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Home My Public Portal About1950 Annual Watertown Report ANNUALREPORTS by the officers of the 0 Town F Watertown for the Three Hundred and Twentieth Year of its organization FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 , 1950 16Z ! Jrhl �. a; i"(mil :- •,,�.•. PtCC EATON PRESS Watertown, Massachusetts 6 If 16 E 7c, SEE BACK OF BOOK FOR CONTENTS 3 TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1050 Selectmen H. HERBERT APPLIN, Chairman Term expires 1952 ROY C. PAPALIA, Clerk Term expires 1953 WILFRED J. PAQUET Term expires 1951 HELEN E. (STONE) NORCROSS, Confidential Secretary Committee Assignments ENTIRE BOARD Welfare, Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children. H. HERBERT APPLIN Highway, Sewer & Drainage, Sidewalks, Inspector of Buildings, Moth Department, Dog Officer, Veterinarian, Purchasing. WILFRED J. PAQUET Fire Department, Infirmary, Workmen's Compensation, Insurance, Sealer of Weights and Measures. ROY C. PAPALIA Police Department, Engineering, Administration Building, Veterans' Affairs, Poles and Wires, Legal. Town Clerk GEORGE B. WELLMAN Term expires 1952 Auditor WILLIAM W. NORCROSS, JR. Term expires 1952 Treastcrer JAVIES H. SHERIDAN Term expires 1951 Collector of Taxes JOHN J. KENNEDY Term expires 1951 Board of Assessors JOHN J. McLAUTHLIN, Chairman Term expires 1951 ANDREW D. BRADFORD, Clerk Term expires 1952 JAMES J. VAHEY Term expires 1953 Moderator JOHN M. RUSSELL Term expires 1951 Park Commissioners JOHN J. SHEEHAN, Chairman Term expires 1951 RICHARD H. ROCHE, Clerk Term expires 1952 WAYNE E. EATON Term expires 1953 Constables BERNARD E. BRADLEY, JR. Term expires 1951 FRANK D. McELROY Term expires 1951 ALBERT ZAINO Term expires 1951 4 Board of Health THOMAS W. DEVANEY, Chairman Term expires 1952 DR. LOUIS MASTRANGELO, Secretary Term expires 1953 JOSEPH M. HUGHES Term expires 1951 School Committee FRED H. BIRD, Chairman Term expires 1952 JOHN J. SHEEHAN, Secretary Term expires 1952 EDWARD J. KELLEY Term expires 1951 EDMUND H. O'CONNELL Term. expires 1951 PHILIP PANE Term expires 1952 EDWARD S. PARSONS Term expires 1953 GUY C. PESCE Term expires 1953 FRANCIS A. KELLY, Superintendent of Schools Trustees Free Public Library ROBERT GLENNON, Chairman Term expires 1951 MURIEL BARRETT, Secretary Term expires 1952 ESTHER DIMICK Term expires 1953 AGNES J. FLYNN Term expires 1953 CHARLES T. BURKE Term expires 1951 JOHN J. DOHERTY Term expires 1952 CATHERINE M. YERXA, Librarian Water Commissioners CHARLES ARMSTRONG, Chairman Term expires 1952 LOUIS ALFIERI Term expires 1953 GUSTAF EDWARD FRYE Term expires 1951 Watertown Housing Authority CHESTER H. PARKER, Chairman Term expires 1954 CHARLES F. SHAW Term expires 1953 EVERETT A. KELLEY Term expires 1951 WILLIAM E. MALONEY Term expires 1955 SEBASTIAN TANGUSSO, State Representative ROBERT J. GLENNON, Counsel A. ERIC SALSBURG, Exec. Director and Secretary Tree Warden and Moth Departments Combined by Acceptance of Chapter 112 of the Acts of 1949 on the Ballot for the Annual Meeting of 1950 THOMAS P. MORLEY Term expires 1951 Planning Board CHARLES P. EATON, Chairman Term expires 1951 ROBERT B. CHASE, Secretary Term expires 1952 DOUGLAS R. CRAWFORD Term expires 1953 CHARLES F. GATELY Term expires 1951 JOHN A. O'GRADY, JR. Term expires 1953 APPOINTED OFFICERS Registrars of Voters NORMAN D. MacKAY, Chairman Term expires 1951 PATRICK D. GLEASON Term expires 1952 CYRUS M. OHANIAN Term expires 1953 GEORGE B. WELLMAN Term expires 1952 5 Town Physicians PETER F. TITUS, M.D. Term expires 1951 LOUIS MASTRANGELO, M.D. Term expires 1951 Keeper of Lockup JAMES M. IGOE Town Counsel Assistant Town Counsel EARLE S. TYLER HERBERT O. BERRY Dog Officer GUY P. CLARK Keeper of Infirmary and Pound CHARLES J. DeMARAIS Term expires 1951 Board of Appeals EDWARD A. OATES, Chairman Term expires 1951 RONALD M. STONE Term expires 1953 MARTIN TOMASSIAN Term expires 1952 Associate Members JOHN B. REGAN Term expires 1952 MALCOLM WHITNEY Term expires 1953 Retirement Board (Contributory Retirement) W. W. NORCROSS, JR., Auditor By virtue of Office OSBERT H. PARRINE Term expires 1952 MAURICE J. SHEEHAN Term expires 1953 Finance Committee AUSTIN F. APPLEBY Term expires 1951 FRANCIS CAREY Term expires 1951 H. LESLIE MUMFORD Term expires 1951 THOMAS F. MEGAN Term expires 1951 MILES P. ROBINSON Term expires 1951 ARTHUR SODERMAN (Replaced Mr. Landen) Term expires 1951 CLARK B. PARTRIDGE (Deceased 10/13/50) Term expires 1951 MATTHEW W. J. CARLEY Term expires 1952 CORNELIUS J. CARROLL Term expires 1952 PATRICK B. FORD (Secretary) Term expires 1952 THOMAS J. GALLIGAN Term expires 1952 AUGUSTIN R. PAPALIA Term expires 1952 PASQUALE SCLAPANI (Replaced Mr. Brogle) Term expires 1952 GEORGE E. SLAMIN Term expires 1952 JOSEPH S. BLANCHARD Term expires 1953 ROBERT H. CLAPP Term expires 1953 ARTHUR I. DAVIS Term expires 1953 MRS. EVELYN McGOWAN Term expires 1953 HELEN F. REGAN Term expires 1953 CHARLES L. SHELDON, Chairman Term expires 1953 MARTIN V. TOMASSIAN Term expires 1953 OFFICERS UNDER CIVIL SERVICE Town Engineer HERBERT C. COOK G Superintendent of Streets THOMAS V. DWYER Inspector of Cattle and Town Veterinarian JOHN J. MURPHY, JR. Commissioner of Veterans' Affairs JOHN F. CORBETT Department of Public Welfare Welfare Agent JOSEPH F. MURRAY Health Officer JOHN A. COLBERT Superintendent of Cemeteries GEORGE F. MARTIN Superintendent of Parks ARTHUR D. MOSMAN Superintendent of Water Department MICHAEL B. OATES Chief of Police JAMES M. IGOE Chief of Fire Department WILLIAM C. McELROY Inspector of Buildings MAURICE F. WHITE Inspector of Plumbing EDWARD L. MAURER Superintendent of Wires LEO P. LANDRY Sealer of Weights and Measures J. FRANK AHEARN Purchasing Agent WILLIAM F. OATES Supervisors of Attendance JOSEPH H. CARROLL FRANCIS E. CAVERLY POPULATION The estimated number of inhabitants of Watertown for the year 1915 as shown by the State Census was 16,615; police census 18,040; police census in 1917, 20,055; Estimated population in 1918, 20,500; police census in January, 1919. 21,500; Federal Census in January 1920, 21,457; Esti- mated population in January 1922, 22,500; January 1923, 23,000; January 1924, 25,000; State Census as of April 1, 1925, 25,480; Estimated popula- tion January 1926, 27,500; January 1927, 28,500; January 1928, 30,000; January 1930, 32,500; Federal Census as of April 1, 1930, 34,913; Estimated in January 1933, 36,400; January 1934, 35,600; State Census, January 1935, 35,827; Estimated January 1937, 35,500; January 1938, 37,000; Jan- uary 1939, 38,000; January 1940, 38,500; Federal Census April 1940, offi- cially reported as 35,427; Estimated January 1942, 36,000; Estimated in January 1943, 36,500; Estimated December 31, 1944; 36,500; State Census January 1945, 37,438; Estimated 1947, 38,000; Estimated 1948, 38,000; Estimated 1949, 38,500; unofficial Federal Census 1950, 37,339. 8 CH V) L to N N N Cn CA O d'CD ^� . 410CA U30 CMdtcV co o ~ �to cli ttocoototto� C F 4-4 (y O r'dt M CT to 00 r-4 M M LOt0~ OOiN LOLOCODtOOM i-j 0 -1--t N 00 co M dt (3)00 CD t`co O to to ~ M� ujt cli oL»-4 O O L CoN to� Q)ONNN Q oo CM�N ONivN' CNC) 0O0N� �cz MMM LM V N00M00N y Nd• ~ O.r-t toNd•00�-4 U taLo -/ NO � [MOMcm In. 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Alberico 18 Prentiss Street 677 *Rose Alfieri 56 Prentiss Street 57 *Jocko V. Ananian 125 Templeton Parkway 528 George O. Baxter 27 Westland Road 400 'William J. Boyle 7 School Lane 500 ',Kenneth F. Brown 11 Edgecliffe Road 482 *George Caccavaro 54 Cottage Street 552 Patrick J. Curley 19 Francis Street 459 Thomas Dolan Z15 Keenan Street 454 "Paul F. Fitzpatrick 41 Maplewood Street 476 Marie H. Gray 27 Maplewood Street 470 Karop H. Hagopian 29 Hillcrest Circle 429 Emil Kant 134 Grove Street 334 John McCarthy 33 Keenan Street 467 Wallace E. McCarthy 32 Maplewood Street 399 "Margaret M. Morley 16 Kimball Road 532 Edward P. Murphy 9 Cottage Lane 421 John D. O'Connell 31 Keenan Street 455 'Norman J. Robinson 91 Arlington Street 530 Blanks 4195 Town Meeting Member for Two Years Term expires in 1952 'James F. Finnegan 7 Lyons Street 579 `Joseph Mafflole 12 Lyons Street 712 Anthony Paul Yonis 35 Maplewood Street 572 Blanks 1101 Town Meeting Member for One Year Term expires in 1951 Vincent Crupi 54 Prentiss Street 902 Blanks 580 PRECINCT TWO Town Meeting Members for Three Years Term expires in 1953 James Vincent Asaiante 64 Dexter Avenue 431 "Charles R. Austin 1 Putnam Street 632 *Leon Caxagulian 121 Dexter Avenue 561 Anthony A. Carbone 148 Boylston Street 440 *Maurice R. Carney 134 Cypress Street 621 *Julia Coffey 7 Dexter Avenue 613 *James A. Crowley 113 Boylston Street 612 *Earl F. Derick 38 Chauncy Street 515 *Andrew F. Gavin 152 Spruce Street 481 *Franklin E. Harris 131 Spruce Street 523 Francis R. Maurer 36 Laurel Street 480 Alfred Natale 33 Melendy Avenue 369 Arakel Onanian 49 Hosmer Street 464 John O'Connor 44 Putnam Street 429 Robert W.Parkhurst 164 Walnut Street 390 12 Wilfred J. Pouliot 12 Winthrop Street 436 *M. Frank Sullivan 29 Dartmouth Street 574 Blanks 3651 Town Meeting Member for One Year Term expires in 1951 Paul S. Trombino 9 Oak Street 763 Blanks 595 PRECINCT THREE Town Meeting Members for Three Years Term expires in 1953 *Fred L. Ayers 332 Belmont Street 567 *Shirley D. Bayle 133 Maplewood Street 516 Frank Marshall Bean 30 Appleton Street 600 *James Frederick Brooks 201 Maplewood Street 650 *Erving Newcomb Buffum 33 Hillside Road 613 John E. Callan 18 Hillside Road 441 Francis L. Carroll 13 Oakley Road 465 Americo Cavallaro 118 Hillside Road 271 Edward T. Ford 13 Oakley Road 450 Richard Percy Jackson 51 Langdon Avenue 561 Roy J. Jacoby 496 Mt. Auburn Street 268 `Ellsworth Sisson Lundgren 17 Clyde Road 511 William G. McCarthy, Jr. 43 Hillside Road 415 "Beatrice O. Salsburg 19 Commonwealth Road 537 *William H. West 58 Langdon Avenue 690 Blanks 2723 Town Meeting Member for Two Years Term expires in 1952 Philip H. White 36 Richards Road 749 Blanks 393 PRECINCT FOUR, Town Meeting Members for Three Years Team expires in 1953 ;Edith C. Bixby 109 Barnard Avenue 930 Lester M. Black 20 Chester Street 787 1;Langdon W. Chandler, Jr. 15 Franklin Street 694 Marguerite A. Comfort 49 Russell Avenue 525 *Douglas R. Crawford 296 Mt. Auburn Street 597 Armen Essayan 40 Stoneleigh Circle 293 Roger Feldman 28 Center Street 237 '-'George E. Freethy 98 Barnard Avenue 663 *Frank A. Gray 20 Lincoln Street 795 ''Clifford K. Johnson 22 Robbins Road 766 *Anthony Julian 31 Marcia Road 739 Evelyn H. McGowan 44 Grenville Road 390 Thomas Arthur Menton 49 Russell Avenue 484 John J. Sheehan 30 Arden Road 357 *Walter C. Stone 19 Stoneleigh Road 800 Joseph E. Tierney 3 Lincoln Street 365 Blanks 2219 13 Town Meeting Member for Two Years Term expires in 1952 *Margaret P. Bainbridge 55 Robbins Road 679 Evelyn Hodsdon 75 Common Street 412 Milton Mardirosian 330 Mt. Auburn Street 164 *Robert N. Secord 80 Barnard Avenue 755 Blanks 378 PRECINCT FIVE Town Meeting Members for Three Years Term expires in 1953 Frank J. Argento 17 Chester Street 353 Joanna R. Carey 45 Royal Street 345 *Leroy M. Chase it Irving Street 508 Lura W. Chase 11 Irving Street 325 Anthony P. DiCenzo 107 Irving Street 124 *Barbara Goodrow 15 Beacon Park 393 *'Walter H. Gregg 12 Riverside Street 485 *John J. Hopkins 12 Frank Street 400 "Lawrence W. Hughes 7 Ladd Street 417 Dennis S. Maher 125 Arsenal Street 258 Martin H. Maher 127 Arsenal Street 258 Robert E. Marchant 89 Arsenal Street 242 Francis J. McHugh, Jr. 22 Pequosette Street 338 *John M. Milmore 90 Riverside Street 491 John M. O'Reilly 16 Gilkey Court 270 Dominic F. Proto 50 Riverside Street 162 *Evelyn G. Rooney 110 Riverside Street 462 William J. Ryan 63a Mt. Auburn Street 220 Edward Seferian 130 Charles River Road 177 *Charles J. Shutt 78 Arsenal Street 564 *Martin L. Vahey 104 Riverside Street 546 Agnes Nolan Wordsman 117 Irving Street 233 Blanks 2023 Town Meeting Member for One Year Term expires in 1951 *James P. Forkin 139 Riverside Street 666 *Edward J. Maloney 19 Alfred Road 659 Blanks 807 PRECINCT SIX Town Meeting Members for Three Years Term expires in 1953 *Raymond S. Barrett 44 Fitchburg Street 512 *Frederick Bell 20 Fitchburg Street 717 *Charles F. Boyle, Jr. 26 Lovell Road 533 Frederick T. Bryan 40 Merrill Road 421 James W. Chamberlain 261 Waverly Avenue 405 John F. Crowley 22 Hardy Avenue 357 Rufus A. Dyer 43 Hovey Street 382 Robert J. Glennon 110 Standish Road 470 *John H. Grady 110 Lovell Road 694 Edmund P. Hickey 24 Warwick Road 298 14 David P. Langan 73 Hovey Street 218 James B. Luck 17 Lovell Road 488 Charles E. Luther 307 Waverly Avenue 232 Mary MacDougall 283 Waverly Avenue 282 *Philip Pane 37 Orchard Street 688 Robert J. Plunkett 86 Hovey Street 417 *Frederick G. Rawlings 61 Standish Road 669 William J. Ryan 73 Springfield Street 239 Mildred Phelps Seaburg 17 Hardy Avenue 291 *William A. Sheridan 152 Bellevue Road 713 *Waldron Smith 167 Lovell Road 640 George B. Thomas, Jr. 106 Poplar Street 266 Glenn C. Williams 91 Standish Road 436 *Ralph W. York 215 Orchard Street 623 Blanks 2158 PRECINCT SEVEN Town Meeting Members for Three Years Term expires in 1953 George H. Cannon 9 Dana Terrace 419 *Malcolm S. Cate, Jr. 71 Marion Road 634 Martin E. Ferris 14 Dana Terrace 318 *Lawrence M. Gentleman 16 Marion Road 624 Robert H. Gwaltney, Jr. 104 Mt. Auburn Street 275 *Perry B. Howard 31 Katherine Road 565 *L. Wendell Hughes 111 Church Street 667 *Homer F. Hunt 42 Oliver Street 542 Patrick J. McDermott 97 Fayette Street 463 William J. Mc Dermott 11 Hill Street 315 John A. Mitchell 55 Palfrey Street 326 *John F. O'Halloran 107 Fayette Street 474 *Stanley D. Porter 35 Marion Road 565 John E. Ryan 7 Linden Way 301 Ralph N. Stevens 40 Everett Avenue 351 *Ronald M. Stone 56 Marion Road 637 Hyman Taylor 118 Spring Street 242 Richard C. A. Thurston 96 Marshall Street 366 *Thomas F. Tracy 125 Spring Street 469 Blanks 2418 Town Meeting Member for Two Years Term expires in 1952 *William D. Currie 185 Palfrey Street 582 John R. Tatten 131 Summer Street 263 Blanks 374 PRECINCT EIGHT Town Meeting Members for Three Years Term expires in 1953 *Joseph W. Andrews 134 Main Street 839 *Mary L. Barnes 9 Cuba Street 748 *John J. Brady 2 Boyd Park Terrace 649 *Patrick D. Cahill 49 Myrtle Street 772 Frank Cerrati 78 Main Street 491 15 Edward Crescitelli 346 Main Street 401 '`Joseph M. Hughes 5 Crass Street 641 *Edward M. Quinn 83 Galen Street 732 °William H. Regan 48 Bacon Street 740 :'Paul T. Ryder 76 Green Street 673 "Vincent T. Swift 96 Pleasant Street 759 Scattering 8 Blanks 3032 Town Meeting Member for Two Years Term expires in 1952 °Edward F. Kelley 36 Eliot Street 18 Scattering 12 Blanks 1135 PRECINCT NINE Town Meeting Members for Three Years Term expires in 1953 *John W. Butler 13 Da.rch Road 336 Domenick Cappellucci 226 Westminster Avenue 264 Roger Carta 105 Holt Street 188 Grace S. Clinton 3 Whitney Street 296 William T. Coffey 98 Waverly Avenue 343 Charles J. Coffin 73 Pierpont Street 174 '',William G. Connolly 36 Edenfield Avenue 300 Albert J. De Felice 230 Westminster Avenue 277 'Mary A. Devaney 10 Westminster Avenue 432 "William A. Eagleson, Jr. 60 Hillside Street 305 Edward H. Frieden 119 Pierce Road 91 William A. Gibson 68 Prospect Street 214 Rosario W. Iuhano 187 Chapman Street 230 "John W. Little 1039 Belmont Street 327 `Francis E. MacKay 34 Wesminster Avenue 413 Albert J. Mannix, Jr. 29 Elmwood Avenue 214 Wilbur C. Marchant 170 Sycamore Street 234 Antonio Mosca 19 James Street 224 William H. Murdock, Jr. 244 Lexington Street 244 Catherine H. O'Connell 26 Westminster Avenue 269 Dominic Pallone 15 Linden Street 229 Charles D. Pearlstein 62 Piece Road 122 Philip C. Plumley 70 Duff Street 99 Richard F. Quinn, Sr. 20 Bancroft Street 262 Tony Scaltreto 10 Sparkill Street 219 Maui-ice J. Sheehan 60 Edenfield Avenue 287 Thomas W. Sheridan 30 Gertrude Street 230 Carl J. Thyberg 14 Harnden Avenue 191 Edward Toland 51 Harrington Street 296 ,'Lawrence W. White 53 Hillside Street 396 Blanks 2221 PRECINCT TEN Town Meeting Members for Three Years Term expires in 1953 "Joseph P. Ambrose 482 Main Street 346 "William H. Bradford 14 Emerson Road 413 16 *Joseph J. Brown 76 Olcott Street 480 Walter J. Brown 29 Lexington Street 273 William J. Cahill 38 Oakland Street 334 H. Thornwell Dickson 624 Main Street 275 Walter R. Flagg 104 Evans Street 315 William F. Gerrard 37 Prescott Street 250 "John D. Glavin 188 Acton Street 401 Morrell O. Hebb 81 Bromfield Street 312 "James F. Keating 487 Main Street 510 'Richard Kelly 567 Main Street 405 Louis F. Langione 27 Charles Street 132 James Lenihan 26 Gilbert Street 249 Joseph J. Maguire 113 Evans Street W4 William S. McElhenny 17 Evans Street 261 Eugene Merullo 59 Olney Street 239 Michael John Moxley 33 Morton Street 163 *Warren L. Newell 16 Olney Street 506 John A. O'Grady, Jr. 39 Morton Street 315 John F. O'Reilly 41 Stuart Street 287 *Irving F. Parker 25 Olney Street 339 Anthony Sallese 15 Copeland Street 238 John M. Sjostedt 49 Hersom Street 296 *William F. Vahey 11 Puritan Road 370 Charles E. Weddall 11 Chapman Street 335 Scattering 1 Blanks • 2197 Town Meeting Member for Two Years Term expires in 1952 "Stephen Lyons 48 Evans Street 7 Scattering 7 Blanks 1160 The result of count of votes cast at the Annual Town Election was forwarded to the Secretary of State. In accordance with Chapter 51, Section 61, the return of the reg- istered voters at the close of registration on February 14, 1950, was for- warded to the Secretary of State. In accordance with Chapter 54, Section 132, the number of persons who voted in each precinct was forwarded to the Secretary of State. In connection with the work of the Department of Corporations and Taxation, a list of Town officials was forwarded to Francis X. Lang, Director of Accounts. ATTEST: GEORGE B. WELLMAN Torn Clcrk 17 Cd O C- to N M of� sue. 4Z Cd ti ti O U"I) in tC LO N tN to f�- . U C CD CDt I c o Ucn Pitotto to Ul U Cd 4.4 O N to dt N U O 3 cd 0 C3 0421 M 00 co N M Fir Cd c N N L L N 0� � r No C- O to CO to � w .., 4-40 'o xCd Cd bD rq U o q " 00 " o He ° oaz7W xCD zco co 0 Z 'n Loo coo ccoo GGo tto o p �V w tow .-� Cd t� d bD Id o N coo � 6n V ca 0 w (� N coo N O dt to M Cd r�l 1.1 dt tO L L N N QI 44 N ttoo m O to t- M sn Q N > 0 0 Fi � ,:- cd Z o s; a P CD C3 ca 0 s, ca -� Q U N 03 W CA � 4 (D 0 ocd cd O -lA ►°� E1W 0o CW'3 18 Record of Annual Adjourned Town Meeting March 20, 27, 1950 The meeting of March 20, 1950, was called to order by Moderator John M. Russell at 7:45 P.M. Officers' return on Warrant was read by Town Clerk George B. Wellman. The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. Fr. Ambrose Hennessey, pastor of St. Theresa's Church. The Town Meeting Members present, who had not previously taken the oath of faithful performance to duty, were sworn by Town Clerk George B. Wellman. Number of Town Meeting Members present on March 20, as reported by records of George E. LeFavor and John T. Gleason, 247. Number of Town Meeting Members present on March 27, as reported by records of George E. LeFavor and John T. Gleason, 225. Notices were received on March 20, from Chairman of Precincts 1, 4, 5, and 9, respectively, of the election to fill Town Meeting Member va- cancies of: Edward P. Murphy, 9 Cottage Lane, to fill vacancy in Precinct One, 1951 term, caused by the non-election of a candidate. Evelyn Hodsdon, 75 Common Street, to fill vacancy in Precinct Four. 1951 term, caused by the appointment of Charles Armstrong to the chair- man5hip of the Water Commissioners. Hilda Hann, 5 Ladd Place, to fill vacancy in Precinct Five, 1951 term, caused by the removal from town of John Walsh of 77 Riverside Street. Maurice J. Sheehan, 60 Edenfield Avenue, to fill vacancy in Precinct Nine, 1953 term, caused by a tie vote being cast at the town election, March 6, 1950, for ninth position in the election of town meeting members. Notices were received on March 27, from Chairmen of Precincts 6, 8, and 10, respectively, of the election to fill Town Meeting Member va- cancies of: James B. Luck, 17 Lovell Road, to fill vacancy in Precinct Six, 1951 term, caused by the election to the chairmanship of the School Commit- tee of Fred H. Bird. Frank Cerrati, 78 Main Street, to fill vacancy in Precinct Eight, 1951 term, caused by the election to the chairmanship of the Health Board of Thomas W. Devaney. Anthony Sallese, 15 Copeland Street, to fill vacancy in Precinct Ten, 1953 term, caused by the resignation of Richard Kelly. NOTICE OF ADJOURNMENT March 20, 1950. (Adjournment took place at 10:50 P.M.) Voted: To adjourn meeting of March 20, 1950, to the following Mon- day, March 27, 1950, at 7:30 P.M. to meet in the Senior High School Building, Columbia Street. 19 Notice of Adjourned Town Meeting Monday Evening, March 27, 1950, 7:30 P.M. Notice is hereby given that the Town Meeting called for Monday evening, March 20, 1950 has been adjourned until MONDAY EVENING, March 27, 1950, at 7:30 P.M. to meet in the Senior High School Building, on Columbia Street, in the Town of Watertown, at which time and place all unfinished business in the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of March 6, 1950. being any unfinished business under Article 3, and Article 5, and Articles 7, through 12, inclusive, and Articles 15, 16, 17, 18 20, 21, 22 24, and Articles 26 through 47, inclusive, and Articles 49 and 50, will come before the meeting for consideration and action. RECONSIDERATION NOTICES Mr. George B. Wellman, Town Clerk March 22, 1950 In accordance with Chapter 2, Section 15, of the By-Laws, I hereby give notice that I intend to move for reconsideration on the action taken by the Town Meeting held March 20, 1950, on the following item in the Wire Department budget. Maintenance-Labor .... . ... . ....... . ..$30,720.00 Very truly, s/ FRANK A. FITZPATRICK Mr. George B. Wellman, Town Clerk March 22, 1950 In accordance with Chapter 2, Section 15, of the By-Laws, I hereby give notice that I intend to move for reconsideration on the action taken by the Town Meeting held March 20, 1950, on the Salary item of Super- intendent of Wires in the Wire Department Budget; also: Article 19, of the Warrant. Very truly yours, s/ FRANK A. FITZPATR.ICK 'Mr. George B. Wellman, Town Clerk March 22, 1950 In accordance with Chapter 2, Section 15, of the By-Laws, I hereby give notice that I intend to move for reconsideration on the action taken by the Town Meeting held March 20, 1950 on the salary items voted in the Police and Fire Department budgets, as follows: Police Dept. Sergeants (5) ... . .. .. . ... . .. .. . . . . . .$18,000.00 Patrolmen (47) .. . . . . .... . . .. ........ 154,540.00 Fire Dept. Mechanician (1) . ..... ........ . ... . 3,600.00 Permenent Men (55) . .... ..... . 181,575.00 Very truly yours, s/ WALTER J. BURKE *Note: The foregoing is filed to correct a possible technical legal error. And the legal voters of the Town of Watertown are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place herein specified by posting copies of this notice in ten or more conspicuous public places in Town twenty-four hours at least prior to the time of said meeting and also by 20 causing a copy of the same to be published in a Watertown newspaper. Given under our hands this 22nd day of March, A.D., 1950. s/ JOHN M. RUSSELL, Moderator s/ GEORGE B. WELLMAN, Town Clerk ARTICLE 2. To hear the report of the Town Officers as printed and to hear the report of any committee heretofore appointed, and act thereon. March 20, 1950 VOTED: (Unanimously) That the reports of the Town Officers as printed in the Town Report of 1949 be and they are hereby accepted. Reports of Committees March 20, 1950 Mr. Maurice H. O'Connell reported for committee to prepare resolu- tions on the demise of former Selectman Edward D. Holland, and it was VOTED: (Unanimously) To adopt the following resolution: Edward D. Holland 1881-1947 WHEREAS, A great and omnipotent God has seen fit to call from our midst, Edward D. Holland, one of our most distinguished and .public- spirited citizens WHEREAS, He served our Town in the capacity of Selectman, Chairman of Board of Selectmen for many years, C. W. A. Administrator, and in various other capacities and was recognized for his ability by our late beloved President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and served as his Cam- paign Manager for Massachusetts in 1936, and was affiliated with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation at the time of his passing; and WHEREAS, HE was a highly respected citizen, a devoted, loyal and loving husband and father of six sons and daughters, four of whom served our country with honor in World War II, whose whole life was guided by the philosophy of old Kin Hubbard— "Do all the good you kin, as you roll along, `cause life is a one-way street, an' you ain't comin' back." and whose attributes while going "This way" were Charity, Justice, Loyalty and Devotion to his fellow-man; WHEREAS, His passing to his Eternal Reward 'has left a void in the hearts of the people of Watertown, his family and his many friends, BE IT RESOLVED, That his memory shall be perpetuated by having this Res- olution inscribed in the Annals of the Annual 1950 Town Meeting; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of these Resolutions, suitably inscribed, be presented to his widow, Mrs. Margaret E. Holland. s/ M. H O'CONNELL, Chairman s/ JAMES T. PHELAN s/ JAMES H. SHERIDAN 21 Mr. Charles F. Shaw reported for the committee to prepare resolu- tions on the demise of former Selectman George Frederick Robinson, and it was VOTED: (Unanimously) To adopt the following resolution: IN MEMORIAM George Frederick Robinson By his death on May 19, 1949, Historic Watertown lost one of its foremost citizens, George Frederick Robinson Therefore, it is fitting that this Representative Town Meeting, which was so close to him, and in which for a generation he had bourne so con- spicuous a part,should pause in its deliberations to pay respectful tribute. Mr. Robinson was born in Watertown November 27, 1860, the son of William and Abby (Robbins) Robinson. On March 9, 1887, he was mar- ried to Grace Pratt, daughter of Miles Pratt and Ellen (Coolidge) Pratt. A devoted father, his home,his family, his friends and the Town suffered a grievous loss in his passing. Long one of the most active citizens of this Community, his entire life was devoted to the well being of Watertown which he loved so deeply and served so well. The period from 1890 to 1930 saw the transformation of Watertown from a small and quiet urban village to a large and prosperous Town. This period also brought great civic problems incident to the rapid ex- pansion of industry and population, each one affecting vitally the im- mediate and future welfare of Watertown. In the wise determination of these problems, Mr. Robinson had a constant and often a leading part. To him and his guiding hand is owed the Town's attractive Delta and the initiation of our River Parkway. To his foresight and sagacity throughout this period, much is attributable that has made Watertown a great and outstanding Town of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts. Mr Robinson served his Town as a member and Chairman of the School Committee and as Selectman and Chairman of that Board. He was also a member and often Chairman of many special Committees both of a civic and historic nature. In the change from the old General Town Meeting to this present Representative Meeting, he was a foremost advocate. As Chairman of the Executive Committee planning the Ter- centaiy Celebration of Watertown in 1930, by his unceasing efforts came the beautiful and fitting Memorial to the founders of Watertown which graces our River-side. He was known and rightfully recognized as the "Town Historian". Throughout his life a diligent Chronicler of the local scene and events, he was many times called upon to answer queries relating to the histor- ical back-ground of Watertown. For many years a member and, until ,his death, President of the Watertown Historical Society, he was the author in collaboration with his daughter Ruth Robinson Wheeler of "Great Little Watertown—A Tercentenary History" published in 1930. 22 For sixty-five years Mr. Robinson was an attendant, first of the General, and thereafter of this Representative Town Meeting, until his retirement in 1947 In this Forum his voice was-heard with respect. Of strong and unyielding opinion and judgment, both of men and measures, ruggedly independent in thought and action; giving and asking no quarter in debate; his purpose to accomplish something for the benefit of this community was ever recognized by all whenever he addressed this meeting. We shall all miss his presence amongst us! Be it resolved that this Memorial be inscribed upon the records of our Town Meeting, this twentieth day of March 1950. s/ THOMAS J. GALLIGAN s/ ERNEST K. INGALLS s/ CHARLES F. SHAW Moderator John M. Russell called the meeting to standing order in silent tribute to former Selectmen Holland and Robinson. Mr. Daniel Joseph Clifford reported for the committee to prepare resolutions on the demise of Miss M Catherine Cram, former employee in the Public Welfare Department, and it was VOTED: (Unanimously) To adopt the following resolution: IN MEMORIAM M. Catherine Cram WHEREAS, Almighty God, from Whom all power of government comes, saw fit in His Infinite Wisdom to call M. Catherine Cram to her eternal abode with Him in Heaven, on February 11, 1949, from her work in our Town Government amongst His many times declared favorite groups; the Aged, the Sick, and the Poor; and WHEREAS, M. Catherine Cram, through all these years of her short life, with unstinting devotion to her duties, intelligently, energetically, and charitably practiced the corporal works of mercy, among the less fortunate people of our Town in accordance with the Law of God, and the Statutes of our Town, State and Federal Governments; Therefore BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the elected representatives of the people of Watertown, in Annual Town Meeting Assembled at the Watertown Senior High School on this Twentieth Day of March, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty, do hereby tender proper and appropriate recognition of her work and to the memory of M. Catherine Cram for unselfish devotion to her fellow man and her duty as an employee of the Town of Water- town; and that these resolutions be spread on the ,historical records of the Town. s/ DANIEL JOSEPH CLIFFORD s/ THOMAS V. DWYER s/ MARY L. GARAWAY March 20, 1950 Edward L. Maurer reported for the committee to prepare resolutions on -the demise of Elias A. Perkins, former Building Inspector, and it was VOTED: (Unanimously) To adopt the following resolution: 23 ELIAS A. PERKINS On the first day of January in the year of Our Lord 1949, Al- mighty God in His Infinite Wisdom called to -his eternal reward an out- standing citizen and public servant of Watertown, Elias A. Perkins, In- spector of Buildings. Elias A. Perkins came to Watertown over fifty years ago from Prince Edward Island where he was born June 25, 1887 and engaged in the Building Trade here. He began a noteworthy record of public service to this Town in 1927 upon his appointment as Assistant Building Inspector under the direction of the late Captain William C. Wilson then the Inspector of Buildings of Watertown, and served in this capacity until 1930. In Maxch 1935, he was elected to the Planning Board for the years 1935-36-37. On April 11, 1938, following the demise of Captain Wilson he was ap- pointed Inspector of Buildings and then began a continuous and out- standing period of public service. During the years prior to World War II, he organized the Rescue and Demolition Program of Civilian Defense and continued as the head of this important function all during the war, giving unstintingly of his time and energy. When the housing shortage occurred as an aftermath of the War, he was appointed by the Selectmen to arrange temporary housing quarters for veterans and had charge of the rearrangement of the Grant School, the Legion Home and the Municipal Garage which were converted for emergency housing use, and had charge of the maintenance of these Buildings in addition to his many other duties. He also served on many other committees so vital to the proper ad- ministration of the Town's affairs. As Chairman of the committee on writing the present Building By-Laws of the Town; a member of the Watertown Transit Committee; a member of the Incinerator Committee; in an advisory capacity to the Zoning Committee which during 1948 re- vised the Zoning By-Laws of the Town, also met and advised with the Board of Appeals in their many decisions; a member of the Massachu- setts Building Commissioners and Inspectors Association. Well known for his tireless and energetic support of all projects, business, civil, social, religious or fraternal, he gained the confidence, respect and esteem of his fellow man; always courteous, even under the most trying circumstances, he was always ready and willing to listen to the problems of others, no matter how small or how great, and then to assist and always willing to aid even to the extent of sacrificing himself physically as well as mentally; a man who was faithful to the highest ideals of public and humane service. A devoted husband and father he will be sorely missed by family, friends, and townspeople alike. But those that knew him will feel a richness of soul and body that never would have been theirs without having associated with "Al Perkins". Therefore be it resolved that this Town Meeting assembled spread upon the records of the Town this Memorial and that the Town Clerk be and is hereby authorized to send to his widow and family copies of the same. sl EDWARD L. MAURER, Chairman sl LEROY C. TITUS s/ JAMES H. SULLIVAN, JR. 24 Incinerator Committee: Martin V. Tomassian submitted a verbal report of progress for the Incinerator Committee, and it was VOTED: That the Committee be continued. Public Works Committee: Selectman H. Herbert Applin reported verbally for the Committee to study the question of a Public Works Department, and advised the meeting that the Committee would submit a detailed report at a later meeting. Off Street Parking Committee: Selectman H. Herbert Applin submitted a verbal report of progress for the Committee on Off Street Parking, committee to submit a complete report later. Committee on Removal of Soil, etc.: Ronald M. Stone submitted a written report, filed in the Book of Reports, Town Clerk's Office, in which the committee recommended a change in the Zoning By-Law, Section 15, Paragraph 4, "by eliminating the word 'residential' and inserting therefor the word 'any' also by inserting after the words 'in connection with', the words 'the excavation of a foundation for, so that Section 15, Paragraph 4 shall read: 'In any district, no sod, loam, gravel, sand or quarried stone shall be removed, except when incidental to and in connection with the excavation of a foundation for the construction of a building for which a ,permit has been issued, unless written permission of the Board of Appeals has been obtained in accordance with the provisions of Section 18." North and West Watertown School Survey Committee: Superintendent of Schools Francis A. Kelly, Chairman, submitted a written report of progress for the Committee to survey school conditions in North and West Watertown, said report being filed in the Book of Reports, Office of Town Clerk. On motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED: To continue foregoing committee. North Watertown Fire Station Committee: Fire Chief William C. McElroy submitted a written report for the Committee on Proposed Fire Station in North Watertown, and said re- port has been filed in Book of Reports, Office of Town Clerk. On motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED: To accept the report and that action under recommenda- tions be taken up with Article 30. Charles Jewell Brown: Charles Jewell Brown, former veteran Watertown Town Meeting. Member, who moved to Billerica four years ago, was present, and pro- 25 vided with a seat of honor on the platform. He was_:aocorded an oppor- tunity by Moderator John M. Russell to address_ the meeting, and responded with a few words, being warmly greeted. March 27, 1950 Mr. Salvatore Percoco, Business Agent for the Rubber Workers Union, Local A. F. of L. was granted permission to address the town meeting. He outlined the tariff situation as it affected the rubber footwear indus- try, and the impending disaster which was forseen unless action was taken by Congress. Thereupon, the following resolution was presented by the Board of Selectmen, through Chairman H. Herbert Applin, and it was VOTED: (Unanimously) WHEREAS: A Bill is pending in Congress entitled"Bill to Revise Administrative Procedures of the Bureau of Customs", which would eliminate what is known as the American Selling Price Principle, specifically as it applies to canvas and waterproof rubber footwear. WHEREAS: The State Department has under consideration nego- tiations which would result in Reciprocal Trade Agreements lowering present tariffs on canvas and waterproof rubber footwear imported from foreign countries. WHEREAS: Any further reduction in the Tariff Rates applying to imports of canvas and waterproof rubber footwear would constitute a serious threat to the major industry of our community and to other local business firms and would result in the loss of jobs, wide-spread distress, increase of relief rolls and increase of the tax burden of our citizens. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Town of Watertown at its annual Town Meeting held on March 27, 1950 does hereby Memorialize and Petition The President of the United States, Harry S. Truman; United States Senator Leverett Sa.ltonstall, United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and United States Congresswoman Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers to take necessary action to prevent any reduction in the tariff on imports of canvas and waterproof rubber footwear whether it be by legislative enactment abrogating the American Selling Price Principle, by negotiation under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or otherwise, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of these res- olutions be sent to the President of the United States, Harry S. Truman; United States Senator Leverett Saltonstall, United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and all New England Congressmen, and that these resolutions be spread on the records of the Town of Watertown, Massa- chusetts. BOARD OF SELECTMEN s/ H. HERBERT APPLIN s/ WILFRED J. PAQUET s/ ROY C. PAPALIA ARTICLE 3. To grant such sums of money as may be determined necessary for the uses and expenses of the Town for the current year, direct how the same shall be raised, or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: That the following items as shown in Schedule be and are hereby appropriated for the use of the various Town Departments for the current year. 26 General Administration ($161,326.50) Moderator (See Art. 13) . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 150.00 Selectmen's Department: Selectmen's Salaries (See Art. 13) Chairman $1250; 2 at 1000 ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,250.00 Private Secretary .... .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2,520.00 Confidential Clerk ..... .... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00 Temporary Clerk Hire ... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.00 Contingent .... . . .. ... ... . . .... . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200.00 Treasurer's Department: Treasurer's Salary (See Art. 13) . ..... . . . . . . . . . . ... 5,400.00 Principal Clerk .... .... . . ... . . . .... . . .... . .. .. . . ... 2,520.00 SeniorClerk .. . . .... . . . . .. ...... .... ..... ...... . .. 2,160.00 Senior Clerk . . . . .... . . .... . . .... ....... .... . . .... .. . . 2,160.00 Contingent .. ... . ..... . .... . . ... . . ... .. ...... ..... . . . 1,450.00 Collector's Department (See Art. 6) Collector's Salary (See Art. 13) .. ..... . .... .... . . . 5,400.00 Deputy Collector . .......... . .. ............. ..... ... .. 2,520.00 Deputy Collector ........... . . . ... ........... . .... . . .. 2,520.00 First Clerk ... . ... . . . .. . . .... ..... ......... .. . . . . 2,160.00 Second Clerk ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ..... . .... ..... .. . . 1,560.00 Contingent ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . ...... .... ... 1,568.00 Auditor's Department: Auditor's Salary (See Art. 13) .... . ..... .. ... . ... . .. 5,400.00 Principal Clerk . . .. . . . . .. . .... . .. .. . . .... .. .... . . . 2,520.00 Senior Clerk .... . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . .. . . . ....... . ... .. 2,060.00 Extra Clerk .. .... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ..... .. ..... . 750.00 Contingent .. . . ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Out-of-State Travel .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Assessor's Department: Assessors' Salaries (See Art. 13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,800.00 Principal Clerk .... .... . . .. .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,520.00 Senior Clerk—Stenographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,920.00 Junior Clerk—Typist ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 1,500.00 Contingent . . ...... ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,05000 Appellate Tax Board .. ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.000.00 Finance Committee .. . . . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Legal Services: Salary of Town Counsel .. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00 Contingent .... ..... .. ... . . ..... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 Town Clerk's Department: Town Clerk's Salary (See Art. 13) .. . ..... ...... . ... 5,400.00 Principal Clerk .... .... .. .. . . .. ... .... . . ..... . . .. . . 2,520.00 Principal Clerk—Stenographer .. . . .... .... . ... .. 2,280.00 Clerk—Stenographer ..... . .. . .. ... ... .... . ..... . . . ... 2,040.00 Contingent .... . ..... . . . . ... . .. ... ... . . . ..... . .. . . 1,447.50 Out-of-State Travel . . . . . . . ... . . . .... . . .... . .... . ..... 200.00 27 Purchasing Department: Agent's Salary . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . ... . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 4,500.00 Junior Clerk . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .... . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . 1,820.00 Contingent . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850.00 Out-of-State Travel . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 100.00 Duplicating Machine . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558.00 Engineering Department: Salaries .. . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . . . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 27,805.00 Contingent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... . . .. . . . .. 1,600.00 New Automobile . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. 1,550.00 Lighting Table . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . .. 80.00 Election Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 13,008.00 Registrars of Voters: Salaries of 4 Men at 300.00 . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1,200.00 Permanent Assistant Registrar . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . 2,160.00 Listing Board . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .... . . . . 1,650.00 Town Hall Department: Senior Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,860.00 Junior Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. . . . . . . 2,120.00 Telephone Operator . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 2,160.00 Relief Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . .. . 650.00 Telephone .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,750.00 Fuel .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . .. . .. .. . . .. . . . ... . . .. . . . . .. 2,000.00 Light . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . .. . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. 1,600.00 Maintenance . ... . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 Painting . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. .. . .. .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 500.00 Pointing Chimney and Cornice Work . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 600.00 New Window Shades . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . 100.00 Planning Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Board of Appeals . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . ... . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... . .... 700.00 Protection of Persons and Property ($579,961.73) Police Department: Salary of Chief . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . ... . . 5,100.00 Captains (2) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . .. . .... . 9,000.00 Lieutenants (4) . . . . . . . . ... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . 15,000.00 Sergeants (5) . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . 18,000.00 Patrolmen (47) . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . 154,790.00 Wagonman—Clerk . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . ... . . . .. . . 3,300.00 Chauffeur—Mechanician .. . . .. .. . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . .. . . . 3,300.00 Clerk—Stenographer (Male) .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . ... . . . . . . . . 3,300.00 Junior Building Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . .. . 1,360.00 Junior Clerk—Stenographer (Female) .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . 960.00 Matron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 600.00 Reserve Men .. . . . .. . .. .. . ... . . . ... . . 6,000.00 Contingent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . .... . .... . . 13.500.00 Teletype .. . . . . . . . ... . .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . .. .. . . .. . . . 540.00 Painting . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . ... . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 500.00 Uniforms .. . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . 3,500.00 New Cars . . ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.500.00 28 New Radio Installation ....... .... .... ..... ..... . . . . . 4.500.00 Out-of-State Travel . . .... ..... . .. .. .... .... . ... . ... . . 150.00 Fire Department: Salary of Chief . . ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 5,100.00 Captains (4) .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 18,000.00 Lieutenants (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 19,200.00 Mechanician (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 3,600.00 Permanent Men (55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 181,575.00 Contingent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,500.00 New Hose .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Uniforms ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2,500.00 Out-of-State Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 100.00 Radio .. . . .. . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,150.00 New Chief's Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,500.00 Office and Room Repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400.00 Inspector of Buildings: Salary of Inspector of Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,900.00 Principal Clerk . . .. .. .. .. . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,520.00 Contingent .. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 250.00 Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 300.00 Weights and Measures: Salary of Sealer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0,480.00 Contingent .. . . ... . .. . . .. . . . ... . . . .. . . . 550.00 Moth Department: Salary of Superintendent .... .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 276.73 Maintenance: Labor . . ... . . ... . ... . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5,100.00 Material and Expenses . . . . ... . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500.00 Elm Leaf Beetle: Labor ... . . . .. . . ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200.00 Material & Expenses .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00 Poison Ivy .. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 400.00 Dutch Elm Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 500.00 Tree Warden: Salary of Tree Warden (See Art. 13) . . . . . . ... . .. . . .. .. 2,700.00 Principal Clerk . . . . .. . . ... . ...... .. . .. . . . ... . . . . . . . .. 1,260.00 Maintenance—Labor . . . ... .... . .... . ... . .... . . . . . . ... 12,000.00 Labor Overtime ... . .. . . .. . . ... . . ... ..... .... . . . . . . . .. 100.00 Material & Expense .. . ... . . ... . . .. . . ... .. ... . . . . . . .. . 700.00 New Trees .. . . .. . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . ... . . .. . . .. .. . . . ... .. . 1,500.00 Electric Saw and Generator . .. . . . . . . ... . . ... . . . .. . . . . 700.00 Power Gate for Truck . . ... . ... . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . ... . .. . no appro. Dutch Elm Disease . . .. . . .. .. . . . . ... . . . ... . . . . . . . .. . ... no appro. JVire Department: Salary of Superintendent . . .. .. .... . .... .... . .. .. . ... 4,950.00 Principal Clerk . . . . .. . . ... . . ... ... . . . .. . . .. . . .. .. . ... 1,260.00 Extra Clerk Hire . . . . . . . .. . .... .. .. . . .. . . .. . .... . . ... 450.00 Maintenance: Labor .... . ... . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . ... .... . . .. . . . . . . . ... . 31,440.00 Material and Expenses . . ... . .... . ... . ..... .. . . .... 4,200.00 Transportation ... . .... .... .. ... ..... ... . . ... ...... . .. 300.00 New Construction . . .. . . ... . ... . .. ... ... ..... . .. .. .. .. 4,300.00 29 Out-of-State Travel . . .. . .. . .... . .. . .... . . . . . . . . ... . . . 150.00 New Car for Superintendent . .. . . .... ... . ....... . .. . .. 1,400.00 Dog Officer: Salary of Dog Officer . .. . . .. ... .. . . .... . . .. . . . .. . ... 500.00 Contingent ... . . .. . .. .. . . . . .. . . .. . . .. .. . . ... . .... ... 1,250.00 Health and Sanitation ($78,990.00) Health Department: Salary of Health Officer . . .. .. . ..... .. .. .... .. .. .. . . .. 4,950.00 Inspector of Plumbing and Sanitation . . .... .. . .... . .. 4,500.00 Health Inspector (See Art. 23) .. .... ... . . . .. .. . .. . .. .. 3,380.00 Nurses (2) . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . ... . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . 5,760.00 Principal Clerk . .. ... .. . . . . . .... . .. .. .... . ... . . .. .. ... 2,520.00 Additional Clerk .. . . .. .. . . . ... ... . . .. . . . .... . .. ... . . 1,120.00 Dental Clinic .. . . .. . . . ...... . . . . . .. . .... . .. ........ .. 4,320.00 Contagious Diseases . . .. . . . . . . .. . ... . ... . . .. . . . . . ... .. 16,000.00 Contingent ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . .. .... . ......... . . . . .. .. 2,500.00 Mosquito Control .. . . . . .. .. . . .. .... . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . .. 200.00 Replace 3 Cars . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. ..... . .. . . .. .. .. .. . . . .. no appro. Inspector of Animals .... . .. . . . .. .. .. .. . . ... . ..... ........ 600.00 Sewer Department: Construction ... . .. .. .. .. . . ... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 7,685.00 Maintenance . . . . .. . . .... .. .. . . ... . ..... ..... .... ..... 4,000.00 Drainage ... . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. .. .. . . ...... . . .... . . ... . . .... 21,455.00 Care and Lighting of Highways ($615,841.00) Highway Department: Salary of Superintendent .. .. .. . . . . .. .. . ... .... . . .. .. 5,400.00 Assistant Superintendent . . .. ... . .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . . .. .. 4,600.00 Principal Clerk . . . . . . ... . . . . . . .. . ..... ....... .... .... 2,520.00 Senior Clerk . . . . ... . .... .... . . .. . . .... . ............ .. 2,160.00 Office Expense . . .. . . .. . . ..... . . . . . ... .. ..... .... .. .. 300.00 Out-of-State Travel .... .... .. .... .... ... . .. .... . . .. .. 200.00 Vacations .. . . .. .. . . . ... . . ... ... ................ .. .... 17,528.00 Labor . . . . . .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. . ......... . . ... . 359,000.00 Overtime Labor ... . . ... . . . ....... .... .. .. . .. ......... 5,000.00 Construction . . . . .. ..... . . .. . . . . . . .. ................ .. 24,456.00 Chapter 90 Constrution .. .. .. .. .. . . .. . . .. . . . .. .. ... .. 5,000.00 Betterments . . . . .. .. . .. .. . .. . . . .. . . ... . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . 25,077.00 Highway Maintenance .. .. .... .... .... . ... .... .. . . .... 30,000.00 General Maintenance .. . . . . . . .. . ... . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 30,600.00 Snow and Ice—Materials . . .. .... . ... . . . . . . . . .. .. . . .. . 8,700.00 Snow and Ice—Trucking and Overtime . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000.00 Garbage Disposal .... .. .. .. . . .. .. .... .. ............. . 2,000.00 Ashes and Paper . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 3,000.00 Garage—Repairs ................ . . . ...... ........... . 1,000.00 New Equipment .. .... . ... .. .... . . .. . . . . . . ... .. . .. . . . 10,900.00 Street Lights .... . . . . .. .. . .... . .. .. . . . . . . . .. . ...... .. . ... 60 000.00 Sidewalk Department: Construction . ... . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . ... ... ... ..... .. .. 3,500.00 Maintenance .. ... . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .... . . . . . ... . . .. . .. . 3,000.00 30 Charities and Soldiers' Benefits ($589,145.00) Public Welfare: Salary of Agent . ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 4,600.00 Principal Social Work Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... 3,740.00 Social Workers (5) .... ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,290.00 Senior Clerk .... .... .... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,160.00 Senior Clerk ... . . .. . ... . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 1,940.00 Junior Clerk ..... .... .... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,760.00 Junior Clerk .... .. .. ..... ... . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . ... 1,500.00 Junior Clerk . ... . ... . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . ... 1,440.00. Contingent .. .. .. . ... .... ..... .. . . . . . . . .. ..... . ... .... 3,800.00 Old Age Assistance .. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290,000.00 Aid Dependent Children .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,000.00 General Relief .. . . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 95,000.00 Infirmary Department: Salary of Keeper ... ... .. .. . . .. .. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,790.00 General Expense .. . . .. . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,900.00 Home Improvements .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00 Physician .. . .... .... . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500.00 Veterans' Services: Salary of Agent .... ..... ... . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3,725.00 Investigator or Social Worker .. . ... . ... . .... ... . .. .. 2,360.00 Investigator or Social Worker ... . ... . ... . ... . .... . . . 1,360.00 Investigator or Social Worker (part time) . . . .... . ... 1,040.00 Junior Clerk .. .. .... .... ........ . . . ... .... ..... ... . 1,820.00 Junior Clerk .. .. ... . .... .... .... . . . . ... . ... ..... ... . 1,820.00 Office Expense . . . ...... .... . ... . ... . ... ......... .... 1,450.00 Car Expense .... .... .... .... . ... . ... . .... ............ 650.00 Veterans' Benefits ... . ... . .... . .. . ... . . . .... .. .. . ... 50,000.00 Schools and Libraries ($1,186,022.24) School Department: General Control Salary of Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,200.00 Assistant Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,900.00 Clerks' Salaries ... . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,680.00 Attendance Officers' Salaries .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 5,760.00 Attendance Officers' Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00 Telephone . . .. . ....... .... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00 Office Expense . .... ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00 New England Development Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330.00 Instruction Salaries . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . .. . . .. 836,105.00 Books and Supplies . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 34,000.00 Operation Salaries • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 55,850.00 Supplies . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 3,500.00 Light & Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000.00 Fuel .... .... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,000.00 School Halls . ... . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800.00 Water .. . ... . ... . ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.00 31 Maintenance .. ... . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 50,000.00 New Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Banthin Auto Printing Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,850.00 Miscellaneous Medical Salaries . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. 9,000.00 Medical Supplies . ... .. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . 500.00 Nurses' Cars . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480.00 Evening School Salaries . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000.00 Supplies .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Trade School and Outside Tuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,000.00 Transportation . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000.00 Out-of-State Travel .... . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.00 Juvenile Recreation . . . .. .... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,000.00 School and Ground Improvement .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,600.00 Public Library Salaries ... . .. .. . . .. . . . ... . . . . . .... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,846.80 Books, Periodicals, and Binding ..... ......... . . . . . . . . . 13,080.00 Maintenance . . .... . . ... . ..... . .... .... .. ... . . . . . . . . . 13,495.44 Recreation ($33,589.00) Park Department: Salary of Superintendent .. .......... .... . ... .. .. .. . . . 3,480.00 Salaryof Clerk ...... . ... .. ........ . ..... ...... .... . . . 200.00 Labor .. ..... . .... ...... ...... .... ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,640.00 Extra Labor ... . .... ..... . . ........ . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Maintenance .. . ..... ............ . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,059.00 Recreation .. .. . ........... .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750.00 New Equipment ......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. 500.00 Drain-Victory Field . .. . ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. 700.00 Track-Victory Field .... . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500.00 Tennis Courts-Victory Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Fence-Saltonstall Park .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no appro. Playground Salaries ..... .. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,760.00 Public Enterprises ($112,518.07) Water Department: Salaries of Commissioners (See Art. 14) .. ..... . .... ... no appro. Salary of Superintendent .. ... . .... . .................. 4,950.00 Salary of Assistant Superintendent . .... . .... . . . . . . . . . 3,840.00 Registrar . .... . .... . ....... .. . .... . .... . .... . . . . . . . . . 3,500.00 Registrar & Clerk to Board ... . .... . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . no appro. Pricipal Clerk . . .. .. . ... .. .... . .... ..... . ... . . . . . . . . .. 2,520.00 Senior Clerk . . .... .. . ... . ... . . .... . ... . . .... . . .. . . ... 2,160.00 Service Foreman .. . . .. .. . .. . . . .. .. . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . 3,840.00 Meter Inspectors .. . . . .. . . . . . . . .. ... . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . ... 8,640.00 Maintenance: Labor .. ... . ..... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . ... . . .. . . . ... 44,376.00 Materials ... . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 10,267.52 Emergency Overtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 2,500.00 Office Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. ..... . 2,482.00 Vacations ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ 1,768.00 32 New % Inch Meters 1,800.00 New House Services . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 Water Liens ..... .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . .... 250.00 Renewal of Services . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 3,350.00 Out-of-State Travel .... . . . . . ... . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ... 100.00 Cleaning Water Mains ....... ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,600.00 Construction and Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,000.00 New Dump Body and Truck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 2,574.55 Overhead Doors for Garage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Compressor and Chassis . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no appro. Cemeteries ($21.435.00) Cemetery Department: Salary of Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,460.00 Labor . ... . .... . .. .. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.000.00 Contingent . ....... . ... . ... . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,300.00 Light Truck . .... ... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,300.00 Power Trimmers .... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375.00 Public Debt and Interest ($54,000.00) Town Debt (See Art. 4) . ... . . . . . . . . . ... . ... . ... . . . . . . . . . . 45,000.00* Interest . . . .... . .... ....... . . .. . ... . .... ... . .... . . .. . . . . . 9,000.00** $15,000.00 to be transferred from Veterans' Housing Fund °* $ 4,725.00 to be transferred from Veterans' Housing Fund Unclassified ($388,926.73) Pensions .. . . .. . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . ... . 67,327.79 Insurance . .:. . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,000.00 Workmens' Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 8,500.00 Salary of Agent . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... ... . 1,000.00 Printing Town Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ... . 2,566.90 Reserve Fund . .... . . . .. . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,000.00 Contingent 3,000.00 Rent of East End Parking Lot .......... .... . .... . . . . . . . . . 167.05 Headquarters' for Veterans' Organizations (See Art. 7) .... 4,950.00 Eye-Glasses for School Children (See Art. 8) . ... . ... . . .... 250.00 Memorial Day (See Art. 9) . ... . ... . ... . ... .... . . . . . . . ... 3,000.00 Tax Title Releases (See Art. 10) . .. . . .. . . ... . . .. . .. . . . . . . . 39.00 Annuities (See Art. 11) ..... ... . ... . . .. . ... . ... . . . . . . . . . . 8,525.00 Contributory Retirement System (See Art. 12) . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,640.86 Dog Pound (See Art. 15) .. . . . .. . ... . .. . . .. .. .... . ... . . . . . 4,000.00 Dominick Filippello Playgroung-Lighting (See Art. 27) Indef. Postponed Utility Building-Ridgelawn Cemetery (See Art. 28) ... . . .. . 8,000.00 Incinerator Plans (See Art. 29) .... .... . ............. .... no appro. North End Fire Station (See Art. 013) .. .... ..... ......... 85,800.00 Field House-Victory Field (See Art. 31) .... .. ... ......... 75,000.00 Unpaid Bills-Workmens' Compensation (See Art. 32) .. . . 935.13 Parking Place Lease (See Art. 33) .. . ... . ... . ... . ... . . ... . 250.00 Freeman Reimbursement (See Art. 34) .. .... . . ....... .... . 225.00 Public Band Concerts (See Art. 35) . . .... ... . ... . .... . ... no appro. How Park-Fence and Grading (See Art. 36-37) . ... . . . . . . 7,000.00 33 Traffic Rules Committee (See Art. 41) .... .. . .... .. ... . . . . 750.00 Cost of Living Bonus .. ..... . . . . . . ......... . .... . .... . . . . 40,000.00 TOTAL APPROPRIATION $3,821,755.27 March 20, 1950 VOTED: To continue to vote budget as recommended by the Finance Committee, with the understanding that at the adjourned meeting a vote would be presented for a cost of living bonus to the effect that no town employee would receive a reduction in salary or wage for 1950 (not to include overtime) as compared with the year 1949, details to be worked out and motion to be presented at adjourned meeting March 27, 1950 VOTED: That the Town rescind its action of March 20, 1950 in respect to the following amounts voted in the following accounts under Article 3: Wire Department: Maintenance - Labor .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $30,720.00 Police Department: Patrolmen (47) .. .... . ..... .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,540.00 Wagonman - Clerk . ..... . ........ ..... .. . ... . . . . 3.120.00 Chauffer - Mechanician . . .... ..... ..... . . . . . . . . . . D,120.00 Clerk - Stenographer (Male) ...... . .... . . . .. . . . . 3,120.00 March 27 1950 VOTED: That the Town appropriate the following amounts in the following accounts, under Article 3: Wire Department: Maintenance - Labor . .. ... . . ... . .. ... . .... . .... . 31,440.00 Police Department: Patrolmen (47) .. . . .. . . . ... .. .... .... . . .... . .... 154,790.00 Wagonman - Clerk . .... . .... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,300.00 Chauffer - Mechanician . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,300.00 Clerk - Stenographer (Male) .... . . .. . . .... . . .... 3,300.00 March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3.) On motion of Chairman H. Herbert Applin of the Selectmen, it was VOTED: That the compensation of each officer and employee reg- ularly employed in the service of the Town on a full time basis, except teachers, principals and Superintendent in the School Department, be temporarily increased by an additional amount during the year 1950 sufficient to make such compensation in each instance an amount equal to the compensation of such officer or employee for the year 1948 in- creased by 5 per cent, excluding pay for overtime, but said temporary Increase be paid only subject to the following conditions and restrictions: (A) That every officer or agent entering the service of the Town between January 1, 1950 and December 31, 1950 shall not be entitled to receive this temporary increase. (B) That this temporary increase in salaries or wages shall be in 34 effect only for the period beginning January 1, 1950 and ending December 31, 1950. (C) Notwithstanding promotions, changes in classifications, or other changes in conditions of employment, no employee or officer shall re- ceive for the year 1950 a salary or hourly rate of wage excluding overtime, less than such employee received in 1949 including bonus but excluding overtime. (D) This temporary increase in salaries and wages shall not be termed or construed to be a portion of the regular compensation of any officer or employee now or formerly in the service of the Town. (E) Every officer or employee shall receive such salary or wage as has heretofore been voted at this meeting notwithstanding the fact that such salary or wage may amount to more than his 1948 salary or wage increased by five per cent. On motion of Chairman H. Herbert Applin of the Selectmen, it was VOTED: That the sum of Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00) be and is hereby appropriated from the Excess and Deficiency Account for an account to be termed "Cost of Living Bonus", and that the Town Auditor be empowered to determine the amount due each individual, and to arrange for the payment of the same by the Town Treasurer quarterly. VOTED: That the total sum of Three Million, eight hundred twenty one thousand, seven hundred fifty five dollars and twenty seven cents ($8,821,755.27) already appropriated be raised as follows: Transferred from OVERLAY RESERVE (Reserve Fund) . . .. . . ... . .. . . ... . . .... .... .. .. . .... . .. . . . $25,000.00 Transferred from VETERANS' HOUSING FUND (Town Debt $15,000.00 - Interest $4,725.00) .. . . .. . . 19,725.00 Transferred from SALE OF LOTS FUND (Cemetery). 8,000.00 Transferred from Excess & Deficiency Account (To reduce the tax rate) ... .... .... . .. .. . ... . . . . . . 200,000.00 Transferred from Excess & Deficiency Account (For "Cost of Living Bonus") . .... . .... . ... . . ... . 40,000.00 Transferred from Excess & Deficiency Account (North End Fire Station) . ..... ... . ... . .... . .... . 85,800.00 and the balance of Three Million, four hundred forty three thousand, two hundred thirty dollars and twenty seven cents ($3,443,230.27) to be assessed on the polls and estates for the year 1950. ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the nec- essary sum of money to pay that portion of the Town debt which matures previous to January 1, 1951, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any action relating thereto. March 20, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: That the sum of Forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000.00) be and is hereby appropriated to pay that portion of the Town debt which matures previous to January 1, 1951, and that of this sum Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) be transferred from the Veterans' Housing Fund, and the balance of Thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) be as- sessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in 35 anticipation of the revenue of the financial year, beginning January 1, 1951, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with General Laws, (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 44, Section 17. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town Treasurer, with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, be and is hereby authorized to borrow money from time to time on and after January 1, 1951, and to issue a note or notes of the Town therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year, in ac- cordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, of the General Laws. ARTICLE 6. To see what method the Town will vote to adopt for the collection of taxes for the year 1950 and to fix the compensation of the Collector, or take any action relating thereto. March 20, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the same method for the collection of taxes be and is hereby adopted as was pursued last year, and that bills for taxes shall be sent out and interest shall be charged as provided by General Laws, (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 59, Section 57, and acts in ammend- ment thereof. ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Ten Dollars ($4,710.00) to pay the cost of providing suitable headquarters for the following Veterans' organizations to be distributed in the following amounts: Burnham-Manning Post 1105, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) ; Watertown Chapter No. 14, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, Six Hundred Dollars ($ 600.00) ; Watertown Post No. 99, American Legion, Nine Hundred Dollars ( 900.00) ; Watertown Post American Veterans of World War II, AMVETS, Nine Hundred and Sixty Dollars ( 960.00) ; American Gold Star Mothers, Inc., One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ( 150.00) ; Italian-American World War Veterans of United States, Inc., Six Hundred Dollars ( 600.00) as authorized by General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 9, as amended, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) that the sum of Four Thousand, nine hundred and fifty dollars ($4,950.00) be and is hereby appropriated to pay the cost of providing suitable headquarters for the following Veterans' organizations to be distributed in the following amounts: Burnham-Manning Post 1105, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) Watertown Chapter No. 14, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, Six Hundred Dollars ($ 600.00) 36 Watertown Post No. 99, American Legion, Nine Hundred Dollars ($ 900.00) American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($ 150.00) Watertown Post American Veterans of World War II, AMVETS, Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) Italian-American World War Veterans of United States, Inc., Six Hundred Dollars ($ 600.00) ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) to provide eyeglasses and spec- tacles for school children 18 years of age or under who are in need thereof and whose parents or guardians are financially unable to furnish the same, as authorized by General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Subsection 40; direct how the same shall be raised, or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED (Unanimously) That the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) be and is hereby appropriated to provide eyeglasses and spectacles for school children eighteen (18) years of age or under who are in need thereof and whose parents or guardians are financially unable to furnish the same, as authorized by the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Subsection 40, said sum to be ex- pended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, and the amount so appropriated to be placed on the tax levy of the current year. ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a proper observance of Memorial Day as authorized by General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Subsection 12, as amended, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any other action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of Three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) be and is hereby appropriated for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a proper observance of Memorial Day as authorized by General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Subsection 12, as amended, said sum to be expended under the Board of Selectmen, and the amount so appropriated to be placed in the tax levy of the current year. ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Thirt�Nine Dollars ($39.00) to compensate the Town Counsel for drawing thirteen (13) tax title releases during the year 1949, said amount to be placed on the tax levy of the current year. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of Thirty-nine dollars ($39.00) be and is hereby appropriated to compensate the Town Counsel for drawing thirteen (13) tax title releases during the year 1949, said amount to be placed on the tax levy of the current year. ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars ($8,525.00) 37 to pay annuities to the dependents of ten (10) deceased Town employees as authorized by General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 32, Section 89, as amended, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any other action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of Eight thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars ($8,525.00) be and is hereby appro- priated to pay that amount for the year 1950 for annuities to the de- pendents of Ten (10) deceased Town employees as authorized by General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 32, Section 89, as amended, said appropriation to be paid to the following: 1. To the dependents of Gilbert Nichols, a deceased member of the Fire Department. 2. To the dependents of Willard E. Streeter, a deceased member or the Fire Department. 3. To the dependents of Finest B. Ford, a deceased member of the Fire Department. 4. To the dependents of James Carney, a deceased member of the Fire Department. 5. To the dependents of the Bertram McElhiney, a deceased member of the Fire Department. 6. To the dependents of Clarence Clifford, a deceased member of the Fire Department. 7. To the dependents of Gerald Mee, a deceased member of the Fire Department. 8. To the dependents of William Munhall, a deceased member of the Police Department. 9. To the dependents of Henry Welsh, a deceased member of the Police Department. 10. To the dependent daughter of Daniel J. Sullivan, a deceased member of the Police Department. and the amount so appropriated to be placed on the tax levy of the cur- rent year. ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Thirty Three Thousand Six Hundred Forty and 86/100 Dol- lars ($33,640.86) to be paid into the various funds of the Watertown Contributory Retirement System as established and regulated by the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 32, as amended, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any other action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of Thirty three thousand six hundred forty and 86/100 dollars ($33,640.86) be and is hereby ap- propriated to be paid into the various funds of the Watertown Contri- butory Retirement System, said sum to be divided as follows: $29,438.00 for the Pension Accumulation Fund 1,702.86 for the Military Service Credits 2,500.00 for the Expense Fund said amount so appropriated to be placed on the tax levy of the current year. 38 ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and compensation of all elective officers of the Town as provided by General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 41, Section 108 as amended, for the following: Moderator, three Selectmen, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Auditor, three assessors, Town Clerk, three Water Commissioners, Tree Warden, and to raise and appropriate by transfer or otherwise the necessary sums of money therefor, or take any other action relating thereto. March 20, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) that there be appropriated and paid to the elective officers of the Town of Watertown as salaries for the cur- rent financial year, effective beginning January 1, 1950, the amount set opposite the office and title of each as follows: Moderator $ 150.00 Selectmen Chairman $1,250.00 2 members each $1,000 2,000.00 3,250.00 Treasurer 5,400.00 Collector of Taxes 5,400.00 Auditor 5,400.00 Town Clerk 5,400.00 Tree Warden 2,700.00 Assesssors: 3 at $1,600.00 4,800.O0 Total $32,500.00 and that the sum of Thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($32,500.00) so appropriated be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to pay the members of the Board of Water Commissioners an annual salary of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) each per year and appropriate the sum of Twenty Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($2,250.00) for such purpose for the year 1950, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Board of Water Commissioners) March 20, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: No appropriation ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) for the erection and construction of a dog pound on land owned by the Town on Coolidge Avenue in said Town, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of Four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) be and is hereby appropriated for the erection and con- struction of a dog pound on land owned by the Town on Coolidge Avenue, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, and assessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town wil vote to advance the salary for the year 1950 of Patrolman John J. York and Thomas F. Jennings, patrolmen appointed to the Police Force of the Town in May 1949, an 39 additional or extra year in the salary range under Section 11 of Chapter 10 of the By-Laws of the Town in view of the prior experience and service of said patrolmen on the reserve Police Force before their ap- pointment to the regular force and to appropriate such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for such purpose, direct how the money shall be raised or taken any action relating thereto. (Request of Thomas P. Morley and others) March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: In view of the prior experience and service of Patrolmen John J. York and Thomas F. Jennings, in -the Reserve Police Force, prior to their appointment to the regular force, that the salary of said patrolmen for the year 1950 be and is hereby advanced an additional or extra year in the salary range under Section 11, of Chapter 10, of the By-Laws of the Town so that the salary of such patrolmen for such year shall be at the rate of $3,050.00 from January 1, 1950 to to the anni- versary of their appointment to the regular force and thereafter at the rate of $3,175.00 for the balance of the year, and that the sum of $250.00 be and is hereby appropriated to pay such salary increase, and that said amount of $250.00 be added to the sum heretofore appropriated under the police department budget for the salary of 47 patrolmen. ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 11 of the By-Laws of the Town by striking out said section and inserting in place thereof the following new section: SECTION 11-Salary Schedules for Positions in the Public Safety Service. That the following Salary Schedules for Positions in the Public Safety Service be and the same are hereby adopted as the standard salary schedules for all such positions in the Town service: Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Grade 6-A Salary Range Fireman (Private) .. .. . . 2,840 2,980 3,120 3,260 3,400 Patrolman 2,840 2,980 3,120 3,260 3,400 Patrolman (Clerk) . ....... 2,840 2,980 3,120 3,260 3,400 Patrolman (Building Custodian) . ... ....... . . . 2,820 2,980 3,120 3,260 3,400 Fire Alarm Signal Operator . . . .. . . . .. . . 2,820 2,980 3,120 3,260 3,400 Grade 7-A Salary Range Mechanician-Fire Dept. 2,860 3,020 3,180 3,340 3,500 Grade 8-A Salary Range Police Sergeant . . . . .... .. 3,400 3,510 3,620 3,730 3,840 Fire Lieutenant .. .. .... . . . 3,400 3,510 3,620 3,730 3,840 Grade 9-A Salary Range Police Lieutenant .... .. . . 4,000 4,125 4,250 4,375 4,500 Fire Captain . . . . . ... . . . . 4,000 4,125 4,250 4,375 4,500 Grade 10-A Salary Range Police Captain .. .. ...... .. 4,550 4,600 4,650 4,700 4,800 Grade 11-A Salary Range Police Chief .... .. ...... .. 4,800 4,950 5,100 5,250 5,400 Fire Chief .. ...... ...... 4,800 4,950 5,100 5,250 5,400 and appropriate such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to pay 40 the salary of the Police and Firemen for the year 1950 in accordance with such salary range, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Walter F. Flaherty and others) March 27, 1950 VOTED: To take up Article 17, in conjunction with Article 3. VOTED: That the Town meeting amend Chapter 10, Section 11, of the By-Laves by striking out the present grades 6 and 7, and in- serting in the place thereof, the following new grades: Standard Basic Salary Intermediate Range Maximum Minimum After After After After GRADE 6—A 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Fireman (Private) . . .. .. . . 2800 2925 3050 3175 3300 Patrolman . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 2800 2925 3050 3175 3300 Wa.gonma.n-Clerk . . . ... . .. 2800 2925 3050 3175 3300 Fire Alarm Signal Operator 2800 2925 3050 3175 3300 Chauffeur-Mechanician . .. 2800 2925 3050 3175 3300 Stenographer Clerk (Male) (Police) . . .. . . . . 2800 2925 3050 3175 3300 GRADE 7—A Police Sergeant . ... .. .. . . 2880 3060 3240 3420 3600 Mechanician—Fire Dept. .. 2880 3060 3240 3420 3600 ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 4 of the present existing By-Laws of the Town by striking out of said Section 4 the words and figures under Maximum Minimum After After After After GRADE 9— 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Purchasing Agent . . .. . . . . 3300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 and inserting in place thereof the words and figures GRADE 10— Purchasing Agent . ... . . . . 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 or take any action relating thereto. (Request of William F. Oates) March 27, 1950 VOTED: That subject matter of Article 18, -be referred to committee to be known as "Advisory Board of Review," authorized under Article 26, of this town meeting. ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Sections 10 and 11 of the present existing By-Laws of the Town by striking out of said Section 10 the following words and figures Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Inspector of Wire Maintenance . . . .. . . . 2,760 2,940 3,120 3,300 3,480 2nd Assistant Superintendent of Poles and Wires . . 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 1st Assistant Superintendent of Poles and Wires 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 41 Superintendent of Poles and Wires . . . ... . . ... . 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 and insert in said section 11 under Grade 7 the words and figures Inspector of Wire Maintenance .. . ... .. 2,760 2,940 3,120 3,300 3,480 and under Grade 8 thereof the words and figures 2nd Assistant Superintendent of Wires .. . . . . .. . . ... 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and under Grade 9 thereof the words and figures First Assistant Superintendent of Wires . .. . . . . .. . . . .. 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4500 and under Grade 11 thereof the words and figures Superintendent of Wires .4,200 4,500 4,800 5,100 5,400 and appropriate such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to pay the salaries of such officers or employees for the year 1950 in accordance with such salary range,direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Leo P. Landry) March 20, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: To indefinitely postpone. March 27, 1950 On motion of Selectman Wilfred J. Paquet, duly seconded, it was VOTED: That Article 19 be reconsidered. It was further VOTED: That subject matter of Article 19, be referred to com- mittee to be known as "Advisory Board of Review," authorized under Article 26, of this town meeting. ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 10 of the present existing By-Laws of the Town by striking out of Grade 7 thereof the words and figures Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Water Registrar . . . . 2,760 2,940 3,120 3,300 3,480 and inserting under Grade 8 thereof the words and figures Water Registrar and Secretary to the Board of Water Commissioners 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and by striking out of Grade 10 thereof the words and figures Superintendent of Water Department . . ..... . 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 and inserting under Grade 11 thereof the words and figures Superintendent of Water Department . . ..... . 4,200 4,500 4,800 5,100 5,400 and appropriate such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to pay the salaries of such officers or employees for the year 1950 in ac- cordance with such salary range, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Board of Water Com- missioners) 42 March 27, 1950 VOTED: That subject matter of Article 20, be referred to com- mittee to be known as "Advisory Board of Review," authorized under Article 26, of this town meeting. ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 9 of the present existing By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Water- town by striking out of Grade 10 in said Section 9 the following words and figures Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Health Officer ...... 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 and inserting in said Section 9 a new grade as follows: GRADE 11— Health Officer . ... . ... 4,200 4,500 4,800 5,100 5,400 appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to pay the salary for the year 1950 of such Health Officer in accordance with said new salary range, direct how said money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Board of Health) Barth 27, 1950 VOTED: That subject matter of Article 21, be referred to com- mittee to be known as "Advisory Board of Review," authorized under Article 26, of this town meeting. ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 10 of the By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown by striking out of said section in grade 9 thereof, the following words and figures: Inspector of Plumbing 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 and inserting in the place thereof words and figures in grade 10 of said section as follows: Inspector of Plumbing and Sanitation . . .. . . 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to pay salaries for the year 1950 in accordance with said new section, direct how said money shall be raised or take any action relating therto. (Request of Board of Health) March 27, 1950 VOTED: That subject matter of Article 22, be referred to committee to be known as "Advisory Board of Review," authorized under Article 26, of this town meeting. ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 9 of the By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown by adding thereto the designation of Health Inspector, establish a suitable grade therefor, determine the necessary Minimum, Intermediate Range, and the maximum salary for such position in accordance with Sections 1, 2 and 3 of said Chapter 10, or take any action relating thereto. (Re- quest of Board of Health) 43 March 20, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: That Chapter 10, Section 9, of the By-Laws of the In- habitants of Watertown be and hereby are amended by adding to Grade 8, contained therein the following words and figures: Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Health Inspector ... . 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 10 of the By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown by adding the word "Working" to the designation of Foreman (Cemetery) under Grade 5, so that the amended designation under Grade 5 of Section 10 of Chapter 10 shall read as follows: Working Foreman (Cemetery) Hourly Rate $1.45 per hour or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Board of Health) March 21, 1950 VOTED: (Unanimously) That Chapter 10, Section 10 of the By- laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown be and are hereby amended by adding before the words "Foreman (cemetery) hourly rate $1.45 per hour" the word "working" so that the same shall read "Working Fore- man (cemetery) hourly rate $1.45 per hour." ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10 of the By-Laws of the Inhabitants of 'Watertown, by adding as a per- manent increase to the Salary and Wage Scale of all Classifications and grades of the Town the amount of money voted as a cash bonus in 1949; wherever the permanent increase affects the maximum rate of any grade, this additional amount shall be added to the maximum salary rate, or take any other action relating thereto. (Request of Watertown, Massachusetts Town Employees Local 1210 A. F. of L.) March 20, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: To indefinitely postpone. ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10 of the present existing By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown by adding at the end thereof, under authority of General Laws Chapter 41, Section 108A, the following new section: SECTION 15. The Moderator shall annually appoint a committee under this Chapter of the By-Laws to be known as the Ad:jlsory Board of Review, composed of five (5) or more members, one of whom ahall be a member of the Board of Selectmen, one of whom shall be a member of the Finance Committee, one of whom shall be a Town employee and the others residents of the Town not office holders or Town em- ployees, whose duty it shall be to hold hearings, investigations and make recommendations to the Town meeting concerning all requested changes of classification, grades and salary schedules included in said Chapter 10 of the Town By-Laws. or take any action relating thereto. 44 March 27, 1950 On motion of Selectman Roy C. Papalia, duly seconded, it was VOTED: (Unanimously) That Chapter 10 of the By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown be and hereby are amended by adding at the end of said Chapter the following new section: "SECTION 15. The Moderator shall annually appoint a committee under this Chapter of the By-Laws to be known as the Advisory Board of Review, composed of five (5) members, one of whom shall be a mem- ber of the Board of Selectmen, two of whom shall be members of the Finance Committee, one of whom shall be a Town employee and the other a resident of the Town not an office holder or Town employee, whose duty it shall be to hold hearings, investigations and make rec- commendations to the Town meeting concerning all requested changes of classifications, grades and salary schedules included in Chapter 10 of the Town By-Laws." Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) to be expended under the direction of the Park Department to pay the cost of providing a flood lighting system at Dominick Filippello Playground to be used for recreational and other civic activities, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any other action relating thereto. (Request of Park Department) March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) To indefinitely postpone. ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Eight Thousand Dollars ($8,000.00) for the construction of a utility building at Ridgelawn Cemetery, authorize the Board of Health to construct the same, and to appropriate and provide by transfer of Eight Thousand Dollars ($8,000.00) for this purpose from the Cemetery Sale of Lots Fund, otherwise direct how said sum shall be raised, or take any other action relating thereto. (Request of Board of Health) March 27, 19H (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town appropriate, in addition to the sum of Four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) heretofore appropriated and transferred, the further sum of Eight thousand dollars ($8,000.00) for the construction of a utility building at Ridgelawn Cemetery, and that the Board of Health be authorized to construct the same, said ap- propriation to be provided by transfer from the Cemetery Sale of Lots Fund. ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) for the purpose of securing detailed plans and specifications for a proposed incinerator to be built at the East End Dump on Grove Street, direct how the money shall be raised or take any other action relating thereto. (Request of In- cinerator Committee) March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) No appropriation. ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Eighty-Five Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($85,800.00) for 45 plans for the construction of and to construct a fire station on land located on Orchard Street, Waverley Avenue, Loomis Avenue and Brad- shaw Street in the Town purchased by the Town for a fire station site, direct how the money shalll be raised or take any action relating thereto. (Request of North Watertown Fire Station Committee) March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: That a Committee of Five (5) be appointed by the Modera- tor to construct a fire station on land located on Orchard Street, Waver- ley Avenue, Loomis Avenue and Bradshaw Street, purchased by the Town for a fire station site, and that the sum of Eighty-five thousand, eight hundred dollars ($85,800.00) be and is hereby appropriated, and said sum be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account. ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) for the purpose of con- structing a Field House at Victory Field, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Stadium Building Committee) March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) On motion of William Eagleson, duly seconded, it was VOTED: That the sum of Seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00) be and hereby is appropriated for the purpose of constructing a field house at Victory Field, the sum so appropriated to be expended by the Stadium Committee for plans and specifications and the construction of said field house and all other casts and expenses necessary or in- cidental thereto, and said sum to be assessed on tax levy of the current year. ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Nine Hundred Thirty-Five Dollars and Thirteen Cents ($935.13) to pay unpaid bills of previous years of Workmen's Compensation De- partment of the Town, said bills having been unpaid due to the in- sufficiency of an appropriation for such Department in the years in which said bills were incurred and specifically to pay the unpaid bill of John J. Ross for unpaid Workmen's Compensation and hospital and medical expenses resulting from an accident suffered by said Ross in the course of his employment as a janitor in the School Department, direct how said money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of Nine Hundred thirty- five and 13/100 dollars ($935.13) be and hereby is appropriated to pay unpaid bills of previous years of the Workmen's Compensation Depart- ment of the Town, said bills having been unpaid due to the insufficiency of an appropriation for such Department in the years in which said bills were incurred and specifically to pay the unpaid bill of John J. Ross for unpaid Workmen's Compensation and hospital and medical expenses resulting from an accident suffered by said Ross in the course of his employment as a janitor in the School Department, said ap- propriation to be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 33. To see if -the Town will appropriate the sum of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00)) for the purpose of leasing for a public parking place the land of the Boston & Maine Railroad between Mount Auburn Street and Spring Street in the Town paying the cost of the 46 necessary indemnification insurance for the Town and the Boston & Maine Railroad under said lease, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town appropriate the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) for the purpose of leasing for a public parking place the land of the Boston & Maine Railroad between Mount Auburn Street and Spring Street in the Town and paying the cost of the necessary indemnification insurance for the Town and the Boston & Maine Railroad, under said lease, said sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) to be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Two Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars ($225.00) to reimburse Walter C. Freeman, the parent of Robert Freeman, a minor, for medical expense incurred as a result of an injury sustained by said minor on June 15, 1949 in the playground area of the East Junior High School, direct how said money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) On motion of Selectman Wilfred J. Paquet, duly seconded, it was VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town appropriate the sum of Two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225.00) to reimburse Walter C. Freeman, the parent of Robert Freeman, a minor, for medical expenses incurred as a result of an injury sustained June 15, 1949 at East Junior High School, and to discharge a moral obligation as authorized by an Act of the Legislature of 1950, and that such sum be assessed on the polls and estates for the current year. ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for public band concerts or for music furnished for public celebrations, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Ralph S. Parks) March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: "No appropriation." ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Seven Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00) for surfacing and regrading, also to erect a fence at How Park, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any other action relating thereto. (Request of Park Department) March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town appropriate the sum of Seven thousand dollars ($7,000.00) for surfacing and regrading, and erection of a fence at How Park, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Park Department, and ;to be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and pro- vide, by transfer or otherwise, such sums of money as may be necessary to erect or construct a wire or chain link fence on the Easterly side of How Park in the Town of Watertown or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Joseph J. Flaherty) 47 March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: To indefinitely postpone. ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to accept,the provisions of Chapter 112 of the Acts of 1949, which Act authorizes combining the offices of Tree Warden and Moth Superintendent in the Town of Watertown, or take any other action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: To indefinitely postpone. ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 3, Section 28 of the present existing By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Water- town by adding after the words "such employees of the School Depart- ment" in said Section 28, the words "and Free Public Libraries" so that the first paragraph of said Section 28 shall read as follows: "On and after January 1, 1950 the head of each department of the Town is auth- orized to grant to all regular full-time employeees of the Town, except employees of the School Departmnt and Free Public Libraries who are not permanent Civil Service employees, vacation periods as follows: " or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 On motion of Selectman H. Herbert Applin, duly seconded, it was VOTED: (Unanimously) That Chapter 3, Section 28 of the By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown be and hereby are amended by adding after the words "employees of the School Department" in the first paragraph of said Section 28 the words "and Free Public Libraries" so that said first paragraph of said Section 28 reads as follows: "On and after January 1, 1950, the head of each department of the Town is authorized to grant to all regular full-time employees of the Town, except employees of the School Department and Free Public Libraries who are not permanent Civil Service employees, vacation periods as follows . . :' ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 2, Section 14 of the By-Laws of the Town by striking out in the last sentence the words "roll call of the Town Meeting members" and in- serting in place thereof the words "secret or Australian ballot", so that said last sentence will read, "A secret or Australian ballot shall be ordered by the Moderator if thirty members shall by a showing of hands favor such motion" or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Robert H. Clapp and others) March 27, 1950 On motion of Selectman Roy C. Papalia, duly seconded, it was VOTED: That Article 40 be referred to the next annual town meeting. ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to create a com- mittee of five (5) to be appointed by the Selectmen, the persons so appointed to include a member of the Police Department, the Town Counsel and three other persons, for the purpose of studying the present traffic rules and orders of the Town and revising, consolidating, amending, and re-printing the same and appropriate the sum of seven 48 hundred fifty ($750.00) dollars for such purpose, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town authorize the appoint- ment of a Committee of Five (5) by the Board of Selectmen, said com- mittee to include a member of the Police Department, the Town Counsel and three other persons, for the purpose of studying the present traffic rules and orders of the Town and revising, consolidating, amending and reprinting the same, and that the Town hereby appropriates the sum of Seven Hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00) for such purpose, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen; and placed on the tax levy of the current year. ARTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following regulations establishing the minimum standards of fitness for human habitation established and promulgated by the Department of Public Health of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 111, Section 128 and acts in amendment thereof and addition thereto, or take any action relating thereto. THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH Regulations Establishing The Minimum Standards of Fitness for Human Habitation. The Department of Public Health, acting under the provisions of Section 128 of Chapter 111 of the General Laws, as amended by Chapter 468 of the Acts of 1943 and Chapter 631 of the Acts of 1947 hereby makes the following regulations establishing the minimum standards of fitness for human habitation for adoption by cities and towns as provided in Chapter 631 of the Acts of 1947. These regulations are grouped under each subject as follows: Regulations bearing "A" designation relate to the first paragraph of Section 128 of the General Laws, as amended by Chapter 468 of the Acts of 1943 and Chapter 631 of the Acts of 1947. Regulations bearing "B" designation relate to the'second paragraph of the said Section 128. Violation of any of the regulations designated "A" constitutes cause for finding that a dwelling place or its premises are unfit for human habitation and may become a cause of sickness or a nuisance. Failure to conform to two or more of the regulations designated "B" is sufficient reason for finding unfit to human habitation a building or any portion thereof, leased or rented and occupied as a dwelling place. Definitions: The following words used in these regulations shall have the follow- ing meanings: "Dwelling Place", building or structure used for human habitation, including all units therein and the premises thereof. "Premises", the building and the piece of land on which it stands. "Dwelling unit, a room or series of connecting rooms for living pur- poses containing a complete kitchen or kitchenette. 49 "Light housekeeping unit", a room or group or rooms used for living purposes, containing portable or other cooking and refrigeration facilities not installed in a separate kitchen room. "Rooming unit", a rented room or group of rooms, containing no cooking facilities, used for living purposes by a separate family or group of persons living together or by a person living alone, within a structure or within a dwelling unit. "Ordinary minimum winter conditions", 15 degrees Fahrenheit above the lowest temperature recorded for the locality concerned during the preceding ten year period. I. Occupancy A. The number of occupants of any building unit shall be less than the number which would result in such overcrowding as to make the unit unfit and which might result in its being a cause of sickness or a nuisance. Violation of any of the following standards constitutes such overcrowding: 1. Dwelling units consisting of more than one room shall have a total area exclusive of passageways, storage space, and bathrooms of at least ninety (90) square feet per occupant up to and including four per- sons and an additional sixty (60) square feet per additional occupant thereof. In computing the total floor area, only that portion of an attic room shall be counted which has a clear height of at least five (5) feet under a pitched roof or seven (7) feet under a flat roof. No room shall be used for sleeping purposes unless it contains fifty (50) square feet of floor area for each user. 2. A light-housekeeping dwelling unit or a rooming unit used for both living and sleeping purposes shall have not less than ninety (90) square feet of floor area per occupant unless a common living room of at least one hundred and eighty (180) square feet with fifteen (15) square feet additional floor area for each such unit above the first ten, is provided in the building. Where a common room is so provided, a one-room light housekeeping dwelling or rooming unit shall have not less than eighty (80) square feet of floor area, and shall have not less than sixty (60) square feet of floor area per occupant. II. Cleanliness A. Violation of any of the following standards constitutes unclean- liness which renders a dwelling unit unfit and which may cause it to become a source of sickness or a nuisance: 1. Garbage, rubbish, dirt, or other insanitary matter shall not be allowed to accumulate in the rooms, halls, stairways, or in other parts and premises of a building used as a dwelling place. 2. Unless there are installed means of immediate garbage disposal, satisfactory to the Board of Health, tight-covered, metal garbage recep- tacles of sufficient capacity shall be provided by the occupant of each dwelling unit; in buildings of more than three dwelling units with common halls or exits, the owner shall provide and maintain in the yard or near the door used by the garbage collectors, tight-covered metal receptacles of sufficient capacity for receiving and storing the garbage from the dwelling units pending collection or disposal. All garbage shall be placed in such means of disposal or receptacles by the occupants, and when it is the responsibility of the owner to pro- vide receptacles as required above, he shall have it collected at least twice a week and put in proper storage at a point readily accessible for final collection or disposal. 50 3. Unless there are installed means of immediate disposal of rubbish, dirt or other insanitary matter, which are satisfactory to the Board of Health, covered metal containers shall be provided and used as receptacles by the owner or occupant, respectively, as provided in the above paragraph regarding garbage. 4. Yards, courts, areaways, vent shafts and passageways shall be drained to prevent the accumulation of water. B. In leased or rented structures occupied as dwelling places the owner and occupant respectively have the following responsibilities in keeping the premises clean and free from rubbish: 1. An occupant shall keep his dwelling unit, and the building and premises or portion thereof over which he has control, in a clean and sanitary condition. 2. An owner shall keep those portions of the building and premises, for which no tenant is responsible, in a clean and sanitary condition. He shall, subject to the satisfaction* of the Board of Health, whitewash, paint or paper the common area of the building and the family dwelling units therein. III. Dampness A. and B. Violation of any of the following standards constitutes a condition under which dampness may become a nuisance or be a source of sickness to the occupants or to the public, and renders a dwelling place unfit: 1. A structure used or intended to be used as a dwelling place, lo- cated in an area with a high ground water table or subject to chronic or repeated flooding or dampness, shall have the cellar, basement, or other foundations, walls or floor in contact with the ground waterproofed in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health. • 2. Any condition found by the Board of Health to be causing chronically or repeatedly damp floors, walls, or ceilings, in any interior space in a building used for dwelling purposes shall be remedied by the owner. B. In leased or rented structures occupied as dwelling places the following means of preventing dampness shall be provided: 1. Cellars and basements shall have at least two screened outside windows for cross-ventilation. 2. Buildings having no basement or cellar, shall have a diy and crossed-vented air space beneath the first floor of all parts thereof used for habitation, except in case of buildings having water and damp-proof floors laid on the ground level. IV. Vermin Infestation A. Vermin infestation either by insects or rodents may be a source of sickness to the occupants or to the public or become a nuisance, and renders a dwelling place unfit for human habitation. Owners and tenants, respectively, have the following responsibilities in preventing or remedying infestations: 1. When vermin infestation either by insects or rodents is found in more than one dwelling unit within a building, the owner shall exterminate the vermin by methods approved by the Board of Health. *Note: The Rules and Regulations Relating to Housing of the Milwau- kee Board of Health include standards for the objective deter- mination of satisfactory light reflection from interior surfaces. 51 When such infestation is found in but one unit, the occupant shall ex- terminate all vermin by methods approved by the Board of Health. 2. The owner of a building containing one or more dwelling units, located in an area found by the Board of Health to be infested by rats, shall carry out such rat stoppage or other means of preventing or re- medying such infestation of said building and its premises as may be required by the Board of Health. 3. From May Fifteenth to October Fifteenth, the openable portion of windows required under Section VI of these regulations shall be provided by the owner with screens which will effectively prevent the entrance of flies and mosquitoes, unless other means satisfactory to the Board of Health are furnished. V. Cellar and Basement Living A. Violation of any of the following standards regarding light, ven- tilation, and prevention of dampness, makes a cellar or a basement unfit for dwelling purposes and may result in its becoming a nuisance or being a source of sickness to the occupants or to the public: 1. Rooms or other space in a basement, which is a story partly un- derground but having at least one-half of its height above the level of the curb or of the adjoining fifteen foot width of ground, may be used for sleeping, cooking and eating, only upon the written -permission of the Board of Health and provided the walls and floor thereof in contact with the earth have been damp-proofed in accordance with a method approved by the Board of Health; and provided that the windows there- of are at least 15 feet from the nearest building or wall, and that the total window area thereof is no less than 12 per cent of the total floor area of such basement, and that said windows can be opened to the extent of not less than 6 per cent of such floor area, and are so distri- buted as to permit cross-ventilation within any dwelling unit or part thereof located therein. 2. No room or other space in a cellar which is a story, having more than one-half of its height below the adjoining ground level, shall be used for sleeping, cooking or eating. VI. Light and Ventilation A. Violation of any of the following standards constitutes a condition under which insufficient light and ventilation renders a room or other interior space unfit and may cause it to become a nuisance or be a source of sickness to the occupants or to the public: 1. Every room or other interior space in a dwelling place, except toilets and bathrooms, pantries, and kitchenettes of less than 50 square feet of floor area, and other than passageways and storage spaces, shall contain at least one window of not less than 8 square feet, opening direct- ly to the outside air, upon a street, yard, court, or vent shaf t not less than 25 square feet in area and in no part less than 4 feet wide. Any such window shall be capable of opening to an extent of at least 40 per cent of its area. 2. Any such room, defined in the above paragraph, with a depth from an exterior wall in excess of 12 feet shall have a window or other glass area in its exterior walls or roof measuring not less than 8 per cent of its total floor area; if such depth exceeds 16 feet, the window or glass areas shall measure not less than 10 per cent of the said floor area. At least 40 per cent of any such window or glass area shall be operable. 3. The window or glass area opening directly to the outside air as in VI A 1, of any bathroom, toilet or kitchenette of less than 50 square 52 feet of floor area shall measure at least 10 per cent of its floor area, but not less than 3 square feet, and the aggregate openable area shall be not less than 50 per cent thereof. 4. Every portion of any interior passageway or staircase common to two or more families in a building used for human habitation shall be illuminated naturally or artificially at all times with an illumination of at least three lumens per square foot (3-foot candles). Artifical light- ing equipment shall be of a type approved by the Fire Department. VII. Good Repair and Serviceability B. In leased or rented structures occupied as dwelling places the own- er shall keep the walls, roofs, ceilings, floors, stairs, doors, and windows in good repair and serviceability as defined in the following standards: The walls, roofs, ceilings, floors, stairs, doors, and windows shall be so maintained as to be capable of fulfilling their essential purposes of weather tightness and functional utility, and shall present no health hazards. 1. Weather-tightness a. The roof, exterior walls, windows and doors and the areas around the frames thereof, shall be free of holes, breaks, or porous areas capable of admitting rain or wetness into the interior spaces of the building. b. Holes or breaks in inside wall and ceiling surfaces or separa- tions between structural members such as at a joint between a floor and wall or between an exterior wall and a door or window frame which freely admit wind or which are a source of heat loss and discomfort shall not be permitted. 2. Functional utility. a. Inside walls and ceilings shall be free from holes and breaks through the structural material which would result in lack of privacy in dwelling units: b. Floors shall be capable of supporting occupants and essential furniture and equipment. In no case shall any part of a floor perceptibly shake or sag when stamped upon; c. Inside stairs and outside steps shall be capable of supporting the maximum number of users normal to their location. In no case shall such stairs or steps perceptibly shake, sag or sway when used by two adults abreast. Such stairs and steps shall be neither so steep or narrow nor so lacking in normal head room that to the Board of Health inspector they are noticeably difficult to use. Normal headroom for adults shall be provided; d. Windows and exterior doors of a building and interior en- trance doors to separate dwelling units or to rooms containing sanitary facilities shall be found by the Board of Health inspector capable of ser- ving their respective functions of lighting, ventilation, affording ingress and egress, and affording privacy. 3. Health hazards. a. Ceilings, floors, stairs, steps and inside walls shall be free from rotting areas and such holes or breaks through the structural material and from such loose, bulging or hanging structural surface material which could afford harborage for vermin, _could cause users to fall or trip, or collapse of which would constitute a hazard. Stairs and steps shall have no irregularity of riser nor slope in tread, which might throw a user off balance. Stairs and steps shall be equipped with firm handrails on at least one side when there are more than three risers in succession, 53 and any balcony, and a porch connected with such stairs or steps, shall be provided, on the open sides, with firm guard rails or other means of preventing users from falling off. VIII. Water Supply, Sewage Disposal, and Related Equipment. A. Violation of any of the following standards constitutes a major deficiency in sanitary facilities which may become a nuisance or be a cause of sickness to the occupants or to the public, and which makes a dwelling place unfit: 1. An adequate supply of water from a safe source shall be piped in- to each dwelling unit of buildings used for human habitation. Where houses are located in sparsely settled or rural areas and where water cannot be piped without excessive expense, the Board of Health may exempt such houses from the requirement that water shall be piped into the dwelling unit, provided a safe source is available. 2. Where piped water is available there shall be provided within each dwelling unit at least one sink with proper drain for washing dishes and clothes as well as for personal cleanliness. 3. Every building used for human habitation shall be provided with such number of water closets or sanitary privies, as the Board of Health may require, but in no case less than one for each dwelling unit of more than two rooms, nor less than one for every two dwelling units of two rooms or less. 4. No water closet shall be installed or continued in use in the cellar of any building used as a dwelling place without a permit in writing from the Board of Health. 5. The water closet for each dwelling unit shall be accessible from within the building without passing through any part of any other dwelling unit; and such water closet shall be separated from any other room by walls of material and construction approved by the Board of Health, and shall be accessible from any bedroom within the unit with- out passing through any other room used for sleeping. 6. Every sink, tub, shower, toilet, or other plumbing fixture in a building used for habitation shall be provided with a proper and unob- structed drain which discharges into a sewerage system outside the build- ing, and said fixtures and drains shall be maintained by the owner in a sanitary working condition at all times. 7. Where connection to a public sewer is not practicable, buildings shall be served by cesspools, septic tanks or other means of subsurface disposal of sewage, which shall be approved by the Board of Health and maintained by the owner so as to prevent overflow. 8. No privy shall be constructed or continued in use, except by written permit from the Board of Health. No privy shall be located less than 20 feet from any building used for sleeping or eating, or from any lot line or street. No privy shall be a source of pollution of any water supply. 9. Water closets, tubs, sinks, and shower stalls, installed in a dwell- ing place, together with all fixtures thereof, shall be maintained in a water-tight condition. The space underneath the seat and around the bowl of a watercloset shall not be enclosed. A. and B. In leased or rented structures occupied as dwelling places, the owner and tenant respectively have the following responsibilities: 1. Water closets and drains therefrom shall be maintained in work- ing order by the owner. The fixtures shall have no structural cracks or 54 breaks and shall be free of leakage or obstruction. The water closet shall have a smooth and washable seat in good repair. 2. A water closet shall be maintained clean by the occupant when it is within a dwelling unit; any water closet located elsewhere shall be maintained clean by the owner. The seat, fixtures and the floor around any water closet shall be kept free of accumulations of wastes. 3. The water closet shall be in a room or compartment, the door of which can be closed, and which is served with artifical lighting of at least three lumens per square foot. When serving more than one family the door shall be provided with a lock to afford privacy. IX. Heat-Generating Equipment. B. in leased or rented structures occupied as dwelling places the fol- lowing standards define the minimum adequacy and proper maintenance of heat generating equipment: 1. There shall be an installed heater in more than one-fourth of the rooms of a dwelling unit. Where no heater is installed in a room, in addition to doors, there shall be, for circulation of air, an opening to a room with an installed heater. An installed heater is a radiator or register connected to a central furnace, a heating stove connected by rigid smoke-pipe to a chimney or other flue, a built-in or portable electric or built-in gas radiator, or usable fireplace. A pipeless furnace or a flue-connected circulating heater may be considered adequate heating equipment for five rooms or less in a dwelling unit located on two floors. 2. When two or more dwelling units are centrally heated, inability to maintain during the day a temperature in the living and working rooms of at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit at 18 inches from the floor when the outside temperature is 55 degrees F. or less but not below ordinary minimum winter conditions shall be considered evidence of inadequate or defective heat-generating equipment. 3. In the case of those rented units where the occupant furnishes his own heating equipment, the owner shall provide properly functioning flues or other connecting facilities necessary for the installation of ade- quate heat generating facilities and the occupant shall make and main- tain the required number of installations. 4. A building used for dwelling purposes shall be maintained by the owner in a weather-proof condition so as to be capable of being adequately heated at reasonable expense by such equipment; or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 On motion of Selectman H. Herbert Applin, duly seconded, it was VOTED: That a Committee of Seven be appointed by the Moderator to study the subject matter of Article 42, and report to the next annual town meeting. ARTICLE 43. To hear the report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out of Acton Street from Oakland Street to Acton Street for the purpose of a public way and for the laying and construction of sewers and drains therein under the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed) Chapters 82 and 79 as amended and to see if the Town will vote to accept said Acton Street as and for a public way and will vote to authorize the Select- men to take by eminent domain or acquire by purchase or otherwise the land necessary for said laying out for street purposes and the purpose of laying and constructing sewers and drains therein, provide the necessary 55 amount of money to pay the cost of land damages therefor, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 Upon report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out of part of Acton Street in accordance with their order, it was VOTED: That the laying out of part of Acton Street as a public way, as appears in the report of the Selectmen be and is hereby accepted, and the Selectmen are hereby authorized to take the land described in said report as and for a public way. ARTICLE 44. To hear the report of the Selectmen relative to the " laying out of and relocation of Middle Street from Myrtle Street to Farnsworth Street under the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapters 82 and 79 as amended and to see if the Town will vote to accept said Street as laid out and relocated as and for a public way and will vote to authorize the Selectmen to take by eminent domain or acquire by purchase or otherwise any land necessary for said laying out and relocation, provide the necessary amount of money to pay the cost of land damages therefore, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 Upon report of part of the Selectmen relative to the laying out and relocation of part of Middle Street in accordance with their order it was VOTED: That the laying out and relocation of part of Middle Street as a public way, as appears in the report of the Selectmen be and is hereby accepted, and the Selectmen are hereby authorized to take the land described in said report as and for a public way. ARTICLE 45. To hear the report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out of the following named streets, to wit: Edward Road from Main Street to Waltham Street, Sparkill Street from Belmont Street to Madison Avenue, Madison Avenue from Sparkill Street to King Street, King Street from Warren Street to Madison Avenue, Dwight Street from Sycamore Street to the boundary line between the City of Waltham and the Town of Watertown, Nyack Street from Belmont Street to Grant Avenue, under the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapters 82 and 80 as amended, the latter Chapter providing for the assessment of betterments, and to see if the Town will vote to accept said Streets or any of them as and for public ways, and will vote to authorize the Selectmen to take by eminent domain or acquire by purchase or otherwise, any land necessary for said laying out, provide the necessary amount of money to pay the cost of land damages, and the cost of construction, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. March 27, 1950 Upon report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out of Edward Road in accordance with their order, it was VOTED: That the laying out of Edward Road as a public way, as appears in the report of the Selectmen be and is hereby accepted, and 56 the Selectmen are hereby authorized to take the land described in said report as and for a public way. Upon report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out of Sparkill Street in accordance with their order, it was VOTED: That the laying out of Sparkill Street as a public way, as appears in the report of the Selectmen be and is hereby accepted, and the Selectmen are hereby authorized to take the land described in said report as and for a public way. Upon report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out of part of King Street in accordance with their order, it was VOTED: That the laying out of part of King Street as a public way, as appears in the report of the Selectmen be and is hereby accepted, and the Selectmen are hereby authorized to take the land described in said report as and for a public way. Upon report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out of Madison Avenue in accordance with their order, it was VOTED: That the laying out of Madison Avenue as a public way, as appears in the report of the Selectmen be and is hereby accepted, and the Selectmen are hereby authorized to take the land described in said report as and for a public way. ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will vote to change the Zoning By-Law by changing the property, description of which follows, from Zone 2, General Residence District to Zone 3, Apartment District, or take any action relating thereto. Beginning at a point of intersection of the southerly line of Nichols Avenue and the Westerly line of Melendy Avenue said point being marked by a stone bound; Thence running southwesterly along said line of Melendy Avenue, four hundred eleven (411) feet, more or less to a point of curvature; thence turning and extending southerly and westerly along a curved line twenty two and thirty six hundredths (22.36) feet to a point of tangency on the northerly line of Oak Street; Thence running southwesterly along said line of Oak Street ninety eight (93) feet, more or less, to a point where the southwesterly line of Lot Thirty Six (36) meets said street line; Thence turning and running north- westerly along said line of Lot Thirty Six (36), one hundred and twenty three hundredths (100.23) feet; Thence turning and running south- westerly along the rear or northerly line of said Lot Thirty Six (36), about three (3) or four (4) feet to the southeasterly corner of Lot L; Thence turning and running northwesterly along the northeasterly lines of Lots L, K and I, one hundred sixty one (161) feet, more or less, to a point on the easterly line of Quimby Street; Thence turning and run- ning along said line of Quimby Street, three hundred ninety six (396) feet, more or less to a point of curvature; Thence turning and extending northerly and easterly along a curved line, thirty one and forty five hundredths (31.45) feet to a point of tangency on the southerly line of Nichols Avenue; Thence running southeasterly along said line of Nichols Avenue, seventy and sixty one hundreths (70.61) feet to point of beginning. (Request of Watertown Housing Authority) 57 March 27, 1950 On motion of Charles P. Eaton, Chairman of the Planning Board, duly seconded, it was VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town amend the present exist- ing Zoning By-Law of the Inhabitants of Watertown by changing the property, description of which follows, from Zone 2, General Residence District to Zone 3, Apartment District. Property is bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point of intersection of the southerly line of Nichols Avenue and the Westerly line of Melendy Avenue said point being marked by a stone bound; Thence running southwesterly along said line of Melendy Avenue, four hundred eleven (411) feet, more or less to a point of curvature; thence turning and extending southerly and westerly along a curved line twenty two and thirty six hundredths (22.36) feet to a point of tangency on the northerly line of Oak Street; Thence running southwesterly along said line of Oak Street ninety eight (98) feet, more or less, to a point where the southwesterly line of Lot Thirty Six (36) meets said street line; Thence turning and running north- westerly along said line of Lot Thirty Six (36), one hundred and twenty three hundredths (100.23) feet; Thence turning and running south- westerly along the rear or northerly line of said Lot Thirty Six (36), about three (3) or four (4) feet to the southeasterly corner of Lot L; Thence turning and running northwesterly along the northeasterly lines of Lots L, K and I, one hundred sixty one (161) feet, more or less, to a point on the easterly line of Quimby Street; Thence turning and run- ning along said line of Quimby Street, three hundred ninety six (396) feet, more or less to a point of curvature; Thence turning and extending northerly and easterly along a curved line, thirty one and forty five hundredths (31.45) feet to a point of tangency on the southerly line of Nichols Avenue; Thence running southeasterly along said line of Nichols Avenue, seventy and sixty one hundredths (70.61) feet to point ,of beginning. ARTICLE 47. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by changing land in Watertown, description of which follows, from Zone 2, General Residence District, to Zone 5, Light Industrial District, or take any other appropriate action thereto. A certain parcel of land with any buildings thereon situated in said Watertown, being shown as Lot A on a plan entitled "Plan Showing Sub- division of Land in Watertown, Mass., owned by Mary E. Masters", dated May 1922, by Rowland H. Barnes & Henry F. Beal, Civil Engineers, bounded and described as follows: Southeasterly by Spring Street, fifty and five tenths (50.5) feet; Southwesterly by a Right of Way as shown on said plan as "Unitarian Church Right of Way", two hundred and five tenths (200.5) feet; Northwesterly by land of Unitarian Church, as shown on said plan, fifty and five tenths (50.5) feet; and Northeasterly by Lot B, as shown on said plan, two hundred and five tenths (200.5) feet. Containing, according to plan, 10,125 square feet of land, more or less. (Request of Planning Board) March 27, 1950 ACTION; Motion of the Planning Board duly made and seconded to amend the Zoning By-Law of the Inhabitants of Watertown, as de- scribed in Article 47, was put to the meeting and DEFEATED. 58 ARTICLE 48. To see if the Town of Watertown will vote to re- instate James E. Ford to his former position as a private in the Fire De- partment, appropriate the necessary money therefor, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any action relating thereto. (Request of James E. Ford and others) March 20, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: To indefinitely postpone. ARTICLE 49. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by changing land in Watertown, description of which follows, from Zone 2, General Residence District, to Zone 5, Light Industrial District, or take any other appropriate action thereto. Property is bounded and described as follows: Westerly by Church Street, one hundred twenty (120) feet, more or less; Northerly by land of First Church (Unitarian) and Adam Williamson, four hundred twenty (420) feet, more or less; Easterly by Spring Street, eighty (80) feet, more or less; Southerly by Boston and Maine Railroad (Fitchburg Division) four hundred thirty (430) feet, more or less. Area used for parking between Church and Spring Streets. (Request of the Planning Board. March 27, 1950 (Action taken in conjunction with Article 3) VOTED: (Unanimously) To indefinitely postpone. ARTICLE 50. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a Commit- tee to be known as the Bemis Playground Improvement Committee, which Committee is to study the advisability of enlarging or relocating the Bemis Playground and to make its report with recommendations to the next Town Meeting or take any other action relating therto. (Re- quest of Charles J. Di Pietrantonio and others) March 27, 1950 w On motion of Selectman Roy C. Papalia, duly seconded, it was VOTED: That the Moderator be and hereby is authorized and di- rected to appoint a committee consisting of five (5) citizens of the Town to be known as the Bemis Playground Improvement Committee with the duy to investigate and study the advisability of enlarging or relocating the Bemis Playground and to report such recommendations relating thereto as such Committee deems advisable to the next Town Meeting. 'VOTED: Final adjournment at 11:50 P.M. on March 27, 1950, there being no further business to come before the meeting. A true record, ATTEST: GEORGE B. WELLMAN Town Clerk 59 RECORD OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Monday Evening, May 8, 1950 Meeting was called to order at 7:45 p.m. by Moderator John M. Russell. Officers' return on Warrant was read by Town Clerk George B. Wellman. Number of Town Meeting Members necessary for a Quorum: 93. Number of Town Meeting Members present as reported by records of checkers, Harry J. York and John Gleason: 176. ARTICLE 1. To hear the report of any committee heretofore ap- pointed and act thereon. No reports submitted. ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by changing land in Watertown, description of which follows, from Zone 2, General Residence District, to Zone 4, Business District. Property bounded and described as follows: SOUTHEASTERLY by Spring Street SOUTHWESTERLY by Boston and Maine Railroad NORTHWESTERLY by Cross Street NORTHEASTERLY by Winter Street NORTHWESTERLY by Church Street NORTHEASTERLY by Summer Street (Request of the Planning Board) On motion of Charles P. Eaton of the Planning Board, it was VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town amend the present Zoning By-Law of the Inhabitants of Watertown by changing the property de- scribed below from Zone 2, General Residence District, to Zone 4, Bus- iness District. Property bounded and described as follows: SOUTHEASTERY by Spring Street SOUTHWESTERLY by Boston and Maine Railroad NORTHWESTERLY by Cross Street NORTHEASTERLY by Winter Street NORTHWESTERLY by Church Street NORTHEASTERLY by Summer Street ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and pro- vide, by transfer or otherwise, the sum of one thousand seven hundred fifty and 48/100 ($1,750.48) dollars to pay unpaid bills of previous years of the Welfare Department, said bills having been unpaid due to the insufficiency of the appropriation for such Department in the years in which such bills were incurred, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of $1,750.48 be and hereby is appropriated to pay unpaid bills of previous years of the Welfare Department, said bills having been unpaid due to the insufficiency of the 60 appropriation for such Department in the years in which such bills were incurred and that said sum of $1,750.48 so appropriated be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will appropriate and provide, by transfer or otherwise, the sum of five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars for the construction of highways in the Town in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 90 of the General Laws of Massachusetts and Acts and Amendments thereof in addition thereto, direct how the money shall be raised, or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of $5,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated for the construction of highways in the Town in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 90 of the General Laws of Massachusetts and Acts and Amendments thereof and in addition thereto and that said sum of $5,000.00 so appropriated be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote taken at the last annual Town Meeting under Article 30 in the Warrant for said annual Town Meeting whereby a committee of five was authorized to be appointed by the moderator to construct a fire station and the sum of eighty-five thousand eight hundred ($85,800.00) dollars was ap- propriated for the construction of a fire station on land located on Orchard Street, Waverley Avenue, Loomis Avenue and Bradshaw Street and said sum was transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the vote taken at the last annual Town Meeting under Article 30 in the Warrant for said annual Town Meeting, whereby a committee of five was authorized to be appointed by the Moderator to construct a fire station and the sum of $85,800.00 dollars was appropriated for the construction of a fire station on land located on Orchard Street, Waverley Avenue, Loomis Avenue and Brad- shaw Street and for which purpose said sum was transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account, be and hereby is rescinded. ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and pro- vide, by borrowing, transfer or otherwise, the sum of eighty-five thousand eight hundred ($85,800.00) dollars for plans for the construc- tion of and to construct a fire station on land located on Orchard Street, Waverley Avenue, Loomis Avenue and Bradshaw Street, in the Town, purchased by the Town for a fire station site, authorize the appoint- ment of a committee under whose direction said sum shall be expended for such purpose, direct how the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto. On motion of Selectman H. Herbert Applin, duly seconded, on a show of hands and count with 141 in favor and 16 opposed it was VOTED: That a committee of five (5) be appointed by the Mod- erator to secure plans for the construction of and to construct a fire station on land located on Orchard Street, Waverley Avenue, Loomis Avenue and Bradshaw Street in the Town, purchased by the Town for a fire station site, and that that sum of $85,800.00 be and hereby is ap- propriated to be expended under the direction of a committee of five to be appointed by the Moderator for said purposes, and that of the sum 61 of $85,800.00 so appropriated the sum of $15,800.00 be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year and that the balance, namely $70,000.00 be borrowed by the Town, and that the Treasurer of the Town of Watertown be and hereby is authorized to borrow said sum of $70,000.00 from any person or persons whatsoever upon such terms and conditions in compliance with the statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in such cases made and provided as he deems necessary or expedient and that said Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to make, execute and deliver the promissory note or notes of the Town to such person or persons from who said money is borrowed, said note or notes to be countersigned and approved by a majority of the Board of Selectmen and to be for a period of not longer than ten (10) years and the principal sum thereof to amount in the aggregate to not more than $70,000.00. ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote taken at the last annual Town Meeting under Article 31 in the Warrant for said annual Town Meeting whereby the sum of seventy-five thousand ($75,000.00) dollars was appropriated for the purpose of constructing a field house at Victory Field and the sum so appropriated was authorized to be expended by the Stadium Committee for plans and specifications and the construction of said field house and all other costs and expenses necessary or incidental thereto and said sum was assessed on the tax levy of the current year, or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the vote taken at the last annual Town Meeting under Article 31 in the Warrant for said meeting, where- by the sum of $75,000.00 was appropriated for the purpose of constructing a field house at Victory Field and the sum so appropriated was au- thorized to be expended by the Stadium Committee for plans and spe- cifications and the construction of said field house and all other costs and expenses necessary or incidental thereto and for which purpose said sum was assessed on the tax levy of the current year, be and hereby is rescinded. ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and pro- vide, by borrowing, transfer or otherwise, the sum of seventy-five thous- and ($75,000.00) dollars for the purpose of constructing a field house at Victory Field, direct that said sum shall be expended for such purpose under the direction of the Stadium Committee, direct how said money shall be raised, or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the sum of $75,000.00 be and hereby Is appropriated for the purpose of constructing a field house at Victory Field, that the sum so appropriated be expended by the Stadium Com- mittee for plans, specifications and the construction of said field house and all other costs and expenses necessary or incidental thereto, and that of the sum of $75,000.00 so appropriated the sum of $16,000.00 be as- sessed on the polls and estates of the current year and that the balance, namely $59,000.00 be borrowed by the Town, and that the Treasurer of the Town of Watertown be and hereby is authorized to borrow said sum of $59,000.00 from any person or persons whatsoever upon such terms and conditions in compliance with the statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in such cases made and provided as he deems necessary or expedient and that said Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to make, execute and deliver the promissory note or notes of the Town to such person or persons from whom said money is borrowed, said note or notes to be countersigned and approved by a majority of the Board of Selectmen and to be for a period of not longer than ten (10) years and 62 the principal sum thereof to amount in the aggregate to not more than $59,000.00. ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account the sum of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars in addition to the sum of two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars already voted at the 1950 Annual Town Meeting (to reduce the tax rate) or take any other action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That in addition to the amount of money voted to be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account at the last annual Town MeetinLy the further sum of $100,000. be and hereby is transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account, said sum so transferred to be used to pay appropriations made at said annual Town Meeting and to reduce the amount necessary to be levied on the polls and estates for the year 1950 as voted at said annual Town Meeting. ARTICLE 10. To hear the report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out of Aldrich Road from Galen Street to Watertown Street under the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 82 and 80 as amended, the latter Chapter providing for the assessment of betterments, and to see if the Town will vote to accept said Street as and for a public way, and will vote to authorize the Selectmen to take by eminent domain or acquire by purchase or otherwise, any land necessary for said laying out, provide the necessary amount of money to pay the cost of land damages and the cost of construction, direct how the money shall be raised, in- cluding borrowing, or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the laying out of Aldrich Road from Galen Street to Watertown Street as and for a public way as appears in the report of the Selectmen, be and hereby is accepted; and the Select- men are hereby authorized under General Laws, Chapters 82 and 80 to take the land described in said report as and for a public way; and that no sum of money be appropriated for damages. ARTICLE 11. To gee if the Town will vote to rescind the vote taken at the last annual Town Meeting under Article 36 in the Warrant for said annual Town Meeting whereby the Town voted to appropriate the sum of seven thousand ($7,000.00) dollars for surfacing and regrad- ing and erection of a fence at How Park, such sum to be expended under the direction of the Park Department, and to be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year, or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Park Department) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town rescind the vote taken at the last annual Town Meeting under Article 36 in the Warrant for said annual Town Meeting whereby the Town voted to appropriate the sum of seven thousand ($7,000.00) dollars for surfacing and regrading and erection of a fence at How Park, such sum to be expended under the direction of the Park Department, and to be assessed on the polls and estates of the current year. ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the jurisdiction of the Selectmen to the jurisdiction of the Park Department the land now held by the Town as foreclosed tax title property bounded and described as follows: About 26,910 square feet of land as shown on a plan on file in the Office of the Assessors as Section 2, Block 14, Division 29, Lot E and located on the northerly side of Pleasant Street in the rear of Lots A-B-C and D 63 and about 4,162 square feet of land as shown on a plan on file in the Office of the Assessors as Section 2, Block 14, Division 25, Lot A and located on the northerly side of Pleasant Street. and vote to dedicate the use of said land to a public playground to be known as How Park Playground, or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Park Department) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town transfer from the jurisdic- tion of the Selectmen to the jurisdiction of the Park Department the land now held by the Town as foreclosed tax title property bounded and de- scribed as follows: About 26,910-square feet of land as shown on a plan on file in the Office of the Assessors as Section 2, Block 14, Division 29, Lot E and located on the northerly side of Pleasant Street in the rear of Lots A-B-C and D and about 4,162 square feet of land as shown on a plan on flle in the Office of the Assessors as Section 2, Block 14, Division 25, Lot A and located on the northerly side of Pleasant Street. and vote to dedicate the use of said land to a public playground to be known as How Park Playground. ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of seven thousand ($7,000.00) dollars for surfacing and grading How Park Playground and also to erect a fence on a portion of the boundary thereof, direct how the money shall be raised, including bor- rowing, or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Park Department) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town appropriate the sum of seven thousand ($7,000.00) dollars for surfacing and grading How Park Playground and also to erect a fence on a portion of the boundary thereof, said amount so appropriated to be placed on the tax levy of the current year. ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to amend the present existing Zoning By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown by changing the property situated on Mount Auburn Street, description of which follows, from Zone two (2) General Residence District, and Zone four (4) Business District, to Zone four (4) Business District, so that all of said property will be in Zone four (4) Business District: DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY LOCATED AT NORTHWEST CORNER OF MOUNT AUBURN STREET AND ADAMS STREET NORTHEASTERLY by Mount Auburn Street about one hundred thirty six (136) feet EASTERLY by junction of Mount Auburn Street and Adams Street, about thirty (30) feet SOUTHEASTERLY by Adams Street, about one hundred fifty six (156) feet feet SOUTHWESTERLY by Lot 79, about one hundred sixty eight (168) NORTHWESTERLY by Lots 21, 20 and 19B, about one hundred sixty nine (169) feet On motion of Chairman Charles P. Eaton of the Planning Board, it was 64 VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town amend the present exist- ing Zoning By-Laws of the Inhabitants of Watertown by changing the property situated on Mount Auburn Street, Description of which follows, from Zone two (2) General Residence District, and Zone four (4) Busi- ness District, to Zone four (4) Business District, so that all of said prop- erty will be in Zone four (4) Business District: DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY LOCATED AT NORTHWEST CORNER OF MOUNT AUBURN STREET AND ADAMS STREET NORTHEASTERLY by Mount Auburn Street, about one hundred thirty six (136) feet EASTERLY by junction of Mount Auburn Street and Adams Street, about thirty (30) feet SOUTHEASTERLY by Adams Street, about one hundred fifty six (156) feet SOUTHWESTERLY by Lot 79. about one hundred sixty eight (168) feet NORTHWESTERLY by Lots 21, 20 and 19B, about one hutidred sixty nine (169) feet ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to increase the term of office of Tree Warden to three years, as provided by General Laws (Ter. Ed ) Chapter 41, Sec. 1, or take any action relating thereto. (Re- quest of Thomas P. Morley and others.) VOTED: (Unanimously) To increase the term of office of the Tree Warden to three years, as provided by General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 41, Section 1. ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to rescind its vote under Article 11 of the warrant for the special town meeting of November 14, 1949, and will vote to accept the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 136, Sec. 4B, more particularly designated as Section 3, of Chapter 207 of the Acts of 1946, which authorizes the licensing of bowling on the Lord's day between the hours of one and eleven post meridian, or take any other action relating thereto. (Request of Harry Boghigian and others.) On motion of Selectman Wilfred J. Paquet, duly seconded, it was VOTED: That the Town rescind its vote under Article 11 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of November 14, 1949, and vote to accept the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 136, Section 4B, more particularly designated as Section 3, of Chapter 207 of the Acts of 1946, which authorizes the licensing of bowling on the Lord's Day between the hours of one and eleven post meridian. ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to change the Zoning By-Law by changing the property, description of which follows, from Zone 2, General Residence District to Zone 3, Apartment District, or take any action relating thereto. Beginning at the northwesterly corner of Lot K on a passageway leading from Quimby Street said point being about sixty (60) feet south- easterly from the easterly line of said Quimby Street; thence running southeasterly along the southwesterly line of said passageway, about one hundred (100) feet; thence turning and running southwesterly by lots 35 and 34 about eighty-five (85) feet; thence turning and running north- 65 westerly by Lot 9 about eighty (80) feet; thence turning and running northeasterly by Lots J, and I, about eighty (80) feet to point of begin- ning. Beginning at a point of curvature on the northerly line of Nichols Avenue at the northwesterly corner of Nichols Avenue and Melendy Avenue; thence running northwesterly along the northerly line of Nichols Avenue sixty four and fourteen hundredth (64.14) feet; thence turning and running northeasterly by Lot Al one hundred six and ninety one hundredths (106.91) feet; thence turning and running northwesterly by Lot Al about fifty (50) feet; thence turning and running northeasterly by Lot 60, forty (40) feet; thence turning and running southeasterly by Lot 3, about one hundred fifty (150) feet; thence turning and running southwesterly by the westerly line of Melendy Avenue about one hundred thirty six and seventy two hundredths (133.72) feet to a point of curv- ature; thence turning and extending southerly and westerly along a curved line having a radius of thirty (30) feet, fifty five and ninety one hundredths (55.91) feet to a point of beginning. (Request of Watertown Housing Authority.) On motion of Chairman Charles P. Eaton of the Planning Board, duly seconded, it was VOTED: (Unanimously That the Town amend the present existing Zoning By-Law of the Inhabitants of Watertown by changing the prop- perty, description of which follows, from Zone 2, General Residence District to Zone 3, Apartment District: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of Lot K on a passageway leading from Quimby Street said point being about sixty (60) feet south- easterly from the easterly line of said Quimby Street; thence running southeasterly along the southwesterly line of said passageway, about one hundred (100) feet; thence turning and running southwesterly by lots 35 and 34 about eighty-five (85) feet; thence turning and running north- westerly by Lot 9 about eighty (80) feet; thence turning and running northeasterly by Lots J, and I, about eighty (80) feet to point of begin- ning. Beginning at a point of curvature on the northerly line of Nichols Avenue at the northwesterly corner of Nichols Avenue and Melendy Avenue; thence running northwesterly along the northerly line of Nichols Avenue sixty four and fourteen hundredth (64.14) feet; thence turning and running northeasterly by Lot Al one hundred six and ninety one hundredths (106.91) feet; thence turning and running northwesterly by Lot Al about fifty (50) feet; thence turning and running northeasterly by Lot 60, forty (40) feet; thence turning and running southeasterly by Lot 3, about one hundred fifty (150) feet; thence turning and running southwesterly by the westerly line of Melendy Avenue about one hundred thirty six and seventy two hundredths (133.72) feet to a point of curv- ature; thence turning and extending southerly and westerly along a curved line having a radius of thirty (30) feet, fifty five and ninety one hundredths (55.91) feet to a point of beginning. ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to petition the General Court of Massachusetts now in session, to act upon a certain bill which has been presented to them; said bill being an Act relative to the ap- pointment and status of James A. Crowley as a member of the Fire De- partment of the Town of Watertown. SECTION 1. James A. Crowley who was a military substitute in the Fire Department of the Town of Watertown from January 28, 1943 to November 7, 1945 and who was injured in the performance of duty as 66 a military substitute in said Department, shall be deemed to be perman- ently appointed as a fireman in said Department without further ex- amination and without being required to serve any probationary period; provided that he submits proof, satisfactory to the Director of Civil Service, that such injury does not incapacitate him for the performance of the duties of fireman in said Fire Department. SECTION 2. This act will take effect upon passage by a majority vote of the Town Meeting Members as a regular or special Town Meeting. (Request of James A. Crowley and others.) VOTED: That the Town petition the General Court of Massachu- setts now in session, to act upon a certain bill which has been presented to them, said bill being an Act relative to the appointment and status of James A. Crowley as a member of the Fire Department of the Town of Watertown. SECTION 1. James A. Crowley who was a military substitute in the Fire Department of the Town of Watertown from January 28, 1943 to November 7, 1945 and who was injured in the performance of duty as a military substitute in said Department, shall be deemed to be perman- ently appointed as a fireman in said Department without further ex- amination and without being required to serve any probationary period: provided that he submits proof, satisfactory to the Director of Civil Service, that such injury does not incapacitate him for the performance of the duties of fireman in said Fire Department. SECTION 2. This act will take effect upon passage by a majority vote of the Town Meeting Members at a regular or special Town Meeting. Committee on World War II Memorial On motion of Selectman Wilfred J. Paquet, duly seconded, it was VOTED: (Unanimously) That a Committee of Seven (to include the Board of Selectmen) be appointed by the Moderator to study the advisability of erecting a suitable memorial in the Administration Build- ing to World War II Veterans, and make recommendations to a future Town Meeting. VOTED: Final adjournment at 9:30 p.m. on May 8, 1950 there being no further business to come before the meeting. A true record, ATTEST: GEORGE B. 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It also makes provision relative to the succession to the office of governor in the event of the death of the governor elect before qual- ification for the office of governor; and it further makes provision relative to the succession to the office of governor in the event of the death of both the governor elect and the lieutenant-governor elect before qualific- ation for their respective offices. 1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 Total YES 1144 1149 1082 110 910 1422 965 932 1039 1016 10,821 NO 235 197 154 102 130 162 152 172 173 186 1663 Blanks 563 499 295 245 324 310 351 406 292 400 3085 QUESTION NO. 2 Do you approve of the adoption of an amendment to the constitution summarized below which was approved by the General Court in a joint sessi(,n of the two branches held June 4, 1948, received 154 votes in the affirmative and 44 in the negative, and in a joint Yes session of the two branches held June 8, 1949, received 160 NO votes in the affirmative and 93 in the negative? SUMMARY This proposed amendment to the Constitution provides for an in- crease in the number of signatures of qualified voters required upon an initiative or upon a referendum petition, and it further makes pro- vision for changes in legislative procedures thereon with reference to dates upon, or within which, acts shall be done in the various stages necessary to be taken upon such petitions. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 1049 1013 950 1039 804 1268 876 820 885 900 9604 NO 302 313 268 213 226 297 229 254 291 276 2669 Blanks 591 519 313 257 334 329 363 436 328 426 3896 QUESTION NO. 3 Do you approve of a law summarized below on which the House of Representatives did not vote and on which the YES Senate did not vote? NO SUMMARY This measure provides for minimum payments of seventy-five dollars per month, or eighty-five dollars per month if blind, as assis- tance to deserving aged persons who have reached the age of sixty- three years or over and are in need of relief and support. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 1113 1117 638 5.30 755 815 691 818 802 930 8115 NO 429 384 698 819 424 906 557 419 503 514 5653 Blanks 400 344 195 154 185 173 220 273 199 258 2401 81 QUESTION NO. 4 Do you approve of a law summarized below on which the House of Representatives did not vote and on which the Yes I Senate did not vote? NO f SUMMARY This measure provides for the creation of a Massachusetts commis- sion for the purpose of conducting once every month a lottery drawing to raise additional funds by means of tickets sold to the public, within the Commonwealth, the net proceeds to be divided as follows: 50 per cent to the winners as prizes, 35 per cent for assistance to needy aged persons, 7% per cent for assistance to needy blind persons, 71,� per cent for assistance to dependent children. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 810 806 356 283 480 484 422 555 531 555 5282 NO 723 686 991 1084 690 1232 $21 674 768 791 8466 Blanks 409 353 184 142 198 178 225 281 205 256 2421 QUESTION NO. 5 Do you approve of a law summarized below which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 77 YES in the affirmative and 139 in the negative and in the Senate' NO by a vote of 13 in the affirmative and 25 in the negative? SUMMARY The proposed measure strikes out the first sentence of section 113B of chapter 175 of the General Laws (Tercentenary Edition) as most recently amended by section 4 of chapter 459 of the acts of 1935, and inserts in place thereof a sentence which provides that the Commissioner of Insurance shall annually, on or before September fifteenth, after due hearing and investigation, fix and establish fair and reasonable classifications of risks and adequate, just, reasonable and non-discrim- inatory premium charges to be used and charged by insurance com- panies in connection with the issue or execution of motor vehicle liability policies or bonds, as defined in section 34A of chapter 90 of the General Laws, for the ensuing calendar year or any part thereof, but said clas- sifications and premium charges shall be uniform throughout the Commonwealth and shall not be fixed or established according to districts or zones. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 448 398 250 187 225 277 204 249 292 296 2826 NO 1057 1103 1093 1195 968 1445 1069 999 1042 1125 11.096 Blanks 437 344 188 127 171 172 195 262 1s0 181 2247 QUESTION NO. 6 A. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed i YES horse races be permitted in this county? Ir NO 82 B. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed v E s dog races be permitted in this county? NO ` HORSES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 1044 966 644 532 710 824 649 831 817 845 7862 NO 537 539 709 826 492 890 624 444 507 545 6113 Blanks 361 340 178 151 162 180 195 235 180 212 2194 DOGS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 940 812 556 448 622 718 562 738 721 779 6956 NO 523 540 708 844 499 916 034 455 512 527 6158 Blanks 479 4.33 267 217 243 260 272 317 271 296 3055 QUESTION NO. 7 A. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for YES the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whisky, rum, No gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic beverages) ? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 1302 1257 892 167 891 )1082 899 1052 1016 1101 10,259 NO 334 347 477 610 349 667 434 287 347 369 4,221 Blanks 306 241 162 132 124 145 135 171 141 132 1,689 B. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for YES the sale therein of wines and malt beverages (wines and N O beer, ale and all other malt beverages)? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 1287 1211 870 779 871 1079 804 1032 1014 1069 10,106 NO 293 308 422 538 320 606 381 249 300 328 3,754 Blanks 362 326 239 192 164 209 193 229 190 205 2,309 C. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for YES the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, N o so called, not to be drunk on the premises? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 1375 1214 1017 930 963 1287 994 1102 1101 1175 11,218 NO 234 261 318 423 260 447 311 207 238 249 2,948 Blanks 933 310 196 156 141 160 163 201 165 178 2,003 QUESTION NO. 8 (a)-If a voter desires that this city (or town) shall declare by popular referendum that a shortage of rental housing accommodations exists which requires the continuance of federal rent control in this city (or 83 town) after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty, and until the close of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, in accordance with the provisions of the Housing and Rent Act of 1950, he will vote "YES" on said question. (b) If he desires that federal rent control shall cease to be in effect in this city (or town) at the close of December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty, he will vote "NO" on said question. If a majority of the votes cast in any such city or town in answer to said question is in the affirmative, such city or town shall be deemed to have declared by popular referendum, pursuant to the Housing and Rent Act of 1950, that a shortage of rental accommodations exists which requires the continuance of federal rent control in such city or town after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty, and until the close of June thirtieth, nineteen hun- dred and fifty-one, in accordance with the provisions of said act. If a majority of the votes cast in any such city or town in answer to said question is not in the affirmative, such city or town shall be deemed not to have declared by popular referendum, pursuant to the Housing and Rent Act of 1950, that a shortage of rental accommodations exists which requires the continuance of federal rent control in such city or town after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty. Shall a declaration be made by popular referendum, pursuant to the Housing and Rent Act of 1950, that a shortage of rental housing accom- modations exists which requires the continuance of federal rent con- trol in this city (or town) after December thirty-first nineteen hundred and fifty and until the close of June I YES thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, in accordance 1 NO ` with the provisions of said Act? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total YES 1043 1034 844 856 790 1089 842 878 927 930 9239 NO 430 429 449 439 310 547 343 307 301 357 3912 Blanks 469 382 238 214 258 258 283 325 276 315 3018 A True Record ATTEST: GEORGE B. WELLMAN Town Clerk 84 RECORD OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1950 Meeting was called to order at 7:55 P.M. by Moderator John M. Russell. Offiicers' return on Warrant was read by Town Clerk George B. Wellman. Number of Town Meeting Members necessary for a Quorum: 93. Number of Town Meeting Members present as reported by records of checkers, Harry J. York and John Gleason, 133. Notice was received from the Chairman of Precinct Four of the election to fill vacancy in the Town Meeting Membership of MILTON M. MARDIROSIAN, 330 Mt. Auburn Street, to fill vacancy in Precinct Four, 1953 term, caused by the demise of Walter C. Stone. Town Clerk George B. Wellman swore in Town Meeting Members who had not previously subscribed to the faithful performance of their duties. ARTICLE 1. To hear the report of any committee heretofore appointed and act thereon. ADVISORY BOARD OF REVIEW: Selectman H. Herbert Applin, as Chairman of the Advisory Board of Review, submitted a report of the work of the committee, listing various requests for changes in salary ranges and classification. The complete report is filed in the Book of Reports, office of Town Clerk. COMMITTEE TO SURVEY SCHOOL NEEDS IN NORTH AND WEST WATERTOWN: Superintendent of Schools Francis A. Kelly, Chairman of the fore- going committee submitted a report which requested the expansion of the work of the committee to include a survey of the present and future building needs of the entire school system. Report is filed in the Book of Reports, office of Town Clerk. VOTED: That a committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to bring in resolution at the Annual Meeting in 1951, on the demise of Clark B. Partridge, former Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Representative to the Great and General Court. VOTED: That a committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to bring in resolution at the Annual Meeting in 1951, on the demise of Frederick E. Crawford, former Town Moderator. ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and pro- vide by transfer or otherwise, the necessary sums of money for the use of the various Town departments for the balance of the current year, or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: That the following sums be and are hereby appropriated for the following departments, for the uses listed below, and that the 85 money be provided by transfer from certain accounts in accordance with the following schedule: FROM TO School, School, Telephones $150.00 Instruction Salaries $24,479.85 Instruction—Supplies 3,500.00 Operation—Supplies 1,100.00 New Lighting Fixtures 5,000.00 Evening School—Salaries 300.00 Evening School—Supplies 100.00 Transportation 800.00 Athletic Fund—Salaries 5,314.32 Athletic Fund—Supplies 2,000.00 Maintenance 6,215.53 Betterments 1,000.00 Cemetery—Utility Building 1,000.00 Old Age Assistance 11,000.00 General Relief 11,000.00 Police—New Automobiles 1,208.00 Police Contingent 2,180.00 Junior Clerk-Stenographer 591.65 Reserve Police 300.00 Pensions 680.35 Cost-of-Living Bonus 5,500.00 Insurance 5,500.00 Betterments 1,556.99 Highway—Truck-Fire Loss 1,556.99 Highway-Equipment 172.00 Highway—Office Expense 172.00 Drainage 1,700.00 Snow & Ice—Materials 1,700.00 Betterments 1,000.00 Highway—General Maintenance 1,000.00 Purchasing-Out-of-State Purchasing, Contingent 150.00 Travel 41.10 Duplicating machine 25.00 Pensions 83.90 Cost-of-Living Bonus 4,000.00 Health—Contagious Health—Health Inspector 100.00 Diseases 4,700.00 Extra Clerk 600.00 ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to increase the scope and duties of the Committee appointed to make a survey of the school building needs in North and West Watertown to include a survey of the present and future school building needs of the entire school system; and to report at the next Annual Town Meeting; or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Committee appointed to make a survey of the school building needs in North and West Watertown.) VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town increase the scope and duties of the Committee appointed to make a survey of the school building needs in North and West Watertown to include a survey of the present and future school building needs of the entire school system; and to report at the next Annual Town Meeting. 86 ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to sell to the Watertown Housing Authority a certain tract of land located on Quimby Street, Watertown, Massachusetts, containing about 3295 square feet of land, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to make, execute, seal, acknow- ledge and deliver for and in behalf of the Town a deed conveying title to said tract of land to the said Watertown Housing Authority, for a price not less than the value set upon it by the Board of Assessors of Watertown, for any other price; or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: That the Town sell to the Watertown Housing Authority a certain tract of land located on Quimby Street, Watertown, Massachu- setts, containing about 3,295 square feet of land for the sum of not less than $350.00 and that the Board of Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver for, in the name of and on behalf of the Town of Watertown a deed conveying title to said premises to the said Watertown Housing Authority in return for such sum to be paid to the Town by said Watertown Housing Au- thority. ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 180, Section 17-A, as inserted by Chapter 740 of the Acts of 1950 which is "an Act Authorizing Pay-Roll Deductions on Account of Union Dues in the case of Certain State, County, or Municipal Employees"; or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Watertown, Mass. Town Employees' Local 1210, AF of L.) VOTED: That the Town accept and hereby does accept the pro- visions of General Laws, Chapter 180, Section 17A, as inserted by Chapter 740 of the Acts of 1950, said Act being entitled "an Act Au- thorizing Pay-Roll Deductions on Account of Union Dues in the case of Certain State, County or Municipal Employees". ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to amend the present existing By-Laws of the Town by striking out Section 28 in Chapter 3 thereof and inserting in place of said Section 28 the following new section: Section 28. On or after January 1, 1951 the head of each department of the Town is authorized to grant to all regular full-time employees of the Town, except employees of the School department and Free Public Library who are not permanent Civil Service employees, vacation periods as follows: (a) Employees who have been regularly employed by the Town for a period of not less than 30 weeks in the aggregate during a calendar year and not more than ten years may be granted by the head of each department a total annual vacation period which will not exceed two weeks, without loss of pay. (b) Employees who have been regularly employed by the Town for a period of not less than ten years nor more than twenty years may be granted by the head of each department a total annual vacation period which will not exceed three weeks, without loss of pay. (c) Employees who have been regularly employed by the Town for a 87 period of not less than twenty years may be granted by the head of each department a total annual vacation period which will not exceed four weeks, without loss of pay. (d) "Head of each department" shall mean the elected officers charged by law with the responsibility of supervising each department or such persons within the department as shall be designated by said elected officers. The said vacation periods may be granted at such time or times during each calendar year as the head of each department may determine will cause the least interference with the performance of the regular work of the Town. A person shall be deemed to be regularly employed, within the meaning of this by-law, if he has actually worked for the Town for thirty (30) weeks in the aggregate during a calendar year; or take any action relating thereto. (Request of Watertown, Mass. Town Employees' Local 1210, AF of L.) VOTED: To postpone action on Article 6 to next Annual Town Meeting. ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to amend the zoning by-law by changing land in Watertown, description of which follows, from Zone 2, General Residence District, to Zone 3, Apartment House District: the property located in Watertown, Mass., being triangular in size and being bounded Westerly by North Park Street, Easterly by South Park Street, and Southerly by the Newton-Watertown boundary line; or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town amend the present existing Zoning By-Law of the Inhabitants of Watertown by changing the property described below from Zone 2, General Residence District, to Zone 3, Apartment house District: the property located in Watertown, Mass., being triangular in size and being bounded Westerly by North Park Street, Easterly by South Park Street, and Southerly by the Newton-Watertown boundary line. ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to name the area at the intersection of Common Street with Mount Auburn Street in the Town "Corporal Joseph U. Thompson Square" in memory of Corporal Joseph U. Thompson, a soldier of the Town killed in World War I; or take any action relating thereto. On a standing vote, 80 being recorded in favor, and 33 opposed, it was VOTED: To indefinitely postpone action under Article 8, ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver in the name of the Town a deed transferring title to about 14,973 square feet of land situated on Grove Street and Coolidge Avenue in Watertown to Com- monwealth of Massachusetts for no consideration: or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to mare, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver for, in the name of and on behalf of the Town of Watertown a deed transferring 88 title to about 14,973 square feet of land situated on Grove Street and Coolidge Avenue in Watertown to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for no consideration. ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 565 of the Acts of 1950, entitled "An Act authorizing the Town of Watertown to sell a part of Saltonstall Park and other land to the United States to be used as a site for a Federal Post Office or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: That the Town accept and hereby does accept the pro- visions of Chapter 565 of the Acts of 1950, entitled "an Act authorizing the Town of Watertown to sell a part of Saltonstall Park and other land to the United States to be used as a site for a Federal Post Office". ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver in the name of the Town a deed conveying title to about 78,800 square feet of land situated on Main Street and Whites Avenue in the Town to the United States of America for such sum of money as the said Board of Selectmen in the exercise of their discretion deem sufficient; or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver for, in the name of and on behalf of the Town a deed conveying title to about 79,800 square feet of land situated on Main Street and Whites Avenue in the Town to the United States of America for such sum of money not less than $1.50 per square foot and on such other terms and conditions as the Board of Selectmen in the exercise of their discretion deem sufficient. ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 566 of the Acts of 1950, entitled "An Act authorizing the Town of Watertown to use a part of Saltonstall Park as a public way"; or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Town accept and it hereby does accept the provisions of Chapter 566 of the Acts of 1950, entitled "An Act authorizing the Town of Watertown to use a part of Saltonstall Park as a public way". ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver a deed conveying title to about 7125 square feet of land on Fairview Avenue in the Town to Harlow St. Pierre for such consideration as said Board of Selectmen in the exercise of their discretion may deem sufficient; or take any action relating thereto. VOTED: (Unanimously) That the Board of Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver for, in the name of and on behalf of the Town of Watertown a deed conveying title to about 7125 square feet of land on Fairview Avenue in the Town to Harlow St. Pierre for such consideration as said Board of Selectmen in the exercise of their discretion deem sufficient. 89 ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 9 of the present existing By-Laws of the Town by striking out of said Section 9 under Grade 4 the following words and figures: Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Social Worker . . .... . . .. . . 2,040 2,160 2,280 2,400 2,520 and under Grade 5 thereof the words and figures: Social Worker Supervisor .. 2,400 2,520 2,640 2,760 2,880 and under Grade 8 thereof the words and figures: Principal Social Work Supervisor .. . .. . . . . .. . .. 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and under Grade 10 thereof the words and figures: Welfare Agent .. .. . . . .... . 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 and insert in said Section 9 the following new grades: GRADE 5A- Social Worker . . . . . . .. . ... 2,580 2,760 2,940 3,120 3,300 GRADE 8A- Principal Social Work Supervisor . . . . . . ... .. .. 3,180 3,420 3,660 3,900 4,140 GRADE l0A- Welfare Agent . . . ... .. ... . 4,020 4,260 4,500 4,740 4,980 provided however that no salary change shall take effect prior to Jan- uary 1, 1951, or take any action relating thereto. (Requested by Advisory Board of Review) VOTED: That the present existing By-Laws of the Town be and hereby are amended by striking out in Chapter 10, Section 9, under Grade 4 thereof the following words and figures: Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Social Worker . . .. .. . . . . . . 2,040 2,160 2,280 2,400 2,520 and under Grade 5 thereof the words and figures: Social Worker Supervisor .. 2,400 2,520 2,640 2,760 2,880 and under Grade 8 thereof the words and figures: Principal Social Work Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and under Grade 10 thereof the words and figures: Welfare Agent .. .. . . . . .. . . 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 and insert in said Section 9 the following new grades: GRADE 5A- Social Worker .. . . . . . . . . . . 2,580 2,760 2,940 3,120 3,300 GRADE 8A- Principal Social Work Supervisor ... . . . . . .. . . . . 3,180 3,420 3,660 3,900 4,140 GRADE l0A- Welfare Agent . . . . . . .. . . . . 4,020 4,260 4,500 4,740 4,980 provided however that no salary change shall take effect prior to Jan- uary 1, 1951. 90 ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 10 of the present existing By-Laws of the Town by striking out of said Section 10 under Grade 4 the following words and figures: Maximum Minimum After After After After 15t 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Storekeeper .. .. ........ Hourly Rate $1.30 per hour and under Grade 6 thereof the words and figures: Motor Equipment Main- tenance Foreman ... . Hourly Rate $1.65 per hour and under Grade 7 thereof the words and figures: Supervisor Foreman (High- way Department) .... Hourly Rate $1.75 per hour and under Grade 10 thereof the words and figures: Superintendent of Poles and Wires ............ .. 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 and insert in said Section 10 under Grade 5 the words and figures: Storekeeper ...... .... .. Hourly Rate $1.45 per hour and to Grade 8 thereof the words and figures: Motor Equipment Main- tenance Foreman ..... .. 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and under Grade 9 thereof the words and figures: Supervisor Foreman (High- way Department) ...... 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 and under Grade 11 thereof the words and figures: Superintendent of Wires .. 4,200 4,500 4,800 5,100 5,400 provided however that no salary change shall take effect prior to Jan- uary 1, 1951, or take any action relating thereto. (Requested by Advisory Board of Review) VOTED: That the present existing By-Laws of the Town be and hereby are amended by striking out in Chapter 10, Section 10, under Grade 4 thereof the following words and figures: Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Storekeeper Hourly Rate $1.30 per hour and under Grade 6 thereof the words and figures: Motor Equipment Main- tenance Foreman . . .. Hourly Rate $1.65 per hour and under Grade 7 thereof the words and figures: Supervisor Foreman (High- way Department) . . . . Hourly Rate $1.75 per hour and under Grade 10 thereof the words and figures: Superintendent of Poles and Wires .. . ........ ... 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 and insert in said Section 10 under Grade 5 the words and figures: Store keeper ...... .... Hourly Rate $1.45 per hour and to Grade 8 thereof the words and figures: Motor Equipment Main tenance Foreman .... . ... 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and under Grade 9 thereof the words and figures: 91 Supervisor Foreman (High- way Department) ...... 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 and under Grade it thereof the words and figures: Superintendent of Wires .. 4,200 4,500 4,800 5,100 5,400 provided however that no salary change shall take effect prior to Jan- uary 1, 1951: ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 10, Section 11 of the present existing By-Laws of the Town by striking out of said Section 11 under Grade 7A the following words and figures: Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Police Sergeant .. .... . . .. 2,880 3,060 3,240 3,420 3,600 and under Grade 8 thereof the words and figures: Police Lieutenant . ... .. .. 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and under Grade 9 thereof the words and figures: Police Captain ...... .. .. .. 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 and insert in said Section 11 under Grade 8 the following words and figures: Police Sergeant ........... 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and under Grade 9 thereof the words and figures: Police Lieutenant . ... .. .... 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 and in said Section 11 the following new grade: GRADE 10- Police Captain .. ... .. .. .. 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 Deputy (Chief) (Fire Department) ..... ...... 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 provided however that no salary change shall take effect prior to Jan- uary 1, 1951, or take any action relating thereto. (Requested by Advisory Board of Review) VOTED: That the present existing By-Laws of the Town be and hereby are amended by striking out in Chapter 10, Section 11, under Grade 7A thereof the following words and figures: Maximum Minimum After After After After 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Year Year Year Police Sergeant . . . . .. .. . . 2,880 3,060 3,240 3,420 3,600 and under Grade 8 thereof the words and figures: Police Lieutenant .. . . . ... 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and under Grade 9 thereof the words and figures: Police Captain .... .... . . . . 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 and insert in said Section 11 under Grade 8 the following words and figures: Police Sergeant . . . . . . . . .. . . 3,120 3,300 3,480 3,660 3,840 and insert in said Grade 9 thereof the words and figures: Police Lieutenant . . .. ... . . . 3,300 3,600 3,900 4,200 4,500 and in said Section it the following new grade: GRADE 10- Police Captain . . . . . . .. .. . . 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 Deputy (Chief) (Fire Department) . . . . . . ... . . . 3,750 4,050 4,350 4,650 4,950 provided however that no salary change shall take effect prior to Jan- uary 1, 1951. 92 ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 783 of the Acts of 1950 which is an act making applicable increases in retirement allowances to those persons retired after Jan- uary 1, 1946, with a minimum allowance, or take any action relating thereto. (Request of the Retirement Board.) VOTED: That the Town accept and hereby does accept the pro- visions of Chapter 783 of the Acts of 1950, which is an act making applicable increases in retirement allowances to those persons retired after January 1, 1946, with a minimum allowance. ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 820 of the Acts of 1950 which is an act providing for an increase in the annual amounts of certain pensions, retirement allow- ances, annuities and other benefits payable by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions to certain former employees and person claim- ing under them, or take any action relating thereto. ( Request of the Retirement Board.) VOTED: That the Town accept and hereby does accept the pro- visions of Chapter 820 of the Acts of 1950, which is an act providing for an increase in the annual amounts of certain pensions, retirement allow- ances, annuities and other benefits payable by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions to certain former employees and persons claim- ing under them, effective as of January 1, 1951. VOTED: Final adjournment at 11.08 P.M., there being no further business to come before the meeting. A True Record, ATTEST: GEORGE B. WELLMAN, Town Clerk 93 REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CHARLES L. SHELDON, Chairman 311 School Street WAtertown 4-2739 CLARK B. PARTRIDGE, Vice-Chairman 75 Commonwealth Road WAtertown 4-7695 PATRICK B. FORD, Secretary 71 Myrtle Street WAtertown 4-8030 Terms Expiring in 1950 ROBERT H. CLAPP 11 Bates Road ARTHUR I. DAVIS 89 Lowell Avenue ELBRIDGE L. FOSTER 37 Russell Avenue ARTHUR SODERMAN 175 Maplewood Street DOMENIC B. RAYMOND 434 Mt. Auburn Street CHARLES L. SHELDON 311 School Street MARTIN V. TOMASSIAN 267 East Boylston Street Terms Expiring in 1951 AUSTIN F. APPLEBY 5 Gleason Street FRANCIS J. CAREY 22 Lovell Road H. LESLIE MUMFORD 48 Emerson Road HARRY J. LANDEN 216 Bellevue Road THOMAS F. MEGAN 215 Common Street CLARK B. PARTRIDGE 75 Commonwealth Road MILES P. ROBINSON 30 Hawthorne Street Terms Expiring in 1952 PASQUALE SCLAFANI 24 French Street MATTHEW W. J. CARLEY 34 Evans Street CORNELIUS J. CARROLL 51 Harnden Avenue PATRICK B. FORD 71 Myrtle Street THOMAS J. GALLIGAN 12 Palmer Street AUGUSTINE E. PAPALIA 28 Dewey Street GEORGE E. SLAMIN 41 Union Street 94 RE13ORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE TO THE CITIZENS OF WATERTOWN: Your Finance Committee herewith submits its report and recom- mendations to the Citizens of Watertown and the Town Meeting Mem- bers on all items in the Budget, and on all articles in the Warrant requesting an appropriation of money. Your Committee has given careful and serious consideration to all requests for appropriations, and is sure that the amounts they recommend, if properly and wisely ex- pended are sufficient to allow all departments to operate efficiently during the coming year. Care has been taken to see that sufficient funds have been allocated to maintain and keep in good repair, all of our buildings, and also for new equipment necessary to proper operation. Taxes Your Committee has recommended a total of $3,612,626.64. Last year's expenditures were $3,432,558.33. With increased valuations, and if your Finance Committee's recommendations are followed, our Tax Rate should approximate that of last year. The Town Meeting Mem- bers decide the actual appropriations, and it is their responsibility to see to it that a tax rate is maintained in Watertown that is not an ex- cessive burden on its taxpaying citizens, nor on its many industries. Reasonable taxes mean satisfied tax payers, and are also an incentive for industry to locate in Watertown which means employment for our cit- izens. We sincerely hope that the Town Meeting Members will support our recommendations. Salaries Every year your Selectmen and Finance Committee are faced with the salary problem. Last year we adopted a Wage and Salary plan which in the opinion of your Committee was, and is with one or two exceptions, a very fair and equitable plan of payment for our employees. It compares very favorably with wages and salaries paid by other munic- ipalities, and with industry. Town employees must realize that certain positions and jobs are entitled to be paid a salary or wage that is com- parable with that paid by business concerns, and similar communities, and we do not believe they are justified at this time in seeking increases over our established maximums. Some of our department heads are not satisfied with their salaries, and have requested increases. To be very frank, some of their reasons for asking for these increases are unreason- able. Compared to industry, and other towns, they are very well paid. Watertown has been very considerate and fair in the payment of wages and salaries, and our employees are today earning, in many cases, more money than their employers, The Tax Payers. Many of our individual taxpayers haven't seen a raise for some time. Some, through no fault of their own, are on the streets hunting for new jobs. Town jobs are desirable jobs, and are much sought after. Why shouldn't they be? Good wages and salaries—fine retirements provisions—two, three, and four weeks vacation depending on length of service—all paid holidays— and above all, good hours, no layoffs or short time—excellent working conditions. Let us face the facts squarely and vote accordingly. We mentioned earlier that in our opinion there was an exception where our wage and salary schedule should be changed. That statement refers 95 to the Privates in the Police and Fire Department, and the Sergeants in the Police Department. Several of our surrounding communities are paying higher salaries, and are working shorter hours. To correct this inequity your Committee has recommended a change in salary grade and an increase in pay. Conclusion The needs of all departments have had our careful consideration. The amounts we have recommended signify our attitude on all articles appearing in the Budget and the Warrant. Watertown's financial posi- tion is sound, and credit excellent, and we should keep it that way. Make Watertown a better place to live in, and to work in. Pay good salaries and wages—maintain our properties—keep our equipment up to date—and render to our citizens the kind of service they desire. Keep a reasonable tax rate. We feel our recommendations will do all of this and accordingly respectfully request your support of our findings. During the year the Finance Committee and the Town suffered a grievous loss through the death of our Secretary, Albert P. Brogle. Mr. Brogle was a fine, public spirited citizen and his advice and counsel were of great value. His services to our Commitee and the Community will be deeply missed. My sincere thanks to the Committee Members for their support and excellent attendance at all of our meetings. They have done a difficult job well, and I appreciate their co-operation. The Finance Committee expresses its appreciation to our Board of Selectmen for their assistance and co-operation, and to department heads and citizens who have given generously of their time to assist your Finance Committee in the prepara- tion of their 1950 Annual Report to the Town Meeting Members. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES L. SHELDON, Chairman. VOTED: That the report of the Chairman of the Finance Com- mittee be adopted as the Report of the Committee. P. B. 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' W w c CO a, r; Rt' fs, N 0 — c > I M a w O W ai A Qi 1-4 d a� s, Id - O AC'S an d a� W v ai 5 � s W p s> p v' U2 bO U1 O E-+ ' W U2 w ai x' U1 �`/y� ✓7 M r4-I X M }-. Wl N Cl) yi y p d 0) Da O w O o o uO .r z 03 wr� oc� x W � H � 0AA r) zw �:) a !p S., k 8 2 q m � o E- 0 0 2 $ 7 7 � k k / \ 7 2 Cl? k \ 2 � � \ to Cd Cri $ g 9 � a k ) ® § _ c o C, � � J : / / : $ m Q ce0 \ 0 / \ / } / CU d Q 0 Ul ° � 7 t 2 } 7 t o . 4-41.4 o / $ E 3 f 2 7 49 : M - § k _ j / / q n 4 § / o j o k # 2 § D 2 % 7 1-1 / k e m o $ v o < m Q \ ) � / A g 3 / / 2 108 REPORT OF THE WIRE DEPARTMENT December 31, 1950 To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Gentlemen: The Annual Report of the Wire Department for the year ending December 31, 1950 is submitted herewith. Inspections One thousand three hundred and forty-nine (1349) permits for wiring and fixtures and seven (7) Annual Permits were issued during the year. Inspections occasioned by the issuance of these permits, plus the inspection of business properties and re-inspections, resulted in approximately 4047 individual calls. Receipts for 1349 wiring and fixture permits and 7 Annual Permits amounted to $709.50, which was paid to the Town Treasurer. The regular recurrent maintenance work, such as painting all fire alarm boxes, police boxes, posts, pedestals, cableboxes, etc.: re-in- spection of all commercial properties, such as stores, factories, garages, etc., when a change in tenancy occurs periodical testing of all fire alarm boxes and the maintenance of same; the maintenance of Fire- men's tappers; the maintenance of all traffic signals; the supervision and survey of street lighting; the maintenance of electrical apparatus and wiring in all Town owned buildings, was accomplished as far as we were able. This work was not entirely completed due to the many hours spent in doing electrical work for other departments of the Town and the lack of sufficient personnel in the Wire Department. Fire Alarm Signal System Six new Fire Signal Boxes were added to the system during the year;—namely: Box L'18 Galen and Union Streets Box x282 Crawford and Kondazian Streets Box #437 Westminster Avenue and Gertrude Street Box =515 Church and Palfrey Streets Box =624 Oakland and Acton Streets Box651 Edenfield and Bancroft Streets Fire Alarm Box n712 located on the John T. Lodge building was transferred to the north-west corner of Pleasant and Bridge Streets. Fire Alarm Box w425 on the north-east corner of Waverley Avenue and Worcester Street was transferred to the west side of Waverley Avenue opposite Worcester Street. New 80-60 and 44 conductor main cables were installed on Main Street underground from the Central Fire Station to the corner of Main and Mt. Auburn Streets to replace a combination of obsolete cables installed over 30 years ago, which had worn out in service. Bell tappers were removed from the homes of Fireman Joseph Mee, James B. Murphy and John C. Quirk, who had retired or changed their residence. Bell tappers were installed for Firemen Edmund P. Higgins and 109 Benjamin F. Robbins. The bell tappers in the Central Fire Station and in the residence of Fireman Frank Kerwin were relocated. If time and the purchase of materials permit, an extension of our underground system for Police and Fire cables will be constructed on School Street from Mt. Auburn Street to Maplewood Street. Fire Alarm Headquarters During the year the Headquarters, operating on a 24 hour a day basis, handled 194 fire alarm calls, 1619 mutual-aid calls, 749 calls dealing with no-school signalls, A. D. T. alarms and local Fire Alarm Box tests, 453 operations were required on water pressure tests, burglar alarm tests, semi-weekly tests of emergency generator at Headquarters and admitting officials into the Administration Building. Daily circuit tests, including Mutual-Aid tests from out-of-town departments, to- taled 11,680 operations. 82 calls were received and transmitted to the Wire Department man on call, for emergency work on Police, Fire Traffic lights and other work of such nature, after regular working hours, including Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. In addition to the above business, the operator on duty handles the telephone calls coming in on 4 telephones, maintains the equipment and headquarters in a high degree of cleanliness and order and is to be complimented for -his efforts in this direction. Police Signal System No extension or alterations were made during the year. Traffic Signal System A bell was installed on the traffic signals at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Common Streets. A new signal housing was installed on the signals in Beacon Square to control the trackless trolley busses leaving the Delta. Spotlights were erected to illuminate traffic circle on street for protection of traffic officer on duty after daylight at the following lo- cations: 1 at corner of Mt. Auburn Street and Winsor Avenue—opposite St. James Church 2 on Watertown Street opposite A & P Store 1 at corner of Main and Church Streets The electric service feeding spotlight on roof at the corner of Galen and Watertown Streets was relocated. It is hoped that time will permit the renovation of the traffic signal layout at the corner of Arsenal and Irving Streets and equip the same with pedestrian-actuated controls for walk period. Street Lighting Surveys are being made continually for the improvement of the lighting of our streets. The relighting of Belmont Street from Orchard Street to the Waltham line; Church Street from Main Street to Orchard Street; School Street from Mt. Auburn Street to Belmont Street; and Lexington 110 Street from Main Street to Belmont Street was accomplished during the year. Darch Road and Robert Ford Road were newly lighted to provide street lighting for the Watertown Housing Development when completed in 1950. Main Street from Lexington Street to the Waltham line has been ordered in and should be finished early in 1951. In addition to this re-lighting, street lights were added on the following streets: Arlington Street French Terrace Arsenal Street Garnet Street Bartlett Street Hall Avenue Boylston Street Orchard Street Carver Road Perry Street Concord Road Priest Road Duff Street Riverside Street Edenfield Avenue Watertown Street Edith Avenue Wells Avenue Everett Avenue Winthrop Street Forest Street Projected for 1951 is the re-lighting of Mt. Auburn Street from West Boylston Street to the Cambridge line and Pleasant Street from Galen Street to Bridge Street. In 1952 consideration must be given to re-lighting the balance of Pleasant Street and the re-lighting of Watertown Street from Galen Street to the Newton line. Co-Operation With Other Town Departments In addition to the regular maintenance work of the Wire Depart- ment, we have undertaken to do the construction of all the extensions to our several systems. We have also, as far as we were able, maintained and added to the electrical systems of all the other Town departments. This added work has materially depleted the available man hours necessary for our own maintenance. I have been reluctant to ask for additional help, but if this load continues it will be absolutely necessary to do this or to suspend with some of this work. Recorded below is a breakdown of this "outside of our department Work", separated in three classes: Man Hours New or Temporary Additional Work Repairs Work Totals Schools 5881/., 593% 1182 Elections 29 29 Christmas Decorations 322?!. 3221,'s Fire 371,2' 82 119',z Police 9 9 Health 12 17 29 111 Town Hall 35 18 53 Water 51 19 70 Highway 28'/2 16 44'/2 Libraries 17'/2 249 266'h Infirmary 13 13 Watertown Housing 11% 24 35' Parks 30',. 162 1921' Town Clock 4 4 Memorial Building 6 6 Civil Defense 14 14 Damage by vehicles to electrical equipment outside 136 136 Overtime work on Maintenance 60-2/3 60-2/3 3G3' 1028-24 1194'/i 2586-2/3 The total man hours represented is over one man year of 1912 hours with a half man year lost to the department when an outside crewman covers the Fire Alarm Signal Operators for their vacation period, plus the vacation of the crewmen themselves. The result is that the depart- ment has availble only 2 man years of labor for all our maintenance. The solution, of course, is the employment of one more inspector of Wire Maintenance. Damages To Town Property During the year motor vehicles were responsible for damages to the traffic signals at the corner of Arsenal and Irving Streets on 3 different occasions; also damaged were the traffic signals at the corner of North Beacon and Irving Streets, the signals in Beacon Square, the signal on the Columbus Delta opposite Merchants Row, the cable box pedestal on the Delta opposite Spring Street and the pedestal housing Fire Box 15 on the Delta opposite Pleasant Street. Repairs were made by the Wire Department. In every case the Police Department rendered a report to the Wire Department informing us who was responsible for the damage. Cost of materials and labor to repair was given to the Board of Selectmen, who proceeded to recover for the Town. Civil Defense The Wire Department has been assigned the task of preparing the necessary communications, audible signals and Report centres for Civil Defense operations. Two short wave receivers, a 2 HP Siren, 7000 feet of twin conductor cable and an emergency generator have already been purchased for the purpose. A report centre will be established at the Municipal Garage in the basement, with a duplicate set-up on a 24 hour stand-by basis at police headquarters. We have in stock some of the materials salvaged from the World War II operations, which will be used in the new con- struction. I recommend the purchase of additional two-way Police radios to be installed in key vehicles of the Fire, Highway, Water and Wire Departments. An amateur radio association is being formed to augment land lines in case of service failure. 112 Personnel No changes were made during the year in the personnel of the Department. The spirit of Co-operation and initiative amongst the employees is noteworthy and is manifested by our accomplishments. Acknowledgements I wish to thank my co-workers for this fine spirit of helpfulness. It is a pleasure to be associated with such fine people . I wish to express my appreciation to the Honorable Board of Select- men for their help during the year and to thank also the various De- partment Heads of the Town for their co-operation and assistance. Respectfully submitted, LEO P. LANDRY, Superintendent of Wires. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF CIVIL DEFENSE Honorable Board of Selectmen Administration Building Watertown 72, Massachusetts Gentlemen: The following is the first report of our town government's newest department. The Civil Defense Agency was established in October, 1950, as a result of legislation passed in August, requiring cities and towns to set up such departments to prepare their civilian population for war-caused or serious natural disasters. An office was made available to the Director in the Administration Building, and a part-time clerical assistant was hired. An Advisory Council was formed to guide the Board of Selectmen and the Director. The various division heads called for by the Governor in an executive order were quickly assigned to their duties, and through a transfer by the Finance Committee of $5000 to Civil Defense, it became possible to purchase necessary communications and warning signal equipment. Now that the policies of the Federal and State Civil Defense agencies have been clarified, the early part of the coming year will find Watertown possessed of a thoroughly organized and completely functioning program. The willing co-operation of all town departments from the outset has been a source of satisfaction to the Director, and guarantees that our town will be amply prepared for any disaster. Respectfully submitted, JOHN F. CORBETT, Director 113 REPORT OF TREE WARDEN December 31, 1950 To The Citizens of Watertown: I herewith submit the Annual Report of the Tree Warden for the year ending December 31, 1950. Two hundred and five (205) Maple trees were planted this Spring, in various sections of the Town, a number of these were replacements. All these trees were planted in fresh loam fertilized and secured to a stake to hold them firm until the roots could get a good start. Most of these trees leaved out and were growing good by the end of the summer. About thirty five (35) decayed and injured trees were removed and those trees which could possibly be saved were given special care. Cavities were filled, old trees fertilized, and any trees injured by trucks were repaired. Old tree guards were removed and new ones put in whenever necessary. We will continue with the trimming of the trees and clearing out of deadwood wherever passible; and wish to assure the citizens we will do all in our power to protect the trees of the Town. The Dutch Elm Disease has kept us constantly on the alert. It is believed that the increase of the Dutch Elm Disease through the many towns and cities has resulted because of the impossibility of ac- complishing necessary preventative maintenance. Considerable work is being done in combating this disease. Samples were taken from several elms and those found to be affected were immediately removed and destroyed. Our only means of control right now is to keep our elms as healthy as possible, by constant care in pruning and spraying. Immediate removal and destruction of every condemned tree, and to destroy all elm wood of any description, trimmings, branches, etc. The State has recommended various amounts to be appropriated, to be expended solely for control work against the Dutch Elm Disease, and other insects. Another pest that has hit our Town is the European Earwig. Various places were sprayed with Chlordane, etc. This year we have asked for a Special appropriation for the eradication, suppression and control of the European Earwig. We also sprayed the trees on private properties whenever requested to do so by the owners, and the cost of this private work was charged to the owners on the annual tax bills. Your Tree Warden is a member of the Massachusetts Tree Wardens' and Foresters' Association and the Middlesex County Tree Wardens and Moth Superintendents Association and has obtained valuable information in the care of your trees at the various meetings and con- ferences. The Boston Edison Company and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company have cooperated with us and given prompt at- 114 tention to their wires whenever they have come in contact with our trees, and we extend to them our sincere appreciation. My appreciation and thanks are extended to the Honorable Board of Selectmen, to the heads of the various Town Departments, and to the personnel of the Tree Department for the cooperation and assistance which they have given me in the work of the Tree Department during this past year. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS P. MORLEY Tree Warden REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Administration Building Watertown 72, Massachusetts Gentlemen: There is respectfully- submitted herewith the report of the Office of Inspector of Buildings for the year 1950. Construction The year 1950 was a very active one in the building field, not only in the residential phase, but commerical construction also advanced rapidly; such as private garages, public garages, storage buildings, green houses, gasoline stations, field house, a fire station, churches, etc. Many additional family accomodations were provided by altering and converting existing structures. These alterations were permitted by state enacted Legislation known as Chapter 561 and 592, which supersedes our local laws. Construction methods generally were improved in 1950, but constant vigilance was required to bring this about. Some builders cooperated willingly, others had to be pressed. The breakdown for the year is as follows: Number At an Estimated Cost of New Residential: 78*** ps $ 534,500.00* New Non-Residential: 69 460,795.00* $995,295.00 Alterations and Extensions: Alterations to Residential 119 $ 69,940.00 Alterations to Non-Residential 15 25,450.00 115 Extensions to Residential 7 10,250.00 Extensions to Non-Residential 30 334,260.00 $439,900.00 Grand Total $1,435,195.00 Razings: Residential & Non-Residential 19 Signs: 250 Fees Collected: Building Permits (including $19.00 for Razing Permits) $1,676.00 Signs 125.00 $1,801.00 The applications for the 78 new residential buildings included 71 one family dwellings and 7 two family dwellings. This represents an increase of 50% over 1949. This represents an increase of 128% over 1949. #7 This represents an increase of 27 over 1949. Places of Assembly All public halls, private halls, restaurants, funeral parlors andi or other similar places where people gather in large numbers are "Places of Assembly", and must be inspected periodically. These inspections are to check on means of egress, overcrowding, etc. Most of the Places of Assembly in Watertown have been posted for the number of persons allowed therein, but due to pressure of business, all of them have not yet been posted. The cooperation was good. There were no violations or prosecutions. Lodging Houses Lodging houses must be inspected annually for safety of occupants, means of egress, fire escapes, etc., prior to the issuance of renewal permit. Practically all the lodging houses in Watertown are converted old frame dwellings and are below today's standard in fire safety and means of egress. There were twenty one (21) inspections made, and in most cases additional stairways and/or fire escapes were required and recommended. If fire escapes were not installed, the upper floors were closed to occupancy. The cooperation has been fair, and violations few, there were no persecutions. Signs Permits must be obtained before installing any kind of signs or billboards, whether on roofs, walls, or ground. There were a few vio- lations, probably because of ignorance of the law. Inspections and supervision of signs takes considerable time, both in the field and in the office. Signs projecting over public ways six inches or more must be covered by an insurance certificate in the amount of $5,000.00. The sign permit must be renewed each year, this office checks on all signs, 116 and renewal permits before expiration date. The cooperation was good, there were no prosecutions. Elevators The inspection of elevators are made once a year, but because of the tremendous amount of work, this office couldn't complete all elevator inspections. There are approximately fifty (50) in the Town, and a few were inspected. Zoning By-Laws The administration of the Zoning Laws, and the enforcement thereof comes under this office, and consumes considerable time. There were numerous violations in this field, and a large number of violators were brought before the Board of Appeal. Complaints were very numerous. The cooperation was not very good. There were no pro- secutions. Factories There are many old factories in Watertown, most of which are of frame construction, and were erected years ago, and were originally designed for use other than for those to which they have been put today. These older type factories are below today's standards for fire safety, means of egress, etc, Inspections were made in many of these factories and despite unsettled economic conditions, material shortage, etc., some improve- ments were made. In a number of cases the swing of certain doors had to be changed. In most cases cooperation was good. Civilian Defense New work demands have been placed on this office in connection with Civilian Defense for 1951. It is hoped that this office can carry its regular work load and continue to give some time to defense work. Conclusion This office wishes to express appreciation to the Honorable Board of Selectmen and to all other departments, and to the people of Water- town for their cooperation and assistance during the year 1950. Respectfully submitted, MAURICE F. WHITE, Inspector of Buildings. 117 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES TOWN OF WATERTOWN FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1950 Board of Library Trustees 1949 — 1950 Robert J. Glennon, Chairman Muriel A. Barrett, Secretary Charles T. Burke Esther Dimick John J. Doherty Agnes J. Flynn Librarian Catharine M. Yerxa Library Saff as of December 31, 1950 Mary C., Blake Circulation Librarian Rose M. Brady Supervisor, Work With Children Anne T. Diozzi Assistant, Main Library Charlotte M. Dupuis Assistant, Main Library Ruth L. Elphick Children's Librarian, East Branch Jeanne Foret Children's Librarian, North Branch Mary V. Harney Assistant, East Branch Patricia M. Healey Assistant, Main Library Pauline A. Hill Assistant, East Branch Ethel M. Howard Librarian, West Branch Helen W. Jay Assistant, East Branch Thelma I. Laughrea Assistant, Main Library Mary M. McNally Assistant Librarian and Reference Librarian Harriet Rayburn Assistant, Main Library Asbury W. Schley Librarian, East Branch Robert W. Sillen Catalog Librarian Esther E. Testa Librarian, North Branch Part-Time Workers Janet Altieri Bernadette Farraher Nancy Mardirosian Robert Bergman Leona Fredericks Pauline Murray Mary DeFlorio Patricia Gottschalk Evelyn Robinson Marie Doherty Eleanor Igoe Hosmig Pilibosian Irene Lamprakis Building Custodians Gerard Bloomer West Branch James A. Crowley East Branch Bernard Mannix Main Library Martin Robertson, Jr. North and Main Library 118 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE WATERTOWN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY To the Citizens of Watertown: During the year 1950, the Watertown Free Public Library continued to render to the citizens of Watertown the various services that form an integral part of a highly rated library system. Indeed, many of the activities of individual staff members were directed to the per- formance of tasks not directly connected with the circulation of books, but which, because of the interest which resulted therefrom among the citizens of the town, aided in accomplishing the primary purposes of the Library. In short, the Library maintained its healthy growth and the Trustees believe that the citizens of Watertown were well served. Early in the year, the newly renovated Pratt Room was rededicated with appropriate ceremonies. Mr. Milton E. Lord, Librarian for the City of Boston, was our principal speaker. The meeting was well at- tended and it gave us the opportunity of reviewing the benefactions of the late Asa Pratt, for whom this room was named. Since this room was dedicated, it has been used extensively for library activities with groups of children and adults. Some of these related activities have included moving picture showings of the use of a library and other films of an educational nature, meetings of the Great Books Discussion Group and Children's Story Hours. The room has been used as an irregular meeting place of several small clubs of citizens of the town. We are happy to report that the problem of maintenance of the Library buildings which, in other years, has been a time-consuming one because of the age of the buildings, did not present too many difficulties during the year. The long-range plan of improving the lighting system in the buildings was continued with the aid of a survey by a reputable engineering company, which survey revealed new ideas that should be included in our over-all plan. With this exception, and the addition to our facilities of new telephone and intercommunication equipment, and the installation of a new oil burner in the Main Library, the other items of maintenance were not of major importance. We feel that this is due to the recognition by previous Boards of Trustees of the necessary repairs and replacements and the foresight of having them accomplished. One of the problems which confronted the Trustees was the ever recurring one of a policy with respect to the return of over-due books. Because of the large number of these infractions, a policy was adopted with respect to efforts on our part to obtain compliance. The co- operation of all citizens who make use of our circulation facilities is asked in this regard, to the end that the books may be made available to others. There was included in the .budget for the year 1950, which was prepared by the Trustees, an item for the inauguration of a record col- lection which would be made available for general use within the Library and for circulation outside the Library. The Trustees felt such a col- lection would be a forward step in providing up-to-date service by our Library. However, the item was eliminated from the budget by the Finance Committee, but the Trustees are still of the opinion that this 119 Is an innovation which our Library system should have and we are again requesting the appropriation for the year 1951. It is difficult to single out for special commendation any of the many friends and benefactors which the Library has, but we feel that special thanks should be given to Miss Harriette Abbott for her inex- haustible efforts in working with the Great Books Discussion Group and to Mr. Toivo Laminan, who conducted a series of musical listening hours based upon selections from his extensive library of records and wire recordings. The Trustees wish to acknowledge with appreciation also the gift of trees for the grounds of the Main Library from Mrs. Bernard S. McHugh and from the Garden Club. Respectfully submitted, ROBERT J. GLENNON, Chairman. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT To the Trustees of the Watertown Free Public Library: The 83rd Annual Report of the Watertown Free Public Library is herewith presented: No matter how fine a library's buildings may be or how adequate its boom stock, its success in giving good public service depends on the quality of the staff. The staff of the Watertown Library, one and all, are to be commended for their competent and imaginative work and for their loyalty. The achievements of the year are theirs, and it is with pride that I report them to you. Once again, members of the staff took advantage of academic op- portunities. Seven were enrolled in library courses offered by the Division of University Extension, Massachusetts Department of Edu- cation: Mrs. Rose Brady, Miss Charlotte Dupuis, Mrs. Ruth Elphick, Mrs. Jeanne Foret, Miss Mary Harney, Miss Ethel Howard, and Mrs. Helen Jay. The Library was -well represented in professional organizations. Miss Blake served as Chairman, Nominating Committee, Round Table of Librarians of Young Adults; Mrs. Brady, member, Executive Com- mittee, Round Table of Children's Librarians; Mr. Schley, member, Membership Committee, Massachusetts Library Association; Mr. Sillen, Secretary-Treasurer, Boston Regional Group of Catalogers and Classi- fiers, and, also, member, Subject Headings Committee, Division of Cataloging and Classification, American Library Association. Your Librarian was Vice-President and President-Elect of the Massachu- setts Library Association. Staff members attended the meetings of the Massachusetts Library Association and the Charles River Library Club. Eight talks were given. The Library is fortunate in having had only two resignations during the year. Miss Helen M. Lee, East Branch Librarian, resigned 120 as of October 1st to work for her master's degree at the Graduate Library School, Chicago University. The vacancy was filled by Mr. Asbury W. Schley, Head of the Circulation Department, a graduate of Simmons College Library School. Miss Carolyn M. Blake, First Assistant, Circulation Department, a Pratt Library School graduate, was promoted to the Head of the Department, and the position of First Assistant, which she vacated, was filled by the appointment of Mrs. Harriet Rayburn, a graduate of Whittier College. In December, Mr. Schley resigned to accept a. position at a much higher salary. Once again, the position of East Branch Librarian was open and this time it was filled by promoting Miss Pauline Hill, First Assistant of the East Branch and a graduate of Simmons College Library School, to the headship. Miss Hill's former position has not yet been filled. In looking over the field for well-qualified librarians to fill vacancies, it became evident that the salary scale for positions in the Watertown Library system are too low to attract capable and experienced people. If the quality of the staff, and, therefore, the quality of the service are to be maintained, this situation should be rectified as soon as possible. .The Library—The Community Source of Information The public library Chas long been accepted as an indispensable force in the social and educational life of a community. Throughout the years, it has established itself as a cultural agency of prime importance through its quiet but invaluable service to individuals and to organi- zations, to the old and to the young, with or without formal education. As an integral part of the social and political scene, the public library is always affected tremendously by current events and trends. The year 1950 was no exception. This year, the country once again became involved in war, and Watertown, an industrial community, felt the impact. There was a consistent use of the Library's books of information and its reference services and technical books were drawn on heavily. A recent survey, "The Public Library in the United States", made by the Social Science Research Council at the request of the American Library Association has given libraries a new basis for redefining their objectives and the areas in which they can give the best public service. In what it calls "The Communications Revolution", the survey makes clear that the public library, as a non-commercial agency of communi- cations, cannot compete with the commercial agencies of radio, and particularly and more recently, television, in providing recreation to mass audiences. Moreover, today, through mass distribution, inexpen- sive books and periodicals of a recreational nature are easily available at news counters, railroad stations and chain stores. It is significant that the Watertown Library circulated 19,954 fewer books of fiction in 1950 than in 1949, while at the same time there was a noteworthy increase in the use of reference services. This means, if the trend continues, that the Library will revamp its book selection criteria so far as fiction is concerned and consider for purchase those novels which are important because of their social or historical sig- nificance, their literary merit, and their real value in recreation. It means also, that public libraries generally, and the Watertown Public Library in particular, will become more important educationally than ever before, because they will have more money and more staff 121 time to concentrate on informational and educational services, as the demand for materials of ephemeral entertainment become less pressing. To quote Ralph Munn, Director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, "Im- permanence is perhaps the dominant characteristic of the other media. How does one bring back day-before-yesterday's newspapers, last night's radio or television program, or last month's March of Time? It is only the library which can collect, preserve and organize for quick reference the whole range of valuable materials in all fields of know- ledge. Only the library with its permanent collection and trained staff can act as a reference and information center and offer the best of recorded knowledge. These functions, the inquiry says, are the library's primary obligations; they constitute its unique role in the whole process of public communication. We should devote an of our resources and energies to the fullest development of these essential functions." Technical Processes In its job of collecting, preserving and organizing materials, an effective Catalog Department is of primary importance. If books are to be useful, they must be logically classified and shelved, and the card catalog, which is the key to the library's resources, must be an accurate tool. In 1950, the Catalog Department was strengthened by the addition of a non-professional staff member with the result that books were cataloged more expeditiously and made available to the public more quickly. Two special projects were undertaken during the year. A beginning was made in classifying the books in the Reference Department, and author and title cards for 1,500 books of fiction were made for the North Branch catalog. One of the great weaknesses of the Watertown Free Public Library, is the fact that its Catalog Department is not large enough to handle centrally the cataloging for the whole system. The Supervisor of Work with Children does her own cataloging, and cataloging is also done by librarians in the Branch Libraries. Under such an arrangement, it is impossible to coordinate the cataloging and to avoid serious discrepancies which affect good service to the public. Adult Services Reference Department. 1950 was a busy year in the Reference Department. 43% more reference questions were answered than in 1949. The answers to some questions were procured quickly and others entailed research on the part of the Reference Librarian. The following sampling will indicate the skill and knowledge required of the Reference Librarian: Ratings of different encyclopedias for home purchase; names of institutions which give tests for vocational apt- itudes; how many ovens, what type and size are there at the Golden Cookie factory; how to make a pottery kiln with diagrams; a Martha Washington wig; how to modernize store fronts; make lithographs; make a crystal radio set. In addition to answering specific questions, the Reference Librarian found material to help high school and college students prepare term papers and theses, and to help ministers prepare sermons. Assistance was given to pupils working on school assignments. Genealogical in- formation was procured for people coming to the Library, as well as for people writing for assistance. 122 During the spring, the contests launched by the Boston Globe, Boston Post and the Boston Traveler greatly involved the situation in the Reference Department. Although some public libraries found it al- most impossible to supply materials and professional assistance to people working on contests, the Watertown Library contributed all the assist- ance it could without impairing its primary reference services. Mutil- ation of library books during contest time, which was so severe in some libraries, was held at a minimum by concentrating all available material in one place in the Reference Room where it was to be consulted and returned to the reference desk after each use. The Reference Libra- rian reports that more business people and industrialists used the Library than ever before to consult the expensive and valuable services for which the Library subscribes, some of which are: Thomas' Register of Manu- facturers; the Directory of New England Manufacturers; the Visual Almanac of Business; the Research Institute of America which publishes weekly in loose leaf form the Labor Report, Taxation Report, Opera- tions Report, Distributions Report, etc., and the Moody's Services which, also in loose leaf form, and semi-weekly, cover the Industrials, Banks and Finance, Railroads, Public Utilities, Stocks and Bonds, and, in addition, a yearly Dividend Report. It was hoped to reorganize the picture collection in 1950. Due to increased demands on the Reference Department, it was impossible to do so. Its reorganization remains one of the big projects for 1951. Circulation Department. To help borrowers return books on time, a change was made in the method of charging books. They are now marked with the date due instead of the date loaned. Supplying books in all subject fields was an important and satisfying part of the work of the Circulation Departments of the Main Library and Branches. There was an increased use of the more serious periodicals, of biography and of technical books as well as the 'how-to-do-it books". When the Library's own book stock was inadequate for the demands, books were borrowed from other public libraries and from the State Division of Public Libraries, Massachusetts Department of Education. From the latter source, we procured many collections of books in various foreign languages to supply borrowers who have little reading knowledge of the English language. In addition, the Library's own collection of French books was re-vitalized by the addition of new books which the public has greatly enjoyed. In all, 365 books were borrowed, and in return, we lent 250 books. Emphasis was placed on book exhibits designed to indicate some of the Library's resources and to stimulate their use. These included displays on Korea, Hobbies, Interior Decorating, Model Trains, Sign Painting, Telephones, etc. An interesting feature of the displays at the East Branch was the suggestion of the principal at the East Junior High School that the art students assume responsibility for displays on alternate months. The tangible and intangible advantages of this arrangement are obvious and the displays themselves created a great deal of interest. Again this year, during National Book Week, the Main Library planned and set up an extensive display of over 100 current titles which were lent by the New England News Company of Boston. Book lists were prepared for distribution, and book marks contributed to the Library by the Watertown Savings Bank were available for distribution. The Libraries have continued to supply deposit collections to the Central and East Fire Stations, the Watertown Home for Old Folks, the Pequosette Nursing Home, and the Orchard Home School for Girls. 