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Home My Public Portal About1958 Town Report O Y n Un �3 If - L'1 cr V cd . Lu Kids cv 0 W f3 d <r F � 058--ORLEANS ANNUAL REPORTS- 1958 110 --P-I$ --b a9 -1";d t, .. ir. SS .q t d � t na' y v : to I - Index to Reports Page Accountant's Report ........................................................:............................. 104 �! Balances Transferred to Revenue .... 112 - Classification of Payments .. ............... ._ 114 Investment and Trust Funds .. ... .... . .. ..................... .... 137 y ................... ....................................................................... 109 The Massachusetts Selectmen's Association Payments 104 Summary ..........................................._,..........,..,......,........................,...... 140 PRESENTS a Assessors' Report and Comparative Statement ................ .........,..... 29 Report on Map of Town _ .-.__._. 103 Audit State .... .......................: 76 Balance Sheet, December 31, 1958 .__........... ...... 141 �`�`77 JBcond Prize _Board of Appeals .................................. :Board of Trade ..................................... .............................__. . 48 IN THE FOURTH POPULATION GROUP `Building Inspector . ......... ._._ _ ____ ......... 55 By-Law Amendments ............................................................. ..................... 172 Civil Defense _ 54 v� County Health Officer ....., . .,.... ..,.... ....... . . ..... 75 Dog Licenses Issued in 1958 _ .._.__ __ 177 To the Town Of Finance Committee .............................__,... .... ..... 36 Fire and Police Department Rescue Squad ..... __ ..... 72 Fish and Game Licenses ..:..._................................................,...,..,........... 185 RLEA1`8 Fire Department ... ...... ....,. ..... .....,. 70 OS Harbor Master's Report _.:_ 74 HealthDepartment ...................... ..........__.....................,...................... 56 Highway.Garage Building Committee ............................................... 65 _ Highway Surveyor ........................ __.......... __ ---_ ........... .......,.., 52 In-Memoriam=James Dickie .,. ...,......... ............ ...,.... 9 Adele V. Brown 10 Insect Pest Superintendent, Report of ......... ..........:............. 46 In Recognition of the Excellence of its Jury List .. ..... ........ 73 L' PORT q� 7 Library—Snow Library Report ...... ..... .. ... _ _ 60 TOWN It Q R 1 Nursing Service ............................................ .,.... 57 Park Commission __. ...... 51 ]� Planning Board .... ...... ..... ..... ...,. ..... 44 Tor the Year 1957 Recreation Department .... ..,. ..,..,. ...,. ..., .._ 68 Recreation Commission .... ....... ..... ...,. ..... 61 Regional School District Committee ....,, ._., ..... ...., 80 AND in witness thereof has caused its seal and the signatures of Registrars of Voters ____ __ __ 64 Salaries Paid in 1958 . ...... ..... . .... __... 13 its President and Secretary to be affixed hereto at Lenox on the School Report .. .. ... __ _._ 186 • Sealer of Weights and Measure ..._. _ .___....... ............ 66 Tenth day of October, nineteen hundred and fatty eight. Selectmen's Re-port . ..,,....... 11 Selectmen's and Departmental Recommendation for 1959 16 _��yT+iwq•h. JJ Shellfish Constable's Report .... _... 59 Tax Collector's Report _....,..,,. ..,_.. .,,. 32 PaE, oENr 11 ,-6 ;�° q'• 9� _ Town Clerk's Report-1958 c g , Annual Town Meeting, 1958 145 • . Births 178 Marriages 181 Deaths .. 183 L•• y s - -" s E C R f T A R.. Special Town Meeting,May 26 1958 __ _._ .. 174 Town Counsel 47 a r r Town Government .. 90 Town Officers ..:......_. _..______ _.___.... ..._.- --- 3 Treasurer's Report .................................................................................... 33 Tree Warden ....... ___..... .... ... ... 45 Warrant—Annual Town Meeting-1959 . ..... .,.. . 19 Water Safety Committee _...,_, ___._.,._,..,__............. ...................... 63 Waterways Investigating Committee .____...._.___..____....__._......._.. 49 Welfare Department ............._,_,_._..:.,_,_,_ ..........,......,...,_.......,...__,. 42 WireInspector ._.__ ....... .................. ................__,..,...,.., ...............,... 62 i ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF ORLEANS �ga YTED For the Year Ending December 31, 1958 KENDALL PRINTING CO. FALMOUTH, MASS. j 3 Town Officers Moderator Kenrick A. Sparrow Term expires March, 1959 Selectmen and Assessors Franklin S. Murray, Chairman Term expires March, 1960 Arthur R. Finlay Term expires March, 1961 Richard H. Adams Term expires March, 1959 Board of Health Franklin S. Murray, Chairman Term expires March, 1960 Arthur R. Finlay Term expires March, 1961 Richard H. Adams Term expires March, 1959 Board of Public Welfare Richard H. Adams, Chairman Term expires March, 1959 Franklin S. Murray Term expires March, 1960 Arthur R. Finlay Term expires March, 1961 School Committee Joseph W. Higgins Term expires March, 1959 Francis P. Burling Term expires March, 1960 Charity M. Kidd Term expires March, 1961 Orleans Members of Regional District School Committee Winthrop A. Griffin, Chairman Term expires March, 1959 Donald C. MacKenzie Term expires March, 1960 Joseph W. Huggins,elected by Orleans School Committee Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector of Taxes 4 Trustees Snow Library S. Stewart Brooks Term expires March, 1959 Louis H. Carter Term expires March, 1960 Harry H. Snow Term expires March, 1961 Constables Henry A. 'Perry Term expires Mar,ch., 11959 George A. Bissonnette Term expires March, 1959 Surveyor of Highways Frederick G. Mayo Term expires March, 1961 Tree Warden Emile A. 011ivier Term expires March, 1960 Park Commissioners Clarence L. Vanasse, Chairman Term expires March, 1960 Kendall R. Higgins Term expires March, 1959 Alvin H. Wright Term expires March, 1961 Planning Board Raymond E. Newton, Chairman Term expires March, 1959 Alton'L. Smith Term expires March, 1960 Frederic C. Berger Term expires March, 1961 Eldredge E. Sparrow Term expires March, 1962 Milton M. Gray, Jr. Term expires March, 1963 Recreation Commission Moncrieff M. Cochran Term expires March, 1959 Omer R. Chartrand Term expires March, 1960 Philip A. Deschamps Term expires March, 1961 Lucy Hopkins Term expires March, 1962 John D. W. Joy Term expires March, 1963 Appointed Officers Town Counsel Paul P. Henson, Jr. Term expires March, 1959 Registrars of Voters Adelbert A. Childs, Chairman Term expires March, 1959 I 5 General Office Clerk Adele V. Brown Term expires March, 1959 Sealer of Weights and Measures Weigher of Beef, Grain and Hay Measurer of Wood and Dark Charles F. Moore Term expires March, 1959 Field Drivers and Pound Keepers Charles O. Freeman Term expires March, 1959 Elmer L. Taylor Term expires March, 1959 Fence Viewers H. Bruce Mitchell Term expires March, 1959 Elmer L. Taylor Term expires March, 1959 Health Officer Dr. Fred L. Moore Term expires March, 1959 Physician to Boards of Health and Public Welfare Dr. Henry A. White Term expires March, 1959 Sanitary Inspectors and Collectors of Milk Samples George F. Crocker, Term expires March, 1959 Marston Mills Ernest C. Eldredge, Jr., Term expires March, 1959 Chatham Burial Agent Richard C. Nickerson Term expires March, 1959 Inspector of Wires Charles O. Thompson Term expires March, 1959 Custodian of Town Office Building and Recreation Hall Herbert L. Fuller Term expires March, 1959 Accounting Officer Harry F. Childs Term expires March, 1959 Insect Pest Control Superintendent Emile A. 011ivier Term expires March, 1959 Caretaker of "Perpetual Care" Lots Orleans Cemetery Association Term expires March, 1959 6 Forest Warden Lawrence L. Ellis Term expires March, 1959 Fire Engineers Lawrence L. Ellis, Chief Term expires April, 1959 C. Emery Soule Term expires April, 1959 Lloyd R. Ellis Term expires April, 1959 Joseph L. Rogers, Jr. Term expires April, 1959 Henry W. Hurley Tern expires April, 1959 Dog Officer Chester A. Landers Term expires March, 1959 Harbormaster and Wharfinger Arthur W. Nickerson Term expires March, 1959 Shellfish Constable Arthur W. Nickerson Term expires March, 1959 Veterans'Agent Ralph A. Chase, Resigned Lawrence A. Baker Term expires March, 1959 Weighers of Coal, Grain and Wood Stanley H. Snow Harry H. Snow Frank Gallant Russell Cash Wilfred Gallant Robert W. Snow Charles O. Thompson George W. Cahoon, Jr. Henry W. Hurley Caretaker of Herring Brook Theodore A. Young Term expires March, 1959 Caretaker of Town Dump Leslie W. Chase Term expires March, 1960 Police Chester A. Landers, Chief Term expires March, 1959 Charlie E. Jones, resigned Term expires March, 1959 John C.Urbanski, Sgt. Term expires March, 1959 Albert L. Watson Term expires March. 1959 Russell L. Boyer Term expires March, 1959 Special Police George Bissonnnette Henry W. Landers Philip A. Deschamps Thomas S. Stewart Robley E. Fulcher, Jr. Raymond H. Squire 7 Auxiliary Police Richard H.Adams David E. Johnson David H. Bessom Franklin L. Joy J. William Costello G. Frederick Livingston Elmer R. Darling Robert E. Livingston Ernest A. Saulnier Police Matron Evangeline Peterson Term expires March, 1959 Town Nurses Marion I. Chace, R. N. Tenn expires March, 1959 Doris A. Pond, R. N. Term expires March, 1959 Welfare Worker Eleanor S. Blake Term expires March, 1959 Civil Defense Director George F. Livingston Term expires March, 1959 Deputy Tax Collector Henry A. Perry Term expires March, 1959 Finance Committee Eric G. Benedict Term expires March, 1959 Louis W. Knowles Term expires March, 1959 Donald B. Walsh Term expires March, 1959 Walter H. Mayo, Jr. Term expires March, 1960 Ann S. Hamma:tt Term expires March, 1960 Kathryn B. Furman Term expires March, 1960 Reginald H. Sprague Term expires March, 1961 Joseph D. Whittemore Term expires March, 1961 Frederick F. Rockwell Term expires March, 1961 Building Inspector H. Bruce Mitchell Term expires March, 1959 Appeal Board Donald C. MacKenzie, Chairman Term expires March, 1959 Robert E. Livingston Term expires March, 1960 Cecil R. Mayo Term expires March, 1961 Richard C. Nickerson, Associate Term expires March, 1961 Clifford E. Soule, Associate Term expires March, 1962 Reuben S. HoDkixns. Clerk Term, exnirf March_ 1962 8 Water Safety Committee Kathleen VanBuskirk Term expires March, 1959 Phyllis W. Drew Tern expires March, 1959 Margaret E. W. Martin Term expires March, 1959 Elementary School Building Committee Charles F. Richardson, Chmn. Carroll R. Reed Barbara D.Mayo Francis P.Burling Elizabeth C. Cochran Arthur R. Finlay Douglas N. MacArthur Joseph W. Higgins Highway Garage Building Committee Frederick G. Mayo Clifford E. Soule Richard C. Nickerson Everett C. Winslow, Jr. Clarence J. O'Neill Town Forest Committee Richard H.Adams Albion H. Besse Emile A.011ivier Waterways Improvement Committee Elmer R. Darling Kenneth G. Huber R. Frederick Raddin Charles F. Richardson Paul P Henson, Jr. Shellfish Advisory Board Willis S. Gould Jr., D. S. C. Elmer R. Darling Thomas F.Whitbread,D.S.C. Gardner E.Munsey, D.S. C. -Nauset Beach Commission Franklin S. Murray Arthur R. Finlay Richard H. Adams I l in Memoriam JAMES DICKIE Selectman—Assessor Member Boards of Health and Public Welfare February, 1938-February, 1947 AMemoriam ADELE V. BROWN "In memory of a faithful Town Employee" 1951-1959 i 11 Report of the Selectmen To the Citizens of Orleans: Our town has had another year of steady healthy growth. New businesses have located here,some established.busi- nesses have moved to new locations and some have enlarged existing quarters. New homes have been built and new home sites developed. To them all we say welcome and may they prosper. A new bulkhead, comfort station, water at the docks and boat launching ramp iat Rock Harbor has been established. Roads have been paved and improved and boat Launching ramps built at River Road landing and the Town Cove. The new Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School is well under way. The last link of the Mid-Cape Highway is being con- structed and a part of West Road relocated. Headway is slow but steady in the town ownership of Nauset Beach. We have touched,only-a few of the achievements during the past year and then not necessarily in the-order of their importance. With growth comes problems-and the need for new or the expansion of existing services. Parking and road drainage seem to be the two most persistent ones.Lack-of parking may mean at the worst a loss of some business. We do not think that it is near that point yet, but we are constantly looking for more parking area. Lack of proper road drainage means that we are creat- ing.a nuisance it'o property,and a hazard to traffic. To men- tion a few of -the worst, the junction of Main Street, Beach and Barley Neck Roads; Main Street at Meeting House Road; Main Street from Monument Road ito Academy Place; Monu- ment Road; Hopkins Lane near the residence of Mr. Knodell. At these points and many more we have for years been dis- r. is of 'q f .x a __ —i—+. r� +r mh.— — I—A — 12 easement. The owners of many of these properties now wish to use their Land and find this water a nuisance and have ap- plied to us to divert the drainage in some other direction. There is no other way to abate-this nuisance except to install —proper drainage pipes Leading to some body of water. We realize this is expensive but we strongly urge the voters to tackle this problem in a realistic way and appropriate enough money so.that a good start can be made towards solving this problem. We are constantly being petitioned to lay out new town roads, but this we are reluctant to do if the particular road would add to an already serious drainage condition. We have worked closely this year with many Town Com- mittees and find them dedicated to the job for which they have been appainted. These citizens render a true public service and deserve 'the thanks of us all. We wish to thank all town departments for the fine co- operation they have given us in maintaining our,town govern- ment at its high level. FRANKLIN S. MURRAY ARTHUR R. FINLAY RICHARD H. ADAMS Selectmen of iOrleans 13 SALARIES PAID IN 1958 Richard H. Adams, Selectman, etc. $3,519.25 Arthur R. Finlay, Selectman, etc. 3,622.25 Franklin S. Murray, Selectman, etc. 3,549.75 Francis I. Rogers, T. C.,.Treasurer & Collector 4,500.00 Harry F. Childs, Town Accountant 3,074.25 Adele V. Brown, Secretary 3,039.0.0 Eleanor S.Blake,Welfare Worker 2,777.13 Arthur W. Nickerson, Shellfish Constable and Harbormaster 3;600,00 Ruth L. Barnard, Librarian 1,200.00 Marion I. Chace, Town Nurse 3,900.00 Doris A. Pond, Town Nurse 3,700.00 Ralph A. Chase, Veterans'Agent (Resigned) 527.78 Lawrence A.Baker, Veterans'Agent 111.12 Leslie W. Chase, Dump Custodian 1,487:51 Chester A. Landers, Chief of Police 4,800.00 Charlie E. Jones, Police (Resigned) 3,767.98 Albert L. Watson, Police 3,427.81 John C. Urbanski, Police 3,537.80 Russell L.Boyer,Communications&Police 169.00 James G.Dolan, Police 645.00 Walter M.Knowles,Police 937.00 Lawrence L. Ellis, Fire Chief 4,200.00 Paul E.Deschamps,Communications&Fire 517.00 Robert L. Deschamps, Communications 930.00 Leighton W.Ellis, Communications& Fire 525.00 Mildred W. Kingsley, Communications 3,000.00 Henry W. Landers, •Communications 725.00 William I.Livingston,Fire& Communications 279.00 Belmont P. Mayo, Fire & Communications 547.00 James E. Nichols, Communications, Fire & School Custodian 4,355.04 Anthony Austin, Park Department 865.50 Adelbert A. Childs, Registrar of Voters 809.20 James A. Doucette, Highway Department 985.50 David H. Eagles, Park Department 534.00 C. Louise Fulcher, Cafeteria 1,540.00 Grace E. Fulcher, Cafeteria 1,140.00 John P. Fulcher, Highway Department 2,847.00 Herbert L. Fuller, Custodian--Town Hall & Rec. Hall 1,680.00 Lionel S. Gill, School Custodian 4,050.04 Richard N. Gould, Highway Department 1,953.00 Mary L. Gray, School 2,025.00 Dunning Hamilton, School 1,8,60.00 Paul P. Henson,Jr., Town Counsel 1,242.77 Karlia.11 R. H12gin,c Park nAna.rt,.mant 9 1A9 ro 14 Pearl I. Hopkins, Cafeteria 1,200.00 Gustaf A. Karlson, Park Department 576.00 Scott A.Kelly,Highway Department 547.50 Russell E. Kidd, Park Department 623.25 Frederick G. Mayo, Surveyor of Highways 4,000.00 Bertha Meads, Cafeteria 1,340.00 H. Bruce Mitchell, Building Inspector 1,066.00 Charles F. Moore, Sealer of Weights & Measures 200.00 John E.Nichols,Park Department 740.00 Emile A. 011ivier, Tree Warden 1,212.25 Paul P. 011ivier,Tree Warden Department 975.00 Thomas L. Paulson, Highway Department 748.65 Berthana Richardson, Cafeteria 2,240.00 Elizabeth G. Richardson, Cafeteria 1,240.00 Catherine A.Smith, Registrar of Voters 291.00 Samuel C. Smith, School Custodian 3,550.04 Kenrick A. Sparrow, Moderator 50:00 Thomas S. Stewart, Communications & Police 646.00 Lloyd E. Stickney, Registrar of Voters & Park 1,0-52.26 Paul P. Sullivan, Park Department 571.60 John D. Thomas, Park Department 648.09 William S.Treese, Jr., Park Dep-artment 738.00 Donald B. Walsh, Communications 719.00 Robert W. Watson, Highway Department 1,548.00 Mabel H. Weidler, Clerical 861.00 Alvin- H. Wright, Park Department 2,148.00 Josephine H. Young, Cafeteria 660.00 Theodore A. Young, Caretaker of Herring Brook 30:00 Henry A. Perry, Constable 50:00 George A.H.issonnette, Constable &Police 90.00 Ralph R. Mayo, Inspector of Animals 100.00 Gordon H. Argo, Teacher 1,800.00 Rita C. Blake, Teacher 4,166.64 Edward E. Bolton, Teacher 2,920.00 Stanley M. Boynton, Teacher 5,333.36 S. Stewart Brooks, Teacher 6,400.00 Moncrieff M. Cochran, Jr., Teacher 5,566.64 Frederick D. Cole, Teacher 4,390.36 Bernard C.Collins,Teacher 5,066.64 Elizabeth F. Collins, Teacher 1,200.00 Dorothy M. Connors, Teacher 1,133.28 Ruth B. Denman, Teacher 2,800.04 Joan. C. Dugener, Teacher 1,813.36 W. David Edwards, Teacher 5,000.33 Doris T. Eldredge, Teacher 592.50 Dorothy P. Eldredge, Teacher 5,0.66.64 i 15 Dorothy B. Evans, Teacher 3,847.64 Eleanor B. Fisher, Teacher 5,066.64 Dorothy M. Fuleher, Teacher 4,445.64 David A. Gates, Teacher 4,433.36 Armand A. Guarino, Principal (High School) 7,700.00 Frank B. James, Teacher 2,440.00 Marie E. Jones, Teacher 4,933.36 Bertha E. Keefe, Teacher 5,066.64 Albert G. Kolodzik, Teacher 4,433.36 Eugene M. Lavery, Teacher 4,074.00 Mary A. Leary, Teacher 5,5001.00 Georgia R. Lowell, Teacher 4,200.00 Cora M. Mayo, Principal (Elementary) 5,700510 Constance M. Newell, Teacher 1,432.50 Herbert F. Pettengill, Teacher 4,066.72 Sydney G. Pierce, School Superintendent 5,100.00 Ethel T. Reed, Teacher 667.00 Dulce W. Ryder, Teacher 840.00 Catherine M. Skinner, Teacher 5,066.64 Stanley E. Smith, Jr., Teacher 4,666.64 Barbara N. Wright, Teacher 2,733.36 Joseph Zarba, Teacher 1,680.00 Above salaries of $500.00 or over and to appointed or other elective officers. Payments of less than $50-0.00 not listed. Non-reportable fees retained by the Town Clerk in 1958, $191.00. Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS I. ROGERS Treasurer 16 SELECTMEN'S AND DEPARTIVIENTAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1959 Moderator's Salary $50.00 Selectmen's Salaries 4,500.00 (Each member$1,50(1.00) Beard of Public Welfare Salaries 1,200.00 (Each member$400.00) Selectmen's expense and supplies 750.00 Assessors' pay and expense Pay 6,500.00 Expense 1,000.00 Assessors'Maps 1,000.00 Town Accountant's Salary and Expense 3,675.00 Collector's Salary 1,700.00 Treasurer's Salary 2,000.00 Town Clerk's Salary 800.00 Collector's, Treasurer's and Town Clerk's expense 1,300.00 Finance Committee Expense 150.00 Elections, Registrations Expense 1,700.00 Town Office Maintenance and Repair expense 6,000.00 Clerical Expense 5,642.00 Tax Title expense 200.00 Town Counsel and Legal expense 3,175.00 Planning Board expense 250.00 Appeals Board expense 250.00 Recreation Hall expense and operation 3,800.00 Engineering (Road Layouts,eitc.) 2,500.00 Total General Government $48,142.00 Pd lee $23,500.00 Constables' Salaries 100.00 Fire Department 8,875.00 Rescue Truck Operation Expense 800.00 Civil Defense 2,000.00 Building Code expense 1,600.00 Wire Inspection 300.00 Communication Center 7,955.00 Sealer of WeiglLts and Measures Salary &Expense 500.00 Insect Pest Control 3,200.00 Tree Warden 2,100.00 Dutch Elm 1,400.00 17 Health, General (including Town Dump) $12,280.00 Inspection of Animals 100.00 Inspector of Slaughtering 25.00 Ambulance Hire 3,000.00 Toital Health and Sanitation $15,405.00 General Repairs $32,350.00 Snow Removal 5,000.00 Building and Machinery 1,875.00 Street Lights 8,250.00 Traf-ic Signs 200•.00 Harbor Master'•s expense 2,500.00 Total Highway Department $50,175.00 General Relief $5,000.00 Old Age Assistance 35,000.00 Aid to Dependent Children 5,000.00 Disability Assistance 3,000.00 Administration 1,200.00 Free Bed, Cape Cod Hospital 500.00 Total Charities $49,700.00 Veterans'Benefits $6,900.00 Total Veterans' Benefits $6,900.00 Schools $183,802.00 School Committee Salaries 350.00 Vocational Education 5,800.00 Snow Library 3,125.00 School Lunch Account 2,000.00 Ea th-am-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School Dist. 101,122.70 Total Education $296,199.70 Parks &Playgrounds $15,811.00 Total Parks & Playgrounds $15,811.00 Cemeteries and Tomb $675.00 Soldiers'Monument 656.00 18 Interest on Bonds $8,000.00 Maturing Notes and Bonds: Junior-Senior High School 1,000.00 New Elementary School 21,000.00 Total Interest and Bonds $30,000.00 Insurance and Collectors, Treasurer's Bonds lto 625 00 Town Reports 1,200.00 Memorial and Veterans'Day 675.00 Care of Herring Brook 75.00 Shellfish 3,750.00 Miscellaneous 500.00 Water Safety Committee 1,025.00 Total Unclassified $16,850.00 Total Recommendations for 1959 $582,837.70 I 19 Annual Town Meeting Warrant The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Orleans in the County of Barnstable GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSA- CHUSETTS, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, to meet at the High School Auditorium in said Orleans on Monday the 9th day of March next, at 6:30 o'clock in the evening,then and there to act on the following articles:- And to meet at the Town Office Building at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon on Wednesday the 11th day of March next, to elect all necessary Town Officers. Polls may close at 6:30 P.M. Article 1. To act upon the Annual Report (including Recommendations) of the Selectmen and other Town Officers or Committees and raise and appropriate money for the same. Article 2. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1959 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 Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws. Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to sell, after first giving notice of time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the,town fourteen (14) days at least before the sale, or at private sale, property taken by the town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen or whomsoever they authorize ito hold such sale may reject any bid which �, ., ao,a.., a, ipn„nt.e or take anv action relative thereto. 20 Article 4. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury,a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance,or take any action relative thereto. Article 5. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury,a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Construction, or take anv action relative thereto. Article 6. To see if the Town will appropriate whatever money may be received from the Dog Tax of the previous year for the use of the Snow Library, to be available to the Trustees for the purchase of books or any other lawful expense of the Library. Article 7. To see if the Town will assume liability in the manner provided by Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, as amended, in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, and authorize the Selectmen to exe- cute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Com- monwealth. Article 8. To see if the Town will transfer from the Overlay Surplus Account, the sum of Five Thousand (5,000.) Dollars, for the Reserve Fund for 1959. Article 9. To see .if the Town will set the salary of the Board of Selectmen at $2,000. each member, the salary of the Board of Assessors at$2,000. each member-and the salary of the Board of Public Welfare at $400. each member, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000. to be used together with monies already appropriated to put the new salaries into effect retroactive to January 1, 1959, in accordance with the Committee on Town Government. Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 40, Seetton 6B of the General Laws of Massachusetts, which reads: "A city or town which accepts this section may appropriate money for the purchase of uni- forms for members of its police and fire departments." Article U. To see if the Town will adopt as an official name for that section of Tonset Road Extension, so-culled, which runs from Route 28 to Route 6, the name of Eldredge Park Way or take any action thereon. 