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TOWN OF MIDDLEBOROUGH ANNUAL REPORT 1952 INCORPORATED A. D. 1669 MIDDLEBOROUGH FIRE ALARM BOXES 14 Permanent Men 16 Engine No. 4 21 North Main - Near Public Library 23 Peirce - School 24 Sproat - Pearl 25 North Main - Barrows 26 North - Myrtle 27 East Main- Star Avenue 28 Montello - North 29 Shaw Home - Wareham 31 Centre - Pearl 32 Centre - School 34 Centre - Main 35 Benton - Wareham 36 Wareham - Barden Hill Road 37 Benton - Rock 38 Wareham - Acorn 42 South Main - Courtland 43 South Main - Rock 44 Court End Ave. - Alden 45 South Main - Grove 46 W'est - Hillside Ave. 47 Elm - Grove 48 Oak - Southwick 51 Centre - Carey 52 Pearl - High 53 Centre - Oak 54 Everett Square 55 Vine - near Lumber Yard 56 Centre - Lovell 57 Everett - Frank 58 Cambridge - Frank 59 Sumner Ave. - Bartlett 62 Forest - Arch 63 Oak - Frank 64 Oak - North 65 North - Nemasket 71 Everett - Keith 72 Railroad Station 73 Archer Court 81 Town Hall 82 Bates School 83 Union Street School 84 School Street School 85 Forest Street School 86 West Side School 87 Memorial High School 121 Lakeville State Sanitorium 131 Plymouth Shoe Company 141 Geo. E. Keith Company 146 Grove - near Japan Works 151 Warren Avenue 212 NO SCHOOL 213 Squad Call Engine No. 2 251 Barnett Nursing Home 313 Squad Call Engine No. 3 333 Squad Call Engine No. 1 351 Dean-Morris Shoe Co. 413 Engines No. 1 and No. 3 451 Shadow Lawn Nursing Home 531 St. Luke’s Hospital 581 Alberts Shoe Company 666 American Legion 7777 Civil Defense 6 Single Blows at 30 Second Intervals Warden Call 2-2-2-2 Boy Scout Assembly ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBOROUGH Massachusetts For the Year Ending December 31 1952 I- cc < ZE n 0 D u o CL o CO LU _l o Q oLL z >* < o 0 H oCL MIDDLEBOROUGH MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL INFORMATION AND FIGURES ABOUT THE TOWN Elevation — 100 feet above sea level Settled — 1660 Incorporated as a Town — 1669 Population 1950 Census — 10,164 Valuation (exclusive of automobiles)—$10,696,895.00 Tax Rate — $62.00 per thousand Area — 68.1 square miles Number of Dwellings — 2,682 Number of Manufactures — 15 Miles of Street — 149 Municipally Owned — Water, Sewer, Gas, Electric Light Plants Motorized Police and Fire Departments Schools in Class A Municipally Owned — Swimming poll, tennis courts, playgrounds PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES Fire Apparatus Photo Finishers Varnishes Shoes Calendars Drug Sundries Brass Goods Grain Elevator and thirty other products THE CENTER OF THE CRANBERRY INDUSTRY LOCATED 35 Miles from Boston 22 Miles from New Bedford 30 Miles from Providence, R. I. On Route 44 to Plymouth and Route 28 to Cape Cod On Route 79 to Fall River and Route 18 to New Bedford On Route 44 to Taunton and Providence, R. I. RAILROAD CENTER Direct Rail Connections with Cape Cod Boston Brockton Direct Bus Connections with Boston Brockton Providence Fall River Bridgewater New Bedford Plymouth Taunton Carver 4 ANNUAL REPORT WHERE TO CALL FOR SERVICE Fire .250 Police . 