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NORWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1639 00054 9855 ANNUAL REPORT 1960 Si- tu NORWELL MASSACHUSETTS One Hundred Eleventh ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN OF NORWELL Massachusetts For the Year Ending December 31, 1960 Norwell Public Library Linotyped, Printed and Bound by THE MEMORIAL PRESS, INC. Plymouth, Mass. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/townofnorwellann1960unse TOWN OF NORWELL Plymouth County, Massachusetts Ninth Congressional District Hastings Keith, West Bridgewater Second Councillor District Abraham H. Kahalas Norfolk and Plymouth Senatorial Districts Newland H. Holmes, 83 Webb Street, Weymouth Third Plymouth Representative District T. Clark Perkins, Hingham Alfred R. Shrigley, Elect County Commissioners Leo F. Nourse. Chairman Bridgewater Norman G. MacDonald Eiva M. Bent Hanson Brockton Population, 1955 State Census, 4,127 4 ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS Elected Town Officers Selectmen G. HERBERT REPASS, Chairman Term Expires 1962 EARLE F. ALLEN, Member Clerk Term Expires 1963 CHARLES H. WHITING Term Expires 1961 Assessors W. CLARKE ATWATER, Chairman Term Expires 1961 EARLE F. ALLEN, Member Clerk Term Expires 1963 PAUL B. MacDONALD Term Expires 1962 Board oj Public Welfare RALPH H. COLEMAN, Chairman Term Expires 1961 JOHN D. LINDSAY Term Expires 1963 MINNA R. SENGER Term Expires 1962 Town Treasurer MARGARET CROWELL Term Expires 1961 Town Collector DONALD C. WILDER Term Expires 1963 Town Clerk NELLIE L. SPARRELL Term Expires 1963 Moderator JOSEPH M. SILVIA Term Expires 1961 Highway Surveyor E. ARNOLD JOSEPH Term Expires 1961 Tree Warden WESLEY H. OSBORNE, Jr Term Expires 1961 School Committee ERNEST W. HASKINS, JR., Chairman ... Term Expires 1961 NELLIE L. SPARRELL, Secretary Term Expires 1962 FLETCHER BOIG Term Expires 1963 WILLIAM G. VINAL Term Expires 1962 GEORGE H. WHITCHER, JR Term Expires 1963 ELECTED AND APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS 5 Board of Health LORING L. WADSWORTH Term Expires 1963 KATHERINE R. FULLER, Clerk Term Expires 1962 HARLAND W. FARRAR Term Expires 1961 Water Commissioners EDWARD F. WALSH, Chairman Term Expires 1961 AUGUSTINE J. THIBODEAU Term Expires 1963 JACOB LEE TURNER Term Expires 1962 Trustees of William J. Leonard Memorial Library MILDRED M. CARR Term Expires 1963 LORRAINE D. DUTY Term Expires 1962 ALFRED H. PROUTY Term Expires 1961 Planning Board FREDERICK C. TRUELOVE, Chairman .... Term Expires 1961 JOSEPH P. PARADIS, Clerk Term Expires 1962 RALPH H. COLEMAN Term Expires 1964 GEORGE E. JOSEPH Term Expires 1963 GILMAN O. WALES Term Expires 1965 Appointed Town Officers Town Accountant Veterans' Benefits HARRY L. CHASE, JR. EARLE F. ALLEN, Agent Town Counsel JOSEPH K. COLLINS Board of Registrars CHARLES G. PROUTY, Chairman Term Expires 1962 RUTH M. MURRAY Term Expires 1963 ROSALIND F. WHITTEMORE Term Expires 1961 Director of Public Assistance HELEN E. NORRIS Chief of Police Regular Police Officers KENNETH J. BRADEEN THEODORE A. BALDWIN ELLSWORTH G. KEENE 6 TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Matron CARMELLA MOLLA Constables GEORGE F. CAVANAGH HARLAND W. FARRAR Police Officers GEORGE F. CAVANAGH ROBERT L. MOLLA HARLAND W. FARRAR AUSTIN S. REYNOLDS ELLSWORTH G. KEENE LLOYD S. WEST Special Police Officers W. CLARKE ATWATER LLOYD B. HENDERSON CHESTER A. BELL JOHN N. MESHEAU ALBERT GUNDERWAY GEORGE W. OSBORNE THOMAS M. ROBINSON HAROLD A. YOUNG Special Police Officer (June 1. 1960 — October 31, 1960) ROBERT S. WARD Civil Defense Director W. CLARKE ATWATER Auxiliary olice Officers ROBERT A. BARDSLEY WILLIAM F. LAVERY RALPH C. BASSETT JOHN MASSON ARTHUR M. CAPACCIOLI JAMES E. POWER RALPH H. COLEMAN PAUL C. RASMUSSEN RONALD K. DICKSON DONALD G. ROBBINS H. JAMES GORMAN, JR. THOMAS M. ROBINSON ARTHUR HANN ULMER R. ROBINSON PHILIP JOSEPH LEONARD ROWE GORDON A. LAMBERT PAUL R. SORENSON, JR. STANLEY D. LAWRENCE HUMPHREY W. TURNER ALAN , VIRTUE Washington Street Cemetery Committee WILDER A. GAUDETTE Term Expires 1962 GEORGE W. BENNETT Term Expires 1961 WILLIAM D. JACOBS Term Expires 1963 •Resigned TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 7 Advisory Board PAUL C. RASMUSSEN, Chairman Pro Tern Term Expires 1962 MARGARET E. C. REESER, Secretary ... Term Expires 1962 JOHN H. CHIPMAN Term Expires 1961 PAUL G. JEVNE Term Expires 1962 ROBERT N. MAGLATHLIN Term Expires 1963 ERNEST J. MILANI Term Expires 1961 JOSEPH T. MURPHY Term Expires 1963 STERLING MYRICK Term Expires 1963 PHILIP T. YOUNG Term Expires 1961 Board of Appeals SANBORN VINCENT, Chairman Term Expires 1963 EARLE M. NEWTON, Secretary Term Expires 1963 FREDERICK J. HART, JR Term Expires 1961 STANLEY H. RICHARDS, Associate Member Term Expires 1962 HENRY J. WALTER, Associate Member . Term Expires 1962 Recreation Commission JAMES T. KING, Chairman JAMES W. ROBERTSON MARY OSBORN KNAPP, JOHN J. WINSKE, JR. Secretary ALLAN H. HAKANSON General School Building Committee CHESTER