123 Services To Children Through its Children's Departments in the Main Library and in the Branches, the Library reached children in an impressive fashion. 151 classes including 4,517 pupils visited the Library for instruction in the use of the catalog and Library materials. In introducing talks, many of the classes were shown the film, "Know Your Library". The Library held 34 educational film showings with an attendance of 1,951 children; 68 story hours were attended by 1,775 children; 205 children enrolled in the summer reading project, 54 of whom finished the reading pro- gram and were awarded certificates. In each Library, the Reading Club ended with a program which included circus films and light re- freshments. All Children's Departments celebrated Book Week by ex- hibiting new fall books and by showing the book film, "Swiss Family Robinson". At the East Branch Library, the Children's Department held "Open House" for parents and children on Tuesday evening, November 14th. Here again, new books were displayed and the film run off. The pro- gram served to create good will and to acquaint parents with library services available to children. One of the most significant changes in work with children occurred at the East Branch Library when new shelving in the Children's Depart- ment downstairs increased the book capacity by 70 o, so that the Junior Department, (grades 7 and 8), which occupied space on the street floor, could be combined with the Children's Department down- stairs. With the move, there is no longer an arbitrary separation of children's books; they are in one room where they are easily accessible, and interest and attendance are picking up rapidly. School Services The Library's services to schools and its relationship with them continued on a high level. Children's Librarians visited 70 classrooms to talk about library privileges and to review books. From the central library, classroom deposits were assembled in September and in Feb- ruary and sent to all elementary grade schools. (The West Junior High School and St. Patrick's School send for book deposits as they need them). The book deposits were made up from subjects and titles suggested by the teachers. 3,879 books were sent to 119 classrooms in 18 schools. The circulation of these books within the schools was 24,947. The Library continued to cooperate with the Phillips School in operating the school library. This cooperation included the professional services of the Supervisor of Children's Work and the supplying of public library books. On November 8th and 9th, the school library held a. Book Fair. Approximately 200 of the new fall books were dis- played, arranged on tables by grades. Books were made available through the cooperation of the public library and Mr. Melville Mabey of Watertown. Children made attractive book posters and all grades from the kindergarten through the 6th grade visited the Book Fair "during scheduled hours". On November 9th, an "Open House" was held for parents. Over 100 parent, visited the Library and showed a great deal of interest in the book exhibit. Without doubt, the carry- over value for the public library was valuable. The East Branch Children's Librarian worked closely with the Supervisor of Special Classes in a project called, "Reading Is Fun". 124 Classes visited the Children's Room frequently for instruction and practice. By special invitation, the Children's Librarian was invited to speak on the Watertown experiment to a Boston University class of teachers of special classes. In any discussion of school services, special mention should be made of the West Branch Library located in the Browne School. This branch is in effect a school library and, in part, it functions as such. Again this year, on many mornings when it was closed to the public, it was open to school classes and its day by day work with teachers and pupils developed steadily. Services To Young People Books were bought regularly for this important age group and shelved in special sections at the Main Library and Branches. In order to introduce young people to the adult departments, thirteen ninth grade classes of the West Junior High School and the East Junior High School visited the Main Library and the East Branch, at least once and sometimes more. They were given orientation talks on library facilities introduced by educational library films. At the Main Library, the Young Friends of the Library Group continued to meet under the leadership of the Head of the Circulation Department with an average attendance of sixteen, and a program of speakers, discussions, and visits to libraries in the vicinity. Last year's report mentioned plans for the establishment of a Young People's Department at the East Branch. This year, the plan was put Into action, when the Junior Department was moved downstairs and the space vacated, (one half of the street floor), became available. Books for the Department have been chosen carefully from recom- mended lists and young people have responded warmly to having their own room. The new arrangement offers interesting possibilities for guided reading for young people and the initiation of special activities and services for them. Buildings Reorganization of the book stock at the West Branch Library was made possible by the installation of additional shelving on the main floor and new shelving in the basement room. Little used books are now stored in the basement and the serious overcrowding of the main library room has been relieved. At the North Branch, a flagstone walk was layed in front of the Roll Call. The new walk connects the Library walk with a sidewalk on Waverley Avenue. The flagstone walk is an improvement to the property in that it replaces an unsightly and often muddy path worn through the grass. The North Branch Library Honor Roll Committee was instrumental in promoting the project. The work was very nicely executed by the Watertown Highway Department. The inter-communication systems installed at the Main Library and the East Branch have already proved indispensably convenient and an economy in staff time. Worn out shades in the main room at the East Branch were re- placed with attractive venetian blinds. 125 Main Library staff quarters were greatly improved when the staff room and the adjoining locker room were painted an aqua color. A bright colored tile flooring was layed in the locker room, and through staff planning, new curtains appeared at the windows and new furniture coverings replaced old. Visitors The Library was honored by the request of the Director, School of Library Science, Simmons College, that three of the students of the 1949-50 class do their practice work at the Watertown Library during the spring term. It was pleased also to have one half of the 1950-51 class spend an afternoon at the Main Library. The Librarian spoke to them on the administration of the Library and department heads spoke on their particular work. The Division of Public Libraries, Massachusetts Department of Education, sent an interesting visitor. She was Fru Elsa Ulfsparre, Librarian, Lund, Sweden. Special Activities Pratt Room. On Thursday, April 27th, the newly redecocrated Pratt Room was opened to the public in a formal function. Invitations were sent to town officials, the presidents of local organizations, the clergy, school superintendents and principals, and former trustees and librarians. Mr. Robert J. Glennon, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, spoke on the history of the Library and introduced the speaker of the evening, Mr. Milton E. Lord, Director of the Boston Public Library, whose subject was, "The Library and The Community". The function was attended by 150 people. During the year, the Pratt Room was used by many local groups, namely: The Antique Club, the Garden Club, Great Books Discussion Group, League of Women Voters, Music Listen- ing Series, Red Cross Course on mother and baby care for blind students, Watertown District Boy Scouts. Music Listening Series. A music listening series was held in the Pratt Room every Tuesday night for six weeks in the late fall. The series was made possible through the interest and cooperation of Mr. Toivo Laminan of Watertown, a student of music and the owner of the largest recorded music collection in New England. Great Books Discussion Group. The Great Books Discussion Group, led by Miss Harriette Abbott of Watertown, and Mr. Asbury W. Schley, formerly Head, Circulation Department, continued its meetings until June, thus covering the first year's program. Public Relations Newspapers. Once again, the Library is grateful for the continued cooperation of the-press which gave splendid coverage to the Library. Radio. The Library's radio series, "Leaders Are Readers" was con- tinued under the direction of the Catalog Librarian. The time was changed to 11:30 A.M., but the station WCRB remained the same and it continued to be wholeheartedly cooperative with the Library. Gifts The Library acknowledged individually the 211 gift books and the periodical subscriptions it was given. It would like to say thank you 126 again for these and for the many tokens of good will which the staff received from borrowers. It is particularly appreciative of the con- tinued interest of the Garden Club demonstrated in a concrete way by the flowering plants it has sent for the Circulation Desk and by the flowering tree it gave for the front grounds at the Main Library. Acknowledgements To the Board of Trustees, to the staff and to the building custodians, I express appreciation for the wholehearted support and assistance I have received during 1950. Respectfully submitted, CATHARINE M. YERXA, Librarian. Leaders Are Readers Speakers-1950 Alternating Tuesdays at 3:45 PM, Station WCRB January 10 Dr. Winston M. Gottschalk, Watertown. Physicist, The Raytheon Company January 24 Miss Muriel Barrett, Watertown. Member of the Board of Library Trustees February 7 Mrs. Waldo D. Elmer, Watertown. Formerly interpreter, the Army of France February 21 Mr. Joseph Zeno. Athletic Coach, the Watertown High School March 7 Mr. Philip J. McNiff. Librarian, the Lamont Library, Harvard University March 21 Mr. Thomas Savage, Waltham. Author, and Instructor, Brandeis University April 4 Miss Helen Lee, Watertown. Librarian, East Branch Library April 18 Miss Rosamond Coolidge, Watertown. Portrait Painter May 2 Mr. Gene Raschi, student at Perkins Institution and baseball authority May 16 Rev. John E. Barclay, Watertown. Minister, Morgan Memorial, Boston May 30 Miss Elizabeth Hodges, Librarian, Leominster Public Library, formerly of LEADERS ARE READERS. Summer intermission, June-October Alternating Mondays at 11:30 AM, Station WCRB November 13 Mrs. Sarah Louise Barrett, Watertown, author of "Silver Blades". November 27 Mr. Bernard D. White, Watertown, Harvard Football Team, '31 December 11 Mrs. Rufus Dyer, Watertown, Book Reviewer 127 Statistics Name of Library Watertown Free Public Library Town Watertown, Massachusetts Name of Librarian Catharine M. Yerxa Date of Pounding 1868 Population served U.S. Census, 1950: 37,339 State Census, 1950: 37,444 Assessed valuation of town $63,498,635.00 Library appropriation per capita $2.23 Term of use Free for lending and reference Number of agencies Main Library; 3 Branch Libraries Number of days open during the year 290 Hours of lending: Main Library 69 in winter; 60 in summer East Branch 64 in winter; 55 in summer North Branch 42 in winter; 34 in summer West Branch 23 in winter; 20 in summer Circulation Number of fiction lent for home use: Adult Juvenile Total Main Library . ... . . . . . . . .... . .. .. 40,186 13,055 53,241 East Branch . . .. . . .. . . . ........ . 29,956 16,678 46,634 North Branch .. . . .. ....... . .... 18,481 9,463 27,944 West Branch . . .. ........... . . ... 4,341 9,161 13,502 Schools . . ... . ... . .. ....... . .. ... 10,647 10,647 Total .... .. ............ .. .. ... 92,964 59,004 151,968 Number of non-fiction for home use: Adult Juvenile Total Main Library .. ... . ...... . ... ... 29,759 10,556 40,315 East Branch .. .... .. . . .... . . ..... 16,726 13,141 29,867 North Branch . . . . ........ . . . ... 8,230 8,762 16,992 West Branch ...... . . ........... 1,538 5,273 6,811 Schools .. .... .... .. ............. 14,300 14,300 Total .. . .......... . ..... . . . . . . 56,253 52,032 108,285 Total number of volumes circulated: Adult Juvenile Total 149,217 111,036 260,253 Percentage of fiction .... ... ..... . . .583 Circulation per capita ........ . .. . . 6.97 Number of pictures lent for home use . .. . .. . . ... . . . . ..... .. .. 947 Inter-library loan: Volumes borrowed . . . . . . .. .... . . 365 Volumes lent . . . ....... . . . ..... . . 250 128 Book Stock Adult Juvenile Total Number of books, January 1, 1950 . . 82,199 24,135 106,334 Volumes added during the year . . . . 3,346 1,851 5,189 New titles added (included in above) 1,902 460 2.362 Gifts (included in above) .. . . . .. . . . 211 8 219 Number of volumes lost and withdrawn . . . . ... . . . .. . . . 554 1,226 1,780 Total number of volumes, December 31, 1950 .. .. . . . . .. . . 84,991 24,752 109,743 Volumes rebound . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . .. 854 Registration Adult Juvenile Total Number of borrowers registered in 1950 . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . ... .. 2,038 953 2,991 Total number of registered borrowers . . .. . . . . . ..... . .. . . . . 6,303 3,033 9,336 Staff Number of full-time members, Library Service ... . . ..... . . .. .. . . . . 18 Number of full-time custodians . . .. .. .. . .. . ... . . ...... . .. . . . . . . 3 Total . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . ...... . . . 21 FINANCIAL STATEMENT Receipts Town appropriation .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... $83,422.24 Expenditures Books and Periodicals" .. . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . .... . . . . . . . . . . .. $10,532.67 Binding . . . . . . .. . ... .. .... . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . ... 2,034.04 Films . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513.06 Salaries Library Service . . . .. .. . . . .. . . . ... .. .. .... . . ..... . . . .. 49,392.42 Custodians .. . . .. . . . . . ... . ... . . .. . . .. .. . . .. 7,444.06 Heat, light, water . . .. .. . . . . ..... . . ... .. . ... . . .... . . . . . 3,864.30 Building maintenance and repair . . .. .... .. . . ...... . ... 5,610.61 Printing and supplies .. . . . ..... . . .. . ... . . .... . ... 2,071.51 Other maintenance . . . . ... . .... . . .... . ... ... . . .. ... . . . . 1,949.02 Expenditures from appropriation . ... .. . .... . . . .. . . . .. 83,411.69 Balance from appropriation . . .. . . ... . .... . . .. .. . ... 10.55 Total .. . . . . . .. . . . ..... . . . . . . . ... . . ... .. ...... ... . $83,422.24 Per capita expenditures (including funds) 2.26 Book fines returned to the Town Treasurer ... . . . .. . ... 2,446.56 Books lost and paid for ... . . . .. . . ..... . . . ... . . . .... .... 124.85 Reserve postal cards . ..... . . .... ...... .... . ..... . . . . 28.49 "See also amount expended from funds. Total .. . . . ..... . . .. ... . ..... . ... . .. .. .. ... .. . .. . . 2,599.90 129 ENDOWMENT FUNDS Balance Amount Balance Jan. 1, 1950 Received Total Expended Jan.1,1951 Barry Fund $1098.99 $ 23.04 $1122.03 $110.56 $1011.47 Charles Fund 219.57 4.68 224.25 224.25 McGuire Fund 1024.22 21.87 1046.09 27.01 1019.08 Mead Fund 3065.42 64.55 3129.97 85.35 3044.62 Pierce Fund 1188.11 23.78 1211.89 148.62 1063.27 ``Pratt Fund 425.00 425.00 Whitney Fund 312.70 6.66 319.36 319.36 *Under the supervision of specially appointed trustees. REPORT OF THE AGENT OF VETERANS' SERVICES Honorable Board of Selectmen Administration Building Watertown 72, Mass. Gentlemen: The volume of work in the Veterans' Services Department for the year 1950 remained rather constant and because of high employment throughout the year, the expected increase in the case load did not materialize. The outbreak of hostilities in Korea and the passage by the legislature of the new War Allowance act added to the rolls for brief periods, a number of families of men called to service, which offset the reduction caused by increased employment. The outlook for 1951 indicates that the bulk of our work will be with families of men cur- rently in service although some increase in the number of dependent parent cases is also expected. The department's assistance to veterans, who are not in financial need, by way of aiding in the processing of claims with the Veterans Administration and helping with employment, is becoming better known, as may be determined by the fact that 4,270 persons contacted the office either in person or by telephone during the year. In the matter of Graves Registration, the department, with the as- sistance of a temporary clerk, hired for three weeks, succeeded in bring- ing up to date the records of veterans buried in the Town, about which nothing had been done since 1942. Field work showed that the graves of veterans in the Town and Parish cemeteries and Mount Auburn Cemetery are now all well cared for. A small appropriation will be requested each year so that this work may be continued and accurate Graves Registration records kept. In an effort to improve the administration of the Veterans' Benefits program, I have had introduced in this session of the Legislature, a bill which seeks to have several sections of the law changed. The bill has the support of a great number of the Veterans' Agents of the cities and towns in the State, and its enactment would simplify the handling of cases and reduce administrative costs. Respectfully submitted, JOHN F. CORBETT, Agent 130 REPORT OF THE INFIRMARY DEPARTMENT January G, 1951. Honorable Board of Public Welfare Gentlemen, Herewith is respectfully submitted my report of 1950 as keeper of the Infirmary. The largest number of inmates during the year was ten, the smallest nine, which is what we have at this time, and we have to con- sider all as permanent, as all are unable to do any work to speak of, and considering their infirmities, they are as well as can be expected, the balanced diet they receive seems to keep them fairly healthy. We had one death early in the year. The family of five who were keeping house in two rooms moved out on March 15th. The house has been thoroughly renovated inside, and all repairs made on the outside, covered by two coats of paint, and I am glad to report that the house is in first class shape. Through the thoughtfulness and generosity of Mr. Mooney, the teachers and children of the James Russell Lowell school, the Emblem Club, through Mrs. Bernard S. McHugh, the Girl Scouts senior troop nine and Mrs. Brown the singing of Xmas carols and the gifts that were bestowed on the inmates was enjoyed by all, and served the purpose of a Merry Christmas. Please accept my sincere thanks for your cooperation. Respectfully submitted, CHAS. J. De MARAIS, Keeper of the Infirmary REPORT OF THE SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Honorable Board of Selectmen Administration Building Watertown 72, Massachusetts Gentlemen: The following report of the Sealer of Weights and Measures for the year 1950 is respectfully submitted. Sealing Fees $1,012.05 Adjusting Fees 2.75 Total ' 1,014.80 131 SCALES Total Not Adjusted Sealed Sealed Condemned Scales over 10,000 lbs. — 11 — — Scales 5000 to 10,000 2 9 — — Scales 100 to 5000 12 146 5 6 Balances or scales over 100 16 355 3 31 Weights 26 702 5 51 VOLUMETRIC MEASURES Liquid measures 1 gal. or under — 126 — 18 Liquid measures over 1 gal. — — — — Dry Measures — 4 — 1 AUTOMATIC LIQUID MEASURING DEVICES bIETERS Inlet one inch or less Gasoline 1 192 7 2 Oil and Grease — 108 4 3 Inlet more than one inch Vehicle Tank Meter System 4 55 — — Bulk Storage 4 12 2 — PUMPS—KEROSENE—OIL—GREASE Stops on Pumps — — — Oil Pumps — 27 3 — LINEAR MEASURE Yard Sticks — 28 — 5 Cloth measuring Devices — — — — Taxi Meters — 24 — 5 TOTALS 65 1809 29 122 TRIAL WEIGHINGS Total No. Number Incorrect Tested Correct Under Over Bread 374 356 3 15 Coal in Paper Bags 63 63 — — Coal in Transit 5 — — 5 Confectionery 74 67 — 7 Diy. Commodities 227 219 5 3 Fruits and Vegetables 563 463 19 81 Kindling Wood in Paper 36 36 — — Meats and Provisions 138 128 — 10 Butter 261 243 2 16 Coke in Paper Bags 30 30 — — Charcoal (in paper bags) 24 24 — — TOTALS 1795 1629 29 137 132 INSPECTIONS Pedlars Licenses 43 Coal Certificates 6 Milk Jars 36 Marking of Bread 374 Marking of Food Packages 1254 Marking of Coal in Paper Bags 63 Paper Cartons 16 Junk Scales 2 Ice Scales 10 Transient Vendors 2 Miscellaneous 69 Pedlars Scales 10 Oil Jars 1038 Milk Jars 36 TOTALS 2959 TESTS Retest of Gas Devices 12 Milk Jars 25 Oil Jars 13 Paper Cartons 9 Miscellaneous 1 TOTALS 60 My thanks are extended to the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Heads of the various Departments for the courtesy and co-operation extended over the past year. Respectfully yours J. FRANK AHEARN, Sealer of Weights and Measures ANNUAI. REPORT OF THE WATERTOWN HOUSING AUTHORITY-1950 To the Members of the Watertown Housing Authority: As required in the By-Laws of the Watertown Housing Authority, I submit herewith report of the activities of your Authority for the year ending December 31, 1950. liember Personnel At the Annual Town Election held on the first Monday in March 1950, Everett A. Kelley was elected to succeed himself as a Member of this Authority for a term of one year. William E. Maloney was elected for a term of five years. 133 At the Annual Meeting of this Authority held on April 3, 1950, the Authority composition was as follows: CHESTER H. PARKER, Chairman SEBASTIAN TANGUSSO, Vice-Chairman EVERETT A. KELLEY, Treasurer WILLIAM E. MALONEY, Asst. Treasurer CHARLES F. SHAW, At a meeting of the Authority held on October 30, 1950, Chester H. Parker, submitted his resignation due to health and business. Sebastian Tangusso became Ghairma.n, Pro Tempore. At a meeting held November 6, 1950, Charles F. Shaw was elected Chairman of the Watertown Authority. Chapter 372-R The American Legion Home, numbered 215 Mt. Auburn St. which had been turned over to the former Emergency Veterans Committee in 1947 for conversion into four dwelling units, was vacated, completely restored by this Authority and returned to the American Legion on October 1, 1950. The Municipal Garage, numbered 124 Orchard St. containing three dwelling units, was vacated and the premises returned to the Town on October 1, 1950. The Grant School numbered 15 Whites Avenue, containing nine dwelling units, is fully rented. Five of the tenants are not Veterans of World War II. It is recommended that this property be returned to the Town, free of tenants, at the earliest possible moment. In connection with bhe operation of the American Legion, Municipal Garage and Grant School, income and expenses were as follows: Income Expenses Profit Loss Legion Building 1059.97 2613.74 1653.77 Municipal Garage 1080.00 748.67 331.33 Grant School 5015.82 3426.58 1589.24 1920.57 1653.77 266.80 It will be noted that the American Legion showed a substantial loss which was due to cost of restoration of the premises in the amount of $1368.71. Chapter 200-1 As of January 1, 1950, the twenty-four (24) brick dwelling units on Lexington St. and Darch Rd. built under Chapter 372 were transferred and included in the capital investment of State-Aided Veterans Project Watertown 200-1 and the Town of Watertown completely reimbursed for monies borrowed for the construction of the 24 units under Chapter 372. 134 Construction of the 144 dwelling units under Chapter 200-1 con- tinued during the year 1950. The contract with the Calumet Construc- tion Co. called for completion on May 5, 1950; as' of December 31, 1950 approximately 1% of the work remained uncompleted. Dwelling units were delivered by the contractor for occupancy by Veterans as follows: August 1, 1950 54 units October 1, 1950 38 units Oct. 15-Nov. 15, 1950 52 units For the year ending December 31, 1950, the income and expenses for the administration of the project were, for accounting purposes, included in the Development cost. Development Total Development Cost to date $1,586,568.44 Less Contract Retentions $36,351.25 Withholding 365.20 Interest 6,312.63 43,029.08 1,543,539.36 Prepaid Insurance 2,869.03 Petty Cash 25.00 Development Costs 1,543,539,36 1,546,433.39 Total Cash Received 1,640,000.00 Total Disbursements (as above) 1,546,433.39 Total Cash on hand (Development) 93,566.61 Administration Rents Received during year 37,280.61 37,280.61 Expenses Management 31.97 Operating 1,459.98 Utilities 4,007.53 Repairs, Maint. Repl. 1,606.15 General 1,294.52 8,400.15 Net income from rents 28,880.46 Maintenance for 200-1 has been carefully planned. Mr. H. J. Minty was appointed Custodian on July 15, 1950. The operation, maintenance and care of the first group of dwelling units began on August 1, 1950. Financial The Union Market National Bank of Watertown continues as a Depository in connection with the following accounts: Chapter 372-R (remodelling) Chapter 200-1 Chapter 200-1 (Administrative) Chapter 200-2 135 The Second National Bank of Boston continues as Fiscal and Paying Agents in connection with.Temporary Borrowings, and for the purchase and Sale of U. S. Treasury Bills. A nominal balance of $1,000 each for 200-1 and 200-2 is kept in the Second National Bank., all other working capital is deposited in the Union Market National Bank. Balances are kept at a minimum consistent with meeting current bills and the balances of temporary borrowings are used for the purchase of U.S. Treasury Bills—in this way the interest costs on borrowings are kept at a minimum. Statements and Auditing Monthly statements are rendered to your Treasurer and the State Housing Board: Periodical audits are made by the State Housing Board and the State Division of accounts. The books and balances have always been found to be correct and in order. State-Aided Project Watertown 200-2 On June 5, 1950 this Authority entered into a Financial Assistance Contract with the State Housing Board in the amount of $732,000. covering the acquisition of a site on Melendy and Nichols Aves. and Quimby St., Watertown, and the construction thereon of 60 dwelling units, fireproof construction, three story high, contains twenty-eight 3-bedroom and thirty-two 2-bedroom apartments. Order of Taking was signed on September 11, 1950 for parcels of land required for the Project. At a Town Meeting held on May 8, 1950, the Zoning Ordinances covering parcels needed for the project were changed from a "General Residence District" to "Apartment District". With the exception of the Buchan property, all parcels of land needed for the Project 200-2 were purchased at a price satisfactory to the State Housing Board, the Seller and this Authority. Tenant Selection Veterans occupying Project 200-1 based on their discharge or Inactive Duty papers reveal the following: Coast Guard 3 U. S. Marine Corps 12 U. S. Navy 48 U. S. Army 120 Of the above number, one Veteran is of World War I and the others of World War II. There are three widows of World War II Veterans. There are approximately 400 applications on file for consideration for vacancies if and when they occur, or for new construction, if and when built. Thirty of the Veterans due to low income or large family com- position are paying in the form of rent less than carrying charge; fortunately the balance of the tenants' income is sufficiently large 136 to offset their low rent. Our present gross income is running at the rate of approximately $84,000 per annum, with the possibility of an increase due to higher wages being received by the Veterans. In the original Preliminary Estimate of Average Annual Expense and minimum average rent, the State Housing Board estimated that it would be called upon to subsidize the Project in the amount of approx- imately $40,000 per annum. It is believed that this subsidy can be reduced to not over $8,000 for the ensuing year. Rents are increased or decreased from time to time, based on State Housing Board formula of income and family composition and which is substantiated by income statements from employers. The total population in Project 200-1 as of December 31, 1950 was 689 made up of 273 adults and 416 children. Family compositions were as follows: Families of Three Four Five Six Seven Eight 48 68 33 10 2 4 With the event of Federal Regulations which require down payments in connection with purchase of home by Veterans of World War II, it becomes increasingly evident that the need for State-Aided housing becomes increasingly necessary. Due to increased cost of living, the admission limitations of $3250 for two or less children, and $3500 for three or more children impose a hardship not foreseen at the time these admission limitations were imposed. Looking to the future construction of State-Aided Housing based on forty year amortization and low income of Veterans, building costs will reach the point where Capital Investment will be higher than is justified in carrying out the State-Aided Veterans Housing Projects based on present formula for admission. State Housing Board During the year, the State Housing Board has continued to offer advice and counsel when ever required. They have been cooperative to the highest degree. Authority Members and Town Executives I desire to express my appreciation to all concerned for advice, counsel and assistance given to this Authority during the year 1950. Your Chairmen, Chester H. Parker and Charles F. Shaw have de- voted many hours over and above normal expectations in carrying out the mission of this Authority (without remuneration) during the Development stage of 200-1 and its operation, as well as 200-2. Respectfully submitted, A. ERIC SALSBURG, Secretary and Executive Director, 137 REPORT OF THE COLLECTOR OF TAXES I respectfully submit the following report relative to the collection of taxes, assessments, motor vehicle excises, and water charges for the year of 1950. 1950 Real Estate Taxes Commitment June 21, 1950 $2,501,084.77 Commitment December 20, 1950 239.40 Refunds 9,279.32 To be refunded 1.76 $2,510,60525 Paid to Treasurer $2,405,326.92 Abatements 38,971.55 Credit by Tax Titles 1,686.15 2,445,994.62 Balance January 1, 1951 $ 64,620.63 1950 Personal Taxes Commitment June 21, 1950 $170,897.58 Commitment December 20, 1950 126.00 Refunds 31.50 $171,055.08 Paid to Treasurer $161,436.05 Abatements 982.80 $162,418.85 Balance January 1, 1951 $ 8,636.23 1950 Poll Taxes Commitment March 23, 1950 $24,652.00 Commitment May 22, 1950 122.00 Commitment October 11, 1950 92.00 Commitment December 27, 1950 12.00 Refunds 32.00 $24,910.00 Paid to Treasurer $21,920.00 Abatements 2,898.00 $24,818.00 Balance January 1, 1951 $ 92.00 1950 Motor Vehicle Excises Commitment April 26, 1950 $ 72,640.82 Commitment May 29, 1950 31,017.40 Commitment August 1, 1950 40,397.88 Commitment October 5, 1950 52,824.74 Commitment November 13, 1950 20,667.78 Commitment December 8, 1950 11,196.34 Commitment December 29, 1950 2,406.95 Refunds 3,358.35 To be refunded 171.20 $234,681.46 Paid to Treasurer $210,924.94 Abatements 10,116.98 $221,041.92 Balance January 1, 1951 $13,639.54 138 1949 Real Estate Taxes Balance January 1, 1950 $53,108.88 Refunds 5,077.92. $58,186.80 Paid to Treasurer $51,102.58 Abatements 4,943.58 Credit by Tax Titles 2,140.64 $58,186.80 Balance, January 1, 1951 .00 1949 Personal Taxes Balance January 1, 1950 $5,472.79 $5,472.79 Paid to Treasurer $4,845.49 Abatements 627.30 $5,472.79 Balance January 1, 1951 '00 1949 Poll Taxes Balance January 1, 1950 $6.00 $6.00 Paid to Treasurer $4•00 Abatement 2.00 $6.00 Balance January 1, 1951 •00 1949 Motor Vehicle Excises Balance January 1, 1950 $10,388.31 Commitment January 25, 1950 1,258.02 Commitment February 21, 1950 139.45 Refunds 662.73 $12,448.51 Paid to Treasurer $ 9,965.41 Abatements 2,483.10 $12,448.51 Balance January 1, 1951 .00 1948 Real Estate Balance January 1, 1950 .00 Refunds $ 4,294.20 $4,294.20 Abatements $ 4,294.20 $4,294.20 Balance January 1, 1951 .00 Water Charges Balance January 1, 1950 $ 10,194.03 -Con;mitments 220,663.56 Refunds 751.58 139 To be refunded 4.47 $231,613.64 Paid to Treasurer $214,595.82 Abatements 219.38 $214,815.20 Balance January 1, 1951 $ 16,798.44 TOTAL PAYMENT TO TREASURER BY COLLECTOR OF TAXES 1950 Real Estate Taxes $2,405,326.92 Interest $538.24 1950 Personal Taxes 161,436.05 Interest 49.08 1950 Poll Taxes 21,920.00 Interest 8.85 1950 Motor Vehicle Excises 210,924.94 Interest 58.07 1949 Real Estate Taxes 51,102.58 Interest 875.16 1949 Personal Taxes 4,845.49 Interest 42.48 1949 Poll Taxes 4•00 1949 Motor Vehicle Excises 9,965.41 Interest 44•04 $2,865,525.39 Receipts from Total Interest $1,615.92 Receipts from Costs 1,460.40 Receipts from Statements of Lien 398.00 Receipts from Unapportioned Sidewalk Assessments paid in advance 1,306.79 Receipts from Unapportioned Street Assessments paid in advance 4,053.20 Receipts from Apportioned Sidewalk Assessments paid in advance 408.99 Receipts from Apportioned Street Assessments paid in advance 1,035.64 Receipts from Interest on Assessments 17.47 Receipts from Water Charges 214,595.82 Paid After Abatement 30.80 Total paid to Treasurer during 1950 $3,090,448.42 JOHN J. KENNEDY, Collector of Taxes. Approved: December 31, 1950 W. W. NORCROSS, JR. Auditor 140 REPORT OF THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT Gentlemen:— The following report relating to work done and money expended by this department for the year ending December 31, 1950 is respectfully submitted. Highway Appropriations Pay rolls $359,000.00 Highway overtime 5,000.00 Highway construction 24,456.00 Highway Maintenance 30,000.00 General Maintenance 32,212.46 Highway Superintendent 5,400.00 Highway Assistant Superintendent 4,600.00 Highway Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Highway Senior Clerk 2,160.00 Highway Office 472.00 Highway Vacations 17,428.00 Snow & Ice (Materials) 10,400.00 Snow & Ice Overtime & Trucking 12,000.00 Highway Equipment 10,728.00 Highway Truck Fire 1,556.99 Highway Garage Repairs 1,000.()0 Out of State Travel 200.00 Chapter 90 Construction Appropriated by Town $101000.00 Rec'd from State & County 19,597.55 29,597.55 Sewer Construction 7,685.00 Sewer Maintenance 4,000.00 Sidewalk Construction 3,500.00 Sidewalk Maintenance 3,000.00 Garbage 2,000.00 Ashes & Papers 3,000.00 Drainage 19,755.00 Betterments 21,520.01 $613,191.01 TOTAL EXPENDITURES 590,426.86 BALANCE $22,764.15 Personnel Name Entered Town Employ Retired Beirne, Matthew March 7, 1921 July 10, 1950 Deceased During 1950 Name Entered Town Employ Deceased Colligan, John J. June 28, 1929 July 4, 1950 Connors, Wm. H. October 31, 1949 April 22, 1950 141 Highway Construction Street From To Cost Baptist Walk Parking Area Mt. Auburn Street Spring Street $1,658.57 Boyd Street Galen Street Newton Line 10,698.38 Bridge Street B. & M. R. R. Newton Line 5,581.21 Brigham Street Russell Ave. Bailey Road 4,373.18 Whitney Street Orchard Street Belmont Street 7,668.12 $29,979.46 Chapter 90 Construction A portion of Mt. Auburn Street between Lincoln Street and School Street, was reconstructed this year by the Walter Reed Corp., of Boston, Mass., who was the low bidder. It is planned to resurface Arsenal Street between the Boston Line and School Street this year under Chapter 90. Expenditures Street From To Cost Mt. Auburn Street Lincoln Street School St. $26,748.51 Balance due contractor 8,025.25 $34,773.76 Highway Maintenance We have completed the fourth year of a five year maintenance program, which I put into effect during 1947. One more year under this program, and every public street in the Town should be in very good condition. For a list of streets surfaced treated and seal coated this year refer to the Town Engineer's report. The usual amount of traffic painting, traffic and street sign instal- lations and repairs, and other miscellaneous maintenance work were carried out during the year. Expenditures Chapman Street repairs $168.00 Cleaning catch basins and drains 6,569.22 Cutting and repairing grass borders 1,290.75 Duff Street repairs 294.00 Inspector at Veterans' Housing Project 437.14 Medical Examination in connection with pensions 10.00 Painting at Legion Home 72.00 Painting shelter in Delta 156.00 Patching streets 11,377.54 Repairs to wall on Templeton Parkway 106.40 Repairing and painting fences 576.15 Repairs to Honor Roll 49.60 Repairs to Police booths and boxes 248.20 Repairs to Waverley Ave. bridge 86.00 Resurfacing North &; South Park Streets 1,449.71 142 Resurfacing Orchard Street between Common Street & Barnard Ave. 832.12 Rolling school lawn 11.60 Street cleaning 28,135.25 Street painting, street and traffic signs, also painting and repairing signs 16,231.11 Surface treatment and seal coating streets 25,215.66 Underground connections for Poles & Wire Dept. 313.60 Waltham Street repairs (at Edward Rd.) 114.40 Water Department (use of shovel and pump) 75.20 Water rates 11.34 $93,830.99 General Maintenance Expenditures Blacksmith $1,039.50 Carpenters 2,356.80 Equipment repairs and supplies 45,368.33 Expressing and freight 10.30 Fuel Oil 2,955.21 Garage Janitors 6,166.19 Garage repairs and supplies 1,886.28 Gardener 101.60 Gasoline clerk 2,537.60 Hardware supplies 987.19 Illuminating gas service 242.86 Lighting garage 1,721.86 Medical services 3•00 Repairs to Park Dept. truck and roller 95.73 Storekeeper 2,702.94 Supervisor of foremen 3,358.24 Timekeeper 2,842.00 Watchmen 9,973.31 Water rates 54.16 $84,403.10 New Equipment Expenditures 2-2 ton Ford Trucks $4,797.48 1—Sand Loader 600.00 1—Snow plow 325.00 1-3 ton Ford Truck 4,452.50 halt spreader 550.17 $10,725.15 Highway Truck Fire Expenditures Repairs to Mack truck damaged by fire $1,391.70 143 Highway Superintendent Expenditures Salary of Thomas V. Dwyer $5,400.00 Highway Assistant Superintendent Expenditures Salary of E. Hai-old Johnston $4,600.00 Highway Clerics- Expenditures Salary of Esther L. Regan $2,520.00 Salary of Frances E. Bianconi 2,160.00 4,680.00 Highway Vacations Expenditures Vacations to Employees $17,314.00 Highway Office Expenditures Advertising $ 12.25 Office supplies 112.87 Printing 165.32 Repairs to adding machine 4.40 Royal typewriter 140.00 Subscriptions, dues, etc. 16.00 Typewriter service 20.80 $471.64 Out of State Travel Expenditures Expended by Supt. of Highways $125.00 Snow & Ice Expenditures Advertising $ 2.25 Equipment hire 2,393.78 Equipment repairs and supplies 9,104.03 Meteorologist services 183.00 Salt 2,592.80 Sand 1,327.42 Sanding pay rolls 1,750.68 Snow removal pay rolls 9,247.61 Telephone service 83.37 $26,684.94 144 Ashes & Paper Expenditures Canvas covers $ 227.20 Cleaning and leveling dumps 5,595.30 Collecting 82,454.74 Gasoline 2,699.60 Printing tickets 18.00 Repairs to shelter on dump 159.60 Supplies 22.40 $91,176.84 Garbage Expenditures Advertising $ 2.25 Collecting 57,326.88 Garbage pails 486.70 Gasoline 1,499.97 Water rates 9.80 $59,325.60 Betterments Street From To Cost Edward Road Main St. Waltham St. $7,941.17 King Street Warren St. Madison Ave. Madison Ave. Private land Private land 14,905.57 Sparkill Street Belmont St. Madison Ave. Westminster Ave. Warren St. Orchard St. 8,417.23 $31,263.97 Drainage Expenditures Acton Street $ 723.61 Aldrich Road 4,833.75 Baptist Walk 71.23 B. & M. drain easement 12.00 Bradshaw Street 989.66 Bridge Street 62.35 Broadway 114.00 Brigham Street 58.46 Brookline Street 1,234.83 Edward Road 6,231.25 Gertrude Street 3,958.93 Grove Street repairs 604.80 King Street 2,827.18 Longfellow Road (easement to Ridgelawn Cemetery) 777.31 Madison Ave. 2,410.59 Robbins Road 70.29 Sparkill Street 5,372.54 145 Victory Field 1,857.65 Water Street 556.97 Westminster Ave. 9,127.18 Whitney Street 235.85 Winsor Avenue repairs 40.00 $42,170.43 Pipe in stock Jan. 1, 1951 1,649.61 Castings in stock Jan. 1, 1951 1,164.24 $44,984.28 Sidewalk Construction Expenditures Granolithic walks $4,471.00 Sidewalk Maintenance Expenditures Asphalt walks and borders repaired $11,633.09 Granolithic walks repaired 249.91 Setting and removing curbing 394.20 Loaming grass borders 3,309.50 $15,586.70 Sewer Construction Expenditures Aldrich Road $2,509.97 Bradshaw Street 790.09 Broadway 508.64 Edenfield Avenue 1,219.59 Falmouth Road 1,655.57 Gilbert Street 263.83 Gill Road 269.80 Gleason Street 471.66 King Street 1,360.29 Madison Avenue 296.00 Tappen Avenue 446.34 Westminster Avenue 1,035.06 $10,826.84 Pipe in stock Jan. 1, 1951 1,368.35 Castings in stock Jan. 1, 1951 843.48 $13,038.67 Sewer Maintenance Expenditures Cleaning Siphons $ 201.10 House connections 13,036.92 146 Dead end connections 516.40 Stoppage and flushings 10,470.89 $24,225.31 I wish to express my sincere thanks to the Board of Selectmen, officials and members of the other Town Departments, and the per- sonnel of the Highway Department, for their cooperation in the administration of this department for the year ending 1950. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS V. DWYER. Superintendent of Highways REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT To the Inhabitants of Watertown: The following annual report is submitted by Town Clerk George B. Wellman. The Department collected the sum of $9,677.45. Of this amount, $2,981.00 was for Conservation Licenses, and $2,703.00 was for dog licenses. Selectmen's Fees As Receiver of Fees for the Board of Selectmen, the Office of Town Clerk collected the sum of $35,782.50, a slight decline over the preceding year. Vital Statistics At the time of writing of this report, records of births and deaths are still being received from outside communities. The present record shows a total of 775 births. Of this number, 771 births took place in hospitals without the town, and only four births took place within the community. . There was an increase in the number of marriage intentions filed, the number for 1950 being 511, representing an increase of 21 over 1949. The number of Watertown residents, at this report, who died in Watertown, totaled 167. The number of Watertown residents who died outside the community, totaled 163. A total of 16 non-residents died in tlifs town. The report of fees and licenses collected follows: Fees and Licenses Collected in the Office of the Town Clerk for Year 1950 Fees Collected Marriage permits $1020.00 Chattels recorded 1885.35 Chattel Discharges recorded 211.25 147 Notations on chattels 4.50 Birth certificates 173.00 Death certificates 193.50 Voters' certificates 26.50 Business certificates 100.50 Marriage certificates 51.50 Miscellaneous - 112.60 Pole Locations 59.75 Renewals of Gasolene permits 155.00 $3,993.45 Conservation Licenses Fishing licenses 1654.00 Hunting licenses 340.00 Sporting licenses 793.00 Minor or Female Fishing licenses 152.50 Resident Trapping licenses 21.00 Non-resident Fishing licenses 6.00 Resident Alien Fishing licenses 10.50 Duplicate licenses 2.00 Non-Resident Gov't. Sporting license 2.00 $2981.00 There were 1398 licenses issued for the Department of Conservation and fees totaling $34325 were turned into the Town Treasury. The balance—$2635.75 was mailed to the Department of Conservation, 15 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Dog Licenses Male dog licenses $1416.00 Female dog licenses 425.00 Spayed female dog licenses 782.00 Kennel licenses 80.00 Military license (no charge) $2,703.00 There were 1184 dog licenses issued, 8 Kennel licenses and one free military license. The Gross amount collected was turned over to the Town Treasurer, but a fee of twenty cents for writing each license is retained by the Town. I have examined the accounts of the Town Clerk's Department, and have found them to be correct. W. W. NORCROISS, JR., Auditor, Town of Watertown Fees for Licenses Issued by the Selectmen and collected in the office of the Town Clerk for the year 1950 Weekly theatre permits $ 101.00 Victualler and Coffee house licenses 405.00 Liquor licenses 31,550.00 Miscellaneous permits 90.50 Gasolene advertisements 48.00 Auto dealers' licenses 725.00 Pin ball permits 920.00 148 Lodging house permits 48.00 Music box permits 1075.00 Junk, Second hand, auctioneer, etc. 386.00 One Day Beer, Pedler's Ctfs. 163.00 Gasolene registrations 40.00 Sunday Sales 200.00 Sound wagon permits 7.50 Employment agency 2.00 Parking lot permit 21.50 $35,782.50 The amount collected-05,782.50—has been turned into Town Treasury and receipts for same are on file in this office. GEORGE B. WELLMAN, Town Clerk Ihave examined the accounts concerning the fees collected in the office of the Town Clerk for licenses issued by the Selectmen, and find them to be correct. January 5, 1951. W. W. NORCROSS, JR., Auditor, Town of Watertown. Microfilming of Vital Records The Town Clerk is fully cognizant of the inestimable value of vital statistic records, such as birth, marriage and death records, as well as town meeting records, and other documents. There is no record more necessary to the average person today than his birth record. The Town Clerk feels, and so recommends, that consideration be given to the microfilming of the most important records, with the filming to be done in duplicate, one complete set of films to be stored in some distant location, Watertown is located in .the heart of Metropolitan Boston, and Boston from a defense viewpoint is listed as vulnerable. Therefor, as your clerk, I feel that it is absolutely necessary to at least begin the microfilming and duplicating of records for their preservation and storage. More Space Needed With the past few years bringing about a greatly increased amount of detail in the office of the Town Clerk, with particular reference to the Election and Listing Departments, I again recommend that more adequate quarters be provided, and that the office be moved to the street floor of the Administration Building to more efficiently handle the laage amount of traffic with the general public. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE B. WELLMAN, Town Clerk 149 REPORT OF THE TOWN ENGINEER December 31, 1950 To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Gentlemen: I herewith submit the following annual report of the Engineering Department for the year ending December 31, 1950. The personnel of this department at the present time is as follows; Herbert C. Cook, Town Engineer, Grade V James H. Sullivan, Jr., Civil Engineer, Grade IV Walter L. Hetherington, Jr., Civil Engineer, Grade III Martin H. McGann, Jr., Jr. Civil Engineer, Grade III Joseph P. McHugh, Sr. Engineering Aide, Grade II Ralph E. Nolan, Sr. Engineering Aide, Grade II Joseph E. Tierney. Jr. Engineering Aide, Grade I Louis Manno, Jr. Engineering Aide, Grade I Joseph Hagopian, Jr. Engineering Aide, Grade I Assessor's Department The Engineering Department each year locates and measures new houses, buildings and additions to present structures and plots them on plans in our office, the Assesor' office and on plans in the office of the Building Inspector. This department also plots on the above mentioned plans, new lots and subdivisions of land directly by deed descriptions or by plans sent here from the Registry of Deeds and Land Court. These assessors' plans show each parcel of land, areas of same, all buildings, and house and lot numbers. When requested by the Board of Assessors, areas of land and areas and volumes of buildings are also computed. Town Counsel NumerctLs reports, descriptions and plans of rounding of corners, easements and land takings have been made for the Town Counsel during the past year. Many times this department is called upon to make a report in addition to drawing plans and descriptions of defective walks and roadways where people have tripped and fallen and have brought suit against the town to recover damages. If such a case goes to court, a member of this department, who examined the alleged de- fect, appears in court as a witness. Registry'of Deeds During the year members of the Engineering Department have made several trips to the Registry of Deeds in Cambridge for the purpose of looking up deeds and land plans. Water Department Lines and grades were given to the Water Department during the past year including the lines and grades necessary for the Veteran's Housing Project water system. 150 Police Department Automobile speed traps were laid out, and surveys and plans of scenes of fatal accidents were made for the Police Department. Also plans were drawn of several dangerous street intersections where it was thought advisable to install stop signs. Plans of scenes of fatal accidents are identified in court by a mem- ber of this department. School Department Estimates and plans were made for the construction of a com- bination tennis court, basketball court and ice skating rink at the Browne School. Lines and grades were furnished the contractor by this department. Mt. Auburn Street (Chapter 90) The reconstruction of Mt. Auburn St. was continued from Lincoln St. to School St. with additional drainage being laid. The preliminary field surveys were made by the Middlesex County Engineering Depart- ment and my department supplied engineering help and final supervision during the construction of the roadway. In addition to the reconstruc- tion of the roadway and new drainage, new curbing was laid and sidewalks repaired. Sidewalk, Street Repairs and Highway Maintenance During the year, in addition to the construction of new sidewalks and roadways, minor sidewalk repairs were done by contractors and the work of maintaining highways was done by the Highway Depart- ment. This maintenance consisted of patching and seal coating highway surfaces and sidewalks. Gutters were reconstructed so that the surface water would drain off. North End Fire Station This department made a topographical plan of the site of the new fine station and supplied the architect with information when requested. A new drain was constructed on Bradshaw St. and Loomis Ave. at the rear of the station to take care of roof water from the new building. Veteran's Housing Project The Engineering Department was responsible for the design, supervision and engineering under terms of contract with Calumet Construction Company, in the establishment of lines and grades and proper construction of sewers, sewer connections, drains, sewer and drain manholes, c,,itchbasins and water mains. This project is now complete and the completed sewer and drainage system has been made part of the Engineering Department records. Baptist Walk Parking Area A new parking area on Baptist Walk was built this year by the Highway Department. Plans, estimates, lines and grades for the con- struction were furnished by this department. This parking area has somewhat relieved the parking problem in Watertown Square. 151 Ridgelawn Cemetery New sections were laid out for cemetery graves and a munber of graves were staked out during the past year by members of this office. A 15" V.C. drain was constructed from Longfellow Road (Waltham) through an easement to relieve a drainage problem that existed on the new addition to Ridgelawn Cemetery. Board of Survey Lines and grades were established on the following streets: From To Acton Street West of Buick St. West of Brandley Rd. Bridge Street Waltham Street Buick Street Buick Street Bridge Street Acton Street Jensen Road Waltham Street Acton Street Maude Terrace Summer Street Dead End Park Department Plans where drawn and estimates were furnished for the construction of a combination tennis court, basketball court and ice skating mink with surrounding grading and chain link fence at How Park. This project was provided with engineering and supervision during construction. During the year numerous requests of the Park Department for the layout of baseball diamonds, football gridirons and skating rinks were taken care of by this department. Planning Board During the year this department furnished descriptions of zoning changes to the Planning Board. Plans and charts used for the Attorney General's office and Town Meeting were also furnished. The approved zoning changes are properly recorded on the approved zoning maps. Building Inspector's Department The office of the Building Inspector is ftumished with the official numbering for houses and buildings in the issuance of permits to build or remodel. The set of prints of the Building Department is kept up to date the same as the Assessor's Department and the Engineering Department plans. Town Meeting Charts are furnished the Town Meeting covering various articles that appear in-the Town Warrant. Various individuals and depart- ments make the .requests for these charts. Military Service of the United States Joseph P. McHugh, a Senior Engineering Aide, Grade II will enter the U. S. Army effective January 10, 1951. He will be on Military leave effective on this date. 152 Miscellaneous The usual number of surveys, plans, and reports have been pre- pared for the Board of Selectmen, Board of Health, Watertown Veteran's Housing Authority and other town departments. We have also given a normal amount of street lines and grades to property owners and others as requested. This department has during the year given street line data, etc., to private engineers and surveyors. Street lines, house numbers, sewer and drain locations and general engineering information has been given to the public whenever such information was requested. Numerous requests by outside engineering departments for information has been answered by mail. I wish to express my appreciation to the Board of Selectmen, Highway Department, all other Municipal Boards, Department heads and to the personnel of the Engineering Department for the cooperation given to me this past year. Respectfully submitted, HERBERT C. COOK, Town Engineer Asphalt Sidewalks Constructed During 1950 by the Highway Department Length Sq. Ft. Sq. Ft. Feet 2" Depth 3" Depth Belmont Street 124 746 — Bridge Street 153 984 — Cross Street 46 230 — Marion Road 127 535 126 Whitney Street 225 1525 244 Totals 675 4020 370 Granolithic Sidewalks Constructed During 1950 by the Highway Dept. Length Sq. Ft. Sq. Ft. Feet 4" Depth 6" Depth Mt. Auburn Street (At Adams St.) 75 754 — Otis Street; 657 3225 498 Total 732 3979 498 Asphalt Sidewalks Constructed During 1950 by Contractors Length Sq. Ft. Sq. Ft. Feet 2" Depth 3" Depth Darch Road 1080 5400 — Duff Street 180 900 — Lexington Street 240 1200 — Robert Ford Road 1500 7500 — Totals 3000 15000 153 Curbing Laid During 1950 by the Highway Department Radius Straight Corner Feet Feet Blocks Granite Curb: Belmont Street — 22 2 Bridge Street 59 12 — Cross Street — 39 — Edward Road 150 36 — King Street 384 84 — Madison Avenue 88 24 — Mt. Auburn Street 11 47 — Otis Street 38 — — Sparkill Street 352 96 — Westminster Avenue 418 108 — Totals 1500 468 2 Concrete Curb: Brigham Street — 6 — King Street 61 — — Whitney Street 136 60 — Totals 197 66 Curbing Laid During 1950 by Contractors Radius Straight Feet Feet Granite Curb: Boyd Street 192 60 Darch Road 120 18 Duff Street 20 6 Lexington Street 25 12 Robert Ford Road 280 42 Totals 637 138 Sewers Built in 1950 by the Highway Department Size in Number of Length Inches S.M.H.'s Aldrich Road 600 8 5 Bradford Road 34 6 — Bradshaw Street 155 8 1 Broadway 110 6 1 Edenfield Avenue 210 6 3 Falmouth Road 447 8 4 Gill Road 32 6 1 Gleason Street 185 6 2 King Street 194 8 — Madison Avenue 103 8 1 Midland Road 37 8 — Tappan Avenue 167 6 1 Westminster Avenue 236 8 3 Totals 2510 22 154 c 0 02 o a � U a� b Ul $4 w O o U O .+ to tO to O G� m 0 O) M to -4 14 -4 -t W rn 0 U 0 N N N cq 'CSCD U U 4.4 ccl c ~' U U y CO O M CD O O co CO � 00 �W O Cd w� o r � vi qz 0 N '3 Cd 49 Cd Cd 'O N y r aZ U 'C O ill 4-a U1 o isD F' 4: cd O cd 4.1 o � +; .a o 0 � m o r. o .. M � .� � ztPU d' W ►�i � U1 155 Drainage Built During 1950 by the Highway Department a •� .� ° aC, " a qq ..4q ��i inr� x xU a Aid Acton Street (Morton to Oakland) 113 12 1 — — Aldrich Road 338 12 6 10 — Baptist Walk 16C.I. — — 1 — Bradshaw Street 287 12 1 — — Bridge Street (At Pleasant St.) — — — 1 — Brigham Street — — — 1 — Brookline Street 32 24 Con. 1 — — Chapman Street 394 12 1 — — Edward Road 924 12 V.C. 7 18 — 276 12 Con. — — — Gertrude Street (Relaid) 252 18 1 — 6 239 15 — — — King Street 519 12 3 6 — Longfelloaw Road (Waltham) Easement 134 15 — — — Loomis Avenue 39 12 1 — — Madison Avenue 321 12 2 6 — Mt. Auburn Street (At Otis St.) Robbins Road — Sparkill Street 736 12 3 10 — Victory Field 385 42 2 — — Watertown Street 24 10 1 — — Westminster Avenue 992 12 6 14 — Whitney Street — — — 2 — Totals 6021 36 70 7 Drainage Built During 1950 by Contractors CS M ° � r a`d Boyd Street 398 12 3 3 — Darch Road 370 12 3 6 -- Mt. Auburn Street (At Spruce St.) 62 18 — — -- Robert Ford Road 780 12 5 8 — Totals 1610 11 17 Streets Built During 1950 by the Highway Department Bituminous Concrete: Length Street From To Feet Edward Road Waltham Street Main Street 1590 156 Streets Built During 1950 by the Ilighway Department Gravel and Oil: Length Street From To Feet Baptist Walk (Prk. Area) Mt. Auburn St. Spring Street 215 Westminster Avenue Warren Street Orchard Street 1440 Sparkill Street Belmont Street Madison Avenue 1080 Madison Avenue Private Land Private Land 426 King Street Warren Street Madison Avenue 813 3974 Public Streets Resurfaced During 1950 by the Ilighway Department Bituminous Concrete: Length in Street From To Feet Bridge Street B. & M. R. R. Newton Line 310 North Park Street Morse Street Boyd St. (Newton) 270 Orchard Street Common Street Barnard Avenue 540 South Park Street Morse Street Boyd St. (Newton) 275 Total 1395 Public Streets Reconstructed During 1950 by the IIighway Department Bituminous Concrete: Length in Street From To Feet Brigham Street Russell Avenue Bailey Road 645 Whitney Street Orchard Street Belmont Street 685 Total 1330 Public and Private Streets Constructed During 1950 by Contractors Bituminous Concrete: Length in Street From To Feet Boyd Street Galen Street Newton Line 1000 Darch Road Duff Street Darch Road 528 Duff Street Duff Street Darch Road 127 Robert Ford Road Lexington Street Darch Road 775 Mt. Auburn St. (Ch. 90) Lincoln Street School St. 2540 Total 4970 Streets That Were Seal Coated or Surface Treated During 1950 Length Street From To Feet Arlington Street Mt. Auburn Street Belmont Street 1600 Belmont Street Duff Street Waltham Line 2000 Chapman St. Ext. Highland Avenue Warren Street 650 Chester Street Mt. Auburn Street Washburn Street 660 157 Church Street Palfrey Street Marion Road 800 Common Street Orchard Street Mai-ion Road 900 Copeland St. Ext. Highland Avenue Grandview Ave. 300 Cross Street Main Street Pleasant Street 300 Dewey Street Arlington Street Prentiss Street 490 Gertrude Street Waverley Avenue Westminster Ave. 440 Grandview Avenue Gilbert Street Copeland Street 921 Grenville Road Common Street Marcia Road 840 Hawthorne Street Pearl Street Dead End 400 Highland Avenue Lexington Street Waltham Line 2760 Irving Street North Beacon St. Charles River Rd. 1250 James Street Holt Street Perry Street 362 Lexington Street Main Street Bancroft Street 1300 Marshall Street Church Street Mt. Auburn Street 1100 Morse Street Galen Street Watertown St. 1980 Orchard Street Lowell Avenue Lexington Street 750 Otis Street Mt. Auburn Street Washburn Street 555 Perry Street Sycamore Street Russell Street 565 Pleasant Street Watertown Square Bridge Street 5300 Rosedale Road Acton Street Waltham Street 650 School Street Flint Road Belmont Street 850 Shattuck Road School Street Stoneleigh Rd 770 Spring Street Main Street Common Street 2150 Walnut Street Franklin Street School Street 2000 Waltham Street Stanley Avenue Waltham Line 1400 Warren Street Lexington Street Waltham Line 3600 Total 37643 Total Length of Public Streets and Various Construction Bituminous Concrete and Sheet Asphalt . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.29 Miles Bituminous Macadam . . . . .. . . . . . ... . . . . .... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 21.32 Miles Concrete (Cement) . . . ..... . . . . . . ... . . ....... . . .. . ... . . . . 1.82 Miles Gravel and Oil .. . .. . . . ... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. ... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 11.26 Miles Total 64.69 Miles Total Length of Streets Public Ways . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.69 Miles Private Ways . . . .. . . . . . . .. ... . . . ... . .. . . . . .... . . . . . .. . . . . . . 7.84 Miles Total 72.53 Miles Private Sewer Connections During 1950 Number of sewer connections located . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 129 Total length of sewer connections located . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . 4800 Ft. The sewer system of Watertown is now sixty-seven and sixty-seven hundredths (67.67) miles long and has seven thousand and forty-six (7,046) sewer connections. Drainage The drainage system of Watertown is now fifty-four and one (54.01) hundredths miles long and has two thousand eight hundred and seventy-three (2873) catchbasins. 158 Miscellaneous Data — 1950 Area of Town: Land . . . . . . .... . . .. . . .. . . ..... . . . . .... . . .. ... .. . . . .. 2598.43 Acres Water .. . . . . .. .. . . . ... .. . . ... .... . . ..... . . . . .. . . . . . . . 66.15 Acres Total . . . ... .. . . . . . . ... . . . .. . .. . . . . 2664.58 Acres or 4.163 Sq. Miles Extent of Town, North and South . . . . .... . . . .. ... 1.84 Miles Extent of Town, East and West . . . .. . . . . ... . . . . . . .. . . 3.81 Miles Area of Public Grounds .. . . . . . . . . ... . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . About 137 Acres Area of Metropolitan Park Land .. . . .. .. .. . . . . .. . . About 81 Acres Length of State Road, (Main St., Bridge to Waltham Line) . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.83 Miles Length of Metropolitan Park Roadways: Charles River Road (Watertown Sq. to No. Beacon St.) .95 Mi_es Nonantum Road (Town Line to Galen St.) .34 Miles North Beacon St. (Charles River Rd. to Bridge) .44 Miles Total 1.73 Miles Elevation at Main St. and Merchants Row .. . . .. . . . . . . . . 19.19 Feet Elevation at Main St. and Waltham Line . . .. .. . . .... .. . . . . 69.00 Feet Elevation at Sycamore St. and Belmont Line .. . . . . . . . . 79.18 Feet Elevation at Church St. and Marion Road . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . 41.35 Feet Elevation at Common St. and Locke St. .. . . . . .. .. . . . . . . 201.73 Feet Elevation at Belmont St. near Mt. Auburn St. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.90 Feet Elevation at Arsenal St. and Charles River Rd. . . . . .... . . . . 21.60 Feet Elevation at Arsenal St. and Beechwood Ave. . . . . ... . . . . . 44.05 Feet Elevation at Galen St. and Williams St. (Newton Line) .. . . 51.53 Feet Total number of plans on file in Engineering Dept. about . . . . . . 14,950 Total number of index cards in Engineering Dept. about . . . . .. 17,400 REPORT OF STATE AUDIT Department of Corporations and Taxation Division of Accounts State House, Boston 33 January 29, 1951 To the Board of Selectmen Mr. H. Herbert Applin, Chairman Watertown, Massachusetts Gentlemen: I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Watertown for the period from September 17, 1949 to November 15, 1950, made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Herman B. Dine, Assistant Director of Accounts. Very truly yours, /s/FRANCIS X. LANG Director of Accounts 159 Mr. Francis X. Lang Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation State House, Boston Sir: In accordance with your instructions, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Watertown for the period from September 17, 1949, the date of the previous examination, to November 15, 1950, the report thereon as follows: The records of financial transactions of the several departments receiving or disbursing money for the town or committing bills for col- lection were examined, checked, and verified by comparison with the records of the town treasurer and the town auditor. The town auditor's general and appropriation ledger accounts were analyzed and checked in detail. The receipts, as recorded, were checked with the treasurer's books, while the recorded payments were compared with the treasurer's books and the treasury warrants. The loan orders, appropriations, and transfers, as entered, were checked with the town clerk's records of financial votes passed by the town meetings and with the finance committee's authorizations of transfers from the reserve fund. A trial balance was taken off, and a balance sheet, which is appended to this report, was prepared showing the financial condition of the town as of November 15, 1950. The books and accounts of the town treasurer were examined and checked. The recorded receipts were compared with the auditor's books, with the records of the several departments collecting money for the town, and with the other sources from which money is paid into the town treasury. The payments were checked with the auditor's books and with the selectmen's warrants authorizing the treasurer to disburse town funds. The cash book was footed, and the cash balance on November 15, 1950 was proved by reconciliation of the bank balances with statements furnished by the banks of deposit, by verification of the cash in the office, and by listing the cash memoranda. The payments on account of maturing debt and interest were verified by comparision with the amounts falling due and with the cancelled securities and coupons on file. The coupons outstanding on November 15, 1950 were listed and reconciled with the balance in the bond and coupon account as shown by a statement received from the bank. The savings bank books and securities representing the investments of the several trust, investment, and retirement funds in the custody of the town treasurer, the trustees, and the retirement board were ex- amined and listed. The income was proved and all transactions and balances were verified and checked with the books of the town auditor and, in the case of the retirement funds, with the books of the retire- ment board. The records of tax titles and tax possessions held by the town were examined and checked in detail. The amounts added to the tax title account were compared with the collector's books and the auditor's records, while the reported redemptions were checked with the receipts as entered in the treasurer's books. The tax titles and tax possessions on hand on November 15, 1950 were listed, proved, and checked with the records at the Registry of Deeds. The records of payroll deductions on account of federal taxes and for the purchase of savings bonds were examined and proved to the auditor's controlling accounts. 160 The books and accounts of the town collector were examined and checked. The taxes and assessments outstanding at the time of the previous examination and all subsequent commitment lists were audited and checked to the warrants for their collection. The recorded collec- tions were compared with the payments to the treasurer, the recorded abatements were checked with the assessors records of abatements granted, the taxes and assessments transferred to the tax title account were reconciled with the records of tax titles held by the town, and the outstanding accounts were listed and reconciled with the respective controlling accounts in the auditor's ledger. The collectors cash balance on November 15, 1950, including the petty cash advance, was verified by actual count of cash in the office. The commitments of departmental and water accounts receivable were examined and checked. The recorded receipts were checked with the payments to the treasurer as shown by the treasurer's books, the abatements were compared with the departmental records of abatements granted, and the outstanding accounts were listed, checked with the available records kept in the several departments, including the con- sumers' ledger cards on file in the water department, and reconciled with the controlling accounts in the auditor's ledger. Verification of the outstanding tax, assessment, departmental, and water accounts was made by mailing notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the books as owing money to the town, the replies received thereto indicating that the outstanding accounts, as listed, are correct. The financial records of the town clerk were examined and checked in detail. The collections on account of dog and sporting licenses issued and from marriage intention, recording fees, copies of records, and miscellaneous charged were verified and compared with the pay- ments to the town treasurer and to the Division of Fisheries and Game. The cash book was added throughout, and the cash balance on Novem- ber 15, 1950 was verified by actual count of cash in the office and by reconciliation of the bank balance with a statement furnished by the bank of deposit. The available records of departmental cash collections by the board of selectmen, the sealer of weights and measures, the inspectors of buildings, wires, and plumbing, as well as by the police, health, sewer, sanitation, highway, school, library, and cemetery departments and by all other departments in which money was collected for the town were examined and checked. The payments to the town treasurer were verified and the cash on hand in the several departments was proved by actual count. The surety bonds filed by the several town officials for the faithful performance of their duties were examined and found to be in proper form. There are appended to this report, in addition to the balance sheet, tables showing reconciliations of the treasurer's, the collectors, and the town clerk's cash, summaries of the tax, assessment, tax title, depart- mental, and water account, together with schedules showing the con- dition and transactions of the several trust, investment, and retirement funds. For the cooperation received from all the town officials during the progress of the audit, I wish, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, to express appreciation. Respectfully submitted, /s/HERMAN B. DINE Assistant Director of Accounts Annual Report OF THE AUDITOR OF THE Watertown Town o FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1950 u \ -ACC cosw AUDITOR'S REPORT I hereby present the annual report of the Financial Transactions of the Town of Watertown for the year ending December 31, 1950. The Town continues in its strong financial condition. The balance in the Excess and Deficiency account at the end of 1950 was $605,518.03 although $192,000.00 was transferred at the Annual Meeting in March. The Town Debt is only $405,000.00 of which $255,000.00 is for the Veterans' Housing project which is covered by money turned over to the Town by the Watertown Housing Authority. During the past year the regular annual examination by the De- partment of Corporations and Taxation was completed and as their reports, shown elsewhere in the Town Report, contained neither criticism or suggestions for any change, we all feel complimented in the way the financial business of the Town is conducted. The various funds in charge of the Town Treasurer, including those in the hands of the Trustees of the Public Library, have been examined and found correct. I have verified the cash in the hands of both the Town Treasurer and Town Collector. During the year, I have made examinations of the Collector's out- standing accounts and have found them in agreement with the controls in my office. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM W. NORCROSS, JR. Town Auditor Watertown, Mass. Then personally appeared the foregoing subscriber, Wm. W. Nor- cross, Jr., who made oath that the foregoing statements subscribed by him are true. GEORGE B. WELLMAN Justice of the Peace 164 FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS Year ending I)ecember 31, 1950 RECEIPTS TAXES: Real Estate 1949 50,991.32 1950 2,400,494.01 Personal 1949 4,845.49 1950 161,436.05 Polls 1949 4.00 1950 21,920.00 Motor Excise 1949 9,971.61 1950 210,924.94 From State Income Tax 247,353.88 Corporation Tax 202,281.80 Meals Tax 8,276.75 Special assessments Moth Tax 1,732.00 Sidewalks Added to tax bills 730.48 Paid in advance 408.99 Unapportioned 1,306.79 Streets Added to tax bills 1,757.63 Paid in advance 1.035.64 Unapportioned 4,053.20 Tax Titles 5,457.55 Accounts Receivable Highway Department 750.40 Infirmary Department 180.00 Garbage Contract 13,841.63 Weights & Measures 121.80 Health Department 7.571.29 Public Welfare General Relief 22,704.32 Aid Dependent Children 39,745.37 Old Age Assistance 187,146.70 School Department 167A5 Cemetery Department 11,079.68 Water Rates 214,595.82 165 FEDERAL AID FOR WELFARE 230,827.92 STATE & COUNTY AID TO HIGHWAYS 26,351.15 LOANS Anticipation of Revenue 600,000.00 Athletic Field House 59,000.00 North End Fire Station 70,000.00 PREMIUM 730.14 INTEREST Taxes 1,619.07 Special Assessments Sidewalks added to TB 201.60 Streets added to TB 522.46 Unapport Toned 17.47 Tax Titles 455.70 Accrued on Loans 98.54 Trust Funds Potter Memo Gate Fund 4.01 Library Trust Funds 371.67 Cemetery P C Fund 1,792.54 5.083.06 MISCELLANEOUS Ash & Garbage tickets 1,174.50 Board of Appeals 350.00 Building permits 1,798.00 Collector, costs 1,457.25 Liens 398.00 Dog Licenses, Middlesex Co. 1,580.18 Fire Department 68.69 General Relief 94.54 Health Department 1,224.00 Highway Department 1,104.05 Library, Fines, etc. 2,599..90 Old Chairs 12.50 Old Age Assistance 11.80 Park Department 45.73 Police Department, fines 3,534.80 Licenses & Permits 444.00 Bicycle Registrations 57.00 Telephone Commission 3.02 School, Teachers Retirement Bd. 1,477.90 Tuition 2,000.36 Vocational edue-Atinn 6,530.17 Miscellaneous 518.79 Selectmen 35,782.50 Sewers 7,377.00 Sidewalks 546.70 Tax Title Release 63.00 Tax Title, Recording fees 5.83 Town Clerk 4,335.95 Town Hall .52 Veteran's Benefit,; 105.53 Com. of Mass. 23,721.23 Veterans' Housing, ale of stoves 83.00 Water Department 506.78 166 Watertown Housing Authority 15,407.74 Weights & Measures 857.00 Wire Permits 704.50 115,982.46 Refunds Collector 18.33 Purchasing, Revolving Fund 5,208.00 Election Expense 55.00 Town Hall, Telephone 120.00 Police, Out-of-State Travel 50.00 Contingent 1.00 Health-Contagious 1,002.75 Highway, General Maintenance 612.46 Public Welfare, Contingent 5.00 General Relief 1,423.56 Aid Dependent Children 1,323.91 Old Age Assistance 5,772.09 Veteran's Benefits 1,384.30 School, Instruction 5.27 Trade & Tuition 23.71 Public Library 12.59 Park, Maintenance 89.14 Water Department 6.78 17,113.89 Taxes Paid After abatement 24.60 Veterans' Housing Fund 19,725.00 DOG FUND 2,703.00 OLD AGE ASSISTANCE - RECOVERIES 623.72 SCHOOL - Lunch Program 1,985.38 Athletic Program 3,809.74 Watertown Housing Authority 5,927.37 Deductions for Purchase of Bonds 20,823.62 Deductions for Federal Tax 180,753.50 TOTAL RECEIPTS $ 5,194,351.54 Cash on Hand, January 1, 1950 661,655.50 $ 5,856,007.04 PAYMENTS General Government Moderator 150.00 Selectmen's Department Selectmen's Salaries 3,250.00 Confidential Clerk 375.00 Private Secretary 2,520.00 Contingent 739.89 Temporary Clerk Hire 55.00 167 Auditor's Department Auditor's Salary 5,400.00 Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Senior Clerk 2,060.00 Contingent 993.94 Out-of-State Travel 163.80 Budgetary machine 262.75 Treasurer's Department Treasurer's Salary 5,400.00 Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Senior Clerk 2,160.00 Senior Clerk 2,160.00 Contingent 1,421.71 Collector's Department w Collector's Salary 5,400.00 Deputy Collector 2,520.00 Deputy Collector 2,520.00 First Clerk 2,160.00 Second Clerk 1,502.10 Contingent 1,583.63 Assessors' Department Assessors' Salaries 4,800.00 Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Senior Clerk 1,920.00 Junior Clerk-Typist 1,360.81 Contingent 3,049.06 Appellate Tax Board 614.50 Finance Committee 875.14 Legal Services Salary of Town Counsel 2,500.00 Contingent 1,928.27 Tax Title Releases 39.00 Town Clerk's Department Town Clerk's Salary 5,400.00 Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Principal Clerk & Stenog. 