264 Ambulance .264 Aid to Dependent Children Welfare Department 1027 Animal Inspection Inspector of Animals 779 Bills and Accounts Town Accountant 780 Birth Certificates Town Clerk 780 Burial Permits Health Officer or Town Manager 470 928 Business Certificates Town Clerk 780 Civil Defense Town House 373 Civil Defense Playground 1200 Death Certificates Town Clerk 780 Dog Licenses Town Clerk 780 Elections Town Clerk 780 Employment Town Manager 928 Entertainment Licenses Town Clerk 780 Fishing and Hunting Licenses Town Clerk 780 Fuel Oil Storage Fire Department 250 Garbage Collection Health Department 470 Health Health Department 470 Library Middleborough Public Library 613 Licenses Town Clerk 780 Light and Power Municipal Gas & Electric Department 1371 Light and Power Bills Municipal Gas & Electric Department 1371 Marriage Certificates Town Clerk 780 Milk Inspection Milk Inspector 779 Old Age Assistance Welfare Department 1027 Playground Town Manager 928 Plumbing Permits Plumbing Inspector 470 Purchasing Town Manager 928 Schools School Department 81 Selectmen Town Manager 928 Sewer Permits and Sewer Bills Town Manager 928 Slaughtering Inspection Inspector of Slaughtering 779 Veterans’ Benefits Agent 245 Street Maintenance Highway Yard 724-W Tax Assessments Assessors 766-W Tax Collections Tax Collector 766-^M Trees Tree Warden 724-W U. S. Selective Service Town House • 956 Voting and Registration Registrars 780 Water Water Department 90 Water Bills Water Department 90 Weigths and Measures Sealer of Weigths and Measures 90 W elf are Welfare Department * 1027 Wiring Permits Inspector of Wiring 818 Town Manager’s Office ... 928 ANNUAL REPORT 5 PUBLIC OFFICIALS 1952 Board of Selectmen Ralph W. Maddigan, Chairman Term Expires 1953 Rhodolphus P. Alger Term Expires 1953 William J. MacDougall Term Expires 1954 John A. Washburn Term Expirse 1954 Paul T. Anderson Term Expires 1955 Town Manager Roger W. Macdonald School Committee Miriam Campbell Term Expires 1953 Joseph F. Riley Term Expires 1953 Lorenzo Wood, Chairman Term Expires 1954 Horace K. Atkins Term Expires 1954 George A. Shurtleff, Jr. Term Expires 1955 4 C. Trafton Mendall Term Expires 1955 Superintendent of Schools J. Stearns Cushing Planning Board Joseph C. Kunces, Secretary Term Expires 1953 C. Trafton Mendall, Chairman Term Expires 1954 Stanley F. Alger, Jr. Term Expires 1956 John J. Kendall Term Expires 1957 Assessors Lloyd Sturgis Term Expires 1953 James E. Houlihan, Chairman Term Expires 1954 Theodore F. Deane Term Expires 1955 Housing Authority Allan Hale, Chairman Term Expires 1953 Adnah Harlow Term Expires 1954 Doris Stetson Term Expires 1955 Edward J. Morrissey, State Appointee Term Expires 1956 Ford Campbell Term Expires 1957 Finance Committee Kenneth B. Keedwell Term Expires 1953 Charles P. Washburn Term Expires 1953 Arnold Thomas Term Expires 1954 Arthur C. Saccocia Term Expires 1954 Kenneth E. Atwood Term Expires 1955 Frederick W. daCosta Term Expires 1955 James J. Mahoney, Chairman Term Expires 1955 / 6 ANNUAL REPORT Measurers of Wood, Bark and Lumber Ernest. S. Pratt Gilbert M. Simmons Ernest Standish Alfred B. DesRosiers Trustees of the Public Library \ V Myra S. Shaw Term Expires 1953 Ernest E. Thomas Term Expires 1953 William J. MacDougall Term Expires 1953 Joseph Riley Term Expires 1954 Thomas H. Kelly Term Expires 1954 M. Ethel Washburn Term Expires 1954 Helen N. Whitcomb Term Expires 1955 Theodore N. Wood, President Term Expires 1955 Thomas Weston Term Expires 1955 ^ Park Commissioners Ralph B. Mendall Term Expires 1953 Bartleft H. Harrison Term Expires 1953 William N. Sheehy Term Expires 1953 ^ Superintendent of Park Joseph C. Kunces Registrars of Voters ■ 0 George E. Gove Term Expires 1953 J William P. Scanlon, Chairman Term Expires 1954 