination of his shirt was instituted. He declared that he received one shot in his breast, and when he turned to run, another shot took him in his back. Lo, it was so; a bullet hole was made through his shirt before; another through his shirt behind. But alas for Kibbe's veracity, not for his comfort, there was no hole into or through his body, where the bullet went! He saw he was caught, and made confession that seeing game, he was tempted to fire; that he at once bethought that he was exposed to prosecution for violating the Sabbath, and took off his shirt and fired through it, to make his neighbors believe that the Indians had attacked him. So originated and ended the only alarm of an Indian attack on Wilbraham.
Concerning the Indian Squaw.
One Indian squaw lived alone in her wigwam by a little brook, and that fact gave the name to "Wigwam Hill" where the first meeting-house and parsonage was erected. Her name was We-sha-u-gan. She was sometimes invited to take dinner with the minister's family, and once she invited them to come and have dinner with her. Before accepting the
invitation, the minister's wife felt a little anxiety to know what she intended to have for dinner. She approached the subject in a round- about way, and the Indian woman told her she had caught a nice fat skunk for roasting, and she wished them to taste the cooking of Wesh- augan. To partake of such a dinner was, of course, out of the question. But Mrs. Merrick did not wish to hurt the old squaw's feelings, and so told her, in as kindly a way as she could, that while it was perfectly proper for the Indian woman to eat at the minister's table, his position would not permit him to eat at hers. Eventually she disappeared. Of the manner of her death, or of her burial- place, no man knoweth.
Concerning the First Minister Ordained.
As soon as they had been incorporated as a parish in 1741, the Rev. Noah Merrick was given a call which he accepted. It was finally determined to hold the ordination ceremony under an oak tree then standing near the house of Daniel Warner, but it proved rainy. The gathering was forced to go into a neighboring barn belonging to Nathan Warriner where the services were performed.
Concerning the Salary of the First Minister.
Prior to ordination of the minister, a committee was chosen to "Regulate a salary to ofer to Mr. Mirick." They reported "the money or Coin in this Province is so variable and uncer- tain as to its value in Proportion with other commodaties that they can't think it a medium whereby the salary can be settled or ascertained with any safety or security either to the Minister or People." "Wherefore," they continued, "we have consid- ered the value or Currant Market Price of the several Com- modaties hereafter mentioned, Viz: Indian Corn att 6s. per booshel; Wheat, IIs. per booshel; Rie, 8s. 6d. per booshel; Barley, 8s. per booshel; Oats 4s. per booshel; Flax, from ye
swingle, Is 6d. per pound; Beaf, 5d. per pound." They further recommended "that Mr. Mirick be Elowed either money for his salary Bills or other Commodaties or Consid- erations Equal to One Hundred Pound a year for the first four years.
Concerning the "Parson's Rose."
In October, 1744, the Reverend Merrick married Abigail Brainard of Haddam, Conn. On their journey on horseback to his parish, she carried some slips of a rose bush from her old home, and set them out by the new one. She gave many slips to the neighbors, and some are still in existence here. The variety became known as the "Parson's Rose. Subsequently a poem was written and entitled "Parson's Rose" and published in 1904-05.
Concerning the First Meeting House.
In 1748, after a struggle of nearly seven years, the place for setting the meeting house was finally determined and the necessary funds voted. "Voated and Granted Three Hun- dred and Fifty Pounds old tenor .... " The delay gives rise to the statement that "This period is occupied chiefly by ecclesiastical affairs, the organization of a religious society, the gathering of a church, the settlement of a minister, the building of a meeting house, and the adjustment of those troubles which parishes and churches then, as now, found it hard to settle."
Concerning a Typical Sabbath.
On a Sabbath day, wending their way through the fields, and along woodland trails, and by obscure bridle-paths, came the Chapins, the Bartletts, Hitchcocks, Brewers, Warriners, Warners, Merricks, and many others, to the place of the sanctuary. After they were seated, the minister read a hymn, then handed the book over the rough pulpit - for there was but one hymn-book in the precinct, and that was the minis-
ter's - to Deacon Warriner, who named the tune, gave the pitch, read one line and commenced singing, the congregation following after as ability and strength permitted; the Deacon considerately waiting before he gave out another line 'til the most dilatory had finished.