21 Article 12. To see if the Town will increase the salary of the Surveyor of Highways Four Hundred (400.) Dollars,and to raise and appropriate the sum of Four Hundred (400.) Dol- lars for the same,being retroactive to January 1, 1959. By Request. Article 13. To see if the Town will accept the provisions of Chapter 136, Section 7 and 8 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, or take any other action relative thereto and act fully thereon. Article 14. To see if the Town will adopt the provisions of Chapter 139, Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, or take any action relative thereto and act fully thereon. Article 15. To see if the Town will purchase from Clay- ton P. Eldredge a tract of registered land containing about 8 acres, and bounded Northerly by Pine Road, Easterly by other land of Clayton P.Eldredge, Southerly by other land of the town (Town disposal area) and Westerly by Lot's Hollow Road, for the erection of a Highway Garage Building, and raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred (2,500.) Dollars to defray the expenses thereof and authorize the Selectmen to take all action necessary thereto. Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the action taken under Article 11 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1958 and appropriate the sum of Twenty-five Thousand (25,000.) Dollars for the purpose of constructdng -and equip- ping a Highway Garage Building, and the sum of $3,000.00 raised under said Article 11 be transferred to the purposes of this article and the sum of $22,000.00 be taken from available funds in the treasury. Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to establish a stabilization fund under the provisions of Section 5B of Chap- ter 40 of the General Laws and appropriate the sum of Twenty-five Thousand (25,000.) Dollars to be taken from un- appropriated available funds in the treasury for this purpose. Article 18. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Fifty (1,050.) Dollars, to purchase and equip a new auto cruiser for the Police Department and authorize the Selectmen to trade in as part of the purchase price,the present Chevrolet Cruiser. Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to transfer cer- tain account balances to the Excess and Deficiency account. 22 Article 20. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred (500.) Dollars for the planting of shade,treees upon Town Ways,said sum to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden. By Request. Article 21. To see if the Town will accept the doings and report of the Selectmen to be filed with the Town Clerk on or before March 2, 1959 relative to the laying out of Seaview Road, a distance of 1,100 feet more or less, and to see if the Town will accept the layout of this road as recommended in said report of the Selectmen on behalf of the Town, to accept as a gift, to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain under Chapter 79 of the General Laws,for the municipal pur- pose of a Town Way, in fee simple, the land described in said report, subject to all public rights. Article 22. To see if the Town will accept the doings and report of the Selectmen to be Piled with the Town Clerk on or before March 2, 1959 relative to the layout of Ruggles Road, a distance of 1,950 feet, more or less, and to see if the Town will accept the layout of this road as recommended in said report of the Selectmen on behalf of the Town, to accept as a gift, to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain under Chapter 79 of the General Laws, for the municipal purpose of a Town Way, in fee simple, the land described in said report, subject to all public rights. Article 23. To see if the Town will accept the doing and report of the Selectmen-to be filed with the Town Clerk on or.before March 2, 1959,relative to the layout of Pine Needle Way-and Pine Needle Way Extension, a distance of 1,800 feet, more or less,and to see if the Town will accept the layout as recommended by the Selectmen in said report, and authorize the Selectmen on behalf of the Town-to accept as a gift, to acquire by purchase, or to take by eminent domain under Chapter 79 of the General Laws, for the municipal purpose of a Town Way, in fee simple, the Iand described in said report subject to all public rights. Article 24. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred (500.) Dollars to purchase from George W. Cummings, a piece of property on Hopkins Lane for the purpose of road drainage. Article 25. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury a sum of money for shore protection at Skaket Beach llnripr flip nrnviainn of (Sh,a.n+Pr 01 of flip'r-1— of T— 23 Article 26. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand (2,000.) Dollars to overhaul the Health Department bulldozer. Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of Five Hundred (500.) Dollars under the provisions of Chapter 158, Acts of 1929, for providing enter- tainment or amusement of a public character, to be used in connection with publicly raised funds, to furnish Christmas Display and Children's party in 1959. P Y By Request. Article 28. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand (3,000.) Dollars for the purpose of advertising the advantages of the Town and the operation of a Public Information Booth, said funds to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen and -only if an equal matching sum has been deposited with the Town Treasurer prior to the expenditure of-any said appropriation, under the provisions of Chapter 30,Acts of 1958. By Request. Article 29. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred (2,500.) Dollars to install a reinforced concrete cover over the fire cistern at the town parking lot in the rear of the Fire Station and authorize the Fire Engineers to take all action necessary thereto. By Request. Article 30. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Nine Hundred (900.) Dollars to purchase and equip a Boat, Trailer, Motor, to be used by the Orleans Fire and Police Rescue Squad, and authorize the Fare and Police De- partments to take all action necessary thereto. By Request. Article 31. To see if the Town will instruct the Modera- tor to re-appoint a Waterways Improvement Committee, and raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred (500.) Dollars for the expense of said Committee. By Request. Article 32. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Two Hundred Fifty (1,250.) Dollars to grade and pave the remainder of Doane Way, a distance of five hundred twenty feet approximately. 24 Article 33. To see if the Town will authorize the Harbor- master to install new nun and can channel markers,ten (10) in Town Cove and seventeen (17) in Pleasant Bay, and raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred Seventy-five (675.) Dollars therefore. By Request. Article 34. To see if the Town will authorize the Select men to acquire by purchase, accept as a gift, or take by emi- nent domain, an easement over the property of Charles M. and Dorothy W. Campbell for Highway drainage purposes from Main Street to Meetinghouse Pond, and to raise and appropriate Twelve Thousand (12,000.) Dollars for construc- tion of a highway drainage system on Main Street, Beach, and Barley Neck Roads over the same, to be installed under the direction of the Surveyor of Highways. By Request. Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of Eight Hundred (800.) Dollars to properly celebrate the Fourth of July day in 1959. This money to be spent by the Orleans Past #308 American Legion Inc., under the supervision of the Selectmen. By Request. Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of Five Hundred (500.) Dollars for a fire- works display to complete the July 4th celebration. This money to be spent by the Orleans Post#308 American Legion Inc., under the supervision of the Selectmen. By Request. Article 37. To see if the Town will raise and 'appropriate a sum of money to pay 1958 bills, under provisions of Chapter 179,Acts of 1941. Article 38. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Fifteen Hundred (1,500.) Dollars, for entertain- ment of a public nature under Chapter 158 of the Acts of 1929, to be spent under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen, or do or act anything thereon. By Request. Article 39. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of One Th•ouganrl (1 AM) T)niiarc f— ,,.moo i n +i,a 25 Article 40. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Five Thousand (5,000.) Dollars for the purpose of making a drainage survey of the town under the direction of the Selectmen. Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to dispose of a refrigerator for whiah the School department has no further use. Article 42. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred (1,500.) Dollars for the construction and erection of a new dock and float at the Town Cove, the present dock to be salvaged and combined with the present dock at River Road, and authorize the Har- bormaster to take all action necessary thereto. By Request. Article 43. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Ten Thousand (10,000.) Dollars to dredge Pleasant Bay Narrows,and the entrances to Lonnie's (Kescayogansett), Arey's,Paw Wah and Quanset Ponds,and authorize the Water- ways Improvement Committee, to take all action necessary thereto. By Request. Article 44. To see if the Town will authorize the Park Commissioners to enlarge the parking area at Skaket Beach by 23,000 square feet,more or less, and grade, pave and clear the same, and seal coat all parking areas at Nauset and Skakeft Beaches, and to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Four Hundred Fifty (3,450.) Dollars to defray the expense thereof, the work to be done under the super- vision of the Park Commissioners and the Road Surveyor. By Request. Article 45. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to purchase a used four wheel drive Jeep Beach Wagon, and to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Seven Hundred (1,700.) Dollars to defray the expenses thereof, equipment and maintenance and other ad- ditional expenses. 26 Article 46. To see if the Town will authorize the Park Commissioners to perform labor on the Parks and Playgrounds and Public Beaches and fix hourly wages of the Commissioners at $1.50 per hour when performing such labor, in accordance with the provisions of Section 4-A of Chapter 41, General Laws. By Request. Article 47. To see,if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $48.00 to maintain two (2) street lights on Brick Hill Road from the residence of Mr.Richard Anslow to the junction of Hopkins Lane. By Request. Article 48. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $900.00 for six Band Concerts to be given in the Town of Orleans during 1959 by the Orleans Band. By Request. Article 49. To see if the Town will adopt the following amendment to the Protective By-Law for the Town of Or- leans, Massachusetts in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A of the General Laws,or take any action relative thereto and act fully thereon. Section 1. Establishment of Districts. Amend Section 1, Paragraph 1, which now reads: "1. Classes of Districts." The Town of Orleans is hereby divided as shown on the Zoning Map dated October 1, 1953, and filed with the Town Clerk, into two classes of districts;", so that all that area of the Town lying southeast of the Old Colony Railroad, South- west of West Road, Northwest of County Road (Route #6 and #6A) and Northeast of the Brewster Town line shall be in- cluded in a Business District. By Request. Article 50. To see if the Town will adopt the following amendment to the Building Code, Orleans, Massachusetts, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 143 of the General Laws, or take any action relative thereto and act fully thereon. Section 5. General Provisions Applicable to All Build- i 27 Paragraph 4. Footings. Amend sub-paragraph 1, which now reads "Ail footings must be masonry", to read:. All footings must be masonry, except,where poured concrete walls supporting not more than a one and one-half story structure are installed, footings may be omitted provided the poured wall is at least 10 inches in thickness throughout. Paragraph 5 Foundations. Delete sub-paragraph 6, which reads "One story frame buildings may be built on cement piers provided that the distance between piers is within the limits of the maximum spans for wood girders",so that-all buildings hereafter erected in the town requiring a permit under the provisions of this code shall have a continuous perimeter foundation of con- crete,brick or stone. By Request. Article 51. To see if the Town will instruct the Select- men to appoint a Committee to investigate the cost of suitably marking historical sites in the Town and report at the next Annual Town Meeting with their recommendations and raise and appropriate the sum of $50.00 to cover committee ex- penses. Article 52. To see if the Town will vote to purchase, accept as a gift or take by eminent domain, an easement across property of Maurice N. Lee, Jr., and Ruth A. Quinn for the purpose of draining Depot Square and Main Street. Article 53. To see if the Town will vote to convey to the abutters, a certain tract of land known as the "Old Clay Pit", bounded Southerly by Beach Road,Westerly and Northerly by land now or formerly of Donald E. Fulcher and Norman M. Hopkins et ux, and Easterly by land now or formerly of said Norman M. Hopkins, et ux., and authorize the Selectmen to take any and all action necessary thereto. Article 54. And to act upon any other business that may legally come before the meeting. WEDNESDAY,MARCgl 11, 1959 To vote for the election of the following Town Officers: 28 One Assessor for three years. One Member Board of Public Welfare for three years. One Member Board of Health for three years. Two Constables for one year. One Park Commissioner for-three years. One Member of School Committee for one year. One Member of School Committee for two years. One Member of School Committee for three years. One Member of Regional School Committee for two years. One Trustee Snow Library for Three years. One Member Planning Board for five years. One Member Recreation Commission for five years. And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by pasting up attested copies thereof at Orleans Post Office, East Orleans Post Office and South Orleans Post Office, in said Town, Seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting. HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this War- rant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting,as aforesaid. Given under our hands this 91th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine. FRANKLIN S. MURRAY ARTHUR R.FINLAY RICHARD H. ADAMS Selectmen of Orleans A true copy. Attest: George A.Bissonette, Constable. I, 29 Report of the Assessors To the Orleans Tax Payers: In the tax year 1958 we maintained a healthy increase in total valuation over the year 1957. This increase represented in the case of Real Estate $493,535.00 and in the ease of Per- sonal Property $56,270.00 for a -,total increase of $549,805. In actuality the increase in true valuation was $1,099,610.00 mostly in new construction during 1958, but as we tax on the basis of 50% of replacement cost, the increase in the tax base was $549,805.00. The affect of this increase in the tax base; representing a gain in revenue of $15,560.00 was more than enough to off- set the increase tax levy of $6,163.00 sand resulted in a reduc- tion of the tax rate of $1.10 per thousand. A start has been made on the construction of the Mid- Cape Highway and it is estimated that completion will come dut'ing 1959. In so far as valuations are concerned, there will be additional losses in valuation due to land takings and re- flected damages. We again would like to bring to the attention of the Orleans Taxpayers the importance of and the amount of work necessary to be done throughout each year under the Assess- ing Department. All new construction or additions; subdivisions of band; change of ownership; changes in or additions to heating sys- tems must be detailed and recorded and in the case of con- struction or subdivisions, must be viewed on the ground for factual detail. Each individual ownership must be set up for billing on either or both Real Estate and Personal Property. Also Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes on all Orleans garaged cars and abatement matters in this connection as well as abate- ment or exemptions on Real Estate Taxes. We are one of the fortunate Towns to have a definite and 30 We ask for your continued support in our efforts to maintain and improve our assessing procedures. We again attended the School for Massachusetts Assessors at the Univ- ersity of Massachusetts as a pant of our effort to keep up to date on Assessing matters. 1957 1958 Total appropriation to be raised by taxation 525,340.33 548,842.00 Total appropriation from available Funds 70,918.53 43,462.87 $596,258.86 $592,304.87 Court Judgments 1,827.62 State Parks and Reservations 1,349.22 1,837.40 Mosquito Control 3,821.58 7,467.61 State Audit 791.80 County Tax 54,052.14 48,225.62 County Retirement 2,616.71 3,442.90 Overlay 10,476.36 9,044.17 Gross Amount to be raised $669,366.67 $664,150.19 Total Estimated Receipts-and Available Funds 253.670.48 242,290.85 Net amount Ito be raised by Taxation on Polls and property $415,696.19 $421,859.34 Assessed Value Real Estate $10,343,795.00 $10,837,330.00 Assessed Value Personal Estate 1,290,190.00 1,346,460.00 Total Assessed Valuation $11,633,985.00 $12,183,790.00 School Tax $13.83 $13.63 All Other 21.77 20.87 Total Tax Rate 35.60 34.50 School Percentage 36.74% 39.77% All Other 63.26% 60.23% ESTIMATED RECEIPTS 1957 1958 Over estimate of Mosquito Control 8.66 Corporation Tax $17,995.47 $16,555.47 T.'Po 1)4 A.17A 1)') 130 1 n4 1 7 31 i 1957 1958 Licenses 6,357.85 7,363.00 Fines 55.00 5.00 Library 71.01 46.00 Health and Sanitation 882.50 802.00 General Government 3,293.02 2,894.00 Charities 5,456.34 4,872.00 Old Age Assistance 29,879.37 26,235.00 Schools 30,431.73 34,309.00 Interest on Taxes and Assessments 451.23 1,625.00 Old Age Meal Tax 1,184.46 1,243.05 Interest on Street Light Fund 81.17 81.00 Recreation 6,417.75 8,190.00 Veterans' Services 1,908.45 2,910.00 School Transportation 7,812.27 13,557.00 State Assistance on School Construction 3,840.00 3,840.00 Protection Persons land Property 1,500.00 1,500.00 Farm Animal Excise 24.14 29.71 Overestimate County Tax for 1957 2,719.55 Free Cash from Treasury 70,918.53 43,462.87 Total Deductions as Estimated Receipts land Available Funds $253,670.48 $242,290.85 1957 1958 Number of Polls Assessed 755 757 Property Owners Assessed 1,666 1,712 Acres of Land Assessed 6,826 6,690 Number of Cars Assessed—Excise 1,968 2,402 Assessed Value of Lars $983,550.00 $1,259,070.00 Amount of Tax on Cars $49,068.39 $58,738.29 Population, 1955 Census 2,201 2,201 Respectfuly submitted, ARTHUR R. FINLAY FRANKLIN S. MURRAY RICHARD H.ADAMS Board of Assessors 32 Report of the Collector of Taxes Real Estate 1958 Y. Jan. 7, Balance due 1955 $52.53 Jan. 1, Balance due 1956 522.35 Jan. 1, Balance due 1957 23,326.58 May 6, Warrant 201,532.45 May 20, Warrant 172,358.80 July 2, Omitted Assessment 190.62 July 18, Omitted Assessment 266.86 Abatement after payment, refunded 461.12 $398,711.31 Cr. Paid Treasurer, account 1955 $52.53 Paid Treasurer, account 1956 521.19 Paid Treasurer, account 1957 22,276.63 Paid Treasurer, account 1958 350,386.78 Abated 1957 25.11 Abated 1958 2,442.00 Tax Title account 1958 20.70 Uncollected 1956 1.16 Uncollected 1957 1,024.84 Uncollected 1958 21,460.37 $398,711.31 Tangible Personal Property Dr. 1958 Jan. 1, Balance due 1956 $877.43 Jan. 1, Balance. due 1957 4,673.76 May 6, Warrant 30,165.36 May 20, Warrant 16,288.73 June 6, Warrant 647.58 Aug. 11, Warrant 461.78 Abatement after payment, refunded 91.61 i I 33 Cr. Paid Treasurer, account 1956 $853.21 Paid Treasurer, account 1957 3,178.81 Paid Treasurer, account 1958 42,810.43 Abated 1956 24.22 Abated 1957 71.91 Abated 1958 687.30 Uncollected 1957 1,423.04 Uncollected 1958 4,157.33 $53,206.25 Polls Dr. 1958 Jan. 1, Balance due 1957 $12.00 June 20, Warrant 1,514.00 $1,526.00 Cr. Paid Treasurer, account 1957 $8.00 Paid Treasurer, account 1958 1,240.00 Abated 1957 4.00 Abated 1958 272.00 Uncollected 1958 2.00 1,526.00 Moth Assessment Dr. 1958 Jan. 1, Balance due 1957 $31.50 May 20,Warrant 705.00 Abatement after payment, refunded 5.00 $741.50 Cr. Paid Treasurer, account 1957 $31.50 Paid Treasurer,account 1958 643.50 Abated 1958 5.00 Uncollected 1958 61.50 34 Farm Animal Excise Dr. 1958 July 18, Warrant $29.71 Cr. Paid Treasurer,,account 1958 $29.71 Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise Dr. 1958 Jan. 1, Balance due 1957 $6,476.45 Jan. 31, Warrant (1957) 1,842.55 Feb. 18,Warrant (1957) 1,259.97 March 19, Warrant (1957) 1,543.50 March 19, Warrant (1957) 958.37 March 31, Warrant (1957) 9.71 April 22, Warrant 5,061.16 June 6, Warrant 4,312.07 July 18, Warrant 9,784.50 July 31, Warrant 9,002.11 July 31,Warrant 4,300.43 Sept. 22, Warrant 3,735.11 Oct. 22, Warrant 6,012.90 Nov. 14, Warrant 6,060.16 Dec. 29, Warrant 4,855.75 Abatement 'after payment, refunded 1,655.88 $66,870.62 Cr. Paid Treasurer, account 1957 $11,917.21 Paid Treasurer, account 1958 43,789.50 Abated 1957 422.70 Abated 1958 2,790.59 Uncollected 1958 7,950.62 35 Summary of Uncollected Taxes January 1, 1959 1956 Real Estate (Land Taking by The Commonwealth) $1.16 1957 Real Estate 1,024.84 1958 Real Estate 21,460.37 1957 Personal Property 1,423.04 1958 Personal Property 4,157.33 1958 Poll 2.00 1958 Moth 61.50 1958 Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise 7,950.62 $36,080.86 Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS I. ROGERS, Collector of Taxes 36 Report of the Finance Committee To the Honorable board of Select::en: . The following is the report of the Orleans Finance Com- mittee for the year ending December 31, 1958: Reserve Fund $8,900.041 Transfers August: 25 Veterans' Benefits $200.00 September: 12 Veterans' Benefits 333.60 25 Veterans' Benefits 20.17 Accountant's Expense 179.28 October: 10 Veterans' Benefits 113.14 Selectmen's Expense 4.95 Accountant's Expense 87.Q0 22 Harbormaster's Expense 7.56 Selectmen's Expense 99-.01 Insect Pest Control 45.08 Tree Warden 195.81 29 Veterans' Benefits 88.74 November: 12 Veterans' Benefits 122.20 Planning Board Expense 4.37 Elections and Registrations 175.43 Accountant's Expense 3.02 Harbormaster's Expense 15.43 Selectmen's Expense 19.56 28 Veterans' Benefits 108.94 Harbormaster's Expense 22.12 Elections and Registrations 36.20 I 37 December: 13 Old Age Assistance 2,951.47 Planning Board Expense 2.55 Veterans' Benefits 114.00 Selectmen's Expense 18.00 Elections and Registrations 87.33 Police 7.29 30 Selectmen's Expense 14.00 Collector's Treasurer's and Town Clerk Expense 241.08 Elections and Registrations 113.00 Planning Board Expense 9.14 Recreation Hall Expense 56.68 Police 174.97 F1ire,Department 333.56 Highways—General 6.79 Harbormaster's Expense 19.19 Veterans' Benefits 92.57 31 Veterans' Benefits 52.80 Elections and Registrations 13.13 Tax Title Expense 37.26 Appeal Board Expense 2.29 Planning Board Expense 2.50 $6,266.33 December 31, 1958 Balance on Hand 2,633.67 $8,900.00 $8,900.00 Respectfully submitted, W. HOWARD MAYO, Chairman Orleans Finance Committee 38 Treasurer's Report RECEIPTS General Town. Accounts On.deposit Cape Cod Trust Co. checking account, Second Bank—State Street Trust Co.checking account, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, Hyannis Co-Operative Bunk and In treasury January 1, 1958 $149,468.86 1958 Receipts 789,791.42 $939,260.28 PAYMENTS General Town Accounts 1958 Pand Treasurer's Warrants $757,261.21 On deposit Cape Cod Trust Co.checking account, Second Blank—State Street Trust Co.checking account, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, Hyannis Co-Operative Bank and in treasury January 1,1959 181,999.07 $939,260.28_ TRUST FUND ACCOUNTS Snow Library Trust Fund Consisting of: David Snow Fund $4,500.00 Jonathan W. Young Fund 500.00 William H. Nelson Fund 200.00 Thomas Arey Hopkins Fund 3,000.00 Aaron Snow Fund 1,000.00 $9,200.00 Deposited in: Provident Instiitution for Savings, Boston, Mass., Cape Cod Trust Co. Savings Dept.and Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank $8,200.00 Invested in Savings Band, Series G 1,000.00 39 Accumulated Interest $2,514.47 Withdrawn 350.00 2,164.47 Balance in fund January 1, 1959 $11,364.47 Elizabeth Twiss Blake (Snow Library Trust Fund) Deposited in: Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank $250.00 Accumulated Interest $12.38 Withdrawn 3.75 8.63 Balance in fund January 1, 1959 $258.63 Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds Consisting of: George Voss Fund $100.00 Benjamin C. Sparrow Fund 100.00 Henry C. Nickerson Fund 100.00 Franklin Freeman Fund 50.00 Samuel J. Coy Fund 200.00 Mark Snow Fund 100.00 Christopher Edwards Fund 50.00 William Swain Fund 100.00 Yates Rogers Fund 100.00 Capt. Samuel N.Smith Fund 100.00 John and Susanna Taylor Fund 50.00 Charles R.Smith Fund 200.00 Freeman S. Smith Fund 200.00 Joshua L. Northup Fund 200.00 Frank H.Snow Fund 250.00 $1,900.00 Deposited in: Cape Cod Trust Co.Savings Dept. and Cape Clod Five Cents Savings Bank $1,900.00 Accumulated Interest $256.96 Withdrawn 179.46 $77.50 40 Albert P. Smith Fund (Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund) Invested in Hyannis Co-Operative Bank Shares $2,000.00 Accumulated Interest $220.26 Withdrawn 40.50 179.76 Balance in fund January 1, 1959 $2,179.76 Clement Gould & Wife Fund Deposited in: Weymouth Savings Bank and Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank $5,000.00 Accumulated Interest 1,910.93 Balance in fund January 1, 1959 $6,910.93 Mary Celia Crosby Fund Deposited in: Cape Cod Trust Co. Savings Dept. $5,000.00 Accumulated Interest 1,443.21 $6,443.21 Rehabilitation Fund (Interest) Deposited in: Cape Cad Trust Co. Savings Dept. $798.27 Additional Interest for 1958 20.08 Balance in interest account January 1, 1959 $818.35 Clayton Mayo Trust Fund Deposited in: Cape Cod Trust Co. Savings Dept., Invented in U. S. Savings Bonds, Series G, Invented in Hyannis Co-Operative Bank Shares -and Invested in Cape Cod Co-Operative Bank Shares $25,784.55 Accumulated Interest $1913.90 Withdrawn 1425.00 488.90 i 41 Present value of Bonds $2,958.00 Present value of Co-Operative Shares 22,500.00 Accumulated Interest 488.90 Value-of securities January 1, 1959 $25,946.90 Street Light Fund Assigned to the Town of Orleans Deposited in•: Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank and Weymouth Savings Bank $2,517.61 Accumulated Interest $9-2.47 Withdrawn 82.47 Balance in fund January 1, 1959 $2,517.61 Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS I.ROGERS Treasurer 42 Report of the Board of Public Welfare To the Citizens of the Town of Orleans: In December, 1957, when-the Old Age Assistance budget was made up for 1958, we were able to reduce the total by $5,000. However,at best, such a budget can very easily be up- set ,by the unforeseen. Early in 1958 several Old Age Assist- ance recipients required extensive hospitalization and medi- cal care. The result was that in December a transfer had to be made by the Finance Committee. During 1958, $4,857.00 was paid for hospitalization alone, and we have an increase in the number of recipients now requiring ware in boarding and nursing homes. Our bill for medicines averaged $221.65 a month for 1958. There is every indication that this high medical cost will continue in 1959. Eighteen of our recipients received a total of $9,364.00 from Social Security benefits during 1958. These benefits di- rectly help our budgetary requirements, for without them our needs would be approximately,that much higher. The picture in Aid to Dependent Children has been quite different.During-the summer several of our recipients obtain- ed work and were self supporting during the vacation sea- son,and some of the youngsters have continued to work week- ends -and are contributing to the family budget. This evi- dernce of an increased sense of responsibility is a healthy one, and is encouraging to see. Our General Relief load is very much Lighter this year, , and it Looks as though it might remain so, although the un- expected always has to be provided fox. Our trust funds are always available for special needs. We shill find a surprising lack of knowledge on the part of the average- taxpayer about the assistance plans—due to a feeling,apparently, that "welfare" is a mysterious program which must not be discussed.This should not be so.All angles of the assistance plans—except actual names and amounts, naturally—are open to the public, and a wider knowledge of what goes ion in our program would mean a .better under- standing of the tremendous amounts that are spent and what reimbursements are made by State, Federal and other ... r.