Wilbraham annual report 1961-1965, Part 10

Author: Wilbraham (Mass.)
Publication date: 1961
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 884


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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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