Town of Hamilton Annual Report
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ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE TOWN of HAMILTON MASSACHUSETTS 1951 ANNUAL REPORT for the TOWN of HAMILTON MASSACHUSETTS 1951 1951 TOWN OKKICKKS Elected and Appointed Selectmen LAWRENCE R. STONE, Chairman EDWARD A. DeWITT EVERETT F. BALE Y Board of Public Welfare EDWARD A. DeWITT, Chairman EVERETT F. HALEY LAWRENCE R. STONE Board of Health EVERETT F. HALEY, Chairman LAWRENCE R. STONE EDWARD A. DeWITT Moderator OLIVER WOLCOTT Town Cleric FRANCIS H. WHIPPLE Treasurer WALFRED B. SELLMAN Tax Collector BERTHA L. CROWELL Surveyor of Highways LELAND D. THOMPSON Assessors JESSE S. MANN, Chairman Term expires 1954 ROBERT H. CHITTICK ELMO 0. ADAMS Term expires 1953 Term expires 1952 Trustees of Public Library BEATRICE B. HOLMES, Chairman Term expires 1954 SARAH H. TRUSSELL JOHN F. NEARY Term expires 1953 Term expires 1952 School Committee MORLEY L. PIPER, Chairman Term expires 1953 GRACE B. LAMSON RUTH F. DONALDSON Term expires 1954 Term expires 1952 Tree Warden RUDOLPH H. HARADEN Librarians LYDIA L. HARADEN JENNIE S. PERLEY Main Library Branch Library Cemetery Commissioners RAYMOND A. WHIPPLE. Chairman Term expires 1954 JOHN T. WALKE LAWRENCE C. FOSTER Term expires 1952 Term expires 1953 Water Commissioners GEORGE A. HARRIGAN, Chairman Term expires 1953 RICHARD H. SMITH FREDERICK P. GOODHUE Term expires 1954 Term expires 1952 Park Commissioners PHILIP HOPKINS, Chairman Term expires 1952 ALBERT P. LOUGEE RAY M. SANFORD Term expires 1954 . Term expires 1953 Planning Board FRANCIS C. MOYNIHAN, Chairman Term expires 1952 HENRY J. GOURDEAU M. KEITH LANDER Term expires 1954 Term expires 1953 ARTHUR E. MORROW RICHARD W. JOHNSON Term expires 1956 Term expires 1955 Constable EDWARD FREDERICK Chief of Police EDWARD FREDERICK Dog Officer FRANK L. TREE 5 .Mo Hi Superintendent RUDOLPH II. EABADEE Park Superintendent JAMES II. GOODRICH Superintendent of Cemetery PHILIP S. PLUMMER Superintendent of Water Works RAYMOND A. WHIPPLE Registrars of Voters FRANK W. .BUZZELL, Chairman Term expires 1952 JESSIE W. B. CUNNINGHAM LAWRENCE LAMSON Term expires 1953 Term expires 1954 FRANCIS H. WHIPPLE, Clerk-officio Sealer of Weights and Measures ERVING 0. MAXWELL Town Accountant FRANCIS H. WHIPPLE Town Counsel ROBERT B. WT ALSH (Resigned) STANDISH BRADFORD Fire Engineers A. MERRILL CUMMINGS. Chief HAROLD G. DODD RUDOLPH H. HARADEN Finance and Advisory Committee FREDERIC WINTHROP, Chairman LAWRENCE LAMSON JOHN E. LAWRENCE WILLIAM M. FOLEY § BENJAMIN G. ROBERTSON Inspector of Animals and Slaughtering ERNEST M. BARKER Inspector of Mill: ERNEST M. BARKER Forest Warden FRED BERRY Civil Defense Director JOHN H. PERKINS Field Drivers FRED BERRY ERNEST M. BARKER CARL C. ANDERSON WILLIAM W. BANCROFT Measures of Wood, Lumber and Bark JESSE S. MANN EDWARD W. MacGREGOR ERNEST M. BARKER TIMOTHY A. MOYNIHAN Union Health Department Study Committee HAROLD A. DALEY, Chairman DR. ALBERT R. LARCHEZ DR. STANLEY A. WILSON PAUL F. PERKINS, JR. SAMUEL J. TYACK School Building Committee FINLAY D. MacDONALD, Chairman RUTH F. DONALDSON G. GORDON LOVE STANDISH BRADFORD FORRESTER A. CLARK REPORT of tlie TOWN CLERK 1951 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/townofhamiltonan1951unse : : 9 REPORT OF SPECIAL STATE PRIMARY Held March 27, 1951 FOR NOMINATIONS FOR REPRESENTATIVE TO FILL VACANCY IN FIFTEENTH ESSEX DISTRICT TELLERS AND ELECTION OFFICERS Republican Democratic Lawrence R. Stone Lawrence Lamson Edward A. DeWitt Mary T. Greeley Everett F. Haley Arlene Stone Joseph B. Sabean Town Clerk Francis H. Whipple Police Edward Frederick The warrant was read and polls opened at one o'clock P. M. by Law- rence R. Stone. Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. A total of 283 votes were cast, 263 Republicans and 20 Democratic, as follows Republican Democratic Arthur L. Emery 9 Mary B. Amory 17 Robert P. Fuller 3 Henry H. Daley 2 Joseph A. Gillis 3 Blanks 1 C. Henry Glovsky 208 Austin C. Jones 9 Charles E. Robinson 27 Blanks 4 The polls were declared closed at 8 :00 P. M. by Lawrence R. Stone, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. The results of the balloting were announced at 8 :10 P. M. Attest FRANCIS H. WHIPPLE, Town Clerk. 