+ ; .,..,.,,,- —A vn h,.va. rivh.t fin l--,1—, 43 We wish to thank the many Town departments who have been of invaluable assistance during the year. Breakdown of expenditures for 1958: Old Age Assistance Total payroll $54,817.91 Charged to State 25,700.12 Charged to Federal 19,445.41 Charged to Other Towns 949.10 Cost to Town 81763.28 Aid to Dependent Children Total payroll $10,476.67 Charged to State 3,492.22 Charged to Federal 3,757.90 Cost to Town 3,226.55 Disability Assistance Total payroll $3,603.22 Charged to State 1,688.16 Charged to Federal 1,014.23 Cost to Town 900.83 General Relief Total payroll $3,565.30 Charged to State 947.78 Cost to Town 2,617.52 Institutions 769.26 Out of Town Case 402.53 Payments from Trust Funds 1,542.61 Administration Expense Subject to Federal Reimbursement Salaries (including Board of Public Welfare) $3,976.65 Travel 231.45 Supplies and Telephone 422.25 Employee Benefit Plans 126.61 Office Space 312.91 Miscellaneous 8.00 Total $5,077.87 Charged to State 27.39 Charged to Federal 2.236.08 Respectfully submitted, RICHARD H. ADAMS, Chairman ARTHUR R. FINLAY FRANKLIN S. MURRAY 44 Report of the Planning Board To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Orleans: Changing times are reflected in the 1958 activites of your Planning Board. Several Changes in our Protective By- Law and Building Code were adopted to meet the changing needs of the community. The Board held 24 regular meetings du.rtng the year and conducted 12 public hearings on new subdivision applications. it Subdivision plans were approved representing ithe creation of 80 lots. The Board also held several hearings in regard to changes that were made at the last annual Town Meeting and might be made in the future in our Town Rules and Regulations. The Board has met and consulted with various groups and other Boards in the Town from time ito time in matters that are of general concern to all.We believe we are aware of the interests of our non-resident taxpayers, as well as those of our residents and business people. We believe the appeal of the Town of Orleans must be preserved by thoughtful and progressive planning. Your Board actively participates in the Cape Cod Plann- ing Board Association and receives much information of a guiding nature from the Massachusetts Federation of Plann- ing Boards of which organization we are a member. The Board is favorable to the location of a new Highway Department Garage on Pine Road, The Board is favorable bo the extension of the business district to include all the area lying northeast -of the Old Colony Railroad, southeast of West Road, southwest of County Road (Route 6 and 6A) and northwest of the Brewster Town line. Your Board has registered its disapproval of the possible formation of "a state board of appeals to which appeals may be made from the decisions of local boards in planning, zon- ing, and subdivision control matters", which has been sug- gested by some source at the State level. The Planning Board, in anticipation of a report by the National Park Service in 1959, will make known its views on the National Park matter when the scope of the survey is 4.5 The Planning Board is most appreciative of the coopera- tion which it has received from,the Town Officials anti Boards and would welcome any recommendations or criticisms from our resident and or non-resident townspeople at any time and more especially gat our meetings which are held on the first land !third Tuesdays of each month in the Planning Board Room at the Town Office Building. Respectfully submitted, MILTON M. GRAY, Clerk RAYMOND E. NEWTON,Chairman ELDREDGE E. SPARROW FREDERIC C. BERGER ALTON L. SMITH Report of the Tree Warden To the Citizens of the Town of Orleans: I am happy to report that the trees in Orleans are in very good conndition. Despite-the drought of 1957 which left many of our elms in a weakened•condition rand-thus more suscepti- ble to Dutch Elm Disease we have managed to keep our tree loss at a minimum. In the planting of young roadside trees it is difficult to foresee road changes.Trees placed in the wrong place may in future years have to be sacrificed for progress. It is my one objective to keep planting shade and ornamental trees in Orleans. In our program we are planting more trees than we are removing. A number of town elm trees were fertilized in 1958 as a precaution against Dutch Elm Disease to promote vigorous growth and maintain healthy trees. Low hanging branches interfering with traffic are gradu- ally being removed, hazardous limbs and trees were also re- moved. Brush and poison-ivy control is progessing with excellent results along roadsides. Our program each year is gradually eliminatdng the costly labor of brush cutting by hand. Respectfully submitted, EMILE A. OLLIVIER 46 Report of the Insect Pest Control Honorable Board of Selectmen: In 1958 eleven elms were removed -that were confirmed cases of Dutch Elm Disease. Three of these trees were on town property, two on State roads ;and six on private land. Town has no jurisdiction over trees on State roads. The preventative program measures we employed are 1st, sanitation to prevent breeding and feeding of bark beetles; 2nd, spraying to prevent feeding of.bark beetles and 3rd,general care of elm trees to maintain their healthy condi- tion. In the case of Dutch Elm Disease the usual procedure is not to wait until any apparent critical epidemic of a tree in- festation occurs. To wait is a mistake. Too many owners of elm,tress,are ignoring their valuable elms. Dutch Elm Disease does not yield to :anything less than well organized and well supervised measures conducted on a community basis. Prevention best succeeds and is less expen- sive when started before the disease becomes established in a community, this is normally beyond the influence of any single person. The scouting and trapping program for gypsy moth is being iconducted every .summer and Winter to keep us alert for-any signs of a new infestation.This year during the early winter weeks, after a scouting program was conducted, your Insect Pest Sup'!t has scouted areas showing signs of a small infestation. These areas were found by our trapping program and will be sprayed with a D. D.T.solution. Japanese beetles were found in two sections of Orleans. We'are keeping,these insects under control with a spray solu- tion of D..D. T. and Chlordane. Your Insect Pest Sup't is happy to report that all insects under his jurisdiction are kept at a minflmum by thorough spraying at the proper time with the proper chemicals. Respectfully submitted, . EMILE A. OLLIVIER 47 Report of the Town Counsel To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Orleans, Massachusetts I hereby submit my report of my -activities as Town Counsel for the year 1958. Legally speaking the Town has been relatively quiet dur- ing the year 1958. However there is considerable activity. The equity suit against-the Town as regards the acquisition of the parking area at Nauset Beach has been dismissed. There are three land damage cases pending against the Town as regards the acquisition of beach land at Nauset Beach. There is one equity suit pending as regards damage'to• adjoining property because of Town activities at Skaket Beach. This subject will be discussed at Town Meeting. There has been no further acquisition of beach land at Nauset Beach though likely this will have been -accomplished by the time of Town Meeting. Seven of the land-owners of land already acquired at Nauset Beach have settled with the Town. I have been consulted by and have advised the Police Department, Fire Department, School Department, Board of Health,Assessors,Public Welfare,School Building CommAttee, Registrars of Voters, Regional School Committee, Treasurer, Town Clerk, Town Accountant, Shellfish Warden, Building Inspector, Planning Board, Board of Appeals, the Recreation Commission,as well as numerau.s citizens and residents of the Town,in respect to matters relating to the Town of Orleans, and I have worked very closely with the Planning Board on the proposed amendments to the Protective By-Law and Building Code. I appeared in the Superior Court twice,-and attended two hearings held by the Commonwealth on behalf of the Town. Perhaps the major part of the Town's legal work in the coming year will involve highway drainage easements. This is a subject which should be straightened-out as soon as possi- ble in order to save the Town considerable future legal ex- pense. Respectfully submitted, PAUL P. HENSON,JR. 48 Orleans Board of Trade To the Citizens of Orleans: It is with pleasure that we have the privilege of explain- ing the means in which your $1500.was spent this past year. The board matched -this with an equal 'amount, as well as spending another $1500. in the promotion and advertis- ing of the town. There was a new town booklet which was printed in quantity (16,000 copies) at a cost of:approximately $2500.00. This included the insert of summer events printed for dis- tribution in early summer.While we were very proud of this edition, we did note -a number of errors, also realized that a number of the photos could have been reproduced to better advantage,all of this we are sure will be changed in this year'-s book. In our information booth approximately 15,000 persons received services. We realize that the booth itself is not of architectural design to be-an asset nor is it adequate but for two reasons we made.it do,one reason being that the Cape & Vineyard own the present location and anticipate expansion in.the near future therefore we would have to move in such an event. Secondly, with the prospects of the 1Vlid-Cape com- pletion, we felt a new location would be to the advantage of the town business, so did not wish to spend a-great deal on the present.building. . The Christmas displays and children's party were spon- sored by the board, as well as the Police Association help. A new display using the Orleans Center Cemetery as the main attraction,with greetings being displayed to persons entering town from either Eastham or Brewster. Your Orleans Board of Trade would :appreciate suggestions far the coming year. Santa Claus visited the children in the elementary schools and all the children-at home that were.sick. This was accom- plished with the aid of the Police Department, also a movie was furnished by the Orleans Theater. Thank you for your help and attention and a happy and prosperous 1959 to you. Resectfully submitted, WILLIS S. GOULD, JR. I p. _ f 49 Waterways Investigating Committee Report To the Citizens of the Town of Orleans: Report of the Waterways Investigating Committee appointed under Article 31 of the Annual Town Meeting, March 10, 1958.Mr.Elmer R.Darling,Mr.C.Francis Richard- son, Mr. Kenneth Huber, Dr. Frederick Raddin, Mr. Paul P. Henson, Jr., Mr.Phillip Martin iand Mr. James S.L.Kidd were appointed by the Moderator as members of the Committee. The Committee organized with Mr.Elmer R.Darling as Chair- man and Mr. Paul P. Henson, Jr. as Secretary. Meetings of the Committee have been held periodically. with the public in.attendance from time to time expressing their ;news upon the Committee's projects. During the year six nun and can buoys as authorized under Article 40 of 1958 were installed in Pleasant Bay by the Harbor Master. These buoys, three nun and three can, were made by Mr. Bruce Hammatt out of fiberglass re-inforced plastic, styrofoam filled. They were placed at strategic points in the Pleasant Bay •channels and proved extremely satis- factory. They were at no time carried off stations during the season. They did not foul at all with weed or eel grass,which grass has become a major problem in both Pleasant Bay and Town Cove, and they were of high rigability,they conformed to the 'standard U. S. buayage system as to shape and color, one buoy was damaged by gunfire, but can be repaired for a cost of less,than $1.00. This Committee has received nothing but good and enthusiastic reports from all who used Pleasant Bay waters this part summer. Therefore this Committee recommends that all navigational buoys maintained by the _ Town be of this same type and has placed an article in the Town Warrant,to that effect. Prior to July 1, 1958 under,authority of Article 38 of the 1958 Warrant, the Committee supervised -the installation of a concrete bloat launching ramp at the foot of River Road, in East Orleans. This ramp has worked out very well and was in constant use during the summer. It is recommended that the entire 'Pawn ownership at the foot of River Road be im- proved for parking in conjunction with this ramp. A gravel-and timber ramp was also installed at -the foot of Cove Road at the Town'Cove. The surface Is well sanded, hard packed and has suffered no ice damage. This ramp has also been well used and is considered successful, though it 50 a dredging problem which will be reported upon further. The Committee has investigated the shoaling of the waterways of the Town of Orleans. In 1926 dredging was done in many areas of[the Town. Since that time however, many areas dredged in 1926 have shoaled very badly and other im- portant areas which were not-dredged in 1:926 have also shoal- ed badly. The Committee recommends that the entrances to Lonnie's (Kesgayo-gansett), Arey's, Paw Wah and Quanset Ponds be opened, and the Narrows between Big and Little Pleasant Bays be dredged this year. We propose channels fifteen feet wide and three feet deep at low water into all four ponds, and to dredge the north and south ends of the Narrows rto twenty-five feet wide and six feet in depth at low water. This work will open .these excellent ponds to passage at any tide to all out-board powered craft and to six feet of draft at the lowest high tide during the year.This is estimat- ed to involve the removal of 10,000 to 11,000 yards of material. Spoilage areas are available to all sites. There is an article in the Town Warrant to appropriate $10,000. to accomplish this purpose. Family boating is again the fastest growing and most participated in sport in this country. The amount expended upon this sport in the country has again risen ten per cent to well over two Billion dollars, in spite of the business recession of 19-58. The annual 1959 boat shows report sales are way ahead of anything ever before experienced in their history. Some 20,000 boats were sold at the New York Boat Show alone. It has been predicted that the boating•business increase will go fifteen per cent more this year of 1959. There were certainly many boats using the waters of the Town of Orleans this past summer than ever before. Your Committee recommends that the dredging be done as soon as possible. It is hard to •get to the water in Orleans. Between River Road and the Brewster line there are no Town land- ings on deep water (three feet or more at low tide). Each of the ponds in question has one fine Town landing on deep water, but you can't get out of-the ponds when the tide is out. The Committee recommends -that its work be continued through the year 1959, and that the Committee be extended for another year. Respectfully submitted, ELMER R. DARLING, Charm. PAUL P. HENSON,JR.,Sec. C. FRANCIS RICHARDSON PHILIP MARTIN KENNETH HUBER JAMES S:L. KIDD 51 Report of the Park Commission To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: We herewith submit the Annual Report of the Park Com- mission for the year 1958. At Skaket Beach a need for a larger Parking Area is evi- dent. An article will be inserted in the Warrant for same. It is impossible at this time to enlarge the bathing area due to the fact that if the sage grass is removed it will cause wash- outs in the Beach Area. Nauset Beach has grown to such an extent that a new building is needed, due to both sanitary and health condi- tions. The present building is too small to accommodate the large crowds now using it. Dressing rooms are too few and rest rooms cannot take care of the number wanting the use of them, as we are now serving up to 5,000 persons per day with four facilities. An emergency vehicle is needed to maintain a patrol and to handle the emergencies that arise. The present truck will not stand another season doing beach work. Attendance record established on a 20 hours basis was as follows: Number of cars using area—119,570; number of per- sons-255,360; use of dressing rooms—17,074. No figures available for persons using rest rooms for dressing. The Parking Area was filled 12 times during this season. Our night patrol is one of our best assets in keeping van- dalism at a minimum. The Band Concerts are attracting larger crowds yearly, and the bandstand is very popular as a pavillion. The Life Guards reported 22 persons brought in; 29 miss- ing children returned to their families, and over 150 persons given First Aid. Rip tides forced the use of "No Bathing" signs to be erected on several occassions. Report on monies turned into the Town Treasurer is as 52 telephone $61.29, making a total of $9,305.79, showing an in- crease of $1,155.86 over 1957. It has been brought to our attention that very few people know the extent of our work other than the beaches.The fol- lowing places are maintained and supervised by us. Beaches: Nauset, Skaket, South Orleans, Crystal Lake, both sides of Priscilla Landing and Pilgrim Lake. Parks: Eldredge Ball Park, South Orleans Park, Main Street and Schools Road Park, Corner Park next to Library. Memorials: World War I and World War II,Soldiers at Monument Road, three Soldiers Memorials about town. Cemeteries: Orleans Center and East Orleans. We would Tike to,thank Mr.Edward Y. Neil for the dona- tion of Flags used at World War I and II Memorials. Also Mayo's Duck Farm for the donation of fertilizer used on all grassed areas, and all the Town Departments for the fine cooperation extended to us. Respectfully submitted, CLARENCE L.VANASSE,Chm. ALVIN H. WRIGHT, Clerk KENDALL R. HIGGINS Report of the Highway Surveyor To the Citizens of the Town of Orleans: The Highway Department has received many ,compli- ments on the work that has been done in connection with the fine Highway Safety Program that is being stressed over the entire state. Going along with this fine project, business, schools,etc.,have received the benefits of good passable roads throughout the year.Dust has been kept down to a minimum, giving our town overall good smooth surfaces, and white lines were painted on many of our important and less travel- led roads, in hopes that in this way we would lend our ser- vices to the town and state in this fine program. A section of Main Street and Lots Hollow Road have i 53 maintenance on this particular type of road is very small. I had hoped to continue this work in 1959, but again the ever present drainage program looms ahead of us.We are now try- ing to develop some definite plans for solving this condition on a year to year basis,but this involves easements, drainage lines,appropriations, etc. Therefore I feel it would be waste- ful to go ahead and resurface roads and then have to cut them up to put drainage systems in. I hope this year to make a start toward alleviating this problem. With the majority of the townspeople in favor of a High- way Garage, which was proven at last year's annual town meeting by a favorable vote,let us be mindful of our need for a town garage,and I wish to bring this to your attention again this year. The town has forty miles of roads to care for and more than half of these need.sealcoating every four years but ex- perience has proven to us that every three years is much better. If the town takes over the maintenance of three new roads i. e., Pine Needle Way, Ruggles Road and Cedar Cove Road in 1959 we will have a substantial increase in the total road mileage right there. It is our aim to do (along with Chapter 90 Maintenance) at least ten miles each year and hope this program will continue. The following roads were sealcoated this year: Parking area at Rock Harbor, Brick Hill Road .6 mile; Brewster Cross Road.3 mile; Champlain Road .3 mile; Gibson Road 1 mile; Namequoit Road .5 mile; Quanset Road 1.3 miles; Sam'oset Road .3 mile; Twiss Road .3 mile; Tonset Road .6 mile; Freeman Lane .3 mile and Hopkins Lane 1 mile. I am very pleased with the installation of a two-way Radio in the Town Truck.I now have the best possible way of locating and arriving at accidents, emergency calls on road work and can also keep in contact with the Police and Fire Departments.When I receive a call, the report is investigated, the condition of the road involved is noted, and in many instances corrective measures can be taken immediately. I wish to express my appreciation for the fine co-opera- tion and support of all the Town Departments. Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK G. MAYO 54 Report of the Director of Civil Defense To the Citizens of the Town of Orleans: The Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency published in September the new State Operations Plan and Guide Out- line for Municipalities. These are the plans we have been waiting for for over a year. From these plans a complete operations plan for the Town of Orleans is .in the process of being written. When completed this plan will give every de- partment of the town a basis for planning, organizing, and training to-cope with any disaster that may beset us. It is in- tegrated -to work smoothly with the towns around us and with the state organization. As soon as it is completed, it will be published and put into effect. The control center staff have taken part in all operations and training exercises put on by the MCDA Sector 2'C during the year. The Fire Department has organized an auxiliary unit for their department. The Police auxiliary unit has been depleted to some extent by the promotion of some men to Special Officers. The Fire Department, Police Department, and Rescue Squad have all participated in some Ctvil Defense Activities during the year. The director put in over 440 hours or about 37 hours a month during this last year, with a total mileage of 2650 miles. In addition, Mrs. Marguerite Ford attended a welfare school at Topsfleld, Mass. given by the State Agency. Since then she has taken on the duties of Co-Supervisor of Wel- fare and Welfare Training Officer for the Town Civil Defense Agency. Due to the loss of several people from the control center staff,we are now very short of trained personnel.The replace- ment of these key personnel and the education of the general public in the new survival plan is the prime objective of this 55 The Town Civil Defense Office has been open every Tues- day morning for people desiring more information. To date very few have availed themselves of this service. I urge all citizens of Orleans to acquaint themselves with the basic steps to survival. It is the best insurance we can have. Respectfully submitted, G.FREDERICK LIVINGSTON Director, Civil Defense Town of Orleans Report of the Building Inspector To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of Orleans: The total amount of building permits in the Town of Orleans in 1958 showed a slight increase over 1957; $899,947 in 1,953 as against$842,120 in 1957—an increase of about 7%. One hundred forty-four permits were issued for all types of buildings. Nine Hundred Twenty-seven Dollars and Fifty Cents has been collected in fees and paid to the Town Treasurer. The following table shows the permits granted. Type No. Amount Dwellings 51 $572,900.00 Commercial 8 179,000.00 Alterations and repairs 85 148,047.00 144 $899,947.00 Respectfully submitted, H. BRUCE MITCHELL 58 Deport of the Board of Health To the Citizens of Orleans: Your Board of Health has just finished its first year of operation with two full time Town and•School Nurses. To the members of this Board it has proved the worth of operating our nursing program on this basis. The availability of the nurses during the whole school day has been of much bene- fit to the schools, according to the principals and the school committee. The usual -clinics have been held of which a detailed account will be found in the Town Nurses' Report. We are continuing our polio vaccine clinics and will as long as they are needed. There is still too large a percentage of Orleans residents who have not yet received their polio shots. We urge all residents under 50 years of age to take advantage of this service. An open dump is always a problem and we endeavor to maintain Ours in a sanitary condition.With the dumping area open seven days a week,8 hours each day,t;is difficult to con- trol the area of dumping: It is only with the co-operation of all the residents that we are able to keep it open on this basis. During the past year,we have had an unusual number of complaints about overflowing cesspools.When this occurs it is a menace to your health and a nuisance to your neighbors. Please co-operate. Only a healthy town can grow and prosper. FRANKLIN S.MURRAY,Chm. ARTHUR R. FINLAY RICHARD H. ADAMS 57 Report of the Town Nursing Service January 1, 1958 to January 1, 1959 Field Office Adm. Ret. Adm. Ret. Record of Cases Nursed: Non Communicable Diseases 220 922 557 2824 Maternity Antepartum 3 Postpartum With Antepartum 1 Without Antepartum 21 11 1 Infant Under 1 month 25 8 Over 1 month 4 4 1 Pre-School 1 to 4 years 17 13 125 89 School 5 to 12 years 38 19 227 1244 School 13 to 18 years 7 5 205 1369 Adult 93 862 32 Ambulance Calls 7 Acute Communicable 4 Chronic Tuberculosis 88 220 922 557 2824 Health Activities Eye:Clinic Salvation Army Fund Veterans'Benefits Old Age Assistance Cases 13 154 Aid to Dependent Children 1 9 Welfare Cases 1 91 Trips with patients to clinics, etc. 5 7 Crippled Children's Service 3 20 264 Summary: Morbidity 220 922 557 2824 Health Service and Social Work 20 264 Pre-School Service 17 13 125 89 Vicitc.ma.rla n.ftPr wnrkinL•hnnrs 26 58 The following Polio Clinics were held: January 15, 1958 Dr.Walter E.Wright administered Salk Vaccine. 1st doses 24; 2nd doses 14; 3rd doses 76. 114 February 12, 1958 Dr. Henry A.White administered Salk Vaccine. 1st doses 13; 2nd doses 29; 3rd doses 23. 65 April 16,1958 Dr. Henry A. White administered Salk Vaccine. 1st doses 4; 2nd doses 11; 3rd doses 12. 27 August 13, 1958 Dr. Walter E. Wright administered Salk Vaccine. 1st doses 11; 2nd doses 12; 3rd doses 46. 69 December 17, 1958 Dr.Henry A.White administered Salk Vaccine. 1st doses 4; 2nd doses 5; 3rd doses 15. 24 Doses of Salk Vaccine given during 1958 299 Pre-School Conferences Held: May 5, 6, 7, 1958 Dr. Gerald N. Hoeffle was the examining Pediatrician. Mrs. Alice Dalzell, Dental Hygienist, examined the teeth. Children-attended 32 Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus (Booster Shots) 4 Smallpox Vaccinations 13 Fluoride Clinics were held: July 7,8,9, 14, 15, 16, 21,22,28 and 29th. August 4,5, 1958. Mrs. Alice Dalzell was the Dental Hygienst giving Sodium Fluoride treatments. Children registered 84 Receiving Fluoride Series 78 We wish to thank the Orleans Womans Club, Mrs. Ken- neth Johnson,Misses Anna and Katherine Hennessy for three hospital beds donated to the Town of Orleans. At this time we would like to thank all departments and volunteers who have given their time to help complete our Public Health Program. Respectfully submitted, MARION I. CHACE, R.N. DORIS A. POND,R.N. . 59 Shellfish Constable's Report To the honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Orleans: I submit herewith my report of the Shellfish Department for the year 1958. The supply of scallops in Pleasant Bay proved to be very good for both commercial and family taking as in the pre- vious year. There were no scallops in the Town Cove but the seed clams are still making a good comeback and prospects at this time are favorable. Scallop shells were sent over to Martha's Vineyard to catch oyster spat and brought.back with good results under State Supervision. With continued favorable growth, we will have a fair supply of oysters in 1961. Shellfish landed commercially were as follows: Pleasant Bay Scallops—value in bags (2,364) $12,292.80 Hopkins Island—Little Necks— value in bags (482) 4,627.20 Rock Harbor—Scallops— value in bags (2,286) 11,887.20 Rock Harbor—Quahaugs- value in bags (3536) 11,845.60 Number of Commercial Permits issued 150 Number of Family Permits issued 885 Shellfish Grants 7 All Shellfish Permits are issued by the Town Clerk at the Town Office. - The Sport Fishermen had a very poor year out of Rock Harbor due to the lack of fish. A planting of 300 bushels of large quahaugs was made at Quanset Pond, Town Cove and Mill Pond will be ready for family use in 1959. No oyster areas were opened in 1958. The Shellfish Advisory Board is working out well and I wish to express my thanks to the members of the board, the Board of Selectmen, the Division of Marine Fisheries and also to the citizens and visitors of Orleans for their help and sup- port during the past year. Respectfully submitted, 60 Report of the Snow Library To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of Orleans: The Snow Library has on its shelves 12,838 books New books purchased in 1958 were ............................ 301 The book circulation has been .................................... 20,758 Visits made to the Library have totaled .................... 11,829 The month of April being the low month and August high as to circulation. Magazine circulation has dropped to 6% from 10%. Per- haps because many well liked magazines have stopped pub- lication. The new bi-monthly book"Horizons"has been purchased as have two fine books published by American Heritage. High School and Junior High pupils have made up 185'6 of the visits to the Library and Pre-Schoolers and Elementary pupils came to 21%, leaving Adult patronage at 611/6 of our total users. Books have been loaned to two rooms of the Elementary School for long periods,as was done last year. Books for children's first reading have been featured this year. Story haur for•children under eight years has been popu- lar with Miss Dorothea Abbott as reader on Saturday from 3 to 4 p. m. 501 small tots have enjoyed themselves including a good- ly number of young summer visitors. Snow Library is at the same circulation level as last year, although many more new books have been added than form- erly during one year. Snow Library is open more than the recommended amount for small Libraries as outlined by the Massachusetts Division of Library Extension. In fact we rate No. 7 on Cape Cod in amount of hours open. The Librarian mended books all year and hopes that parents will teach their children to handle the books more carefully. It really is an unnecessary waste of time that should be spent in other work. The behavior of the young people is very good and it is a great pleasure to associate with them. Respectfully submitted, 61 Report of the Recreation Commission To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: We herewith submit the Annual Report of the Recrea- tion Commission for the year 1958. We have just terminated our first full year in the Rec- reation Center Building and feel confident that the nucleus of activities that have been taking place there in the past twelve (12) months will swell to a full-fledged program. During the past year, your Commission retained on a part-time basis, Mr. Gordon Argo, producer-director of the Orleans Arena Theater, as a part time supervisor of program. During the time he has been with us the program has in- creased very rapidly and the Recreation Center Building is fast becoming the hub of recreational activities. Some of the Organizations with an active program us- ing the Recreation Center Building are as Follows: 1) The Coin and Stamp Club. 2) The Chess Club. 3) Brownies. 4) Monthly Cub Scout Pack Meetings. 5) Junior Drama Guild. 6) Orleans Camera Club. In addition to the above mentioned Organizations, other activities taking place at the Center are as follows: 1) Record Hops. (Weekly when non-conflicting.) 2) Rug-Hooking Classes. 3) Ping-Fong Tournament. 4) Billiards Tournament. 5) Badminton Tournament. 6) P. T. A. Sponsored Dancing Classes. Our program activities are still somewhat hampered by certain inadequacies. We hope in the coming year to have the funds required to relieve these problems. Chairs are a must in any operation such as ours. What chairs we have at the Center are fast becoming inadequate and repairless. These chairs have been in use for some time and it is hoped that heavy-duty chairs (steel) will soon be ours if the funds required are approved. Our forthcoming budget request has necessarily been in- 62 for increased recreational facilities. We hope to sponsor and make available to the community a broad, varied and com- plete program o(F recreational activities. It is our sincere hope in the future to consolidate all Town Recreational Activities resulting in a better programming of activities, more efficient use of available facilities and better control of Town Funds expended for any activity related to recreation, and most important of all a necessary savings to the Town at a time when savings are sorely needed. We sincerely hope to accomplish these aims in the fu- ture but our accomplishments and success hinge entirely on the will of the townspeople. We firmly believe in •the future of our program and are proud of our past accomplishments. We wish to express our sincere Thank You to all Town Committees, organizations and individuals, who, through their •co-operation and encouragement have helped us to make our past year's labor easier. Respectfully submitted, OMER R. CHARTRAND, Chinn. LUCY N. HOPKINS, See. &Treas. MONCRIEFF M. COCHRAN PHILIP A. DESCHAMPS JOHN D. W. JOY Report of the Inspector of Wires To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of Orleans: I hereby submit my report as Wire Inspector for the year ending December 31, 1958. I have issued 137 permits and made approximately 240 inspections. During the year I have covered around 500 miles and made numerous calls for testing, replacing fuses and general information. Respectfully submitted, M-TAR.T.F'R fl TT-T4r)MRSl11V- i 63 Report of the Water Safety Committee P Y To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Orleans: The Red Cross swimming classes were held this year at Skaket Beach, Town Cove,and Crystal Lake. Limited to resi- dents and guests of Orleans with a minimum age of five (5), classes were held daily except Saturday and Sunday for a period of eight weeks. Our instructor was Sylvia Spencer, a Senior at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and resident of Martha's Vineyard. Her assistant was Katherine Boyer Hamilton, resi- dent of Orleans. The total number of registrations for the summer was 315, with approximately 150 Red Cross certificates being issued. Out of 20 who signed up for Junior Life Saving, 8 received Red Cross Life Saving Cards. A swimming meet was held at Town Cove at the completion of the course. Prizes were awarded for each event. Progress Reports were given out to the 40 Beginners (pollywogs, frogs, turtles) who attended the Meet. It has been suggested to the Committee that on the days when the swimming classes are called off because of incle- ment weather, that arrangements be made for the children to attend classes in exercise taught by the instructors. The Committee recommends ,that the budget be increas- ed by$200.00 to offset the expense of a new boat.Last summer, the boat formerly used at Skaket Beach was put in Crystal Lake,leaving the salt water classes with no boat. We wish to express our gratitude to the members of the Park Commission, the Orleans Yacht Club, and all others whose cooperation made the 1958 season a very successful one. Respectfully submitted, KATHLEEN VAN BUSKIRK 64 Report of the Registrars of Voters To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Orleans: During the year ending December 31, 1958 the Registrars held sessions for registering voters on February 6 and 18, pre- ceding the Town Meeting and Election; on July 30 and August 8, prior to the State Primary, and.on September 24 and October 3, before the State Election. The Registrars also held other sessions for certifying names on nomination papers, on petitions for referendum and on applications for absentee voting ballots. As usual the greatest task was the annual listing of all persons twenty years of age or older who claimed their legal residence January 1 in Orleans.During January,February and March the Registrars found.so many persons not home it was necessary to revisit many homes and to write 180 letters,con- taining 271 forms, requesting needed information. Replies were received from all over the United States and from Alaska, Hawaii and Germany. The Registrars finally listed 764 men and 918 women for a total of 1,682 such legal resi- dents. It would be a great help to the Registrars, and would save -the Town money, if persons, planning to be absent in January or February, would supply the needed information before they leave town or voluntarily after they arrive at their winter resort home. Acting for the Board of Assessors, the Registrars also listed 181 male dogs, 55 female dogs and 102 spayed female dogs, for a total of 338 dogs. Also 4 kennel licenses. Lists of these dog owners were furnished the Board of Asesssors and the Chief of Police. During the year, 51 men and 60 women registered as voters and 3 women re-registered because of change of initial or names through marriage or divorce. Death took 9 men and 14 women voters; 25 men and 19 women took residence else- .__.u......._ 65 Total registration, as of December 31, 1958, was as follows: Republicans Democrats Undeclared Total Men 400 20 248 668 Women 489 15 287 791 889 35 535 1,459 The Registrars wish to especially thank the Town Clerk for his year-round assistance with registration and other clerical work, and the co-operation of other Town Officials which helps Orleans to operate as an efficient unit. Respectfully submitted, ADELBERT A. CHILDS, Chairman LLOYD E. STICKNEY CATHERINE A. SMITH Report of the Highway Garage Building Committee To the Citizens of the Town of Orleans: At the last annual town meeting our proposed highway garage was approved overwhelmingly by the townspeople. When the proposed location of Tonset Road Extension was brought before the Board of Appeals it was turned down. It will be necessary for our plans to be voted on again at the 1959 Annual Town Meeting. Our proposal is to build the garage on land to the west of the town disposal area if we are able to buy the land-This area would be very satisfactory and we believe it would not be turned down again by the Board of Appeals. Respectfully submitted, EVERETT WINSLOW, Chairman RICHARD NICKERSON EMERY SOULE CLARENCE O'NEIL FRFTIFRT!'.K AXAVn 66 Report of the Sealer of Weights and Measures To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: I herewith submit my report of the Sealer of Weights and Measures for the year 1958: Ad- *Not Con- justed Sealed Sealed de=ed No. 1—Scales Scales over 10,000 lbs. 0 1 0 0 Scales 5,000 to 10,000 lbs. 0 0 0 0 Scales 100.to 5,000 lbs. 17 30 0 0 Scales under 100 lbs. 20 42 1 0 Scales—Total 37 73 1 0 No. 2—Weights. Total 0 - 138 0 0 No. 3—Capacity Measures Liquid, 1 gal. or under 0 17 4 0 Liquid, over 1 gal. 0 1 0 0 Dry Measures 0 0 0 0 Capacity Measures, Total 0 18 4 0 No. 4—Automatic Liquid Measuring Devices Meters,inlet 1-in. or less 10 46 0 0 Meters,inlet more than 1-in. 2 7 0 0 Meters,oil, grease,kerosene 0 19 0 0 Automatic Liquid Measuring Devices—Total 12 72 0 0 No. 5—Linear Measure Yardsticks 0 10 0 0 Cloth Measuring Devices 0 2 0 0 Linear Measure, Total 0 12 0 0 Grand Total 49 313 5 0 67 Monies received and paid to Treasurer: Sealing Fees Collected $146.80 Adjusting and Repairs 30.00 176.80 *Total Charges $178.00 *2 person weigher scales at school building adjusted and seal- ed at$1.00,each,not paid. Once more it is with appreciation that I report that the year 1958 has been a successful and satisfactory one, with good attention and cooperation received. Again may I suggest that gasoline operators using gaso- line automatic pumps and have sealed one five-gallon mea- sure which could be used at weekly intervals for checking the gallon measurement of their pumps. Also that stores having scales in use should see to it at least twice a day, that the indicating hand, or weight point, should balance, provided the scoops or pans are kept clean and clear from foreign matter. Any person, storekeeper or peddler, having in their possession any kind of a weighing device or measuring device used for the purpose of weighing or measuring any commodity in the act of buying or selling, must have same inspected and tested and sealed .by the authorized Sealer of Weights and Measures in his territory, at the beginning of the cur- rent year and before using same. Having in your possession any such device which has not been inspected and sealed by the Sealer, please notify him at once. Quick contact can always be made through the Clerk at the Town Hall. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES F.MOORE. Sealer,Weights and Measures 68 Report of the Police Department To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of the Town of Orleans,: I hereby submit my report for the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1958. Motor Vehicle Violations 163 Motor Vehicle Accidents where there was Property Damage in excess of $200.00 or there were personal injuries involved 30 Motor Vehicle Accidents of a minor nature 61 Permits for Motor Vehicle transfers 526 Investigations conducted 250 Miles travelled by cruiser 53000 Sudden Deaths Investigated 3 Commitments to State Institutions 3 ARRESTS AND COURT CASES Arrests 67 Summoned 19 Drunk 32 Released under Chapter 272, Section 45 23 Larceny under $100.00 2 Non-Support 1 Arrested on out of town warrants 4 Selling liquor to a Minor 1 Falsifying age to procure Liquor 27 Lewd and Lascivious Cohabitation 2 Malicious Destruction to Property 4 Disorderly Conduct 3 Operating under the influence of liquor 7 Operating so as to Endanger 10 Operating without a license 2 Operating without.a license in possession 1 Leaving scene of an:accident 3 FailnrP to;claw for an Intersection 1 I� 69 The past year has -been the most.active in the history of the police department. As the town continues to grow, one of the first departments to feel its effect is your police depart- ment. The past summer produced a problem whereby the entire Mid-Cape Highway traffic, heading down the Cape, flowed through the Center of town.At times, this condition resulted in difficult and sometimes impossible traffic situations in and around the "four corners".I would like to express my thanks to the citizens of the town for their patience and indulgence during these occurances, especially during a few noon-time traffic jams when all traffic was at a stand-still for long periods of time. Another problem which presented itself this past year was one in which our local liquor license holders had their licenses placed in jeopardy by under-aged youths who, in an effort to purchase alcoholic beverages, falsified their ages by altering various forms of identification isuch as their birth certificates, driver's license, draft card, etc. Through the ex- cellent cooperation of the local package stores and drinking establishments,we were able to effect•a"crack-down"on this sort of thing and-as a result, twenty-seven of these violations were prosecuted. (It is interesting and gratifying to note that not one of these twenty-seven arrests involved our local youths.) This action by the police department not only pro- tected the license holder but I istrongly feel it helped cut down the increasing number of violent automobile accidents caus- ed by teen-age drinking. I want to thank the Selectmen, the various departments of the town and each and every citizen of the town for their excellent cooperation extended the police department in our efforts to maintain the proper safety and protection for our town's citizens and property. Respectfully submitted, CHESTER A. LANDERS Chief of Police 70 Report of the Fire Department To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Orleans: The Board of Fire Engineers respectfully submit the Annual Report of the Fire Department for the year 1958. Board of Engineers Lawrence L. Ellis, Chief Lloyd R. Ellis, Asst. Chief Henry W..Hurley,Capt. Lieut. Joseph L. Rogers Lieut. Clifford E. Soule Volunteer Firemen George Cahoon, Jr. George H. Landers Paul E. Deschamps William I. Livingston Leighton W. Ellis Belmont P. Mayo Robert I. Freeman Andrew H. Miller Chester W. Higgins James E. Nichols Lawrence H. Hurley George E. Rogers Donald B. Walsh Forrest R. Snider Charlie E. Jones Auxiliary Firemen Lionel S. Gill Charles E. Young, Jr. George W. Doane Roger J. Dube Ernest C. Borso John Hathorne Deputy Forest Wardens, Emile A. 011ivier Henry A. Perry The calls during the year were as follows: Fires by alarm 11 Still alarms 49 Investigations land others 38 Estimated Fire Loss for 1958 $18,000:00 Permits issued: Fuel Oil 63 Gas (Propane) 47 During 1958, several new water holes were made avail- able, one at Pochet Town Landing gives that area fire pro- tection that was never before available. Another section that has ialways been a problem is that area of Skyrneadow. After work there, fresh water is now available for the whole area. 71 area was cut off from Cedar Pond by the Mid-Cape.Pipes are now going under the Mid-Cape at Cedar Fond and Rock Har- bor Roads. A new unit, the Civil Defense Auxiliary Firemen, was formed this year to work along with the firemen as well as under Civil Defense and will be trained along with the regular firemen this year. As soon as the new Barnstable County Fire Training schools open this year, a schedule will be set up whereby all firemen will participate under the best training conditions.They will train on all types of fire extinguishment and latest methods Hof fire fighting with trained instructors. This type of training has never before been available in -this area and is badly needed for the proper protection of life and property as well as safe-guarding the firemen themselve from accidents. We still work towards Fire Prevention, as prevention is just as important as fire fighting. Preparedness,we must al- ways have, day and night—because we know nobody's home and property is immune to fire. No one knows where or when fire will strike next.Is your home safe from fire? At this time, we wish to thank the Board of Selectmen, residents, and all departments in the Town, for the wonder- ful cooperation we have received this past year. Board of Fire Engineers LAWRENCE L. ELLIS Chief Engineer Report of the Board of Appeals To the Citizens of the Town of Orleans: The Board of Appeals held a total of 23 public hearings in 1958. 