After the hymn, there followed a prayer, then another hymn and so on until the noon benediction was pronounced.
The families then gathered outside to eat their frugal dinners.
The afternoon service followed, similar in all respects to the morning, ending so all could reach home by sundown.
He.Ar Lya the Body of ELisAb eth Cock ril wo Dyed April Yex6 1741 EAG 39
Concerning the First Burial.
The first tenant of the Burying Ground was "Widow Elizabeth Cock- sil who Dyed Apr. 26th 1741. She was the first person yt was Bured in ye mountains." Dr. Merrick says of this incident:"In April 1741, Elizabeth Cockrel of Boston on a visit to her sister, who was Samuel Warner's wife, sickened and died here. Mr. Warner buried her here, and though he was not a stone man (stone cut- ter) he got two flat stones and engraved her name, the time of her death, and that it was the first grave. Though I knew of the stones, they were so covered with moss that they could not be read. I got the moss scraped off and pointed (?) so that now it is legible."
It should be noted that this was not the first death in the settlement. The hrst death re- corded is that of "David Jones, son of David and Hannah Jones died Aug. 19, 1736. Bur- ried at Springfield." Dr. Merrick says in his address that the father did not want his child to be the first tenant of the Burying Ground. Two other deaths occurred before 1741, and both were interred at Springfield.
Concerning the First Two-Story Frame House.
In 1744, Abel Bliss began to erect a large two-story house 32 × 40 feet. The plan was so pretentious that it is said
the Rev. Noah Merrick, ascertaining what a grand mansion his parishioner was about to build, and perhaps fearing that his people were becoming inflated with worldly pride, thought it incumbent on him to check such tendencies at the beginning. So on a Sunday morning, he took for the text of his sermon the words, "Build not your house too high." Whereupon the rebuked Abel cut off the upright posts of his house seven inches, lowering the first story that much.
Concerning the Elegy of the Young Man Bitten by a Rat- tlesnake.
"Timothy Mirrick, the son of Lt. Thomas and Mary Mirrick was bit by a ratel snake on August the 7th, 1761, and died within about two or three ours, he being 22 years old and vary near the point of marridg." He was mowing in a meadow off Main Street in the most southerly place in our town when the tragic event occurred. That summer was very dry and it was supposed that the serpent had come down from "Rat- tlesnake Peak," where there were known to be a few, to the meadow, in search of water. "A search for the snake was made the next day, and it was found coiled up near the seythe of young Timothy, and was killed." A poem was written on this sad event, which has had wide circulation.
The foregoing condensed anecdotes and highlights of our early town history are in nowise intended as an infringement on the much more complete and able work being done by others. Sources: The Stebbins and the Peck Histories of Wilbraham together with the Historical Address in 1831 by Dr. Samuel F. Merrick.
In Memoriam
WILLIAM T. PAYNE WILLIAM POLLITT JOHN J. LYONS
Governmental Districts and Representatives for the Town of Wilbraham
Second Congressional District Seventh Councillor District Worcester and Hampden Senatorial District First Hampden Representative District State Senator Paul H. Benoit, Southbridge
United States Senators
Leverett Saltonstall, Dover Benjamin Smith, 2nd, Gloucester
Representatives in General Court Raymond H. Beach, Wilbraham George T. Smith, E. Longmeadow
Democratic Town Committee
Henry Baush
Constantine Cioch
Joseph D. Connelly
Mary B. Connelly
William G. Dale
Earl W. Decorie Irene A. Donovan
Republican Town Committee
Robert D. Driscoll
Edward O. Felsentreger
Walter J. Freely
Thomas F. Gallagher
Edward W. Irla
Mary A. Irla
Edward S. Kapinos
Stanley E. Kogut
Robert LaBroad
Joseph Mell Earl W. Moody
Charles E. Dorey
Roger W. Folsom
Patrick J. O'Connor
Joseph M. O'Neil
Stanley J. Peczka, Chair.