10 REPORT OF THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Held March 5, 1951 AND OF THE ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION HELD MAKCH 13, 1951 MODERATOR: Oliver Wolcott ELECTION OFFICERS Counters Frank C. Back Mary T. Greeley Josephine L. Begg Mildred M. Haraden Hazel M. C. Bray Thomas A. Sargent Jeremiah J. Doyle Frank H. Tuck Checkers Walter E. Cheever Lawrence Lamson Henry C. Jackson George Morrow Joseph ,B. Sabean Police Edward Frederick Henry C. Jackson, Jr. Charles F. Poole . Town Cleric Francis H. Whipple The Moderator, Mr. Oliver Wolcott, opened the meeting at seven- thirty (7:30) in the evening on Monday, March 5, 1951 in the town hall. A count of the voters present by the Moderator, concurred by the Town Clerk, showed 246 voters present and the Moderator declared a quorum present. Invocation offered by Rev. Edward J. McLaughlin. Moderator : "The first business of the evening is Article 2 : "To choose and appoint all other Town Officers in such manner as the Town may determine." Moved by Mr. Edward A. DeWtit and duly seconded: "That four field drivers and four measurers of wood, lumber and bark be elected by the meeting from the floor and that the field drivers be nominated and* elected first and the measurers of wood, lumber and bark immediately following." Voice Vote. Motion unanimously carried. L 1 Moved by Mr. Edward A. DeWitt and duly seconded: "That Fred Berry, Carl C. Anderson, William W. Bancroft and Ernest M. Barker be elected field drivers for the ensuing year." Voice Vote. Motion unanimously carried. Moved by Mr. Edward A. DeWitt and duly seconded: "That Jesse S. Mann, Ernest M. Barker, Timothy A. Moynihan and Edward W. Mac- Gregor be elected measurers of wood, lumber and bark for the ensuing year." Voice Vote. Motion unanimously carried. Article 3. Moderator: "To hear the reports of the Town Officers and of the Finance and Advisory Committee and all other committees and take any action thereon." Moved by Mr. Lawrence R. Stone and duly seconded : "That the re- ports of the Town Officers and of the Finance and Advisory Committee and all other committees with the exception of the School Building Com- mittee be received and placed on file and that the report of the School Building Committee be considered under Article 11." Voice Vote. Motion unanimously carried. Article 4. Moderator : "To raise and appropriate money for Schools. Highways, and all other Town expenses and determine the manner of ex- pending the same." As in past years I shall read the items and the recommended amounts and if debate is wished on any item, call "Pass." The items passed will be taken up in order after the others have been voted as a whole." Mr. Frederic Winthrop : "May I say a word. This budget has been prepared in some detail, and after quite a lot of consideration by the Finance Committee we have approached the problem of how to prepare a budget that will be for the greatest good to the greatest number of people in the town. We consider the duties of the Finance Committee to be those of advising on financial matters and on other matters so that action will be taken at the Annual Town Meeting which would be for the greatest benefit to the majority and not for any particular group of people. This New England town meeting is, I believe, the only form there is of true Democracy. It is up to you people and your vote, which by your way of thinking would be for the best interest of the town and not for any particu- lar single group. We have made recommendations which seem high in some cases, and we have made recommendations that apparently will not be satisfactory or acceptable to some other people. There is one particular item which I will touch upon now before you go into the question of appropriating money for the American Legion. The Finance Committee realizes that money has been appropriated for a great many years and has been so done in a great many other places throughout the state. We felt that it was not a proper use of town funds to spend it for any special group. Therefore, we felt that we should be derelict if we did not bring it before the people of the town. : : : : :: :: : : : 1? We have made recommendations in the Town Report which I hope you have all read. We hope very much that they will be followed. If not, we realize the will of the people is that of the greatest wisdom. At the moment we don't want to have the taxes go up any higher than they are now. How- ever, we do feel that as far as the school goes, that is money well spent." Moderator : "I shall now read the recommended appropriations." Finance Committee $ 15.00 Selectmen Salaries 1,150.00 Expenses 1,500.00 Accountant Salary 2,530.00 Expenses 200.00 Treasurer Salary 1,300.00 Expenses 575.00 Tax Collector Salary 1,500.00 Expenses 500.00 Assessors Salaries and Wages 2,115.00 Expenses - 350.00 Law Salary 700.00 Town Clerk Salary 990.00 Expenses 250.00 Election and Registration: Expenses 1,800.00 Town Hall Salary 2,516.80 Expenses 1,600.00 Essex County Pension Fund Contribution 2,180.64 Police Salary of Chief 3,146.00 Wages—Special Officers 5,000.00 Expenses 935.00 Cruiser Maintenance 750.00 Fire Salary and Wages 1,810.00 Equipment, Repairs and Expenses : ::: :: : : : : — 13 Office of Civilian Defense 1,000.00 Sealer of Weights and Measures Salary 230.00 Expenses 100.00 Moth—Town Salary of Superintendent 1,471.80 Wages 900.00 Expenses 372.00 Moth—Private Salary of Superintendent : 522.50 Wages 378.00 Expenses 390.00 Tree Warden Salary 929.50 Wages 1,322.00 Expenses 140.00 Special—Planting trees 200.00 Forest Fire Warden Salary 40.00 Expenses 60.00 Board of Health Salaries .