16 of these were held for permits under the terms of the Orleans Protective By-Law with 12 granted and 4 denied. Seven hearings were held on appeals from the terms of the Building Code with 5 granted and 2 denied. Respectfully submitted, DONALD C.MACKENZIE,Chmn. ROBERT E.LIVINGSTON CLIFFORD E.SOULE r r•rr D 1WrAVll RTOTTART)f! NTf:KF.R_S(1N 72 Report of the Orleans. Fire and Police Departments Rescue Squad To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Orleans: The Orleans Fire and Police Department Rescue Squad respectfully submit their Annual Report. The Rescue Squad has completed its first full year of voluntary service answering calls for emergencies both day and night.During this period the Squad has responded to one hundred seventeen (117) calls grouped as follows: Illness, thirty-two (32): Personal injury, thirty (30): Auto accidents, twenty-four (24); Miscellaneous calls, twenty (20); Fire calls, nine (9); Drownings, two (2). These calls are double the number answered in a corn= parable period in 1957. Six of these calls resulted in the Res- cue Truck transporting the victims to the Cape Cod Hospital due to the three town ambulances being out of town. The experience of the past year has shown that addi- tional equipment will eventually be needed to make the Squad more efficient. Some equipment has been donated and some purchased through donations made to the Rescue Squad. The Squad wishes to thank the Doctors of the Town of Orleans for their time donated to instructing its members on better First Add at our bi-monthly meetings. They also wish to thank the local Civilian Defense Director, Town Nurse and other individuals for equipment and time donated during the year. The Rescue Squad consists of the following members: Russell L. Boyer Belmont P. Mayo Lawrence L. Ellis Edward J. Nichols Lloyd R. Ellis Emery Soule Franklin Joy Donald Walsh Chester A. Landers Jack Urbanski Henry W. Landers Charles E. Jones G. Fredrick Livingston Robert Peno Jr. 73 As Captain of the Rescue Squad, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Squad for their unselfish devotion of time and effort in making this service available to the community. Respectfully submitted, LEIGHTON W. ELLIS, Captain Jury List Compiled by.the Board of Selectmen, November 10, 1958, Town of Orleans Name Expires Occupation Address Acorn, Hillard E. 1960 Mason Orleans Anderson, Carl S. 1960 Carpenter Orleans Barnard, Edward C. 1961 Carpenter Orleans Blodgett, Jarrett S. 1960 Retired Orleans Bonnell, Sylvia S. 1959 Housewife Orleans Bonnell, Willard E. 1961 Retired-Fisherman Orleans Cole, Wynant B. 1960 Real Estate Orleans Cypher, Stanley J. 1961 Semi-Retired- Printer E. Orleans Deschamps, Philip A. 1959 Salesman Orleans Drew, Philip W. 1960 Real Estate Orleans Eldredge, Kenneth R. 1959 Mechanic Orleans Freeman, Charles O. 1960 Carpenter Orleans Fuller,Herbert L. 1959 Maintenance E. Orleans Gaston, Peter 1961 Motel Operator Orleans Gibson, Roscoe P. 1960 Retired Orleans Gill Stephen T. 1959 Tire Recapper E. Orleans Henson,Ann M_ 1961 Housewife Orleans Hinckley, Louise L. 1961 Housewife E. Orleans Joy, Franklin L. 1961 General Contractor Orleans Opderbeck, Elizabeth B. 1961 Housewife E. Orleans Richardson, Olevia 1961 Manager Orleans Swan, Sydney T. 1961 Real Estate Insurance Orleans Tulloch, Archibald M. 1960 Elec. Worker E. Orleans Young, Charles E. 1961 Contractor E. Orleans 74 Report of the Harbor Master To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Orleans: I submit herewith my report of the Harbor Master for the year 1958. As in previous years, all channel buoys have been taken up and it is hoped that new buoys will be placed in their proper positions in the spring. The new bulkhead has been completed to replace the old loading dock at Rock Harbor and the Town has been relieved of a dangerous hazard. The Rock Harbor Comfort Station became a reality in 1958 and most people who use this facility cooperate in keep- ing it reasonably clean. It is hoped that in the future this facility will become an asset to Rock Harbor and that there will be no repetition of destruction or abuse. Small boat ramps have been completed at Rock Harbor, Town Cove and Meeting House River landings. These facili- ties have been extensively used at the River and Cove but the Rock Harbor ramp was completed too late for use in 1958. A new dock should be put out at the Town Cove and an article for this purpose will be placed in the Town Meeting Warrant. In closing,I wish to express my thanks to all the citizens for their co-operation during the year. Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR W.NICKERSON, Harbor Master 75 Barnstable County Health Department Board of Health Town of Orleans Massachusetts For the second consecutive year, no cases of paralytic poliomyelitis were reported in this county. Distribution of polio vaccine,by the State Department of Public Health has, this year, been limited to a supply for infants and pregnant women. Clinics organized for the vaccination of persons be- tween the ages of 20 and 40 years, were, for the most part, not well attended, and this age group has not been as well protected as the childhood group. With,financial assistance provided by the Barnstable County Public Health Association, educational classes were organized for the benefit of all Public Health Nurses in the County. Six sessions were held and all were well attended by the nurses. Topics covered were: Priorities in Public Health Nursing Service, Methods of Developing a Community Safety Education Program,Functions of a Public Health Nurse .in a School Health Program, Planning a Program, and Tubercu- losis Control. During the year,a team, consisting of personnel and stu- dents from the Harvard University School of Public Health, has made a survey of Public Health practices in this county. Final reports of this study are now being distributed to your Board. Respectfully submitted, F. L. Moore, M.D., M. P. H. County Health Officer 76 Report of the State Audit January 28, 1959 To the Board of Selectmen Mr. ErankiI S. Murray Chairman Orleans, Massachusetts Gentlemen: I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Orleans for the period from April 8, 1956 to November 22, 1958, made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. William Schwartz, Assistant Director of Accounts. Very truly yours, HERMAN B.DINE Director of Accounts Mr. Herman B. Dine Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation State House, Boston Sir: As directed by you, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Orleans for the period from April 8, 1956, the date of the previous audit, to November 22, 1958, and submit the following report thereon: The financial transactions, as recorded on the books of the several departments receiving or disbursing money for the town or committing bills for collection, were examined and reconciled with the books and reports of the town trea- surer and the town accountant. The town accountant's ledgers were analyzed, the re- ceint;s beine checked with the treasurer's books and the pay- I I 77 and with the treasurer's records of payments. The appropria- tion accounts were checked with the town clerk's records of town meeting proceedings and the recorded transfers from the reserve fund were verified by comparison with the re- cords of the finance committee. A trial balance was taken off, and a balance sheet,which is appended to this report, was prepared showing financial condition of the town on November 22, 1958. The books and accounts of the town treasurer were ex- amined and checked. The receipts,as recorded, were-checked with the records of the several departments collecting money for the town and with other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury, while the payments were com- pared with the selectmen's warrants authorizing the trea- surer to disburse town funds. The cash book additions were verified, and the cash balance on November 22, 1958 was proved by actual count of the cash in the office, by reconciliation of the bank balances with statements furnished by the banks of deposit, and by examination of the savings bank books. The payments of maturing debt and interest were com- pared with the cancelled securities on file -and with"the amounts falling due. The transactions of the trust and investment funds in the custody of the town treasurer were verified, and the securities and savings .bank books representing the invest- ments of these funds were personally examined and listed. The records of employees' payroll deductions were ex- amined, checked, and reconciled with the town accountant's ledger controls. The records of tax titles and tax possessions held by the town were examined. The amounts transferred from the tax accounts were proved, the disclaimers were verified, and the tax titles and tax possessions on hand were listed and recon- 7s The books and accounts of the tax collector were examin- ed. The tax, excise, and assessment accounts outstanding at the time-of the previous examination,as well as all.subsequent commitments,were audited and compared with the assessors' warrants :issued for their collection. The payments to the treasurer were verified, the recorded.abatements were check- ed with the assessors' reco rd-, t?c tasc5 transferred to the tax title account were proved, and the outstanding accounts were listed and reconciled with the respective ledger controls. The records of departments accounts receivable were ex- amined and checked in detail. The charges were proved, the .reported payments to the treasurer were verified,:and the out- standing accounts were listed and reconciled with the accountant's ledger. Verification of the outstanding tax, excise, assessment, and departmental accounts was obtained by mailing notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the books as owing money to the town, the replies received thereto in- dicating that the accounts, as listed, are correct. The financial records of the town clerk were examined and checked in detail. The collections on account of miscell- aneous receipts were proved and the payments to the trea- surer were compared with the treasurer's cash .book. The records of dog and sporting licenses issued on behalf of the county and the State, respectively, were examined, the pay- ments to the State being verified by comparison with the re- ceipts on file from the Division of Fisheries and Game, and the payments to the town being checked with the treasurer's cash book. The surety bonds of all town officials required by law to file them were examined and found to be in prosper form. The available records of all other departments in which money was collected for the town were examined and check- ed,and the recorded collections were compared with the pay- 79 In addition to the balance sheet, there are appended to this report tables showing a reconciliation of the treasurer's cash, summaries of the tax, excise, assessment, tax title,tax possession, and departmental accounts, together with schedules showing the condition and transactions of the trust and investment funds. During the progress of the audit cooperation was received from all officials of the town, for which, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, I wish to express appreciation. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM SCHWARTZ Assistant Director of Accounts 80 Regional School District Committee Report Second Annual Report of the Eastham-Orleans-Welllieet Regional School District The concluding section of this report for 1957 indicated that planning activities preparatory to beginning construc- tion would extend well into the second quarter of 1958.Actual- ly, they continued beyond the middle of the year. Further consideration of insurance costs resulted in changing building plans and specifications from a hipped plank roof to a flat, built-up, fire resistant roof. It was esti- mated that this change would reduce-the cost of construction somewhat and save more than $4000 a year in future in- surance premiums. The change was made early enough to avoid additional planning expense,but it did delay completion of final plans by about six weeks. Additional Land for Playing Fields At the annual town meeting on March 10, 1958, Orleans voted to turn over about half the town-owned land between the Elementary and High School grounds to the High School, thereby enlarging the ultimate playing field area of the Regional High School by more than 7Y2 acres. Conditional upon this action by the town, Mr. Clayton P.Eldredge offered to give frontage on Tonset Road Extension of 375 feet and depth of 200 feet, thereby extending the town tract referred to above, all the way from Boland Pond to Tonset Road Ex- tension in a continous strip about 350 feet in width. This gift was gratefully accepted. Altogether, the regional school site now amounts to about 35 acres with the additional ad- vantage of abutting on two sides of Eldredge Park, General Contract and Supplementary Estimates About the middle of April, approvals were obtained from the School Building Assistance Commission and other state agencies as to details which they were responsible for in the final plans,and on May 9, bids were opened from 84 subcon- sl Ii The specifications included ten alternates, all of which the Committee took,except one, and on this basis the general contract was awarded to C. A. Batson Company of Brockton, Massachusetts for $1,351,439.30. This bid included an allow- ance of$88,000 for playing fields and site work as an available bid had not been obtained. Subsequently,:a bid of$100,990 was received.Change orders eliminating a greenhouse ($6,800) and new auditorium chairs ($6,160.80) just about offset the dif- ference between the playing field bid and the allowance.Fur- ther change orders to complete the surfacing of the tennis courts and to pay for the removel of excavated boulders have increased the current total of the general contract to$1,358,- 669.30. To this general contract figure-about $227,000. should be added to cover architect's services of about$100,000; movable furnishings and equipment, which will be subject to early bids that it is estimated will amount to about $100;000; and other costs,such as a water system; salary of Clerk of Works; insurance during construction; surveys, itests, etc., all of which will come to about $26,000. Offsetting this gross total of $1,585,669.30 is a planning reimbursement of $72,900. which was received from the state in November; interest earnings on surplus funds invested in U. S. Treasury notes which will amount to. about $10,000. or more; and about $20,00.0. of borrowings and appropriations over this;present estimate of gross total costs—all of which adds up to a current margin of about $100,000. to meet con- tingencies, if any,which may arise during the course of com- pleting the project. Sale of Bonds Five bids were opened at the Second.Bank-State Street Trust Company offices on July 8, 1958 for a Twenty Year Bond issue of $1,600,000. which was sold to a syndicate con- sisting of Harriman,Ripley & Co., Inc.; Kidder,Peabody Co.; Hornblower &Weeks; Rockland-Atlas National Bank of Bos- ton; George P.Fogg & Co.; F. Brittain Kennedy & Co.; at a price of 100.866 and accrued interest for 3.10 percent bonds. Name of School Following conferences with the school committees of each of the three towns and with other local officials, the Commit- tee voted unanimously that the official name of the school 82 Brewster Planning Committee At their annual town meeting on March 4, 1958, two special -committees, one of which had been appointed to inquire -about terms and conditions for the admission of Brewster into this District and the other instructed to make similar inquiries with respect to joining the Dennis-Yarmouth School District, .both recommended that the town favorably consider a Regional School District. As a result of these rec- ommendations, the town voted to create a School District Planning Committee authorized and empowered to confer with and negotiate as to terms and conditions of admittance to existing Regional School Districts. This District Committee will welcome -an opportunity to discuss its facilities with the Brewster Planning Committee and to offer it as favorable terms as can be justified in fair- ness to the three towns already in it. Personnel Policy and Salary Schedule At its December meeting, the committee elected Mr. Ar- mand A. Guarino, the present principal of Orleans High School, to serve as principal of the regional school. In the first few weeks of 1959, the election of most of the teaching staff for the regional school will be accomplished. In this chore, the committee will be guided by Section XII of the Regional Agreement which reads "All teachers in positions to be superseded by the establishment of the regional district school shall be given preferred consideration for similar posi- tions in the regional district school to the extent that such positions exist therein; and any such teacher who on the date of his contract of employment with the District is then on tenure shall continue thereafter to serve on a tenure basis." Preparatory to the organization of the teaching staff, the district committee commissioned a subcommittee to work out a salary scale for the regional school. The subcommittee rec- ommendations, which were adopted by the district committee in October,provide a scale similar to that in effect in Orleans at the present time,and is as shown below. Section III Salary Schedule 1. Minimum, maximum, super maximum rates for vari- I: i 83 AB MA MA + s.h. 1. 3600 1. 3900 1. 4100 2. 3800 2. 4100 2. 4300 3. 4000 3. 4300 3. 4500 4. 4200 4. 4500 4. 4700 5. 4400 5. 4700 5. 4900 6. 4600 6. 4900 6. 5100 7. 4800 7. 5100 7. 5300 B. 5000 8. 5300 8. 5504 9. 5200 9. 5500 9. 5700 10. 5400 10. 5700 10. 5900 11. 5600 11. 5900 11. 6100 12. 6100 12. 6300 5800 13. 6300 13. 6500 14. 6500 14. 6700 15. 6.900 6700 16. 7100 7300 2. Annual increments of $200, effective September 1st of each year, will be granted to each teacher, provided satis- factory professional standards of teaching are maintained. If the increment is to be withheld, a hearing will be granted with the Principal, Superintendent, and School Committee at the request of the individual or individuals involved. 3. New teachers will be placed on;the scale in accordance with +their preparation and experience, provided that four semester hours of credit approved by the Committee have been earned within the period of three years prior to Sep- tem first of the current year. Otherwise placement on the scale shall be at the discretion of the Committee. 4. Eligibility for increments each year shall include earn- ing four semester hours of credit within a period of three years prior to the current year. Approval in advance must be voted by the Regional School Committee concerning any study or activity for which local credit is desired,and no more than two of the four semester hours of credit should be re- quested for anything other than formal study which is related to the teacher's field. 5. Maximums shall be: A. B. $5,600; M.A. $6,500; and M. A. plus 30 s.h. $7,100. In addition teachers at maximum may qualify for a super maximum of $200 more in each category by earning four semester hours of approved credit within the 84 Such teachers shall serve at least one year at maximum rate before qualifying for the super maximum. Audit and Installation of Accounting System The two letters: that follow, one to the district from Herman Dine,Director of Accounts and the other to Mr.Dine from William Schwartz, Assistant Director of Accounts, serve to report on the audit of district accounts and the establish- rs,e„t of an accounting system with the approval of the Mas- sachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxation, Bureau of Accounts. THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Department of Corporations and Taxation Bureau of Accounts State House, Boston 33 Robert T. Capeless Herman B. Dine Commissioner Director of Accounts December 5, 1958 Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet District School Committee Orleans, Massachusetts Gentlemen: I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School District for the period from November 26, 1956 to August 24, 1958, and the installation of an accounting system made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. William Schwartz, Assistant Director of Accounts. Very truly yours, S/ Herman B. Dine Director of Accounts Mr.Herman B. Dine Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation State House, Boston Sir: As directed by you,I have made an audit of the.books and accounts of the Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School 85 establishment, to August 24, 1958, and, in addition, have in- stalled a system of-accounts as petitioned for by vote of the district,in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44,Gen- eral Laws, the following report being submitted thereon: The appropriations and loan authorizations voted by the district meetings were listed,and the expenditures chargeable against each.appropriation were compared with the amounts voted.Ledger accounts were written up for the period covered by the audit, and a balance sheet, which is appended to this report, was prepared showing the financial condition of the district on August 24, 1958. The financial transactions of the district treasurer were examined and proved, and the cash balance on August 24, 1958 was verified by reconciliation of the bank balances with statements received from the banks in which district funds are deposited and by examination of the United States Treas- ury Bills held in safekeeping at a bank. The payments made for maturing debt and interest were verified by comparison with the amounts falling due and with the cancelled notes on file. The records of the assessments on member towns to pro- vide funds for operating and construction expenses of the district were checked. The payments to the treasurer were verified, and the outstanding assessments were listed. The surety bonds of the treasurer filed for the faUhful performance of her duties were examined and found to be in proper form. Appended to this report,in addition to the balance sheet, are tables showing a reconciliation of the treasurer's cash and a summary of the assessment account. For the cooperation of the district officials, during the progress of the audit and the 'installation of the system, I wish, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, to express appreciation. Respectfully submitted, S/WILLIAM SCHWARTZ Assistant Director of Accounts H Financial Statement Balance, January 1, 1958 $76,157.85 Receipts, January 1 to December 31, 1958 Assessments $2,250.00 Temporary Loan 100,000.00 Bonds 1,600,000.00 Premium on Loan 13,856.00 Interest on Treasury Notes 3,686.40 Planning Reimbursement 72,900.85 Construction Reimbursement 24,927.10 Withholding Tax Account 262.00 County Retirement Account 5.00 1,817,887.35 $1,894,045.20 Payments,January 1,to December 31, 1958 Operation $866.53 Loan Costs 1,430.56 Construction 407,525.04 Bond Costs 3,996.31 Withholding Tax 262.00 County Retirement 5.00 Loan Repayments 200,000.00 $614,085.44 Balance,December 31, 1958 Cape Cod Trust Company, Orleans Branch $79,782.90 First National Bank of Provincetown 74,905.15 Second Bank—State Street Trust Company 131,742.82 U. S. Treasury Bills 993,528.89 1,279,959.76 87 Balance Sheet for Year Ending December 31, 1958 Cash $1,279,959.76 School Construction Loan 1,600,000.00 Premium on Loan $9,859.69 Net Funded & Fixed Debt 1,600,000.00 Construction Account 11168,625.87 Surplus Revenue 101,474.20 $2,879,959.76 $2,879,959.76 Budget-m-1959 (part of year) General Control: Salaries $4,425.00 Other Expenses 1,550.00 $5,975.00 Instruction: Salaries 50,418.00 Textbooks—Supplies 9,450.00 $59,868.00 Operation: Salaries 9,500.00 Utilities & Supplies 9,400.00 $18,900.00 Maintenance: $2,000.00 Auxiliary Agencies: Library 1,125.00 Health 850.00 Clerical 1,000.00 Insurance 5,000.00 Transportation 600.00 Cafeteria 1,000.00 Athletics 1,000.00 Other 1,100.00 $11,675.00 Outlay: Contingencies: $3,000.00 88 Assessments for Operation Eastham 21.7% $22,007.71 Orleans 50.5% $51,216.09 Wellfleet 27.8% $28,194.20 Capital Costs Principal Payment $85,000.00 Interest Payments 49,600,00 $134,600,00 Credits from grant & bond premium 34,786.79 Total Capital Costs $99,813.21 Assessments for Capital Costs Eastham 25% $24,953.30 Orleans 50% $49,906.61 Wellfleet 25% $24,953.30 Total Assessments Eastham $46,961.01 Orleans $101,122.70 Wellfleet $53,147.50 Status of Project at End of 1958 Work around the site and on the playing fields was be- gun almost immediately following the signing of the con- tract on Tune 19, 1958, and continued until the weather got too cold well into November. Rough grading was completed and so was nearly three-fourths of the soil preparation for the grass areas.Very little has been done on the clay bases for the running track, the tennis courts, and the baseball areas, and the nearer playing field was seeded so late that it prob- ably will be resown next Spring. The playing fields as a whole are about 60 percent completed. At the building site, the area surrounding the new con- struction has not been brought to finished grade, and no soil has yet been prepared for seeding. The sewage beds and ac- companying facilities have been completed and are now handling the sewage disposal for the existing school. The building foundations are practically complete, and the structural steel is in place except far some miscellaneous areas. The corrugated metal forma which support the eon- i I ss E being placed on the floor areas. This will be followed by the laying of the floor slabs and then by the installation of in- terior partition wall construction, pending the installation of outside panels and windows. Equipment under the ground floor such as electrical dis- tribution conduit, sanitary drains, and steam distribution piping are quite well advanced. The heating boilers and some auxiliary equipment have been set in position. The total building project is now about one-third complete. The weather has retarded.progress somewhat.The equiv- alent of 111/2 full days have been lost since July 1 including 5 of 22 working days in December. It will be another couple of months, at least, before we will know 'With considerable as- surance that the entire project can or cannot be completed by September. If the latter should prove to be the case, ef- forts will be .made to concentrate on completing classrooms and other minimum essentials to the opening and operation of the school for its initial enrollment, which can, of course, be temporarily accommodated with something less than the entire facility. Respectfully submitted, Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional District Committee WINTHROP A. GRIFFIN, Chairman BETTY D. MURPHY, Secretary DANIEL J. CHISHOLM THEODORE L. HICKS JOSEPH W. HIGGINS DONALD C. MacKENZIE RICHARD J. VANDERMAY L. Isabelle Brackett, Treasurer Charles E. Frazier,Jr.,:Counsel Sydney G.Pierce, Superintendent 90 Report of the Committee on Town Government (Art. 43 of Orleans Town Meeting 1958) I We know that the town has grown and changed more in the past ten or twelve years than it did in the previous cen- tury and we are convinced it is on the threshold of unpre- cedented development. We have satisfied ourselves that the town is being governed well and that relations between town officials and:between these officials.and the public have never been better. If the town would stop growing and changing we would favor leaving things the way they are with these ex- ceptions. 