William Prendergast Alphonse S. Sambor F. Scott Smith Louis Smola
Jane F. Sullivan
Vincent T. Sullivan
Edward Szustak
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP
Dr. Thomas Ashe Anthony Bertheaume
Mary Celentano
Andrew Duzsik
Harry King
Peter Luongo
John De Marco
Ralph Rocheford
Richard H. Allen
Stanley Arabik
Maurice H. Baitler
Roland H. Bennett
Arthur A. Binder
Paul Cambo
George G. Canney
Phyllis R. Christensen
Bettylee M. Cizek
Oren K. Gilbert Edward H. Godfrey
Herman G. Grandchamp
Dudley N. Hartt, Jr.
Harold K. Jones
G. Walter Johnson
Jean R. LaCroix Edmund S. Lee
Jacquelyn W. Lewis
Evelyn M. Macdonald
Charles L. Merrick, Chair.
A. Douglas Morgan Earl H. Paine Leo P. Paradis
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County Commissioners
Thomas F. Sullivan, Springfield
William F. Stapleton, Holyoke Ralph P. Walsh, Longmeadow
Marjorie W. Payne E. Helen Porter Barbara M. Putnam
Franklin T. Richardson Charles H. Sheline
Bruce A. Stephens Gladys K. Steup Harold F. Swetland Myrtie A. Trant W. Edwin Watkins
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP
Mary M. Arabik
Anne F. Avon
Beatrice Becker
Marie K. Blaisdell
Harry C. Crawford, Jr.
Jean S. Dana
Robert P. Ensign
Vernon R. Farnsworth
Filomena M. Gilbert
Phyllis A. Gleason
Alice Grandchamp Wanda Gurski Louise P. Kilcourse
Charles E. Lenz, Jr. Doris A. Long Curtis McDonald Howard B. Miller
William J. Miller Lester Mount, Jr.
Byron I. Musselman Spottiswoode W. Randolph
E. Donald Riddle
George H. Robinson, Jr.
Donald P. Searles
Gilbert E. Stacy
Elizabeth A. Stephens
Julia C. Szczebak
Alvin P. Trombly
Carol A. VanBrocklyn
HONORARY ROLL
J. Loring Brooks
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Elected Town Officers AND DATE OF EXPIRATION OF TERM
Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare
Richard L. Danforth, Chair., 1963 Roger T. Hintze, 1964 Jesse L. Rice, 1965
Town Collector Mark E. Reynolds, 1963
Town Clerk
Doris G. Cochran, 1963
Town Treasurer Doris G. Cochran, 1963
Assessors Harold K. Jones, Chair., 1963 Allan R. Kinney, 1964 Edward H. Godfrey, 1965
School Committee
Alexander W. Marco, Chair., 1963 Harry J. Dabagian, 1963 Ethel M. Musselman, 1964 Margaret L. Williams, 1964 (Resigned) Dr. Clayton L. Thomas (Appointed to fill vacancy) Bruce A. Stephens, 1965
Auditor
William T. Payne, 1963 (Deceased) Spencer W. Moore (Appointed to fill vacancy)
Tree Warden Gordon Long, 1963
Cemetery Commissioners Roland H. Bennett, 1963 John Bernet, 1964 Weldon G. Jameson, 1965
Water Commissioners John W. Gale, 1963 Willard P. Willis, Jr., Chair., 1964 William R. Hannah, 1965
Moderator Ernest W. Furnans, Jr., 1963
Trustees of Public Library Loni Brower, 1963 James B. McGuire, 1964 Mary G. Ronk, Chair., 1965
Planning Board
Leo E. Kuehn, Chair., 1963 Richard H. Morgan, 1964 Robert G. Carter, 1965 (Resigned) Herbert P. Daunheimer (Appointed to fill vacancy) Bion T. Wheeler, Jr., 1966 William Sullivan, Jr., 1967
Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District Committee
John R. Lyman, Chair., 1965 Doris C. Bowman, 1965 Dudley N. Hartt, Jr., 1963 Chester L. Thorndike, 1964
Pound Keeper
Robert A. Converse, 1963
Surveyors of Lumber Walter H. Clark, 1963 Jesse L. Rice, 1963
Field Drivers
Benjamin F. Griffin, 1963 Peter Presz, 1963 Leonard VonFlatern, Sr., 1963
Weighers of Grain Weldon G. Jameson, 1963 Jesse L. Rice, 1963
Measurers of Wood and Charcoal Walter H. Clark, 1963 Edward P. Lindsay, 1963
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Officers Appointed by Selectmen AND DATE OF EXPIRATION OF TERM
Finance Committee
Aldo E. Alberici, Chairman
Irving J. Cordner
Fred T. Googins
Earl W. Decorie (Resigned)
Alphonse S. Sambor (Appointed to fill vacancy)
Herman G. Grandchamp
Albert H. Howes
Albert E. Neale
Marshall Roper
Harry C. Crawford, Jr.
