Annual Report of the Town of Weare, New Hampshire
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ANNUAL REPORTS for the Town of WEARE NEW HAMPSHIRE ,,-~ , x Year Ending Dec. 31, 1961 ANNUAL REPORTS for the Town of WEARE NEW HAMPSHIRE Year Ending Dec. 31, 1961 0^.-%.'%-%%"%%^*-%^'%%% J*-%'%.<%-%."%.%00%' INDEX \S3£ List of Town Officers 1 Record of Previous Town Meetings 5 Current Town Warrant 13 Town Budget 17 Inventory of Taxable Property 20 Appropriations and Taxes Assessed 21 Balance Sheet 23 Comparative Statement 24 Schedule of Town Property 28 Town Clerk's Report 29 Tax Collector's Report 31 Town Treasurer's Report 36 Receipts and Payments 40 Detailed Statement of Payments 44 Trust Funds 54 Joseph Stone Fund 61 Police Department 64 Fire Warden 66 Fire Department 67 Weare Library 69 School District Reports 71 Vital Statistics 104 :.;. TOWN OFFICERS Moderator SCOTT F. EASTMAN Representative to General Court SCOTT F. EASTMAN Selectmen ELTON R. FRENCH WALTER P. J. BRENNAN VERNON R. WOOD Town Clerk BURNHAM A. DAVIS Town Treasurer HENRY T. OSBORNE Road Agent ELDON J. TOWNES Tax Collector GEORGE W. CROSBY Overseer of Public Welfare VERNON R. WOOD School Board LYHL PERRIGO BARBARA KNOX WILLIAM BUSBY JANET PURINGTON WALTER BRENNAN KATHRYN TRAVER JOSEPH BROWN VERNA SAWYER ROBERT CLEMENT Supervisors of Checklist ALDEN W. LEEDS MARJORIE EATON BRYANT W. SARGENT •y •»*• —^« =*: Health Officer EVELYN READE Forest Fire Warden ELTON R. FRENCH Forest Fire Deputies MALCOLM DEARBORN* ROY FOSTER CHARLES BROWN JR. ELDON TOWNES HAROLD HALL WALLACE WOOD THOMAS EASTMAN GUY EATON RAYMOND EATON ROBERT HADLEY LOREN POWERS DAVID NICHOLS GEORGE WELCH Fire Wards GERALD HIGHT THOMAS EASTMAN CHESTER LOWE Fire Department GERALD HIGHT, Chief GEORGE WELCH, Deputy LEON TAYLOR, Asst. Captains RAYMOND EATON ROBERT HADLEY JOSEPH MAHAN GERALD PURINGTON Lieutenants ROBERT BLACK DAVID NICHOLS WALTER TURNER CARL WHEELER Trustees of Trust Funds SCOTT F. EASTMAN GUY E. EATON GEORGE S. SAWYER Library Trustees EVA M. SAWYER DORRIS D. EATON IRENE FLANDERS Agent of the Stone Fund HENRY T. OSBORNE Civil Defense VERNON R. WOOD, Director IOLA F. TENNEY, Deputy Director >: Unit Officers GORDON A. RUSSELL, Administrative IOLA F. TENNEY, Warning GERALD HIGHT, Fire BEATRICE BOCKUS, Medical CHESTER LOWE, Police IOLA F. TENNEY, PA & EI GEORGE WELCH, Rescue DAVID NICHOLS, Radiological GORDON TRAVER, Educational BRENNAN COLBURN, Supply WENDELL COLBURN, Transportation CHESTER LOWE, Warden ESTHER HIGHT, Welfare Police Department CHESTER LOWE, Chief BERNARD PHELPS JR, Asst. GERALD HIGHT ROBERT BLACK DAVID EATON WILLIAM HOLT Auditors WILFREDA LOWE PAULA SAWYER ESTHER BANCKER Finance Committee Term Expires 1961 ALLAN ILSLEY ROBERT KNOX STANLEY PARKERSON LEON READE Term Expires 1962 GORDON TRAVER ELDON TOWNES CHARLES BROWN SR. THOMAS EASTMAN Term Expires 1963 LOUIS FAUSTINI STEPHEN HEWWITT HARRY STEVENS ELMORE WATERMAN Term Expires 1964 GUY E. EATON WALLACE WOOD LORRAINE FOTTLER JR. LEON WARE Planning Board DORRIS HADLEY GORDON RUSSELL HOWARD INESON RUBY EASTMEN JOHN MOORE LILLIAN FAUSTINI VERNON R. WOOD, Selectman Justices of the Peace CHARLES F. EVANS ALBERT S. FARMER FRANKLIN FLANDERS LOUIS FAUSTINI GEORGE W. CROSBY JOSEPH A. SOUTER MARION L. KEDDY Notaries MARION L. KEDDY ELIZABETH P. STRAW RUTH D. LAHEY OLIVE G. READE MINNIE T. PEASLEE STARVO S. CHAGRASULIS WALTER D. HODGMAN FRANK N. SAWYER JOSEPH A. SOUTER HENRY T. OSBORNE * -*'* A TOWN MEETING MARCH 14, 1961 - WEARE, N.H. Meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Scott F. Eastman at 1:00 P.M. It was voted to dispense with reading the articles at this time. ARTICLE I: To choose all necessary Town Officers for the en- suing year. Proceeded to ballot for Town Officers. At 7:30 P.M. on motion by Vernon Wood, voted to close polls at 10:00 P.M. Total vote cast — 442 Ballots For Town Clerk: Burnham A. Davis 404 Scattering 4 For Town Treasurer: Henry T. Osborne 394 Scattering 2 For Selectman: William R. Holt 191 Vernon R. Wood 241 Scattering 1 For Road Agent: James W. Cuddihee 25 George H. Dwinnells 16 Bernard L. Phelps, Jr. 147 Chester A. Rhodenizer 4 Bryan W. Sargent 81 Eldon J. Townes 169 For Overseer of the Poor: Vernon R. Wood 363 Scattering 7 For Town Auditors: Esther M. Bancker 360 Wilfreda K. Lowe 376 Paula A. Sawyer 367 Scattering 1 For Trustee of Trust Funds: George C. Sawyer 384 Scattering 1 For Trustee of the Library: Eva M. Sawyer 379 Scattering 1 a= A ARTICLE II: To raise such sums of money as may be neces- to defray town charges for the ensuing year and make appro- priations for the same. The Finance Committee recommendation