A. RIMMER, tROBERT B. HARRIS Chairman BRUNO ILMONEN EDMUND V. ANDERSON EMANUEL A. JOSEPH DUNCAN M. BANKS CLINTON V. MacCOY HAROLD E. CRANTON ARTHUR A. RAYMOND JOHN O'L. EDMONDS DAVID L. TURNER -ROBERT M. GOODE By-Law Committee W. BREWSTER SOUTHWORTH, HORACE ROSS Chairman SANBORN VINCENT DAVID L. TURNER, Clerk DONALD C. WHITTEMORE Permanent Drainage Committee RICHARD E. SPLAINE, Chairman ROBERT S. LARSEN tWILLIAM C. BENNETT -STERLING MYRICK E. ARNOLD JOSEPH WILLIAM RITCHIE '"Resigned fAppointed to fill unexpired term 8 TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Development and Industrial Commission HENRY ABRAHAMS fJOHN A. deCOURCY JOHN E. ANDREWS -HERBERT J. LYALL CHARLES H. CROMBIE D. FRANK MEDEROS Sealer of Weights and Measures JOHN D. DICKMAN Board of Fire Engineers WARREN P. MERRITT, Chief FREDERICK K. WILLIAMS, Clerk FRANCIS FALCONER tJAMES T. KING T. CURTIS POWER LORING L. WADSWORTH JOHN J. WINSKE, JR. Town Forest Committee JOSEPH K. COLLINS D. FRANK MEDEROS WESLEY H. OSBORNE, JR.. Ex Officio PAUL C. RASMUSSEN Dog Officer Inspector of Animals ROBERT L. MOLLA R. E. CUGNASCA, D.V.M. Moth Superintendent Burial Agent WESLEY H. OSBORNE, JR. EARLE F. ALLEN Forest Fire Warden Aid to Agriculture WARREN P. MERRITT WILLIAM D. JACOBS, Agent Fence Viewers Custodian of Town Hall PAUL C. RASMUSSEN WALTER L. BROWN J. BERNARD SCOTT Personnel Study Committee SCOTT A. BABCOCK, Chairman HENRY J. WALTER, Clerk JAMES P. HALL Study and Building Committee for Storage of Town Equipment GEORGE E. JOSEPH, Chairman CHARLES FORD E. ARNOLD JOSEPH JOHN G. MARLAND WESLEY H. OSBORNE, JR. tJOHN H. WYLLIE Resigned fAppointed to fill unexpired term SELECTMEN'S REPORT 9 Report of the Board of Selectmen The Town of Norwell is an area of twenty-one square miles or approximately thirteen thousand acres. Within the boundaries fifteen hundred families reside with all the comforts of modern homes and conveniences while at the same time the beavers are still building dams in the swamp area and deer roam the wooded acreage, and one will be startled by the pheasants, raccoons, fox and other animals at any time that one ventures into the wood- lands that are found not very far from any residence in the Town of Norwell. Bass are still caught in the North River, and the herring would be running in the herring brooks if they were prop- erly cleaned and herring runs provided. The foregoing is the kind of a community that we live in at present, and our greatest concern should be what kind of a com- munity will it become in the future. Will we preserve our nat- ural resources at the same time we enjoy the accoutrements of industrial, cultural living? If we lose or destroy our natural resources, the cost of restoring will always be prohibitive if not impossible. The Town of Norwell is very fortunate from the en- vironmental standpoint, having an excellent climate and approxi- mately eight miles of river frontage on the North River which is a navigable estuary of largely tidal water to the Town boundary in Hanover. This navigable estuary is one of the few undeveloped marine potentials on the eastern seaboard in New England. It is possible to contemplate future dredging in the marsh areas along the River that would result in considerable additional acreage of useable River frontage land and at the same time in- crease the marine area many, many times which would be of tremendous value to the Town of Norwell. This sort of develop- ment is not unknown and has been done in many other parts of the Country. In every case it has added tremendously to the cultural and economic resource of the area. If the proper drainage program is carried out in the Town of Norwell, better control of the swamps can be established; and some of these areas would be restored to ponds which would be greatly beneficial to the Town environment. Our human resources as well as our institutional and man- agement needs should be carefully studied in relation to the size of our problems and our financial ability to insure a dynamic journey to the future that we should have the right to expect. Your Town government will call upon you for advice, labor, money and, the most important of all, your vested interest in your own Town of Norwell. 10 SELECTMEN'S REPORT Financial The thirty-second accounting of the Florence M. Cushing Memorial Fund for the year ending August, 1960 was reported by the trustees under date of September 14, 1960. The report showed the principal amount of $47,071.15. The income account for the year showed a balance in the amount of $5,892.84. The trustees remitted to the Town the amount of $2,680.00, which can be used by the Selectmen for unusual maintenance expenses for the Cushing Memorial Town Hall. The total amount available for the Selectmen to administer as of the first of January, 1961 is $5,892.84. The Selectmen have not utilized this fund in any major maintenance expenditure this past year as we are expecting to be forced to make some major changes to the heating system at the Town Hall before long.