Superintendent of Streets Herbert L. Butler
Police Chief William Pollitt (Deceased Dec. 23, 1962) John Chrzanowski, Acting Chief
Constables Robert A. Converse Robert C. Dietz
Milk Inspector Health Officer (Sanitarian) John A. Brickett
Dog Officer Animal Inspector Slaughtering Inspector Robert A. Converse
Secretary to Selectmen Mary L. Powers
Bookkeeper Josephine M. Pease
Accountant Joseph A. Reilly
Town Counsel W. Edwin Watkins
Pest Control Officer Gordon R. Long
Fire Chief Forest Warden Ralph E. Tupper
School Dentist Dr. George H. Nieske
Board of Appeals Harry R. Jeffrey, 1963 W. Edwin Watkins, Chair., 1964 Ralph E. Keyes, Assoc. Mem., 1963 Pearl R. Kinney, 1965
Veterans Agent George A. Dusenberry, Jr.
Sealer of Weights and Measures Charles L. Merrick
Registrars of Voters Doris G. Cochran, 1963 (Ex Officio) Henry P. Baush, 1963 Leonard F. VonFlatern, Sr., 1964 (Resigned) Patrick J. O'Connor, 1964 (Appointed to fill vacancy) George G. Canney, 1965
Playground Commissioners Truman R. Swallow, Chair. Bruce Crawford Harold Lovering, Jr.
Board of Fire Commissioners Wesley G. Chapman, Chair. Ettore L. Pederzani Rudolph L. Shultz
Radio Advisory Committee Herbert L. Butler Roger T. Hintze (Ex Officio) William Pollitt (Deceased) Ralph E. Tupper G. Frederic Boyce
Park Commissioner Ralph P. Ormsbee
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Civil Defense Personnel Roger T. Hintze, Director Lincoln A. Dexter, Deputy Director
Insurance Review Committee
Bert Mount, Chairman Howard S. Bush Gerald N. Hakes Leland W. Shaw
Building Inspector
Anthony G. Mascaro Thomas W. Farnham, Asst.
Center Study Committee
Harry C. Crawford, Jr., Chair. Herol Harrington William H. Shortell James Brady McGuire Anne Hartt William Sullivan, Jr. Dorothy B. Sigsbee Bert Mount Arthur I. Macdonald Charles I. Bowman
Industrial Development Committee
Roland L. Sirois, Chairman Bert Mount Leo Paradis Beatrice L. Becker Franklin T. Richardson
Personnel Study Committee
Herman G. Grandchamp, Chair. Albert E. Neale John Bemben Darrell S. Ames
Bicentennial Committees
History Committee Charles L. Merrick, Chair. Henry I. Edson Raymond F. Gurney Harry R. Jeffrey
Ralph M. Kilcourse Mrs. Dudley Cloud
Celebration Committee Robert A. Edwards, Chair. (See official program for other committees and members.)
Electrical Inspector William E. Fitzgerald
Town Report Committee
Warren I. Fillmore, Chair. Burton W. Hall Chester L. Thorndike, Jr. Richard C. Stevens
School Survey Committee
Dorrance T. Green, Chair. Fred T. Googins Ethel M. Musselman Andrew G. Duzsik Edwin M. Osgood
School Building Committee Dorrance T. Green, Chair.