2,280.00 Clerk-Stenographer 1,948.76 Contingent 1,444.61 Out-Of-State Travel 200.00 Purchasing Department Agent's Salary 4,500.00 Junior Clerk 1,820.00 Contingent 999.52 Out-of-State Travel 58.90 New Duplicating Machine 533.00 Revolving Fund 5,382.97 Engineering Department Salaries 26,652.26 Contingent 1,597.54 New Automobile 1,226.20 Lighting Table 79.20 168 Election Expense 12,245.14 Registrars of Voters 1,200.00 Permanent Ass't. Registrar 2,160.00 Listing Board 1,627.76 Town Hall Department Senior Custodian 2,860.00 Junior Custodian 2,050.50 Telephone Operator 2,160.00 Relief Operator 650.00 Fuel 1,412.11 Light 1,573.98 Telephone 3,809.72 Window Shad's 93.00 Maintenance 2,969.40 Painting 495.00 Cornice Work 459.50 Planning Board 100.14 Board of Appeals 580.33 Protection of Persons & Property Police Department Chief's Salary 5,100.00 Captains' Salaries 9,000.00 Lieutenants' Salaries 15,000.00 Sergeants' Salaries 18,000.00 Patrolmen's Salaries 154,990.00 Wagon-man Clerk 3,300.00 Chauffeur-Mechanic 3,300.00 Junior Custodian 1,256.70 Stenographer-Clerk 3,300.00 Junior Clerk Stenographer 368.35 Matron 600.00 Reserve Men 6,294.50 Contingent 16,679.64 Teletype 479.43 Uniforms 3,499.15 New Radio Installations 4,500.00 Out-of-State Travel 150.00 Painting Station 487.00 New Automobiles 2,281.92 Fire Department Chief's Salary 5,100.00 Captain's Salaries 18,000.00 Lieutenants` Salaries 19,200.00 Salary of Mechanician 3,600.00 Permanent Men 181,040.74 Out-of-State Travel 100.00 Office & Room Repairs 399.54 Contingent 11,497.21 New Chief's Car 1,500.00 New Hose 1,000.00 169 Radio 1,150.00 Uniforms 2,487.20 North End Fire Station 18,336.40 Inspector of Buildings Salary of Inspector 3,864.57 Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Contingent 249.40 Transportation 300.00 Weights & Measures Salary of Sealer 3,480.00 Contingent 549.61 Moth Department Salary of Superintendent 276.73 Maintenance—Labor 5,042.64 Maintenance—Materials 1,499.87 Dutch Elm Disease 499.65 Elm Leaf Beetle—Labor 1,197.80 Elm Leaf Beetle—Materials 299.46 Poison Ivy 398.81 Tree Warden Salary of Tree Warden 2,700.00 Salary of Clerk 1,260.00 Maintenance—Labor 11,927.82 Labor—Overtime 68.73 Material & Expenses 699.53 New Trees 1,499.15 Electric Saw & Generator 695.47 Wire Department Salary of Superintendent 4,950.00 Principal Clerk 1,260.00 Extra Clerk 432.00 Maintenance—Labor 31,366.90 Material & Expenses 4,196.56 New Construction 4,296.45 Transportation 300.00 Out-of-State Travile 150.00 New Auto for Supt. 1,400.00 Dog Officer Salary of Dog Officer 500.00 Contingent 1,250.00 Dog Pound 3,383.67 Health & Sanitation Health Department Salary of Health Officer 4,950.00 Salary of Health Inspector 3,260.16 Inspector of Plumbing & Sanitation 4,500.00 Principal Clerk 2,520.00 170 Extra Clerk 346.90 Nurses' Salaries 5,760.00 Dental Clinic 4,240.50 Contagious Diseases 21,648.65 Contingent 2,475.53 Mosquito Control 200.00 Inspector of Animals 600.00 Sewer Department Construction 6,759.44 Maintenance 3,999.80 Drainage 19,748.66 Highways & Bridges Highway Department Salary of Superintendent 5,400.00 Ass't. Superintendent 4,600.00 Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Senior CIerk 2,160.00 Office Expense 471.64 Out-of-State Travel 125.00 Vacations 17,314.00 Labor 353,532.60 Overtime Labor 4,415.15 Construction 22,170.75 Betterment Construction 19,978.12 Maintenance 29,995.87 General Maintenance 32,211.73 New Equipment 10,725.15 Garage Repairs 896.25 Snow & Ice—Materials 10094.36 Snow & Ice—Overtime & Trucking 7,101.52 Chapter 90—Construction 26,723.16 Chapter 90-1949 7,402.69 Garbage Disposal 1,998.72 Ashes & Papers 2,967.20 Truck—Fire Damage 1,391.70 Street Lights 59,231.14 Sidewalk Department Construction 2,101.79 Maintenance 2,972.77 Charities & Soldiers' Benefits Public Welfare Agent's Salary 4,386.98 Principal Social Worker 3,563.35 Social Works 10,305.02 Senior Clerk 2,160.00 Senior Clerk 1,940.00 Junior Clerk 1,760.00 171 Junior Clerk 1,500.00 Junior Clerk 884.50 Contingent 3,790.71 Unpaid Bills 1,750.48 General Relief 107,307.65 Aid Dependent Children 92,211.32 A D. C.—Federal Administration 2,917.25 A. D. C—Federal Aid 29,422.15 Old Age Assistance 258,823.63 O. A. A—Federal Administration 324.04 O. A A—Federal Aid 186,454.08 Infirmary Department Salary of Keeper 1,790.00 General Expense 7,886.95 Repairs & Home Improvements 4,842.83 Physicians 1,500.00 Veterans' Benefits Salary of Agent 3,725.00 Investigator or Social Worker 2,360.00 Investigator (Part-time) 1,040.00 Junior Clerk 1,820.00 Junior Clerk 1,337.10 Office Expense 1,371.93 Car Expense 650.00 War Allowance 270.00 Veterans' Benefits 45,435.55 Schools & Libraries School Department General Control Salary of Superintendent 7,200.00 Ass't. Superintendent 5,900.00 Clerks' Salaries 4,680.00 Attendance Officers 5,760.00 Attendance Officers' Expense 500.00 Out-of-State Travel 125.00 Office Expense 473.00 Telephones 2,647.93 New England Development Council 300.00 Instruction Salaries 781,414.15 Books & Supplies 37,500.95 - Operation Salaries 55,049.34 Supplies 4,591.69 Light & Power 14,985.11 Fuel 25,981.21 School Halls 800.00 Water 248.99 Maintenance 54,765.74 New Equipment 996.52 Miscellaneous 172 Medical Salaries 9,000.00 Medical Supplies 403.17 Nurses Cars 480.00 Evening School Salaries 4,268.00 Supplies 293.99 Trade & Outside Tuition 15,995.47 Transportation 5,648.15 Juvenile Recreation 8,969.69 Ground Improvement 4,562.60 Athletic Fund—Salaries 5,309.99 Athletic Fund 5,081.21 Lunch Program Fund 1,124.56 Public Library Salaries 56,836.48 Books, Periodicals & Binding 13,079.77 Maintenance 13,508.03 Library Trust Fund Income 371.67 Recreation Park Department Salary of Superintendent 3,480.00 Salary of Clerk 200.00 Maintenance 4,131.33 Labor 16,625.60 Extra Labor 966.19 Playground Salaries 3,672.00 Floodlighting Saltonstall Park 205.99 Fence at How Park 6,683.30 Recreation 733.96 New Equipment 498.71 Drain at Victory Field 577.25 Track at Victory Field 1,500.00 Tennis Courts—Victory Field 756.12 Field House 43,316.98 Unclassified Pensions 61,180.12 Annuities 8,518.75 Printing Town Reports 2,566.90 Civil Defense 2,564.96 Contingent 2,416.44 Headquarters for Veterans Organizations 4,305.00 Memorial Day 2,990.19 Insurance 13,614.46 Freeman—Reimbursement 225.00 Workmens Compensation Salary of Agent 1,000.00 Workmens Compensation 6,627.71 Unpaid Bills 935.13 Eye-Glasses for School Children 103.50 World War Memorial—Repairs & Furniture 276.13 173 Contributory Retirement System 33,640.86 Traffic Rules Committee 140.00 Cost of Living Bonus 27,957.74 Enterprises & Cemeteries Water Department Salary of Superintendent 4,950.00 A.ss't. Superintendent 3,840.00 Reistrar 3,500.00 Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Senior Clerk 2.160.00 Construction Foreman 3.840.00 Meter Inspectors 8,640.00 Maintenance—Labor 44,200.00 Maintenance—Materials 10,141.40 Office Expense 2,460.60 Out-of-State Travel 100.00 Vacations 1,768.00 Cleaning Water Mains 1,192.59 New House Services 2,991.70 New " Meters 1,754.61 Construction & Reconstruction 6,603.23 New Dump Body & Truck 2,574.00 Renewal of Services 3,349.09 Overhead Doors for Garage 962.31 Water Liens 32.09 Large Meters 844.31 Emergency Overtime 2,209.98 Cemetery Department Salary of Superintendent 3,460.00 Labor 12,923.55 Contingent 1,256.06 New Light Truck 1,913.25 Power Trimmers 361.80 Utility Building 9,134.62 Interest & Town Debt Town Debt 45,000.00 Interest 8,076.35 State & County Taxes County Tax 115.984.34 County T. B. Assessment 33,304.9E State Tax & Assessments 181,510.80 Temporary Loans Anticipation of Revenue 600,000.00 Trust Funds Deposited in Cemetery P C Fund 4,460.00 174 Refunds Taxes: Property 18,651.44 Personal 31.50 Polls 32.00 Motor Excise 4,021.08 Water Rates 755.00 DOG FUND 2,442.80 Estimated Receipts 38.08 Premium 200.56 Purchase of Bonds 20,810.26 With-holding Tax 180,776.40 TOTAL EXPENDITURES $5,015,429.69 Cash on Hand, December 31, 1950 840,577.35 $5,856,007.04 GENERAL GOVERNMENT Moderator Appropriation for 1950 150.00 Expenditures Russell, John M., salary 150.00 Selectmen's Department Selectmen's Salaries Expenditures Appropriation for 1950 3,250.00 Applin, H. Herbert, salary 1,198.93 Papalia, Roy C., salary 1,051.07 Paquet, Wilfred J., salary 1,000.00 3,250.00 Selectmen—Confidential Clerk Appropriation for 1950 500.00 Expenditures Berry, Herbert E., salary 375.00 Transferred to Revenue 125.00 500.00 Selectmen's Private Secretary Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Norcross, Helen E., salary 2,520.00 175 Selectmen—Temporary Clerk Hire Appropriation for 1950 60.00 Expenditures Antoni, Barbara, salary 55.00 Transferred to Revenue 5.00 60.00 Selectmen's Contingent Appropriation for 1950 1,200.00 Expenditures Applin, H. Herbert, convention expense 39.00 Atlantic Flag Pole Co., snap hooks on pole 35.00 Eaton Press, printing 103.23 Evans Printing Service, printing 55.18 Hobbs & Warren—book-forms 40.56 Mass. Selectmen's Assoc., dues 150.00 Middlesex County Selectmen's Assoc., dues 6.00 Newton Villager, advertisement 5.50 Papalia, Roy C., convention expenses 30.00 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 180.97 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 8.40 Stone, Helen E., stamps 10.00 Watertown Herald, advertising 44.97 Watertown Sun, advertising 58.39 White's, Bernie—Personal Flower Service, Sower service 69.00 Woolworth Co., F. W., supplies 3.69 Total Expenditures 739.89 Transferred to Revenue 460.11 1,200.00 Auditor's Department Auditor's Salary Appropriation for 1950 5,400.00 Expenditures Norcross, Jr., W. W., salary 5,400.00 Auditor's Principal Clerk Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Cameron, Florence W., salary 2,520.00 176 Auditor's Senior Clerk Appropriation for 1950 2,060.00 Expenditures Hetherington, Nora Flanagan, salary 2,060.00 Auditor—Out-of-State Travel Appropriation for 1950 200.00 Expenditures Norcross, W. W. Jr., expenses convention 163.80 Transferred to Revenue 36.20 200.00 Auditor's Contingent Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures American City Magazine, subscription 3.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing envelopes 51.00 Horne & Co., H. S., supplies 465.05 Lawyers Co-op Publishing Co., books 17.00 Mass. Comm. of, Division of Accts, suplies forms 13.86 Mass. Municipal Auditors & Accountants Ass'n., dues 3.00 Municipal Finance Officers' Ass'n, books, dues 22.44 National Cash Register Co., maintenance adding machines 24.50 New Eng. States Municipal Finance Officers' Ass'n, dues 1.00 Norcross, W. W. Jr., postage, incidentals 26.05 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, office supplies 40.72 Remington Rand Inc., ribbon 1.12 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 25.20 Watertown Herald, printing quarterly report 200.00 Watertown Sun, printing quarterly report 100.00 Total Expenditures 993.94 Transferred to Revenue 6.06 1,000.00 Auditor's—Budgetary Accounting Machine Balance brought forward 593.00 Expenditures Purchasing—Town of Watertown, chair 46.00 Remington-Rand Inc., supplies 216.75 Total Expenditures 262.75 Balance carried forward 330.25 593.00 177 Treasurer's Department Treasurer's Salary Appropriation for 1950 5,400.00 Expenditures Sheridan, James H., salary 5.400.00 Treasurer's Principal Clerk Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Walsh, Catherine, salary 2,520.00 Treasurer's Senior Clerk Appropriation for 1950 2,160.00 Expenditures Holmes, Lillian S., salary 2,160.00 Treasurer's Senior Clerk Appropriation for 1950 2,160.00 Expenditures McAuliffe, Alice, salary 2,160.00 Treasurer's Contingent Appropriation for 1950 1,450.00 Expenditures Blackburn, Joseph, services 10.00 Burroughs Adding Machine Co., ribbons, service 38.75 Eaton Press, printing 56.83 Horne & Co., H. S., books bound 109.70 Keefe, Mary G., bonds 40.00 Mass Collectors & Treasurers Assoc., due s 2.00 Mass., Comm. of, Division of Accounts, supplies 8.13 Murphy, George T., Insurance Agency, bond 10.00 National Cash Register Co., maintenance— adding machine 34.00 National Shawmut Bank, postage .68 New Eng. Towel Supply Co., towel supply 13.45 Oates, Edward A., bond 352.00 Postmaster—Boston, envelopes 470.03 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 90.34 Sheridan, James H., postage 31.80 Smith Co., Frederic B., with-holding tax forms 39.10 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 16.80 Todd Co., ribbons, service 80.00 Watson, John B., services 10.00 178 Webster Co., F. S. carbon 5.50 Woolworth Co., F. W., supplies 2.60 Total Expenditures 1,421.71 Transferred to Revenue 28.29 1,450.00 Collector's Department Collector's Salary Appropriation for 1950 5,400.00 Expenditures Kennedy, John J., salary 5,400.00 Collector—Deputy Collector Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Cunniff, F. Madeline, salary 2,520.00 Collector—Deputy Collector Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Bessie Dolan, salary 2,520.00 Collector—Fast Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,160.00 Expenditures Callan, Helen, salary 2,160.00 Collector—Second Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,560.00 Expenditures Monahan, Laura, salary 1,502.10 Transferred to Revenue 57.90 1,560.00 Collector's Contingent Apppropriation for 1950 1,568.00 Refund 18.33 1,586.33 Expenditures Burke, E. J., services 102.49 Eaton Press Inc., printing 56.30 Hobbs Q Warren, forms 41.13 179 Horne & Co., S. H. supplies 110.35 Kennedy, John J., expenses collectors meetings 44.00 Keystone Envelope Co., envelopes 9.90 Lindbladh Co., binding books 58.20 Mass. Collector's & Treasurers' Assoc., dues 2.00 Middlesex Registry of Deeds, tax takings 16.09 National Cash Register Co., maintenance— and ribbins, new adding machine 265.65 O'Brion-Russell & Co., bond 366.75 Postmaster—Boston, stamps 378.40 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 56.57 Ribbon & Cardon Products Co., stamp pad & ink 3.75 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 27.30 Watertown Herald, advertising 21.00 West Publishing Co., subscription 20.00 White's, Bernie, Flower Service, laurel 3.75 Total Expenditures 1,583.63 Transferred to Revenue 2.70 1,586.33 Assessor's Department Assessor's Salaries Appropriation for 1950 4,800.00 Expenditures Bradford, Andrew D., salary 1,600.00 McLaugthlin, John J., salary 1,600.00 Vahey, James J., salary 1,600.00 4,800.00 Assessors'—Principal Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Kerivan, Helen F., salary 2,520.00 Assessors' Department—Senior Clerk-Stenographer Appropriation for 1950 1,920.00 Expenditures Corbett, Barbara V., salary 1,920.00 Assessors' Department—Junin Clerk-Typist Appropriation for 1950 1,500.00 Expenditures Curtin, Sheila C., salary 1,202.16 McCurley, Ruth salary 158.65 180 Total Expenditures 1,360.81 Transferred to Revenue 139.19 1,500.00 Assessors' Contingent Appropriation for 1950 3,050.00 Expenditures Ass'n. of Mass. Assessors, dues 15.00 Bowen, A. G., transfers 110.50 Bradford, A. D., use of car 16.80 Corbett, Barbara V., convention expenses 3.00 Curtin, Sheila C., convention expenses 3.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing 81.98 Hobbs & Warren Inc., forms 104.31 Horne & Co., H. S., binding books 68.75 Kelly Florist, flowers 10.00 McLauthlin, John J., use of car 343.50 National Cash Register Co., ribbon 2.95 Parker, Louise S., registering of deeds 53.40 Postmaster—Boston, postage 1,108.64 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 40.09 Real Estate Guide, guide 75.00 Ribbon &C abbon Products Co., pads and ink 2.75 Smith Co., Frederic B., committment sheets, tax forms 955.69 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 25.20 Stoneham Independent Inc., excise tax tables 2.00 Vahey, James J., meeting expenses 16.50 Wright, Edward F., Jr., posting notices 10.00 Total Expenditures 3,049.06 Transferred to Revenue .94 3,050.00 Assessors—Appellate Tax Board Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Balance brought forward 1,418.27 2,418.27 Expenditures Bradford, Andrew D., taxi 6.00 Leighton, Joseph C., appraisal reports 600.00 McLauthlin, John J., expenses 8.50 Total Expenditures 614.50 Balance carried 1,803.77 2,418.27 Finance Committee Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures Ass'n. Town Finance Committee, dues 10.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing 48.00 181 Evans Printing Service, printing 241.57 Ford, Patrick B., expenses of meetings 38.05 Horne & Co., H. S., printing budget forms, supplies 160.92 Mason, Ralph W., basket 15.00 Norcross, W. W. Jr., services 300.00 Personal Flower Shop, flowers 15.00 Purchasing, Town of Watertown, supplies 27.00 Sheldon, Charles L., association expenses 19.60 Total Expenditures 875.14 Transferred to Revenue 124.86 1,000.00 Legal Services—Department Town Counsel Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,500.00 Expenditures Tyler, Earle S. ,salary 2,500.00 Legal Services Contingent Appropriation for 1950 3,000.00 Expenditures Lawyers Co-op Publishing Co., books 26.00 Richard-Wolcott-Tyler & Fassett, services 1,825.27 Tangusso, Sebastian, services 30.00 Treasurer of the U.S.A., bids on wood 2.00 West Publishing Co., pocket parts 45.00 Total Expenditures 1,928.27 Transferred to Revenue 1,071.73 3,000.00 Legal Services--Tax Title Releases Appropriation for 1950 39.00 Expenditures Tyler, Earle S., services 36.00 Plunkett, Robert J., services 3.00 39.00 Town Clerk's Department Town Clerk's Salary Appropriation for 1950 5,400.00 Expenditures Wellman, George B., salary 5,400.00 182 Town Clerk's Department—Principal Clerk Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Griffin, Mary, salary 2,520.00 Town Clerk's Department—Principal Clerk & Stenographer Appropriation for 1950 2,280.00 Expenditures Knell, Marjorie Cornick, salary 2,280.00 Town Clerk's Department—Clerk & Stenographer Appropriation for 1950 2,040.00 Expenditures Ohanian, Helen, salary 1,948.76 Transferred to Rtvenue 91.24 2.040.00 Town Clerk's Department—Out of State Travel Appropriation for 1950 200.00 Expenditures Wellman, George B., convention expenses 200.00 Purchase Department—Contingent Appropriation for 1950 1,447.50 Expenditures Belmont Herald, advertising 33.60 Bereavement Card Service, resolutions 5.00 Coleman Co., George, book binding 93.71 Costello, Walter F., book 2.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing 335.40 Eddie's Caster Service, ball bearing casters 8.00 Evans Printing Service, printing 144.79 Horne & Co., H. S., supplies 14.50 LeFavor, George E., bond 7.50 Mass. Town Clerks' Assoc., dues 5.00 Mooney Card & Gift Shop, supplies 1.18 National Institute of Municipal Clerk's Assoc., service charges 30.00 Post Index Co., forms 26.76 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 48.53 Ribbon & Carbon Products Co., stamp pad and ink 2.50 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 33.60 Todd Co., certifier 285.00 Towhill Co., James T., supplies 52.20 Various Persons, services 22.00 183 Watertown Sun, advertising 93.00 Wellman, George B., convention expenses 40.34 Zaino, Albert, delivering warrants 160.00 Total Expenditures 1,444.61 Transferred to Revenue 2.89 1,447.50 Purchasing Department Purchasing Agent's Salary Appropriation for 1950 4.500.00 Expenditures Oates, William F., salary 4,500.00 Purchase Department—Junior Clerk Appropriation for 1950 1,820.00 Expenditures Barnes, Marie, salary 1,820.00 Purchase Department—Out of State Travel Appropriation for 1950 1 00.00 Transferred Town Meeting 41.10 58.90 Expenditures Oates, William F., convention expenses 58.90 Purchasing Contingent Appropriation for 1950 850.00 Transferred Town Meeting 150.00 1,000.00 Expenditures Assoc. of Schools Business Officials, dues 5.00 Consumers' Research Inc., subscription 3.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing 346.24 Manifold Supplies Co., ribbons 2.05 New Eng. Purchasing Agents Assoc., dues 35.00 Oates, William F., transportation 212.60 Perry Barker Engineering Co., coal tests 34.00 Postmaster—Boston, stamps 6.00 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, office supplies 40.42 Royal Typewriter Co., typewriter 81.75 Smith Co., Fred B., purchase orders 143.04 Standard Duplicating Co., used duplicater 50.00 Watertown Letter Shop., mimeographing 40.42 Total Expenditures 999.52 Transferred to Revenue .48 1,000.00 184 Purchase Department—Duplicating Machine Appropriation for 1950 558.00 Transferred Town Meeting 25.00 533.00 Expenditures Standard Duplicating Machine Co., machine 533.00 Purchase Department—Revolving Fund Balance brought forward 186.47 Receipts from Department 5,208.00 5,394.47 Expenditures Alexander Co., Louis A., safety cans, supplies 467.95 .. Chase-Parker & Co., supplies 903.54 Chek-Chart Corp., service mans guide 4.21 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 742.72 Firestone Stores, tires 42.40 Horne & Co., H. S., office supplies 2,622.91 Littlefield-Greene Inc., chains 26.34 Quirk Corp., Edward S., casings and tubes 31.14 Shutt, George L., tires 504.24 Standard Auto Gear Co., supplies 27.52 Towhill Co., James T., office supplies 10.00 Total Expenditudes 5,382.97 Balance carried forward 11.50 5,394.47 Engineering Department Salaries Appropriation for 1950 27,805.00 Expenditures Herbert Cook, salary 4,451.50 Eagleson, William, salary 1,358.10 Francis, Eben, salary 1,514.16 Hagopian, Joseph, salary 716.71 Hetherington, Walter, salary 3,480.00 Manno, Louis, salary 716.71 McGann, Jr., Martin H., salary 3,153.52 McHugh, Joseph, salary 2,563.72 Nolan, Ralph E., salary 2,563.72 Sullivan, James H., salary 3,545.75 Tierney, Joseph E., salary 2,588.37 Total Expenditures 26,652.26 Transferred to Revenue 1,152.74 27,805.00 Engineering Department—Contingent Appropriation for 1950 1,600.00 185 Expenditures American City Magazine, subscription 4.00 Berger & Sons, Inc., C. L., repairing transits 99.75 Burroughs Adding Machine Co., service 16.40 Claytons Auto Glass Service, glass 5.68 Cook, Herbert C., garage-misc. incidentals 87.78 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 2.50 Coombs Motor Co., motor service 33.71 Crowley Bros., "Krylon" 1.95 Dunn, Joseph A., supplies 14.65 Eaton Press Inc., envelopes 32.31 Engineering News-Record, subscription 12.00 Fletcher Hdwe Co., tools and screws 7.31 Gillette Pub. Co., subscription 10.00 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 523.51 Johnson, Andrew T., prints 259.49 Land Court, prints 20.05 Makepeace Inc., B. L., supplies 26.05 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Cupp. Co., clock and fixtures 8.62 Mass. Society of Professional Engineers, dues 7.50 Middlesex Registry of Deeds, blueprints 15.59 Monroe Calculating Machine Co., maintenance 22.00 Mt. Auburn Motors, service 2.00 Nolan, Ralph E., supplies 4.25 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 84.19 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 51.59 Quirk Corp., Edw. S., casings 19.94 Registrar of Motor Vehicles, registering 6.00 Standard Auto Gear Co., pump 3.53 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 16.00 Sullivan, James H., expense 1.25 Summer St. Garage, auto repair 195.44 Watertown Sun, subscription 2.50 Total Expenditures 1,597.54 Transferred to Revenue 2.46 1,600.00 Engineering Department-New Auto Appropriation for 1950 1,550.00 Expenditures Mt. Auburn Motors, new car 1,226.20 Transferred to Revenue 323.80 1,550.00 Engineering Department-Lighting Table Appropriation for 1950 80.00 Expenditures Mobeco Inc., lighting table 79.20 Transferred to Revenue .80 80.00 186 Election Expense Appropriation for 1950 13,008.00 Refund 55.00 13,063.00 Expenditures Belmont Herald, advertising 12.60 Blackburn, Joseph, services 3.00 Cram, John, registration 9.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing 3,209.69 Evans Printing Service, printing 156.95 Horne & Co., H. S., supplies 128.35 Manifold Supplies Co., ribbons 17.50 McBee Co., binders 22.31 Mooney Card Shop, supplies 1.90 Mosman, Arthur D., posting 20.00 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 37.75 Rogers, Herbert, cleaning-oiling & repairing Adding machine 10.00 Royal Typewriter Co., new machine 117.50 Standard Bookbinding So., spiral bindings, supplies 17.35 Towhill Co., James T., spplies 27.95 Tracy Chairm Co., chair and table rental 238.00 United States Pencil Co., Inc., pencils 7.78 Various Persons, registrations, caucuses, election workers 7,370.00 Victor Adding Machine Co., adding machine 94.05 Watertown Sea Grill, dinners 42.55 Watson, John B., destroying ballots, registration service 39.00 Wellman, George B., postage, incidentals 54.66 White, Pete J., carpentering—transfering and storing ballot boxes 347.25 Zaino, Albert, delivering warrants, 260.00 Total Expenditures 12,245.14 Transferred to Revenue 817.86 13,063.00 Registrars of Voters—Registrars Salaries Appropriation for 1950 1,200.00 Expenditures Gleason, Patrick D., salary 300.00 MacKay, Norman D., salary 300.00 Ohanian, Cyrus M., salary 300.00 Wellman, George B., salary 300.00 1,200.00 Registrar of Voters—Assistant Permanent Registrar Appropriation for 1950 2,160.00 Expenditures Hickey, Eleanor L., salary 2,160.00 187 Listing Board Appropriation for 1950 1,650.00 Expenditures American Register Co., acrosnaps 65.21 Antoni, Barbara, services 222.20 Belmont Herald, advertising 6.00 Boston Plue Print Co., printing books 820.00 Capital Motor Transportation, transportation 1.06 Commonwealth Secretarial Service, names typed 273.95 Eddie's Caster Service, ball bearing casters 4.00 Evans Printing Service, printing 149.38 Gleason, Mary C., services 41.80 Mooney's Card Shop., office supplies 4.30 Robley, G. C., gas 24.26 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 8.40 Watertown Sun, advertising 7.20 Total Expenditures 1,627.76 Transferred to Revenue 22.24 1,650.00 Town Ball Department Senior Custodian Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,860.00 Expenditures Watson, John B., salary 2,860.00 Town Hall Department—Junior Custodian Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,120.00 Expenditures Blackburn, Joseph P., salary 1,186.00 Bloomer, Harold, salary 864.50 Total Expenditures 2,050.50 Transferred to Revenue 69.50 2,120.00 Town Hall Department.—Telephone Operator Appropriation for 1950 2,160.00 Expenditures Connors, Ann, salary 2,160.00 Town Hall Department—Relief Operator Salary Appropriation for 1950 650.00 188 Expenditures Donnellan, Mary E., salary 50.00 Hassett, Mrs. Mary, salary 600.00 650.00 Town Hall—Fuel Appropriation for 1950 2,000.00 Expenditures Buckley & Scott Utilities, oil 884.17 Snider Fuel Corp, oil 527.94 Total Expenditures 1,412.11 Transferred to Revenue 587.89 2,000.00 Town Hall Department—Light Appropriation for 1950 1,600.00 Expenditures Boston Edison Co., service 1,573.98 Transferred to Revenue 26.02 1.600.00 Town Hall—Telephone Watertown 4-8200 Appropriation for 1950 3,750.00 Received from Housing Authority 120.00 :3.870.00 Expenditures New England Tel. & Tel. Co., service 3,809.72 Transferred to Revenue 60.28 3.870.00 Town Hall—Maintenance Appropriation for 1950 3.000.00 Expenditures Black, Lester M., painting cupalo 312.00 Boston Cons. Gas C., service 67.32 Boston Janitor's Supply Co., janitors supplies 244.80 Brae Burn Nursery, seed 52.80 Bright, Wm. D., canvas for honor roll 15.50 Derman Rug Co., replacing lineolum section 19.50 Di'Andrea, Leo., labor 980.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing 16.50 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 105.05 Forthill Paper Co., paper supplies 33.46 Fuller Co., supplies 16.20 Hurlbert& Hatfield, paper supplies 20.50 Johnson Co., George T., floor wax 41.11 189 Laquidiea, Virginia, stanley supplies 11.08 Lawn Mower Grinding Co., mower grinding 9.00 Lewandos, cleaning drapes and covers 6.75 Local Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 59.50 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supply Co., light supplies 110.60 Mass., Commonwealth of, Reformatory for Women Flags 20.76 Petroleum Heat & Power Co., burner service 230.70 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 7.80 Rochester Germicide Co., supplies 37.75 Shapiro Co. Inc., David, Carr fasteners 2.35 Sliney Co., John J., loam 17.64 Standard Window Cleaning Co., window cleaning 312.00 Stetson Co., M. D., supplies 80.30 Telechron Co., Inc., electrical work 3.26 Titus, L. C., carpenter work 42.29 Waterproof Paint & Varnish Co., paint 9.70 White, Peter J., carpentering 52.50 Y. & E. Sales Corp., supplies 30.68 Total Expenditures 2,969.40 Transferred to Revenue 30.60 3.000.00 Town Hall-Painting Appropriation for 1950 500.00 Expenditures Black, Lester M., painting 185.00 McElroy, B. H., painting 310.00 Total Expenditures 495.00 Transferred to Revenue 5.00 500.00 Town Hall-Cornice Work Appropriation for 1950 600.00 Expenditures Miller, Charles, cornice work 459.50 Transferred to Revenue 140.50 600.00 Town hall-Window Shades Appropriation for 1950 L00.00 Expenditures Newton Shade & Screen Co., shades 93.00 Transferred to Revenue 7.00 100.00 Planning Board Appropriation for 1950 200.00 190 Expenditures Chase, Robert B., expenses convention 15.00 Crawford, Douglas Robert, expenses convention 10.70 Evans Printing Service, printing 26.99 Mass. Federation of Planning Boards, dues 20.00 Michelson, Blanche E., services 9.00 Watertown Sun, advertising 18.45 Total Expenditures 100.14 Transferred to Revenue 99.86 200.00 Board of Appeals Appropriation for 1950 700.00 Expenditures Eaton Press Inc., printing 32.83 Kerivan, Helen F., services 150.00 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 2.50 Tomassian, Martin V., services 277.50 Watertown Herald, advertising 117.50 Total Expenditures 580.33 Transferred to Revenue 119.67 700.00 Protection of Persons & Property Police Department Cliief's Salary Appropriation for 1950 5,100.00 Expenditures Igoe, James M., salary 5,100.00 Police Department—Captain's Salaries Appropriation for 1950 9,000.00 Expenditures Murray, Edward A., salary 4,500.00 Reilly, John Joseph, salary 4,500.00 9,000.00 Ponce Department—Lieutenants' Salaries Appropriation for 1950 15,0000.00 Expenditures Donnelly, Andrew J., salary 3,660.00 Igoe, John J., salary 3,840.00 Nally, Francis A., salary 3,840.00 191 Norton, Edmund H., salary 3,660.00 15,000.00 Police Department—Sergeants' Salaries Appropriation for 1950 18,000.00 Expenditures Flaherty, Walter F., salary 3,600.00 Harrington, Joseph C., salary 3,600.00 Lyons, Stephen F. ,salary 3,600.00 MacDonald, Herbert, salary 3,600.00 McGeever, John F., salary 3,600.00 18,000.00 18,000.00 Police Department—Patrolmen's Salaries Appropriation for 1950 154,790.00 Transferred from Reserve 200.00 154,990.00 Expenditures Bartley, Richard T., salary 3,300.00 Borden, Andrew Amos, salary 3,300.00 Burke, James J., salary 3,300.00 Burke, Walter J., salary 3,300.00 Carnes, William W., salary 3,500.00 Carr, Richard J., salary 3,300.00 Casey, Michael F., salary 3,300.00 Chamberlin, James W., salary 3,300.00 Clinton, George M., salary 3,300.00 Cochrane, Joseph X., salary 3,300.00 Connors, Joseph B., salary 3,300.00 Cullen, Thomas J., salary 3,300.00 Devlin, James D., salary 3,300.00 Egan, Francis D., salary 3,300.00 Fairbanks, William H., salary 3,300.00 Farrell, George J., salary 3,300.00 Galligan, Lawrence F., salary 3,300.00 Garafalo, Francis A., salary 3,300.00 Gilfoil, Joseph H., salary 3,300.00 Hanlon, John J., salary 3,300.00 Higgins, John A., salary 3,300.00 Igoe, Daniel E., salary 3,300.00 Jennings, Thomas F., salary 3,145.00 Keefe, David F., salary 3,300.00 Keefe, Richard H., salary 3,300.00 Kimball, Russell J., salary 3,300.00 Long, John P., salary 3,300.00 Maloney, Edward J., salary 3,300.00 Maloney, William A., salary 3,300.00 Martin, William, salary 3,300.00 McCarthy, Francis J., salary 3,300.00 McElligott, James E., salary 3,300.00 McKenney, Harry J., salary 3,300.00 Murphy, Edward M., salary 3,300.00 192 Pouliot, Wilfred J., salary 3,300.00 Reilly, James M. ,salary 3,300.00 Reilly, John J. Jr., salary 3,300.00 Ryan, Richard T., salary 3,300.00 Savage, Stewart E., salary 3,300.00 Sheehan, Jr., Joseph H., salary 3,300.00 Shea, Charles E., salary 3,300.00 Shea, James P., salary 3,300.00 Shea, William J., salary 3.300.00 Skuse, Donald A., salary 3,300.00 Todd, Donald R., salary 3.300.00 Walsh, John A., salary 3,300.00 York, John J., salary 3,145.00 154,990.00 Police Del)artment—Wagonman-Clark Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,300.00 Expenditures Sheridan, Thomas F., salary 3,300.00 Police Department—(!hauffeur-\lcchanic Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,300.01 Expenditures Ryder, Thomas, salary 3,300.00 Police Department—Junior Custodian Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,360.00 Expenditures Bloomer, Harold J., salary 1,256.70 Transferred to Revenue 103.30 1,360.00 Police Department—Stenographer (Male) Appropriation for 1950 3,300.00 Expenditures Roche, Robert E., salary 3,300.00 Police Department—Junior Clerk-Stenographer Salary Appropriation for 1950 960.00 Transferred Town Meeting 591.65 368.35 Expenditures McDonald, Mary, salary 368.35 193 Police Department—Matron Appropriation for 1950 600.00 Expenditures Mosman, Eleanor, salary 600.00 Police Department—Reserve Men Appropriation for 1950 6,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 300.00 6,300.00 Expenditures Boudakian, Armand, salary 664.00 Brady, John J., salary 509.50 Brown, Kenneth, F., salary 568.00 Gildea, Thomas V., salary 140.00 Iodice, Rudolph G., salary 1,593.50 Lockwood, James J., salary 392.00 Malaney, Alfred P., salary 128.00 LaMorticelli, Domenic, salary 940.00 McHugh, Francis J., salary 491.50 Munhall, John H., salary 337.50 Papalia, John F., salary 442.50 Sullivan, Edward P., salary 88.00 Total Expenditures 6.294.50 Transferred to Revenue 5.50 6,300.00 Police Department—Out-of-State Travel Appropriation for 1950 150.00 Refund 50.00 200.00 Expenditures Igoe, James M., convention expenses 150.00 Transferred to Revenue 50.00 200.00 Police Department—Contingent Appropriation for 1950 13,500.00 Transferred from Reserve Fund 1,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 2,180.00 Refund 1.00 16,681.00 Expenditures A.B.C. Television, supplies 2.75 Ace Welding Co., welding 10.00 Alfred's Diner, lunches 60.05 American Oil Co., gas 2,780.75 American Red Cross, books and bandages 50.45 194 Arsenal Welding Co., welding 27.10 Bab's Photo Repair, repair battery case 1.50 Bargar Bros., flannel wipers 13.45 Batchelder Pontiac Corp., repairs 149.84 ' Bay State Cycle Co., repair motor cycle 220.70 Belmont Herald, advertising 43.00 Belmont Supply Co., "Billies" 21.00 Bonded Oil System, oil 311.01 Boston Cons. Gas Co., service 7.10 Boston Edison Co., service 800.01 Boston Janitor's Supply Co., janitors supplies 142.40 Brady's Diner, lunches 54.45 Brookline Auto Body, repair 76.00 Buckley & Scott Utilities, oil 1,504.74 Buddy's Auto Seat Covers, seat covers 19.00 Chamberlin M.D., Harold A., services 60.00 Charles-Bank Garage, auto repair 24.10 Clark's Taxi Co., gas 6.68 Commissioner of Public Safety, license forms 9.80 Comm. Engineers Co., supplies 9.38 Communications Service Co., service on radios 240.46 Comstock's Home Laundry, laundry 68.23 Coolidge Sq. Service Station, auto service 383.74 Coombs Motor Co., motor repair 1,371.60 Costigan Co., John F., auto service 277.40 Darley & Co., W. S., lock gun 17.38 Derman Rug Co., lineoleum 14.15 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 20.75 Eastern States Police Radio League, dues 5.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing 349.60 Edison Co., Thomas A., medical gas 21.00 Electronic Comm. Co., repairs 38.25 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 26.82 Gamewell Co., register paper 67.68 Gatchell Glass Co., glass 6.93 General Electric Supply, tubes 14.45 Harrington, Joseph C., red cross course 31.35 Horne & Co., H. S., office supplies 310.11 Igoe, James M., expenses at conferences, incidentals 52.00 International Ass'n. of Chief's of Police, dues 10.00 Iver-Johnson Sporting Goods Co., supplies 104.08 Johnson Co., Andrew T., tape ' 10.29 Johnson Co., George T., floor wax 13.61 Kelsoe, A., painting radio mast 25.00 Kreem's Camera & Card Shop, supplies 126.72 Landry M.D., Christopher L., services 10.00 Lauricella, A., supplies 4.83 LaFavor, George E., insurance 40.00 Linsky & Bros., M., supplies 41.25 MacAdam, E. R., registered nurse 247.00 McCann, Loretta, registered nurse 242.00 MacDonald, Herbert A., red cross course 31.35 McGreever, John F., reimbursement of expenses 9.60 Mass. Comm. of, bicycle plates 30.00 Mass. Safety Council, conference 7.00 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supply Co., supplies 81.24 Mass. Chiefs of Police, membership 5.00 Metcalfe & Co., supplies 29.01 195 Mt. Auburn Hospital, x-ray, hospital care 1,002.70 Mr. Auburn Motors, repairs 19.46 Murphy M.D., Albert S., services 500.00 Murray, Edward A., reimbursements 91.35 National Tag & Label Co., tags 154.52 New Eng. Ass'n Chiefs of Police, dues 5.00 New Eng. Police Revolver League, entries 25.00 New Eng. Hel & Tel Co., service 1,947.69 Nonantum Lumber Co, lumber 11.88 Northeast Oil Co., oil 193.36 Percy's Lunch, lunches 80.50 Physic, Mary registered nurse 9.50 Purchasing-Town of Watertown,supplies 591.34 Robley's Jenney Station, gas 4.45 Shea, William J., postage 18.00 Shutt Inv., George L., tires 102.16 Standard Auto Gear Co., supplies 86.31 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 56.40 Standard Window Cleaning Co., window cleaning 120.00 Stetson Co., M.D., supplies 157.62 Stokes, Dorothy, registered nurse 237.50 Touzjian M.D., Y. T., services 18.00 Wall, E. J., unlocking tools 7.00 Waltham Salesbook Co., quad sets 110.50 Water Dept-Town of Watertown, metered water 102.34 Waterproof Paint & Varnis hCo., paint 14.45 Watertown Bindery, binding book 10.00 Watertown Herald, advertising 8.25 Waverly Avenue Auto Service, auto service 30.97 Weaver-Palm Co., auto repair 119.60 Wentworth-Jennings Co., supplies 2.65 York M.D., Robert S., services 51.00 Total Expenditures 16,679.64 Transferred to Revenue 1.36 16,681.00 Police Department-Teletype Appropriation for 1950 540.00 Expenditures New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 479.43 Transferred to Revenue 60.57 540.00 Police Department-Uniforms Appropriation for 1950 3,500.00 Expenditures Alexander Bros. Tailoring, repairs 15.25 Basch Cap Co., caps 23.50 Belmont Supply Co., holster 4.15 Cutler, Harry, repairs 6.00 Eastern Coat Mfg. Co., trousers 31.00 Gibson Wear-Well So., ties-caps-pants 82.00 196 Harris, Charles A., shirts 213.90 Leavitt Shirt Mfg. Co., shirts 119.75 Linsky Bros., M., uniforms 2,909.65 Otis Bros. Co., pants-shirts 93.95 Total Expenditures 3,499.15 Transferred to Revenue .85 3,500.00 Police Department—Painting Station Appropriation for 1950 5.00.00 Expenditures Rooney, William J., painting 487.00 Transferred to Revenue 13.00 500.00 Police Department—New Automobiles Appropriation for 1950 3,500.00 Transferred Town Meeting 1,208.00 2,292.00 Expenditures Coombs Motor Co., new cars 1,219.50 Costigan Co., John F., labor 436.22 Mt. Auburn Motors, new car 626.20 Total Expenditures 2,281.92 Transferred to Revenue 10.08 - 2,292.00 Police Department—New Radio Installation Appropriation for 1950 4,500.00 Expenditures General Electric Co., radio communications 4,500.00 Fire Department—Salary of Chief Appropriation for 1950 5,100.00 Expenditures McElroy, William C., salary 5,100.00 Fire Department—Captains' Salaries Appropriation for 1950 18,000.00 Expenditures Costello, Jerone L., salary 4,500.00 Devaney, John J., salary 4,500.00 Gilfoil, George, salary 4,500.00 Murphy, Raymond, salary 4,500.00 18,000.00 197 Fire Department—Lieutenants' Salaries Appropriation for 1950 19,200.00 Expenditures Blythewood, Daniel H., salary 3,840.00 Conlon, Thomas C., salary 3,840.00 Connors, Joseph P., salary 3,840.00 Joyce, Thomas F., salary 3,840.00 Kimball, J. Allen, salary 3,840.00 19,200.00 Fire Department—Mechanician Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,600.00 Expenditures Higgins, Edmund, salary 3,600.00 Fire Department—Permanent Men Salaries Appropriation for 1950 181,575.00 Expenditures Armstrong, Frank H., salary 3,300.00 Barnes, Joseph P., salary 3,300.00 Barry, William J., salary 3,300.00 Blackburn, Charles, Salary 3,300.00 Burgess, Arthur, salary 3,300.00 Callan, Francis J., salary 3,300.00 Callan, John E., salary 3,300.00 Camposano, Paul A., salary 3,300.00 Carney, Maurice R., salary 3,300.00 Clark, William J., salary 3,300.00 Devaney, James F., salary 3,300.00 Donnelly, Bernard P., salary 3,300.00 Dwyer, Paul, salary 3,300.00 Finnegan, James F., salary 3,300.00 Flanagan, James E., salary 3,300.00 Fournier, Philip D., salary 3,300.00 Gildea, John, salary 3,300.00 Glidden, William G., salary 3.300.00 Hillier, Samuel, salary 3,300.00 Ingham, George D., salary 3,300.00 Kelley, Albert P., salary 3,300.00 Kelley, Edward F., salary 3,300.00 Kirwan, Francis M., salary 3,300.00 Laughrea, Giles, salary 3,500.00 Lord, J. Lawrence, salary 3,300.00 Maloney, James J., salary 3,300.00 Maloney, John J., salary 3,300.00 Maloney,Thomas F. Jr., salary 3,300.00 Mann, Charles, salary 3,300.00 Mennix, Albert, salary 3,300.00 McCarthy, Joseph F., salary 3,300.00 McCarthy, William G., salary 3,300.00 McCurley, Thomas D., salary 1,212.05 198 Mee, Joseph T., salary 1,636.71 Melanson, Ernest J., salary 3,300.00 Merullo, Eugene M., salary 3,300.00 Messina, John J., salary 3,300.00 Milmore, Frederick, salary 3,300.00 Milmore, Stephen M., Jr., salary 3,300.00 Monahan, Robert F., salary 3,300.00 Mulvahill, Thomas B., salary 3,300.00 Murphy, James T., salary 3,300.00 Murphy, Jeremiah, salary 3,300.00 Nielson, Bernard J., salary 3,300.00 O'Halloran, Edward J., salary 3,263.84 O'Reilly, John M., salary 3,300.00 Poirier, Robert A., salary 3,128.14 Quirk, John P., salary 3,300.00 Robbins, Benjamin F., Jr., salary 3,300.00 Sheehan, Maurice J., salary 3,300.00 Starr, Walter C., salary 3,300.00 Sullivan, John P., salary 3,300.00 Tatten, John R., salary 3,300.00 Vahey, John T., salary 3,300.00 Walton, Charles A., salary 3,300.00 Whittemore, Carroll, salary 3,300.00 Total Expenditures 181,040.74 Transferred to Revenue 534.26 181,575.00 Fire Department-Out-of-State Travel Appropriation for 1950 100.00 Expenditures McElroy, William C., convention expenses 100.00 Fire Department—Contingent Appropriation for 1950 9,500.00 Transferred from Reserve Fund 2,000.00 11,500.00 Expenditures A. & J., Auto Ignition Co., repair 33.70 Acme Electric Service & Machine Co., oil burner motor and pump 70.50 Aetna Metal Products Co., supplies 21.30 American City Magazine, subscription 4.00 American LaFrance Poamite Corp., door handle—supplies 16.56 Andren, J. A., drip pan 5.39 Arcand Inc., repair spring 14.65 Artcraft Mfg. Co., covers 27.00 Atomlite, handlites 120.00 Belmont Herald, advertising 45.85 Bonded Oil System Inc., oil 361.19 Boston Cons. Gas Co., service 40.65 Boston Coupling Co., repair 5.12 199 Boston Edison Co., service 1,007.67 Broderick, Thomas F., services 10.00 Buckley & Scott Utilities Inc., oil 1,302.61 Buckminster Co., George H., electrical supplies 114.70 Buskirk, James H., MD., administering anesthesia 40.00 Cando Co., Inc., polish 14.70 Canzanelli, Pericles, M.D., services 138.50 Chestnut Welding Co., sliding pole 7.50 Clayton's Auto Glass Co., glass 7.69 Comfort Pillows & Feather Co., pillows 19.11 Comstock's Home Laundry, laundry 573.85 Conlon, Thomas C., Red Cross course 31.35 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 67.98 Coombs Motor Co., parts & labor 30.31 Costa, George W., prescription 1.60 Cotting Wm. F., M.D., retirement examination, services 33.00 Cronin Supply Co., testing utility kit, supplies 78.46 DeMambro Radio Supply Co., supplies 4.46 Derman Rug Co., lineoleum 22.92 Donovan, Wm. F., M.D., services 5.00 Doricons Distributors, doricons 31.85 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 14.95 Duro Test Corp., lamps 104.78 E. & J. Co., of New Eng., rubber test bag 3.92 Eastern Engravers Inc., halftones 12.30 Eaton Press Inc., printing 99.36 Ecko Products Co., parts 2.55 Edison Co., Thomas A., medical gas 128.00 Electime Appliance Co., clock hands .75 Elliott Addressing Machine Co., stencils 5.16 Every?body's Leather Specialty Co., black shield cases 6.00 Filmack Trailers, prints 13.31 Fire Chief's Club of Mass., dues 3.00 Fire Engineering, subscription 5.00 Fitzpatrick, Howard W., brushes 4.64 Flaherty-Co., William H., auto parts 6.62 Fletch Hwde Co., supplies 36.02 G. & S. Paper Co., boraxo 7.77 Gatchell Glass Co., glass 18.58 General Electric Supply Co., tubes 13.06 Goodrich Co., B. F., rubber boots 59.69 Guralnick, Eugene, M.D., services 70.00 Hamlin Motor Sales, lubricate car 1.65 Hanflig, Sanule S.,M.D.,services 370.00 Hawes Electric Co., cords 2.48 Higgins, Edmund, reimbursement 5.50 Homelite Corp., supplies 22.11 Horacek, Victor J., taper joint 1.25 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 55.60 Johnson Co., J. A., linoleum 137.00 Kelly's Shell Service,parts and service 11.35 Kimball, J. Allan, Red Cross course 31.35 Kraus, William H., Inc., leg brace 25.00 Laughrea, Giles, incidentals 39.00 Letslter Bros., repair 4.00 Davis, Charles E., M.D., lens 7.00 Littlefield-Green Inc., rescue equipment 185.67 200 Local Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 179.03 Lux Fire Equipment Co., recharging 29.75 Lyman Co., John R., cleaning cloths 125.29 Marion Distributing Co., repair 14.75 Martin, E. W., gasket cutter 7.50 Mass. Commi of, brushes, mop pails, sheets-towels 121.61 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., light supp. 45.38 Mass. Motor Car Co., gauge 2.73 Mass. Reformatory, stools, chairs repaired and refinished 48.00 Mastrangelo, Louis, M.D., services 21.00 Maxim Motor Co., parts-suction hose 680.06 McCarthy Co., Justin A., supplies 368.90 McElroy, William C., reimbursement 25.00 Meachen, John W., M.D., x-ray 15.00 Metcalfe & Co., hardware 155.59 Midwestern Mfg. Co., coats 163.23 Milmore, Fred J., lettering-shield 60.00 Mine Safety Appliance Co., parts 1.60 Mooney Card & Gift Shop, office supplies 10.98 Mt. Auburn Hospital, care 669.48 Municipal Year Book, year book 10.00 National Fire Protection, Assoc., dues 12.50 New Eng. Assoc. of Fire Chiefs, dues 3.00 New Eng. Assoc. of International Assoc. of Fire Chiefs, dues 6.00 New Eng. Hydraulic Equip. Co., welding 3.75 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 693.61 Newton Auto Top Co., cover for lighting unit 5.00 Newton Shade & Screen Co., shades 46.50 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 23.15 O'Brien Inc., Joseph, sanitary supplies 24.00 Overhead Door Sales Co., sash cord 12.00 Porter Co. Inc., William H., carpentering 2.50 Pray & Sons, John H., paint 26.40 Price Battery Corp., batteries 72.60 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 79.45 Ritepoint Co., refills 4.90 St. Elizabeths Hospital, x-rays 12.00 Secretary of the Commonwealth, fire manuals 10.00 Shutt Inc., George L., tire & tube service 336.22 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., gas . 868.00 Spencer Mfg. Co., S. M., badges 5.00 Standard Auto Gear Co., supplies 209.72 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 15.20 State Prison, handles 2.75 Swift, John E., hose reel repair 5.00 Swift & Co., soap 79.91 Union Gear & Machine Co., supplies 17.12 Wall, E. J., door opening tools 7.00 Waltham Chemical Co., votol 1.10 Watch City Motor Sales Co., motor repair 93.55 Waterproof Paint & Varnish Co., paint 22.18 Water Dept-Town of Watertown, metered water 85.68 Watertown Lumber Co., lumber 18.28 Watertown Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 3.37 Watertown Sun Inc., advertising 42.30 Webster Supply Co., supplies 18.00 201 White, Bernie, Pers, Flower Service, flowers 10.00 York, Robert S., M.D., services 41.00 Total Expenditures 11,497.21 Transferred to Revenue 2.79 11,500.00 Fire Department—Uniforms Appropriation for 1950 2,500.00 Expenditures Batchelder Co., Fred M., uniforms 2,032.00 Harris, Charles A., ties 54.00 Otis Bros. Co., shirts 401.20 Total Expenditures 2,487.20 Transferred to Revenue 12.80 2,500.00 Fire Department—New Hose Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures McCarthy Co., Justin A., new hose 1,()00.00 Fire Department—Radio Appropriation for 1950 1,150.00 Expenditures General Electric Co., radio 1,150.00 Fire Department—Office & Room Repairs Appropriation for 1950 400.00 Expenditures Glidden, William, incidentals 3.32 Graybar Electric Co., silvray 84.00 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., supplies 14.47 Metcalfe & Co., supplies 5.02 Porter Co. Inc., Wm. H., removing partitions 254.21 Watertown Lumber Co., lumber 38.52 Total Expenditures 399.54 Transferred to Revenue .46 400.00 Fire Department—Chief's New Car Appropriation for 1950 1,150.00 Expenditures Watch City Motor Sales Inc., new car 1,150.00 202 Fire Department—North End Fire Station Appropriation for 1950 95,800.00 Balance brought forward 1,000.00 86,800.00 Expenditures Burke, Frank C., architect 2,500.00 Proia Construction Co., Louis, construction 15,836.40 Total Expenditures 18,336.40 Balance carried forward 68,463.60 86,800.00 Inspector of Buildings Department Inspector's Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,900.00 Expenditures Leonard, Walter J., salary 736.32 White, Maurice F., salary 3,128.25 Total Expenditures 3,846.57 Transferred to Revenue 35.43 3,900.00 Inspector of Buildings—Principal Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Flaherty, Marie, salary 2,520.00 Inspector of Buildings Department--Contingent Appropriation for 1950 250.00 Expenditures Architectural Forum, magazine of building, subscription 5.50 Eaton Press Inc., printing 116.32 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 5.75 Horne & Co., H. S., book binding 12.25 Mass. Bldg. Commmissioners & Inspectors Assoc., dues 5.00 Mass. Gas & Electric Supp. Co., batterie .35 Muran Co., L. E., name signs 11.90 O'Brien Corp., manual 1.50 Postmaster—Boston, stamps 18.00 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 65.23 Ribbon & Carbon Products Co., stamp pad & ink 1.75 U.S. Government Office Printing, supplies '85 White, Maurice F., dues 5.00 203 Total Expenditures 249.40 Transferred to Revenue .60 250.00 Inspector of Buildings Department—Transportation Appropriation for 1950 300.00 Expenditures Leonard, Walter J., transportation 50.00 White, Maurice F., transportation 250.00 300.00 Weights & Measures Department Sealer—Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,480.00 Expenditures A'Hearn, J. Frank, salary 3,480.00 Weights & Measures Contingent Appropriation for 1950 550.00 Expenditures A'Hearn, J. Frank, incidentals 12.25 Dimond-Union Stamp Works, seals 27.47 Eaton Press Inc., envelopes printed 30.38 Fletcher Hdwe Co., dry mop 1.90 Hayes, Harry S., hand stamps 27.40 Hobbs & Warren Inc., supplies 44.35 King, John J., gas 276.74 Lord, Benjamin F., garage 60.00 McGlauflin, B. Fay, insurance 6.90 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 60.22 Scale Journal, subscription 2.00 Total Expenditures 549.61 Transferred to Revenue .39 550.00 Gypsy & B. T. Moth Department Salary of Superintendent Appropriation for 1950 276.73 Expenditures Argento, Frank J., salary 265.33 Morley, Thomas P., salary 11.40 276.73 204 Gypsy & B. T. Moth Department—Labor Appropriation for 1950 5,100.00 Expenditures Pay-rolls, weekly 5,042.64 Transferred to Revenue 57.36 5,100.00 Gypsy & B. T. Moth Department—Maintenance—Materials Appropriation for 1950 1,500.0a Expenditures Abbott Spray & Farm Equip Co., supplies 1.56 American Oil Co., gas 143.98 Bert's Auto Radiator Service, auto service 2.00 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 15.64 Coombs Motor Co.,overhaul, parts 42.26 Fitzhenry-Guptill Co., parts 55.83 Frost Insecticide Co., supplies 1,032.91 Homelite Corp., rubber cable 64.35 Morley, Thomas S., incidentals 20.00 O'Connor, John, transportation 33.32 Quick Corp., Edward S., tire & tube 71.53 Standard Auto Gear Co., supplies 12.29 Standard Maintenance Co., 1/ typewriter maintenance 4.20 Total Expenditures 1,499.87 Transferred to Revenue .13 1,500.00 Moth Department—Dutch Elm Disease Appropriation for 1950 500.00 Expenditures Weekly-payrolls 499.65 Transferred to Revenue .35 500.00 Gypsy & B. T.—EIm Leaf Beetle—Labor Appropriation for 1950 1,200.00 Expenditures Weekly-payrolls 1,197.80 Transferred to Revenue 2.20 1,200.00 Tree Warden Department SaLary of Tree Warden Appropriation for 1950 2,700.00 205 Expenditures Morley, Thomas P., salary 2.700.00 Tree Warden Department Salary of Principal Clerk Appropriation for 1950 1.260.00 Expenditures Ford, Grace H., salary 1,260.00 Tree Warden Department—Labor Appropriation for 1950 12,000.00 Expenditures Weekly-payrolls 11,927.82 Transferred to Revenue 72,18 12.000.00 Tree Warden Department—Maintenance—Materials Appropriation for 1950 700.00 Expenditures American Oil Co., gas 196.05 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., paint 29.75 Fish & Co., Charles R., trees 210*00 Frost Insecticide Co., parts 8.43 Homelite Corp., parts 4.45 McElroy, Robert, painting 25.00 Morley, Thomas P., expenses 30.00 O'Connor, John, transportation 100.04 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 75.31 Quirk Corp., Edward S., tube vulcanized and mounded, supplies 6.00 Registry of Motor Vehicles, registering 4.00 Watertown Letter Shop, double post cards 10.50 Total Expenditures 699.53 Transferred to Revenue .47 700.00 Moth Department—I:lm Leaf Beetle-3aterials Appropriation for 1950 300.00 Expenditures Abbott Spray & Farm Equip Co. Repairs to Bean Gun 25.47 Breck & Son, Joseph, tree tanglefoot 5,35 Chase-Parker & Co. Inc., supplies 6.20 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 38.54 Coombs Motor Co., parts 58.56 Farm Bureau Assoc., spray hose and coupling 34.50 Frost Insecticide o., "Resitox", supplies 56.53 Homelite Corp., repair 8.71 206 Lituri & Son, F. C., saws sharpened 7.75 Morley, Thomas P., expenses 20.00 O'Connor, John, car expense 33.32 Standard Auto Gear Co., plugs .98 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 1.30 Watertown Herald, bids 2.25 Total Expenditures 299.46 Transferred to Revenue .54 300.00 Moth Department-Poison Ivy Appropriation for 1950 400.00 Expenditures Abbott Spray & Farm Equip. Co., gun discs .60 American Oil Co., gas 109.67 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 13.90 Frost Insecticide Co., "Ammate" 135.28 Homelite Corp., chain sharpened 2.00 Sorley, Thomas P., expenses 20.00 O'Connor, John, transportation 33.32 Quirk Corp., Edward S., tire & tube 82.56 Railway Express Agency, express 1.48 Total Expenditures 398.81 Transferred to Revenue 1.19 400.00 Tree Warden Department-Overtime Labor Appropriation for 1950 100.00 Expenditures Weekly payroll 68.73 Transferred to Revenue 31.27 100.00 Tree Warden Department-New Trees Appropriation for 1950 1,500.00 Expenditures Hood Rubber Co., gloves 7.65 Lituri & Sons, F. C., saws filed 3.00 Quirk Corp., Edward S., mounting 1.00 White's, Bernie, Personal Flower Service, trees 1,487.50 Total Expenditures 1,499.15 Transferred to Revenue .85 1,500.00 Tree Warden-Electric Saw & Generator Appropriation for 1950 700.00 207 Expenditures Homelite Corp., electric saw & generator 695.47 Transferred to Revenue 4.53 700.00 Wire Department Salary of Superintendent Appropriation for 1950 4,950.00 Expenditures Landry, Leo P., salary 4,950.00 Wire Department--Principal Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,260.00 Expenditures Ford, Grace H., salary 1,260.00 Wire Department—Extra Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 450.00 Expenditures Bixby, Edith F., salary 432.00 Transferred to Revenue 18.00 450.00 Wire Department—Out-of-State Travel Appropriation for 1950 150.00 Expenditures Landry, Leo P., convention expenses 150.00 Wire Department—Transportation Appropriation for 1950 300.00 Expenditures Vahey, David J., transportation 300.00 Wire Department—Maintenance—Labor Appropriation for 1950 31,440.00 Expenditures Weekly payrolls 31,366.90 Transferred to Revenue 73.10 31,440.00 208 Wire Department-Materials & Expenses Appropriation for 1950 4,200.00 Expenditures American Oil Co., gas 209.76 Boston Edison Co., service 523.15 Boston Janitors Supply Co., paper supplies 16.17 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 3.00 Coombs Motor Co., parts 42.47 Duro Test Corp., lamps 90.29 Eastern Section I.A.E.I., membership 5.00 Eastern States Police, Radio League, dues 2.00 Electrical Const. & Maintenance, subscription 5.00 Evans Printing Service, printing 62.56 Pletcher Hdwe Co., hardware 67.86 Gamewell Co., register paper, repairs 477.86 Graybar Electric Co., supplies 59.62 Horne & Co. H. S., stamp 1.08 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 183.46 Landry, Alfred, insurance 80.49 Landry, Leo P., garage, incidentals 128.60 Littlefield-Greene Inc., jack 6.86 Mass. Comm., State Examiners of Electricians, licenses 16.00 Mancib Co., A. S., repairing ammeter 132.73 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., supplies 721.43 Mass. Motor Car Co., repair 22.50 Merit Paper & Chemical Co., metal handles for brooms 2.23 M. T. A., permission to erect & maintain & use traffic signal post 1.00 Mobesco Inc., lamps 11.88 Mohawk Pete, motor service 36.93 Mooney Card & Gift Shop, supplies .75 Moulton Ladder Mfg. Co., ladder 12.36 Municipal Electrical Inspectors Assn. Mass. & R. I., dues 2.00 National Lead Co., sheet lead and sleeves 38.73 New Eng. Section I.M.S.A., dues 5.00 New England Elect. News, subscription 2.00 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., services 92.40 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 82.56 Peerless Leath Goods Co., tool case 8.82 Pilgrim Engineering Co., battery 4.48 Postmaster-Boston, postage 15.00 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 97.81 Quirk Corp., Edward S., mounting tire 1.00 Registry of Motor Vehicles, registering 6.00 Saranac Glove Co., gloves 28.21 Segall, B. Z., diagrams 7.00 Simplex Wire & Cable, supplies 680.78 Standard Auto Gear Co., supplies 26.46 Stetson Co., M.D., sanitary supplies 16.74 Sandard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 12.60 Thomas Motors Inc., repairs 66.55 Waterproof Paint & Varnish Co., paint 36.88 Watertown Plumbing & Heating Co., supplies 1.00 Watertown Letter Shop, printing 41.50 209 Total Expenditures 4,196.56 Transferred to Revenue 3.44 4,200.00 Wire Department—Maintenance—Materials Appropriation for 1950 4,000.00 Expenditures Corsetti Cans. Co. A. J., dog pound 2,022.45 Dinn & Co., P. J., fence 568.01 Fletcher Hdwe Co., nails, shingle paper 47.13 Harvey Co., Arthur C., pipe 6.72 Hinds Trucking Inc., E. H., moving wooden building 250.00 Newton Sash & Door Co., sash 8.88 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 443.48 Yeoman's O'Connell Co., wire fencing 37.00 Total Expenditures 3,383.67 Balance carried forward 616.33 4,000.00 Wire Department-New Construction Appropriation for 1950 4,300.00 Expenditures Gamewell Co., fire alarm boxes 1,407.68 Simplex Wire & Cable Co., cable 2,888.77 Total Expenditures 4,296.45 Transferred to Revenue 3.55 4,300.00 Wire Department—New Car for Superintendent Appropriation for 1950 1,400.00 Expenditures Thomas Motors Inc., new car 1,400.00 Dog Officer—Salary Appropriation for 1950 500.00 Expenditures Clark, Guy P., salary 500.00 Dog Officer Contingent Appropriation for 1950 1,250.00 Expenditures Clark, Guy P., disposing dead animals 1,250.00 210 HEALTH AND SANITATION Health Department Health Inspector—Salary Appropriation for 1950 4,950.00 Expenditures Colbert, John A., salary 4,950.00 Health Department—Principal Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,380.00 Transferred Town Meeting 100.00 3,280.$0 Expenditures Murray, Paul F., salary 3,260.16 Transferred to Revenue 19.84 3,280.00 Health Department—Insp. of Plumbing & Sanitation Salary Appropriation for 1950 4,500.00 Expenditures Maurer, Edward L. ,salary 4,500.00 Health Department—Principal Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Farnham, Alice H., salary 2,520.00 Health Department—Extra Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,120.00 Transferred Town Meeting 600.00 520.00 Expenditures Devaney, Margaret M., salary 346.90 Transferred to Revenue 173.10 520.00 Health Department—Nurses' Salaries Appropriation for 1950 5,760.00 Expenditures Drummey, Irene K., salary 2,880.00 Vahey, Rita L., salary 2,880.00 5,760.00 211 Health Department—Dental Clinic Appropriation for 1950 4,320.00 Expenditures Fantasia, Phiuip D., DMD, services 1,050.00 Little, Janet D. ,salary 2,100.00 Reynolds Sons Co., S. H., dental supplies 40.50 Zelermyer, Max, DMD, services 1,050.00 Total Expenditures 4,240.50 Transferred to Revenue 79.50 4,320.00 Health Departments-Contagious Diseases Appropriation for 1950 16,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 4,700.00 Refunds 1,002.75 21,702.75 Expenditures Boston, City of, care at City Hospital 110.00 Boston Lying In Hospital, car 432.00 Cambridge, City of, care at City Hospital 1,044.00 Children's Hospital, care 1,603.25 Costa Ambulance Coach Service, ambulance 30.00 Delaney Line Service, rental service of coats 4.50 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 38.45 Eaton Press Inc., supplies 109.30 Fox Drug Store, supplies 70.95 Haynes Memorial Hospital, care 1,448.00 Kelley, Edward J., M.D., services 500.00 Marinucci, Rita, reimbursement 98.16 Mass. Memorial Hospital, care 2,805.55 Middlesex County Sanatorium, care 10,021.50 Middlesex County Sanatorium Store, repairs to glasses, supplies 48.80 Mt. Auburn Hospital, care 987.40 Murphy, John J., VMD, clinic, vaccine, needles 319.00 Peter Bent Birgham Hospital, care 1,085.85 Piccolo's Pharmacy, supplies 1.35 Somerville Hospital, care 589.39 Various Persons, service at anti rabies clinic 84.00 Watertown Herald, advertising 102.00 Watertown Sun, advertising 115.20 Total Expenditures 21,648.65 Transferred to Revenue 54.10 21,702.75 Health Department—Contingent Appropriation for 1950 2,500.00 Expenditures Alger Oil Co., gas 165.87 212 American Society of Sanitary Engineering, dues 15.00 Anderson Products, valve 2.50 Applied Research Institute, research supplies 17.34 Arone, Lawrence, inspections 40.00 Belmont Springs Water Co., spring water 8.70 Central Scientific Co., supplies 6.00 Cherry-Burrell Co., sulphuric acid 2.00 Colbert, John A., garage 60.00 Difco Laboratories, supplies 15.56 Eaton Press Inc., printing 86.00 Dunn's Drug Store, prescriptions 14.76 Eaton Press Inc., printing 22.39 Farnham, Alice H., petty cash 37.56 Fletcher Hdwe Co.,hardware 8.58 Frost Insecticide Co., ammate «veed killer 37.00 Heffernan, John E., insurance 206.10 Hobbs & Warren Inc., forms 41.77 Horne & Co., H. S., supplies 268.54 Jenney Mfg. Co. gas 331.33 Mass. Agricultural Experiment Station, Babook Inspection 2.00 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., supplies 19.76 Mass. Public Health Assoc., dues 6.00 Murer, Edward L., garage and meetings 87.75 Murray, Paul F., transportation 200.00 Modern Supply Co., heating equipment 154.95 Modern Sanitation, subscription 3.00 Mt. Auburn Motors, motor repair 169.90 Oakland Pharmacy, supplies 4.25 Owen, Leonard, inspections 26.00 Pascoe Co., George T., stool 14.31 Peakes Laboratory Supply Co., supplies 94.34 Piccolo's Pharmacy, supplies 29.46 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 177.63 Quirk Corp., Edward S., battery 13.50 Shutt, George L., service 3.68 Reynolds Sons Co., S. H., retainer 6.00 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 16.00 Worcester, Mrs. Josephine, garage 60.00 Total Expenditures 2,475.53 Transferred to Revenue 24.47 2,500.00 Health Department---Mosquito Control Appropriation for 1950 200.00 Expenditures Mass. Comm. of Mass. `o State Reclamation Board 200.00 Inspector of Animals Appropriation for 1950 600.00 Expenditures Murphy, John J., VMD, services 600.00 233 Sewer Department-Construction Appropriation for 1950 7,685.00 Expenditures American Oil Co., gas 57.07 East Watertown Cement Block Co., cement 33.81 Fletcher Hdwe Co., picks and handles 276.30 Garden City Gravel Corp., sand 83.02 Green & Co., S. B., bricks 553.01 LeBaron Foundary Co., E. L., man hole covers 213.71 Mass. Broken Stone Co., stone 185.67 McCarthy Co., Charles J., jute 327.54 Meister, O. J., repair and welding bucket loader 12.00 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 48.53 Portland Stone Ware Co., pipe 2,566.54 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 92.28 Raymond, D. B., gravel 69.16 Robinson Clay Products Co., supplies 4.47 Sliney Co., John J., black hoe rental 105.00 Systrom Co., E. W., parts 209.10 Triconi, S., rental back hoe 105.00 Waltham Lime & Cement Co., cement 216.19 White Iron Works, C. M., manhole covers and frames 1,601.04 Total Expenditures 6,759.44 Transferred to Revenue 925.56 7,685.00 Sewer Department-3Iaintenance Appropriation for 1950 4,000.00 Expenditures Aeroil Products Co. Inc., melting furnace 92.38 Alexander Co., Louis A., lanterns and globes 141.00 Coolidge Industrial, Products, gloves 47.22 Farm Bureau Assn. chemicals 8.00 Freaney Inc., Jas. A., catch basin cleaner, rental 87.50 Garden City Gravel Corp., sand 13.87 Green & Co. S. B., bricks 26.46 Hallemite Mfg. Co., manhole seal 60.00 Holicker & Co. A., burlap bags 13.50 Hood Rubber Co., rubber boots 74.66 Mass. Broken Stone Co., stone 13.24 McCarthy Co., Charles J., supplies 181.91 McDermott Co., J. F., supplies 175.32 Meister, O. J., make cork screw root puller, welding 28.10 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 287.83 Otis Bros. Co., storm king boots 8.95 Parker-Danner Co., sewer seal 134.80 Portland Stone Ware Co., pipe 1,646.80 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 193.99 Robinson Clay Products Co., supplies 14.46 State Chemical Co., chemicals 22.15 214 Systerom Co., F. W., overhauling paving breaker, pump 422.45 Tremarch, Frank, refund sewer connection money 8.00 Triconi, S., back hoe 210.00 Water Dept. Town of Watertown, metered water 13.16 Watertown Lime & Cement Co., pipe and cement 61.74 Watertown Plumbing & Heating Co., supplies 12.31 Total Expenditures 3,999.80 Transferred to Revenue .20 4,000.00 Drainage Appropriation for 1950 21,455.00 Transferred Town Meeting 1,700.00 19,755.00 Expenditures American Oil Co., gas 69.82 Barclay Explosives Co., dynamite, caps 11.70 Boston & Maine R.R. Co., drain pipe privilege 12.00 Champion Windows Inc., glass replaced 2.50 Charles River Sand & Gravel Co., sand 250.22 Condon Corp. John P., concrete 130.09 Dailey, Edward G., manholes 60.00 Fletcher Hdwe Co., seed 46.00 Garden City Gravel Corp., sand & gravel 183.80 Greene & Co., S. B., supplies 2,340.87 Hood Rubber Co., rubber boots 32.55 LeBaron Goundry Co., E. L., catch basin traps 436.26 Mass Broken Stone Co., stone 106.89 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., supplies 19.46 McCarthy Co., Charles J., washers, hose 307.67 McNamara Inc., J. H., concrete 429.08 Meister, O. J., pipe hooks, make sling 118.00 New Eng. Concrete Pipe Corp., concrete pipe 2,066.41 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 46.10 Parker-Danner Co., sewer compound 173.52 Portland Stone Ware Co., pipe 6,367.45 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 267.82 Raymond, D. B., gravel 276.76 Robinson Clay Products Co., pipe 64.18 Sliney Co., John J., loam 396.90 Systrom Co., E. W., supplies 588.01 Tocci, Anthony, catch basins 120.00 Tractors Inc., offset coupler 3.85 Waltham Lime & Cement Co., cement 928.07 White Iron Works, C. M., catch basin grates and frames 3,892.68 Total Expenditures 19,748.66 Transferred to Revenue 6.34 19,755.00 215 CARE AND LIGHTING OF HIGHWAYS Highway Department Salary of Superintendent Appropriation for 1950 5,400.00 Expenditures Dwyer, Thomas V., salary 5,400.00 Highway Department—Salary of Ass't Superintendent Appropriation for 1950 4,600.00 Expenditures Johnston, E. Harold, salray 4,600.00 Highway Department—Principal Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Regan, Esther, salary 2,520.00 Highway Department—Senior Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,160.00 Expenditures Bianconi, Frances E., salary 2,160.00 Highway Department—Office Expense Appropriation for 1950 300.00 .. Transferred Town Meeting 172.00 472.00 Expenditures American Public Works Assoc., service fee 10.00 Dwyer, Thomas V., meeting, incidentals 5.00 Eaton Press Inc., printing envelopes, printing 138.47 Eddie's Caster Service, caster in stalled 4.00 Evans Printing Service, printing 26.85 Hobbs& Warren Inc., books 32.58 Mass. Highway Ass'n. dues 3.00 Mooney Card& Gift Shop, supplies 1.65 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 70.89 Regent Business Machine Service, repair 4.40 Ribbon & Cardon Products Co., stamp pad & ink 1.75 Royal Typewriter Co., typewriter 140.00 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 20.80 Watertown Herald, advertising 12.25 Total Expenditures 471.64 Transferred to Revenue .36 472.00 216 Highway Department—Out-of-State Travel Appropriation for 1950 200.00 Expenditures Dwyer, Thomas., convention expenses 125.00 Transferred to Revenue 75.00 200.00 Highway Department—Labor Appropriation for 1950 359,000.00 Expenditures Payrolls, weekly 353,532.60 Transferred to Revenue 5,467.40 359,000.00 Highway Department—Overtime Labor Appropriation for 1950 5,000.00 Expenditures Payrolls, weekly 4,415.15 Transferred to Revenue 584.85 5,000.00 Highway Department—Vacations Appropriation for 1950 17,428.00 Expenditures Payrolls, weekly 17,314.00 Transferred to Revenue 114.00 17,428.00 Highway Department—Construction Appropriation for 1950 24,456.00 Expenditures Boston Post, bid 6.75 Condon Corp., John P., concrete 18,063.17 Construction Machinery Co., suppjlies 22.00 Eastern Asphalt Distributing Co., asphalt 688.35 Hay & Peabody Cement Vault Co., curbing 227.37 Mass. Broken Stone Co., broken stone 128.29 McVey, T. H., curbing 132.00 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 15.08 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 55.75 Raymond, D. B., gravel 2,314.49 Eystrom Co., E. W., supplies, asphalt cutters 367.50 Western Union Tel Co., pole line changes 150.00 217 Total Expenditures 22,170.75 Transferred to Revenue 2,285.25 24,456.00 Highway Department—Betterment Construction Appropriation for 1950 25,077.00 Transferred Town Meeting 3,556.99 21,520.01 Expenditures Condon Corp., John P., concrete 3,815.87 Eastern Asphalt Distributing Co., asphalt 2,240.53 Garden City Gravel Corp., sand 606.64 Hay & Peabody Cement Vault Co., curbing 83.99 McVey, T. H., curbing 3,896.30 Raymond, D. B., gravel 9,094.79 Triconi, S., grader 240.00 Total Expenditures 19,978.12 Transferred to Revenue 1,541.89 21,520.01 Highway Department—Chapter 90 Construction "1949" Balance brought forward 793.12 Received from State & County 6,753.60 7,546.72 Expenditures Condon Corp., John P., road work 7,396.69 Newton Graphic, advertising 6.00 Total Expenditures 7,402.69 Balance carried forward 144.03 7,546.72 Highway Department—Chapter 90 Construction "1950" Appropriation for 1950 10,000.00 Received from State & County 19,597.55 29,597.55 Expenditures Le Baron Foundry Co., E. L., traps, grates, manhole covers and frames 315.90 Reed, Walter Corp., road work 26,130.06 White Iron Works, C. M., grates and frames 277.20 Total Expenditures 26,723.16 Balance carried forward 2,874.39 29,597.55 218 Highway Department-Maintenance Appropriation for 1950 30,000.00 Expenditures Alexander Co., Louis, parts 1,311.35 American Bitumuls Co., bitumuls 128.28 Clapper Co., supplies 18.00 Condon Corp., John P., road work 4,253.85 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 194.96 Davis Tractor Co., H. F. sproket 94.99 Eastern Asphalt Distributing Co., asphalt 3,227.02 Everetts Broom & Service Co., refill 23.00 Garden City Gravel Corp., sand 417.38 General Electric Supply Corp., engine heater 10.74 Gerrard & Co., A. J., seals, bands 91.82 Grote Mfg. Co., Inc., steel signs 34.19 Johnson Paint Co., supplies 8.00 Maffioli & Son, C., quotation on shelter at dump 100.00 Mass. Broken Stone Co., cold patches 9,931.50 Mass. Steel & Tool Co., pipe 1,351.39 Meister, O. J. sharpening tools 16.50 Middlesex County House of Correction, brooms 83.40 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 262.85 Penney Co., J. C., red cloth 11.27 Protective Coating Co., paint 325.54 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 705.41 Raymond, D. B., gravel 650.81 Ross Motor Parts Co., paint 38.81 Sheet Metal Specialties Co., signs 79.62 State Prison, signs 72.00 Touzjian M.D., Y. T., services 10.00 Traffic & Road Equipment Co., brooms 30.00 Trimount Bit. Products Co., asphalt 4,940.57 Tropical Paint & Oil Co., paint 636.13 Waterproof Paint & Varnish Co., paint 925.15 Water Dept. Town of Watertown, metered water 11.34 Total Expenditures 29,995.87 Transferred to Revenue 4.13 30,000.00 Highway Department-General Maintenance Appropriation for 1950 30,600.00 Transferred Town Meeting 1,000.00 Refunds 612.46 32,212.46 Expenditures A. & J. Auto Ignition Co., supplies 4.41 Acme Glass Co., glass 129.78 Advanced Marine Products Corp., oil 9.80 Alemite Co. of Boston, fittings 41.70 Alexander Co., Louis A., parts 515.62 Alger Oil Co., Kilsludge 180.00 American Oil Co., gas 6,193.12 219 Amory Foundry, signs 6.83 Arcand Inc., auto service 9.70 Artcraft Mfg. Co., seat covers 90.00 Autocar Sales & Service Co., parts, repair 72.53 Automotive Distributors Inc., parts 12.72 Beacon Auto Radiotor Co., radiator service 89.31 Bergstrom Auto Body, repair 16.00 Boston Cons. Gas Co., strvice 242.86 Boston Coupling Co., valves & click gate 73.87 Boston Edison Co., service 1,721.86 Boston Janitor's Supp. Co., Janitors supplies 602.54 Boston Speedometer Service Co., suppleis 8.53 Boston & Maine R.R. Co., freight 2.86 Brookline Machine Co., grinding 16.67 Buckley & Scott Utilities Inc., oil 1,942.26 Chase-Parker & Co., supplies 423.77 Chesterton Co. A. W., repair 178.20 Clapper Co., Milorganite 56.75 Clayton's Auto Glass Co., auto glass 38.07 Clark-Wilcox Co., supplies 60.73 Columbia Auto Parts Co., facing applied 7.60 Connell Co., W. J., parts 9.85 Construction Machinery Repair Service Co., repointing, supplies 102.75 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 10.80 Coombs Motor Co., parts 364.29 Costigan Co., John F., parts 139.49 Davis Inc., H. G., repair 15.25 Davis Tractor Co., H. F., parts 652.23 Duff Spring Co., spring repair 54.03 Dusn's Drug Store, supplies 5.23 Dunn Co., W. J., repair 13.20 DuPont De Nemours & Co., refinishing supplies 3.85 Dwyer, Thomas V., insurance on car, registration, incidentals 95.62 Eagle Oil & Supply Co., gum solvent 98.75 Everett's Broom & Service Co., refills 225.00 Everett Equip Co., Clyde, parts 461.58 Eutectic Welding Alloys Corp., alloys 186.21 Fay Co., E. C., tank 15.41 Fletcher Hdwe Co., hardware 716.57 Fulton Auto Radiator Co., radiator repair 7.50 G.M.C. Truck & Coach Division, parts 1.56 Gar Wood Industries Inc., cable 15.90 Genalco Inc., hose with fittings 10.62 Gordon Supply Co., frock rental 137.70 Grant's Express Co., express 1.50 Hamlin Motor Sales, parts 2.67 Harvey Co., Arthur C., screws & nuts 84.11 Heil Equipment Co., parts 370.13 Hession, Phillip, repairs to car 7.30 Hidalgo Steel Co., steel 81.94 Hodge Boiler Works, parts 9.24 Holland Furnance Co., cleaning chimney & flues 120.00 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 234.32 Karasoff, J. M., M.D., services 3.00 Kelly's Shell Service, gas 176.47 King, John J., "marfak" 8.13 220 Knox Bros. Motor Co. Inc., parts 13.00 Lawrence Inc., George, repair 28.64 LeFavor, George E., insurance 72.70 Lenk Inc., parts & repair 19.74 Littlefield-Greene Co. Inc., clamps, supplies 8.54 Lustra Corp. of America, supplies 86.90 Lux Fire Equip. Co., recharging 32.75 Mack Motor Truck Co., parts 374.49 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., supplies 57.92 Mass. Steel & Tool Co., steel 20.15 McCarthy Co., Charles J., steel 218.33 McCree, John, repairing 357.00 Meister, O. J., welding & forging 105.30 Mercury Oil Co., grease 21.06 N. E. Metallurgical Corp., bolts & nuts 4.25 Micro. Machine, axel shaft 5.00 Moore Co rp., Irving B., hose couplings 91.93 Morrissey Bros. Tractor Co., parts 20.33 Motor Supply Inc., supplies 74.28 Mt. Auburn Motors Inc., supplies 22.13 New Eng. Engine & Parts Co., parts 36.00 New Eng. Gas Products Inc., supplies 128.34 New Eng. Saw Co., saws 21.22 Newton Used Car& Parts, cushion 5.00 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 546.46 Northeast Oil Co., oil 922.00 O'Brien Bros. Trucking, trucking .63 Packard Arlington Co., parts 11.26 Penn Refining Co., oil 54.94 Pierce Co., Raymond, repairing door 79.93 Protective Coating Co., paint 14.50 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 476.87 Quirk Corp., Edward S., tire and tube service 2,053.61 Sales Co., R. H., repair floor jack 24.71 Rand Co., Philip A., plow steel rope, hoist 341.21 Registry of Motor Vehicles, registering 98.00 Robie Inc., R. S., auto rental 97.65 Robinson Clay Products Co., pipe 3.29 Ross Motor Parts Co., motor parts 66.05 Shutt, George L., batteries, supplies 1,113.50 Silver Welding Supply Inc., supplies 53.23 Simplex Time Recorder Co., watchclock 120.49 Snap-on-Tools Corp., supplies 16.80 Snider Fuel Corp., fuel 1,012.95 Somerville Auto Body, repair 126.00 Standard Auto Gear Co., supplies 2,862.15 Standard Textile Co., wipers 250.18 Stearns-Perry & Smith, repairs 33.85 Sterling Motors, parts 4.79 Steven Auto Parts Inc., auto parts 10.25 Sullivan & Son, James H., gas and oil 171.78 Sullivan Co., boiler cleaner 20.00 Summer St. Garage, labor and repair 39.30 Swanson's Waltham Express, express 2.16 ystrom Co., E. W., parts 853.84 Tackney's Express Co., express 3.15 Tractors Inc., parts 171.99 Uarco Inc., business forms 60.23 221 Matco Mfg. Co., supplies 17.64 Warren Refining & Chemical Co., lubricants 200.06 Water Dept-Town of Watertown, metered water 54.16 Watertown Herald, circulars 89.00 Watertown Letter Shop, printing 18.00 Watertown Sun, printing collection notices 15.46 Watertown Upholstering Co., recovering seats, repairs 80.00 White Motor Co., motor repair 1,004.37 Total Expenditures 32,211.73 Transferred to Revenue .73 32,212.46 Highway Department-Snow & Ice Materials Appropriation for 1950 8,700.00 Transferred Town Meeting 1,700.00 10,400.00 Expenditures American Oil Co., gas 555.49 Beacon Auto Radiator Co., radiator repair 48.71 Bowers Battery & Spark Plug Co., rebuilding 59.14 Brine, Alice G., damage to hedge 10.00 Charles River Sand & Gravel Co., sand 679.75 Chase-Parker & Co., supplies 244.71 Clark-Wilcox Co., repair 124.63 Clayton's Auto Glass Service, auto glass 48.02 Connell Co., W. J., repair 6.61 Coolidge Sq Paint & Supply Co., shovels 139.02 Costigan Co., John F., auto service 32.01 Davidson Fan Co., trueing and painting fan 23.00 Davis Inc., H. G., repair 38.79 Davis Tractor Co., H. F., parts 536.95 Garden City Gravel Corp., sand 647.67 Genalco Inc., band relined 9.34 Harvey Co., Arthur C., steel 268.17 Heil Equipment Co., supplies 25.42 International Salt Co., salt 2,287.80 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Sup. Co., light supply 22.33 Meister, O. J., straightening and repairing push frames and welding 159.50 Morrissey Bros. Tractor Co., parts 38.30 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 83.37 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 126.91 Norfolk Tool & Supply Co., parts 45.65 Perkins-Eaton Machinery Co., parts 21.11 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, shovels 124.24 Scales Co., R. H., recondition snow plow-ram 49.74 Shutt Inc., George L., batteries 146.23 Standard Auto Gear Co., supplies 38.04 Systrom Co., E. W., parts 1,211.38 Thomas Co., powerfilm 39.98 Warren Ref. & Chemical Co., lubricant 116.40 Watertown Herald, advertising 2.25 Watertown Plumbing & Heating Co., supplies 8.00 Weather Services Inc., forecast services 183.00 222 Wood Co. Charles N., parts 2,192.70 Total Expenditures 10,394.36 Transferred to Revenue 5.64 10,400.00 Highway Department—Snow & Ice Overtime & Trucking Appropriation for 1950 12,000.00 Expenditures Cavalen & Son, Louis, plowing 244.50 Coolidge Sq. Service Station, plowing 10.00 Payroll, weekly 4,707.74 Ravinis Trucking Co., plowing & removal 219.00 Sliney Co., Inc., John J., trucking 501.75 Theurer, Harry A., plowing & removal 248.00 Triconi, S., plowing & bull dozer 942.90 Vacca Trucking Co., plowing 227.63 Total Expenditures 7,101.52 Transferred to Revenue 4,898.48 12,000.00 IIighway Department—New Equipment Appropriation for 1950 10,900.00 Transferred Town Meeting 172.00 10,728.00 Expenditures Chemical Corp., salt spreader 550.17 Conant Machine & Steel Co., sand loading machine 600.00 Coombs Motor Co., two trucks, one new Ford 9,249.98 Meister, O. J., plow frames 325.00 Total Expenditures 10,725.15 Transferred to Sevenue 2.85 10,728.00 Highway Department—Garage Repairs Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures Titus, L. C., repairs 894.00 Watertown Herald, advertising 2.25 Total Expenditures 896.25 Transferred to Revenue 103.75 1,000.00 223 Highway Department—Fire Loss—Truck Appropriation for 1950 1,556.99 Expenditures Mack Motor Truck Co., repairs 1,391.70 Transferred to Revenue 165.29 1,556.99 Highway Department—Garbage Disposal Appropriation for 1950 2,000.00 Expenditures American Oil Co., gas 1,499.97 Pletcher Hdwe Co., garbage receiver 13.95 State Prison Colony Ind., pails 472.75 Water Dept—Town of Watertown, metered water. 