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TOWN OF COHASSET ANNUAL REPORT 1952 (3ln jM^martam ROSCOE G. PRATT Born ^ September 18, 1889 Died — March 28, 1952 Served as Field Driver 1934 through 1938 Appointed Deputy, Fire Department, Beechwood District — 1936 Appointed Superintendent of Moth Department 1938, 1940 through 1952 Elected Tree Warden March 9, 1940 Reelected through 1952 AINIVUAL REPORT OF THE Board of Selectmen OF THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE TOWN OF COHASSET AND THE Report of Other Town Officers For the Year Ending December 31 1952 Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1952 TOWN OFFICERS, 1952 - 1953 TOWN RECORDS Elected by Ballot Moderator ROBERT B. JAMES Term expires March 1954 Town Clerk WILLIAM H. MORtelS Term expires March 1953 Selectmen, Assessors and Board of Public Welfare NORMAN CARD Term expires March 1953 IRA B. P. STOUGHTON Term expires March 1954 HELEN E. SCRIPTURE Term expires March 1955 Treasurer MAURICE R. NOONAN Term expires March 1955 Collector of Taxes GORDON E. FLINT Term expires March 1955 Tree Warden ROSGOE G. PRATT Term expires March 1953 Died on March 28, 1952 Howard Bates, Appointed to fill vacancy on March 31, 1952 Highway Surveyor WILLIAM T. BARNES Term expires March 1954 Constables EDWARD BARROW ROYAL A. BATES H. MONTY LaFLAMME STEPHEN H. ROONEY EDMUND H. MacIVER School Committee JOHN H. DEAN Term expires March 1953 FRANCIS HAGERTY Term expires March 1953 GEORGE STEWART JASON Term expires March 1954 HARRY H. REED, JR Term expires March 1954 WILLIAM E. POLAND Term expires March 1955 RICHARD SULLIVAN Term expires March 1955 Board of Health EDWARD E. TOWER Term expires March 1953 NATHANIEL HURWITZ Term expires March 1954 FRED W. SULLIVAN Term expires March 1955 3 Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1952 Trustees of Cohasset Free Public Library ETHEL BOWMAN Term expires March 1953 EMILY B. GLEASON Term expires March 1953 LLOYD C. TROTT Term expires March 1953 MAURICE A. BLACKMUR Term expires March 1954 GERTRUDE M. EMERY Term expires March 1954 ELIZABETH HOWKINS Term expires March 1954 KENNETH D. KETCHUM Term expires March 1955 WALTER H. LILLARD Term expires March 1955 CHARLES C. WILSON Term expires March 1955 Planning Board LANGFORD WARREN Term expires March 1953 NATHAN W. BATES Term expires March 1954 G. CHURCHILL FRANCIS Term expires March 1955 ALBERT HABERSTROH Term expires March 1956 ANTHONY WHITTEMORE Term expires March 1957 TOWN OFFICERS APPOINTED BY SELECTMEN Town Accountant Under Civil Service MALCOLM H. STEVENS Registrars of Voters CLARENCE M. GRASSIE Term expires March 1953 LOUISE E. CONROY Term expires March 1954 JOSEPH S. DUNN Term expires March 1955 WILLIAM H. MORRIS, ex-officio Clerk of Board. Advisory Committee ARTHUR CLARK Term expires March 1953 ARTHUR O. WOOD Term expires March 1953 LAWRENCE S. GATES, to fill vacancy caused by death of Mr. Hugh Strain . Term expires March 1953 EDWARD C. BURSK Term expires March 1954 G. PRE SCOTT LOW Term expires March 1954 ARTHUR SOMERVILLE Term expires March 1954 IRWIN M. GOLDEN Term expires March 1955 FREDERICK L. GOOD, JR Term expires March 1955 JEROME F. WADSWORTH Term expires March 1955 Board of Water Commissioners A. FREDERICK PETERSEN Term expires March 1953 HOMER SEVERNE Term expires March 1953 BARTLETT TYLER Term expires March 1953 Chief of Police Under Civil Service HECTOR J. PELLETIER Sergeant of Police Under Civil Service BENJAMIN F. CURLEY (Died