was $16,000. Upon a motion by Dorothy Leavitt to raise and appror 16,0 00. to defray town charges, the vote was unanimous in favor. ARTICLE III: To make provision for collection of taxes. Ml a motion by Frank Sawyer and seconded by George Gunn. it was voted to leave the collection of taxes up to the selectmen. ARTICLE IV: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen, and Town Treasurer, to borrow money on behalf of the Town in anticipation of taxes: said loans to be payable from taxes for the year 1^61, and to issue notes therefor, in the name of the Town, at such rate of interest and payable at such time and place within one s the Selectmen may decide. It was voted to accept this article as read. ARTICLE Y: To see if the Town will vote to allow a discount on taxes. L'pon a motion by Albert Farmer and seconded by Frank - it was voted to dismiss the article. ARTICLE VI: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of highways and bridges, and take any other vote in relation thereto. The Finance Committee recommendation was $14,000. L'pon a motion by Gerald Hight and seconded by Henry Fisher, after some discussion, the vote was in the affirmative to raise and appror ^00. under this article. ARTICLE MI: To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $1,666.36 to be used along with the sum of $11.10^.04 to be furnished by the - :or Class IV and Class V Construction. Reconstruction, and Betterment Aid. mi a motion by Geo:. iwyei to accept this article, the s unanimous. :•>: ARTICLE VIII: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Weare Police Department. Recommendation of the Finance Committee was $700. Frank Sawyer moved that $700 be raised and appropriated for the Weare lolice Dept. Vote was in the affirmative. ARTICLE IX: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Weare Volunteer Fire Department. The Finance Committee's recommendation was S3, 000. Walter Turner moved that $4,000 be raised and appropriated under this article. After some discussion it was voted in the affirmative. ARTICLE X: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the care of water holes. The Finance Committee recommendatiori was $100. A motion to raise and appropriate $100 for the care of water holes was voted in the affirmative. ARTICLE XI: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the care of neglected cemeteries. The Finance Committee recommendation was $300. A motion by Harold LaBier and seconded by Henry Fisher to raise and ap- propriate $300 for the care of neglected cemeteries was voted in the affirmative. ARTICLE XII: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Band Concerts. After a recommendation of $200 by the Finance Committee, Alden Colburn moved that $200 be raised and appropriated for band concerts. Discussion followed and the motion was voted down. Frank Sawyer then moved $300 be raised and appropriated for band concerts and the motion prevailed. ARTICLE XIII: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Weare Public Library. Upon a motion by Lillian Faustini to raise and appropriate $300 for the Weare Public Library, the vote was in the affirmative. ARTICLE XIV: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the observance of Memorial Day. Gordon A. Russell moved that S200 be raised and appropriated for the observance of Memorial Day and the vote was in the affirmative. ARTICLE XV: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Civil Defense. The Finance Committee's recomendation was S200. Raymond Rogers. Jr.. moved S200 be raised and appropriated for Civil Defense. The vote was in the affirmative. ARTICLE XVI: To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of S1^2 for the support of the Concord Hospital. The Finance Committee recommendation was for adoption of this article. Florence Flanders moved that $192 be raised and appropriated for the support of the Concord Hospital. Discussion followed and it was stated about S~00 free service had been given by the Hospital to Weare patients during the past year, while asking for only $192 from the Town. Vote was in the af- firmative. ARTICLE XVII: To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of S200 for the Water Safety Program. Everett Chase moved $200 be raised and appropriated for the Water Safety Program. Discussion followed and Dorothy Leavitt offered an amendment whereby any unused balance should be carried over for the 1^62 program. Motion and amendment carried favorably. ARTICLE X\TII: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the parking lot, and take any other vote in relation thereto.