Sarah A. Sheehy Term Expires 1955 Constables Charles H. Rogers Clarence L. Shaw u Fencence Viewers Sheldon L. Phinney Romeo Millette Leo A. Quindley Public Weighers Ernest S. Pratt Antone Freitas Nellie Kelley Winifred S. Carver John Dutra Russell Buck Alfred Gomes Henry P. Smith Wilfred Bois Howard Lincoln Albert Soule Bettina Eaton Arthur Gallagher Charles S. Carver John Callan Chester Camandona Francis Borsari John Washburn Robert LaCombe Laurentino Leitos Moderator Fletcher Clark, Jr. Term Expires 1953 Town Clerk Waldo S. Thomas ANNUAL REPORT 7 Town Accountant Waldo S. Thomas Term Expires 1953 Treasurer and Collector Chester L. Shaw Term Expires 1954 Town Counsel Allan Hale Term Expires 1953 Welfare Agent -•'Trustee M.L.H.P. Luxury Fund Edwin O. Wilson Edwin 0. Wilson Mgr. Gas & Electric Dept. Health Dentist Stephen Horbal Dr. Louis H. Fuller Chief, Fire Department Chief, Police Department Bertram Tripp Charles H. Rogers Health Officers Civil Defense Bertram N. Cameron Kenneth Keedwell Miriam Campbell Veteran’s Service Agent ^Moth Superintendent Louis A. Cole Louis Forney Superintendent of Streets i^Forest Warden Louis Forney Bertram Tripp Tree Warden ^Jhfspector of Wires Louis Forney Emilio N. Niro Sealer of Weights & Measures Lloyd E. Banks l^Rispector of Animals, Milk, Slaughtering John Rebell Inspector of Plumbing ^-Dog Officer Harry Rowe Arthur F. Benson ^^Burial Agent Keeper of Lock-up ^ Louis A. Cole Charles H. Rogers ^Agent for Care of Veterans’ Field Driver and Pound Keeper Graves ^ , Charles H. Rogers Agent of Liquor Establishments to Represent the Board Charles H. Rogers 8 ANNUAL REPORT REPORT OF THE TOWN MANAGER To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Middleborough, Massachusetts Gentlemen: I herewith present the annual report of the Town Manager for the year ending December 31, 1952. The construction of Plymouth Street to Route 28 was completed this year. This work from Everett Street has been carried on for the past few years and now this highway has been straightened, widened, and drainage installed. Under this same program, a section of Purchase Street was black- topped and preliminary work done widening and installing culverts and removing brush and debris to the Carver Line. Under Chapter 90 Maintenance, Wareham, Plymouth, Thompson and Taunton Street were surface treated. General maintenance work in the Highway Department was carried out on several streets in the Town where needed. Lincoln Street was widened and asphalt applied. The streets in the Williams Development, where houses have been constructed, were graded, gravel placed thereon, and asphalt surface applied. The Pearl Street Parking area was shaped and surface treated with asphalt. Insect and Pest Control Work has been carried on during the year cutting out the dead wood on elm trees under state advice. To date we have sent several samples to the Laboratory at Amherst and no positive fungus of the Dutch Elm Disease has been found in Middleborough. Traps for gypsy moth were set out under state supervision and combed every ten days for specimens. No signs of gypsy moth were found. Water The installation of new services and replacement of old continued about the same as in previous years. The wells at the Rock still furnish the same fine quality of water; and in spite of the long drought, the Town was not affected, and it was not necessary to curtail the use of water.