December 29, 1952) Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1952 Patrobnen JAMES J. SULLIVAN RANDOLPH A. FEOLA THOMAS B. KANE RICHARD P. BARROW FREDERICK L. HUNTWORK, appointed September 24, 1952 ROBERT N. ROONEY, appointed June 18, 1952 Permanent Intermittent Patrolman GEORGE W. KOHLMEYER, appointed July 7, 1952 Special Police Officers Assigned to the Police Department FRANK E. JASON AUSTIN L. AHEARN, JR. RALPH S. ENOS JOHN L. WHEELWRIGHT JOHN J. FERREIRA CARMELO CONTE GEORGE E. HALEY VINCENT F. SINOPOLI GEORGE W. KOHLMEYER ROBERT N. ROONEY ROCCO LAUGELLI FREDERICK L. HUNTWORK Special Police Officers RICHARDSON WHITE, Private STEPHEN H. ROONEY, Private CHARLES E. BUTMAN, Sandy Beach Association EDWARD R. JASON, Private ROBERT B. JAMES, Private WILLIAM T. BARNES, Highway Surveyor THOMAS S. BROWN, Watchman ALFRED M. SILVIA, Custodian (Town Hall) JOSEPH L. OLIVER, Fire Chief CLARENCE S. REDDY, Deputy Fire Chief ARTHUR CLARK, Deputy Forest Warden EDWARD J. ANTOINE, Harbor Master BERNARD J. SALVADOR, Assistant Harbor Master WALTER H. LILLARD, Director of Civil Defense MARTIN GRASSIE, Cohasset Yacht Club GORHAM L. BATES, Sealer of Weights and Measures A. FRED PETERSEN, Private FREDERICK W. SULLIVAN, Private DAVID BRUCE McLEAN, Private WILLIAM C. WIGMORE, Cohasset Community Center HERBERT WILLIAMS, SR., Inspector of Wires LOUIS B. C. BAILEY, Private GEORGE S. JASON, Private RICHARD LINCOLN, Cohasset Golf Club JOSEPH B. OLDFIELD, Cohasset Golf Club Auxiliary Police Officers Captain ROBERT B. JAMES Sergeants E. LAWRENCE PARKER BERNARD MULCAHY Department Physician HENRY F. HOWE, M. D. Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1952 Patrolmen DANIEL S. CAMPBELL JOSEPH A. SILVIA KEMPTON CHURCHILL FREDERICK H. GRASSIE ARNOLD PETERSON FRED B. JENKINS HAROLD BROWN CHARLES A. MARKS EDWARD JACOME LOUIS N. SIMEONE WILLIAM BLAIR (Resig'd) LAWRENCE GATES LEONARD LAWRENCE JOSEPH S. DUNN MILTON ROGERS DAVID TRUESDELL KENNETH EVANS DONALD GAMMONS HENDRIK KIP ELMER L, STODDARD, Resig'd FRANK WILLIAMS VERNON S. FLETCHER Dog Officers HECTOR J. PELLETIER LOUIS J. SIMEONE JAMES J. SULLIVAN RANDOLPH A. FEOLA BENJAMIN F. CURLEY RICHARD P. BARROW THOMAS B. KANE Clam Wardens HECTOR J. PELLETIER THOMAS B. KANE JAMES J. SULLIVAN LOUIS J. SIMEONE RANDOLPH A. FEOLA EDWARD J. ANTOiINE RICHARD P. BARROW BERNARD J. SALVADOR BENJAMIN F. CURLEY Lockup Keeper HECTOR J. PELLETIER Director of Civil Defense WALTER H. LILLARD Sealer of Weights and Measures GORHAM L. BATES Superintendent of Wires HERBERT C. WILLIAMS, SR. Assistant Superintendent of Wires E. PARKER MALLEY Measurers of Wood and Bark HOWARD BATES LOUIS B. C. BAILEY IRA N. PRATT RICHARDSON WHITE Burial Agent GEORGE E. HALEY Inspector of Animals DR. MATTHEW CARR Chief of Fire Department Under Civil Service JOSEPH L. OLIVER Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1952 Forest Warden CHIEF JOSEPH L. OLIVER Suj^erintendent of Moth Work ROSCOE G. PRATT HOWARD BATES appointed March 31, 1952 to fill vacancy caused by death of Mr. Roscoe G. Pratt Tree Warden HOWARD BATES appointed March 31, 1952 to fill vacancy caused by death of Mr. Roscoe G. Pratt Town Counsel FREDERICK A. THAYER Surveyors of Lumber WILLIAM H. ELLSWORTH JOSEPH A. VALINE Caretakers CHARLES HENRY, Woodside Cemetery ROSCOE BOWSER, Veterans' Lots, Woodside Cemetery M. JOSEPH SULLIVAN, Milliken Field ARTHUR F. JAMES, Commons THOMAS JEROME, Todd Park FREDERICK L. SULLIVAN, Small Parks JOHN J. DAVENPORT, Wadleigh