1. We believe that the pay of the Selectmen should be increased until it is in a better-relationship to the•average pay of all the other full time employees of Orleans, and in this connection, that the pay for assessing should be put on the basis of an annual salary instead of a day rate. 2. That .a full time experienced clerical worker should be added to the Town Office•staff to eliminate part time cleri- cal employment; reduce clerical work by the assessors; as- sist Selectmen, 'Town Clerk, Civil Defense Director and other town officers in handling peak loads or doing special typing; and to understudy the General Office Clerk in preparing pre- scribed routines for the performance of the town's business. 3. The General Office Clerk should receive a pay in- crease in recognition of her work load, know how, good will and extended length of service in this job. II For nearly 300 years all the conditions and circumstances of government in Massachusetts made decentralization in- evitable despite the earnest efforts of the state legislature to prescribe uniform procedures and to be more and more specific about local powers and authorities. Transportation and communication were so difficult that supervision was i sl Transportation and communication not only had to be dramatically improved but it took two wars, a world wide de- pression, the addition of an income tax, an extraordinary ex- pansion of the scope and activities of government at all levels with its consequences of more and more long term borrowings for major public projects; to fully convince the state that supervision as well as legislation was necessary to conduct the affairs of the Commonwealth with some regard for uniformities and minimum standards and with a stronger concern for financial safety. This supervision was gradually provided by appointments of staff employees in Executive Departments who continue to make careers in their assignments irrespective of changes in the political administration. Their work and personal sta- tus is in many ways comparable to the British Civil Service. III Looking ahead for the next ten years with particular reference to the local levels of government in Massachusetts there are two practices that are significant and that seem to be gathering momentum.The first is the voluntary agree- ment on the part of two or more local governmental units to participate in regional districts for major projects such as parkways, water and sewage systems, schools, etc., and the second is the growing practice throughout the state an the part of growing towns, as they get larger and larger, of emphasizing the:administrative responsibilities and duties of elected officials by requiring them to turn over operational matters to appointed employees who are expected to accumu- late experience, increase capabilities and make working careers out of these-assignments. Orleans has not reached the stage yet that its affairs are suffering because it does not have all the benefits of these growing practices, but it would be too bad, if in the course of the next five to ten years, natural opportunities for their initiation or extension should be'ignored or rejected. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TOWN GOVERNMENT Someone has said that if we hope to find out or even to guess about where we are going, we need to know where we are and what we have to go with, and neither will be 92 Where We Are Orleans has been fortunate in its strategical physical location at the junction of the inner and outer main routes through the whole length of the Cape. Completion of the Mid Cape highway will affect this past advantage but with the through traffic load it will carry, this change may prove to be an asset. Measured solely by its year 'round population, Orleans is a small town, but since the end of the Second World War and for some time before,it has been growing faster than the average for the county or the state; and with its matching increment of non-voting taxpayers; and-its four months in- flux of transient vacationers; on top of its year 'round ac- tivity as a trade and service center—it is quite a thriving and a fairly sizeable place, of an administrative and operational equivalent government-wise,to a town of 5,000. Construction is the major industry of the town and rec- reation is its mainstay and the most promising field for its economic future. Perhaps the biggest problem that the town government has in converting this promise into performance is to bal- ance the interests of the voting with the non-voting tax- payers and both with the interests of the transients, so that the transients will become owners and the owners will be- come oitizens—both of which possibilities are not only prac- ticable but signs of which are already perceptible. What We Have To Go With Everyone in New England knows that the town meeting is the foundation of our local government and many of us believe that the office of selectman is the oldest elective of- fice in American Government but some of us are not so•sure of all the answers when called upon to explain just what it is that the selectmen do. At a town meeting held in Cambridge in 1634, selectmen were elected "to do the whole business of the town" between town meetings and whatever they did was "to stand in full force as if the whole town did it". A little later both the town and the state cut this authorization down -to size but 93 It is difficult to give an accurate impression of what they are or a complete description of what they do in a re- port of this type. The best we -can do is to give you a gen- eralized list of some of their responsibilities and duties. He is broadly responsible for the performance of all other town officers, a majority of whom he appoints annually. He has general responsibility for all town property. Here and in many other towns, he is a working assessor and a member of the Boards of Health and Welfare. He is responsible for road layouts and for construction —and for harbors, beaches and for navigation—and for police, fire and civil defense. He issues alcoholic, shellfish, docking, vending and other licenses. He compiles the town budget, approves all bills before they can be paid by the Treasurer,Prepares the Town Report, draws up the warrants and issues the calls for regular and special town meetings and supervises elections. He is a member and attends all day meetings of his County and State Associations (both Selectmen and Asses- sors) and for the past three years he has attended the school for assessors at the state University at Amherst for several days. He has close and frequent relations with the Department of Public Works and the Department of Corporations and Taxation in Boston and keeps in touch with what goes on in the Legislature from day to day and occasdonally is expected to appear at legislative or departmental hearings in Boston. The first recommendation is that members of the Boards of Selectmen, Assessors, Health and Welfare should each re- ceive an annual salary as selectmen of$2000 a year; that the payment for assessing at a daily rate should be discontinued and that each assessor should be paid$2000 a year; and that each member of the Board of Welfare should continue to re- ceive $400 a year; making a total salary for each of these three town officials -of $4400 a year; and that these salary changes should be approved retroactively to January 1, 1959. 1 'Ph. —1—t—r tall- — thav — --lzi— f"11 trim'- cave" 94 1500 hours a year. They attend evening meetings both in and out of town and are on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week. In our judgment they are now working substantially the equivalent of a full time week and if our suggestion should be adopted of having at least one selectman in the Town Office building at all times during regular office hours it would strengthen this opinion. 2. The Town Accountant has told us, on the basis of the data on pages 11, 12 and 13 of the Town Report for 1957,that 41 full time employees, including school teachers, received average pay of $3878.50 in 1957. The average of the three selectmen's pay was $3233.66. If they had been paid $12 a day for assessing through out 1958,they would have been about on the average full time pay rate for all full time employment. Actually they were not paid the $12 rate for much more than 7 months in 1958 and meanwhile the average rate for all full.time town employment moved up to $4336.55 as against their actual average pay of $3577.42. 3. The Town. Accountant also advised us that 85 part time employees were paid $84,048.02 in 1957. Dividing this figure by the average amount•paid to full time workers, these part time workers scan be said to be the equivalent of 211/Z full time workers . Therefore, Orleans had the equivalent of 621/a full time workers in 1957. 4. On the basis of the above data, Orleans had the equiva- lent of a full time public employee for every 38 people in 1957. Barnstable had one for every 35 people. Massachusetts had one for every 40. The per capita cost for public employment in 1957 for Orleans was $97.52. For the -county it was $105.24. For the state it was $98.40. These figures are based on census data for the county and the state and on the town report for Orleans except that the census report used population figures for 1950 in their original exhibits and we used 1955 figures extended by the 1950-1955 trend to 1957, giving a population of 2400 for Orleans; 55,098 for the county and 4,896,509 for the state. 5. General indicators of increasing volume of the work load for conducting town affairs since 1950 through 1957 include (1) n r;ae in nnnnln.tion of about 40 vercent (1759 to 2400): (2) i 95 26 million dollars); and (3) an increase in total town appro- priations of more than 100 percent ($290•,000 to $669,366.67). 6. Payment for assessing on the basis of a daily rate is a poor arrangement in principle and practice particularly when it is coupled with payments by the year for equally important responsibilities and duties. The second recommendation is that an additional full time clerical employee be engaged to assist the Selectmen, the Assessors, the Civil Defense Director,the Town Clerk and the General Office Clerk at a salary not to exceed $2730 a year, which is the equivalent of $1.50 an hour for a 35 hour week, 1. Peak loads in the volume of work of the Selectmen, Assessors and Town Clerk and Tax Collector do not coincide and they are already requiring part time help on a rising trend that has now reached a total of about$1000. 2. The Civil Defense Director has informed us that he will require a competent clerical worker for-a minimum of one full day a week throughout 1959 and that periodically he may need two days a week. There is a possibility that half of this expense might be reimbursed by the federal agency. 3. An experienced.clerical worker should be able to gradual- ly relieve the assessors of considerable paper details thereby freeing them for more important administrative duties. 4. The General Office Clerk has .acquired :a knowledge of the technical details of local and state procedures and re- quirements that might be difficult to replace over a consider- able period unless she is assisted and understudied by some- one who is permanently on a full time basis. The last recommendation is that the salary of the General Office Clerk be increased from $3040 to $3380 per year and that it be approved retroactively to January 1, 1959. 1. This is for efficiency, intelligence, know how and good will as General Information as well as General Office Clerk and one of the longest periods of service of anyone now in the town government. If these recommendations are approved we suggest that some consideration be given to organizing working arrange- ments so that there will be at least one selectmen in the Town Office Building throughout regular office hours every work- 96 Finally, in these days of increasing volumes of work and rising price levels, either the Selectmen or another special advisory board or committee ought to be giving more con- tinuous and complete consideration to all town salaries and working conditions, including preliminary studies of job classifications, specifications, and other personnel practices and working conditions. Where We Started and How We Got Here As soon as the early settlers ceased to fear the Indians, they moved out to and beyond the boundaries of the settle- ments and established precincts and parishes and new dis- tricts, and then subsequently petitioned the Legislature to split them off as new towns and this is the way that Well- fleet and Orleans were separated from Eastham. Transportation and communication were difficult with- in a town (that was the reason Wellfleet gave when it asked to be setoff from Eastham); outlying towns were almost iso- lated from the higher levels of government, both state and county. For a long time electorates were small; :conditions were primitive; relations were intimate; needs and problems and projects were simple; growth was slow; and in many of the smaller communtities change was imperceptible from one generation to another. At first, the legislative policy was that towns would be authorized to adopt such by-laws as they saw fit and estab- lish such practices as they might think were desirable for planting and running a town. Some of the early charters em- powered towns to deal with all matters of a prudential nature. As time went on it became more and more evident that many towns were ignorant of or indifferent to some of the basic statutes for the government of the Commonwealth. In their efforts to induce more understanding and compliance, the Legislature enacted more laws and made them more and more specific until by 1956 they had enacted statutes which included 600 references to the powers and duties of selectmen. The reverse in the decentralizing trend in government began,as it did in business and should in any type of far Sung organization, when conditions made it possible and circum- stances made it not only desirable but probably necessary. I 97 headed a series of new circumstances that included the im- position of an income tax; a catastrophic depression that particularly threatened the financial solvency of several local governments,; -a revolutionary expansion in the scope and activities of government with the consequent rising trend of long term borrowing for financing major public pro- jests; federal and state aid-and operation of the major pro- grams of the welfare state; all these and many minor de- velopments made more supervision from the top down or cen- tralization unavoidable. Long before the war or the financial crisis or the rise of big government, Massachusetts had gone a long way with state administration of health and educational standards and requirements. Welfare had to wait until 1935. The evolution of welfare activities in Orleans affords an example of what happened before and after this change in trend. In the early years of Cape Cod towns, the hopelessly Indigent were auctioned off to the care of the highest bidders in town meetings. Some of us can still remember when this town maintained an almshouse or poor farm to which unfor- tunates and incompetents were committed.From there on up to the advent of the federal and state social security program in 1935, one of the Selectmen handled all welfare cases per- sonally, and not until the end of his extended term of office did he have the part time assistance of a new clerical em- ployee. Now there is a full time Welfare Worker under Civil Service in charge of Old Age Assistance; Aid to Dependent Children; and General Relief. The Welfare Worker processes all cases with a book of state schedules and regulations about the size of the New York telephone di-rectory. The Selectmen, in their role of members of the Board of Public Walfare advise on the treat- ment of all special cases and approve and are responsible for the treatment of all cases. This is a rough sketch of some of the surface aspects of the trend toward more centralization of power in govern- ment. There is more to it than the increase in supervised paper work brought about by the articulation of the chain of command from the State House in Boston down to the smal- lest town in Massachusetts. Now conditions permit and cir- cumstances demand more centralization of leadership and controls than this country has even known except in the mid- 98 Vie are now living in an era of continuous revolution all over the world. Radio, television, and the traditional news services bring these crises into our living rooms every day slightly flavored with hysteria. Apparently we have climbed to a higher economic plateau,with the aid of a little inflation, where we have gained more leisure at the expense of less security. Our considerable population growth has been over- whelmed by the rising velocity :and spreading area of popu- lation circulation—a phenomenon almost as incomprehen- sible as to consequences as the potentialities of nuclear energy. Any government that continued unchanged in circum- stances like these would soon cease to govern. The Shape of Things,to Come This town has done some pretty big things since 1950. The following are among the more outstanding: 1. Nearly.a hundred subdivisions have been approved and nearly as many new roads have been laid out, and many of them have been improved. Main Street has been widened from 6A to Academy Place, and the Mid Cape Highway has reached Orleans. 2. A Building Cade.and a Zoning Code have been incorpo- rated in the Town Bylaws. 3. A revaluation of property for tax purposes has been completed, and a system installed for maintaining it. C A new library .and a new elementary school have been built and a regional high .school is under construction. The old elementary school building has been rearranged for use as a Town Office Building, and the old Town Hall has been turned over to the Recreation Commission. 5. Nauset and Skaket Beaches have been improved, park- ing lots hard topped and extended, parking fees imposed at Nauset, and both beaches supervised throughout the vaca- tion season. 6. Beach takings have been begun by the town on the outside shore from the Chatham line to Pochet Island. 7 Rnrlr Tiarhnr r1arka.aa fa.nilitiPS ha.vP hP..Pn enla.reed and i ss 8. The beginning of a series of launching ramps for small boats at town landings has been made with three completed installations. 9. The provision and operation of a Communications Center and a Three Town Ambulance and a Rescue Truck have aided greatly in handling accidents and emergencies and soothing the community's peace of mind. A list like this, some of which remains to be paid for, calls for restraint rather than exuberance in listing future possibilities: 1. There is an off the cuff opinion that this town is about a quarter filled up. More subdivisions and roads, including Main Street widening from the center to the junction of Skaket and Rack Harbor Roads and a road from the center to West Street, have already been laid out and are likely to be completed within the next two years. Z. Revisions and strengthening of the Zoning Code, with particular reference to business areas around the Mid Cape Highway will have to be made. 3. There is the possibility of the construction of a Beach Pavilion in connection with the further development of Nauset Beach; construction of a Highway Building has al- ready been authorized; if the ultimate provision of a town lockup is delayed long enough, it may precipitate a proposal to enlarge the general quarters of the Police and Fire De- partments, together with other storage facilities in a new location. 4. Perhaps a comprehensive drainage program is the most pressing need that confronts the town. 5. Sooner or later,the town will have to find a way to pro- vide a public water supply,at least in the most thickly settled areas,and if it waits long enough,it will have to•do something about a sewage disposal system at the same time. 6. There is a prospect for considerable improvements, particularly in the Pleasant Bay and Town Cove waters, where the state may be willing to contribute heavily for dredging that will provide sheltered facilities for small boat anchorages. 7. The ultimate taking of the outsida hearh will esrtenri 100 S. In the not too distant future, consideration may be given to the provision of a small hospital for this area, on a regional or joint basis. 