Ethel M. Musselman
Irving H. Agard
Fred T. Googins
Doris C. Bowman
Andrew G. Duzsik
Edwin M. Osgood
Larry Dwight Lewis
Frederick B. Seel
Fence Viewers
Gordon W. Holdridge Harry R. Jeffrey (Resigned) W. Gilbert Allyn (Appointed to fill vacancy) Harry R. Whyte
Shade Tree Committee
Clifford W. Burgess, Chair. George G. Canney Clyde F. Barlow
Roger T. Hintze
Gordon R. Long
Power Transmission Committee
Edward H. Godfrey, Chair. William J. Schickler Clifford W. Burgess James P. Saxe Richard L. Danforth
Marshall E. Roper Andrew Duzsik Clayton N. Fuller
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Selectmen's Report
During the year 1962 the Town of Wilbraham made normal progress in the improvement of its physical facilities. The recon- struction of Monson Road, with State and County assistance under the Chapter 90 program, was completed from Ridge Road to the Glendale four corners. Two sections of Main Street were resurfaced - from Boston Road to Merrill Road and from Buck- ley Street to Woodland Dell Road. In line with the town's policy of solving some drainage problems each year, in order of impor- tance, drainage was installed on Stony Hill Road from Brookdale Drive south and from the Parkway Theatre's driveway south to the brook and on North Main Street in the Decorie Drive area.
Proposed for 1963, and approved by the State Department of Public Works under Chapter 90, is the reconstruction of Dip- ping Hole Road. This road bears considerable traffic and is at present hazardous because of its narrow width and several sharp curves where visibility is poor. Currently planned drainage will relieve bad situations on North Main Street from Pease Street to Decorie Drive and on Stony Hill Road in the area of Glenn Drive. To improve and maintain some of our more heavily travelled ways, resurfacing is proposed on the following roads: on South Main Street from Woodland Dell Road to Tinkham Road, on Stony Hill Road from Boston Road north to the Spring- field line, and on River Road from Old Boston Road to Stony Hill Road. Another item being proposed under a special article at the coming Annual Meeting is the construction of a sidewalk on Main Street from Woodland Dell Road to the entrance to the High School. This would enable school pupils in this area to safely walk to the High School and the proposed new Elementary School thus saving the expense of 11/2 school buses. The eco- nomics involved indicate that the sidewalk would be a good investment.
In 1962 the town purchased a new ambulance to provide, under custody of the Fire Department, service to all residents as required. This replaces the emergency vehicle so generously donated to the town by the Grange ten years ago.
The whole town was saddened by the death of its Police Chief, William Pollitt, on December 23, 1962. Bill Pollitt, by his per-
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sonal qualities, his devotion to duty, and the efficient conduct of his department had gained the respect and affection of all who knew him.
Demands on the services of the Police Department have stead- ily increased along with the growth of the town. In order to provide the minimum coverage required for the protection of persons and property, including the necessary investigative and administrative work involved, it would be necessary to hire an additional full-time patrolman and to add further to the part- time use of the Auxiliary Police. The budget for the coming year reflects the cost of this recommended increase in the police personnel.
Miss Helen C. Boden who for many years was the Selectmen's secretary and later assumed the position of Welfare Director for the Town of Wilbraham, retired on August 1, 1962. Her devoted, conscientious service to the Town will never be for- gotten because she truly could be classified as a dedicated servant respected for her devotion to duty and willingness to be helpful. Her presence around the Town Office will be missed not only by town officials and employees, but by citizens who have sought her advice. We all wish her a long, happy and healthful retire- ment.
For a good many years the town has conducted a Dental Clinic in the schools. In addition to examining each child, the dentist used to do some work on the teeth. With the increased number of children the dentist has, in recent years, merely made an exam- ination and when, in his opinion, some work was required has sent a notice via the child to his own dentist. We now believe that this service can be discontinued entirely as of April 1, 1963. There are several dentists practicing in town and we feel confi- dent that most children are receiving adequate care from their family dentists. Isolated cases involving financial hardship can be handled through the Welfare Department on recommendation of the school nurses.
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