9.80 Watertown Herald, advertising 2.25 Total Expenditures 1,998.72 Transferred to Revenue 1.28 2,000.00. Highway Department—Ashes & Papers Appropriation for 1950 3,000.00 Expenditures American Oil Co., gas 2,699.60 Bliss & Co. Inc., James, canvas with groments and ropes 227.20 Burke, Martin, fire loss 1.00 Connolly, William, fire loss 3.00 Munroe, Robert, fire loss 4.00 Otis Bros. Co., clothes 14.40 Watertown Letter Shop, tickets printed 18.00 Total Expenditures 2,967.20 Transferred to Revenue 32.80 3,000.00 Street Lights Appropriation for 1950 60,000.00 Expenditures Boston Edison Co., service 58,201.43 Duro Test Corp., lamps 45.14 General Electric Co., repair controller 65.00 Graybar Electric Co., flood lights, supplies 259.36 Horacek, Victor J., repair pipe 4.50 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., light supplies 115.402 Municipal Signal & Supply Co., supplies 540.69 Total Expenditures 59,231.14 Transferred to Revenue 768.86 60,000.00 224 Sidewalk Departments—Construction Appropriation for 1950 3,500.00 Expenditures Beaver Brook Grain Co., hay 3.98 Condon Corp., John P., concrete 99.22 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 151.89 McNamara Inc., J. H., concrete 851.35 McVey, Thos. H., curbings 276.75 Nonanutum Lumber Co., lumber 41.15 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 11.90 Raymond, D. B., gravel 596.55 Sliney Co., John J., loam 69.00 Total Expenditures 2,101.79 Transferred to Revenue 1.398.21 3,500.00 Sidewalk Department—Maintenance Appropriation for 1950 3,000.00 Expenditures Condon Corp., John P., concrete 1,941.61 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 315.84 Green & Co. Inc., flagg 16.00 MafTioli & Son, C., concrete 75.00 Mass. Broken Stone Co., stone 4.29 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 11.05 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 52.92 Raymond, D. B., gravel 191.50 Sliney Co., loam 364.56 Total Expenditures 2,972.77 Transferred to Revenue 27.23 3,000.00 CHARITIES & SOLDIER'S BENEFITS Public Welfare Department—Salary of Agent Appropriation for 1950 4,600.00 Expenditures Murray, Joseph F., salary 4,386.98 Transferred to Revenue 213.02 4,600.00 Public Welfare Department—Principal Social Worker Supervisor Appropriation for 1950 3,740.00 Expenditures Hyde, Joseph E., salary 3,563.35 Transferred to Revenue 176.65 3,740.00 225 Public Welfare Department—Social Workers Appropriation for 1950 11,290.00 Expenditures Brogle, Dorothy, salary 405.60 Forbush, Elsie A., salary 2,400.61 Gass, Elizabeth A., salary 2,400.61 Hoyt, Creighton B., salary 2,000.10 Leah, Carmen L., salary 1,098.50 Mention, Paul C., salary 1,999.60 Total Expenditures 10,305.02 Transferred to Revenue 984.98 11,290.00 Public Welfare—Senior Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,160.00 Expenditures McCree, Rosamond, salary 2,160.00 Public Welfare Department—Senior Clerk Appropriation for 1950 1,940.00 Expenditures Kelly, Edith L., salary 1,940.00 Public Welfare—Junior Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,760.00 Expenditures McCarthy, Catharine F., salary 1,760.00 Public Welfare—Junior Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,500.00 Expenditures Donato, Elena M. ,salary 1,500.00 Public Welfare Department—Junior Clerk Appropriation for 1950 1.440.00 Expenditures Hammond, Irene, salary 93.50 Maloney, Eleanor, salary 791.00 Total Expenditures 884.50 Transferred to Revenue 550.50 1,440.00 226 Public Welfare-Contingent Appropriation for 1950 3,800.00 Refund 5.00 3,805.00 Expenditures American Public Welfare Assoc., subscription 10.00 Andrews Co., W. E., bank forms 11.27 Atwell Co., envelopes 32.75 Atwell. Service Co., maintenance 72.00 Brogle, Dorothy, relief officers luncheon 1.75 Business Week, subscriptions 12.00 Coolidge Printing Co., printing 236.15 Eaton Press, printing 39.19 Elliott Adding Machine Co., stencils 32.64 Family Service Assoc., recording kit 7.20 Forbush, Elsie A., car expense & meetings 263.09 Fox's Drug Store, aerosal bomb 1.54 Cass, Elizabeth A., carfares, meetings 63.40 Hobbs & Warren Inc., forms 42.90 Horne & Co., H. S., supplies 403.50 Hoyt, Creighton B., car expense, meetings 263.19 Hyde, Joseph E., car expense 172.37 Leah, Carmen L., car expense, meetings 236.44 Mention, Paul C., car expense, meetings 263.19 Murray, Joseph F., car expense 267.20 Newsweek, subscription 6.50 Mostmaster-Boston, envelopes 728.04 Postindex Co., forms 66.03 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 346.09 Ribbon & Carbon Products, stamp pad & ink 1.75 Social Legislation Inf. Service, subscription 15.00 Social Service Index, index service 73.00 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 93.60 Stetson Co., M. D., Deluxe Set ozium, refills 28.93 Total Expenditures 3,790.71 Transferred to Revenue 14.29 3,805.00 Public Welfare-General Relief Appropriation for 1950 95,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 11,000.00 Refunds 1,423.56 107,423.56 Expenditures Aggie's Cab Inc., cab 1.15 Apelian, Albert S., M.D., services 61.00 Appel, Charles F., M.D., services 95.00 Arlington, Town of, aid 374.70 Audubon Hospital, care 48.00 Bacon, G. S., M.D., services 346.00 Baratta Shoe Repair, hoe repair 10.60 Barron, Albert L., M.D., services 80.00 Bedrosian Funeral Home, burials 270.00 227 Billerica, Town of, aid 71.58 Boston, City of, aid 3,639.17 Brigham Hospital, Peter Bent, care 25.00 Brigham Hospital, Robert B., care 2.25 Brown, John B., M.D., services 12.00 Burger, Francis J., M.D., services 52.00 Butler's Pharmacy, prescriptions 930.40 Callahan, James D., M.D., services 3.00 Cambridge, City of, aid 50.00 Canzanelli, Pericles, M.D., services 82.00 Case Shoe Co., Edwin, shoes 74.40 Cash, weekly disbursements 66,671.45 Catholic Charitable Bureau, aid 947.23 Chalmers, Thomas C., M.D., services 3.00 Chelsea, City of, aid 80.00 Children's Hospital, care 5.00 Children's Mission to Children, board 56.58 Chopourian, H. M., DMD, services 75.00 Ciani, Manfred M., DMD, services 18.00 Ciofl's Market, provisions 6.00 Claflin Co., prescription 3.75 Cleary Drug Co., prescriptions 123.69 Coffee's Market, provisions 348.00 Cohn, Samuel A., M.D., services 4.00 Connolly, John D., M.D., services 86.00 Conti, Domenic, rent 192.00 Costa Drug Store, prescriptions 7.75 Depalo, Thomas, M.D., services 9.00 Doyle, John P., D.M.D., services 24.00 Drosdik, V. A., M.D., services 36.00 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 848.89 Egleston Shoe Repair Co., shoe repair 3.50 Elliott, Harold E., M.D., eyeglasses 104.00 Esposito, John, burial 100.00 Fantasia, Philip D., DMD, services 113.00 Merrera Bros. Inc., groceries 180.00 First National Stores, groceries and provisions 262.45 Forziati, A. L., M.D., services 3.00 Fox Drug Store, supplies 733.76 Gorman, Eugene F., M.D., services 87.00 Harris, Charles A., clothes 96.70 Hayward Wm. F., M.D., services 6.00 Harvard Dept. of Psychiatry, services 5.00 Helms, James T., M.D., servcies 18.00 House of St. Camillus, care 132.25 Hudson Drug Store, supplies 7.50 Jameson, James J., M.D., services 42.00 Joslin, Elliott P., M.D., services 11.00 Kelley, Joseph M., DMD, services 93.00 Kelley, Edward J., M.D., services 16.00 Kervorkian, J.J., M. D., services 301.00 King, Alfred E., M.D., services 51.00 Lafayette, T., DMD, services 71.00 Laserman, Joseph, M.D., services 5.00 LeDoux, Arthur, groveries 52.05 Leonard Fuel Co., fuel 113.50 LeRoy, R. V., M.D., services 11.00 Lexington, Town of, aid 119.40 228 Lexington St. Drug Co., supplies 138.45 Lloyd Pharmacy, supplies 517.05 Lynch, Frederick J., M.D., services 2.00 Mahady Co., E. F., supplies 34.65 Mass. Comm. of Mass., Hospital School, care 27.50 Mass. Comm. of, Public Welfare, aid 5,054.61 Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary, care 110.95 Mass. General Hospital, care 1,050.80 Mastrangelo, L., M.D., services 5.00 Mt. Auburn Hospital, care 7,362.55 Murray, Paul F., services 6.00 Nally Movers Inc., moving 66.71 Natick, Town of, aid 477.90 National Shoe Foundation, innermoulds 15.00 Nelson Drug Co., prescriptions 1.00 Nestor's Bros. Market, groceries 16.40 New Deal Market, groceries 21.70 New Eng. Hospital for Women and Chaildren, care 50.00 Newstadt Pharmacy, prescription 1.25 Newton, City of, aid 1,578.25 Otis Bros Co., clothes 296.49 Perlmutter, Samuel M., M.D., services 13.00 Pesce, Guy C., M.D., services 106.00 Picceri, Saverio, M.D., services 14.00 Piccolo's Pharmacy, prescriptions 57.48 Pomeroy So., truss 8.00 Proia & Sons, provisions 90.24 Rand's Pharmacy, prescriptions 314.58 Revere, City of, aid 18.50 Roma Pharmacy, prescriptions 3.00 Rumerson, Herbert, M.D., services 3.00 Salusti, Joseph J., DMD, services 198.00 Sandi, Paul L., M.D., services 6.00 Secord, Walter N., M.D., services 16.00 Shawmut Market, provisions 21.75 Shewin, Herbert, M.D., services 3.00 Shushan, Arthur A., M.D., services 6.00 Sibley Farms, milk 41.45 Slattery John J., M.D., services 66.00 Smart Style Shop, corsets and bra 24.45 Somerville, City of, aid 958.70 St. Elizabeth's Hospital, care 577.75 St. Margaret's Hospital, care 38.40 Stop & Shop, provisions 1,812.71 Streim, Benjamin, M.D., services 39.00 Sullivan Oil Co., oil 246.50 Thomas, W. H., burial 197.50 Toppan, Albert B., M.D., services 50.00 Touzjian Y. T., M. D., services 1,136.09 Tufts College Dental Service, dentistry 81.00 United Limb & Brace Co., supplies, repairs to artificial limb 24.80 Van Gorder, George W., M.D., services 2.00 Waltham, City of, aid 365.75 Waring's Pharmacy, prescriptions 18.07 Watertown District Nursing Assoc., visits 159.25 Watertown, Town of, burial (Cemetery Dept.) 90.00 Waltham Hospital, care 1,538.05 229 Weisman, Theodore A., M.D., eyeglasses 139.00 West Springfield, Town of, aid 1,678.97 Wil-Mac Shoe Co., shoes 31.70 Winchell, Ida, board and room 1,298.00 Wylie, Earl J., M.D., services 224.00 Wyman, Edwin T., M.D., services 4.00 York, Robert S., M.D., services 36.00 Zelermyer, Max, DMD, services 214.00 Total Expenditures 107,307.65 Transferred to Revenue 115.91 107,423.56 Public Welfare—Aid Dependent Children—Town Appropriation for 1950 94,000.00 Refunds 1,323.91 95,323.91 Expenditures Cash, weekly disbursements 92,211.32 Transferred to Revenue 3,112.59 95,323.91 Public Welfare—Aid Dependent Children—Federal Administration Balance brought forware 2,302.00 Federal Aid 3,013.24 5,315.24 Expenditures Brogle, Dorothy T., salary 78.00 DeLorey, Walter F., salary 171.60 Forbush, Elsie, salary 119.39 Gass, Elizabeth, salary 119.39 Hammond, Irene, salary 374.00 Hoyt, Creighton, salary 99.90 Hyde, Joseph E., salary 176.65 Leah, Carmen, salary 523.90 Menton, Paul C., salary 100.40 Murray, Joseph F., salary 213.02 Murray, Joseph F., convention expenses 150.00 Reardon, Theresa, salary 791.00 Total Expenditures 2,917.25 Balance carried forward 2,397.99 5,315.24 Public Welfare—Aid Dependent Children—Federal Aid Balance brought forward 5,643.63 Federal Aid 39,699.50 45,343.13 230 Expenditures Cash, weekly disbursements 29,422.15 Balance carried forward 15,920.98 45,343.13 Public Welfare--Old Age Assistance—Town Appropriation for 1950 290,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 11,000.00 279,000.00 Refunds 5,772.09 284,772.09 Expenditures Bedford, Town of, aid 14.69 Belmont, Town of, aid 684.22 Billerica, Town of, aid 16.97 Boston, City of, aid 1,206.20 Canton, Town of, aid 31.63 Cash, weekly disbursements 255,379.16 Dedham, Town of, aid 22.47 Framingham, Town of, aid 156.80 Harvard, Town of, aid 3.80 Lowell, City of, aid 56.80 Malden, City of, aid 402.72 Milford, City of, aid 112.30 North Reading, Town of, aid 100.42 Rockland, Town of, aid 113.88 Town of Scituate—aid 108.24 Somerville, City of, aid 69.55 Waltham, City of, aid 169.64 Wareham, Town of, aid 132.46 Woburn, City of, aid 41.68 Total Expenditures 258,823.63 Transferred to Revenue 25,948.46 284,772.09 Public Welfare—Old Age Assistance—Federal Administration Balance brought forward 82.55 Federal Aid 9,201.59 9,284.14 Expenditures Boston Globe, advertisement 35.00 Boston Post, advertisement 18.20 Brogle, Dorothy F., car expense 25.00 Coolidge Printing Co., printing 34.79 Elliott Addressing Machine Co., cards 3.05 Forbush, Elsie A., car expense 29.50 Gass, Elizabeth A., carfare expense 6.75 Horne & Co., H. S., office supplies 22.05 Hoyt, Creighton B., car expense 26.75 Hyde, Joseph E., car expense 16.66 Menton, Paul C., car expense 26.75 231 Murray, Joseph F., car expense 25.00 Murray, Joseph F., expense to Vermont case 25.00 Postmaster-Boston, stamps 9.00 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 13.74 Remington Rand Inc., servicing machine 6.80 Total Expenditures 324.04 Balance carried forward 8,960.10 9,284.14 Public Welfare--Old Age Assistance-Federal Aid Balance brought forward 6,499.12 Federal Aid 178,913.59 Recoveries 1,133.35 186,546.06 Expenditures Arlington, Town of, aid 46.65 Avon, Town of, aid 33.42 Billerica, Town of, aid 16.35 Braintree, Town of, aid 15.31 Brookline, Town of aid 34.83 Cambridge, City of, aid 414.75 Canton, Town of, aid 32.28 Cash, weekly disbursement 182,615.30 Dedham, Town of, aid 34.68 Framingham, Town of, aid 156.78 Harvard, Town of, aid 29.64 Lowell, City of, aid 20.36 Medford, City of, aid 43.97 Milford, Town of, aid 130.30 Newburyport, City of, aid 80.92 Newton, City of, aid 1,142.07 North Reading, Town of, aid 310.98 Peabody, City of, aid 198.08 Quincy, City of, aid 375.55 Rockland, Town of, aid 119.26 Swampscott, Town of, aid 4.24 Wareham, Town of, aid 279.63 Weymouth, Town of, aid 26.90 Woburn, City of, aid 291.83 Total Expenditures 186,454.08 Balance carried forward 91.98 186,546.06 Public Welfare Department-Unpaid Bills Appropriation for 1950 1,750.48 Expenditures Children's Mission to Children, aid 154.00 First National Stores, groceries 256.00 Mass. Dept. of Public Welfare, aid 978.73 Stop & Shop Inc., groceries 361.75 1,750.48 232 Infirmary Department I of irmary-Keeper-Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,790.00 Expenditures DeMarais, Charles J., salary 1,790.00 Infirmary-Department-General Expense Appropriation for 1950 7,900.00 Expenditures American Laundry, laundry 310.42 Automatic Heating Corp., overhaul 12.00 Beck's Curtain Cleaning Co., curtain cleaning 26.50 Bonded Oil System Inc., oil 172.02 Boston Cons. Gas Co., service 79.37 Boston Edison Co., service 151.58 Boston Janitor's Supply Co., cleaning supplies 11.29 Buckley & Scott Utilities Co., service calls 20.10 Connolly, John D., M.D., services 29.00 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 51.38 DeMarais, Charles J., reimbursements 278.84 Downer, S. B., provisions 1,907.69 DuBois Oil Co., oil 389.44 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 110.46 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 2.85 Grant Co., W. T., sash curtains 14.19 Gumpert Co., S., foods 13.85 Harris, Charles, clothes 35.25 Hurlbert & Hatfield, paper & twine 9.00 Lex Wood Poultry Farm, eggs 176.20 Local Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 13.50 Uux Fire Equipment Co., recharging 7.30 Mahady Co., E. S., white sheeting 11.40 Mass. Gas & Electric Co., bulbs 1.58 Mills Cemetery & Park Equipment Co., sickle bar mower 195.00 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 97.20 Otis Bros., shoes 8.95 Papazian, James, bakery supplies 684.20 Pay roll, weekly 1,772.57 Piccolo's Pharmacy, tobacco 30.00 Pilgram Mfg. Co., batteries 12.45 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 5.35 Reformatory for Towen, wool flag 5.65 Ross Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 12.00 Sam's Market, provisions 371.55 Sears--Roebuck Co., portable sewing machine (Demonstrator) 80.10 Small Co., Federick Co., tea 77.50 Standard Hindow Cleaning Co., window cleaning 30.00 Swift & Co., "allsweet" 57.04 Water Dept-Town of Watertown, metered water 59.14 Watertown Herald, bids for painting 3.00 233 Westinghouse Electric Supp. Co., refrigerator 148.00 Woodland, Charles, milk 402.04 Total Expenditures 7,886.95 Transferred to Revenue 13.05 7,900.00 Infirmary Department—Repairs & Home Improvements Appropriation for 1950 2,500.00 Balance brought forwad 2,500.00 5,000.00 Expenditures LeFort, David T., carpentering 1,610.50 McElhiney, Eldon E., painting 1,155.00 Miller, Charles, carpentering 138.00 Newton Shade & Screen Co., shades and screens 702.50 Rooney, William J., painting infirmary 1,225.00 Sears-Noebuck & Co., rugs 11.83 Total Expenditures 4,842.83 Transferred to Nevenue 157.17 5,000.00 Physicians Appropriation for 1950 1,500.00 Expenditures Mastrangelo, Louis M.D., services 750.00 Titus, Peter, M.D., services 750.00 1,500.00 Veterans' Services—Salary of Agent Appropriation for 1950 3,725.00 Expenditures Corbett, John F., salary 3,725.00 Veterans' Services—Investigator or Social Worker Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,360.00 Expenditures Najarian, Dorothy N., salary 2,360.00 Veterans' Services—Investigator (Part Time) Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,040.00 Expenditures Maloney, James A. ,salary 1,040.00 234 Veterans' Benefits—Junior Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,820.00 Expenditures Brogie, Katherine A. ,salary 1,820.00 Veterans' Services—Junior Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 1,820.00 Expenditures Watson, Alice S., salary 1,337.10 Transferred to Revenue 482.90 1,820.00 Veterans' Services—Office Expenses Appropriation for 1950 1,450.00 Expenditures Civil Service Reporter, subscription 2.00 Coolidge Printing Co., printing 35.03 Costello, Walter F., books 2.00 Corbett, John F., expenses and travel 31.50 Documents, Supt of catalog .75 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 3.50 Durkin, Arlene, graves registration 70.00 Horne & Co. H. S., supplies 387.31 Mass. Veterans Services Agents' Assoc., dues 7.00 Orco Cameras Inc., supplies 258.61 Postmaster—Boston, postage 115.39 Prospect Union Educational Exchange, annual edition 1.00 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 384.64 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 28.20 United Community Services of Metropolitan Boston, book 2.50 Watertown Bindery, binding two books 7.50 Watson, Alice S., graves registration 35.00 Total Expenditures 1,371.93 Transferred to Revenue 78.07 1,450.00 Veterans' Services—Car Expense Appropriation for 1950 650.00 Expenditures Corbett, John F., car expense 250.00 Maloney, James A., car expense 150.00 Najarian, Dorothy R., car expense 250.00 650.00 235 Veterans' Services Appropriation for 1950 50,000.00 Refunds 1,384.30 51,384.30 Expenditures Abrams, J. I., M.D., eyeglasses 23.00 Amendola, Alfred A., M.D., services 4.00 Apelian, Albert S., M.D., services 4.00 Appel, Charles F., M.D., services 24.00 Arlington, Town of, aid 5.00 Barron, Albert, M.D., services 3.00 Beatty Bros., prescriptions 3.40 Berry, Carleton W., moving 55.00 Blacklow, Leo A., M.D., services 39.00 Boston Floating Hospital, care 112.00 Branch, Bryon R., DMD, services 5.00 Broderick's Pharmacy, prescriptions 7.25 Butler's Pharmacy, prescriptions 30.40 Canzanelli, Pericles, M.D., services 6.00 Carney Hospital, care 60.00 Cash, weekly disbursements 39,726.42 Central Pharmacy, prescriptions 12.80 Clement's Rest Home Inc., room and board 630.49 Cohn, Samuel A., M.D., services 15.00 Comfort Drug, prescriptions 12.60 Corbett, Alexander E., prescriptions 3.45 Corbett, John F., burial agent 4.00 Cuddy, Thomas S., M.D., services 25.00 Cutler, Louis I., M.D., services 19.00 Diamond, George, DMD, services 10.00 Doherty, Henry M., burial 148.00 Donovan, William F., M.D., services 67.00 Drosdik, V. A., M. D., services 152.00 Dunn's Drug Store, prescriptions 25.10 Eigner, S., M.D., services 16.00 Forsyth, Dental Infirmary, services 5.00 Fox's Drug Store (Newton) supplies 38.00 Fox Drug Store, prescriptions 103.09 Gettes, Charles N., M.D., services 5.00 Godfrey, Henry W., M.D., services 4.00 Gorman, Eugene F., M.D., services 24.00 Green, C. Franklin, services 12.00 Gross, J. M., M.D., services 52.00 Hammer, Joseph, MD., services 4.00 Harry's Shoe Store, shoes 10.95 Harvey's Variety, reimbursement for wood 10.00 Hennessey's Drug Store, prescriptions 34.50 Henry, Mary J., nurse 24.00 Hewitt, Helen, nurse 35.00 Holden Clinic, services 10.50 Jersey Drug Co., prescription 5.00 Jones, Hallett E., prescriptions 3.15 Keefe's Pharmacy, prescriptions 18.50 Kelley, Joseph M., MD., services 21.00 Kevorkian, J. J., M.D., services 47.00 LaFayette Bros., services 132.50 236 Lahey Clinic, services 30.00 LaMode Corset Shop, corsets 22.90 Lawlor, Edward F., M.D., services 15.00 Lewis, Joseph L., M.D., services 3.00 Lexington St. Drug Co., prescriptions 146.21 Lloyd Pharmacy, prescriptions 8.75 Lombardi's Pharmacy, prescriptions 4.25 Longfellow St. Drug Co., prescriptions 40.15 Martin, L. A., M.D., services 12.00 Mass. Eye& Ear Infirmary, aid 40.75 Mass. General Hospital, care 50.75 Mathews, Elmer F., prescriptions 1.65 McManama, John C., M.D., 4.00 Mt. Auburn Medical Laboratories, service 8.00 Mt. Auburn Hospital, care 883.50 Neuson Drug Co., prescription 3.25 Newton-Wellesley Hospital, care 137.10 Oberson, Henry J., M.D., services 6.00 Otis Bros. Co., shoes 34.00 Overseers of the Public Welfare, care 16.00 Park Pharmacy, prescriptions 2.90 Paster, Raymond, M.D., services 16.00 Pesce, Guy C., M.D., services 6.00 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, care 131.00 Picceri, Saverio, M.D., services 11.00 Picollo's Pharmacy, prescriptions 227.43 Robert B. Brigham Hospital, clinic visits prescriptions 75.55 Rand's Pharmacy, prescriptions 4.50 Red-Cross Pharmacy, prescriptions 5.00 Ricci, Alpine L., M.D., services 56.00 Riley, Margaret, house-keeping services 18.00 Rosen, William M., prescriptions 4.05 Rosenthal, Charles E., M.D., services 32.00 Salusti, Joseph J., DMD, services 95.00 Sandi, Paul L., M.D., services 9.00 Schindler, John H., eyeglasses 39.00 Sears & Tibbetts, prescriptions 36.97 Secord, Walter N., M.D., services 7.50 Shane, Theodore, M.D., services 37.00 Shelman, S., M.D., services 90.00 Simons, Sidney M., M.D., services 18.00 Slattery, John J., M.D., services 36.00 St. Elizabeth Hospital, care 44.30 Steffens Storage & Sales Co., moving 127.56 Streim, Benjamin, M.D., services 37.00 Taggart, William J., M.D., services .. 25.00 Tedeschi, P. R., M.D., services 39.00 Thomas, William H., burial 148.00 Touzjian, Y. T., M.D., services 268.74 U. S. Naval Hospital, hospitalizotion 49.00 Van Gorder, George W., M.D., services 12.00 Varvaro, Emma M., M.D., services 3.00 Waltham Ambulance Service, ambulance service 10.00 Waltham District Nursing Assoc., visits 68.00 Waltham Hospital, care 114.80 Waltham Pharmacy Co., prescriptions 13.00 Waltham Rest Home, board and room 110.39 237 Waring's Pharmacy, prescriptions 34.50 Weisman, Theodore A., eyeglasses 33.00 Wylie, Earl J., M.D., services 12.00 York, Robert S., M.D., services 14.00 Total Expenditures 45,435.55 Transferred to Revenue 5,948.75 51,384.30 Veterans Services—War Allowance Appropriation for 1950 2,000.00 Expenditures Cash, weekly disbursements 270.00 Transferred to Revenue 1,730.00 2,000.00 SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES School Department—General Control Superintendent's Salary Appropriation for 1950 7,200.00 Expenditures Kelly, Francis A., salary 7,200.00 School Department—General Control Ass't Superintendent's Salary Appropriation for 1950 5,900.00 Expenditures O'Brien, Thomas F., salary 5,900.00 School Department—General Control Clerks' Salaries Appropriation for 1950 4,680.00 Expenditures Guidery, Gertrude M. ,salary 2,160.00 O'Toole, Anne B., salary 2,520.00 4,680.00 School Department—General Control Attendance Officers' Salaries Appropriation for 1950 5,760.00 238 Expenditures Carroll, Joseph L., salary 2,880.00 Caverly, Francis, salary 2,880.00 5,760.00 School Department—General Control Attendance Officers' Expenses Appropriation for 1950 500.00 Expenditures Carroll, Joseph L., car expense 250.00 Caverly, Francis, car expense 250.00 500.00 School Department—General Control—Out-of-State Travel Appropriation for 1950 125.00 Expenditures Kelly, Francis A., conventon expenses 125.00 School Department—General Control—Office Expense Appropriation for 1950 500.00 Expenditures American Assoc. of School Adm., dues 10.00 Cadillac Automobile Co., service 37.71 Cosmos Press Inc., Tye expanding envelopes 8.38 Farraher, Henry, labor 26.50 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 219.54 Kelly, Francis A., convention expenses 22.09 Kelly, Florist, flowers 10.00 Mass. School Superintendents Assoc., dues 5.00 Mooney Card & Gift Shop, supplies 6.10 Postmaster—Boston, stamps 111.00 Shutt, George L., tires and tubes 16.68 Total Expenditures 473.00 Transferred to Revenue 27.00 500.00 School Department—General Control—Telephones Appropriation for 1950 2,500.00 Transferred Town Meeting 150.00 2,650.00 Expenditures New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 2,647.93 Tr nsferred to Revenue 2.07 2,650.00 239 School Department—General Control—New Eng. Development Council Appropriation for 1950 300.00 Expenditures New Eng. School Development Council, membership 300.00 School Department—Instruction Salaries Appropriation for 1950 836,105.00 Transferred Town Meeting 24,479.85 811,625.15 Expenditures Abbott, Sara, salary 3,860.00 Adams, Alfred S. ,salary 3,673.33 Adams, Bernice, salary 3,113.33 Alberico, Alice, salary 1,309.00 Andren, Ann, salary 1,737.16 Andrews, Joseph W., salary 4,206.66 Appel, Ruth, salary 3,840.00 Bagshaw, Thomas L. ,salary 2,784.96 Baker, Marjorie, salary 1,199.98 Banks, Pauline, salary 3,206.66 Banning, Evelyn I., salary 2,324.32 Bassett, Charlotte P., salary 3,580.00 Bassett, Jennie M., salary 3,580.00 Beeten, Claire E., salary 3,113.33 Biggane, Sara T., salary 3,117.22 Bird, Phyllis, salary 866.66 Blake, Thomas, salary 4,206.66 Blossom, Ellen C., salary 3,266.66 Bond, Edmund H., salary 4,300.00 Bowen, Muriel E., salary 2,661.11 Boy, John, salary 3,300.00 Boyle, Mary, salary 3,673.33 Brock, Gladys, salary 2,056.00 Brooks, Pauline, salary 3,113.33 Brown, Eileen, salary 3,673.33 Burge, Alice, salary 3,080.00 Burke, Peter J., salary 3,580.00 Butler, Audrey M., salary 2,320.00 Bujnievicz, Jennie, salary 2,280.00 Campbell, Laura, salary 3,453.33 Canan, Marietta, salary 2,720.00 Caram, Mildred J., salary 3,426.66 Carey, Ann, salary 2,320.00 Carey, Mary, salary 3,020.00 Carey, Virginia, salary 2,246.66 Carver, Alice M., salary 3,079.99 Chrakian, Elisha, salary 3,673.33 Clem, Carl, salary 2,747.77 Coen, Mildred E. ,salary 1,670.00 Colby, Frances G., salary 3,673.33 Collins, Margaret, salary 3,580.00 Collins, Mariam, salary 2,306.66 Connor, Eleanor B., salary 3,580.00 240 Connors, Lawrence J., salary 1,740.00 Corbett, William, salary 2,426.66 Corcoran, Mary, salary 2,306.66 Curry, John, salary 2,426.66 Daley, Catherine, salary 1,870.00 Dedeyan, Angel, salary 1,670.00 Degnan, John P., salary 704.14 DePass, John W. ,salary 2,520.00 Desmond, Elizabeth, salary 3654.33 Dixon, Hazel D. Smith, salary 2,850.00 Donald, Mary, salary 744.14 Donald, William, salary 3,580.00 Donnellan, William, salary 3,240.00 Donnelly, Margaret, salary 2,160.00 Dooley, Gertrude, salary 2,583.33 Dowling, Patricia J., salary 2,784.44 Dunbar, Eunice, salary 2,986.66 Durrell, Charles P. ,salary 4,393.33 Dwyer, Catherine T., salary 3,393.33 Eagan, Mary, salary 3,113.33 Edwards, Josephine, salary 3,113.33 Eichorn, John R., salary 3,706.66 Elia, Elizabeth, salary 2,306.66 Ellis, Cyril F., salary 3,753.33 Evans, Gladys, salary 1,719.00 Falbo, Yolanda L., salary 2,246.66 Fallon, James, salary 1,320.00 Farnum, Margaret, salary 2,946.44 Farrington Julia, salary 2,866.00 Felton, Clifton, A., salary 3,300.00 Finnegan, Mary, salary 3,113.33 Fitzpatrick, John, salary 2,426.66 Fitzpatrick, Margaret, salary 1,820.00 Floring, Thelma, salary 605.00 Foley, Agnes, salary 2,300.66 Ford, Raymond, salary 3,560.50 Foye, Alice E., salary 2,960.01 Fulton, Leah M., salary 3,300.00 Gartland, Harriet, salary 3,097.33 Garufi, Philip F., salary 3,453.33 Gearin, Margaret M., salary 3,300.00 Gifford. Joamna, salary 1,048.00 Gilligan, Mary H., salary 3,113.33 Gleason, Robert, salary 3,503.33 Gough, Anne, salary 3,580.00 Gould, Carolyn, salary 3,020.00 Gray, L. Jane, salary 2,592.00 Greeley, Julia W., salary 3,080.00 Griffith, Pearl, salary 3,393.33 Gruener, Adele R., salary 2,893.33 Guidrey, Virginia, salary 2,773.33 Hanlon, Lois Ann, salary 866.66 Hannabell, Mildred, salary 2,986.66 Harrington, Robert, salary 2,940.00 Harris, Florence M., salary 2,834.00 Harris, John, salary 3,426.66 Harris, Mary, salary 1,740.00 Hayes, Esther R., salary 2,960.00 Hayes, Helen F., salary 2,862.16 241 Helms, Phoebe, salary 3,113.33 Hillen, Ethel A., salary 3,146.66 Hilliard, Pearl M., salary 2,219.05 Hirtle, Bertram L., salary 2,893.33 Holland, Bertram H., salary 5,506.66 Horrigan, Violo, salary 3,468.66 Howard, Mary S., salary 3,020.00 Hutchinson, Edythe, salary 3,266.66 Hynes, Betty Ann, salary 2,246.66 Hynes, Rose E., salary 2,926.66 Jacobs, Edith J., salary 4,046.66 Jeffers, Harriet M. ,salary 2,986.66 Johnson, Esther C. ,salary 3,673.33 Jones, Mildred, salary 2,893.33 Kanaly, 9lice, salary 1,320.00 Keating, Franklin P., salary 3,840.00 Keep, Marion P., salary 3,733.33 Kent, I. Eliot, salary 3,393.33 Kelley, Joan, salary 2,246.66 Kelley, John J., salary 4,430.00 Kelman, A. Robert, salary 3,860.00 Koumjian, John, salary 2,390.00 Kirikorian, Sadie, salary 1,670.00 Landin, Walter E., salary 3,486.66 Lane, A. Louise, salary 2,526.66 Lane, Helen B., salary 3,053.33 Lawrence, Charlotte E., salary 2,926.66 Learned, Edna A., salary 3,020.00 Libby, Gladys, salary 3,206.66 Linehan, John, salary 2,940.00 Liston, John, salary 3,300.00 ' Loughlin, Rita, salary 866.66 Lyons, Emma, salary 1,120.00 Lyons, Frances, salary 3,113.33 Lyons, Helen A., salary 3,277.33 Lyons, Helen R., salary 3,113.33 McCabe, Helen, salary 1,670.00 McCaffrey, Eleanor, salary 3,564.00 McCarthy, Margaret, salary 3,240.00 McCarthy, Marjorie, salary .. 1,670.00 McCarthy, Timothy J., salary 2,656.66 McCormack, Mary, salary 2,866.66 McCoubrey. Anne, salary 3,393.33 MacCurdy, Robert, salary 3,486.66 McDermott, Joseph, salary 850.00 MacDonald, Ruth, salary 1,870.00 McDonough, Elizabeth, salary 3,113.33 McDonough, Regina, salary 2,246.66 McGahan, Charles C., salary 300.00 McGrath, Arthur, salary 3,408.00 MacGregor, Helen, salary 3,146.66 MacKey, Helen, salary 2,614.33 McInnerney, Francis, salary 3,146.66 McKeever, Jean, salary 704.14 McMahon, Kathryn, salary 2,926.66 McManus, Helen E., salary 3,020.00 McManus, Joseph, salary 2,940.00 McMullen, Anastasia, salary 3,580.00 McNally, Alice, salary 3,860.00 242 McNealy, John, salary 3,673.33 MacPherson, Mabel, salary 3,580.00 MacRury, Helen, salary 1,100.00 Macomber, Phyllis E. ,salary 3,020.00 Malkasian, Stella, salary 2,503.33 Malley, Joseph A., salary 4,120.00 Mannino, Ernest N., salary 933.33 Mantenuto, John J., salary 2,529.42 Matheson, Catherine, salary 866.66 Matson, Mary, salary 1,307.50 Matthews, Mary, salary 2,893.33 Mealy, E. Gertrude, salary 3,360.00 Mitchell, Arthur, salary 3,393.33 Moody, Harold L., salary 3,580.00 Mooney, Francis X, salary 4,393.33 Morrison, Elinore, salary 2,784.44 Morse, Mildred I., salary 3,113.33 Muldoon, Marion K. ,salary 2,520.00 Murphy, Beatrice, salary 3,113.33 Murphy, Dorothy, salary 3,426.66 Murphy, Eleanor, salary 1,860.00 Murphy, Geraldine, salary 2,911.11 Murphy, Joseph, salary 3,740.00 Murphy, Virginia ,salary 850.00 Natoli, Marie, salary 2,306.66 Natoli, Nancy, salary 433.32 Norcross, Mildred, salary 2,860.00 Nuhn, Mary, salary 2,246.66 Nutting, Hazel J., salary 2,866.66 Nuzzo, Marie, salary 660.00 Oates, John P., salary 3,080.00 O'Brien, Helen, salary 3,020.00 O'Connell, Paul, salary 866.66 O'Toole, William, salary 3,673.33 Palm, Helen E., salary 3,360.00 Pane, Aurora, salary 2,784.94 Parker, Helen R., salary 3,800.00 Parker, Leila M., salary 3,063.82 Paton, Helen, salary 3,020.00 Peros, Frank, salary 758.29 Poole, Elaine D., salary 3,113.33 Prout, Jane, salary 3,384.66 Randall, Freda J. ,salary 2,780.00 Rideout, Grace, salary 3,113.33 Riley, Isabel, salary 3,113.33 Robert, Katherine, salary 3,580.00 Robinson, T. Donald, salary 3,673.33 Rooney, Edward, salary 3,580.00 Roth, Marion H., salary 2,866.66 Rowe, Edna, P., salary 3,300.00 Ryan, James, salary 300.00 Sanborn, Alice L., salary 3,113.33 Sanger, Jean, salary 1,761.66 Sawyer, Erald L., salary 4,580.00 Secord, Ethel, salary 2,373.33 Secord, Muriel C., salary 2,893.33 Shaw, Dorothy, salary 3,020.00 Sheehan, James J., salary 3,365.00 243 Sheldon, Joan, salary 1,620.00 Slattery, Catherine C., salary 3,113.33 Slattery, Mildred, salary 2,506.66 Small, Ruth E., salary 3,020.00 Smith, Madeline, salary 2,926.66 Smith, Rose C., salary 3,509.66 Spillane, Eleanor M., salary 430.52 Striley, C. Harold, salary 4,393.33 Stolnacke, Martha, salary 2,989.33 Sullivan, Alice D., salary 2,970.66 Sullivan, Alice G., salary 2,784.44 Sullivan, Mary A., salary 3,146.66 Sullivan, Mary J., salary 15.05 Taylor, Catherine, salary 1,233.33 Thayer, Helen, salary 3,453.33 Thulin, Ruth, salary 3,860.00 Timper, Alma, salary 3,300.00 Todd, Louise, salary 327.73 Treblas, Patricia, salary 845.00 Tynan, Gertrude, salary 3,146.66 Vacca, Carlo, salary 3,673.33 Valente, Doris, salary 1,320.00 Vanier, Ella L., salary 3,113.33 Varney, Dorothy L., salary 3,113.33 Walsh, Evelyn, salary 2,800.00 Ward, Alice, salary 3,118.66 Ward, Anna B., salary 3,580.00 Ward, Edwin, salary 3,618.33 Ward, John H. R., Jr., salary 3,640.00 Ware, Lois, salary 2,866.66 Webb, Ellen, salary 2,960.00 Weldon, Althea V., salary 3,113.33 Wheeler, C. Arthur, salary 4,580.00 Whelan, Doris, salary 866.66 White, Doris B., salary 2,833.33 Whitney, Marion I., salary 3,288.00 Winning, G. Elizabeth, salary 3,080.00 Woodbury, Madeline, salary 3,300.00 Yankowski, George, salary 2,436.66 Young, Clara O., salary 3,164.00 Zeno, Joseph, salary 2,836.11 Specials Adams, Bernice, salary 11.00 Andren, Ann, salary 11.00 Beeten, Claire, salary 20.00 Bird, Phyllis, salary 6.00 Bowen, Muriel, salary 15.00 Brock, Gladys, salary 4.00 Carey, Anne, salary 18.00 Carey, Virginia, salary 20.00 Chick, Arnold, salary 1,866.62 Colbert, Edward B., salary 4,479.96 Corcoran, Mary, salary 18.00 Cusick, Elizabeth, salary 3,418.33 Desmond, Mildred, salary 4.00 244 Donald, Mary, salary 8.00 Dooley, Gertrude, salary 11.00 Dowling, Patricia, salary 14.00 Drew, Jessie P., salary 1,920.00 Eagan, Mary, salary 16.00 Falbo, Yolanda, salary 21.00 Farley, Helen M., salary 3,206.66 Farwell, Winifred, salary 4.00 Foley, Agnes, salary 12.00 Fredericks, Gladys, salary 16.00 Gallagher, Mary, salary 866.62 Gearin, Margaret, salary 11.00 Geary, Cecelia, salary 3,156.00 Gifford, Joanna, salary 1.00 Guidery, Virginia, salary 18.00 Hannabell, Mildred, salary 12.00 Harrington, Robert, salary 10.00 Harris, Mary, salary 8.00 Helms, Phoebe, salary 18.00 Lane, Louise, salary 15.00 Lawrence, Charlotte, salary 12.00 Learned, Edna, salary 20.00 Loughlin, Rita, salary 4.00 McBreen, Eleanor, salary 3,412.00 McCarthy, Evelyn, salary 2,100.00 MacDaid, James J., salary 3,173.33 McDonough, Regina, salary 19.00 McManus, Helen, salary 25.00 Matheson, Catherine, salary 8.00 Matson, Mary, salary 15.00 Morrison, Elinor, salary 10.00 Murphy, Eleanor, salary 11.00 Nutting, Hazel, salary 8.00 O'Brien, Helen, salary 11.00 O'Connell, Paul, salary 8.00 Pane, Aurora, salary 11.00 Paton, Helen, salary 18.00 Perkins, Arthur, salary 4,036.66 Phelan, Julia, salary 2,452.21 Prout, Jane, salary 12.00 Riley, Isabel, salary 16.00 Rinehart, William, salary 3,500.00 Rowe, Edna, salary 16.00 Sanborn, Alice, salary 13.00 Secord, Ethel, salary 14.00 Secord, Muriel, salary 13.00 Sheehan, Maryellen, salary 900.00 Stolnacke, Martha, salary 15.00 Ticehurst, Dorothy, salary 3.00 Tynan, Gertrude, salary 24.00 Ward, Alice, salary 16.00 Ward, Marie, salary 4.00 Ware, Lois, salary 15.00 Weldon, Althea, salary 22.00 245 Substitutes Alberico, Alice, salary 110.00 Ames, Janet, salary 94.12 Anderson, Paul C., salary 10.00 Bainbridge, Margaret, salary 14.00 Barnes, Maude, salary 40.00 Bell, Mildred, salary 28.00 Boserman, Evelyn, salary 302.00 Brehm, Leo, salary 21.00 Brogle, Mrs. Albert, salary 7.00 Campbell, Laura, salary 20.00 Carney, Mrs. Helen, salary 336.50 Carrick, Marjorie, salary 35.00 Ceglio, Pasquale J., salary 50.00 Chapski, Jean M., salary 29.25 Cohen, Milton, salary 21.00 Cole, Ernest A., salary 108.00 Croft, William A., salary 7.00 Crowley, Mrs. James, salary 72.00 Desmond, Mildred, salary 262.50 Donigan, Palma M., salary 10.00 Donnelly, Edward F., salary 40.00 Driscoll, Katherine, salary 157.00 Ellis, Florence, salary 341.00 Erskine, Doris, salary 7.00 Farwell, Winifred, salary , 2,182.50 Flamand, Rosamund, salary 20.00 Frederick, Gladys, salary 1,450.00 Garoian, George, salary 28.00 Gavin, Margaret, salary 201.00 Hickey, Ann, salary 1,445.00 Hirrell, Michael, salary 618.00 Hunnell, Rosemary, salary 7.00 Hunter, Ernest Jr., salary 344.00 Huestis, Ruth, salary 667.00 Jaszek, Henry J., salary 20.00 Jenkins, Mrs. James, salary 933.00 Kazarosian, Margaret, salary 7.00 Leonard, Lois, salary 244.87 McCann, Beatrice, salary 100.00 McDermott, Julia, salary 215.00 McDonough, James, salary 107.00 McNaughton, Elizabeth, salary 78.00 Malloy, James F., salary 28.00 Marshall, Joseph, salary 585.00 Martin, Ruth, salary 49.00 Meenan, Daniel, salary 14.00 Megan, Emily, salary 281.00 Myers, Althea, salary 31.00 Navarro, Stanley, salary 35.00 Oates, Walter, salary 90.00 Pascoe, Louise, salary 25.00 Perkins, Shirley, salary 189.58 Phalon, Paul, salary 50.00 Pheiffer, A. Wellman, salary 119.00 Quinn, Agatha, salary 267.50 Reilly, Thomas, salary 871.00 Rudy, Dorothy,salary 100.00 246 Russell, Evelyn, salary 120.00 Sheridan, Gertrude, salary 243.00 Ticehurst, Dorothy, salary 448.50 Tirrell, Mary, salary 140.00 Torres, Mary, salary 100.00 Usseglio, Jean, salary 192.00 Valente, Doris, salary 30.00 Ward, Marie, salary 1,002.50 Wetherbee, Beulah, salary 153.00 Wolfenden, Olive, salary 42.00 Wright, John, salary 56.00 Total Expenditures 781,414.15 Transferred to Revenue 30,211.00 811,625.15 School Department-Instruction-Books & Supplies Appropriation for 1950 34,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 3,500.00 Refund 5.27 37,505.27 Expenditures Abbott-Allen Stationery Co. stationery supplies 4.80 Allyn & Bacon, books 1,115.39 American Book Co., books 619.12 American Builder, subscription 3.00 American Council of Education, book 3.00 American Education Press., subscriptions 528.25 American School Bd Journal, renewals 6.00 American Technical Society, books 82.94 American Type Founders Sales Corp., type 109.53 Andrew, Joseph, expenses conference 2.00 Appleton Century Crofts Inc., books 30.53 Arlo Publishing Co., books 126.41 Artistic Typing Headquarters, supplies 21.09 Babb Co., Edward E., supplies 653.26 Bailey's Cleansers & Dyers, cleasing 10.00 Barnes & Co., A. S., book 2.87 Beaudette & Co., duplicator supplies 304.48 Beckly-Cardy Co., books 90.92 Bellman Publishing Co., subscriptions 9.50 Belmont Herald, advertising 2.25 Bennett Co., Charles A., books 43.12 Benton Review Pub. Co., books 5.25 Blake, Thomas A., expenses convention 2.00 Blake & Rebhan Co., supplies 97.64 Bobbs-Merrill Co., book 2.18 Boston Plue Print Co., supplies 126.05 Boston Music Co., music 95.96 Bostitch Northeast Inc., staples 18.65 Boston University Public Relations, films 5.27 Boston &Maine R.R. Co., freight 7.17 Brine Co., James W., althetic supplies 453.48 Brown & Connolly Inc., book 2.92 Brown-Wales Co., supplies 196.71 Bureau of Publications, books 49.00 247 Butterick Co. Inc., subscription 1.75 California Test Bureau, tests 16.22 Cambosco Scientific Co., supplies 27.98 Carpenter-Motor Co., paint 29.04 Carter-Rice & Co., paper 824.15 Centebar's Market, provisions 625.13 Champion Pub. Co., books 4.26 Chandler& Farquhar Co.,supplies 414.13 Claus Gelotte Inc., film 11.00 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 342.94 Coombs Motor Co., repairs 58.15 Coloperative Test Division, tests 73.77 Craft Co., Inc., O. P., supplies 5.96 Cutter-Wood & Sanderson, hardware 88.14 Delta Distributors, radio supplies 226.90 DeDnnison Mfg. Co., supplies 18.20 Denoyer-Geppert Co., maps 85.14 Dictaphone Corp., repair 10.58 Doubleday & Co., books 2.41 Dover Publications, book 10.34 Dumas & Co., W. B., Ltalian-English dictionary 3.15 Eastern Engravers, etching 4.79 Educational Publishers Inc., ests 16.17 Educational Test Bureau, tests 38.97 Educational Testing Service, school reports 12.40 Educational & Psychological Measurement, renewal 5.00 Educator's Washington Dispatch, subscription 9.00 Evans Printing Service, printing 260.00 Federal Stationery Co., supplies 3.37 Fisher Inc., Carl., music 69.95 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 11.59 Ford, Raymond, registration & license 6.50 Funk & Wagnalls Co., subscription 2.75 Ginn & Co., books 1,143.81 Gledhill Bros, Inc., paper supplies 1,109.76 Globe Book Co., books 184.93 Grant Co., W. T., sewing room supplies 9.11 Greater Boston Dist. Inc., newspapers 4.50 Greater Boston Vocational Guidance Assoc., dues 6.00 Gregory Co., C. A., test supplies 9.36 Greg Writer, subscription 80.87 Hale & Co., E. M., books 45.00 Hammett Co., J. L., supplies 6,393.89 Harcourt-Brace & Co., books 447.57 Harper Bros., books 122.38 Harrison Associates, Lawrence, diplomas 358.64 Harvard University, scoring & checking test 76.68 Harvey Co., Arthur C., steel 124.06 Hearing Aids Co. of New Eng., supplies 9.96 Heath & Co., D. C., books 844.26 Holden Patent Book Cover Co., book covers 1.67 Holland, Bertram H., garage 25.00 Holt & Co., Henry, books 135.51 Horne & Co., H. S., office supplies 448.70 Houghton-Mifflin Co., books 792.81 Industrial Press, books 10.88 Iroquois Publishing Co., books 115.89 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 79.76 248 Iver-Johnson Sporting Goods Co., sporting goods 527.91 Jones, Mildred, reimbursement 5.87 Jordan?Marsh Co., supplies 14.90 Ken Kaye Krafts Co., krafts material 23.21 Kreem's Camera & Card Shop, supplies 93.69 LaFayette Radio, radio 65.90 Laidlaw Bros., supplies 94.04 Library of Congress, cards 12.64 Lippincott Co., J. B., books 103.42 Longmans-Green & Co., book 3.35 Mainco Trading Co., paper supplies 1,390.80 MacMillan Co., books 303.28 Massachusetts Bible Society, bible 9.00 McCall Corp., pattern book renewal 1.75 McCormick-Mathers Pub. Co., books 10.13 McGraw-Hill Book Co., books 54.97 McKinley Publishing Co., maps 3.42 McKnight & McKnight Co., books 56.70 Merriam Co., G. & C., dictionary, books 35.12 Merrill Co., Charles E., books 238.12 Mooney Card & Gift Shop, supplies 109.05 National Board of Fire Un., books 2.89 National Cash Register Co., maintenance 17.00 Nelson Co., E. O., baseballs 296.73 New Eng. Assoc. of Colleges, membership 7.50 New Eng. Film Service, film sound model 100.00 New England Laundries, laundry 17.70 News Map of the Week Inc., subscriptions 47.25 Noble & Noble Inc., books 29.39 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 213.98 Norton & Co. Inc., W. W., books 6.03 Owen Publishing Co., F. A., subscriptions 28.00 Oxford University Press, books 56.85 Partridge, Horace, sporting goods 224.03 Personal Book Shop Inc., books 84.89 Personal Services Inc., subscriptions 11.00 Phillips Paper Co., duplicator carbon 114.00 Postmaster-Boston, postage 186.00 Practical English, subscription 120.00 Prentice-Hall Inc., books 107.34 Prospect Union Ed. Exchange, catalogs 3.00 Puntnam Sons, G. P., book 2.95 Railway Express Agency, express 114.53 Rand McNally & Co., maps, books 246.85 Rand Type Setting Service, type setting 201.50 Readers Digest, books 57.26 Remington Rand Inc., books 538.50 Roberts Inc., Lewis, ink 9.70 Ronald Press Inc., books 3.76 Ross Co., M. M.. craft supplies 233.56 Row-Peterson & Co., books 221.55 Royal Typewriter Co., typewriters 1,155.98 Sanders Co., H. M., harware 129.55 St. John & McColl Inc., covers and wrappers 381.65 Science Research Associates, cards 225.50 Scholastic Bookshop, books 13.20 School Arts, subscription 4.00 249 School Executive, subscription 3.00 Scott-Foresman & Co., books 1,476.13 Scribners' Sons, Charles, books 20.67 Silver-Burdett Co., books 606.98 Singer Co., L. W., books 109.63 Sloane Associates, William, book 2.52 Smith, Ellis, ink pads 10.00 Smith & Corona Typewriters, L. C., typewriters 123.00 South Dakota Press, posters 19.11 South-Western Pub. Co., books 501.97 Sports Equipment Center, masks 23.55 Standard Duplicating Machines Agency, supplies 221.67 Standard Maintenance Co., ribbons 18.00 Time, subscription 120.00 Toothaker, O. H., books 3.58 Tracy Chair Co., rental chairs 144.00 Underwood Corp., typewriters 404.50 University Publishers Co., books 50.62 University of Minnesota, book 1.43 Vahey, Martin L., insurance 131.88 Viking Press, book 2.79 Ward's Stationers, storage cases 46.50 Watertown Electric Supp. Co., supplies 243.43 Watertown Lumber Co., lumber 329.22 Webster Publishing Co., books 14.91 Welch Mfg. Co., W. M., supplies 367.81 Westminster Press, book 2.00 White & Sons, Louis A., books 27.60 Whitworth & Co., craft material 13.07 Wholesome Film Service Inc., films 180.00 Wilson Co., H. W., subscriptions 18.25 Winde-McCormick Lumber Co., lumber 329.21 Winston Co., John C., books 262.27 Wolkins Co., Henry S., supplies 444.22 Wood Co., A. M., lumber 174.71 Wood-Worker, subscription 2.00 World Book Co., books 1,821.65 Wright & Potter Printing Co., stationery 5.22 Y. & E. Sales Corp., supplies 121.39 Total Expenditures 37,500.95 Transferred to Revenue 4.32 37,505.27 School Department-Operation-Salaries Appropriation for 1950 55,850.00 Expenditures Bloomer, Gerard, salary 2,600.00 Coates, Ira R., salary 2,900.00 Comfort, Redfort, salary 2,044.06 Cornick, Adolphus, salary 2,700.00 Couture, Herman, salary 2,146.81 Cram, John, salary 2,900.00 Devaney, Mary, salary 1,810.00 Dolan, John, salary 621.42 250 Gannam, John, salary 2,900.00 Gill, Katherine, salary 1,600.00 Haddie, Florence, salary 1,810.00 Higgins; Henry, salary 2,600.00 Keenan, James, salary 2,900.00 Kelly, John, salary 587.72 Koumjian, Charles, salary 184.60 McDonald, Frank, salary 1,631.89 Murphy, Margaret, salary 1,810.00 - Quinn, Edward, salary 317.62 Quinn, Terence, salary 2,700.00 Smythe, Francis J., salary 2,200.00 Tirney, William, salary 2,665.22 Torres, John, salary 2,900.00 Upit, Ralph, salary 2,600.00 Waitt, Mary, salary •1,700.00 Walsh, James F., salary -2,600.00 Ward, Grace E., salary 1,810.00 Withee, Alice, salary 1.810.00 Total Expenditures 55,049.34 Transferred to Revenue 800.66 55,850.00 School Department—Operation—Supplies Appropriation for 1950 3,500.00 Transferred Town Meeting 1,100.00 4,600.00 Expenditures Boston Janitors Supply Co., janitors supplies 699.30 Bradley Washfountain Co., soap dispenser 26.93 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 398.25 Dowd Co., H. J., Inc., paper suplies 146.40 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 238.63 Hammett Co., J. L., dusters 87.30 Mass. Gas & Electric Light Co., supplies 224.21 Masury-Young Co., myco sheen 8.75 Merit Paper & Chemical Co., towels 420.65 Mills Co., supplies 60.30 Orient Spray Co., spray 368.15 Ryan Co., L., sawdust 11.25 Sanders Co., H. M., spic & Span 19.68 State Chemical Co., pine disinfectant 776.60 Veritas Co., Inc., "Verismooth" 136.50 Waltheam Paper Products Co., boraxo— paper supplies 932.79 Watertown Electric Supply Co., supplies 36.00 Total Expenditures 4,591.69 Transferred to Revenue 8.31 4,600.00 251 School Department-Operation-Light & Power Appropriation for 1950 15,000.00 Expenditures Boston Cons. Gas Co., service 1,278.74 Boston Edison Co., service 13,699.15 Hawes Electric Co., supplies 7.22 Total Expenditures 14,985.11 Transferred to Revenue 14.89 15,000.00 School Department-Operation Fuel Appropriation for 1950 26,000.00 Expenditures Bonded Oil System Inc., oil 332.17 Buckley & Scott Utilities, oil 1,403.76 Coombs Motor Co., briquets 86.25 Snider Fuel Co., fuel 24,027.78 Somervllle Charcoal Co. Inc., charcoal 131.25 Total Expenditures 25,981.21 Transferred to Revenue 18.79 26,000.00 School Departmnt-Operation-Halls Appropriation for 1950 800.00 Expenditures Bloomer, Gerald J., services 164.00 Burke, James J., services 6.00 Coates, Ira R., services 48.00 Comfort, Redford, services 14.00 Cornick, Adolphus, services 12.00 Courture, Herman, services 94.00 Cram, John, services 66.00 Dolan, John, services 24.00 Donnelly, Andrew J., services 9.00 Farrell, George J., services 6.00 Higgins, Henry, services 48.00 Higgins, John A. ,services 6.00 Keefe, Richard H., services 6.00 Keep, Marion, services 6.00 MacDonald, Frank, services 4.50 Maloney, Edward J., services 6.00 Murphy, Edward P., services 6.00 Murphy, Margaret, services 10.00 Quinn, Edward J., services 11.00 Reilly, James E., services 6.00 Savage, Stewart E., services 6.00 Tierney, William, services 63.50 Torres, John, services 158.00 Ward, Grace E., services 20.00 800.00 252 School Department-Operation-Water Appropriation for 1950 250.00 Expenditures Watertown, Town of, metered water 248.99 Transferred to Revenue 1.01 250.00 School Department-Maintenance Appropriation for 1950 50,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 6,215.53 56,215.53 Expenditures Atlantic Roofing Works, roof repairs 140.00 Atwell Service Co., service 4.80 Batchelder-Pontiac Corp., auto repair 260.40 Baikar Association Inc., printing 5.00 Beaudette & Co., duplicator repairs 29.45 Berts Auto Radiator Service, repair 12.50 Boston Janitors Supply Co., janitors supplies 117.35 Brookline Music & Radio Co., repair 16.10 Burroughs Adding Machine Co., maintenance 78.80 Butler & Co., A. L., heating repair 52.66 Cadillac Automobile Co., service 6.90 Campbell Hdwe Co., harware 1,004.70 Caruso, James, garage 17.50 Chesterton Co., A. W., supplies 13.72 Chrestnut Welding Co., welding and various repaid jobs 1,952.50 Cleghorn Co., heating repair 5,008.97 Coates, Ira, painting 10.00 Coolidge Cleansers, mats cleaned 29.35 Coolidge Paint& Supply Co., supplies 2,085.74 Coombs Motor Co., repairs 39.45 Cornick, Adolphus, painting 5.00 Dawson Co., Kenneth A., repair miscroscope 34.50 Dictaphone Corp., casters 3.50 Davidson Pan Co., boiler cover 5.00 Doonan, H. J., painting 1,425.00 Dolge Co., C. B., chemicals 382.11 Donald, M. H. labor 1,131.00 Dwyer, Joseph, work on bleachers 84.00 DiGregorio, Frank, work on bleachers 84.00 Duro Test Corp., lamps and fixtures 406.80 Edson Corp., kenco pump, supplies 160.53 Farm Bureau Association, shavings 3.50 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 92.21 Farrar, Henry, auto repair 239.60 Flynn Roofing Co., roofing 1,452.02 Gatchell Glass Co., glass 103.46 Gazzola, Joseph G., painting 7,707.00 General Electric Co., repair switch 33.85 General Heat & Appliances Co., burner service 26.96 Greenlee Tool Co., tool 6.41 253 Gibbs Express Co., express .70 Graybar Electric Co., electric equipment 87.21 Griffiths Saw Co., Albert, sharpening saws 45.12 Hamlen & Son, C. B., flag pole supplies 26.95 Holland, Bertram H., garage 25.00 Higgins, J. L., window shades 1,663.30 Horacek, Victor J., smoke pipe, light bases 181.19 Horne & Co., H. S., file 45.00 International Business Machines, service on electric clock system 17.40 Jacobsen Power Mower Co., power mower and parts, repair 150.42 Jarvis Co., R. E., labor 23.80 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 717.58 Johnson Saw Service Co., saw service 9.00 Johnson Service Co., temperature control service 29.65 Joyce Son, P. J., concrete work 241.00 Keane Fire Equipment Co., refilling cyclinders 185.64 Kelsoe, A., flag pole work 60.00 Keefe, Mary G., insurance 17.59 Kendall Boiler & Tank Co., grates 215.00 Lawn Mower Grinding Co., power grinding 24.50 Local Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 4,329.39 Malone Bros. Co., twine 6.75 Manzelli, Martin, repair concrete work 19.75 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., supplies 552.14 Mass. Comm. of, Division of Blind, piano tuning 74.00 Mass. Comm. of Reformatory for Women, flags 72.84 Mass & Sons, V., roof work 60.00 McCassey Inc., Russell E., printing 9,953.06 Merrifield Construction Co., brick work 273.95 Meister, O. J., repair Basket ball pole & panel 4.50 Miller, Charles, repairs on cupola 500.00 Mohawk Pete, auto repair 10.60 Monroe Calculating Machine Co., maintenance 61.50 Morrison, Allan, carpentering 1,566.15 Mosman, Harry, work on bleachers 84.00 Moulton Ladder Mfg. Co., ladder 45.60 Nally Movers, piano moved 13.90 New England Laundries, laundry 11.08. . Newton Sash & Door Co., windows 60.00 Newton Shade & Screen Co., cord 2.25 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 293.01 Ormsby Roofing Co., roofing 2,005.15 Pantos Canvas Corp., tarpaulin 78.60 Parisian Dye House Inc., cleaning 281.50 Pilgrim Engineering Co., electrical work 7.38 Post Pub. Co., bids 22.50 Powers Regulator Co., temperature control and regulator service 815.84 Quirk Corp., Edward S., tubes and tires 66.86 Rand Type Setting Service, type 51.75 Railway Express Agency, express 5.73 Ryan, Mrs. Agnes, piano 35.00 Ryan, James, work on bleachers 84.00 Salow Co., Elvin, gym mats 387.00 Sallese, Sam, work on bleachers 84.00 St. John & McColl Inc., measuring rods .75 Sanders Co., H. M., door stops, supplyies 85.16 254 Service Sales Corp., supplies 204.01 Shutt Inc., George L., batteries, tires and tubes 91.35 Smith, W. E., Jr., cleaning boilers 171.60 Standard Duplicating Co., maintenance, supplies 24.24 Standard Electric Time Co., service on master clock 394.00 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 620.50 Stanley-Win throps, lamps 22.54 Stetson Co., M. D., mats 74.14 State Chemical Co., janitors supplies 121.94 Taverna, Dominick, garage 47.50 Unsworth, Harry. plumbing 534.00 Taverna Bros., labor 233.00 Thorsen Co., P. S., renew and repair insulation on boilers 932.78 Tracy Chair Co., chair rental 10.00 Underwood Corp., repair 38.50 Veno, Harold, work on bleachers 84.00 Vestal Inc., "pyra-seal" 142.50 Watertown Electric Supp. Co., flood lights 26.81 Watertown Herald, advertising 4.50 Watertown Lumber Co., lumber 485.27 Waterproof Paint & Varnish Co., paint 208.25 Watertown Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 110.94 Watertown Sun, advertising 7.20 Wild & Stevens, supplies 10.71 Worcester Brush &Scraper Co., Ingalls combination 43.68 Wurlitzer, E. U., instruments repaired 11.50 Y. & E. Sales Corp., chair, locks for cabinets 66.20 Total Expenditures 54,765.74 Transferred to Revenue 1,449.79 56,215.53 School Department-New Equipment Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures Hammett Co. J. I., desk, supplies 563.38 National Cash Register Co., adding machine 246.50 Science Research Associates, books 127.31 Y. & E. Sales Corp., chairs 59.33 Total Expenditures 996.52 Transferred to Revenue 3.48 1,000.00 School Department-Miseellaneous-Medical Salaries Appropriation for 1950 9,000.00 Expenditures Beverly, Marjorie, salary 2,400.00 Flanagan, Mary C., salary 2,400.00 Second, Walter N., M.D., salary 600.00 255 Smith, Martha, salary 2,400.00 Toppan, Albert B., M.D., salary 600.00, Zovickian, H., M.D., salary 600.00 9,000.00 School Department-Medical Salaries Appropriation for 1950 500.00 Dept. of Elementary School Prin., year book 3.08 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 149.26 Mahady Co., E. F., Detecto scale 49.50 Piccolo's Pharmacy, supplies 201.39 Total Expenditures 403.17 Transferred to Revenue 96.83 500.00 School Department--Nurses' Cars Appropriation for 1950 480.00 Expenditures Beverly, Marjorie, car expense 160.00 Flanagan, Mary C., car expense 160.00 Smith, Martha, car expense 160.00 480.00 School Depaxtment-Evening School Salaries Appropriation for 1950 4,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 300.00 4,300.00 Expenditures Alberico, Alice, salary 72.00 Asainti, James, salary 3.00 Auditore, Josephine, salary 132.00 Barsaian, Arthur, salary 6.00 Boye, Mary, salary 72.00 Campbell, Laura, salary 6.00 Cesarine, Lola, salary 126.00 Clem, Carl, salary 66.00 Clinton, George, salary 6.00 Coates, Ira P., salary 80.00 Collins, Margaret, salary 132.00 Cornick, Adolphus, salary 80.00 Donald, William, salary 162.00 Donnelly, Margaret, salary 60.00 Ellis, Florence, salary 12.00 Felton, Clifton, salary 126.00 Haynes, Mrs. Averill, salary 90.00 Hedrington, Margaret, salary 120.00 Kazandjian, Berdj, salary 132.00 Leonard, Felix, salary 132.00 McBreen, Eleanor, salary 132.00 McCarthy, Catherine, salary 132.00 256 .00 32 McCarthy,Marjorie, salary 13 McDonald, Rose, salary 0.00 McGrath, Arthur, salary 126.00 McNaughton, Elizabeth, salary 10.00 Mitchell, Arthur, salary 76.00 Mooney, Helen, salary 18.00 Newcombe, Pauline, salary 132.00.00 O'Toole, Anne, salary .00 Pellegrino, Lillian, salary 72 72.00 Jelteau, Loretta D., salary .00 57272 Richmond, John, salary Robinson, T. Donald, salary 00.00 00 Sharples, Lewis, salary 132.00 Shea, Paul, salary 5.00 Tierney, William, salary 126.00 126 Tirrell, Mary, salary .00 Torres, Mary, salary 168 Vacca, Carlo, salary 2.00 .00 Welch, Mrs. Kenneth, salary 132.00 Welsh, Thomas, salary 132.00 Yankowski, George, salary Total Expenditures 4,268.00 Transferred to Revenue 32.00 4,300.00 School Department-Evening School-Supplies Appropriation for 1950 200.00 Transferred Town Meeting 100.00 300.00 Expenditures Fletcher Hdwe, Co., supplies 85.46 Hairenik Associates Inc., advertising 5.009 09 Hammett Co., J. L., supplies .448 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 1 Nystrom & Co., A. J., supplies .01 48 Paint Shop, supplies 11.97 Robinson, T. Donald, expenses 5.11 Singer Sewing Machine Co., rentals ls .95 22 22 South Western Pub. Co., supplies 13.72 Watertown Herald, advertising 6.72 .00 Watertown Sun, advertising Total Expenditures 293.99 Transferred to Revenue 6.01 300.00 School Department-Trade & Outside Tuition Appropriation for 1950 16,000.00 Refund 23.71 16,023.71 Expenditures Belmont, Town of, tuition 26.66 257 Boston, City of, tuition 1,452.37 Brookline, Town of tuition 35.25 Cambridge, City of, tuition 7.50 Essex County Agricultural School, tuition 770.00 Medford, City of, tuition 6.75 Middlesex, County, tuition 79.71 Newton Trade School, tuition 13,119.45 Somerville, City of, tuition 17.10 Waltham, City of, tuition 306.80 Wellesley, Town of, tuition 173.88 Total Expenditures 15,995.47 Transferred to Revenue 28.24 16,023.71 School Department-Transportation Appropriation for 1950 5,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 800.00 5,800.00 Expenditures Godwin Taxi Service, transportation 1,813.35 Lovell Bus Lines, transportation 1,132.00 Metropolitan Coach Service, transportation 63.00 Middlesex & Boston St. Railway, transportation 2,488.00 Orchard Cab Co., transportation 151.80 Total Expenditures 5,648.15 Transferred to Revenue 151.85 5,800.00 School Department-Juvenile Recreation Appropriation for 1950 9,000.00 Expenditures Acker, Barbara, salary 3.00 Asiante, James, salary 6.00 Bagshaw, Thomas L., salary 6.00 Baker, Marjorie, salary 4.00 Beeten, Claire, salary 28.00 Bowen, Muriel, salary 114.00 Brady, John, salary 6.00 Brine Co., James W., supplies 5.75 Brown, Eileen, salary 33.00 Bunopane, Jack, salary 4.50 Burke, Peter, salary 18.00 Callahan, Mary, salary 4.00 Carey, Virginia, salary 15.00 Chamberlin, J. W., salary 13.50 Christensen, Katherine, salary 9.00 Clem, Carl, salary 136.50 Clinton, George, Jr., salary 2.25 Coen, Mildred, salary 49.50 Collins, Margaret F. ,salary 160.50 Comfort, R. L., salary 10.50 258 Corbett, William, salary 153.00 Corcoran, Mary, salary 12.00 Cornick, Adolphus, salary 6.00 Cousineau, Frank, salary 77.50 Cram, John, salary 69.00 Curry, John, salary 3.00 Daley, Catherine, salary 330.00 Degnan, John, salary 61.00 DePass, John, salary 143.50 Devaney, Mary, salary 22.00 Devlin, James, salary 6.00 Donnellan, Wm., salary 236.00 Dunbar, Eunice, salary 154.00 Ehret, George, salary 22.50 Eichorn, John R., salary 151.50 Felton, Clifton A. ,salary 104.00 Finn, Patricia, salary 9.00 Pitzpatrick, John L., salary 205-50 Ford, Raymond J., salary 646.25 Garafalo, Frank, salary 9.00 Gleason, Robert D., salary 166.00 Gough, Anne M., salary 575.62 Gough, Genevieve, G., salary 22.00 Green Co., L. Charlton, repairs on phonograph 9.70 Guidrey, Virginia, salary • 217.50 Harrington, Robert, salary 151.00 Hillen, Ethel, salary 13.50 Hynes, Betty, Ann, salary 113.00 Igoe, William, salary 2.50 Jennings, Thomas, salary 12.00 Keenan, James, salary 6.00 Kelley, Jay, salary 6.00 Kelley, John, salary 31.50 Kelly, Esther, salary 277.00 Kimber, Sidney, salary 10.00 Koumjian, John, salary 91.00 Krikorian, Sadie, salary 45.00 Lane, A. Louise, salary 124.00 Lane, Helen B., salary 10.50 LaSpada, Vincent, salary 17.50 Lyons, Helen A., salary 4.50 MacDonald, Ruth K., salary 207.50 McCabe, Helen, salary 74.50 McCarthy, Francis, salary 12.00 McCarthy, Marjorie B., salary 11.50 McCormick, Mary, salary 254.50 McCoubrey, Anne, salary 3.00 McDermott, J. P., salary 52.00 McElligott, James, salary 6.00 McGrath, Arthur, salary 111.00 McKenney, Harry J., salary 12.00 McManus, Helen, salary 115.50 McManus, Joseph P., salary 99.00 Makishian, Franklin, salary 13.00 Malley, Joseph, salary 3.00 Mannino, Ernest, salary 6.00 Mantenuto, John, salary 98.00 Metropolitan Coach Service, coach service 165.00 259 Middlesex & Boston R.R. Co., busses 272.00 Morrison, Elinore, salary 91.00 Murphy, Eleanor, salary 47.00 Murphy, Joseph, salary 83.50 Murphy, Margaret, salary 3.00 National Recreation Assoc., subscriptions 3.00 Natoli, Marie, salary 10.00 O'Brien, William, salary 3.00 O'Hara, Thomas, salary 60.38 Partridge, Horace, bats 15.90 Perkins, Arthur, salary 10.00 Perkins, Phillip, salary 120.00 Perry, Gerald, salary 4.50 Quinn, Edward J., salary 1.50 Quinn, Robert, salary 17.00 Raymonds Inc., supplies 149.58 Regan, William H., walk around checker board 27.50 Ryan, Richard T., salary 12.00 Savage, Stewart, salary 6.00 Shea, Charles, salary 25.50 Sheehan, James, salary 80.00 Smythe, Francis J., salary 94.00 Spillane, Eleanor, salary 17.50 Sports Equipment Center, sports equipment 47.87 Stolnacke, Martha, salary 23.00 Tierney, William, salary 31.50 Todd, Louise, salary 6.00 Trecartin, Paul, salary 2.25 Tynan, Gertrude, salary 5.00 Waitt, Mary, salary 74.00 Ward, Edwin H. salary 147.00 Ward, John, salary 21.00 Watertown Bowladrome, bowling 666.39 Webb, Ellen, salary 43.50 Wetherbee, Beulah, salary 5.00 Yankowski, George, salary 85.00 York, John J., salary 7.50 Young Men's Christian Assoc., swimming programme 100.75 Young Women's Christian Assoc., medical examinations, swimming 351.00 Total Expenditures 8,969.69 Transferred to Revenue 30.31 9,000.00 School Department - Ground Improvement Appropriation for 1950 4,600.00 Expenditures Joyce & Son, P. J., ground improvement 4,562.60 Transferred to Revenue 37.40 4,600.00 260 School Department-Lunch Program Receipts from School 1,985.38 Expenditures Deerfoot Farms Division, milk 255.48 Hood & Sons, H. P., milk 193.60 Whiting Milk Co., milk 675.48 Total Expenditures 1,124.56 Balance carried forward 860.82 1,985.38 School Department-Athletic Program Salaries Transferred Town Meeting 5,314.32 Expenditures Biggane, Sara T., salary 668.88 Clem, Carl, salary 591.08 Cyril Ellis, salary 80.00 Gleason, Robert, salary 290.00 Mackey, Helen, salary 575.57 Mantenuto, John, salary 557.78 Murphy, Joseph, salary 160.00 Phelan, Julia, salary 528.89 Sheehan, James, salary 140.00 Spillane, Eleanor M., salary 482.23 Todd, Louise, salary 431.12 Zeno, Joseph, salary 744.44 Ward, Edwin, salary 60.00 Total Expenditures 5,309.99 Transferred to Revenue 4.33 5,314.32 School Department-Athletic Fund Transferred Town Meeting 2,000.00 Receipts from School Department 3,809.74 5,809.74 Expenditures Adams, Alfred S., salary 75.00 Aetna Shoe Repairing, shoe repairing 43.35 Bartley, Richard, salary 7.50 Belmont Herald, advertising 30.00 Belmont High School, (Athletic Fund), cleaning sweaters 11.20 Biggane, Sara T., salary 167.22 Britt, Edward, salary 8.00 Brown, Jane, salary 1.00 Brunswick, Market, cookies 1.35 Burke, James J., salary 7.50 Burke, Peter J., salary 59.00 CeLect Baking Co., rolls 13.00 Chamberlin, James, salary 7.50 Chelsea High School, guarantee 200.00 Clem, Carl, salary 147.77 Coates, Ira R., salary 22.00 261 Cochrane, Joseph, salary 7.50 Collector of Internal Revenue, tax on admissions 330.54 Connors, Joseph, salary 7.50 Corbett, Walter J., salary 15.00 Cornick, Adolphus, salary 10.00 Crowther Inc., Rae, repair to charger 61.48 Devlin, James, salary 7.50 DiGregorio, Frank, salary 7.00 Donnellan, William, salary 10.00 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 561.48 Dussault, Clarence, salary 15.00 Eagan, Francis, salary 7.50 Ellis, Cyril, salary 20.00 Fitchburg High School, guarantee 200.00 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 2.22 Fitzpatrick, John, salary 10.00 Gaffnew, James P., salary 15.00 Galligan, Lawrence, salary 15.00 Garufi, Philip, salary 10.00 Grillo, Frank, entry fee 50.00 Gleason, Robert, salary 142.00 Higgins, Henry, salary 7.00 Hirtle, Bertram, salary 10.00 Igoe, Daniel, salary 15.00 Jennings, Thomas, salary 7.50 Johnson, Emily, salary 11.00 Keefe, David, salary 7.50 Keefe, Richard, salary 7.50 Kilroy, Bernard J., salary 30.00 Linehan, Connie, salary 4.00 Lorraine Ice Co., ice 2.10 Lyons, Stephen, salary 10.00 Mantenuto, John, salary 139.46 MacDonald, Herbert, salary 10.00 Mackey, Helen, salary 143.93 Manhan Potato Chip Co., potato chips and cheese corn 59.00 Mannino, Ernest, salary 10.00 Martin, William, salary 7.50 McCabe, Robert, scouting 50.00 McElligott, James, salary 15.00 McKenney, Henry, salary 7.50 McManus, Joseph, salary 10.00 Melrose High School, guarantee 139.73 Metropolitan Coach Service, coach service 790.76 Mitchell, Arthur, salary 10.00 Moody, Harold, salary 10.00 Mosman, Harry, salary 7.00 Murphy, Joseph F., salary 30.00 Nixon Co., emblems 111.74 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 59.30 Otis Bros. Co., wool socks 24.00 O'Toole, William, salary 12.00 Parks, Gladys, salary 1.00 Phelan, Julia, salary 132.23 Piccolo's Pharmacy, coffee 66.25 Powers, Frank G., Jr., salary 15.00 Purcell, William, salary 4.00 262 Prendergast, June, salary 3.00 Rogers, Laroy, salary 15.00 Rumf, Carol, salary 3.50 Ryan, James, salary 7.00 Sallese, Sam, salary 7.00 Shea, C. E., salary 15.00 Sheehan, James, salary 35.00 Sheehan, Joseph, salary 15.00 Silva, Daniel, salary 15.00 Simpson, Shirley, salary 11.00 Skating Club of Boston, charges 25.00 Skuse, Donald, salary 7.50 Spillane, Eleanor, M., salary 120.58 Squire Co., John P., Bay State Franks 28.80 Strazzulla, Joseph, salary 4.00 Thomas, Richard, salary 8.00 Todd, Louise, salary 107.81 Tracy Chair Co., table rental 24.00 Udell, Robert, salary 5.00 Vacca, Carlo, salary 11.00 Ward, Edwin, salary 15.00 Ward, John, salary 12.00 Watertown Sun, advertising 30.00 Wells, E. Montgomery, entries 1.75 Woodland, Charles, milk 8.05 York, John, salary 7.50 Zeno, Joseph, salary 252.11 Zeno, Joseph, dues 3.50 Total Expenditures 5,081.21 Balance carried forward 728.53 5,809.74 Public Library - Department Salaries Appropriation for 1950 56,846.80 Expenditures Altieri, Janet, salary 261,56 Arpante, Stephen, salary 117.70 Berman, Robert, salary 443.36 Black, Lois, salary 114.00 Black, Mary C., salary 2,509.57 Bloomer, Gerard, salary 300.00 Brady, Rase, M. Kelley, salary 2,760.00 Brennan, Jane, salary 97.35 Buffum, Anne, salary 70.88 Chamian, Arthur, salary 1.80 Crowley, James A., salary 2,435.45 DeFlorio, Mary, salary 137.41 DiOzzi, Anne M. Tracey, salary 2,490.00 Doherty, Marie, salary 75.78 Duffy, Rita, salary 150.72 Dupius, Charlotte, salary 1,760.00 Elphick, Ruth L., salary 2,590.00 263 Farraher, Bernadette, salary 156.15 _ Foret, Jeanne, salary 2,410.00 Fredericks, Leona, salary 349.82 Gottschalk, Patricia, salary 122.20 Harney, Mary V., salary 2,280.00 Healey, Patricia, salary 872.30 Hill, Pauline A., salary 2,520.00 Howard, Ethel M., salary 2,440.00 Igoe, Eleanor, salary 239.33 Jay, Helen W. ,salary 2,440.00 LaFort, Joanne, salary 210.00 Lamprakis, Irene, salary 720.75 Laughrea, Thelma, salary 1,800.00 Lee, Helen M., salary 2,280.06 Mannix, Albert, salary 110.34 Mannix, Bernard, salary 2,720.00 Mardirosian, Nancy, salary 166.60 McNally, Mary, salary 3,395.00 Murray, Pauline, salary 140.97 Myers, Helen, salary 1.88 - Papalia, Maryann, salary 30.10 Paul, Edward, salary 5.40 Pilibosian, Hosmig, salary 164.76 Pye, Janet, salary 23.10 Rayburn, Harriet, salary 271.77 Robertson, Martin, Jr., salary 1,878.27 Robinson, Evelyn, salary 18.90 Schley, Asbury W., salary 2,680.00 Semerjian, Harry, salary 2.70 Sillen, Robert W., salary 2,945.00 Testa, Esther E., salary 2,615.00 White, Jeanne, salary 10.50 Yerxa, Catharine M., salary 4,500.00 Total Expenditures 56,836.48 Transferred to Revenue 10.32 56,846.80 Public Library Department-Books, Periodicals & Bindings Appropriation for 1950 13,080.00 Expenditures Akopian Hamstery, hand books 2.00 All-Pets Magazine, magazine 3.97 American Association for State & Local History, subscription 3.00 American Federation of Arts, book .75 American Library Association, dues, books 67.90 Americana Corp., annual 5.00 Baker Co., Walter H., book 1.58 Baker & Taylor Co., books 9.61 Beckley Cardy Co., books 133.47 Bentley Co., Robert, books 48.42 Bonniers, book 2.68 Book & Print Shop, picture and two magazines 1.55 Boston Law Book Co., law book 11.50 264 Bowker Co., R. R., subscriptions, books 26.52 B.U. Bureau of Business Research, books 5.00 Century Press Inc., books 1.04 Chemical Publishing Co., books 6.55 Colonial Book Service, books 135.05 Columbia University Press, books 57.24 Conde Nast Publishing Co., flower prints 5.00 Congressional Quarterly, renewal 50.00 Dame Co., Nathaniel, books 59.75 Doubleday & Co., books 810.13 Dover Publications, books 8.72 Dutton Co., E. P., books 7.00 Fideler Co., books 77.40 Findley Mobile Studio, book 1.00 Freedom & Union, subscription 4.00 Frontier Press Co., books 25.16 Encyclopaedia Brittannica, year book 8.85 Ginn & Co., books 123.98 Goldberger Agency, Herman, subscriptions 360.95 Goodspeeds' Book Shop, book 2.83 Hale & Co., E. M., book 3.66 Hall Co., George D., directory of manufacturers 25.00 Hanson, A. L., books 149.00 Highlights for Children, subscription 10.00 Huntting Co., H. R., books 325.46 International Organization, subscription 3.50 Kenedy & Sons, P. J., book 1.88 Kimport Dolls, subscription .75 Kirkus, Virginia, subscription 23.00 Knight's News Co., papers 16.50 Kohn Jr., Nathan, cairman Ethical Practices Nat'l. Vocational Guidance Assoc., Directory 1.00 Library Service, book covers, acetate fibre rolls 871.31 Life, picture history of World War II 7.95 Louisiana State U. Press, book 5.00 Macmillan Co., books 16.16 Marquis, A. N., book 12.70 Martin & Murray Co., atlases 135.47 Moody Investors Service, service 169.50 Music-Crest Publications, book 2.00 National Education Assoc., dues 10.00 New Eng. Film Service, films 513.06 New Eng. News Co., books 5,031.88 New York Herald-Tribune, subscription 15.00 New York Public Library, books 2.00 Noble & Noble Publishing Co., books 31.08 Pageant Book Co., books 5.40 Peabody Museum of Salem, handbook .75 Personal Book Shop, books 39.78 Polk & Co., R. L, directory service 5.00 Popular Mechanics Co., booklets 16.95 Sargent, Porter, book 7.20 Prospect Union Educational Exchange, catalog 4.00 R. S. & S. Co., books 707.10 Religious Film Assoc., catalog of films .50 Research Institute of Am., membership 45.00 Research Publishing Co., subscriptions 75.10 Scandinavian Book Service, book 3.27 265 Scarecrow Press, book 5.50 Schley, Asbury W., books 53.55 Sturgis Printing Co., pamphlets 1.00 Sullivan, Margaret R., books 9.20 Superintendents of Documents, subscription 53.00 Thames Book Co., books 389.89 Thomas Publishing Co., book 13.27 Tootaker, O. H., books 354.56 Trovillion Private Press, books 10.80 Trustees of the Public Library of Boston, subscription 2.00 U.N. Council on World Affairs, membership 4.25 United Nations World, subscription 10.00 University of Chicago Press, book 4.21 University of Minnesota Press, books 14.20 Village Recreation Service, square dance party book 1.00 Wagner Co., R. W., books 51.10 Watertown News Co., papers 147.00 Watertown Sun, subscriptions 7.50 Wells Library Bindery, L. A., binding 916.14 Wesby & Sons, J. S., binders 246.59 White & Co., James T., cyclopedia 13.85 Whittemores, book 5.26 Wickersham, Lucille, dues 5.00 Wilcox & Follett Co., books 9.11 Wilde Co., W. A., books 37.60 Wilson Co., H. W., subscriptions 296.64 Women's City Club of Boston, book 2.23 World Puzzle Book Co., book 4.80 Writers' Markets & Methods, subscription 2.00 Yale University Press, books 48.01 Total Expenditures 13,079.77 Transferred to Revenue .23 13,080.00 Public Library Department-31aintenance Appropriation for 1950 13,495.44 Refunds 12.59 13,508.03 Expenditures Alexander Co., Louis A., extinguishers 268.00 American Library Assoc., advertisement 5.00 Baker Co., Frank G., labor 43.50 Bonded Oil System Inc., oil 555.42 Bostitch-Uortheast Inc., staples 15.10 Boston Cons Gas Co., service 106.18 Boston Edison Co., service 1,850.52 Boston Janitors Supply Co., janitors supplies 16.35 Brae-Burn Nursery, stock and planting 86.00 Bowker Co., R. R., advertisement 5.50 Buckley & Scott, Co., detroit valve, burner 698.60 Carrol's, lamp .95 Carter-Rice & Co., paper supplies 137.97 Children's Book Council, supplies 4.50 Collins, H. R., "bud" type cleaners 3.00 Demco Library Supplies, supplies 214.48 Derman Rug Co., furnish and install asphalt tile 44.40 266 Du Bois Oil, oil 1,337.34 Eaton Press Inc., printing 280.20 Evans Printing Service, printing 91.00 Fletcher Hdwe Co., hardware 184.69 Fort Hill Paper Co., paper supplies 6.14 Gaylord Bros. Inc., cards 358.31 Gibbs Express Co., express .70 Graybar Electric Co., electric supplies 928.87 Hawes Electric Co., lamps 57.98 Hinckley's Bicycle Shop, lawn mower sharpened 2.50 Hirtle, Murray E., "ever-fresh" 3.96 Horne & Co., H. S., supplies 34.86 Hurlbert & Hatfield, paper supplies 20.00 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 2.45 Johnson, J. Erhard, shades 25.18 Knights News Co., papers 1.50 Kreem's Camera & Card Shop, supplies 43.65 Lauricella, A., soap 6.84 Library Bureau, posture chair 49.00 Library of Congress, cards 159.59 Local Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing & heating 31.45 Mannix, Albert, transportation of books 257.88 Mass. Gas & Electric Supply Co., supplies 321.38 Mass & Sons, V., snow-rail, roof leak 87.00 McArdle, H. B., supplies 18.50 McNally, Mary M., projection bulb 4.50 Metcalfe's, supplies 3.28 Miller, Charles, shelves, carpentering 789.00 Mooney Card & Gift Shop, supplies 6.03 N. E. Film Service, sound projector 361.50 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 836.15 Newton Shade & Screen Co., repair, shades 159.50 Personal Camera Shop, projection lamps 9.00 Pilgrim Engineering Co., battery 3.98 Postmaster-Boston, stamps 98.61 Power Lawn Mower Service, parts 22.53 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 346.24 Remington Rand Inc., combination file, cabinets 667.25 River-O-Mfg. Co., brush sets, cleaning fluid 8.27 Robbins Co., George B., soap 10.47 Rooney, William J., painting 298.00 Sillen, Robert W., mileage 25.38 Sliney, David L., carpenter, 600.00 Sliney Co., John J., loam 18.00 Smith, Ellis, ink pads 6.52 Smith & Corna Co., L. C., typewriter service and two new typewriters 267.41 Standard Window Cleaning Co., window cleaning 72.00 Stetson Co., M. D., ozium, supplies 163.74 Sturgis Printing Co., supplies 51.38 Thompson Engineering Co., consulting 86.34 Water Dept-Town of Watertown, metered water 14.84 Watertown Letter Shop, supplies 48.01 Watson, John B., services 6.00 White, Bernie, Xmas trees and wreaths 40.50 Yerxa, Catharine M., incidentals 117.16 13,508.03 267 Library Trust Fund Income Income Received 371.67 Expenditures Belmont Herald, advertising 6.50 Doubleday & Co., book 10.00 Colonial Book Service, books 35.00 Evans Printing Service 11.37 McGraw Hill Book Co., books 13.43 Myers, Frank A., photographs 12.00 New England News Co., books 134.43 Personal Book Shop, books 17.69 Philbrick Caterers, refreshments 96.00 Wagner Co., R. W., books 12.50 Watertown Sun, advertising 6.25 Yerxa, Catharine M., hoodsies, ref rshments 16.50 371.67 RECREATION Park Department Salary of Superintendent Appropriation for 1950 3,480.00 Expenditures Mosman, Arthur D., salary 3,480.00 Park Department—Salary of Clerk Appropriation for 1950 200.00 Expenditures Rundlett, Laura B., salary 200.00 Park Department—Labor Appropriation for 1950 16,640.00 Expenditures Pay roll, weekly 16,625.60 Transferred to Revenue 14.40 16,640.00 Park Department—Extra Labor Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures Pay roll, weekly 966.19 Transferred to Revenue 31.81 1,000.00 268 Park Department-Maintenance Appropriation for 1950 4,059.00 Refund 89.14 4,148.14 Expenditures American Oil Co., oil 194.67 Baker, Frank C., repair marker 1.00 Boston Cons. Gas Co., service 6.99 Boston Edison Co., service 216.28 Bostonian Shoe Stores, supplies, tennis tape 366.75 Brae Burn Nursery, plants 9.10 Buckley & Scott Utilities, labor charge 3.90 Campbell Hdwe Co., hardware 15.95 Clapper Co., repairs to Toro, 141.38 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 425.55 Dennis Driscoll & Co. Inc., grader 70.00 Fletcher Hdwe Co., supplies 200.09 G. & S. Paper Co., plates 5.44 Gorin's, material, 9.47 Grant Co., W. T., material 22.33 Greene & Co., Inc., S. B., lime and cement 27.18 Grossman Sons Inc., L., paint 10.20 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., supplies 62.06 Meister, O. J., welding 23.50 Mills Cemetery & Park Equip, power scythe 239.65 Milmore, Fred J., lettering 2.00 Mooney Card & Gift Shop, supplies 30.28 Morrell Oil Co., oil 497.41 Mosman, Arthur D., registration 2.00 Murdock Mfg. & Supp. Co., screws 2.60 New Eng. Doll & Novelty Co., novelties 89.14 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 96.60 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 159.18 Northeast Oil Co., oil 42.50 O'Brien & Sons, M. E., wire hooks, six swing sets 164.04 O'Connell Co., Yeomans F., fence 95.00 Otis Bros. Co., hose 38.25 Partridge, Horace, marker 27.00 Paul & Eaton, saranac mitts 27.00 Postmaster-Boston, stamped envelopes 17.36 Power Lawn Mower Service, repair 8.04 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 120.70 Sherman Lock Co., welding & repair 7.35 Shutt, George L., tire and tube service 59.25 Sliney Co., John J., loam 72.00 Standard Auto Gear Co., parts 24.82 Sumner & Dunbar, gate box 29.90 Systrom Co., E. W., cutting edge 16.20 Water Dept-Town of Watertown, metered water 270.34 Watertown Upholstering Co., cotton 5.00 Webster's Boston & Waltham Express, express 1.50 White Motor Co., motor repair 30.81 Whiteworth & Co., lacing and felt, supplies 56.35 Woolworth Co., F. W., supplies 87.22 Total Expenditures 4,131.33 Transferred to Revenue 16.81 4,148.14 269 Park Department-Playground Salaries Appropriation for 1950 3,760.00 Expenditures Alberico, Vincent, salary 76.00 Alexander, David, salary 80.00 Brown, Ronald, salary 80.00 Brown, Thomas, salary 80.00 Carroll, Joseph L., salary 240.00 Corbett, William, salary 80.00 Delaney, Ann, salary 240.00 Devaney, Robert, salary 160.00 Duffy, Rita, salary 80.00 Duggan, Elaine, salary 120.00 Dunn, Judith, salary 80.00 Farrell, Mary, salary 80.00 Foley, Agnes, salary 160.00 Ford, Claire, salary 80.00 Gallagher, Bernard, salary 80.00 Gilfoil, Grace, salary 160.00 Higgins, John, salary 80.00 Holmes, Spencer, salary 160.00 Keary, Theodore, salary 80.00 Linehan, Eileen, salary 160.00 Lopez, James, salary 80.00 Manesian, Arthur, salary 160.00 Mantenuto, John, salary 160.00 Manzelli, Martha, salary 80.00 Martin, June, salary 80.00 McCall, Dolores, salary 80.00 McHugh, Marion, salary 80.00 Oates, Donald, salary 160.00 Pratt, Ruth, salary 160.00 Reilly, Thomas M., Jr., salary 80.00 Ryder, Phyllis, salary 116.00 Wells, Carolyn, salary 80.00 Total Expenditures 3,672.00 Transferred to Revenue 88.00 3,760.00 Park Department-Floodlighting Saltonstall Park Balance brought forward 231.13 Expenditures Boston Edison Co., service 121.28 Graybar Electric Co., floodlights 64.00 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt Supp. Co., bulbs 20.71 Total Expenditures 205.99 Transferred to Revenue 25.14 231.13 270 Park Department,—Fence & Grading How Park Appropriation for 1950 7,000.00 Expenditures Eureka Cement Lined Pipe Co., pipe 122.25 Folino & Sons, T. M., grading 6.500.00 Kennedy Valve Mfg. Co., parts 17.06 Red Hed Mfg. Co., parts 22.22 Swanson's Waltham Express, express .52 Sumner & Dunbar, valve box 19.00 Watertown Herald, advertising 2.25 Total Expenditures 6.683.30 Balance carried forward 316.70 7,000.00 Park Department—Recreation Appropriation for 1950 750.00 Expenditures Boston Edison Co., service 97.66 Bostonian Shoe Store, soft balls, engraving trophy 456.30 Dwyer, Joseph, baseball school 65.00 Mantenuto, John J., services 50.00 Ryan, James, baseball school 65.00 Total Expenditures 733.96 Transferred to Revenue 16.04 750.00 Park Department—New Equipment Appropriation for 1950 500.00 Expenditures Bostonian Shoe Store, baseball base, tapes, bats 362.25 Gorin's, supplies 74.15 Iver-Johnson Sporting Goods Co., plates, pitchers rubber 34.05 O'Brien & Sons, M. E., steel cables for tennis nets 28.26 Total Expenditures 498.71 Transferred to Revenue 1.29 500.00 Park Department—Victory Field—Drain Appropriation for 1950 700.00 Expenditures Triconi, S., drain 575.00 Watertown Herald, advertising 2.25 Total Expenditures 577.25 Transferred to Revenue 122.75 700.00 271 Park Department—Tennis Courts—Victory Field Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures Dennis Driscoll & Co., bringing gravel 750.00 Mass. Broken Stone Co., broken stone 6.12 Total Expenditures 756.12 Transferred to Revenue 243.88 1,000.00 Park Department—Track--Victory Field Appropriation for 1950 1,500.00 Expenditures Dennis Driscoll & Co., resurfacing 1,500.00 Park Department—New Field House Appropriation for 1950 75,000.00 Expenditures Dodge Corp., F. W., official proposal 18.40 Parkman Construction Co., field house 38,971.90 Watertown Herald, advertising 12.35 Watertown Sun, advertising 6.00 Water Dept—Town of Watertown, metered water 66.83 Whitman & Howard, engineers services 4,241.50 Total Expenditures 43,316.98 Balance carried forward 31,683.02 75,000.00 UNCLASSIFIED Pensions Appropriation for 1950 67,327.79 Transferred Town Meeting 764.25 66,563.54 Expenditures Black, John, pension 1,750.00 Brennan, John, pension 1,086.81 Brown, Vernon S., pension 1,300.00 Burke, Martin, pension 82.50 Burke, Michael, pension 1,036.50 Comfort, Redford, pension 424.93 Conti, Domenic, pension 1,034.66 D'Amico, Michael, pension 1,243A1 Dardis, James, pension 1,500.00 Days, James, pensions 1,243.41 Devaney, Thomas W., pension 1,500.00 272 Ford, Joseph, pension 1,295.00 Hanley, Lawrence E., pension 1,653.00 Howard, William A., pension 1,200.00 Hunter, John F., pension 1,600.00 Keefe, John F., pension 1,295.00 Kelly, John J., pension 1,500.00 Kenney, Edward, pension 1,158.31 Loughlin, Joseph F., pension 1,350.00 Mackin, Walter, pension 1,711.00 MacManus, Frank J., pension 1,286.00 Maguire, John J., pension 1,432.70 Maloney, Thomas, pension 1,600.00 Maloney, William, pension 2,066.66 McDermott, Michael, pension 910.66 McNicholas, Peter, pension 2,066.66 Milmore, John F., pension 1,900.00 Milmore, Thomas F., pension 1.043.34 Moran, Michael, pension 1,254.00 Morley, Thomas, pension 1,512.14 Moss, G. James, pension 1,303.58 O'Brien, Patrick J., pension 749.50 O'Donnell, Thomas, pension 1,003.36 O'Halloran, Edward, pension 1,512.14 O'Hearn, John W., pension 1,600.00 O'Leary, John J., pension 1,300.00 Oliveto, Frank, pension 1,112.91 Parker, Harold, pension 1,500.00 Perkins, Arthur, pension 2,200.00 Perkins, Louis, pension 1,300.00 Quirk, John P., pension 1,600.00 Russo, Domenic, pension 1,086.80 Smith, William, pension 1,043.34 Stead, Joseph, pension 1,445.00 White, George E., pension 1,300.00 Zuppe, Frank, pension 1,086.80 Total Expenditures 61,180.12 Transferred to Revenue 5,383.42 66,563.54 Annuities Appropriation for 1950 8,525.00 Expenditures Carney, Margaret, annuity 900.00 Clifford, Mary J. annuity 900.00 Edwards, Mrs. Edward C., annuity 418.75 Ford, Gertrude A., annuity 900.00 McElhiney, Lydia, annuity 900.00 Mee, Vivienne, annuity 900.00 Munhall, Blanche, annuity 900.00 Nichols, Sadie, annuity 900.00 Streeter, Katie C., annuity 900.00 Welch, Alice, annuity 900.00 Total Expenditures 8,518.75 Transferred to Revenue 6.25 8,525.00 273 Printing Town Reports Appropriation for 1950 2,566.90 Expenditures Eaton Press Inc., printing 2,566.90 Reserve Fund Appropriation for 1950 25,000.00 Transfers— Civil Defense 5,000.00 Fire Department Contingent 2,000.00 Police Department Contingent 1,000.00 Salaries 200.00 War Allowance 2,000.00 Transferred 10,200.00 Transferred to Overlay Reserve 14,800.00 25,000.00 Contingent Appropriation for 1950 3,000.00 Expenditures Atlantic Flag Pole Co., flag 53.50 Barron, Albert L., M.D., services 25.00 Boston Edison Co., Xmas lighting, Labor on temporary service 405.51 Boston & Maine R.R. Co., parking area rentals 545.00 Conway, Sarah, & Austin Conway, settlement 375.00 Corbett, John F., expenses Community Fund 3.53 Cusolito,Frederick L., settlement 136.25 DiRusso, Americo, settlement 12.00 Doughnut House, doughnuts and coffee 3.50 Electric Time Co., repair town clock. 