9. The best step that the Lower Cape could take in the interests -of better planning for the future would be to or- ganize a Regional Planning District. Such an agency would develop master elan for„the entire area,. it would be wholly advisory. If approved by the Planning Division of the State Department of Commerce, the Federal Government would pay half the costs of engineering services, and the share of each town would be nominal for services that might prove to be priceless. Regional organization is the obvious physical phase of this trend towards more centralization in government. It seems to develop in the extremes of the most thickly and the most thinly or scattered populated areas. The Metropolitan Water, Sewage, and Park Systems participated in by the thirty seven cities and towns that comprise the suburbs of Boston have been establ4shed for more than fifty years. Regional airports, School Districts, Moth Control, Public Welfare, Veterans' Services, Building and Wire Inspection Districts are .comparatively recent and are more likely to be found in operation in small town or rural areas like the Cape. Another aspect of this centralizing trend is the growing practice in more than. three-fourths of the towns in the state to emphasize the separation of the administrative and operating functions in local government by retaining ad- ministrative responsibilities as exclusive functions of elected officials and turning operations almost completely over to appointed officials. For example, a Board of Selectmen can appoint lan Executive Secretary and a Broard of Assessors can appoint a Deputy Assessor. These career appointees, to- gether with a Town Clerk, who may now be appointed after five years of service to hold office during good behavior, could:attend to all the routine operations of a town's affairs, with clerical assistance,subject to approvals by their elected superiors. The most extreme example of this practice of providing career appointments for the management of operations is the Town Manager. He is appointed and may be removed for cause by the Selectmen and all of his work is subject to their supervision. He is in effect, a General Manager reporting to 101 that they do, and they are subject to directions from no one but him. This type of organization has been adopted extensively by cities of more than 5000 population, particularly in the Mid-West where it was said to be in effect in 764 places out of 2527 in 1955. Maine is said to have more than 100, towns with populations of less than 5000, in some cases with Re- gional Managers operating two or more towns. Massachusetts has 16 Town Managers and 6 city Managers.The list of towns includes such places as Randolph, Stoughton, Middleboro, Arlington, Saugus, and Provincetown. Size is a factor. In this area, a young Town Manager would be likely to expect to get as much as $7500 a year, and if he was exceptional, he would probably be offered more in three or four years. Another aspect of size is the proportion of the budget that,the Town Manager would have an oppor- tunity to handle.This is unlikely to be more than half as he would have no control over county taxes, principal and in- terest payments on bond issues, and school operating ex- penditures. To sum up briefly, some towns have adopted Manager plans because of extraordinary growth problems; some have been prompted by financial conditions; almost all have been brought about by •a conviction that more management and closer control was needed to improve some situation or other. Advocates have claimed better efficiencies and more economies; opponents have challenged these claims and add- ed, if they could be proven, they would have been accom- plished at the expense of democratic government and good citizenship. This Committee is not advocating .serious consideration of asking the legislature for a charter that would permit employment of a Town Manager for Orleans now or later. On the other hand, as Orleans continues to grow, it will be confronted with •a rising volume -of operations and office work that require more engineering and accounting and less political attention,and which from an efficiency and economy standpoint, depend heavily on the experience and concentra- tion that are most likely to accompany career performance. Committee operation (as distinguished from administra- tion) of.town affairs has virtues and values that are attrac- 102 magnified by increasing volume and size of problems and pro- jects, vicissitudes of elections, and many other factors. If in the course of the next five to ten years,it should be- come practicable and generally satisfactory to convert an elected or even.a defeated assessor into an appointed duputy assessor—or to appoint a selectman or an ex-selectmen or any other qualified citizen .as the Executive Secretary of the Board of Selectmen—or to combine the title of Chairman of the Board of Selectmen with the full time and well paid duties and responsibilities of a Town Office Manager—then this town would be moving closer to what seems to be the prevailing trend and practice in most towns of 5,000 popula- tion and upwards throughout the state. The Town Clerk and Highway Surveyor might well be added to this 1st for appointments instead of elections. Everything that was done under such a rearrangement would still be subject.to directions as to policies and approvals as to performances by elected Boards, but their work would be reduced to a few hours a week on matters of administra- tion solely, and their compensation would be nominal. The nearest thing to a principle of local government that we have been able to find is that "it is the application of common sense to the circumstances of the place." (Signed) ELEANOR G. LUND WINTHROP A. GRIFFIN ED J. SMITH RUSSELL W. TAYLOR ALBION H. BESSE, CHAIRMAN I i 103 I Assessors' Report on Map of Town In 1958 Sheet 1 in South Orleans which was originally prepared in the early 1940's was brought up to date. Sheets 17 and 20,through which the Mid Cape Highway passes, were brought up to date except for certain-drainage areas which the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has recently decided to take. When we have been informed by the Department of Public Works of the exact locations of these areas they will be added to these two sheets. Throughout the year it is necessary to seek information and.advice relative to currently-conveyed parcels. We recommend an approp7iation of $1000 to bring more of the older sheets up to date, and to revise the key map, which shows all of the town,by adding the many town roads and down landings :acquired since the map was originally compiled in 1937. Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR R. FINLAY, Chairman FRANKLIN S. MURRAY RICHARD H. ADAMS Orleans Assessors 104 Report of the 'Town Accountant To the Board of Selectmen Orleans, Massachusetts Gentlemen: I submit herewith the report of the Accounting Depart- ment for the year ending December 31, 1958, as follows: Cash on,hand January 1, 1958 $149,468.86 RECEIPTS Taxes: Real Estate 1955 $52:53 Personal Property 1956 853.19 Real Estate 1956 521.19 Poll 1957 8.00 Personal Property 1957 3,178.81 Real Estate 1957 22,276.63 Pall 1958 1,240.00 Personal Property 1958 42,810.43 Real Estate 1958 350,886.78 Farm Animal Excise 1958 29.71 M.V. Excise 1957 11,917.21 M.V. Excise 1958 43,789.50, Moth Assessment 1957 31.5.0 Moth Assessment 1958 643.50 478,238.98 Interest On Deferred Taxes $858.57 On Deposits and Investments 878.29 On Street Light Fund 82.47 1,819.33 From the Commonwealth Income Tax $32,679.95 Corporation Tax 19,440.00 Meal Tax 1,623.93 High School Transportation & Tuitions 13,195.50 Seal Bounties 10.00. ag OAO'40 105 From the County Dog Licenses (Refunds) $553.16 553.16 Grants and Gifts From the Commonwealth: Conservation of Shellfish $700.00 Vocational Education 364.80 Chapter 90 Construction 2;037.05 Chapter 90 Maintenance 500.00 Chapter 718, Section 5-A 8,212.87 Elementary School Construction 4,295.19 From the County: Chapter 90 Construction 1,990.06 Chapter 90 Maintenance 500.00 Retaining Wall at Rock Harbor 12,500.00 From Federal Government: School Lunch 7,830.05 38,930.02 Licenses and Permits Anti-Freeze $13.00 Camp and Cabin 6.00 Cesspool 12.00 Common Victuallers 23.00 Dealer's First Class 25.00 Dealer's Second Class 20.00 Dealer's Third Class 6.00 Docking 850.00 Funeral Director's 3.00 Garbage and Rubbish Collection 6.00 Gasoline,Fuel Oil,Kerosene 38.00 Hawkers and Peddlers 16.00 Inn Holders 3.00 Intelligence Officer 2.00 Junk Collectors 15.00 Liquor 4,702.00 Lodging House 31.00 Dog 820.00 Marriage 48.00 Motel 5:50 Pool and Bowling Machines 14.0.0 Sell Firearms 45.00 Soft Drinks 20.08 Sunday Amusement 7.00 106 Theatre 2.00 Transient Vendor 300.00 Hi-Fi and T.V. Sunday 44.50 Frozen Desserts 5.00 Oleo .50 Sunday Record Player 11.00 Bowling 2:010 Skill Pool 20.00 Shuffle Alley 20.00 Sunday Movies 26.00 Sunday Juke Box 26.0'0 Peddler License 9.00 Bicycle Registrations 8.00 Building 1,021.50 Planning Board 130•:0.0 Shellfish 1,755.00 Shellfish Grants 45.00 Revolver 54.00 10,214.00 Commercial Revenue Beach Parking Tickets $8,140:0.0 Park Dept. Concessions 1,105.00 Telephone Commissions 44.49 Telephone Use 16.80 Recreation Building Rental 550.00 School Rentals 50.00 Town Office Building Rental 25.00 Library Fines 1.05.11 Lost School Books 84.00 Nursing Service 986.60 Dispatcher Service 1,500.00 . School Tuitions 40,533.88 School Vending Machines 45.15 Sealer Weights and Measures 176.80 Rent of Highway Equipment 10.50 School Cafeteria 18,188.99 Basketball 1,000.74 72,563.06 Veterans Benefits From the Commonwealth: 107 Charities Public Welfare: From Commonwealth $1,230.77 From Cities•and Towns 332.73 Aid to Dependent Children: From Commonwealth 3,735.75 From Federal Grants 4,062.19 Adm. Federal Grants 864.52 Old Age Assistance: From Commonwealth 22,031.93 From Cities and Towns 293.01 From Individuals 4.45 From Federal Grants 15,819.91 Adm. Federal Grants 1,293.18 Disability Assistance: From Commonwealth 1,412.79 Adm. Commonwealth 35.35 From Federal Grants 960.23 Adm. Federal Grants 68.46 52,145.27 Sales Highway Material $206.38 Scallop Bags 107.80 Town Maps 6.60 Voting Lists 6;00 Street Listings 18.00 344.78 Unclassified Court Fines $770.40 Sale of Land 1,800.00 Municipal Lien Certificates 10.00 Advertising Hearings 68.92 Matching Funds for Advertising Town 1,500.00 Gifts (Charity Refunds) 250.00 Payments to Town In Error 548.00 Warrants and Demands 196.30 Donations to Rescue Truck Fund 165.05 Insurance Proceeds—Police 21.00 Insurance Proceeds—School Athletics 754.50 Services of Dog Officer 44.00 Payments for Broken Windows 40.40 Highway Machinery Fund 105.30 Donations for Library Books 1,151.95 Insurance Refunds—Previous Years 1,051.41 Insurance Dividends 221.64 las Trust and Investment Funds Interest Withdrawn: Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund $219.96 Clayton Maya Trust Fund 1,425.0.0 Snow Library Trust Fund 353.75 1,998.71 Interest Transferred to Trust and Investment Funds On Government Bonds: Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund $36.67 Clayton Mayo Trust Fund 859.00 Snow Library Trust Fund 25,0-0 920,67 Matured Bonds Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund A. P. Smith Fund $2,000.00 2,000.00 Refbinds to Following Accounts Snow Library Trust Fund Income $5.98 Schools 15.74 Insurance and Bonds 280.21 Assessors' Expense 3.69 School Lunch Fund 5.00 Parks and Playgrounds 9.48 School Athletic Fund 22.50 Planning Board 8.70 Snow Library 3.90 Rescue Truck Expense 6.36 Police Department 4.90 O.A.A.—Federal Grants 42.65 409.11 Withholdings from Salaries and Wages Federal Tax Deductions $34,248.56 Blue Cross 4,644.25 County Retirement 5,343.60 Teachers Retirement 7,124.48 Teachers Group Insurance 608.14 51,969.03 $939,2460.2.8 I 109 PAYMENTS Moderator's Salary $50.00 Selectmen's Salaries 4,500.0-0, Selectmen's Expense 790.07 Assessors' Pay and Expense 6,438.07 Assessors' Maps 1,00-0.00 Board of Public Welfare Salaries 1,200.00 Town Accountant's Salary 3,000.00 Town Accountant's Expense 724.30 Collector's Salary 1,700.00 Treasurer's Salary 2,0100:00 Town Clerk's Salary 80.0.00• Collector's, Treasurer's & Town Clerk's Expense 2,041.08 Finance Committee Expense 129:00 Elections and Registrations 2,625.09 Town Offices Maintenance & Repairs 5,884.48 Clerical Expense 3,100.00 Tax Title Expense 237.26 Town Counsel & Legal Expense 2,250.36 Appeal Board Expense 252.29 Planning Board Expense 277.26 Recreation Hall Expense 2,056.68 Engineering 1,632.86 Federal Tax Deductions 33,746.56 County Retirement 5,304 52 Teachers Retirement 6,987.45 Blue Cross 4,698.15 Teachers Group Insurance 608.14 Police 23,737.16 Constables' Salaries 100.00 New Police Cruiser 975.00 Traffic Signs 198.37 Fire Department 9,998.56 Water Holes 503.93 Rescue Truck Expense 358.84 Rescue Truck Equipment 312.48 Civil Defense 1,968.97 Building Code 1,307.20 Wire Inspection 274.00 Communication Center 7,954.53 Sealer of Weights and Measures 275.57 Insect Pest Control 2,845.48 Tree Warden 2,329.41 Dutch Elm Disease 1,200.00 Health—General 11,229.87 110 Pump and Tank at Town Dump 930.23 Red Cross Water Safety 767.67 Greenhead Fly Control 334.80 Inspection of Animals 100.00 Ambulance Hire 3,000.00 Highways—General 32,356.79 Snow Removal 4,430.78 Highway Machinery & Building 1,996.43 Chap. 90 Construction-1956 3,091.17 Chap. 90 Construction-1957 4,098.36 Chap. 90 Maintenance 3,00,0:00 Herring Brook Way & Kescayogansett Road 411.00 Lot's Hollow Road 8,49-5.60 Main Street 9,071.15 Main Street Layout 219.50 Highway Dept., Pickup Truck 2,268.05 Dump Truck for Highway Dept. 27.50 Street Lights 7,795.71 Harbor Master's.Salary & Expense 2,039.3.0• Navigation Buoys in Pleasant Bay 99.39 Public Welfare 4,524.21 Old Age Assistance 56,263.18 Aid to Dependent Children 1.0,476.67 Disability Assistance 3,711.37 Administration Charities 3,438.83 Hospital Care—Free Bed 500.00 Veterans Benefits 7,812.56 Schools 206,888.46 Schools-1957 14.50 School Committee Salaries 133.34 Vocational Education 2,759.58 School Lunch 27,135.70 School Athletics 2,499.25 Regional School District 1,147.00 Snow Library 3,438.70 Parks and Playgrounds 14;558.49 Miscellaneous 355.010, Insurance and Bonds 7,32.2.06 Town Reports 965.58 Memorial and Veterans Day 386.75 July 4th Celebration 606.50 Public Amusement 1,500.00, Public Amusement-1957 72.00 Repairs to Recreation Building 170.58 Band Concerts 1,900.00 i 111 Town Cove & Pleasant Bay Launching Facilities 2,165.50 Launching Ramps 3,600.00 Cemeteries and Tomb 455.00 Soldiers Monuments and Graves 523.47 Alteration School for Town Offices 10.86 Retaining Wall at Rock Harbor 25,000.00 Advertise Town& Operate Public Information Booth 3,000:00 Rock Harbor Building 2,200.00 Beach and Meadow Land at Nauset 603.90 Land—George B. Watts, et ux 400.0.0 Care of Herring Brook 30.00 Herring Brook-1956 94.89 Shellfish Protection & Propagation 3,190.14 Shellfish Projects 898.49 Interest Town Notes and Bonds 8,021.00 Retirement High School Bonds 5,000:00 Retirement Fire Station Notes 1,000.00 Retirement Library Bonds 5,000.00 Retirement Elementary School Bonds&Notes 21,000.00 Temporary Loan in Anticipation of Reimbursement 2,000.00 Dog Licenses for County 823.00 State Parks and Reservations 1,768.08 Mosquito Control 5,796.41 County Tax 48,193.20• Retirement System 3,442.90 Court Judgments 1,174.50 Clayton Mayo Trust Fund 1;542.61 Snow Library Trust Fund 309.34 Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund 219.96 Donations for Library Books 537.95 Library Equipment Fund 14.22 Donations to Rescue Truck Fund 107.34 Matured Bonds 2,000.01) Town Clerk & Collectors Fees 244.30 Estimated Receipts 739.39 Real Estate Tax Refunds 461.12 Personal Property Tax Refunds ^91.61 112 Interest Transferred to Trust and Investment Funds 920.67 757,261.21 Cash on Hand December 31, 1958 181,999.07 $939,260.28 Balances transferred to Revenue Account Assessors Pay and Expense $644.11 Finance Committee Expense 21.00 Town Offices Maintenance & Repair 115.52 Town Counsel&Legal Expense 749.64 Engineering 867.14 Traffic Signs 1.63 Rescue Truck Expense 47.52 Administration Building Code & Expense 292.80 Wire Inspection 26:00 Communication Center .47 Health-General 420.13 New Car for Town Nurse 3.70 Pump and Tank at Town Dump 69.77 Red Cross Water Safety 32.33 Inspection of Slaughtering 25.00 Snow Removal 569.22 Highway Machinery & Building 3.57 Lot's Hollow Road 4.40 Main Street 28.85• Highway Dept. Pickup Truck 31.95 Street Lights 104.29 Navigation Buoys in Pleasant Bay .61 Public Welfare 1,475.79 Disability Assistance 366.78 Schools 3.18 School Committee Salaries 66.66 Vocational Education 840.42 Snow Library 18.36 Parks&Playgrounds 5.99 Miscellaneous 145.00 Insurance and Bonds 958.15 Town Reports 84.42 Memorial and Veterans Day 13.25 July 4th Celebration 193.50 Soldiers Monuments& Graves 1.53 Shellfish Protection & Propagation 9.86 113 Balances to 1959 Assessors Pay & Expense-1958 $21.51 Water Holes 496.07 Civil Defense 35.39 Greenhead Fly Control 330.40 Anti-Rabic Treatment 50.00 Chap. 90 Construction-1958 32,212.87 Herring Brook Way & & Kescayogansett Road 3,389.00 P Land Damage and/or Awards 1,00.00 Main Street Sidewalk 88.29 Dump Truck for I-Dghway Dept. 89.59 Sand Spreader for Highway Dept. 49.64 Schools-1958 337.10 New Elementary School 256.97 Repairs to Recreation Building 67.47 N:auset Beach Building Committee 284.15 Town Cove &Pleasant Bay Launching Facilities 334.50 Waterways Improvement Committee 500.00 Highway Garage Building 3,000.00 Beach Land—Nauset 94.00 Beach & Meadow Land at Nauset 5,128.10 Land—George B. Watts,et ux 28.00 Herring Brook-1956 95.61 Herring Brook Improvement 300.00, Shellfish Projects 510.78 $47,789.44 ESTIMATED RECEIPTS Estimated $196,108.40 M.V.Excise Receipts Payments & Refunds 1,910.50 (Less Refunds) $54,050.83 Farm Animal Excise 29.71 Moth Assessment (Less Refunds) 670.00 Income Tax 32,679.95 Corporation Tax 19,440.00 Meal Tax 1,623.93 High School Transpor- tatian&Tuitions— Commonwealth 13,195.50 Licenses& Permits 9,346.00 Commercial Revenue 53,373.33 Veterans Benefits 2,037.05 Charities 32,956.92 Sales 344.78 198,018.90 Interest 1,819.33 Dal. to Revenue 33,266.82 Unclassified 9,718.39 114 CLASSIFICATION OF PAYMENTS Moderator's Salary Kenrick A. Sparrow $50.00 March 10—Appro. $50.00 $50M $50.00 Selectmen's Salaries Arthur R. Finlay $1,500.00 March 10—Appro. $4,500.00 Franklin S. Murray 1,500.00 Richard H. Adams 1,500.00 $4,500.00 $4,500.00 Selectmen's Expense and Supplies Advertising Hearings $103.80 March 10—Appro. $600.00 Printing&Postage 166.96 Transfers 190.07 Travel and Meetings 356.21 Office Supplies 44.60 Association Dues 42:00 Law Books and Map 49.50 P.O.Box Rent 4.50 Office Machines 22,50 $790.07 $790.07 Assessors' Pay and Expense Assessors'Pay $4,854.00 March 10 Appro. $6,000.00 Printing& Postage 144.35 March 18 Refund 3.69 Travel and Meetings 251.35 June 4 Trans,from Photostats of Deeds 134.90 E.&D. 1,100.00 Typing 738.00 Office Machines & Supplies 48.70 Appraisal Service& Books 89.50 Filing Cabinet 97.22 Association Dues, etc. 80.05 6,438.07 Carried to 1959 21.51 Balance to Revenue 644.11 $7,103.69 $7,103.69 Assessors' Maps Arthur L. Sparrow Co. $1,000.00 March 19 Appro. $1,000.00 $1,000.00 $1,000.00 Board of Public Welfare Salaries Arthur R.Finlay $400100 March 10 Appro. $1,200.00 Franklin:S.Murray 400.00 Richard H. Adams 400.00 i 115 Town Accountant's Salary Harry F. Childs $3,000.00 March 10 Appro. $3,000.00 $3,000:00 $3,000.00 Town Accountant's Expense Printing&Postage $87.56 March 10 Appro. $455.00 Typing 61.50 Transfers 269.30 Supplies & Equipment 68.52 Travel and Meetings 110.22 Association dues 5.00 Office Machines 97.50 Adding Machine 294.00 $724.30 $724.30 Collector's Salary Francis I.Rogers $1,700.00 March 10 Appro. $1,700.00 $1,700.00 $1,700.00 Treasurer's Salary Francis I. Rogers $2,000.00 March 10 Appro. $1,500.00 March 11 Appro. 500.00 $2,060.00 $2,000.00 Town Clerk's Salary Francis I. Rogers $800.00 March 10 Appro. $800.00 $800.00 $300.00 Collector's, Treasurer's and Town Clerk's Expense Printing& Postage $787.90 March 16 Appro. $1,800.00 Deputy Collector's Fees 6.00 Dec.30 Transfer 241.08 Supplies, Record Books 168.66 Typing& Clerical 267.00 Oaths&Recording Fees 95.75 Association Dues 11.50 Fireproof File 198.00 Adding Machine 255.00 Typewriter &Stand 219.67 Advertising, Box Rent, etc. 31.60 $2,041.08 $2,041.08 Finance Committee Expense Association Dues $15.00 March 10 Appro. $150.00 Salary of Secretary 100.00 Printing 14.00 129.00 Bal. to Revenue 21.00 116 Elections and Registrations Registrars'Payrolls $1,366.15 March 19 Appro. $2,200.00 Election Payrolls 499.50 Transfers 425.09 Printing& Postage 172.62 Travel 48.64 Voting Booths 316.99 Balloting Machine 154.00 Election Workers' Meals 55.65 Supplies,etc. 11.54 $2,625.09 $2,625.09 Town Offices Maintenance and Repair Janitor &Assistant $1,236.00 March 10 Appro. $6,000.00 Telephone 700.93 Fuel 1,527.64 Electricity 432.71 Jamiitor°s Supplies 82.76 Repairs 588.51 Improving Grounds 409.00 Insulating Ceilings 517.50 Basement Lights 113.45 Shades and Screens 26.85 Water Cooler 221.13 Rubbish Removal, etc. 28.00 5,884.48 Bal.to Revenue 115.52 $6,000.00 $6,000.00 Clerical Expense Adele V.Brown $3,000.00 March 10 Appro. $3,100.00 Mabel H. Weidler 100.00 $3,100.00 $3,100.00 Tax Title Expense Foreclosure:of March 10 Aggro. $200.00 Tax Titles $237.26 Dec.31 Transfer 37.26 $237.26 $237.26 Town Counsel and Legal Expense Paul P. Henson, Jr. $1,200.00 March 10 Appro. $3,000.00 Law Boaks 20.00 Legal Service 375.00 Title Searches 625.36 Travel 15.00 Filing Fees 15.09 2,250.36 Bal.:to Revenue 749.64 Cv nnn nn xo nan nn 117 Appeal Board Expense Advertising $105.25 March 10 Appro. $250.00 Typing 123.94 Dec.31 Transfer 2.29 Zoning Bulletin 10.00 Stationery&Postage 13.10 $252.29 $252.29 Planning Board Expense Advertising $120.70 March 10 Appro. $250.00 Printing& Postage 86.43 July 9 Refund 8.70 Associating Dues 25.00 Transfers 18.56 Conference Meetings 45.13 $277.26 $277.26 Recreation Hall Expense Janitor $480.00 March 10 Appro. $2,000.00 Fuel 750.17 Dec.30 Transfer 56.68 Electricity 138.25 Telephone 78.61 Janitor's Supplies 21.32 Curtains and Supplies 14.05 Lumber,Paint, etc. 122.79 Painting and Repairs 258.99 Incinerator 5.50 Association Service 10.00 Mowing Lawn 7.00 Police 70.00 Setting up Program 100.00 $2,056.68 $2,056.68 Engineering Relocation of Roads $698.00 March 10 Appro. $2,590.00 Setting Road Bounds 250.00 Prints and Photostats 45.06 Advertising Hearings 14.30 Locating Bounds, etc. 625.50 1,632.86 Bal. to Revenue 867.14 $2,500.00 $2,500.00 Police Department Chief's Salary $4,800.00 March 10 Appro. $23,550.00 Payrolls 13,922.09 Sept.22 Refund 4.90 Telephone 326.39 Transfers 182.26 Radio Repairs 68.92 Printing & Postage 82.91 Uniforms 473.39 Car Expense 3,228.19 Equip. & Supplies 379.07 Insurance 322.57 Assoc.Dues,Meetings 33.00 Matron,etc. 101.53 118 Constables' Salaries Henry A.Perry $50.00 March 10 Appro. $100.00 George A.Bissonnette .50.00 $100.00 $100.00 New Police Cruiser Duarte Motors, Inc. $975.00 March 11 Appro. $975.00 $975.00 $975.00 Traffic Signs - New Signs $180.37 March 10 Appro. $200.00 Repainting Signs 18.00 198.37 Bal. to Revenue 1.83 $200.00 $200.00 Donations to Rescue Truck Fund Equipment $70.02 Jan. 1 Balance $10.00 Supplies 18.60 Donations 165.U5 Repairs 18.72 107.34 Balance to 1959 67.71 $175.05 $175.05 Fire Department Chief's Salary $4,200.00 l arch 10 Appro. $9,665.00 Payrolls 570.00 Dec.30 Transfer 333.56 Engineers' Salaries 300.00 Extinguishers 56.86 Radio Repairs 93.42 Apparatus Repairs 991.48 Apparatus Supplies 644.16 Gasoline,Oil,etc. 518.40 Forestry 151.23 Fuel 494.70 Electricity 298.50 Station Repairs 445.87 Station Supplies 132.49 Telephone 195.19 Insurance, etc. 896.26 119 Water Holes Payrolls $28.50 March 11 Appro. $1,000.00 Truck,Crane, etc. 239.00 Locating Town Road 21.80 New Water Hole 125.00 Fence Repairs 60.43 Fill, etc. 29.20 503.93 Balance to 1959 496.07 $1,000.00 $1,000.00 Rescue Truck Expense Gasoline, Oil, etc. $55.36 March 10 Appro. $400.00 Insurance 194.56 Aug. 27 Refund 6.36 Laundry 22.36 Equipt. & Supplies 86.56 $358.84 Bal. to Revenue 47.52 $406.36 $406.36 Rescue Truck Equipment Added Equipment $312.48 Jan. 1 Balance $312.48 $312.48 $312.48 Civil Defense Communications $115.68 Jan.1 Balance $4.36 Fire and Police 168.70 March 10 Appro. $2,000.00 Medical 11.82 Rescue 243.88 Training &Education 309.13 Transportation 619.65 Welfare 63.62 Ground Observer Corps 25.25 Telephone 167.03 Equipt. & Supplies 162.16 Painting Oar 45.00 Typing, etc. 37.05 1,963.97 Balance to 1959 35.39 $2,004.36 $2,004.36 Building Code Administration H.Bruce Mitchell $1,066.00 March 10 Appro. $1,600.00 Travel Expense 211.80 Printing,etc. 29.40 1,307.20 Bal.to Revenue 292.80 - 120 Wire Inspection Charles O. Thompson $274.00 March 10 Appro, $300.00 Sal. to Revenue 26.00 $300.00 $300.00 Communication Center Payrolls $7,445.00 March 10 Appro. $7,955.00 Supplies 117.44 Equipment 207.46 Paint, Laundry, etc. 38.98 Radio Mast 109.20 Printing 13.95 Typewriter.Overhaul 22.50 7,954.53 Bal. to Revenue .47 $7,955.00 $7,955.00 Sealer of Weights and Measures Charles F. Moore $200.00 March 10 Appro. $275.00 Travel 3.0.10 Nov.28 Transfer .57 Equipt. &Supplies 24.47 Use of Testing Equipt. 21.00 $275.57 $275.57 Insect Pest Control Emile A.011ivier $584.50 March 10 Appro. $2,800.00 Payrolls 898.35 Oct.28 Transfer 45.08 Truck Hire 372.50 Hose and Repairs 293.30 Insecticides 574.50 Insurance, etc. 121.93 $2,845.08 $2,845.08 Tree Warden Payrolls $1,170.25 March 10 Appro. $1,800.00 Truck & Saw Haire 249.00 Transfers 529.41 Tree Setting&Posts 478.50 Fertilizer 271.58 Tools& Supplies 71.92 Gasoline, Oil, etc. 45.16 Association Meetings 43.00 $2,329.41 $2,329.41 Dutch Elm Disease Payrolls $504.50 March 10 Appro. $1,200.00 Truck Hire 71.00 Contract Spraying 569.50 Loam,etc. 55.00 121 Health—General Nurses' Salaries $7;600.00 March 10 Appro. $11,650.00 Nursing Supplies 150.16 Telephone 143.54 Travel Expense 601.02 Club, Ass'n.Dues 76.00 Ass'n.Meetings 112,22 Clinic Luncheons 29.22 Rubbish Removal 119.00 Printing& Postage 47.28 Office Sup., etc. 86.65 Total Health, Nursing $8,965.09 Leslie W.Chase $1,487.51 Sub. Caretaker 71.41 Equipt. & Sup. 3518 Gasoline,Oil,etc.117.09 Bulldozer- - Hire 220.00 Repairs 209.09 Rat Poison 57.00 Insurance 45.00 Police 22.50 Total Care of Dump 2,264.78 11,229.87 Bal.to Revenue 420.13 $11,650.00 $11,650.00 New Car for Town Nurse Advertising for Bids $3.80 March 11 Appro. $1,300.00 Duarte Motors, Inc. 1,292.50 1,296.30 Bal.to Revenue 3.70 $1,300.00 $1,300.00 Pump and Tank at Town Dump Ahnay Well Service $930.23 March 11 Appro. $600.00 Dal.to Revenue 69.77 June 4 Transfer from E.&D. 400.00 122 Red Cross Water Safety Payrolls $710.00 March 10 Appro. $800.00 Printing 11.60 Use of P.A.System 25.00 Prizes&Medals 21.07 767.67 Dal. to Revenue 32.33 Greenhead Fly Control Comm.of Mass, $334.80 Jan. 1 Balance $66520 Balance to 1959 330.40 $66520 $665.20 Inspection of Animals Ralph R.Mayo $100.00 March 10 Appro. $100.00 $100.00 $100.00 Inspection of Slaughtering Balance to,Revenue $25.00 March 10 Appro. $25.00 $25.00 $25.00 Ambulance Hire Brewster,Orleans, March 10 Appro. $3,000.00 Eastham Ambulance Ass'n.,Inc. $3,000.00 $3,000.00 $3,000.00 Anti-Rabic Treatment Balance to 1959 $50.00 Jan. 1 Balance $50.00 $50.00 $50.00 Highways-General Frederick G. Mayo $4,000.00 March 10 Appro, $32,350.00 Payrolls 8,875.25 Dec. 30 Transfer 6.79 Equipment Hire 6,169.25 Asphalt, Stone,etc. 3,752.37 Equipment Repairs 311.14 Gasoline, Oil,etc. 966.05 White Lines 1,299.07 Street Signs 605.44 Lumber, Paint, etc. 291,35 Freight&Express 225.63 Frames,Grates,Covers 231.21 Culvert 571.03 Locating Bounds 19.00 Use of Trestle 20.00 it 123 Snow Removal Payrolls $973.90 March 10 Appro. $5,000.00 Equipment Hire 1,812.00 Gasoline,Oil,etc. 4527 salt 1,599.61 4,430.78 Bal.to Revenue 569.22 $5,00D.00 $5,000.00 Highway Machinery and Building Equipment Repairs $1,009.56 March 10 Appro. $2,000:00 Equipt. &Supplies 208.49 Express 10.05 Office Supplies 1325 FILael 58.40 Insurance 529.61 Telephone 145.01 Electricity 22.06 1,996.43 Bal. to Revenue 3.57 $2,000.00 $2,000.00 Chapter 90 Construction-1956 John F.Noons $3,091.17 Jan,1 Balance $3,108.83 Transfer to E. &D. 17.66 $3,108.83 $3,108.83 Chapter 90 Construction-1957 . M.F.Roach Co. $4,098.36 Jan. 1 Balance $4,613.28 Transfer to E, &D. 514.92 $4,613.28 $4,613.28 Chapter 90 Maintenance Payrolls $443.95 March 10 Appro. $1,000.00 Equipment Hire 840.80 March 10 Transfer Asphalt 1,682.24 from E.