Park and Green Gate Cemetery H. REYNOLDS EASTMAN, Billings - Pratt Park Director of Veterans' Affairs EDWARD A. MULVEY Assistant Director of Veterans' Affairs MRS. MARGUERITE G. BARRETT Fence Viewers JEROME C. LINCOLN ARTHUR F. JAMES ANTHONY R. EMANUELLO Harbor Master EDWARD J. ANTOINE Assistant Harbor Master BERNARD J. SALVADOR Public Weighers and Weighers of Coal DOROTHY C. WOOD EVERETT W. WHEELWRIGHT SHERWOOD C. AINSLIE WALTER C. WHEELWRIGHT Custodian of the Town Hall ALFRED M. SILVIA Town Engineer LEWIS W. PERKINS Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1952 Organization Board of Selectvien NORMAN CARD, Chairman IRA B. P. STOUGHTOiN, Executive Clerk HELEN E. SCRIPTURE, Assistant Clerk DOROTHY V. GRAHAM, Assistant Clerk EDITH B. CAVANAGH, Assistant Clerk Organization Board of Assessors IRA B. P. STOUGHTON, Chairman NORMAN CARD HELEN E. SCRIPTURE DOROTHY V. GRAHAM, Clerk EDITH B. CAVANAGH, Assistant Clerk Organization Board of Public Welfare, Bureau of Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children HELEN E. SCRIPTURE, Chairman IRA B. P. STOUGHTON NORMAN CARD MARY E. OLIVER, Welfare Agent under Civil Service Organization Board of Health NATHANIEL HURWITZ, Chairman EDWARD E. TOWER, Secretary FRED W. SULLIVAN Appointments by Board of Health Inspector of Milk and Vinegar CHARLES E. FRATES Inspector of Slaughtering LEONARD LAWRENCE Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1952 COMMITTEES Under Article 6, March Meeting, 1945 New High School Building Committee EDWARD F. WILLCUTT ARTHUR SOMERlVILLE ARTHUR L. CLARK HENRY E. SWEENEY CHARLES L. STEGMAIER ALFRED W. PRATT JOHN L. EMERY E. CLAYTON HYLAND FRANCIS W. HAGERTY WILLIAM H. McGAW EDWARD A. MULVEY Under Article 25, March Meeting, 1947 Zoning By-Law Committee PAUL T. LITCHFIELD RUPERT C. LEWIS LLOYD C. TROTT FREDERICK A. THAYER EDWARD A. MULVEY WALTER C. WHEELWRIGHT H. KINGSLEY DURANT A. FRED PETERSEN CLARENCE S. REDDY ARTHUR L. CLARK GEORGE W. BENEDICT, JR. ROGER B. COULTER BURT M. BRISTOL HOWARD BATES ARTHUR J. DIXON JAMES F. COLLINS CHARLES J. STENZ Under Article 50, March Meeting, 1947 Town History Committee HENRY F. HOWE G. FRANK SARGENT GILBERT S. TOWER JOHN M. HUNT LAWRENCE B. FLETCHER CHARLOTTE S. TOWER MARTHA ENOS NATHAN BATES BURTRAM J. PRATT LUCY B. TREAT MRS. F. GORDON PATTISON, Associate Member WILLIAM H. MORRIS, Associate Member Under Article 42, March 1949, and Article 28, March Meeting, 1950 Government Island Property Comm,ittee HENRY F. HOWE LAWRENCE FIGUEIREDO THOMAS SILVIA CHARLES L. STEGMAIER OSBORNE INGRAM KENDALL D. DOBLE LANGFORD WARREN WILLIAM G. RUSSELL EARLE W. HIGGINS Under Article 12, March Meeting, 1949 Sewage Comimittee MILTON L. KERR ARTHUR L. LEHR E. LAWRE,NCE PARKER CLARENCE S. REDDY DR. HOWARD S. REID ARTHUR O. WOOD DR. EDWARD H. SCHOTT : Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1952 Shade Tree Committee NATHAN W. BATES HELEN HOWES VO'SOFF RUFUS A. JAMES HOPE WARREN GEORGE W. BENEDICT, JR. HERBERT T. STODDARD GUDRUN B. HOWE VIRGINIA W. KiNOWLES The following Civil Defense Advisory Council was appointed by the Board of Selectmen IRA B. P. STOUGHTON, Chairman NORMAN CARD, Selectmen HELEN E. SCRIPTURE, Selectmen WALTER H. LILLARD, Director of Civil Defense HECTOR J. PELLETIER, Chief of Police Department JOSEPH L. OLIVER, Chief of Fire Department JEROME F. WADSWORTH, Chairman Advisory Committee NATHANIEL HURWITZ, Chairman Board of Health HARRY H. REED, JR., Chairman School Committee EDWARD A.