36.02 Gaudet, Louise M., settlement 25.00 Joyce, John H., settlement 50.00 Kricorian, Leo, settlement 25.00 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., Xmas light supp. 64.03 Mugrdichian, Mary, settlement 25.00 Nuzzo, Marie F., settlement 300.00 Simmons, Charming C., M.D., services 25.00 Standard Maintenance Co., coupon book, ribbons 12.00 Thompson, Agnes R., settlement 100.00 Union Market National Bank, parking area rent 170.10 York, Robert S., M.D., services 25.00 Total Expenditures 2,416.44 Transferred to Revenue 583.56 3,000.00 274 Headquarters of Veterans' Organizations Appropriation for 1950 4,950.00 Expenditures Brier, Morris, rent (Italian American Club Hdqrtrs) 200.00 Diliberto,Jos. rent (Iitalian American Club Hdqrtrs) 200.00 Keefe, Joseph H., ren (Hdqrtrs Amvets) 960.00 Metchear Realty Trust, rent (Hdqrtrs V.F.W.) 1,250.00 Patten, Isaac B., Sons of Vets, rent (Hdqrtrs Dis. Mmer. Vets) 600.00 Patten, Isaac, B., Sons of Vets, rent (Hdqrtrs Amer. Gold Star Mothers) 120.00 Pequosette Aerie No. 1929, rent (Hdqrtrs V.F.W.) 250.00 Shahbazian, Reuben K., rent (Hdqrtrs Italian American Club) 50.00 Watertown, Knights of Columbus, rent Hdqrtrs American Legion) 675.00 Total Expenditures 4,305.00 Transferred to Revenue 645.00 4,950.00 Insurance Appropriation for 1950 9,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 5,500.00 14,500.00 Expenditures Andrea, Victor D., insurance 480.00 Barrett, John W., insurance 1,161.60 Bogosian, Edna., insurance 363.36 Hale, Charles A., insurance 3,341.80 Keefe, Mary G., insurance 908.42 LeFavor, George E., insurance 610.60 McGlauflin, B. Fay, insurance 681.60 Oates, Edward A., insurance 2,256.24 Perkins, Homer C., insurance 576.00 Rugg Inc. Co., William W., insurance 480.00 Stone Insurance Co., Edwin L., insurance 1,050.19 Whitney, J. Malcolm, insurance 363.36 Wright, Edward F., insurance 1,341.29 Total Expenditures 13,614.46 Transferred to Revenue 885.54 14,500.00 Freeman—Re-iinbursement Appropriation for 1950 225.00 Expenditures Freeman, Walter C., settlement 225.00 275 Civil Defense Transferred from Reserve Fund 5,000.00 Expenditures Alan Painten Co., portable engine 225.00 Corbett, John F., salary 576.90 Donnellan, Mary E., salary 248.00 General Electric Co., alert receivers 358.00 Horne & Co., H. S., supplies 138.57 Mahoney, William P., repairing locks, making keys 5.00 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., siren 280.00 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 21.35 Old Corner Book Store, book 3.10 Postmaster-Boston, postage 14.00 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 38.48 Simplex Wire & Cable Co., wire 511.56 Wigandt, F. G., painting 145.00 Total Expenditures 2,564.96 Balance carried forward 2,435.04 5,000.00 Memorial Day Appropriation for 1950 3,000.00 Expenditures General Committee Felloni, Joseph, incidentals 50.00 Hennessey, Rev. Ambrose, chaplain 25.00 St. Patrick's C.Y.O. Band, services 90.00 Watertown High School Band, services 135.00 Watertown Post No. 99 Amer,ican Legion, services firing squad 25.00 American Legion Ingerson, Frederick H., incidentals 64.83 Kelly-Florist, wreaths 50.00 Kreem's Camera & Gift shop., wreaths and flags 95.00 Mason, Ralph W., wreaths 198.00 McCarthy Bros., Inc., lunches 173.10 MaGann & Sons Co., T. F., bronze name plates 58.50 Watertown Letter Shop, printing 18.75 Watertown Post No. 99 American Legion, flags, grave markers 168.92 Amvets American Vets of World War I, grave markers 33.00 Amvets of World War II, Post 14, transportation 20.00 Flag Center, flags 8.75 Kelly-Florist, wreaths and baskets 125.00 Martino's Market, lunches 93.10 Personal Press, printing & mailing 97.50 276 Disabled American Veterans Watertown Chapter No. 14 D.A.V., expenses 422.11 Gold Star Mothers Personal Flower Service, gold star 30.00 McCarthy Bros., car hire 10.00 Sons Union Veterans Collins, James F., car hire 18.00 Evans Printing Service, printing 40.00 Goodale, Margaret E., lunches 39.40 Harding Uniform & Regalia Co., flags, blue streamers 66.75 Kelly-Florist, wreaths, pillow 65.00 Moffett, Chandler, taps 2.00 Patten, Isaac B., Camp No. 29, expenses 22.50 Waterhouse, Rey Edson, chaplain 25.00 Woburn Pansy Growers, pansies 100.00 Italian American Club Italian American World War Vets, expenses 150.00 Veterans Foreign Wars Rosenfield Uniforms, marker flags 43.00 Pequosette Press, printing, streamers 44.50 G. & S. Paper Co., paper cups 7.50 Main Street Delicatessen, lunches 36.33 Alfred's Diner, coffee 6.00 Bond's Restaurant, Coffee & doughnuts 15.90 Morley, M., truck hire 30.00 Kelly-Florist, wreaths, baskets - - 210.00 Quinlan, Frank H., car hire 29.50 Burnham-Manning Post No. 1105, marks, blank ammunition 47.25 Total Expenditures 2,990.19 Transferred to Revenue 9.81 3,000.00 Workmen's Compensation Appropriation for 1950 8,500.00 Expenditures Ajamian, Joseph, prescription, compensation 179.45 Angelo, Peter, M.D., services 8.00 Bailey, George G., M.D., services 45.00 Bishop, George N., M.D., services 9.00 Buskirk, James H., M.D., services 20.00 Cahill, William, prescriptions 5.00 Campbell, Donald I., M.D., services 267.00 Canzanelli, Pericles, M.D., services 161.00 Carney, Edward, prescription 1.25 277 Centner, Paul J., M.D., services 35.00 Cooney, E. A., M.D., services 81.00 Cousineau, Alfred L., eyeglasses 10.00 Donovan, John, prescription .90 Donovan, William F., M.D., services 105.00 Dorsey, Joseph F., M.D., services 235.00 Downing, J. G., M.D., 10.00 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 5.64 Eaton Press, printing 53.75 Ferguson, Thomas P., compensation 111.48 Flaschner, Ira, M.D., services 25.00 Fucci, Pasquale, compensation 911.53 Gorman, Eugene F., M.D., services 17.50 Gurvitz, Abraham, M.D., services 85.00 Kelly, Edward J., M.D., services 5.00 Lambert, Francis C., compensation 717.85 Lexington St. Drug Co., belt 8.05 Mass.Comm.of,Dept. Industrial Accidents, impartial examination 20.00 Mt. Auburn Hospital, care 188.00 Murdock, William A., compensation 80.00 O'Brien, F. W., M.D., services 15.00 Piccolo's Pharmacy, prescriptions 4.75 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 6.40 Ross, John J., compensation 1,446.00 Ruggiero, Domenic, compensation 120.00 Sarao, John, compensation 415.00 Slattery, John J., M.D., services 11.00 Smith & Co., G. W., support 15.00 Suajian, Eli, M.D., services 33.00 Touzjian, R. T., M.D., services 30.00 Vahey, David, reimbursement 3.00 Waltham Hospital, care 835.66 Wylie, Earl J., M.D., services 36.00 York, Robert S., M.D., services 255.50 Total Expenditures 6,627.71 Transferred to Revenue 1,872.29 8.500.00 Workmen's Compensation-Salary of Agent Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures Meehan, John P., salary 470.74 Stone, Ronald M., salary 529.26 1,000.00 Workmen's Compensation-Unpaid Bills Appropriation for 1950 935.13 Expenditures Ross, John J., reimbursement 935.13 278 Eye-glasses for School Children Appropriation for 1950 250.00 Expenditures Boston Dispensary, eyeglasses 12.00 Cotter, F. X., services, glasses 17.00 Donovan, William F., M.D., services 15.00 Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary, glasses 8.00 Schindler, John, lenses 47.00 St. Elizabeth's Hospital, clinic 4.50 Total Expenditures 103.50 Transferred to Revenue 146.50 250.00 World War Memorial—Repairs & furnishings Balance brought forward 389.27 Expenditures American Legion Post No. 99, supplies 19.62 Coakley's Lunch, coffee urn 20.00 Coolidge Sq Jaint & Supply Co., supplies 15.17 Horne & Co., H. S., tables & chairs repaired 208.74 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 12.60 Total Expenditures 276.13 Balance carried forward 113.14 389.27 Contributory Retirement System Appropriation for 1950 33,640.86 Expenditures Contributory Retirement Pension System 33,640.86 Traffic Rules Committee Appropriation for 1950 750.00 Expenditures Watertown Typesetting Co., traffic rules 140.00 Balance carried forward 610.00 750.00 Cost of Living Bonus Appropriation for 1950 40,000.00 Transferred Town Meeting 9,500.00 30,500.00 Expenditures Fire Department, bonus 300.00 Highway Department, bonus 17,761.81 Miscellaneous, bonus 3,656.61 279 Police Department, bonus 495.00 School Department, bonus 2,731.76 Water Department, bonus 3,012.56 Total Expenditures 27,957.74 Transferred to Revenue 2,542.26 30,500.00 Payroll Deductions—Purchase of Bonds Balance brought forward 1,572.73 Deductions 20,823.62 22,396.35 Expenditures Bonds purchased 20,810.26 Balance carried 1,586.09 22,396.35 Payroll Deductions—Withholding Tax Balance brought forward 22,340.10 Deductions 180,753.50 203,093.60 Expenditures Paid Federal Government 180,776.40 Balance carried forward 22,317.20 203,093.60 ENTERPRISES & CEMETERIES Water Department—Salary of Superintendent Appropriation for 1950 4,950.00 Expenditures Oates, Michael B., salary 4,950.00 Water Department—Assistant Superintendent Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,840.00 Expenditures Johnson, Edwin, salary 3,840.00 Water Department—Salary of Registrar Appropriation for 1950 3,500.00 Expenditures Armstrong, Thomas L., salary 3,500.00 280 Water Department—Principal Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,520.00 Expenditures Rundlett, Laura B., salary 2,520.00 Water Department—Senior Clerk Salary Appropriation for 1950 2,160.00 Expenditures Wright, Angela, salary 2,160.00 Water Department—Construction Foreman Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,840.00 Expenditures Cahill, Patrick D., salary 3,840.00 Water Department—Meter Readers Salaries Appropriation for 1950 8,640.00 Expenditures Pay roll, weekly 8,640.00 Water Department—Office Expenses Appropriation 2,482.00 Expenditures Addressograph-Multigraph Corp., service 75.60 Allen Business Machines, R. C., ribbons 11.68 Boston Edison Co., service 10.81 Busines Week, subscription 12.00 Crosby Steam Gage & Valve Co., charts 18.76 Eaton Press Inc., printing 244.75 Evans Printing Service, printing 36.75 Hinckley's Bicycle Shop, keys .50 Horne & Co., H. S., binding book, supplies 70.50 Johnson Co., Andrew T., photostats 167.42 Mass. Gas. & Electric Lt. Supplies Co., supplies 36.30 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., service 7.05 New Eng. Towel Supply Co., towel supplies 12.30 New Eng. Water Works Assoc., subscription 4.00 Postmaster—Boston, postage 1,014.12 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 139.50 Smith Co., Frederic B., water bills 351.34 Standard Duplicating Machine Co., sealer belt 4.65 Standard Maintenance Co., typewriter maintenance 32.80 Underwood Corp., supplies 146.79 Watertown Herald, advertising 22.00 Watertown Sun, advertising 27.41 Wentworth-Forman Co., caps 13.57 Total Expenditures 2,460.60 Transferred to Revenue 21.40 2,482.00 281 Water Department-Out-of-State Travel Appropriation for 1950 100.00 Expenditures Oates, Michael B., convention expenses 100.00 Water Department-Maintenance-Materials Appropriation for 1950 10,267.52 Expenditures American Bldg. Wrecking Co., lumber 35.00 Atomlite, hand flood liter 35.00 Batchelder-Pontiac Corp., parts 65.88 Boston Coupling Co., parts 20.63 Boston Edison Co., service 50.09 Boston & Maine R.R. Co., freight, water pipe privilege 6.70 Oates, C. E., reconditioning chain falls 34.85 Condon Corp., John P., rental bulldozer 82.32 Contos, George L., lunches 13.68 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 1.44 Coombs Motor Co., supplies 149.10 Crosby Steam Gage & Valve Co., repair 17.47 Cummins, H. T., filing saws 3.00 Curry Oil Co., M. L., supplies 248.74 DeSarno, Clarence, repairs on tractor 28.00 Dunn's Drug Store, supplies 13.63 Edson Corp., parts 36.40 Eureka Cement Lined Pipe Co., cement lined pipe 315.25 Field Machinery Co., repairs to digger, supplies 81.01 Firestone Stores, supplies 3.59 Fletcher Hdwe Co., hardware 82.97 Fuller Co., supplies 41.20 Gar-Wood Industries Inc., repair 38.90 Green & Co., Inc., S. B., cement 17.24 Harvey Co., Arthur C., steel 2.39 Hawes Electric Co., supplies 3.06 Hersey Mfg. Co., repairs 914.37 Homelite Corp., spark plugs 9.40 J. K. T. Auto Repairing Service, auto repair 334.70 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 1,583.28 Keefe, Mary G., insurance 8.00 Kennedy Valve Mfg. Co., valves 295.66 Leonard Fuel Co., fuel 451.70 Line Air Products Co., refill 5.70 Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co., washers, supplies 218.96 Mass. Broken Stone Co., cold patches 42.58 Mass. Gas & Electric Lt. Supp. Co., supplies 145.20 Mass. Comm. of Div. of Inspection, Dept. Public Safety, license to operate hoist 12.00 McElroy, Robert J., painting 24.00 McGlauflin, B. Fay, insurance 150.20 Meister, O. J., hydrant wrenches, sharpen points 234.40 Merit Oil Co., oil 5.75 Morrissey Bros. Tractor Co., parts 49.27 Mt. Auburn Motors, repairs 287.66 282 National Lead Co., lead wool 12.62 New Eng. Brick Co., clay .76 New Eng. Engine & Parts Co., parts .28 New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., services 78.25 Nonantum Lumber Co., lumber 136.17 Northeast Oil Co., oil 85.00 Oates, Edward A., insurance 114.90 Oates, Mitchael B., garage 60.00 Parker-Danner Co., supplies 880.19 Purchasing-Town of Watertown, supplies 140.42 Raymond, D. B., gravel 22.84 Red Hed Mfg. Co., parts 353.85 Registry of Motor Vehicles, registering 18.00 Robley's Jenney Station, repair 2.75 Rockwell Mfg. Co., water meters 73.96 Sclafani, Pasquale, insurance 344.73 Shutt, George L., tire & tubes 310.36 Sliney, David L., carpenter 35.00 Standard Auto Gear Co., parts 85.58 Stone, Edwin L., insurance 23.00 Sumner & Dunbar, parts 19.80 Swanson's Waltham Express, express .75 Utilities Supply Corp., covers, repairs 388.77 Waltham Screw Co., brass couplings 34.67 Warren Pipe Co. of Mass., pipe 137.64 Waterproof Paint & Varnish Co., paint 84.84 Watertown Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 68.40 Webster's Boston & Waltham Express, express .70 White Co., John J., hay 13.91 White Motor Co., repair 56.38 White & Coughlin Motor Sales, supplies 241.61 Wright, Edward F., insurance 114.90 Total Expenditures 10,141.40 Transferred to Revenue 126.12 10,267.52 Water Department-Maintenance-Labor Appropriation for 1950 44,376.00 Expenditures Pay rolls, weekly 44.200.00 Transferred to Revenue 176.00 44,376.00 Water Department-Emergency Overtime Appropriation for 1950 2,500.00 Expenditures Pay rolls, weekly 2,209.98 Transferred to Revenue 290.02 2,500.00 283 Water Department—Vacations Appropriation for 1950 1,768.00 Expenditures Pay rolls, weekly 1,768.00 Water Department—Cleaning Water Mains Appropriation for 1950 1,600.00 Expenditures Caldwell Co., George A., couplings 467.39 Condon Corp., John P., concrete 23.52 Evans Printing Service, printing 15.68 Local Plumbing &Heating Co., plumbing 58.50 National Water Main Cleaning Co., cleaning water mains 621.00 Sullivan, Richard, oil 6.50 Total Expenditures 1,192.59 Transferred to Revenue 407.41 1,600.00 Water Department—New House Services Appropriation for 1950 3,300.00 Expenditures Builders-Providence Inc., fittings 62.65 Caldwell Co., George A., repair couplings 10.48 Condon Corp., John P., concrete 97.06 Curry Oil Co., M. L., supplies 258.50 Eureka Cement Lined Pipe Co., parts 168.18 Green & Co., Inc., S. B., cement 17.64 Hersey Mfg. Co., meters 123.35 Kennedy Valve Mfg. Co., supplies 54.37 National Lead Co., lead pipe 85.00 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 63.72 Raymond, D. B., gravel 77.07 Red Hed Mfg. Co., fittings 1,130.13 Robinson Clay Products Co., pipe 11.02 Sullivan & Son, Richard, oil 24.38 Sumner & Dunbar, service "boxes" 459.90 Swanson's Waltham Express, express 4.75 Thompson-Durkee Co., pipe & supplies 93.38 Utilities Supply Corp., drains 245.94 Watertown Herald, advertising 2.25 Watertown Plumbing & Heating Co., plumbing 1.93 Total Expenditures 2,991.70 Transferred to Revenue 8.30 3,000.00 284 Water Department—New 5/8" Meters Appropriation for 1950 1,800.00 Expenditures Hersey Mfg. Co., meters 890.00 Rockwell Mfg. Co., meters 864.61 Total Expenditures 1,754.61 Transferred to Revenue 45.39 Water Department—Construction & Reconstruction Appropriation for 1950 8,000.00 Expenditures Eureka Cement Lined Pipe Co., cement lined pipe 444.72 Hidalgo Steel Co., tools 60.44 Jenney Mfg. Co., gas 142.50 Kennedy Valve Mfg. Co., valves 1,062.96 Red Hed Mfg. Co., tap & drill 24.80 Shawmut Transportation Co., express 2.10 Sumner & Dunbar, supplies 238.95 Utilities Supply Co., pipe 868.76 Warren Pipe Co. of Mass., pipe 3,758.00 Total Expenditures 6,603.23 Transferred to Revenue 1,396.77 8,000.00 Water Department—New Dump Body & Truck Appropriation for 1950 2,574.55 Expenditures Coombs Motor Co., truck 2,574.00 Transferred to Revenue .55 2,574.55 Water Department—Renewal of Services Appropriation for 1950 3,350.00 Refund 6.78 3,356.78 Expenditures Condon Corp., John P., concrete 49.27 Curry Oil Co., M. L., supplies 115.17 Eureka Cement Lined Pipe Co., fittings 78.95 Federal Motor Transportation, express 6.78 285 Hidalgo Steel Co., paving breakers 101.49 Mass. Broken Stone Co., cold patches 32.61 Morrissey Bros. Co., bid rods 9.58 Red Hed Mfg. Co., tubing 1,028.85 Shea, Charles, services 16.00 Sullivan & Sons, James H., kerosene 12.28 Sumner & Dunbar, fittings 650.10 Swanson's Waltham Express, express 2.75 Utilities Supply Corp., fittings 1,245.26 Total Expenditures 3,349.09 Transferred to Revenue 7.69 3,356.78 Water Department—Overhead Doors for Garage Appropriation for 1950 1,000.00 Expenditures Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 11.29 Green & Co., Inc., S. B., cement 24.50 Meister, O. J., angle iron bar 30.00 Overhead Door Sales Co., overhead doors 888.75 Waterproof Paint & Varnish Co., paint 7.77 Total Expenditures 962.31 Transferred to Revenue 37.69 1,000.00 Water Department—Water Liens Appropriation for 1950 250.00 Expenditures Evans Printing Service, printing 32.09 Transferred to Revenue 217.91 250.00 Water Department—Large Meters Balance brought forward 877.90 Expenditures Hersey Mfg. Co., large meters 844.31 Transferred to Revenue 33.59 877.90 Cemetery Department—Superintendent's Salary Appropriation for 1950 3,460.00 Expenditures Martin, George, salary 3,460.00 Cemetery Department—Labor Appropriation for 1950 14,000.00 Expenditures Pay rolls, weekly 12,923.55 Transferred to Revenue 1,076.45 14,000.00 286 Cemetery Department—Contingent Appropriation for 1950 1,300.00 Expenditures Alger Oil Co., oil 80.32 American Oil Co., gas 160.14 Anderson & Son, G. O., flowers and plants 46.50 Auto Sickle Co., blades 2.25 Chestnut Welding Co., welding 4.50 Clapper Co., belts 19.59 Coolidge Paint & Supply Co., supplies 6.45 Dolge Co., C. B., weed killer 30.91 Fletcher Hdwe Co., hardware 148.87 Green & Co., S. B., cement 47.00 Harris, Charles A., men's wear 76.00 Horne & Co., H. S., books bound 44.10 Lindsay Co., P. K., pads 7.60 Martin, George F., transportation 200.00 Meister, O. J., sharpen pick 3.80 Mills Cemetery & Park Equipment Co., seeds, repair to mowers 168.83 Power Lawn Mower Service, motor 78.16 Purchasing—Town of Watertown, supplies 36.66 Standard Auto Gear Co., parts 5.60 Sudbury Nurseries Inc., Maples 80.10 Water Dept--Town of Watertown, metered water 8.68 Total Expenditures 1,256.06 Transferred to Revenue 43.94 1,300.00 Cemetery Department—New Light Truck Appropriation for 1950 2,300.00 Expenditures Colbert, John A., registration, new truck 2.00 Milmore, Frederick J., letering 12.00 Mt. Auburn Motors Inc., new truck 1,767.35 Vahey, Martin L., insurance 131.90 Total Expenditures 1,913.25 Transferred to Revenue 386.75 2,300.00 Cemetery Department—Power Trimmers Appropriation for 1950 375.00 Expenditures Mills Cemetery & Park Equipment Co., 361.80 Transferred to Revenue 13.20 375.00 Cemetery Department—Utility Building Appropriation for 1950 8,000.00 Balance brought forward 3,500.00 Transferred Town Meeting 1,000.00 12,500.00 287 Expenditures Folino & Sons, T. F., building 9.120.00 Bean Inc., Foto, supplies 12.37 Watertown Herald, advertising 2.25 Total Expenditures 9,134.62 Balance carried forward 3,365.38 12,500.00 INTEREST & MATURING DEBT Town Debt Appropriation for 1950 45,000.00 Expenditures Bonds Paid 45,000.00 Interest Appropriation for 1950 9,000.00 Expenditures Coupons on bonds 5,727.50 Discount on notes 2,348.85 Total Expenditures 8,076.35 Transferred to Revenue 923.65 9,000.00 STATE TAXES & ASSESSMENTS Estimated by Commissioner 164,316.82 Expenditures Charles River Basin 281.01 Metropolitan Park tax 42,123.30 Metropolitan Sewer tax 66,618.26 , Metropolitan Water tax 43,621.52 Boston Metropolitan District, expenses 222.85 M.T.A. Deficiency 17,489.33 M.T.A. Reduction of Principal 8,242.48 ASmoks Inspection 784.45 Auditing Municipal Accounts 1,411.86 Examination of Retirement System 715.74 Total Expenditures 181,510.80 DEFICIT carried forward 17,193.98 164,316.82 County Tax Estimated by Commissioner 142,191.60 Expenditures Treasurer, Middlesex County 115,984.34 BALANCE carried forward 26,207.26 142,191.60 County Hospital TB Assessment Estimated by Commissioner 35,200.50 Treasurer, Middlesex County 33,304.95 BALANCE carried forward 1,895.55 35,200.50 BALANCE SHEET ASSETS Cash on Shand, General Fund $840,577.35 Veterans' Housing, Cash 1,557.54 Collector's Petty Cash 500.00 Soldiers' Relief Petty Cash 200.00 Health Dept. Petty Cash 10.00 Taxes: 1950 Polls 92.00 1950 Property 64,420.10 1950 Personal 8,636.23 1950 Motor 13,468.34 86,616.67 Special Assessments: 1950 Moth 90.50 1950 Sidewalk assessments 9.02 1950 Sidewalk committed interest 3.24 1950 Street, assessments 73.83 1950 Street committed interest 22.18 Unapportioned Sidewalks 445.95 644.72 Tax Titles 3,510.84 Tax Possessiot;s 5,987.34 9,498.18 Departmental Accounts Receivable: Infirmary Department 30.00 Highway Department 35.10 Garbage Contract 1,258.37 Weights & Measures 36.00 Public Welfare,General Relief 2,507.64 Public Welfare, A. D. C. 13,474.12 Public Welfare, O. A. A. 262.16 Cemetery Department 59.00 17,662.39 Water Accounts Receivable: District No. 1 5,056.45 District No. 2 1,956.64 District No. 3 2,622.51 Commercial 7,158.37 16,793.97 Overlay Deficits: Year 1948 4,294.20 State Taxes & Assessments 17,193.98 $995,549.00 DECEMBER 31, 1950 LIABILITIES Potter Memorial Gate Fund 239.30 Templeton Fund Income 74.40 Dog Fund 54.00 Premium account 529.58 Cemetery—Sale of Lots 4,380.87 Sale of Town Land 36,757.68 Veterans' Emergency Fund 200.00 Reserve for Petty Cash 510.00 Overlay reserved for abatements:—Levy of 1950 2,060.73 Overlay Reserve Fund 70,749.02 Motor Vehicle Revenue 13,468.34 Tax Title Revenue 9,498.18 Special Assessment Revenue 644.72 Department Revenue 17,662.39 Water Revenue 16,793.97 Unexpended balance forward: Auditor—Budget Machine 330.25 Tax Title Foreclosures 1,552.24 Assessors, Appellate Tax Board 1,803.77 Purchasing, Revolving Fund 11.50 North End Fire Station 68,463.60 Dog Pound 616.33 Highway—Chapter 90-1949 144.03 Highway—Chapter 90-1950 2,874.39 Land Taking, Church Street 50.00 Mt. Auburn St., Bldg. Line 500.00 A. D. C.—Federal Arministration 2,397.99 A. D. C.—Federal Aid 15,920.98 O. A. A.—Federal Administration 8,960.10 O. A. A.—Federal Aid 91.98 Old Age Recoveries 293.52 School Dept., Survey 1,000.00 Light Fixtures 5,000.00 Banthin Auto Press 3,850.00 Lunch Program 860.82 Athletic Program 728.53 Park Dept—Ladd Place 50.00 Field House 31,683.02 Fence—How Park 316.70 Civil Defense 2,435.04 Rent East End Parking Lot 167.05 Incinerator Committee 531.59 Domenic Filepello Playground 694.83 World War Memo Committee 1,000.00 World War Memo Repairs 113.14 Acton Street Taking 400.00 Veterans' Housing Fund 1,557.54 Veterans Housing Balance 5,927.37 Traffic Rules Committee 610.00 Cemetery—Utility Building 3,365.38 Fence 100.00 164,401.69 Pay Roll Deductions, Purchase of Bonds 1,586.09 Pay Roll Deductions, With-holding tax 22,317.20 County Tax (1950) 26,207.26 County TB Asse:-sment 1,895.55 390,030.97 Excess & Deficiency—SURPLUS 605.518.03 $ 995,549.00 290 DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS Apportioned Sidewalk Assessments Not Due $ 4,608.42 Apportioned Street Assessments Not Due $13,616.50 DEBT ACCOUNTS Net Funded or Fixed Debt $4051000.00 TRUST FUNDS Trust Funds—Cash & Securities $459,070.49 291 DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS Apportioned Sidewalk Assessments Due in 1951 681.99 Due in 1952 621.94 Due in 1953 587.61 Due in 1954 564.53 Due in 1955 531.93 Due in 1956 501.09 Due in 1957 489.98 Due in 1958 391.40 Due in 1959 237.95 $ 4,608.42 Apportioned Street Assessments: Due in 1951 1,704.18 Due in 1952 1,704.11 Due in 1953 1,655.25 Due in 1954 1,655.19 Due in 1955 1,655.05 Due in 1956 1,654.92 Due in 1957 1,538.17 Due in 1958 1,184.30 Due in 1959 865.33 $13,616.50 DEBT ACCOUNTS Surface Drainage Loan 1921 $ 1,000.00 Administration Building Loan 10,000.00 Highway Equipment Loan 1947 10,000.00 No. End Fire Station Loan 1950 70,000.00 Field House Loan 1950 59,000.00 Veterans' Housing Loan 255,000.00 $405,000.00 TRUST FUNDS Library Trust Funds: Solon Whitney Trust Fund 319.36 Asa Pratt Library Fund 12,121.61 Mary D. Meade Fund 3,055.87 Pierce Fund 1,063.27 Barry Fund 1,011.47 Michael Charles Fund 224.25 Wm. P. McGuire Fund 1,019.08 Templeton Charity Fund 3,695.14 Martha Sanger Fund 1,055.85 Post-War Rehabilitation Fund 55,459.67 Potter Memorial Gate Fund 500.00 Cemetery, Perpetual Care Fund 98,368.95 Veterans' Housing Fund 281,175.97 $459,070.49 Respectfully submitted, W. W. NORCROSS, Town Auditor 292 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WATER COMMISSIONERS The report of the Water Commissioners for the sixty-sixth year of municipal operation is as follows: During the year the principal items of street mains that were laid are: 27 feet of 2" cement lined pipe on North Park St. 200 feet of 6" cast iron pipe on Downey St. 27 feet of 8" cast iron cement lined pipe on Gleason St. 174 feet of 6" cast iron cement lined pipe on Gleason St. 192 feet of 6" cast iron cement lined pipe on Edenfield Ave. 73 feet of 6" cast iron cement lined pipe on Bradshaw St. 148 feet of 6" cast iron cement lined pipe on Carey Ave. 288 feet of 6" cast iron cement lined pipe on Falmouth Road 8 hydrants have been added, all gated. 4 hydrants were broken by automobile collision, all were replaced or repaired. All hydrants have been painted and inspected and repaired where necessary. 95 new connections and services have been laid. 2 new fire services have been installed. 163 house connections and services have been repaired 481 house services were cleaned from meter to main. The requests to have service pipes cleaned out so as to restore their full carrying capacity continue Ito be received in about the usual number each year. While we have tried to eliminate this trouble by using a cement lined pipe or copper tube services the trouble still continues and on cleaning it is mostly found that the inlet of the corporation cocks have been plugged by the corrosion on the inside of the distribution main. The only means to eliminate this source of trouble is to adopt some method of reducing the corrosive action of the water and thereby benefit the entire system, distribution mains and service pipes. We have therefore recommended an appropriation for the installation of a Calgon Feeder for this purpose. 145 house inspections have been made this year for leaks in plumbing fixtures. The number of meters repaired and exchanged on house connections were 1480. All meters were repaired, cleaned and tested before set. Approximately 200 emergency calls have been answered. These calls have all been after working hours, and repairs if necessary were made immediately so that the consumer would not be without water, also to prevent danger from sunken ditches which would be caused by leaking mains or services. 1802 feet of water mains were cleaned with gratifying results. 3 seas of Overhead doors were installed in place of the old hung sliding doors to the garage: a much needed improvement. With the co-operation of the Collector of Taxes the collection of water bills is proceeding with entire satisfaction. CHARLES ARMSTRONG, Chairinan LOUIS E. ALFIERI GUSTAF E. FRYE Board of Water Commissioners 293 REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT To the Board of Water Commissioners: Gentlemen: In accordance with the usual custom I herewith submit my report for the year ending December 31, 1950. The extension and renewals of mains for the past year has been as follows: Length Size Bradshaw Street 73 feet 6-inch Carey Avenue 148 feet 6-inch Downey Street 200 feet 6-inch Edenfield Avenue 192 feet 6-inch Falmouth Road 288 feet 6-inch Gleason Street 27 feet 8-inch Right of Way, from Elton Ave., 55 feet 2-inch North Park Street 27 feet 2-inch Total 1010 feet Total number of feet laid on construction, 1010 feet. Cleaning Cast Iron Water Mains on the Following streets: Length Size Chester Street 680 feet 6-inch Otis Street 591 feet 6-inch Phillips Street 796 feet 6-inoh Hillside Rd., Mt. Auburn St., to Maplewood St., 1105 feet 6-inch Grove St., Coolidge Hill Rd., to Coolidge Ave., 1236 feet 6-inch Coolidge Ave., Grove St., to 8-inch Main 970 feet 6-inch Waverley Ave., Summer St., to end of pipe 832 feet 6-inch Total number of feet cleaned 6210 feet Expenditures For Maintenance of Meters $10,945.91 For Maintenance of Mains 9,284.83 For Maintenance of Services 20,894.44 For Maintenance of Repair Shop 3,746.84 For Maintenance of Hydrants 4,566.84 For Maintenance of Automobile No. 1 797.90 For Maintenance of Automobile No. 2 410.52 For Maintenance of Automobile No. 3 420.15 For Maintenance of Automobile No. 4 668.42 For Ma.intenance of Automobile No. 5 699.55 For Maintenance of Automobile No. 6 1,099.28 For Maintenance of Automobile No. 7 $ 475.10 For Maintenance of Automobile No. 8 331.62 $ 54,341.40 For Vacation 1,768.00 Salary of Superintendent 4,950.00 294 Salary of Asst. Superintendent 3,840.00 Salary of Registrar 3,500A0 Salary of Principal Clerk 2,520.00 Salary of Senior Clerk & Typist 2,160.00 Salary of Meter Readers 8,640.00 Salary of Service Foreman 3,840.00 Maintenance of Office 2,460.60 New House Services 2,991.70 Emergency Overtime 2,209.98 Water Liens— 32.09 Renewal of Services 3,342.31 Out-of-State Travel 100.00 Cleaning Water Mains 1,192.59 Construction and Reconstruction 6,603.23 New Dump Body and Truck 2,574.00 Overhead Doors for Garage 962.31 New 5/8" Meters 1,754.61 $ 55,441.42 Total Receipts $112,518.07 Expenditures 109,782.82 Balance $ 2,735.25 In conclusion I would say that the Works are in thoroughly good condition and will bear the closest inspection. Three water samples are taken each month from different sections of the Town and sent to the State Chemist at Lawrence for analysis. Thanking the Board for their many courtesies extended and priv- ileges allowed, and also thanking each employee of the Water Depart- ment for the faithful performance of their duties, this report is Respectfully submitted, MICHAEL B. OATES, Superintendent. Statistics of Consumption of Water 1. Estimated total population to date, 37,339. 2. Total consumption for the year, 1,129,239,000 gallons. 3. Average daily consumption, 3,093,800 gallons. 4. Gallons per day to each inhabitant, 78. Statistics to Distribution System MAINS 1. Kind of pipe, cement-lined, cast-iron and transite. 2. Sizes, 16-inch to 2-inch. 3. Extended, 1129 feet during the year. 4. Total now in use, 76.90 miles. 5. Number of hydrants added during the year, 8. 6. Number of hydrants now in use, 851. 7. Number or stop gates added during the year, 24. 8. Number of stop gates now in use, 1526. 9. Range of pressure on mains, 115 pounds to 30 pounds. 295 SERVICES 10. Kind of pipe, wrought-iron, cement-lined, cast-iron, copper tubing. 11. Sizes, %-inch to 12-inch. 12. Extended, 4898 feet. 13. Total now in use, 22,760,053 miles. 14. Number of service taps added during the year, 97. 15. Services repaired, 163. 16. Percentage of services metered, 100. ANNUAL REPORT OF INSPECPOR OF ANIMALS January 2, 1951 Subject: Annual Report of Inspector of Animals To: Board of Selectmen 1. A total of 120 animals were examined and quarantined, which had bitten persons in Watertown, during the periods of January 1, through December 31, 1950 2. It was necessary to remove the head of one animal and deliver it to the Wasserman Laboratory in Jamaica Plain to be examined. It was found to be free from rabies. 3. There were no cases of rabies in Watertown in 1950. 4. The Inspector of Animals wishes to express his appreciation to the Board of Health and the Police Department for their excellent cooperation. Respectfully submitted, JOHN J. MiJRPHY, JR., D.V.M. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOG OFFICER December 31, 1950 To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Gentlemen: Report of the Dog Officer for the year 1950 is respectfully submitted: Dogs licensed 1182 Stray dogs impounded-6 days 136 Quarantined for 14 days 25 Dogs sold 0 Dogs destroyed 710 Returned to owners 68 I wish to express my appreciation for the co-operation of the various departments which were very helpful throughout the year. Respectfully submitted, GUY P. CLARK, Dog Officer. 296 REPORT OF THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Gentlemen: I hereby submit the Annual Report of the Purchasing Department for the year ending December 31, 1950. According to a ruling issued in 1949, by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, whereby the purchases for the School Department should be made by this Department, a. satisfactory arrangement has been made and all items purchased by the School Department are now handled by this Department. Because the ruling was not issued for the 1949 business the plan was not started until this year. Funds were appropriated for the purchase of a Duplicating Machine which has been installed and is now being utilized by all Departments. The Revolving Fund has proven itself worthwhile in that many items previously stocked and now on hand have taken a real price increase. The purchasing situation will be hampered somewhat this year, due to the increasing shortages of essential materials and prices will be steadily on the up trend. I wish to express my appreciation to the Honorable Board of Select- men and the Heads of all the Town Departments for their cooperation. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM F. OATES, Purchasing Agent. REPORT OF THE TOWN COUNSEL Board of Selectmen Administration Building Watertown 72, Massachusetts Gentlemen: As provided in the By-Laws of Inhabitants of Watertown, I submit the following report of the Town Counsel for 1950. I was re-appointed to the office of Town Counsel by vote of your Board on March 15, 1950, and have handled all legal matters involving Inhabitants of Watertown for the entire calendar year of 1950. The four pending cases that had been referred to outside attorneys in 1949, namely, various disputes of Mount Auburn Cemetery, owner- ship of certain land near Ladd Place, a taking for street lines on Lexington Street near the Livoli project and the ownership of a small triangular parcel of land near Acton and Oakland Streets in Water- town, nave all been disposed of during the year 1950, and at present there are no matters pending where outside counsel is involved. 297 Excluding the above cases I started the year with forty-nine (49) cases pending, thirty-eight (38) of these have now been settled leaving eleven (11) cases pending, ten (10) of which are before various courts or tribunals of the Commonwealth. Of these two (2) are pending before the Appellate Tax Board and eight (8) are pending in Superior Court, one (1) is not in suit. In addition to the above matters sixty-one (61) new cases were created during the year of which thirty-three (33) have been completed and twenty-eight (28) are now pending. Of these twelve (12) are pending before the Appellate Tax Board, three (3) are pending in the Superior Court. Thirteen (13) matters are not in suit. Tax Abatements I again wish to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Board of Assessors for their fine cooperation in various tax matters which resulted in settlement of all cases before the Courts during the year. Legal Opinions During the year I have written 43 legal opinions concerning matters which were referred to me by various boards and departments of the Town. A copy of each opinion is on file at the Office of the Town Clerk as required by the By-Laws of Inhabitants of.Watertown. Conclusion I wish to express to all members of your Board my sincere appre- ciation for their confidence in re-appointing me to the office of Town Counsel and for your cooperatin in every respect. May I also express through your Board my appreciation and thanks for the splendid co-operation I have received from all officials and departmental employees with whom I have been associated. Yours respectfully, EARLE S. TYLER, Town Counsel REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Gentlemen: In compliance with the By-Laws of the Town I herewith submit the annual report of the Fire Department for the year ending December 31, 1950 together with an estimate of what in my opinion is necessary for the Fire Department's budget requirements, also recommendations which from my experience and judgement are required for the efficient operation of the Fire Department. The membership of the Fire Department at the close of the year ending December 31, 1950 was as follows: One (1) permanent Chief; four (4) permanent Captains; five (5) permanent Lieutenants; one (1) permanent Mechanician and fifty five (55) permanent privates. 298 The total number of alarms for the year was 790, an all time record and an increase of 85 over the previous year, which incidentally was a record breaking year for alarms. In addition the Fire Department assisted the Police Department responding to 127 calls with the Police Ambulance. Fire alarms were as follows: 171 bell alarms.; 619 still alarms. There were 48 false alarms, an increase of 12 false alarms over the previous year. Insurance Values Losses Insurance Paid Buildings $640,150.00 $31,960.35 $515,200.00 $31,960.35 Contents 202,100.00 17,124.78 143,150.00 15,724.78 $842,250.00 $49,085.13 $658,350.00 $47,685.13 Although as noted above 1950 broke all records as to the number of fire alarms our fire losses decreased from $137,126.47 in 1949 to $49,085.13 in 1950, a decrease of $88,041.34. Recommendations The saving of life and the protection of property is, has and shall be a. most important function of a municipality, however the funda- mental framework of a strong fire Department, namely manpower, has not kept pace with the growth of our town although I have re- peatedly recommended the appointment of additional firemen. I feel that repetition is necessary in making a comparison of man- power in the Fire Department over a 20 year period, together with other comparative figures which are closely related. In referring to manpower it is meant Men on Duty. In 1929 the Fire Department personnel consisted of twenty three (23) men on duty. In 1950 the Fire Department personnel consisted of twenty six (26) men on duty, an increase of only three (3) men on duty over a twenty year period. The population growth in Watertown in- creased from 31.000 in 1929 to 38,500 in 1950, an increase of over 7,000 while our valuation increased from $51,600,000. in 1929 to $63,498,635. in 1950, an increase of over $11,000,000. Fire alarms increased from 388 in 1929 to 790 in 1950, an increase of 402 alarms. From these figures it is obvious that from comparison the Fire Department has fallen far behind our town's growth. The action of the town in appropriating funds for a fire station in North Watertown, which is under construction, will if properly equipped and manually staffed alleviate to a degree the deficency in manpower which now exists. The members of the Fire Department are requesting that a shorter work week be adopted, namely from the so-calld 70 hours a week to 56 hours a week, this would include all members of the department excepting the chief who still is on duty, figuratively speaking, 24 hours a day. If the shorter work week for Firemen is adopted, which inci- dentally I approve, it will necessitate the appointment of 13 additional men to compensate for the difference between 56 hours and 67.2 hours, namely a loss of 11.2 hours for each man. The North Watertown Fire Station will require the appointment of 13 men which under the contemplated 56 hour week for Firemen will give four men on duty on a 24 hour around the clock basis; this number is a minimum that it is required to operate a triple combination pump which it is expected will be housed at this station. It is therefore obvious that if the 56 hour work week for Firemen is adopted it will require the appointment of 13 men to maintain the 299 present quota of men on duty and 13 men for the North Watertown Station making a total of 26 men to be appointed. I recommend the appointment of twenty six men from the Civil Service list, 13 as of April 30, 1951 and 13 as of Oct. 1, 1951. Radios Radio has become a definite part of Fire Department equipment and has shown beyond doubt to be of great value. It has proven by actual experience to be a vital factor in Fire Department efficiency. Two Fire Department vehicles are now equipped with a two way Radio, namely the Chief's car and the Rescue wagon. It is my intention to install radios in all pumps and ladder trucks, one this year and two next year and the years following until said radio equipment is com- plete in all first line vehicles. The first consideration of the Fire Department relative to Fire Departmen radio is for the improvement of the fire service, however the fire department radio lends itself and is adaptable for numerous other emergency services, a fact that has been definitely established and a distinct advantage to the community. I recommend that $550. be appropriated to purchase and install a two way radio in Engine #1. Fire Prevention Fire Prevention has proven to be a powerful influence and of great value in keeping fire losses at a minimum. Inspections have disclosed numerous hazards in the storage, use and transportation of explosive and flammable solids and liquids. In every instance where dangerous and hazardous conditions were found the condition was remedied or removed. Examples of a diversified nature might be multiplied to show the tremendous scope of fire prevention, particularly as it applies to inspec- tions and the results accomplished, however to summarize, fire inspec- tions must be made to prevent fires and to protect lives of occupants and property. Fire prevention campaigns have been conducted during the past year with good results. The schools, newspapers and various organi- zations have cooperated in this endeavor and I feel sure that such cam- paigns are valuable adjuncts in preventing fires. Inspections for permits and licenses for the year 1950 have broken all records. Inspections for fuel oil permits (new installations) alone amounted to over 1,800. The overall number of fuel oil installations in Watertown recorded at Fire Headquarters is over 10,000 which indicates the potential which confronts this department in the enforcement of regulations and laws plus periodic and special inspections which are required. Daily inspection plus rigid enforcement of rules, regulations and ordinances has been a factor in Watertown's success in lower fire losses. New Fire Station The Fire Station Committee has held numerous meetings relative to constructing a fire station in North Watertown with the result that Mr. Frank Burke of Watertown was retained as architect to draw plans and specifications for said station. In accordance with the Town By-Laws bids were sought and subsequently publicly opened. The bids were as follows: 300 The Louis Proia Construction Co. $87,021; The William H. Porter Co. $94,476; Bagley-Mucci, Inc. $96,365; D. C. Loveys Co. $96,985; B. L. W. Construction Co. $99,824; Scaldini Inc. $103,044; James Sheppard $114,131. In order to keep within the appropriation allocated for constructing a fire station the committee decided to temporarily cancel certain items, namely grading and the erection of a chain link fence which brought Proia Construction Co. bid to $81,876. which was within the appropriation. Proia Construction Co. was awarded the contract and is at present engaged in constructing the North Watertown Fire Station. In order to complete all the work necessary for occupancy and use of fire station, the Fire Station committee is substituting an article in the town warrant. In Memoriam—Frank J. McManus Frank J. McManus was appointed a regular member of the Fire Department April 22, 1920 and was assigned as department Mechanician from 1923 to 1928. After a prolonged illness he was retired on pension Feb. 21, 1949 and died at his home Sept. 11, 1950. The Town of Water- town and the Fire Department extend their sympathy to the family of Frank McManus who served the town faithfully for a period of 29 years. Conclusion In behalf of the Fire Department I take this opportunity to thank the members of the Honorable Board of Selectmen for their cooperation and assistance. I wish also to publicly extend my thanks to the heads and members of the various municipal departments for their cooperation with the Fire Department. I extend my thanks to those departments serving Watertown through mutual aid, namely Newton, Belmont, Cambridge and Waltham Fire Departments. To the members of the Fire Department I take this opportunity to commend you for the faithful service you have rendered. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM C. McELROY, Chief Fire Department. REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT Watertown, Mass. 31 December 1950 The Honorable Board of Selectmen Administration Building Watertown 72, Massachusetts Gentlemen: The Annual Report of the Police Department for the year ending 31 December 1950, together with recommendations for the ensuing year, is submitted herewith in compliance with the By-Laws of the Town. 301 Arrests The ARRESTS for 1950 were: Total Number .. . . . . . .. . . . 1,363' Males .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . .. . 1,288 Females . . . .. . . . . . .... . ... . . 75 Foreign Born . . . . . . ... . . ... .. 83 "Includes Traffic Violations as covered in report of Traffic Department. 808 trips were made by the Inspectors in their conduct of investi- gations, general police work, and court cases. Breakdown of these trips is listed below: Waltham District Court 395 Somerville Police Dept 12 Middlesex Superior Court 48 Belmont Police Dept 9 East Cambridge Jail 90 Medford Police Dept 5 Met State Hospital 59 Brookline Police Dept 9 Mt. Auburn Hospital 16 Lexington Police Dept 6 Charles Street Jail 2 Arlington Police Dept 9 Lyman School 6 Cambridge Police Dept 20 Lancaster School 3 Newton Police Dept 26 Westboro State Hospital 1 Boston Police Dept 79 Everett Police Dept. 4 Watham Police Pept 9 Juvenile Department One hundred and ninety-three (193) complaints concerning juveniles were registered with the Crime Prevention Bureau during the year ending 31 December 1950. The complaints included various types of offenses. Of the one hundred ninety-three (193) complaints, court action was taken in only twenty-six (26) cases. License Bureau The license department made a total of 19,971 investigations of various types. On 10 January 1950, Department Special Order Number 1-50, as- signed Captain Edward A. Murray and Officer Francis J. McCarthy the responsibility of suppressing gambling activities within the town. This assignment was in addition to their regular duties in the License Bureau. Licenses and Permits Issued By Chief 25 Hackney Carriage Licenses . . . . .. .. . . . . . .. ..... . . . . . . . . . . $ 25.00 26 Hackney Stand Licenses ... . . . . . .. ....... . .. . ... 78.00 125 Hackney Driver Licenses . ... ....... . . . .. ............ . . .. 250.00 9 Permits to Purchase Firearms . . .. ......... . ... . . . .. 18.00 146 Permits to Carry Pistol or Revolver. . ........ .. .. . . . ... 73.00 228 Bicycle Registrations . .. . .... .. .. .... . . ....... . . . . . . ... 57.00 559 TOTALS: $501.00 Valuation of Property Stolen and Recovered-1950 Value of Property Reported Stolen . . .......... . . . . . ... ..... $37,428.55 Value of Stolen Property Recovered . . . ....... $23,451.26 Value of Property Recovered for Other Departments .. .. .... $17,320.00 302 Work of Signal System Day On-Duty Calls . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . .. . . . . . . ...... . . . . . . 26,077 Night On-Duty Calls . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. . ..... .. . ... .. . . .. . 30,137 Radio Calls .... .... ... . . . . . . . . . . ............ .. . . . 7,447 TOTAL Calls answered for Miscellaneous Complaints, etc: 13,291 TOTAL Investigations made by Inspectors Department: 394 TOTAL Investigations made by Juvenile Department: 193 TOTAL Investigations made by License Bureau: 971 TOTAL CASES INVESTIGATED: 14,849 Traffic Department Cases Prosecuted in Court During the year ending 31 December 1950, a total of eight hundred and thirty-four (834) violations of the traffic laws were prosecuted in the Second District Court of Eastern Middlesex at Waltham. Parking Violations: A total of 2,616 motor vehicles were tagged for violations of the Parking Rules and Regulations of the Town of Water- town. There were 1,947 summonses issued to these persons providing for non-criminal disposition of Parking Violations. Warnings. In addition to the violators prosecuted in court, there was a total of six hundred and twenty-six (626) other violators who were stopped and booked. Upon the recommendation of the officer who booked them, or after careful consideration by me, these violators were given warnings. Cards have been filed on these violators for future reference. Accidents. During the year ending 31 December 1950, four hunderd and ninety (490) accidents were reported to this department. In many of these accidents the damage was negligible, but a report was submitted in compliance with Article VIII, Section I, of the Traffic Rules and Orders of the Town of Watertown. A breakdown of these accidents by classification is as follows: Auto vs Auto . . . ... .. . . . . . . . .. . . . 306 Auto vs Pedestrian . . . ........ . . 69 Auto vs Fixed Object .. ...... .. . . 41 Auto vs Parked Car .. ........ . . 45 Auto vs Street Car ... . . ...... . . . 18 Auto vs Bicycle .. .. . . . . ... ... . . 10 Auto vs Railroad train . ... ...... 1 TOTAL: 490 One hundred and eighty-five of these accidents resulted in personal injury and three hundred and ninety-three involved property damage. Fatal Accidents. There were two (2) fatal accidents in Watertown during 1950, as compared with three (3) fatal accidents the preceding year. In each instance the victim of the accident was a pedestrian. In each case the operator of the motor vehicle involved appeared before the court on a charge of "Manslaughter" and "Operating to Endanger the lives and safety of the public". The courts found "No Probable Cause" on the complaints charging "Manslaughter" and on the com- plaints charging "Operating to Endanger" each defendant was found "Guilty" and ordered to pay a fine of $100,00. 303 Traffic Signs. A survey of all the traffic signs throughout the town was made by this department and in every case where signs were found to be in poor condition they were replaced either by new signs or signs that had been repaired or repainted. New traffic signs were installed in all locations designated in the amendments to the Town By-Laws were made during the year. Reduced Insurance Rates Because of the excellent traffic record attained by Watertown, the automobile insurance rate for 1951 has been reduced twenty cents. This is a particularly noteworthy achievement in view of the fact that the insurance rate in practically every other city or town was increased. Training During the closing weeks of 1950, a Red Cross First Aid Class was conducted for all members of the department. Members of the.depart- ment attended these classes two hours each week on their own time. At the present time, members of the department have completed four weeks of a prescribed nine-weeks course. The course is being taught by Sergeants Joseph Harrington and Herbert MacDonald who were grad- uated from the Red Cross Instructor's Course in September, 1950. Regular practice in the use of firearms was accomplished by all regular members of the department on the police firing range. Personnel On 29 April 1950, Patrolman William H. Fairbanks was shot and critically wounded when he surprised the holdup men in the course of an armed robbery at Dunn's Drug Store, 279 Mt Auburn Street, Town. Patrolman Fairbanks was confined to the hospital for several weeks as a result of this shooting and was incapacitated for duty for the balance of the year. It is expected that he will return to duty on or about 2 January 1951. On 1 June 1950, Harold J. Bloomer, Jr. Custodian at the Adminis- tration Building, transferred to the police department to fill an existing vacancy. On 15 June 1950, Miss Mary E. McDonald was appointed a temporary Junior Clerk-Typist with this department. Miss McDonald terminated her appointment on 23 September 1950. During the year 738 days were lost because of sickness and/or injuries. Members of the department worked many hours overtime, without pay or other compensation. In general the conduct of the personnel and the spirit of cooperation was excellent. There were many commendable acts and deeds performed by the personnel of this department during the year. The space allotted for the printing of this report does not permit of our going into detail; however, the "Record of Arrests" and Miscellaneous Services Ren- dered, etc.", as well as other facts and figures appearing in the foregoing pages give brief evidence of the excllent work accomplished. Respectfully submitted, JAMES M. IGOE Chief of Police. 304 I EPOR"I' OF THE WELFARE DEPARTMENT January 11, 1951 Honorable Board of Selectmen Administration Building Watertown 72, Massachusetts Gentlemen: During my thirteen years of employment in the Welfare Department, both as Supervisor of Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children and as Agent of all Categories for the various Boards of Public Welfare, much discussion and controversy has taken place in Board and Finance Committee meetings relative to the total Public Assistance program. It has been my good fortune to have been in the midst of the majority of these, for from it all had to come knowledge and experience. Although since the year 1692 it has been incumbent upon every Community in Massachusetts to establish a public assistance program to relieve and support all indigent and unfortunate persons found within its confines, Watertown had its first opportunity only in 1938, two hun- dred and forty-six years later, to have its first permanent staff—made possible by the adoption of the Civil Service Act. Permanency has provided the Department with an opportunity to establish continuity with regard to statistics, develop policies and procedures, promote staff development and co-ordination, and through study and experience develop a know- ledge of all the sciences having to do with human engineering, thus producing a smoother, more sensitive machine to serve the Community as a whole both economically and socially. Perhaps one of the most sensitive areas with regard to the program has been personnel and equipment. I have maintained for a number of years that it is properly trained and organized personnel, equipment and hard work that will conserve public assistance funds. Slowly, and rightly so, the Town, over a period ,of five years, gradually expanded both our equipment and personnel; with this has come, I believe, a consis- tent improvement in all phases of our work. This has been gratifying to me as the Agent and I wish to say now that I am humbly pleased with the considerations given me. I think that all statistics from a Federal, State and Local level will reveal that the Agency, economically, has had the most successful year since its establishment, yet we have been able to maintain the same quality of service to the client that the Agency has been noted for. Unquestionably the appointment of our additional personnel is predom- inantly responsible for this. Although they yet lack the experience and knowledge of finished Public Assistance Social Workers their accom- plishments have been outstanding through personal endeavor. Our equipment at this time is sufficient in quantity but as a result of a study made by a leading typewriter manufacturer on all Town machines all those in the Welfare Department were placed in class "C" which means that they should be replaced. Three of our typewriters are twenty or more years old. Looking to the future regarding shortages and price changes it might be well to replace these three and hope the others continue to give fair service. With regard -to personnel you will note that I have requested a new clerk and social worker. The extra social worker, of course, we 305 talked about during the Fall months but the Board finally decided to appoint only one at that time. I would appreciate the appointment of this additional social worker to bring the social work staff up to the minimum recommendations of the State Department of Public Welfare. The new clerk would act as a utility clerk maintaining, recording and filing the multitudinous things that are forever existent in such a Department as ours. Inasmuch as the State Department recommends eleven clerks for our fiscal division I do not think this request, which would only bring our staff to a total of seven, is unreasonable. It is only reasonable to assume that when we are in search of truth. supporting evidence and the like, we unvariably refer to the experts in that particular field, or the highest judicial order for a discussion or opinion. To further substantiate the above, aside from the recommendation of the State Department of Public Welfare, may I refer to Street's edition on Public Welfare in which he writes that the least a Public Welfare Department should spend for administration is 10% of the total appropriation for assistance and that the well organized one should spend 15% of said appropriation. The total costs of administration for 1951 as it appears in the budget will not exceed 6% and when we consider that the Federal Government pays up to 40% of these adminstratice costs, it seems that we should take advantage of it to the point of adequacy. I hope that the following report will be sufficient to acquaint the Board with the activities of the Department in 1950 and our expec- tations for the year 1951. It is my desire at this time to extend to the various Departments of the Town Government my appreciation for the courtesy and services rendered to the Welfare Department and to the Board for their keen interest for the past year. Respectfully yours, JOSEPH F. MURRAY Agent In Conformance with Chapter 3, Section 2 of the Town By-Laws, kindly accept herewith my annual report for the year ending December 31, 1950. The Department expended a total of $667,335.33 for the year on Public Assistance. The Town will receive by way of reimbursement from the Commonwealth, other Cities and Towns and grants from the Federal Government monies in the amount of $469,072.11. These re- imbursements and grants will reduce the cost to the Town to only $198,263.22 or less than 30% of the total annual expenditure. A further breakdown of our statistics prove that 1134 cases or 1728 persons were aided and that the cost per day, per person to our Community was only .314 or .067 per person per day lei than in 1949. This figure includes all costs to the individual or family group such as food, board and room, rent or carrying charges, fuel and light, household supplies and replace- ments, clothing, personal needs, church contributions, insurance, medical care, medicine, nursing, dentistry, hospitalization, nursing and convalescent home care, eyeglasses, Leisure Time Activity allowance or Old Age Assistance, and other special needs compatible with health 306 and well being. Considering the extent to which living cost of every sort has soared, I think we have done well to reduce rather than increase per capita costs. A statistical report of each category for the year 1950 follows showing the individual financial breakdown of each assistance plan for that year. Statistics secured from the Commonwealth, Bureau of Accounts, .how that our town is still, over a five year period, operating approx- imately 30% lower in case load than all Cities and Towns in the Com- monwealth in the population brackets of 25 to 60,000 people, as may be discerned on page eight. At this time our administrative grant for salaries, supplies and other expenses from the Federal Government to the Town of Watertown is just under 40% of our total administrative costs. This percentage may continue during 1951. A study of my report for the year ending 1949 showed a sharp rise in case load and expenditures on all three categories. Old Age Assistance increased .22 in cash expenditure, Aid to Dependent Children .277 and General Relief .24. Despite this upsurge I recommend for the year 1950 a drastic reduc- tion in my appropriations as they affected case load increase and case costs. The Finance Committee, as you recall, was somewhat reticent to pass on such a reduction but did agree to make the test. The result was gratifying, for the Department not only stayed within the reduced figure on Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children but had surplus in each category in the amount of $36,783.41 and $3,112.59 res- pectively. We did exceed our appropriation on General Relief by $11,000.00 but $3,639.17 of this amount was the result of five suits having been settled or tried in court with the City of Boston which we have been carrying on our books for years but not including in our appro- priations. When we consider these figures we find that we actually ex- ceeded our General Relief appropriation by .08 said amount having been transferred from Old Age Assistance surplus. Old Age Assistance The Bureau of Old Age Assistance expended for the year 1950 $439,152.76. The number of cases or individuals aided during the calendar year were 672 with a case increase of .114 over 1949, and a cash increase of just under .125. The Town will receive a total reimbursement from the Common- wealth of approximately $181,021.06, grants from the Federal Government of $179.767.95 and $5,500.00 from other communities, leaving the net cost to the Town to be $72,863.75. At our Fall Town Meeting $36,783.41 was returned to Treasurer's receipts. Our Federal balance is $91.9a. It may be assumed that it will cost $484,512.00 to administer the Bureau for the year 1951. Our Federal participation should amount to about $216,182.00. Our State reimbursement should be $184,280.00. The net cost to the Town for Old Age Assistance should be in the vicinity of $84,050.00 plus $7,500.00 for other Cities and Towns. I, thereby, re- commend that $275,700.00 be appropriated for this Category in 1951 which is $14,300.00 less than 1950. 307 Aid to Dependent Children The total administration for Aid to Dependent Children for 1950 cost $120,309.56. The total cost to the Community was $40,246.47. The Federal Grant in aid was $39,699.50, the reimbursement from the Com- monwealth was $40,363.59. These two amounts added together and deducted from the total expenditure represents the aforementioned Town cost. Our Town balance to be returned to Treasurer's receipts on this category is $3,112.59. I expect that we will expend on this Category $125,000.00 for 1951, our Federal Grant should be approximately $40,000.00, our State reim- bursement in the vicinity of $39,500.00 thereby leaving an actual ex- penditure of Town money in the amount of $45,500.00. At the present time we have available $15,920.00 in Federal Funds to be applied against this year's appropriation which will reduce said appropriation to $65,000.00. You may recall our many discussions, during the war years, about the reactions our economic situation has had on this Category and General Relief, particularly, as economic trends affect causes for incarcera- tion, commitments to Mental Institutions, divorce, legal separation, desertion and illegitimate pregnancies where the putative father can- not be arraigned for one reason or another. During the last seven years when our national employment and income peak was at the highest point in the history of the Country, the Aid to Dependent Children case load, due to the causations of the usual aggravations being removed, reduced itself to a very satisfactory level. The conclusion of the war, however, with the gradual curtailment of peak employment and income inflaming the above mentioned causes of child dependency produced a slight but more steady influx than we have had from the time of the expansion of the law in 1938 to its highest gradual peak in 1941 which was 111 cases. In 1950 I thought that it was reasonable to assume that the case load of this Category would gradually return to at least our 1941 peak. Inasmuch as there is no actual evidence available to prove when or by what degree this Category will increase, I feel that except for budgetary cost increases we should maintain our appropriations to a point of almost status quo. I feel that the strongest influx has been ex- perienced this year and am maintaining for 1951 approximately the same level as last year. Provided there are no changes in legislation which would cause a substantial financial increase in expenditures the requested appropriation mentioned above should be sufficient for the year 1951. General Relief The total cost of rendering General Relief for the year 1950 was $107,634.09 an increase of 33% over 1949. Our appropriation was $107,- 750.00 showing an unused balance of $115.91. Although $107,634.09 was the actual expenditure for this Category, Watertown will receive back from the Commonwealth and other Cities and Towns approximately $22,720.01 which amount deducted from the total expenditure leaves a balance of about $84,914.08 as the Town's expense. This form of assistance is plagued by all of the same basic causes of eligibility for Aid to Dependent Children plus any and all other conditions that make for indigency, such as the ever increasing aged 308 and incapacitated persons and wage earners not eligible for Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children, unemployed single persons, emergency hospitalization and medical care, individuals and bread- winners returned from incarceration and other institutionalization, un- employment in all of its phases and the like. This Category can increase gradually or suddenly because of its very nature and purpose. The same rationalizing has been employed in computing the appropriation for this Category as for Aid to Dependent Children and is being followed again this year. I trust that the amount requested will be sufficient, therefore, I recommend that $102,500.00 be appropriated for this program for 1951. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS January 23, 1951 Honorable Board of Selectmen Administration Building Watertown, Massachusetts Gentlemen: In compliance with the By-Laws of the Town of Watertown, the Board of Zoning Appeals submits herewith its annual report for the year ending December 31, 1950. During the year 1950, the Board of Zoning Appeals heard and ren- dered descisions upon thirty-seven cases. One of the petitions presented to the Board requesting a variance from the terms and conditions of the Zoning By-Law so as to permit the construction of a third floor apart- ment, was denied by the Board and was subsequently taken by the petitioner before the State Board, which after hearing the matter, rendered a descision in favor of the petitioner's request. This was the only appeal taken from the descisions of the Board of Zoning Appeals during the year 1950. On June 14, 1950, Chapter 561 Acts of 1945 expired and for a short period thereafter, the Board of Zoning Appeals was not empowered under the law to grant variances for the construction of third floor apartments. However, the Board of Selectmen on July 24, 1950, voted to accept Chapter 592 of the Acts of 1946 as amended by Chapters 427, 568 and 609 of the Acts of 1947 and Chapter 567 of the Acts of 1948, and thereafter, several additional cases were heard in connection with re- quests for permission to construct third floor apartments. During the year, the Board was deprived of the services of Edward A. Oates due to illness. However, other regular members and alternates have been most cooperative and at many meetings of the Board, in addition to the regular members, both alternates have been present as well. It is fair to say that the Board of Zoning Appeals has given its careful consideration to each and every petition brought before it and has endeavored to protect the interests of all persons concerned and to fairly and equitably render its descisions. 309 The appropriation for the year 1950 was $700.00 which was expended in the following manner: Printing of Petitions . .. .. . .. $ 24.01 Printing Envelopes .. .. . . . . .. 8.82 Advertising . ... ... ... . . . . .. . . 117.50 Supplies .. . . . . .... . .... . . . .. 2.50 Preparation of Descisions . ... 277.50 Clerical help . . ... . ... . . . . . .. 150.00 TOTAL . . . . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . $580.33 $580.33 Leaving an unexpended balance of ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . $119.67 Respectfully submited, MARTIN V.TOMASSIAN, Chairman RONALD M. STONE, Clerk EDWARD A. OATES JOHN B. REGAN, Alternate Member J. MALCOLM WHITNEY, Alternate Member 310 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF THE TOWN OF WATERTOWN FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1950 Organization of the Health Department Board of Health THOMAS W. DEVANEY, Chairman LOUIS MASTRANGELO, M.D., Secretary JOSEPH M. HUGHES Hcaltli. Officer JOHN A. COLBERT Inspector of Plumbing and Sanitation EDWARD L. MAURER Superintendent of Cemeteries GEORGE F. MARTIN Physicians Under the Health Department EDWARD J. KELLEY, M.D. Health Inspector PAUL F. MURRAY School Dentists MAX ZELERMYER, D.M.D. PHILIP D. FANTASIA, D.D.S. Principal Clerk ALICE H. FARNHAM Junior Clerk MARIE V. TOMASELLI Public Health Nurses IRENE K. DRUMMEY, R.N. RITA L. VAHEY, R.N. Dental Hygienist JANET D. LITTLE 311 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH To the Citizens of Watertown: The Board of Health submits the following report for the year 1950: The Board organized as follows: Thomas V. Devaney, Chairman Louis Mastrangelo, M.D., Secretary Joseph M. Hughes. The year 1950 showed a marked increase in the number of reported cases of contagious disease over the year 1949, but in spite of this increase •the Board is pleased to report a decline in the number of Tuberculosis cases reported, there were 16 cases in 1950 as against 21 cases in the year 1949. The remainder of the increased reports were mainly of the various childhood diseases. The Board is pleased to report the completion of the utility building at Ridgelawn Cemetery, and the addition of a new truck for cemetery use. The new building will provide adequate housing for cemetery equipment, and essential office space and also convenience facilities for both sexes using the cemetery. This building was con- structed at no expense to the tax-payers, as funds from the Sale of Lots Fund were sufficient to completely pay for this improvement. The immediate cemetery problem will be the engineering and layout of new land extending beyond the present cemetery bounds westerly to the Waltham line, and the Board will prepare estimates for this purpose for submission to a Town Meeting in the near future. The addition of a Junior Clerk and a Health Inspector has greatly relieved the previous load upon the staff, and the Board wishes to thank all members of the Department, and the Doctors and Nurses of the area, and also the Town, County, and State Officials who have assisted the Board of Health during the past year. