Andover Townsman, 8/7/1958
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8 Commissioner Collatos I that the local Veterans may be contacted. ENESTRA SIIIDCVEIP ■CWSISMAN STEEL Andover's Own Newspaper Sim,' 188; VOLUME 71 NUMBER 44 ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, AUGUST 7, 1958 PRICE 10 CENTS SA SH Residential Shopping Center By-Laws Projected Commercial Ruled Illegal By Counsel Utility structure set well back from the the zoning Enabling Act does not The Planned Shopping Center street. And at that time, they re- allow a delegation of authority Basement Sash zoning voted last March at town quested relief from certain provi- over zoning matters to a planning meeting has been ruled illegal sions of the Shopping Center board. Such matters can only be by Town Counsel Vincent Stulgis Zoning, relating to the amount of delegated to the Selectmen or the Screens and In a written opinion to the parking and location of signs. It Zoning Board of Appeals. Storm Sash Planning Board, he has stated was the firm's written request for "The town, in enacting Section that the areas zoned for that pur- relief that prompted the Planning VIA (2) Planned Shopping Cen- 1/4Iways Available pose revert to their former status. Board to ask town counsel for his ters, specifically delegated autho- Thus the West Andover center, ruling. rity for final approval of site plans For Above. zoned in March, would change The written opinion from town and other matters concerning back to Zone C residential; while counsel was based in large part on zoning to the Planning Board. It We Carry the the shopping center zone on No. a decision handed down in the is then my opinion that this one Largest Supply Main st. would revert to industrial. Coolidge vs No. Andover case, bad section, which is not within It is understood that a shopping which became known this June. the compliance of the statute on -Us Side of Boston center is allowed under the in- The opinion, as signed by the zoning and the. Coolidge Case, dustrial zoning, thus making it counsel, follows: causes the entire by-law or by- possible for the Elm Farms to "It is my opinion that the enact- laws on Planned Shopping Centers develop the proposed center. ment of the by-law relative to to be a nullity, reverting the lwrence Plate & Representatives of that firm re- planned shopping centers has areas zoned for planned shopping cently told the Planning Board failed to accomplish its purpose. centers to their original status. indow Glass Co. that a shopping center would in- "In the recently decided case "It is therefor suggested that clude an Elm Farms super market, of Coolidge vs North Andover these by-laws be rewritten and 7 Canal St., MU 3-7151 plus "service" type stores. They Planning Board, 1958 advanced presented for enactment at the disclosed plans for a colonial-type sheets 959, the Court said that next town meeting." ANDOVER WATER AT POMP'S Electric Company Plans GOOD FOR SWIMMING VALUE The Board of Health has had water at Pomp's Pond DAYS tested and states that it is of DEEP — AND HOT! This is the Shawsheen Hylands sewer, Power Line Construction suitable bacteriological just as it enters Marwood dr., off Lowell st. Workmen handling Extensive improvements to the quality for swimming. Samples electric distribution facilities in from the beach area and from the air hammer in the trench had a .mighty hot lob on a muggy Ballardvale and along So. Main the center of the Pond were afternoon. The Susi and DeSantis firm is handling the Annual Events Monday st. are planned by the Merrimack- taken. project for the town. Essex Electric co. _, At Playgrounds Officials of the firm met re- The annual playground field day cently with the Board of Public Sewer Entrance Taxpayers' Insist Data will be held Thursday, Aug. 14, Works to discuss routes and poten- at Central Playground. tial tree removals. Buses will transport youngsters The new high-power line, to Request Refused from all the grounds for the athle- carry heavier loads in expecta- Would Bolster Position tion of future residential demands, Two Lowell st. residents, tic events, starting at 10 a.m. and Arthur Mandros, 100 Lowell st. ALE The Taxpayers Association this man news releases covering the ending at noon. will start at the Ballardvale- and R. A. Woodcock, 95 Lowell week refuted a statement by a Taxpayers' meeting with our Tewksbury line, along Dascomb And as the playground season st., have asked the Board of representative of the state tax assessors on July 28th. They moves toward a close, several' rd., Clark rd., Andover st., Hal- lardvale rd. and along So. Main Public Works for permission to office that the Association's plan will recall