ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF THE Town of ENFIELD NEW HAMPSHIRE For the Year Ending December 31 1959 THE SCHOOL REPORT For the Year Ending June 30 1959 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/annualreportofto1959enfi ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF THE Town of ENFIELD NEW HAMPSHIRE For the Year Ending- December 31 1959 The Reporter Press Canaan, New Hampshire TOWN OFFICERS Term Expires Moderator, Daniel A. Gosselin 1960 Selectmen, Charles L. Tupper 1960 Isaac H. Sanborn 1961 Henry A. Laramie 1962 Town Clerk, Herbert E. Walbridge 1960 Town Treasurer, Manly A. VVilmot 1960 Tax Collector, Gladys L. Ibey 1960 Overseer of Public Welfare, Florence Tupper 1960 Highway Agent, Harry B. Biathrow 1960 Health Officer, Rufus J. Bruce i 1962 Police Chief, Francis LaBounty 1960 Trustees of Trust Funds, Nellie L. Pierce 1960 Chester Beede 1961 Herbert E. Walbridge 1962 Library Trustees, Mary Hewitt 1960 Mary Laffee 1961 B. Wayne Campbell 1962 Librarian, Nellie L- Pierce Auditors, John H. Noonan 1960 Roger Cattabriga 1960 Rep. to General Court, Isaac H. Sanborn ' I960 Supervisors of Check List, ' Clarence E. Arnold 1960 Arthur W. Blain . 1960 Robert H. Hewitt 1960 Cemetery Agent, Robert Turner 1960 Justice Municipal Court, Joseph F. Vinciguerra Fire Wards, Donald A. Crate 1960 James A. Reagan 1961 Charles H. Carroll 1962 TOWN BUDGET COMMITTEE Term Expires Harry Hazen 1960 Harold O'Dell 1960 Ernest W. LeBlanc 1960 Arthur Blain I960 Helen Goodwin 1961 Ann Tarney 1961 Richard Hodecker 1962 Roger Cattabriga 1962 Robert Coutemarsh 1962 Selectman Member, Isaac H. Sanborn School District, Thomas J. Lorden Precinct, Charles H. Carroll ENFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT Francis LaBounty, Chief Special OfBcers Richard W. Bryant Mrs. Irene LaBounty Harold Hayes, Jr. William S. Shurtleff Henry Laramie Kenneth Shurtleff Eugene F. Lorden, Canaan, N. H. Sidney Davis RECREATION COMMISSION Frederick Sanders, Chairman 1960 Harry Hazen, Secretary I960 James A. Reagan, Treasurer 1961 William Dunham 1961 Francis LaBounty 1962 3 SUMMARY OF INVENTORY Real Estate : Warrant For Town Meeting- L. S.) State of New Hampshire To the inhabitants of the Town of Enfield quahfied to vote in town affairs You are hereby notified to meet in Whitney Hall in said Town of Enfield on the eighth day of M^arch next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the fol- lowing subjects: Article 1. To choose by ballot to serve for three years, one Selectman, one Trustee of Trust Funds, one Library Trustee, one Fire Ward, and two members of the Recreation Commission ; to serve for one year, one Treasurer, one Clerk, one Tax Collector, one Highway Agent, one Overseer of Public Welfare, one Police Chief, one Cemetery Agent, two Auditors and such other ne- cessary town officers as are required by law to be cho- sen for the ensuing year. Polls will be open at 9.30 A.M. and will not be clos- ed before 6.00 P.M. Articles in Warrant will be taken up beginning at 1.30 P.M. Article 2. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Selectmen to borrow money in anticipation of taxes, the sums so borrowed to be paid before the end of the fiscal year in which the debt was incurred. Article 3. To authorize the sale or lease of any or all of such parcels of real estate acquired by the town through Tax Collectors' deeds for non-payment of tax- es, or any other deeds, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute and deliver, in the name of the town, suitable deeds or leases of such real estate, sub- ject to such conditions or restrictions as may be voted by the meeting. Article 4. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum of $3,000.00 for State Aid Construction, to receive the sum of $6,000.00 from the state, or act thereon. Article 5. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum of $1,010.70 for Town Road Aid and to receive the sum of $6,738.03 from the state, or act thereon. Article 6. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Selectmen to take from the General Fund the sum of $600.00, to be placed in Capital Reserve until such time as the Board of Selectmen may have the op- portunity or occasion to expend all or part of such sum in the development of or acquisition of other rights to the George Pond Dam. Article 7. To see if the town will vote to adopt the Budget and raise or appropriate the various sums recommended and posted by the Budget Committee, or act thereon. Article 8. To see if the town will vote that, if the purposes or objects, hereinafter designated, for which appropriations for the year 1960 may have been made have not been fully accomplished during the fiscal year, then the funds so appropriated or unexpended on the unfinished portion of said object shall be placed in a Capital Reserve Fund dedicated to the purpose or ob- ject of its conception until such time as the Board of Selectmen, acting as agents for the town, shall have the opportunity or occasion for t*he fulfilling or completion of/or for the purpose or objects for which said appro- priation was created. The especially designated purposes for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1960, are as follows: The net earnings of the town trucks, shovel loader and grader, derived from highway appropriations for re- placement purposes, and also any unexpended highway funds. Article 9. To see if the town will vote to abandon the highway leading from Route 10 to the former Wil- fred Chaloux buildings, from a point fifty feet norther- ly of the present Bruce B. Johnson residence to the for- mer Wilfred Chaloux buildings. Article 10. To see if the town will vote to discon- tinue, subject to gates and bars, the highway leading from Winship Corner to the Grafton Pond Road in Graf- ton, known as the Pinnacle Road, from a point fifty feet south-easterly of the Winship buildings at Winship Cor- ner to the Grafton town line. Article 11. To see if the town will vote to discon- tinue, subject to gates and bars the so-called Fuller Hill Road leading from the westerly line of the Shaker Hill Road to the Shaker Boulevard, so-called, from a point one hundred feet westerly of the Erwin Bessenreuther residence to the easterly line of the Shaker Boulevard. Article 12. To see if the town will vote to discon- tinue, subject to gates and bars, that portion of the highway which runs from the westerly line of Route 10 to the former Methodist Hill schoolhouse, from the en- trance to the Kate Bloomberg buildings, formerly Mar- shall, on Methodist Hill, to a point one hundred feet northerly of the former Bert Merrihew farm buildings. Article 13. To see if the town will vote to discon- tinue, subject to gates and bars, the Goodhue Hill Road, so-called, from a point one hundred feet westerly of the Charles Garnham residence to a point one hundred feet southerly of the former Goodhue buildings. 7 : Article 14. To see if the town will vote to accept $100.00 from Mildred J. Smith as a trust fund, the in- come therefrom to be used for the perpetual care of the Henry Smith lot in the North End Cemetery. Article 15. As recommended by the Budget Com- mittee: Section A. To see if the town will appoint at this meeting a committee of three or more members, to be known as the Enfield Bi-Centennial Committee, to serve without pay in arranging for Enfield participation in the 1961 celebration of the Bi-Centennial founding of towns in this area. Section B. Contingent upon the adoption of sec- tion A. of this article, to see if the town will vote to raise or appropriate the sum of $500.00 to be made avail- able to the Enfield Bi-Centennial Committee as needed in their work, with the proviso that any unexpended por- tion of this sum at the end of the fiscal year shall be placed in Capital Reserve dedicated to the purpose for which it was appropriated until such time as needed for that purpose, or until the Committee's work is ended, or act thereon. Article 16. Pursuant to a petition of ten or more legal voters : To see if the town will vote that dog own- ers in the Town of Enfield shall not allow their dogs to run at large, unless in custody of a person and on a leash. Article 17. To see if the town will vote to accept $100.00 from Perley G. and Rose M. Ward as a trust fund, the income therefrom to be used for the perpetual care of the Perley G. and Rose' M. Ward lot in the Lake- view Cemetery. Pursuant to a petition of ten or more legal voters Article 18. To see if the town shall vote that the : : Members-at-large of the Enfield Budget Committee shall be elected by the Town Meeting by official ballot system by plurality vote, commencing with the Town Meeting for the year 1961. Pursuant to a petition of ten or more legal voters Article 19. To see if the town will vote to rescind its adoption of the Municipal Budget law as provided by Chapter 32 of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated so that the Town of Enfield shall no longer have a Budget Committee.