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS W. DEVANEY, Chairman LOUIS MASTRANGELO, M.D., Secretary JOSEPH M. HUGHES. REPORT OF THE HEALTH OFFICER To the Board of Health of Watertown: Gentlemen: I herewith submit the following report for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1950: Financial Report Appropriations: General Administration $24,030.00 Contagious Diseases 20,700.00 Dental Clinic 24.00 Mosquito Control 200.00 $49,250.00 312 Expenditures: General Administration $23,812.59 Contagious Diseases 20,645.90 Dental Clinic 4,240.50 Mosquito Control 200.00 $48,898.99 Unexpended (Returned to Treasurer) 351.01 $49,250.00 Reimbursements during 1950, exclusive of Cemetery: Licenses and Permits $1,175.00 Dental Clinic 24.00 Reimbursements 7,571.29 8,770.29 Net Cost to Town $40,128.70 Net Cost per Capita 1.075 Summary of Vital Statistics Population, (actual, census of 1950) 37,339 Reported Births 775. Reported Births per 1,000 population 20.75 Corrected Death Rate Note: The corrected death rate is found by eliminating the deaths by all non-residents dying in Watertown, and adding the deaths of Watertown residents dying outside the Town as shown by the records of the Town Clerk. Deaths of residents occurring in Watertown 164 Deaths of residents occurring out of Watertown 167 Total Deaths of Residents 331 Deaths of non-residents in Watertown 17 Watertown Death rate per 1,000 of population 8.86 Communicable Disease The year 1950 showed a sharp increase in the number of reported cases of contagious disease, and the table following will clearly show the nature and time of the incidence of these diseases. It is noted that Watertown had 20 cases of Anterior Poliomyelitis during 1949 but very fortunately had but one (1) case of this disease during 1950. There were two cases of dptheria during 1949 but Watertown was free of this disease during the year 1950. The extensive preventive measures of this Department and of the Physicians and Hospitals of this area has produced splendid results. During 1950, the Health Department conducted very well attended clinics for the innoculation of over 2800 children with Toxoid for the prevention of Diptheria. These clinics were conducted in each of the Grammar Schools of the Town, eight of the Public School System, and in both Parochial Schools. About 400 of the above 2800 received three doses of Toxoid as their first immunization, and the remainder were given Booster Doses to maintain the immunity that they had previously enjoyed. 313 The increase in communicable disease during 1950 can be attributed to the increase in the number of childhood diseases reported as follows: 1949 1950 Measles 32 264 Mumps 79 177 Scarlet Fever 46 165 Whooping Cough 21 114 During 1950, there was one case of Typhoid Fever in Watertown, and this occurred apparently from a leak in a sewer manhole near the Waltham line, that permitted sewage to enter a drainage culvert running through the Gore Estate. Tests have been made since the incidence, and the manhole having been repaired, no further difficulty is expected from this source. Jan.Feb.Mar.Apr.May June July Aug.Sep. Oct.Nov. Dec. Tot. Anterior Poliomyelitis 1 1 Chicken Pox 20 32 60 37 28 9 1 3 4 4 198 German Measles 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 11 Lobar Pneumonia 1 1 Measles 3 9 25 53 148 22 2 1 1 264 Meningitis—Other Forms 2 2 Mumps 7 5 13 5 6 2 24 61 54 177 Scarlet Fever 3 6 13 33 38 33 4 4 1 10 12 8 165 Trichinosis 1 1 Tuberculosis: Pulmonary 1 4 3 1 2 1 1 1 14 Other Forms 1 1 2 Typhoid Fever 1 1 Whooping Cough 14 16 17 7 7 1 4 1 3 1 71 Dog Bite o 1 7 11 16 12 16 8 14 8 6 7 114 Hamster Bite 1 1 1023 The followup of Contagious Diseases has taken a great portion of the time of the members of the staff of the Health Department during 1950. This method of close supervision of all communicable disease has produced excellent results, and Watertown continues to be one of the leading Massachusetts communities in the follow up of all known Tuberculosis patients and all known contacts. It is now nearly four years since the first Community wide X-Ray program ever conducted in this State was conducted in Watertown, and while many communities are now preparing for their first clinic of this kind, Watertown is preparing for its repeat performance in the near future. The Department has furnished Nursing Supervision to all children of school age in Watertown, who are not covered by the School Nursing and Medical program, with excellent results, and has continued its Dental Service to the Children in the lower grades of all schools. The annual Clinic for the innoculation of dogs against Rabies was conducted in May of 1950, by Dr. J. J. Murphy and the members of the Health Department staff. In four sessions on succeeding days, 539 dogs were given phenol-killed vaccine to prevent rabies in them during the succeeding year. The Health. and Sanitation Inspection programs have brought about great improvement in the environtal sanitation condition of the Town, 314 and the Mosquito Control program under the direction of the State Reclamation Board has produced results that were impossible to foresee just a few short years ago. Watertown has now reached a stage where there are few breeding places for mosquitos and these are constantly sprayed and watched to prevent incubation. Every catch basin in Watertown and its neighboring communities was sprayed with mos- quito kill at least four times during the breeding season of 1950. The complaints received by this Department on all sorts of matters have been handled to the best of our ability, and I do now recommend that a program of public education in Public Health matters be in- augurated for the benefit of the Town. As Health Officer, I wish to thank the members of the staff of the Department and the members of the Board, and all those public officials of the Town, Comity and State, who have given splendid cooperation during the year just closed. Respectfully submitted, JOHN A. COLBERT, Health Officer. REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING AND SANITATION To the Board of Health: Gentlemen: I herewith submit my annual report as Inspector of Plumbing and Sanitation for the year 1950: Total amount of fees received for permits $954.00 Total number of permits isuued 405 Number of No-charge permits 45 Number of $2.00 permits 243 Number of $4.00 permits 117 Total number of fixtures installed (approx.) 1434 Total number of rough inspections (approx.) 392 Total number of final inspections 489 Total number of permits issued and work not completed 32 This year, 1108 recorded calls were made, of which 392 were official rough inspections and water tests and 489 were official final inspections. The remaining 227 calls were preliminary inspections, layout work, cor- rections, sanitary inspections and investigations of plumbing and san- itary complaints. Besides the time spent in the execution of the above report and all necessary keeping of records connected therewith, my hours are taken up in consultation with plumbers, property owners, and tenants, in the laying out and correction of work, both in this office and on the jobs. 315 Sanitary inspections of taverns, restaurants, and other eating places, were made, where the Health Inspector found faulty and dangerous plumbing. Corrections were ordered and followed up. Thorough investigations were made of lodging houses, general complaints and nuisances, with excellent results. I wish to compliment and thank the various Town Departments that so willingly cooperated with me throughout the year, especially so with the Engineering Department. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD L. MAURER, Inspector of Plumbing and Sanitation. REPORT OF THE HEALTH INSPECTOR To the Board of Health: Gentlemen: I hereby submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1950: As Inspector of Milk, I have made regular inspections of all prem- ises where milk, cream and other dairy products are processed or stored for distribution. Vehicles used for the transportation of milk, cream and other dairy products in the Town of Watertown were also inspected regularly. These inspections of premises and vehicles totaled 193. Five hundred and seven samples of milk, cream and frozen deserts were collected and analyzed during the year. The following tests were performed routinely on each sample: Standard Plate Count. To determine numerically the overall bacterial content. Phosphatase Test. To determine the efficiency of the pasteurization process. Coliform Test. Used along with the Phosphatase test to detect possible bacterial recontamination from equipment, or containers, following proper pasteurization. Babcock Test. To determine the butter fat content of milk and cream. The milk and dairy industry has been very cooperative in maintain- ing a milk supply of high quality. Food Imspection Four hundred and ninety-seven routine inspections of eating, drinking, manufacturing and processing establishments were made during the year. 316 Considerable time was also spent in consultation with proprietors of various establishments regarding problems of food sanitation, rodent control, insect control, etc. The cooperation shown the Health Department by the food industry was extremely gratifying. Respectfully submitted, PAUL F. MURRAY, Health Inspector REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF CEMETERIES To the Board of Health Gentlemen: The report of the Superintendent of Cemeteries for the year ending December 31, 1950 is 'herewith submitted: Total Appropriations (Regular) 21,435.00 Total Expended 19,914.66 Balance Returned 1,520.34 Paid to Treasurer for Interment and Charges 3,692.93 Paid to Treasurer for Sale of Lots 2,918.25 Paid to Treasurer for Perpetual Care 4,460.00 Interest to Treasurer from Perpetual Care 2,017.95 Interments in Common Street Cemetery 4 Interments in RidgelaN gin Cemetery 87 Cremations in Common Street Cemetery 1 Cremations in Ridgelawn Cemetery 6 Included above are 1 Welfare, 0 Old Age Assistance and Bureau of Veterans Affairs 0. Single Graves 19 Two-grave Lots 10 Three-grave Lots 10 Five-grave Lots 3 Infants' Graves 1 Foundations placed for Monuments and Markers. 50 Respectfully submitted, GEORGE F. MARTIN, Superintendent. 317 TREASURER'S REPORT I respectfully submit the following financial report for the year 1950: FINANCIAL STATEMENT Receipts and Expenditures Balance January 1, 1950 $ 961,809.39 1950 Receipts $5,253,027.21 $6,214,836.60 1950 Paid Treasury Warrant $5,372,701.71 Balance December 31, 1950 including Veterans Housing Fund $ 842,134.89 APPROVED: W. W. NORCROSS, JR., Auditor JAMES H. SHERIDAN, Treasurer Borrowed in Anticipation of Revenue in 1950 February 17 Rockland Atlas National Bank of Boston $300.000.00 @ rate of .702% discounted. May 22 Merchants National Bank of Boston 300,000.00 @r rate of .665% discounted. Notes Paid in 1950 November 3 Rockland Atlas National Bank of Boston $300,000.00 November 3 Merchants National Bank of Boston 300,000.00 •• Notes Due in 1951 None. Funded Debt Retired in 1950 February 1 New Administration Building $ 10,000.00 April 1 Drainage 1,000.00 April 1 Drainage 1,000.00 May 1 Municipal Land 7,000.00 July 1 Highway Equipment 5,000.00 August 1 Veterans Housing 15,000.00 December 1 School 6,000.00 $ 45,000.00 Funded Debt Due in 1951 February 1 New Administration Building $ 10,000.00 April 1 Drainage 1,000.00 July 1 Highway Equipment 5.000.00 August 1 Veterans Housing 15,000.00 August 1 North End Fire Station 7,000.00 August 1 Victory Field Field House 6,000.00 $ 44,000.00 318 Debt Statement Total Funded Debt December 31st, 1950 $405,000.00 DEBT OUTSIDE DEBT LIMIT: Veterans Housing, Chap. 372, Acts 1946 $255,000.00 DEBT WITHIN DEBT LIMIT: Drainage 1,000.00 New Administration Building 10,000.00 Highway Equipment 10,000.00 North End Fire Station 70,000.00 Victory Field Field House 59,000.00 $150,000.00 $405,000.00 A statement of the accounts on which the Town Indebtedness applies: Sewers and Drains $ 1,000.00 Administration Building 10,000.00 Highway Equipment 10,000.00 Veterans Housing 255,000.00 North End Fire Station 70,000.00 Victory Field Field House 59,000.00 $405,000.00 The Indebtedness of the Town matures as follows: 1951 $ 44,000.00 1952 33,000.00 1953 28,000.00 1954 28,000.00 1955 28,000.00 1956 28,000.00 1957 28,000.00 1958 28,000.00 1911:9 28,000.00 1960 27,000.00 1961 15,000.00 1962 15,000.00 1963 15,000.00 1964 15,000.00 1965 15,000.00 1966 15,000.00 1967 15,000.00 $405,000.00 Borrowing Capacity For 1951 Valuation 1948 $62,886,785.00 Valuation 1949 67,767,075.00 Valuation 1950 70,183,195.00$200,837,055.00 Abatements 1948 $ 887,662.00 Abatements 1949 932,325.00 319 Abatements 1950 1,180,400.00$ 3,000,387.00 3) $197,836,668.00 65,945,556.00 5% 3,297,277.80 Less Debt Inside Limit 150,000.00 Borrowing Capacity January 1st, 1951 3,147,277.80 A Statement of Debt and Total Cash Expenditures of the Town for thirty years:— Year Expenditures Debt 1921 $2,083,986.77 $1,319,000.00 1922 2,037,672.76 1,238,500.00 1923 2,144,143.57 1,183,500.00 1924 2,571,082.55 1,679,000.00 1925 3,015,407.96 1,914,000.00 1926 3,010,470.05 2,079,500.00 1927 3,384,965.67 2,023,000.00 1928 3,378,589.10 2,172,000.00 1929 4,011,343.85 2,171,500.00 1930 3,903,79526 1,982,000.00 1931 4,282,947.52 1,947,000.00 1932 4,923,029.72 1,942,000.00 1933 4,171,875.82 1,499,000.00 1934 3,908,434.08 1,482,000.00 1935 3,804,109.55 1,447,700.00 1936 3,743,934.34 1,291,000.00 1937 3,668,053.63 1,153,000.00 1938 3,750,895.75 1,102,000.00 1939 3,770,835.31 1,201,500.00 1940 3,732,59722 1,120,000.00 . 1941 3,583,494.47 890,000.00 1942 3,488,489.32 693,000.00 1943 3,076,543.04 515,000.00 1944 3,257,739.65 353,000.00 1945 3,388,896.39 281,000.00 1946 3,470,390.71 215,000.00 1947 4,325,489.02 477,000.00 1948 4,915,157.78 391,000.00 1949 4,743,085.58 321,000.00 1950 5,372,701.71 405,000.00 Statement of Town Insurance Company Amount Expires American Aviation & General Ins. Co. $102,000.00 Sept. 1, 1951 American Insurance Company 50,000.00 " Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 102,000A0 Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 102,000.00 to to Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company 52,000.00 to " Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 102,000.00 to " The World Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 102,000.00 " " Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 2,500.00 Nov. 29, 1951 The Employers'Fire Ins. Co. 104,667.00 Dec. 26, 1951 Glen Falls Insurance Company 261,667.00 go " 320 Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 104,666.00 " Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 104,666.00 " Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company 261,667.00 " Queen Insurance Co. of America 628,000.00 Royal Insurance Co. Ltd. 104,667.00 Mutual Boiler Insurance Company $ 10,000.00 Jan. 1, 1952 Aetna Insurance Company 32,000.00 Sept. 1, 1952 American National Fire Ins. Co. 56,000.00 Automobile Insurance Company 56,000.00 " 000.00 " Boston Insurance Company 25,000.00 „ Gibraltar Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 57,000.00 Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 57,000.00 " National Union Fire Ins. Co. 57,000.00 " Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company 57,000.00 The Travelers Fire Insurance Co. 57,000.00 it of " toThe World Fire & Marine Insurance Co. 57,000.00 Aetna Insurance Company $50,090.00 Sept. 1, 1953 Boston Insurance Company 75,000.00 „ Centennial Insurance Company 50,000.00 The Columbia Fire Insurance Company 50,000.00 " New York Underwriters Insurance Co. 75,000.00 „ Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company 156,692.00 „ Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company 75,000.00 of to Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 150,000.00 to „ Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 75,000.00 to The World Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 150,000.00 Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. $100,000.00 Sept. 1, 1954 Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 100,000.00 " Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 104,913.00 " Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co. 100,000.00 „ Queen Insurance Company of America 100,000.00 „ to Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 100,000.00 Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 100,000.00 The World Fire & Marine Insurance Co. 100,000.00 Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. $ 50,000.00 Sept. 1, 1955 Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 61,000.00 " Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 61,000.00 " Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 71,000A0 " " Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 50,000.00 It Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. 60,000.00 " Old Colony Insurance Company 121,000.00 " Que?n Insurance Company of America 121,000.00 " .Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 60,000.00 " Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co. 71,545.00 " Cemetery Account The several sums of money turned over to me for the perpetual care of lots of the Cemeteries have been deposited in the Watertown Savings Bank, and are as follows:— Balance, December 31, 1949 $93,683.54 Interest for the year 1950 2,017.95 $95,701.49 1949 Interest Withdrawn 1,792.54 $93,908.95 321 Names and Amounts Collected in 1950 Feb. 1 George A. Weaver (Helen R. Weaver) $150.00 Jas. A. McDonald (Baby Balch) 8.00 J. H. Hartwell & Son (Ludwig W. Buckley) 112.50 March 1 W. G. Rockwell (Bertha V. Higbee) $112.50 Old Age Acet. (Patterson McGuire) 45.00 W. G. Rockwell (Wm. Alcott) 150.00 Mrs. Marjorie F. Olson 165.00 Aram Bedrosian (Hagop Bakerjian) 90.00 Arthur C. Hasiotis (Geo. Joannides) 90.00 April 5 Mrs. Florence MacDougall (Osman N. Brown) 45.00 May 3 Gertrude White (John Chester White) 112.50 June 7 Anna M. Kurkjy (Ibrahim Kurkjy) 45.00 Charles Barron 51.00 Wolcott Richardson Tyler & Fossett (Patten) 81.00 July 5 W. G. Rockwell (Jeane Peare) 45.00 Mrs. Antonietta O'Hanian (John O'Hanian) 45.00 Mrs. Azniv Madanian (Philip Madanian) 172.50 Arthur C. Hasiotis (Constantina Metropoulos) 90.00 W. G. Rockwell (Jessie E. Moore) 45.00 Aram Bedrosian (James Bedrosian) 225.00 July 19 Mrs. Hilma Gjertsen (John T. Gjertsen) 112.50 Aug. 2 Mrs. Anna M. Kurkjy 45.00 John J. McCaffrey (Kang Ng) 45.00 W. G. Rockwell (R. Bruce Hunt) 150.00 Donald J. MacDonald (Russell Leon Shufelt) 45.00 Donald J. MacDonald (Leon Donald Shufelt) 45.00 Ellen J. Goddard 225.00 W. G. Rockwell (Margaret W. Ditzler) 45.00 Sept. 6 Aram Bedrosian (Krikor Der Boghosian) 150.00 Mary I. McLean (Edith O. Duke) 112.50 Oct. 4 Jas. & Anna McEachern $150.00 Jos. Sanigian (Takoohie Sanigian) 45.00 Mrs. Hughena Hooper (Geo. P. Hooper) 195.00 W. G. Rockwell (John A. Kirker) 112.50 W. G. Rockewell (Galen E. Beigh) 112.50 Nov. 8 W. G. Rockwell (Margaret Beck) 45.00 W. G. Rockwell (Walter E. Fristedt) 225.00 Dec. 7 John Michian (Malcolm John Michian) 150.00 Robert Charles French (Bessie French) 150.00 Mrs. Margaret Simpson 45.00 Dec. 30 W. G. Rockwell (Jas. Parker Hupman) 112.50 Charles B. Watson (Elias Edgecomb) 112.50 Donald J. MacDonald (Horace V. Humphries) 150.00 $ 4,460.00 Balance Brought Forward 93,908.95 Balance December 30, 1950 $98,368.95 322 Town Trust Funds Martha, Sanger Fund: Investment $1,033.77 Income for 1950 22.08 Balance December 31, 1950 $1,055.85 John Templeton Fund: Investment $1,610.64 Income for 1950 84.50 Balance December 31, 1950 $1,695.14 Two $1,000.00 United States Savings Bonds Benjamin Hosmer Pierce Fund: Investment $1,188.11 Income for 1950 23.78 $1,211.89 Disbursements 148.62 Balance December 31, 1950 $1,063.27 Barry Fund: Investment $1,098.99 Income for 1950 23.04 $1,122,03 Disbursements 110.56 Balance December 31, 1950 $1,011.47 Mary D. Emerson Meade Fund: Investment $3,076.80 Income for 1950 64.55 $3,141.35 Disbursements 85.48 Balance December 31, 1950 $3,055.87 Michael P. Charles Fund: Investment $ 219.57 Income for 1950 4.68 Balance December 31, 1950 $ 224.25 323 Rehabilitation Fund: Investment $54,299.71 Income for 1950 1,159.96 Balance December 31, 1950 $55,459.67 Solon F. Whitney Fund: Investment $ 312.70 Income for 1950 6.66 Balance December 31, 1950 $ 319.36 William P. McGuire Fund: Investment $1,024.22 Income for 1950 21.87 $1,046.09 Disbursements 27.01 Balance December 31, 1950 $ 1,019.08 Contributory Retirement System: (Cash Account) Balance December 31, 1949 $ 5,229.03 Income for 1950 111.70 Balance December 31, 1950 $ 5,340.73 Asa Pratt Fund: We have forty-two shares of stock of the First National Bank of Boston which we are holding for the Trustees of the Asa Pratt Fund. 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Gentlemen: Herewith is respectfully submitted the report of the Workmen's Compensation Department for the year 1950. The total number of accidents sustained by employees and reported by the various Town Departments was 85. The majority of these cases required only first aid attention, although continued medical attention and compensation was necessary in many cases. Below is a table of the nature of the accidents reported. Back injuries were in the majority: Arms and wrist 9 Hands and fingers 15 Head and neck G Feet and legs 14 Back and side 19 Eyes 14 Miscellaneous 8 TOTAL 85 One employee John J. Ross was retired as of June 1, 1950 as totally disabled, he was on compensation at the time of retirement. So under the law he will continue on compensation until $10,000 is expended. I have turned down two claims one for a hernia and the other for an alleged aggravation of an ulcer condition. On the hernia claim I have agreed to pay the medical expenses for treatment but declined to pay any compensation. On the ulcer claim I declined to pay the medical expense and compensation. The employee as yet has not returned to work and has requested a hearing by the Industrial Accident Board. We have $27.50 in unpaid bills for 1949 which were not submitted until 1950 and $77.50 in unpaid bills for 1950 which were not submitted until 1951 altho doctors involved were requested by mail to submit bills before expiration of 1950. As far as I can estimate the Department continued as usual as in the past years and the usual cooperation was received from the Town De- partments, Employees and Town Physicians. Respectfully submitted, JOHN P. MEEITAN, Agent. 327 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF ASSESSORS We respectfully submit the annual report of the Board of Assessors for the year 1950. The total valuation for the year 1950 including additional assess- ments was $63,507,335.00 an increase of $1,203,400.00. This increase was partially due to increases in land valuations and the Board anticipates further increases in land valuations for the year 1951. The Board of Assessors has presented and defended all cases before the Appellate Tax Board. In our opinion the tax rate of $42.00 approved by the Department of-Corporations & Taxation, and established by the Board of Assessors did not prove a hardship to our taxpayers; but on the contrary, the return of $102,000.00 to the Excess and Deficiency Account will prove to be more beneficial in establishing a normal rate in times ahead. We wish to thank all who have cooperated with us in our work. Respectfully submitted, JOHN J. McLAUTHLIN, Chairman ANDREW D. BRADFORD JAMES J. VAHEY The following is a summary of the list of State and County Taxes and valuations for the year 1950. Total appropriations and available funds $3,760,993.50 Deficits in overlay in 1946 and 1947 2,347.20 Total State and County Taxes and underestimates 456,329.82 1950 Overlay 44,914.08 Gross amount to be raised $4,264,584.60 Total estimated receipts and available funds 1,572,867.93 Net amount to be raised by taxation $2,691,716.67 Valuations Bldgs. exclusive of land $48,700,475.00 Land exclusive of buildings 10,729,170.00 $59,429,645.00 Personal Property 4,068,990.00 $63„498,635.00 Additional Assessments Real Estate $5,700.00 Personal Property 3,000.00 8,700.00 Total valuation including additional assessments $63,507,335.00 328 Increase in valuation of real estate including additional assessments $1,243,950.00 Decrease in Valuation of personal property including additional assessments 40,550.00 Total increase in valuation including additional assessments $1,203,400.00 Total Poll Abatements For the year 1949 2.K For the year 1950 2,898.00 $2,900.00 Total Personal Property Abatements For the year 1949 $ 627.30 For the year 1950 982.80 $1,610.10 Total Real Estate Abatements For the year 1948 $ 4,294.20 For the year 1949 5,148.58 For the year 1950 38,972.55 $48,415.33 Abatements of Moth Charge For the year 1950 $5.00 Motor Vehicle Excise Total valuation of motor vehicle excise $6,675,860.00 Total Abatement on Motor Vehicle Excise For the year 1949 $ 2,483.10 For the year 1950 10,116.98 $12,600.08 329 REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD February 16, 1951 To the Citizens of Watertown: During the past year the Planning Board has acted upon seven petitions for proposed changes of zoning and held public hearings on each. Three of these petitions were specially beneficial to the Town in that they increased housing facilities. The Board was happy to be able to cooperate with the housing authority on two of these petitions. The Board voted not to recommend two petitions to the Town Meeting one of which involved a change from Zone 4, Business District, to Zone 2, General Residence District and will come before the Town Meeting in March. The Board felt that if the petitions were granted, a business zone which has been established since 1942 would become a non-conforming use and would be in no way beneficial to the Town nor would it be a benefit to the petitioners. The other petition which the Board has not recommended is a change from Zone 2, General Residence, to Zone 4, Business District and will likewise come before your Town Meeting in March. The Board was of the unanimous opinion that the property in question did not warrant further business develop- ment at this time. The Board is of the opinion that additional banking facilities are desirable in the Town and voted to recommend to the Town Meeting a petition for change in zoning brought by the Union Market National Bank. This bank will be a modern drive-in bank with good parking facilities which the Planning Board feels will be desirable both to the inhabitants of Watertown and residents of the immediate area; and because of its architectural style it will not in any way roar the res- idential beauty of dwellings adjacent to it. The Planning Board takes this opportunity to thank all of the other Town Departments, particularly, Town Clerk George Wellman, and the Engineering Department for their splendid cooperation. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES P. EATON, Chairman ROBERT CHASE, Secretary CHARLES GATELY DOUGLAS CRAWFORD JOHN O'GRADY 330 REPORT OF THE PARK COMMISIONERS To the Citizens of Watertown: During the year 1950, the Park Department has made a great many improvements in the playgrounds for the benefit of the children and the citizens of our community. We gave the usual periodic grading and constant care to our play- grounds, parks, and deltas. Among the improvements, Victory Field is graced with a brand new Field House, which has been forthcoming for many years. With the change having been made in the location of the football field, and the acquisition of the new stands on both sides of the field, Watertown may be proud of their athletic field. This was made possible by the efforts of the Stadium Committee, and also the Finance Committee, and the Board wishes to commend them for a job well done. With the erection of lights at Saltonstall Park, softball, baseball, and skating have been very popular at this playground. A yearly program of increasing the facilities at the various play- grounds for the benefit of the children has been started, and it is hoped that it will be carried through. This year, the Lowell Playground, and How Park were the recepient of new equipment, and the children seemed to enjoy it immensely. A new combination skating rink and tennis court was erected at How Park this year and this park has been patronized very much for the first time in many years. Additional instructors were also secured this year for the Lowell Playground and How Park. The playgrounds were opened during the usual summer months, with a large attendance at all parks, and it was a highly successful season. Materials for all kinds of handiwork were furnished by the Red Cross and many dolls and toys were made by the children, which were distributed to the needy. We wish to thank all for the splendid work and cooperation that was given to make this program such a success. During the year, many permits for the various playgrounds were issued for baseball, softball, soccer, football, and ice skating was pro- vided in the various rinks whenever possible. The Park Commissioners wish to thank the Superintendent and the men of the Park Department for their splendid work, which made pos- sible the accomplishment of the above projects during the year. JOHN J. ;5ti v to—LAN, Chairman RICHARD H. ROCHE, Secretary WAYNE E. EATON. 331 REPORT OF THE RETIREMENT BOARD OF THE TOWN OF WATERTOWN RETIREMENT SYSTEM The Watertown Contributory Retirement Board respectfully submits its fourteenth annual report covering the operation of the Watertown Contributory Retirement System for the calendar year ending December 31, 1950. The Retirement Board as now organized consists of Osbert H. Parrine, Chairman, William W. Norcross, Jr., Secretary and Maurice J. Sheehan. Mr. James H. Sheridan continues as ex-officio Treasurer-Custodian of the funds of the Retirement System and Mr. Earle Tyler, in the capacity as Town Counsel, acts as the legal advisor of the Retirement Board. The office of the Retirement Board is located in the office of the Town Auditor who is a member of the Board and who is responsible for keeping the accounts of the Retirement System. During the year 1950, twenty-two (22) employees were enrolled as members of the Retirement System, nine members withdrew and five were retired which brought the active membership of the Retirement System up to 358. On December 31, 1950 there were 43 pensioners, making a total membership in the Retirement System of 401. The five members retired during the year 1950 were John J. Ross, Joseph T. Mee, Matthew J. Beirne for Accidental Disability, Herman J. Couture for Superannuation and John J. Colligan under Survivorship Allowance. It is with regret that the Retirement Board records the deaths of two (2) pensioned members of the System during the y tar 1950: Michael P. Burns October 18, 1950 Patrick J. Quinn December 5, 1950 Financial Statement Income Ledger Assets—Jan. 1, 1950 $540,943.16 Contributions from Members $ 48,506.27 Voluntary additional contributions 582.64 Late entry payments 659.60 Transfers from other Systems 295.80 Appropriation by Town 33,640.86 Income 15,984.72 Accrued interest 4,136.84 Gross increase by amortization 575.23 104,381.96 $645,325.12 Disbursements Annuity Payments 2,492.50 Pension Payments 25,959.46 Survivorship Payments 201.44 Disability Pension Payments 5,631.62 Refunds 3,147.59 Transfers to other Systems 71.76 Administrative Expense 2,871.82 332 Accrued interest 3,849.15 Gross decrease by amortization 1,757.79 46,083.13 Ledger Assets—December 31, 1950 599,241.99 $645,325.12 Ledger Assets—December 31, 1950 Book Value of Bonds $532,687.30 Book Value of Bank Stocks 37,940.00 Deposits in bank—not on interest 19,137.12 Deposit in Savings Bank 5,340.73 Accrued Interest 4,136.84 $599,241.99 Liabilities Annuity Savings Fund $334,219.32 Annuity Reserve Fund 28,236.06 Military Service Credits 13,735.13 Pension Fund 220,869.36 Expense Fund 2,182.12 $599,241.99 Schedule of Bonds held—December 31, 1950 Date of Amortized value Description Rato Maturity Cost Dec. 31, 1950 Railroads Chi. Burl. & Quincy; 4% Mar. 1948 13,822.50 14,407.90 Gt. No. Railway 51/2% Jan. 1952 8,923.00 8,123.59 Holliday, Bed & Cum. 4% July 1951 15,367.50 15,020.68 N.Y. Cen. & Hudson 31/>% July 1997 16,125.00 16,084.93 $53,637.10 Public Utilities: Amer. Tel. & Tel. 2%% June 1987 24,375.00 24,419.22 Amer. Tel & Tel. 3%% Dec. 1973 26,937.50 26,847.20 Ark Power & Lt. 3'/s%o Oct. 1974 20,950.00 20,803.21 Green Mt. Power 3�!,.% Dec. 1963 21,075.00 20,705.21 No. Ind. P.S. 3'/s% Aug. 1973 16,087,50 15,915.41 Ohio Power Co. 3'/1% Oct. 1968 10,750.00 10,742.06 Pacific Gas & Elec. 3% Dec. 1977 21,450.00 21,440.84 Pacific Tel. & Tel. 31/% Oct. 1987 21,475.00 21,475.00 Seattle Gas Co. 3%% Jan. 1976 25,875.00 25,802.05 188,150.20 U.S. Government Bonds: 9 Series "G" 212% 1954 900.00 7 it It1955 3,500.00 2 IV to1955 10,000.00 3 IV it1955 3,000.00 6 " It " 1956 41,000.00 9 It #P1956 47,500.00 6 " it 1957 50,000.00 4 it " 1958 40,000.00 4 " it 1959 40,000.00 1 "F" IP1969 5,000.00 3 "G" it1960 25,000.00 3 " it It 1961 25,000.00 290,900.00 333 Schedule of Bank Stocks Held-December 31, 1950 Book Shares Cost Value First National Bank 200 8,350.00 9,400.00 National Shawmut Bank 190 4,375.00 4,940.00 Union Market National Bank 225 4,875.00 5,400.00 Newton & Waltham Bank 350 20,500.00 18,200.00 $ 37,940.00 Names and Amounts of Retirement Allowance Being Paid Nome Date Retired Annuity Pension Total Alberico, Donato Jan. 2, 1946 $21.00 $398.40 $419.40 Allen, Otis D. Feb. 28, 1949 183.84 1,174.28 1,358.04 Beatty, Richard July 15, 1938 680.00 680.00 Beirne, Matthew J. July 10, 1950 111.12 1,820.04 1,931.16 Beverly, Mary E. Aug. 2, 1944 50.28 609.67 659.95 Bonanno, Joseph March 8, 1944 59.15 620.85 680.00 Bright, Emma Aug. 31, 1941 33.86 646.14 680.00 Caruso, James March 1, 1947 48.24 1,065.84 1,114.08 Clark, Joss L. Oct. 1, 1937 680.00 680.00 Colligan, Louise July 5, 1950 78.60 411.72 490.32 Courtney, Mary J. Dec. 23, 1944 68.17 1,010.00 1,078.17 Courture, Herman J. Sept. 30, 1950 158.76 1,308.24 1,467.00 Dowd, James C. Nov. 10, 1944 64.84 488.74 553.58 Duffy, Peter H. Jan. 31, 1946 75.72 490.80 566.52 Farraher, Michael Nov. 15, 1937 3.56 676.44 680.00 Foisy, Hubert Nov. 15, 1946 110.16 862.08 972.24 Foley, Augustine A. April 8, 1944 78.68 619.77 698.45 Ford, Katherine M. Feb. 28, 1946 56.76 407.52 464.29 Goodman, John July 1, 1942 33.47 1,000.00 1,033.47 Harding, Susan M. June 30, 1941 36.98 644.84 681.82 Harrington, James Aug. 31, 1948 58.92 554.52 613.44 Horton, Van D. March 5, 1943 86.42 1,008.57 1,094.99 Kelly, Francis W. March 31, 1946 52.08 610.92 663.00 Kollias, John D. Jan. 1, 1948 69.12 369.36 438.48 LaBonte, Marguerite Oct. 15. 1942 45.05 634.95 680.00 Masters, Lydia W. Dec. 31. 1946 114,84 1,565.64 1,680.48 McGrady, Mary E. Aug. 16, 1949 44.04 587.04 631.08 McLaughlin, James Aug. 1, 1946 93.00 618.44 711.44 Mee, Joseph T. July 1, 1950 114.48 2,965.08 3,079.56 Morrissey, Regina May 1, 1948 456.20 312.36 358.56 Murnaghan, Hugh J. June 8, 1943 32.63 647.37 680.00 Quinn, Daniel April 26, 1939 680.00 680.00 Ranucci, Guiseppe Sept. 1, 1949 36.96 214.68 251.64 Ross, John J. June 1, 1950 131.88 1,933.32 2,065.20 Ruggerio, Domenic March 1, 1946 22.80 1,040.04 1,062.84 Schutzer, Carl E. Nov. 30, 1947 110.16 823.32 933.48 Stewart, Robert C. Dec. 8, 1944 92.62 689.59 782.21 Timoney, Owen May 31, 1946 93.48 581.28 674.76 Tracy, Annie Feb. 28, 1938 4.48 675.52 680.00 Vahey, Patrick J. Sept. 1, 1939 32.08 1,600.00 1,632.08 Vahey, William W. Sept. 30, 1948 105.36 684.24 789.60 Wright, Edward F. Sept. 1, 1948 58.68 543.48 602.16 Respectfully submitted, OSBERT H. PARRINE, Chairman WILLIAM W. NORCROSS, JR., Secretary MAURICE J. SHEEHAN 335 SCHOOL DEPARTMENT SCHOOL COMMITTEE FRED H. BIRD, Term expires 1952 JOHN J. SHEEHAN Term expires 1952 DR. EDWARD J. KELLEY Term expires 1951 EDMUND O'CONNELL Term expires 1951 PHILLIP PANE Term expires 1952 EDWARD S. PARSONS Term expires 1953 DR. GUY PESCE Term expires 1953 FRANCIS A. KELLY Superintendent of Schools Office: Phillips School 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 336 REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT To the Chairman and Members of the Watertown School Committee: I have the honor to submit herewith my twelfth annual report of the schools of Watertown, which is the seventieth in a series of annual reports of the Superintendent of the Watertown Public Schools. Because of unforseen events it is necessary for me to put off until a future date the survey of the history, aims and objectives of the Guidance Department which I had planned for this year's report. Remedial Reading Report In September, Miss Elizabeth A. Cusick, who has been a teacher at our Coolidge School since 1937, was promoted to the position as supervisor of remedial reading for the elementary grades. The report which follows is an indication of the enthusiasm with which she has begun her new duties. "On September 25 I took over the duties of Remedial Reading Supervisor. The first two weeks were spent studying Miss McCarthy's reports and conferring with Mr. Colbert, the principals and several teachers. There were two courses of action which I could have followed, namely: 1. Spending the entire school week teaching children who were deficient in reading 2. Teaching classes a minimum of time (371/2%) and spending the remainder of the time in the following manner: a. Testing children referred by the teachers b. Conferring with the teachers about the referral cases c. Assisting teachers who ask for help in the teaching of reading d. Helping Miss Gallagher, my assistant, Miss Lyons and Miss Nuhn, Kindergarten teachers who are doing remedial teaching in their respective schools during the afternoon session. I chose the latter for the following reasons: 1. Remedying the classroom procedures would decrease the number of remedial cases in the future. 2. Many teachers have asked for help 3. Time was needed to confer with the teachers whose children were receiving extra 7relp 4. Many of the cases referred to the department can actually be remedied within the classroom. Program I set up the following program which was accepted by the Super- intendent and the principals at a meeting on November 6. REMEDIAL READING Program for the Year 1950-1951 1. Special reading classes for the reading problems in the second and sixth grades a. Basis of selection 337 1. Reilley Reading Test 2. Intelligence test administered by Mr. Colbert's department 3. Metropolitan Achievement Test 4. Teacher's judgement 2. Testing program for all cases referred to the department a. Tests administered in addition to the present testing program 1. Non-Verbal Intelligence Test 2. Diagnostic Reading Test b. Report on each case tested sent to principal and teacher c. Conference with principal and teacher about each case d. Four classes into which the cases will fall: 1. Corrective within the classroom 2. Remedial—special classes if possible 3. Slow learners 4. Emotional—referred to Mr. Colbert 3. Helping the remedial reading teachers a. Miss Gallagher b. Miss Lyons c. Miss Nuhn 4. Reading Workshop-30 Primary teachers Volunteers a. The program would include the following: 1. Make a survey of the various reading texts (McKee, Betts, Witty, Gates, Durrell, etc.) 2. Construct informal tests to determine reading abilities within the classroom 3. Administer informal tests 4. Make a summary of the reading difficulties as indicated by the results of the tests 5. Study methods of correcting these difficulties within the classroom 6. Construct materials, devices and exercises which will help remedy the difficulties 7. Group the children according to their reading difficulties and plan reading program for these various groups 5. Informal monthly meetings of the kindergarten and first grade teachers. a. Survey programs in the kindergartens b. Discussion of the reading readiness programs c. Prepare a tentative program for the kindergarten and first grades Miscellaneous I arranged the registration and transportation of fifteen teachers who attend the Saturday morning session of the New England Reading Conference. This afforded the teachers the opportunity of visiting classes in Newton to see all phases of reading instruction. Miss Gallagher, my assistant, worked with Mr. Colbert until Novem- ber 1. At that time, I reviewed with Miss Gallagher what had been done previously, explained remedial procedures, and the testing program. She observed my classes in the Phillips School for the following two weeks. Since that time she has tested and organized classes in the Lowell, Browne, and Hosmer Schools. 338 The first meeting of the Primary Reading Workshop took place December 12 in the Phillips School. Twenty-four teachers attended and plans were made for the study of the reading problems in the first three grades." REMEDIAL READING CLASSES Teacher School No. Classes No.of No. Pupils Meetings per week E. A. Cusick Phillips 4 3 17 Marshall Spring 3 3 18 M. Gallagher Lowell 5 3 23 Browne 4 3 20 Hosmer 2 2 12 Coolidge 2 2 11 P. Lyons Coolidge 3 4 30 M. Nuhn Parker 2 4 9 Summary of Testing Program Number of pupils tested from September through December A. Kiklmann Anderson Gr. II, III, IV and VI 75 B. Informal Reading Analysis Or. II 70 C. Durrells Analysis of Reading Difficulties Or. IV, V, VI 64 D. Monroe Reading Diagnostic Test Or. VI 7 HEALTH SERVICES BY THE SCHOOL NURSES Our school nurses continue to carry out successfully the diversified health program which follows: 1. Assisted the school doctors with the physical examination, arranged the time of the examinations, recorded the results on the Health Cards, notified the parents of Che defects, and did the necessary follow-up work. 2. Inspection of Pupils Made periodic inspection of all pupils for symp- toms of communicable diseases, skin infections and pediculosis. Exclu- ded pupils showing any symptoms thereof. 3. Vision Testing We tested with the Massachusetts vision testing equipment all pupils in the fourth, sixth, eighth and eleventh grades. We re-tested all pupils referred to us by the classroom teacher who had failed to pass the Snellen Chart test as administered by the teacher. Parents were notified of children who failed. In most cases prompt attention was given to the notice and the children received medical care. The parents of children unable to afford glasses were assisted by the school fund for glasses. 4. Hearing Testing We gave all children from the third grade through the 12th an audio- meter test by the Western Electric 4CA audiometer. The parents of children who failed three tests were notified. A careful follow-up of the failures were made. Many parents were referred to the Boston Guild of the Hard of Hearing, and the Winthrop Foundation for Hard of Hearing at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. 339 5. Weighing and Measuring We weighed all children in the elementary schools. Parents of children who failed to show a normal increase of weight as recorded previously were notified. Some children suffering from obesity were treated at the Endocrine Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital. 6. Home Visits In accordance to our usual policy many home visits were made to parents for the correction of defects; for a better understanding of the home and the environment from which the child comes; and to educate the parent in modern trends in medicine. 7. Conferences We hold many informal conferences with teachers, doctors and in the upper grades with the pupils themselves in order to bring about better physical and mental health. 8. State Traveling Clinic for Retarded Children The State Traveling Clinic visited the Watertown Schools three times during 1950. Our duties were to conduct the clinic; obtain a detailed medical history from the parent or guardian, in accordance with the forms submitted by the Department of Health of the State; and to see that the parents are informed of the medical recommendations. 9. Survey of Handicapped Children A careful survey of all school children, coming under the classification of "Handicapped" whether by heart disease, diabetes, other cronic diseases or crippled in any degree was made by the nurses. Arran- gements have been made for four children grossly handicapped mentally and also physically to attend the E. W. Fernald afternoon school. Transportation is provided also. 10. Co-operation with the Board of Health The nurses worked with the Board of Health nurses and doctors in their immunization to diphtheria program carried on in May and June in the public elementary schools. A very large percentage of the school children were immunized at these clinics. Those not done at the clinic were immunized by their family doctors. 11. Pre-school Registration The nurses took part in the registration of the new pupils registering to enter kindergarten in the fall. Our duties primarily were to obtain the medical history of each child. It was found that a very large per- centage of the pre-school children had been receiving excellent medical care and were immunized against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus. Coordinator for the Elementary Schools At the meeting of the School Committee held on November 15, 1950, your committee voted to assign to the Assistant Superintendent of Schools the duties of coordinating the elementary schools of Watertown. It seems important to me to bring to your attettion, in this report, a few facts relative to some of the changes and improvements which have been made in our elementary schools since I became Superinten- dent of Schools in January 1939. 340 In my report for that year stated: New Courses of Study Since May of this year, eight committees made up of ninety members of our teaching personnel have been working on new courses of study. Committees on English, mathematics and social studies for grades seven to twelve inclusive; and committees on English, arith- metic, social studies, health and science, and penmanship for grades one to six inclusive. In order that we many eventually have co- ordination and continuity of teaching and subject matter, teachers from the lower grades have been placed on the upper grade com- mittees and vice versa. Each committee is working under the direction of one of our school principals who in turn has selected a chairman for his group. Re- ports of progress from each committee are made by the principals to a "Steering Committee" made up of the Principals, the Director of Guidance and the Superintendent of Schools. Some of the com- mittees have already sought the advice and direction of outside ex- perts in their fields. One of the important aims of these committees is to develop courses which will best fit the needs of our Watertown children, rather than to imitate courses developed by other school systems. The fact that the teachers who are to apply these courses have a voice in their development should tend to have them operate more effectively. Teacher participation in these committees stimulates professional study of the problems, which will produce better teaching and more learning by the pupils. I was promped to appoint these committees because of the median grade level scores of our pupils on standardized achievement tests given during 1938 and 1939. Most of these committees worked for two years and in 1941 Courses of study were completed and approved by the School Committee in all major elementary school subjects. Although the course of study is not the only factor which must be considered in the evaluation of a school system, it is, in my opinion, a very important factor. Since the adoption of these courses which have been followed in all of elementary schools, the median grade levels on standardized achievement tests have improved. The profile of median grade levels for Grades II to VI for October 1950 shows that all the grades are above the modal norms in all subjects tested, which include reading, vocabulary, arithmetic fundamentals and problems, English and spelling. For example in Grade VI in 1939 our reading was 4 months below the "traditional" norm which was used at that time. In 1950 our reading in the same grade is one month above the "modal" norm. An explanation of the difference between the "traditional" and the"modal" norm is necessary to give a true picture of these comparisons. The traditional norms are based on the median scores of unselected groups of children at successive grade levels regardless of age, from all parts of the country. The Modal norms are based NOT on all pupils of a given grade but only on that proportion of the pupils in the grade who can be considered at grade for their respective age. The modal age group will tend to be higher in ability than the traditional, unelected group. Thus the modal norms offer a standard of performance which is higher and more reasonable for average or better than average groups. If the traditional norms were used this year the above mentioned score would be 5% months above the norm, making a net gain of 9% months or practically one full year over the 1939 achievement. I haven't by any means picked the subject which has shown the 341 greatest improvement, for in 1939 our arithmetic problems in Grade VI were 8 mos. below the traditional "norm"; in 1950 the results show that we are 3 months above the modal norm and 7 months above the tradi- tional norm, which is a total improvement of 15 months or 1% school years in arithmetic problems. In spelling we were one month below the traditional norm in 1939 and this year we are 61/a months above the same norm or a gain of 71ls months. The same results are shown in a comparison of all our grade from II to VI and in practically every other grade and subject through Grade XII. Hence it can not be concluded in a general sweeping statement that our courses of study are antiquated or out of date. As a matter of fact, "The Curriculum Guide for Primary Grades" published in 1946 by the Mass. State Dept. of Education under the direction of Miss Alice B. Beal, Supervisor of Elem. School of Education, follows very closely to our present courses of study which were written in 1941. In 1946 we adopted the Rhinehart System of Functional Hand- writing which provides a supervisory staff and since that time there has been a decided improvement in the handwriting of our elementary children. Recently the standardization of one spelling book series was raised by one of our new principals. During the summer of 1944 I asked one teacher from each of the six elementary grades and from 6 different schools to examine eight of the spelling book series which were copy- writed since 1940. These books were so much alike that each teacher gave a preference for a different series. This matter was discussed with the principals at that time and it was agreed that each could select his own spelling books. Our test results surely do not indicate the need for the adoption of one series for the entire Town. We have 'had a speech supervisor in Watertown since 1933. We were one of the first communities in this area to appoint such a person on a full time basis. This teacher has done excellent work in all grades and in recent years has asked to be given more time in the upper grades. The appointment of another teacher to work under her in the lower grades would improve the efficiency of her department and relieve her for more work in public speaking and dramatics at the Senior High School. I have consulted with her on several occasions during the past year on this problem. For several years I recommended the appointment of a remedial reading teacher for the elementary grades and it wasn't until June 1949 that such a teacher was appointed. In June 1950 she resigned to accept a position in another Town. As of September of this year another super- visor was appointed and given an assistant so that the work in this area might be speeded up. I have had several meetings with her since Sep- tember and in November she presented her tentative program to the Principals and the superintendent of schools. Curriculum Development in the Senior High School Reported by Bertram Holland, Principal As a result of several years of study, the course in General Math- ematics and the third year of Industrial Mathematics were both dis- continued this year. In place of these, two half-courses, one in Refresher Arithmetic and one in Consumer Education were introduced. The General Mathematics course was open to students in all three grades of senior high school and was largely a duplication of a similar 342 course given in the ninth grade of junior high. In addition, it was a course which did not lead to any other mathematics course on completion. The boys in the Industrial Arts Curriculum had been required to take three years of Applied Mathematics regardless of how well they did or much mathematical skill they obtained in the related work in each shop. It was felt that they should gain more by being permitted to elect a different subject in the Senior year if they did well in the first two years of Applied Mathematics. A test in arithmetic was given under the direction of the Guidance Department to all Juniors in April. This test disclosed that the Indus- trial Arts boys were getting good training in arithmetic because all but one passed the test. This was a better showing than was made by any other curriculum group. It was decided that any Junior who failed the arithmetic test would be required to take a half-year course in Refresher Arithmetic or some other course in mathematics in his Senior year. Under the former plan it was possible for a student in the general Curriculum to go through three years of Senior High School without taking any formal course in mathematics and yet be deficient in ability to do simple arith- metic. This has led to occasional criticism from employers who hired some of our graduates whose arithmetical skill was not up to their ex- pectations. Our present arrangement should prevent this possibility because every student who enters the Senior year must either elect a course in mathematics or demonstrate his ability to do simple arithmetic on a test. Students in the General Curriculum may now elect two years of Applied Mathematics which has increased our enrollment in mathematics courses. Since both General and Industrial Arts students are assigned to the same classes in Applied Mathematics it has tended to bridge some of the gap between the two groups. This has had a wholesome effect on the morale of the Industrial Arts boys. The half-year course in Consumer Education is meeting a need of students to know more about the purchase of insurance, installment buying, taxes, mortgages, and similar every day investment problems common to most families. Incidentally, it provides an opportunity for a student who fails a year course for the half-year to transfer to a practical subject in which he can earn half a year's credit. This pre- vents wasting a full year's time by remaining in a course in which he has no interest and is almost certain to fail. A course in Sheet Metal was revived by the Industrial Arts Depart- ment after a lapse of several years. Tllis course has many practical applications in every day life as well as in industrial trades. This makes the fifth shop subject open to boys in senior high school. As a result, we decided to allow Sophomores in the Industrial Arts Curriculum to elect four out of the five shops instead of requiring them to take a semester each of electricity, machine, printing, and wood shops as here- tofore. This change has been well received by the Industrial Arts boys. In the English Department, it was impossible this year to discon- tinue the special class provided for those who failed Sophomore English and thus had to repeat the course. The reorganized minimum essentials course in Sophomore English through the efforts of the teachers of the course has resulted in such a decrease in failures that no special class was needed or justified for those who had to repeat tenth-grade English This is a credit to the professional interest and competence of Miss Appel and the other teachers in the English Department. For the past two years the English Department has tried the plan of having classes in Sophomore English divided into Honor, Standard, 343 Basic, and Remedial groups regardless of curriculum. This plan has worked quite well except in the Remedial groups. The teachers of English felt that even though the remedial groups were kept small they still were not small enough for effective remedial work and that the Basic groups were correspondingly too large. Therefore this year we decided to discontinue Remedial English as such and to assign students to Basic groups who would formerly have been assigned to remedial groups. This made it possible to keep the size of Basic groups to an average of twenty per class. Miss Evelyn Banning formerly had one free period per day through- out the year for editorial work on the Annual. This amount of time was not needed in the first and fourth terms so it was planned to have her do remedial work English on an individual basis during terms one and four this year. There has not been a complete opportunity to see the results. of this plan as yet because Miss Banning was granted a leave of absence October 1 of this year at her request. In May, a faculty workshop was made possible by your permission to dismiss classes at lunch time so that the rest of the day could be devoted to revision of courses of study and the preparation of materials for directed study. The results of this workshop varied with each depart- ment but were on the whole most encouraging. I should like to have your permission to try a similar workshop again next spring. The greatest hindrance to realizing the full benefit of the workshop was the lack of clerical assistance to duplicate the study guides and out- lines which were produced by the teachers. There is a real need for more materials and specially those who are slower to learn and less able to study "homework" without a study-guide sheet. Two years ago we made a decision to permit students in the college curriculum to elect personal typewriting in their junior year. About thirty students availed themselves of this opportunity last year and this year about the same number ,have elected it. Several parents have requested that typewriting be made available for students in the college curriculum in the Sophomore year. We plan to do this during the second semester this year for those whose marks are satisfactory. For this reason, personal typewriting was given this year five times a week for half a year instead of three times a week for a full year. Conclusion In conclusion, may I please bring to your attention once more, that section of my report for the year 1948, which gives a summary of recommendation which I have made in previous reports. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to the principals, teachers, supervisors, custodians and other employees for their cooperation during the past year. I also wish to thank the members of the other Town Departments, the parents and other citizens for the special interest and encouragement which they have given to the School Department. Lastly, I wish to thank the members of the School Committee who have given helpful assistance to me during the past year. Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS A. KELLY, Superintendent. 344 STATISTICAL DATA TABLE I. FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1950 Appropriated by Town Meetings $1,102,600.00 Expended 1,060,821.71 Balance 41,778.29 1,102,600.00 Itemized Expenditures General Control 27,460.93 Instruction 818,909.83 Operation 101,656.34 Maintenance 54,765.74 New Equipment 996.52 Miscellaneous 9,883.17 Evening School 4,561.99 Trade School 15,971.76 Transportation 5,648.15 Juvenile Recreation 8,969.69 School Ground Improvement 4,562.60 Out of State Travel 125.00 Banthin Auto Press Athletic Fund 7,309.99 1,060,821.71 TABLE II. MONEY RECEIVED INTO THE TOWN TREASURY AS A RESULT OF SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OPERATION (This money is not expended for Schools) A. Tuition Trade School Reimbursement 6,530.17 Non-Resident & Dept. of Public Welfare, Child Guardianship 1,983.26 8,513.43 B. State Reimbursement General School Fund 114,673.88 Sight Saving Class 500.00 Military Service Credit 1,477.90 116,651.78 C. Miscellaneous Receipts Hall Rental 50.50 Lost books, broken windows, telephone commissions, manual training 436.05 486.55 125,651.76 TABL III. GENERAL STATISTICS, DECEMBER 1950 Number of school buildings . . .. . . .. . . . . 11 Senior High School .. . . .... . . .. .. ... . . . 1 Junior High Schools . . .... . . . ... .. . . . . 2 Elementary .. . . .. .... . .. . . . . . . ...... . . . 8 345 Grand Men Women Total Total Principals: Senior High School 1 1 Junior High Schools 2 2 Elementary Schools 6 6 9 Directors: Guidance 1 1 Physical Education 1 1 2 Supervisors: Household Arts and Cafeterias 1 1 Physical Education (girls) 1 1 Art 1 1 2 Music 1 1 5 Special Teachers: 7 7 Speech Correction 1 1 Librarian 1 1 Sight Saving Class 1 1 Physical Education (elementary) 1 1 Manual Training (elementary) 1 1 Band Master 1 1 13 Teachers: Senior High School 25 28 53 Junior High Schools 20 37 57 Elementary Schools 4 98 102 212 Home Instruction Teacher (part time) 1 1 1 General Control: Superintendent 1 1 Assistant Superintendent 1 1 Secretary 1 1 Assistant Secretary 1 1 Attendance Officers 2 2 6 Secretaries: Senior High School 3 3 Junior High Schools 2 2 Elementary Schools 5 5 20 Miscellaneous: Nurses 3 3 Physicians (part time) 3 3 6 Custodians and Janitresses: Custodians 16 16 Janitress 7 7 23 287 346 TABLE IV. MEMBERSHIP IN THE DAY SCHOOLS BY GRADES OCTOBER 1, 1948, 1949, 1950 1948 1949 1950 Kindergarten 537 525 462 Special Class 38 41 43 Sight Saving Class 6 14 13 Grade I 560 512 518 Grade II 410 468 468 Grade III 364 391 427 Grade IV 328 348 362 Grade V 303 330 342 Grade VI 350 311 315 Total in elementary schools 2896 2940 2950 Junior High Schools Grade VII 352 345 303 Grade VIII 344 339 333 Grade IX 341 347 339 Special Classes 31 29 26 Total in junior high schools 1063 1060 1001 Senior Iliali School Grade X 391 368 324 Grade XI 399 382 325 Grade XII 331 341 334 Total in senior high school 1121 1091 983 GRAND TOTAL 5085 5091 4934 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN The annual report of the Board of Selectmen for the year ending December 31, 1950, is herewith submitted to the citizens of Watertown. Each Department under the Board has submitted a detailed report covering the operation of the department so that it is not necessary to repeat the matter contained in these reports. Again as in 1940 'the citizens of Watertown find themselves faced with the ominous threat of war. Groups of our young men have been drafted each month and as the tension among nations increase more and more of our young men will be called for training in the armed services. It will beccme increasingly apparent that we who are charged with the duties of administering the affairs of the Town will have to take on additional duties. The citizens will be called upon to enlist in the Civil Defense organization to take whatever part is as- signed to them. There is no doubt that taxes will increase because of all our preparation for no citizen of the Town should fail to do his or her part in this all out effort. We feel that all unnecessary expendi- tures should be stopped to prevent an undue burden on the property owner. 347 Financial Condition It is a pleasure to again report that the financial condition of the Town is excellent. The Town debt now stands at $150,000.00. The sum of $45,000.00 was paid off during this year. At the Special Town Meeting held on May ath the sum of $70,0W was borrowed over a period of ten years in order to provide money for the construction of a new Fire Station in North Watertown. At this same meeting the sum of $59,000 was borrowed for the construction of a Field House at Victory Field. In the wisdom of the Town Meeting members it was felt that both of these projects were needed. The Town Meeting members voted to transfer the sum of $300,000. from the Excess and Deficiency account to be used to hold the tax rate at $41.00 or to reduce the rate. Unfor- tunately Mr. Long the Commissioner Corporations and Taxation, was opposed to permitting the Town to transfer this sum and authorized the transfer of only $195,000.00 Your Board feels that Mr. Long had no authority to change the figure of $300,000. because there is a Statute which provides that the Commissioner has no power to ap- prove or disapprove provided the amount to be transferred is not in excess of 50% of the Excess and Deficiency account. The failure of the Board of Assessors to take a firm stand in this matter resulted in an increase of $1.00 in the tax rate. Housing With the increase of production for defense, housing will again become acute in the Town. The Housing Authority has rented all the apartments in the new Veterans Housing project. The Legion Home has been turned back to the Legion and is again the Memorial to the men of Watertown who gave their lives for their Country. The apartments in the Municipal Garage have been discontinued and the only emergency housing left is centered in the Grant School. Plans are underway to construct another Veterans Housing project to be located in the East part of the Town. This project will not be as large as the completed one on Lexington St. but will upon completion make 60 apartments available. Post Office The Board feels that all citizens will agree that a new Post Office is needed badly in the Town. The only difference of opinion seems to be in the location of building. We feel that an ideal location would be the westerly end of Saltonstall Park. Congresswoman Rogers ad- vised that Watertown had been selected for a new Post Office provided a proper site could be acquired. Your Board felt that there is already too much tax exempt property in the Town and that the Government should not acquire a site for the Post Office that is now yeilding tax income to the Town. The Town Meeting on December 14th, 1950 authorized the Board to sell a portion of Saltonstall Park to the Federal Government for the purpose of erecting a Federal Building which would include the long needed Post Office. Your Board has offered to sell this land to the Federal Government for the sum of $45,000. The Fed- eral authorities have assured the Board that the building to be con- structed will match the architecture of the Adminstration Building. Your Board hopes that if the Government accepts the bid the Town will then relocate the Soldiers Monument so that it will be centered between the new building and the Administration Building. It also hopes that some landscaping will be done to properly beautify the land around the Monument. 348 Wages Because of the cost of living the Town Meeting felt that there should be a continuation of the "Cost of Living Bonus" for another year and so voted in the 1950 Annual Meeting. The cost of living index has in- creased since last year and your Board feels that again for 1951 that the employees of the Town will be entitled to some form of added compensa- tion. Your Board feels that it might be advisable to consider some plan whereby adjustments in pay would be based on the "Cost of Living Index." The Town of Brookline uses this method for maintaining the standard of living of the employees. Civil Defense The Board has appointed John Corbett, Veterans Services Agent as Director of Civil Defense on a part time basis, Space has been pro- vided in the Administration Building for a Civil Defense Office and also a part time clerk is employed. The Selectmen and the Director are reactivating the various branches of the Civil Defense organization used in World War II. Training classes have already been started for Air Raid Wardens, Auxiliary Police, Auxiliary Firemen, and First Aid. Provisions have been made for an Air Raid Warning system for the Town. It is felt by your Board that all citizens should volunteer for some work in Civil Defense and are urged to register with the Director without delay. It will be necessary to provide money in the 1951 budget for Civil Defense. We feel that as plans take shape under the Federal Agency and State Agency certain equipment will be required, and that rather than to provide for this at the Annual Meeting. It is most difficult for us at this time to estimate what the requirements will be. Conclusion We have tried to supervise the Deparments under our control and again followed the plan of holding special monthly meetings as a Board of Public Welfare. The members of the Board have made an effort to be available for any business of the Town beyond the regular meetings which are held every Monday. It is felt that greater efficiency could be accomplished so far as the clerical work is concerned if there was a more elastic plan for the interchange of clerical help among the departments. Your Board wishes to express its appreciation for the cooperation it has received from the department heads and the Town employees. We wish to thank the citizens who have served on committees and have assisted the Board in the discharge of its official duties. H. HERBERT APPLIN, Chairman ROY C. PAPALIA, Clerk WILFRED J. PAQUET INDEX TO REPORT OF 'TOWN AUDITOR Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 164 Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 166 Annuities . . . ... .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... 272 Appeals, Board of ... . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .... 190 Assessors' Department . . . . ..... . . . . . . .. .. ... . . . .. . .. . .... .. ...... 179 Auditors' Department . . . . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .I .. . . . ..... ....... 175 Balance Sheet .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ........ . 288 Buildings, Inspector of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Cemetery Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Civil Defense .. .... . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... 275 Clerk, Town ... ...... . . . .. . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .... . . .. ...... 181 Collector's Department . ....... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .... 178 Contributory Retirement Pension System 278 DogOfficer ........ . . .. ...... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 209 Election Expenses .. . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Engineering Department .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Finance Committee .. . . ..... . . . . . . ....... ... . .. . . ... ............ 180 Fire Department .. .. . . . . .... . . . . . . .... .. . . . . .. . . . ... . . . ... ...... 196 Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Department . . . .. . . . . . . . ..... .. . .. 203 Headquarters, Veterans .. ... . . . .. .. .... . . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. .. .... .. 274 Health Department . .......... ......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . .. .. 210 Highway Department .. .... . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 215 Infirmary Department .. . . .. . . . . ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 232 Insurance . ... .. .. . . . . . . ... . .. . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 274 Interest and Maturing Debt . . . ........ . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. 287 Legal Services .. . . . . .. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. 181 Library Department .... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... . . . . . ... .... .... 262 ListingBoard . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. . . . ... .... .... 187 MemorialDay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Moderator ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Park Department . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Pensions . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Physicians, Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Planning Board . . . . . . . . . ... . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Poles and Wires Department . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Police Department . . .. .. .. . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 190 Purchasing Department .. . . .. ...... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Registrars of Voters ...... .. .. ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 ReserveFund . .. . ......... . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 School Department ...... . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Selectmen's Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 174 Sewer Department .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 213 TownHall ... .. ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Treasurer's Department . . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 177 TreeWarden . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Unclassified ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Veteran's Services .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 233 Water Department .. . .. . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Weights and Measures . . . . .. ...... . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Welfare, Public, Department ...... ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 . . . . . . . . . . Workmen's Compensation ...... . . .. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 CONTENTS Animals, Inspector, Report .. .. . . . . ..... . .. . . . . ... . . . .. . . .. .... 295 Appeals, Board of, Report . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .... . . . . .. . . . . ... . .. . .. . 308 Appropriations Voted at Town Meeting 26 Assessors, Board of, Report . . .. . . . ... .. . ... . ... .. .. .. .. . . . .... . 327 Assistance, Old Age, Report of .. .... .. .. . . .. . .. . .. .. . ... . . . . .... 306 Auditor, Town, Report ... . . . . . .. . . . . .. ... ..... . . .... . . .. . . . . .. .. 161 Buildings, Inspector of, Report ... . .. .. .. .. .. . ... ... . .... . . .. .. .. 114 Cemeteries, Superintendent of, Report ...... . . . ... . . .... .. .. .. .. 316 Civil Defense, Director of, Report . . .... ..... . . . . .. .. . .. . . .... . . 112 Clerk, Town, Report of Department .. . . ... . . . . . .. . . .. .. . . . . .. . . 146 Counsel, Town, Report ....... .. . . . . ... .... .. .... .. ....... . ..... 296 Dependent Children, Aid to, Report of .. . . ... . .. .... .. .. . . . . ... . 307 Dog Officer, Report .. . . .... .. . ... .. . . . ... .... . .. . .. . . . . .. . . .. ... . 295 Engineer, Town, Report . . .. . . . . . ... .... . ... ...... . . . .. . . ... ... . 149 Finance Committee on Appropriation, Report ....... .. . . . ... .. . 93 Fire Department, Report . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . .... . . .. . . . . ... . . . . ... . 297 Health, Board of, Report ........ ..... . . ..... .. .... ...... . .... ... 310 Highway Department, Report . . . . . ... .. . ... .. ... . .. . . . . . . . .. .. . 140 Housing Authority . . . . . .. . .. ... . . . ... . . ... . . .. .... .. .. . . ... .... 132 Infirmary Department, Report . . .. . ... .... .. .. .. .... .. . . . . .... 130 Library, Board of Trustees, Report .. .. ....... ..... . ..... . . . .. . .. 117 Meetings, Town, Report of .. . . . . .. . ... . . .... .. . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . . 8 Moth Department, Report ...... ..... .... ..... .... . ... . . . . .. .... 113 Officers, Town .. . . ... . .. . . .. .. . . . ... . ... .. .. . ... .... .. .. . ... .... 3 Park Commissioners, Report .. . . . . ... ..... . . . . .. . . .. .... . . .. . . .. 330 Planning Board, Report .. .. .. . . . ... . . . ... .. . . .. . . .. ..... .... . . . 329 Plumbing Inspector, Report .. .. . ... . . .. ................ . . .. .... 314 Police Department, Report .. .. .. . ... . . . ... ..... . . . .. .. .. . ... . . .. 300 Population Statistics .. ..... .. ... . . . .. . . .. .... . . .. ... . .... . .. . . . . . 7 Purchasing Department, Report . . .. . . . .. . ... . .. .... . .. . . . .. .. .. 296 Retirement Board, Report .. . . .. . .. . . . ... .. ... .. .. ...... . . .. . . .. 249 School Committee, Report . . .. .. . ... . . ... . .. .... . . . .. . .. . ..... . . 335 Sealer of Wdights and Measures, Report .. ......... . ... .. . .. . . ... 130 Selectmen, Board of, Report .... . .. . . . . . .. .. .... .. . . . . . . . ... . . .. 346 State Audit, Report . . . . . . ... . .. .. .. . . .. . ... . . .. .. .... ... . .. .. . . 158 Taxes, Collector of, Report . ........ . . .......... ........ .. .. . .. .. 137 Treasurer, Town Report . . .. . . .. .. ... . .. . . .... . . . . .. . . .. . . . ... . . 317 Tree Warden, Report . .... ... . . . . . .... ... . ... . ... .. .... . . . .. . . ... 113 Veterans' Agent . . .. .. .. .. . . .... .. ... ... ...... .. ...... ... .. ... .. 129 Water Commissioners, Report .. .. .. . ... . . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . .. . . . . . 292 Welfare Department, Report . . . . ... . . . .. .. .. .. . . . . .. .. . . . . .. .. . . 304 Wire Department, Report ... ... ... ........... . .... . .... .. .... .. 108 Workmen's Compensation, Report ... .. . . ... .. .. .. .. . . . . .. .. .. .. 326