that we took the stand other activities are planned. st. to the By-Pass. enter the Shawsheen Hylands for a gradual imposition of the that the assessors owed our home- Displays showing the arts and Comiiany representatives said sewer. revaluation was illegal. owners an explanation in detail of crafts work done on the grounds the primary line atop the poles In a special statement issued what was happening and that until this year are on display this week But the Board decided Monday would be relatively free from in- at mid-week, the Association such time as they could gather the in two Main st. stores. Miss Anne night that neither should be terruption froni tree limbs. described its efforts to meet with data from which an intelligent Marie Walsh, assisted by Miss granted the permission. Street lights in use at this time the Assessors to discuss meas- analysis could be made they were Dorothy Ann Walsh, have been in Mr. Woodcock lives directly will be changed to individual ures to ease the tax burden on not in a position to accept the charge of this activity. opposite the eventual end of the home owners, resulting from the revaluation or set a tax rate. That Aug. 18 and 19 have been set ( Continued on Page 14) line now being installed. The revaluation. And the Association being so we recommended the as the days for all playoffs to RES pipe will stop about 150 ft. in from maintained that its estimate of postponement of the reassessment determine the playground cham- the Lowell st. end of Arthur rd. the affect of the revaluation on until 1959. The assessors dis- pions in sand building, checkers, Blood Given Mr. Mandros lives, around the homeowners would be borne out agreed. We were told, in just about dominoes, chess, badminton and corner of Lowell st. by a suniniation of figures, if this so many words, that all they ping ti ong. is done by the Assessors at some needed was the total valuation i d during that last week at By Raytheon Some doubt was expressed as future time. and that, so far as setting the playground activities, instructors Dangerously low blood supplies to how the residents could be The statement, signed by Tax- rate is involved, they were not (Continued from Page Two) were given a much needed boost allowed to enter the sewer, when payers President Harold Haller, concerned with how much the tax as employees of Raytheon made a the plan did not call for it and follows: bills of particular types of pro- record donation to the Blood- betterments were not drawn up "Ily this time, the citizens of perty went up or down. Apparently Guild Barbeque mobile, which visited the plant against the two properties. Andover have probably been able your elected officials do not be- Friday, Aug. 1. to digest the "I ribune and Towns- lieve that before making a drastic In Mid-August lied Cross authorities of the 95 change in assessment procedures Andover Chapter stated that this St. Augustine's School Guild, they need tell you, from firm data was the highest one-day total ( Continued on Page Eight) busy in summer as in winter, is ever realized in the Greater Law- planning a mid-summer party for rence area. 352 potential donors the entire parish. answered the call during the visit IP PLUS TAX PRESCRIPTION Committee members are working FRIDAY LAST DAY TO and 303 pints of blood were re- on preparations for a chicken ceived. The supply will go to the AND REGISTER TO VOTE barbecue to be held, Saturday, Boston Blood Center where it will RECAPPABLE SPECIALISTS! The lin al opportunity to Aug. 23, in the garden of Dr. and be made available to any hospital TIRE register, before the state Mrs. Harry Byrne, 51 School st. in the area. Our Prescription Specialists primary Sept. 9, is tomorrow Servings will be continuous from Friday's program was made emblem is your assurance from noon until 10 p.m. 5 to 7 p.m. successful through the cooperation The Board of Registrars Co-chairmen of the event are ■ of prompt, precise com- Of C. F. Adams, president of and Town Clerk George Wins- Mrs. Joseph Sapienza, Mrs. James Raytheon Manufacturing Com- pounding at prices that low will register voters at Dolan, Mrs. Philip Winters and pany; A. E. Walden, Andover plant are uniformly fair. the town clerk's office during Mrs. llohert Phinney. manager; and David Cutler, Blood those hours. The ticket committee members Program chairman, Andover lied ZES Always make it a point There will be no further include Mrs. Stewart Anderson, Cross. to bring us your Doctor's opportunity to register until Mrs. Joseph Bresnahan, Mrs. Sept. 23, well after the pri- lioland Deniers, Mrs. Lawrence (Continued on Page Eight) prescriptions—and call ELY REDUCED maries, when another series Kidd, Mrs.