&D. 2,000.00 Town Line signs,Posts 22.50 Express 5.51 $3,000.00 $3,000.00 Chapter 90 Construction-1958 Balance to 1959 $32,212.87 March 10 Appro. $50Q00 March 10 Transfer from E. & D. 23,500.00 March 1D Transfer Chanter 718 8.212.87 124 Herring Brook Way and Kescayogansett Road Payrolls $166.00 March 11 Appro. $3,800.00 Equipment Hire 223.00 Layout of Curve 22.00 411.00 Balance to 1959 3,389.00 �.S,bUV.VV yw,OVV.Vv Lot's Hollow Road M. F. Roach Co. $7,500.00 March 11 Appro. $8,500.00 Payrolls 284.60 Equipment Hire 561.00 Paving and Berm 150M 8,495.60 Bal.to Revenue 4.40 $8,500.00 $8,500.00 Main Street M. F. Roach Co. $9,000.00 March 11 Appro. $9,100.00 Cement, Lime, Seed 41.15 Cement Blocks 30A0 9,071.15 Bal. to Revenue 28.85 $9,100.00 $9,100.00 Land Damage and/or Awards Depot Square to West End Balance to 1959 $100.00 Jan. 1 Balance $100.00 $100.400 $100.00 Main Street Sidewalk Balance to 1959 $88.29 Jan. 1 Balance $88.29 $88.29 $88.29 Sidewalk—Route 6 Transfer to E.& D. $136.81 Jan. 1 Balance $136.81 $136.81 $136.81 Main Street Layout 125 Pickup Truck for Highway Dept. Advertising for Bids $3.00 March 11 Appro. $2,300.00 Duarte Motors,Inc. 2,147.00 Added Equipment 118.05 2,268.05 Bal.to Revenue 31.95 $2,300.00 $2,300.00 Front-end Loader for Highway Dept. Transfer to E. &D. $61.06 Jan.1 Balance $61.06 $61.06 $61.06 Dump Truck for Highway Dept. Added Equipment $27.50 Jan. 1 Balance $117.09 Balance to 1959 89.50 $117.09 $117.09 Sand Spreader for Highway Dept. Balance to 1959 $49.64 Jan. 1 Balance $49:64 $49.64 $49.64 Street Lights C. &V. Electric iCo. $7,795.71 March 1a Appro. $7,900.00 Bal,to Revenue 104.29 $7,900.00 $7,900.00 Harbor Master's Salary and Expense Arthur W.Nickerson $1,200.00 March 10 Appro. $1,975.50 Payrolls 127.50 Transfers 64.30 Beacons Maintenance 156.69 Travel Allowance 300.00 Lumber, Paint, etc. 112.38 New Lights,Repairs 98.98 Supplies & Repairs 21.95 Comfort Sta.Expense 21.80 $2,039.30 $2,039.30 Navigation Buoys in Pleasant Bay Channel Markers $81.00 March 11 Appro. $100.00 Chain 13.00 Shackles 5.39 99.39 Bal.to Revenue .61 126 Public Welfare Cash Grants $2,657.43 March 10 Appro. $6,000.00 Groceries 505.30 Hospital&Medical 1,180.51 Miscellaneous 180.97 4,524.21 Bal.to Revenue 1,475.79 $6,000.00 �.,,6,000.00 Old Age Assistance Cash Grants $32,951.47 March 10 Appro. $30,D00.00 Dec. 13 Transfer 2,951.47 $32,951.47 $32,951.47 Aid to Dependent Children Cash Grants $6,500.00 March 10 Appro. $6,500.00 $6,500:00 $6,500.00 Disability Assistance Cash Grants $3,633.22 March 10 Appro. $4,000.00 Bal.to Revenue 366.78 $4,000.00 $4;000.00 O.A.A.--Federal Grants Cash Grants $21,909.18 Jan. 1 Balance $2,857.95 Other Cities, Towns 402.53 Grant 19,830.35 Refunds 47.10 22,311.71 Transfer from Balance to 1959 1,327.47 D.A.Fed. 903.78 $23,639.18 $23,639.18 A.D.C.—Federal Grants Cash Grants $3,976.67 Jan. 1 Balance $1,027.80 Balance to 1959 1,113.32 Grants 4,062.19 $5,089.99 $5,089.99 D.A.—Federal Grants Trans.to O.A.A.Fed. $903.76 Jan. 1 Balance $112.90 Comm. of Mass, 78.15 Grants 960.23 981.93 Balance to 1959 91.20 i 127 O.A.A. Administration-Federal Grants Eleanor S.Blake $802.97 Jan. 1 Balance $155.23 Travel 97.20 Grants 1,293.18 Telephone 50.10 Printing&Postage 36.59 Supplies, etc. 24.06 1,010.92 Balance to 1959 437.49 $1,448.41 $1,448.41 A.D.C. Administration-Federal Grants Eleanor S.Blake $809.97 Jan. 1 Balance $306.53 Travel 43.10 Grants 864.52 Telephone 43.20 Conference Meetings 26.00 Dues & Supplies 5.64 927.91 Balance to 1959 243.14 $1,171.05 $1,171.05 D.A. Administration-Federal Grants Balance to 1959 $204.76 Jan. 1 Balance $136.30 Grants 68.46 $204.76 $204.76 Administration Charities Eleanor S.Blake $1,164.19 March 10 Appro. $1,500.00 Printing&Postage 176.90 Telephone 84.94 Travel 62.15 Dues &Supplies 11.82 $1,500:00 $1,500.00 Hospital Care-Free Bed Sundry Persons $488.68 March 10 Appro. $500.00 Cape Cod Hospital 11.32 $500.00 $500.00 Veterans' Benefits Ralph A.Chase $527.78 March 10 Appro. $6,900.00 Paul P.Henson,Jr. 27.77 Transfers 912.56 Lawrence A.Baker 111.12 Travel&Office Expense 134.81 Cash Grants 3,160.00 Fuel 493.13 Medical&Hospital 3,090.00 Rent, Groceries, etc. 267.95 128 Schools Expended $206,888.46 March 10 Appro. $207,213.D0 Carried to 1959 337.10 Refunds 15.74 Bal. to Revenue 3.18 $207,228.74 N.B.See Superintendent's Report $297,228.74 Schools-1957 Edu. a"-n Library $1450 Jan. 1 Balance $14.50 $14.50 $14.50 School Committee Salaries Joseph W.Higgins $66.67 March 10 Appro. $200.00 Charity Kidd 66.67 133.34 Dal.to Revenue 66.66 $200.00 $200.00 Vocational Education Bristol County March 10 Appro. $3,600.00 Agricultural School $609.92 Town of Banustable 697.86 Town of Provincetown 117.00 Town of Harwich 16.80 Transportation 1,318.00 2,759.58 Bal. to Revenue 840.42 $3,600.00 $3,600.00 School Lunch Payrolls $462.50 March 10 Appro. $1,000.00 Supplies 537.50 $1,000.00 $1,000.00 School Lunch Fund Payrolls $9;062.50 Jan. 1 Balance $886.52 Supplies 16,341.00 1958 Grants 7,830.05 Equipment 314.92 Lunch Receipts 18,188.99 Gas 179.77 Refund 5.00 Freight,Express 168.70 Equipment Repairs 63.13 Office Supplies 5.68 26,135.70 Balance to 1959 774.86 129 School Athletics Game Officials $449.50 March 10 Appro. $1,500.00 Travel 47.81 Equipment 726.10 Police 40.00 Supplies 158.56 Janitors 35.00 Laundry 37.80 Express 5.23 $1,500.00 $1,500.00 School Athletic Fund Game Officials $90.00 Jan. 1 Balance $379.54 Travel 84.58 1958 Receipts 737.75 Equipment 522.39 Reimbursement 122.50 Supplies 76.73 Donation 34.39 Repairs 213.95 Refux d 128.60 Laundry 11.60 99925 Balance to 1959 403.53 $1,402.78 $1,402.78 Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School District Regional Assessment $1,147.00 March 10 Appro. $1,147.00 $1,147.00 $1,147.00 New Elementary School Balance to 1959 $256.97 Jan. 1 Balance $256.97 $Z56.97 $256.97 Regional School Planning Committee Transferred to E.&D. $4.20 Jan.1 Balance $4.20 $4.20 $4.20 Snow Library Ruth L.Barnard $1,200.00 March 10 Appro. $2,900.00 Assistants 42.00 Mar. 11 Dag Tax Refund 553.16 Janitor 123.13 Aug.4 Refund 3.90 Periodicals 57.90 Bookplates 15.00 Fuel 385.40 Electricity 169.04 Repairs 792.14 Care of Grounds 579.35 Janitors'Supplies,etc. 24.69 Printing,Postage, etc. 50.05 3,438.70 Bal.to Revenue 18.36 130 Snow Library Trust Fund-Income Books $309.34- Jan.1 Balance $8.74 Balance to 1959 59.13 Trans. from Trust 353.75 Refund 5.98 $368.47 $368.47 Donations Library Equipment Fund Street Map $14M Jan. 1 Balance $14.22 $14.22 $14.22 Snow Library-Donations for Books Books $537.95 1958 Donations $1,151.95 Balance to 1959 614.00 $1,151.95 $1,151.95 Parks and Playgrounds Payrolls $10,625.75 March 10 Appro. $14,547.00 Truck Expense 447.30 Refunds 9.48 Supplies & Material 766.51 Office Supplies 99.10 Equipment 432.01 Telephone 250.78 Electricity 116.81 Equipment Hire 301.50 Ass'n. Dues&Meetings 130.40 Printing,Postage,Express 117.42 Equipment Repairs 277.40 Settees 180.26 Flags&Signs 89.34 New Mower 140.61 Contract Mowing 65.00 Travel in Supervision 245.60 Clearing Sand at Nauset 158.00 Repairs to Ball Field 58.00 Typing,Insuranrx,etc. 48.70 14,550.49 Bal,to Revenue 5.99 $14,556.48 $14,556.48 Miscellaneous Advertising $16.30 March 10 Appro. $500.00 Driers for Vaults 130.10 Typewriter 100.00 Comfort Station,Work 88.50 Substitute Clerk 5.00 Selectmen's Meeting 15.10 355.00 Bal.to Revenue 145.00 i 131 Insurance and Bonds Workmen's March 10 Appro. $8,000.00 Compensation $1,732.40 Refunds 280.21 Bands: Collector's 399.00 Treasurer's 217.00 Town Clerk's 7.50 Deputy Collector's 5.00 Fire Insurance• Rogers & Gray 2,940.46 Henry T.Crocker 1,397.08 Sidney T.Swan 495.94 Richard Rich 127.68 7,322.06 Bal.to Revenue 958.15 $8,280.21 $8,280.21 Town Reports Kendall Printing Co. $958.50 March 10 Appro. $1,050,00 Envelopes&Postage 7.08 9$5.58 Bal. to Revenue 84.42 $1,050.00 $1,050.00 Memorial and Veterans Day Flowers&Wreaths $156.75 March 10 Appro $400.00 Orleans Band 225.00 Public Address System 5.00 386.75 Bal.to Revenue 13.25 $400.00 $400.00 July 4th Celebration Prizes $256.50 March 11 Appro. $800.00 Equipment Hire 125.00 Orleans Band 200.00 Public Address System 25.00 606.50 Bal.to Revenue 193.50 132 Public Amusement Youth Program March 11 Appro. $1,500.00 Supervision $240.00 Accident Insurance 75.00 Payroll for Umpires 382.00 Public Address System 30.00 A.C. Equipment 522.10 Little League Equipt, 176.85 Pony League Equipt. 39.05 League Fee 20.00 Printing 15.00 $1,500.00 $1,500.00 Public Amusement-1957 Youth Program Jan. 1 Balance $72.00 Supervision $72.00 $72.00 $72.00 Water Investigating Committee Transferred to E.&D. $163.75 Jan. 1 Balance $168.75 $168.75 $168.75 Repairs to Recreation Building Sheetrock $13.53 Jan. 1 Balance $238.05 Sanding Floors 64.85 Electrical Work 92.20 170.58 Balance to 1959 67.47 $238.05 $238.05 I 133 Reserve Fund Transfers to: Veterans' Benefits $912.56 March 11 Transfer from Tree Warden 529.41 Overlay Surplus $8,900.00 Accountant's Expense 269.30 Selectmen's Expense 190.07 Insect Pest Control 45.08 Harbor Master's Expense 64.30 Elections& Registrations 425.09 Planning Board Expense 18.56 Sealer Weights& Measures .57 Old Age Assistance 2,951.47 Police 182.26 Call.,Tress.& T.C. Expense 241.08 Recreation Hall Expense 56.68 Fire Department 333.56 Highways General 6.79 Tax Title Expense 37.26 Appeal Board Expense 2.29 6,266.33 Bal. to Overlay Surplus 2,633.67 I $8,900:00 $8,900.00 Band Concerts Orleans Band $1,900.00 March 11 Appro. $1,900.00 $1,900.00 $1,900.00 Nauset Beach Building Committee Travel and Photos $15.85 March 11 Appro. $300.00 Balance to 1959 284.15 $300.00 $300.00 Town Cove and Pleasant Bay Launching Facilities Contractors $1,825.00 March 11 Appro. $2,500.00 Engineer 150.00 Professional Plans 90.00 Professional Services 21.00 Advertising 6.00 Concrete 73.50 2,165.50 Balance to 1959 334.50 134 Launching Ramps Comm. of Mass.. $3,600.00 March 11 Apprc. $3,600.00 $3,600.00 $3,600.00 Waterways Improvement Committee Balance to 1959 $500.00 March 11 Appro. $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 Cemeteries and Tomb Payrolls $180.00 March 10 Appro. $455.00 Mowing 150.00 Care of Center Cemetery 125.00 $455.00 $455.00 Soldiers' 1VIonuments and Graves Payrolls $450.00 March 10 Appro. $525.00 Mending Flags 7.50 Plants 9.55 Care Memorial Lots 50.00 Supplies 6.42 523.47 Bal.to Revenue 1.53 $525.00 $525.00 Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund-Income Orleans Cemetery Ass'n. $179.46 Transfers from Trust $219.96 Emile A.011ivier 40.50 $219,96 $219.96 Alteration-School for Town Offices Window Shades $10.86 Jan. 1 Balance $10.86 $10.56 $10.86 Retaining Wall at Rock Harbor Comm.of Mass. $25,000.00 Jan. 1 Balance $25,00100 $25,000.00 $25,000.00 Advertise Town and Operate Public Information Booth Payrolls $776.00 March 11 Appro. $1,509.00 Telephone 22.41 June 9 Matching Find 1,500.00 Printing 2,194.62 Electricity,etc. 6.91 $3,000.00 $3,000.00 Highway Garage Building Balance to 1959 $3,000.00 March 11 Appro. $3,000.00 i 13'5 Rock Harbor Building Building Contractor $1,994.00 March 11 Appro, $2,200.00 Septic Tank,etc. 125.00 Driving Well 81.00 $2,200.00 $2,200.00 Beach Land—Nauset Balance to 1959 $94.00 Jan.1 Balance $94.00 $94.00 $91.00 Beach and Meadow Land at Nauset Legal Services $500.00 Jan.1 Balance $5,732.00 postage 3.90 Damages 17.20 Cast of Deed 82.80 503.90 Balance to 1959 5,128.10 $5,732.00 $5,732.00 Land—George B.Watts,et us George B.Watts and Jan. 1 Balance $428.00 Helen J. Watts $400.00 Balance to 1959 28.00 $428.00 $423.00 Care of Herring Brook Theodore A.Young $30.00 March 10 Appro. $30.00 $30.00 $30.00 Herring Brook Lumber $24.01 Jan. 1 Balance $180.50 Concrete 70.88 94.89 Balance to 1959 85.61 $180.50 $180.50 Herring Brook Improvement Balance to 1959 $300.00 March 11 Appro. $300.00 136 Shellfish Protection and Propagation Arthur w.Nickerson $2,400.00 March 10 Appro. $2,200.00 Travel Allowance 300.00 Gasoline, Oil, etc. 55:86 Bags, Lumber, etc. 190.25 Printing 20.00 Attending Hearing 29.96 Outboard Repairs 44.07 Stripping Beach at Mill Fond 150.00 3,190.14 Bal.to Revenue 9.86 $3,200.00 $3,200.00 Shellfish Prajects Payroll $36.00 Jan. 1 Balance $709.27 Large Quahaugs 5 61.00 Grants 700.00 Attending Hearing 96.39 Testing Equipment 5.10 Scraping Beach 200,00 898.49 Balance to 1959 510.78 $1,409.27 $1,409.27 Interest—Town Notes and Bonds 1st Issue—High School $70.00 March.10 Appro. $8,500.00 2nd Issue—High School 30.00 Fire Station 20.00 1st Issue— Elementary School 4,320.00 2nd Issue— Elementary School 2,160.00 Elem.School Notes 1,326.00 Snow Library 70.00 Note in Anticipation of Reimbursement 25.00 8,021.00 Bal.to Revenue 479.00 $8,500.00 $8,500.00 Retirement High School Bonds Feb. 28-2nd Issue $1,000.00 March A Appro. $5,000.06 Sept.30—hst Issue 4,000.00 $5,000.00 $5,000.00 Retirement Fire Station Notes Aug.30— March 10 Appro. $1,000.00 Cape Cod Trust Co. $1,000.00 137 Retirement Library Bonds Nov.29— March 10 Appro. $5,000.00 Cape Cod Trust Co. $5,000.00 $5,000.00 $5,000.00 Retirement Elementary School Bonds&Notes May 31—Notes $6,000.00 March 10 Appro. $21,000.00 Aug.15-1st Issue 10,000.00 Aug.15-2nd Issue 5,000.00 $21,000.00 $21,000.00 i Net Funded Debt Jan. 1 Balance $336,000.00 Retirement $32,000.00 Balance to 1959 304,000.00 $336,000.00 $336,000.00 INVESTMENT AND TRUST FUNDS Street Light fund Dec.24— Jan. 1 Balance $2,517.6-1 Transfer to Town $82.47 1958 Interest 82.47 Balance to 1959 2,517.61 $2,600.08 $2,B00.03 Clement Gould and Wife Fund Balance to 1959 $6,910.93 Jan. 1 Balance $6,691.72 1958 Interest 219.21 $6,910.93 $6,910.93 I Clayton Mayo Trust Fund To Use for Charity $1,425.00 Jan.1 Balance $26,805.31 Balance to 1959 26,273.45 1958 Interest 893.14 $27,698.45 $27,698.45 Mary Celia Crosby Fund Balance to 1959 $6,443.21 Jan. 1 Balance $5,286.09 1958 Interest 157.12 $6,443.21 $6,443.21 Snow Library Trust Fund To use for Library $353.75 Jan. 1 Balance $11,624.16 Balance to 1959 11,623.10 1958 Interest 352.B9 138 Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund To Care of Lois $219.96 Jan. 1 Balance $4,275.85 Balance to 1959 4,15726 1958 Interest 101.37 $4,377.22 $4,377.22 Post-War Rehabilitation Fund Balance- X Jar.1 Balance $7927 1958 Interest 20.08 $818.35 $813.35 SUMMARY Investment and Trust Funds Cash and Street Light Fund $2,517.61 Securities $58,743.91 Clement Gould & Wife Fund 6,910.93 Clayton Mayo Trust F-=d 26,273.45 Mary Celia Crosby Fund. 6,443.21 Snow Library Trust Fund 11,523.10 Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund 4,157.26 Post-War Rehabilitation Fund 818.35 $58,743.91 $58,743.91 Revenue Account March 11— May 6— Appropriations $548,842.00 Real Estate Tax $201,532.45 State Parks& Personal Tax 30,165.36 Reservations 1,788.15 May 20-- Mosquito Oontml 5,816.80 Real Estate Tax' 172,358.80 County Tax 48,225.62 Personal Tax 16,288.73 County Retirement 3,442.90 June 6— Underestimates: Personal Tax 647.58 State Parks & June 16— Reservations 49.25 Estimated Receipts 196,108.40 Mosquito Control 1,650•.81 Overestimate: Overlay-1958 9,044.17 County Tax 2,719.58 Final Court Judgments 1,827.62 June 20 Poll Tax 1,514.00 Additions to July 2 Real Estate Tax 190.62 Tax Titles 20.70 July 18 Real Estate Tax 266.86 Aug.11 Personal Tax 461.78 620,708.02 Dec.31 Balances: Estimated Receipts 33,266.82 - Balance to E. & D. 43,534.50 Appropriations 8,721.54 139 EXCESS AND DEFICIENCY Surplus Revenue March 10— Jan.1 Balance $98,585.80 Chap.90 Maintenance $2,000.00 Jan.31 Aid to Highways 1,819.15 Chap.90 Construction 23;500.00 Mar.11 Sidewalk for June 4--Assessors' Rte.6 136.81 Pay and Expense 1,100.00 Front-end Loader 61.06 Pump&Tank at Regional School Town Dump 400.00 Planning Committee 4.20 Dec. 24—Audit Adjustments: Water Investigating Overlay 1956 .02 Committee 168.75 Overlay Surplus 2.98 May 31 Aid to Highways 1,207.96 June 10 Chap.90- 27,003.00 1956 Balance 17.66 1957 Balance 514.92 Aug. 27 1957 Refund 8.92 Sept.5 1956-1957 Refunds 1,042.49 Nov. 29 Retaining Wall, Rack Harbor 12,500.00 Dec. 24 Audit Adjustments: R.E.Taxes 1954 1.10 R.E. Taxes 1956 .02 Balance to 1959 132,600.34 Dec.31 Revenue Bal.. 43,534.50 $159,603.34 $159,603.34 f40 SUMMARY Revenue Account Dec.31 Cash on Hand $181,999.07 Taxes—Real Estate 1956 1.16 Taxes—Personal 1957 1,423.04 Taxes—Real Estate 1957 1,024.84 Taxes—Poll 1958 2.00 Taxes—Personal 1958 4,157.33 Taxes—Real Estate 1958 21,460.37 Taxes M.V.Excise 1958 7,950.62 Taxes—Moth 1958 61.50 Tax Titles 90.36 Tax Possessions 737.40 Accounts Receivable 27,159.4I Aid to Highways 2,000.00 Loan Authorized 22,000.00 Court Judgments 728.50 Overlay 1956 $1.16 Overlay 1957 2,447.88 Overlay 1956 5,642.87 Overlay surplus 3,808.68 M.V.Excise Revenue 7,950.62 Special Assessment Revenue 61.50 Tax Title&Tax Possession Revenue 827.76 Departmental Revenue 27,159.41 Aid to Highways Revenue 2,000.00 County Retirement System 462.85 Teachers Retirement.System 677.65 Federal Tax Deductions 3,047.24 Dag Licenses for County 5.25 Tailings Account 92.66 Sale of Real Estate Fund 1,813.66 Highway Machinery Fund 1,196.55 Loans Authorized and Unissued 22,000.00 Overestimates—State amid County Taxes 72.88 Balances to 1959 53,926.44 Excess and Deficiency—Surplus Revenue 132,600.34 $270,795.60 $270,795:60 Cooperation by all department heads in promptly pre- senting bills for payment is sincerely appreciated. Respectfully submitted, HARRY F. CHILDS, Town Accountant Assets h y of 1956: eal Estate $1.16 y of 1957: zrrsonal Property $1,423.04 eal Estate 1,024.84 y of 1958: 311 ersanal Property eal Estate TOWN OF ORLEANS Balance Sheet—December 31,1958 GENERAL ACCOUNTS Liabilities and Reserves $181,999.07 Overlays Reserved for Abatement of Taxes: Levy of 1956 $1.16• Levy of 1957 2,447.88 $1.16 Levy of 1958 5,642.87 $8,091.91 Payroll Deductions: Federal Withholding Taxes $3,047.24 Teachers'Retirement System 677.85 County Retirement System 462.85 4,167.94 Proceeds of Dog Licenses 5.25 Tailings Account 92.66 2,447.86 Sale-of Real Estate Fund 1,813.66 Highway Machinery Fund 1,196.55 Loan Authorized and Unissued 22,000.00 Overestimates in 1958: State Parks and Reservations $20.07 Mosquito Control 20.39 County Tax 32.42, 72.88 Trust Funds Income: $2.00 Mary Celia Crosby Fund $10.00 4,157.33 Clement Gould & Wife Fund 20.05 21,46037 Clayton Mayo Trust Fund 15.84 25,619.70 Snow Library Trust Fund 59.13 28,068.74 105.02 General Accounts—Continued Liabilities and Reserves Assets sr Vehicle and Trailer Excise: Overlay Surplus wy of 1956 7,950.62 h Assessment: Revenue Reserved,until Collected: avy of 1058 61.50 Titles 90.36 Possessions 61.50 737.40 artmental: Tax Title and Tax Possession 827.76 A.A.—Cities and Towns $1,082.86 Departmental .A.A.—Mary I.Mayo 9,805.85 ammonwealth D.C.—Commonvrealth 811.76 !pool Tuitions—Cities & Towns 15,348.94 ;ho•ol Building Rentals 110.00 2,000.00 27,159.41 Federal Grants: D.A. Administration Disability Assistance A.D.C. Administration Aid to Dependent Children O.A.A. Administration Old Age Assistance School Lunch Program School Athletic Program 9,868.66 $204.76 91.20 243.14 1,113.32 437.49 1,327.47 3,417.38 774.86 403.53 Revenue Reserved,until Collected: Motor Vehicle&Trailer Excise $7,950.62 Special Assessment 61.50 Tax Title and Tax Possession 827.76 to Highways—Chap.90: Departmental 27,159.41 ammonwealth $1,000,00 Aid to Highways 2,000.00 ounty 1;000.00 37,999.29 2,000.00 Snow Library—Donations for Books 614.00 Donations to Rescue Truck Fund 67.71 Insurance Reimbursement under n Authorized 22,000.00 School Athletic Department Loss 754.50 in Judgments 728.50 Excess and Deficiency—Surplus Revenue 132,600.34 Appropriation Balances: Assessors' Pay and Expense-1958 $21.51 Water Holes 496.07 Civil Defense 35.39 Greenhead Fly Control 330.40 Anti-Rabic Treatment 50.00 Chap.90 Construction 1958 32,212.87 Herring Brook Way and Keseayogansett Road 3,389.00 Land Damage and/or Awards 100.00 Main Street Sidewalk 88.29 Dump Truck for Highway Dept. 89.59 Sand Spreader for Highway Dept. 49.64 Schools-1958 337.10 New Elementary School 256.97 Repairs to Recreation Bldg. 67.47 Nauset Beach Building Committee 284.15 Town Cove amd Pleasant Bay Launching Facilities 334.50 Waterways Improvement Comm. 500.00 Highway Garage Building 3,000.00 Beach Land—Nauset 94.00 Beach&Meadow Land at Nauset 5,128.10 Land—George B. Watts, et ux 28.00 Herring Brook 85.61 Herring Brook Improvement 300.00 47,278.66 Shellfish Projects 510.78 $270,795.60 $270,795.60 w et Funded or Fixed Debt ash and Securities DEBT ACCOUNTS $304,000.00 High School Building Loan $1,000.00 Elementary School Building Loan 303,000.00 304,000.00 $304,000.00 TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS $58,743.91 Street Light Fund $2,517.61 Clement Gould.and Wife Fund 6,910.93 Clayton Mayo Trust Fund 26,273.45 Mary Celia Crosby Fund 6,443.21 Snow Library Trust Fund 11,623.10 Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund 4,157.26 Post-War Rehabilitation Fund 818.35 w. $58,743.91 $58,743.91 - i I 145 Town Clerk's Report In response to a legally posted Warrant, the Inhabitants of the Town of Orleans, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, met at the High School Auditorium, on Monday, the 10th day of March (1958) at 6:30 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles:- And to meet at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon on Wednesday the 12th day of March, to elect all necessary town officers. Polls to be open at 10:00 o'clock A.M. and may close a 6:30 P.M. The meeting was called to order at 6:45 P.M. by the Moderator, Kenrick A. Sparrow. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Kroum S. Jordan of the Federated Church of Orleans. Elmer R.Darling and Harry F.Childs were appointed and sworn as Tellers by the Moderator. Voted, voice vote, to dispense with the reading of the Warrant except the preamble, conclusion and attestation thereof,and the Officer's return of service thereon. The Mod- erator read the Warrant in accordance with the vote taken. A standing count of Registered Voters disclosed a quorum to be present. After an amendment to designate not more than $600.00 of the School Budget for out of state travel expenses was carried by a voice vote, unanimous but two; an amendment was made and carried by a voice vote to take up the Harbor Master's Budget and the Park Department Budget separate from-each other.A further amendment was made to subtract $3,300.00 from the Park Department Budget which on a voice vote was defeated; and restore the sum of $675.00 to the Harbor Master's Budget which on a standing vote was carried Yes 257, No 69. Article 1. To act upon the Annual Report (including Recommendations) of the Selectmen and other Town Officers nr rnrnmittPP.0 nnri rnisN and nnnrnnriatn mnna 7 fnr fhn -, 146 Voted by voice vote,tmanimous but one, that the Annual Report of the Selectmen and other Town officers and Com- mittees for 1957-be accepted and that the Selectmen's & De- partmental Recommendation for the year 1958 as approved by the Finance Committee, except so,far as the recommendations as regards Harbor Master's Expense is concerned to be accept- ed and that the sum of$501,067.00 be raised and appropriated for the same, and that not more than $600.00 of the School Budget there-of be designated for expenses of out of state travel'. General Government Moderator's Salary $50.00 Selectmen's Salary (Each member 1,500.00) 4,500.00 Selectmen's Expense 600.00 Assessors'Pay&Expense 6,000.00 Assessors' Maps 1,000.00 Board of Public Welfare Salaries ($400.00) each 1,200.00 Town Accountant's Salary 3,000.00 Town Accountant's Expense 455.00 Collector of Taxes Salary 1,700.00 Treasurer's Salary 1,500.00 Town Clerk's Salary 800.00 Collector's,Treasurer's&Town Clerk's Expense 1,800.00 Finance Committee Expense 150.00 Elections&Registrations Expense 2,200.00 Town Office Maintenance & Repair Expense 6,000.00 Clerical Salary 3,100.00 Tax Title Expense 200.00 Town Counsel&Legal Expense 3,000.00 Appeals Board 250.00 Planning Board 250.00 Recreation Hall Expense 2,000.00 Engineering (Road Layouts, etc.) 2,500.00 I 147 Protection of Persons&Property Police $23,550.00, Constables' Salaries 100.00 Fire Department 9,665.00 Rescue Truck op eration Expense 400.00 Civil Defense 2,000.00 Building Code Expense 1,600.00 Wire Inspection 300.00 Communication Center 7,955.00 Sealer of Weights&Measures Salary and Expense 275.04) Insect Pest Control 2,800.00. Tree Warden 1,800.00 Dutch Elm Disease 1,200.00 Total Protection of Persons &Property $51,645.00 Health & Sanitation Health General (Intl. Town Dump) $11,650.00 Inspection of Animals 100.00 Inspection of Slaughtering 25.00: Ambulance Hire 3,000.00 Total Health & Sanitation $14,775.00 Highway Department General Repairs $32,350.00 Snow Removal 5,000.00 Building & Machinery 2,000.00 Traffic Signs 200.00 Street Lights 7,900.00 Harbor Master's Expense 1,975.00 i Total Highway Department $49,425.00 Charities General Relief $6,000.00 Old Age Assistance 30,000•.00 Aid to Dependent Children 6,500.00 Disability Assistance 4,000.00 Administration 1,500.00 Free Bed Cape Cod Hospital 500.00 148 Veterans' Benefits Veterans' Benefits $6,900.00 Total Veterans' Benefits $6,900.00 Education Schools (Not more,than$600.00 for out of State travel) $207 213.00 School Committee Salaries 200.00; Vocational Education 3,600.00 School Athletics 1,500.00 Snow Library 2;900.00 School Lunch Account 1,000.00 Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School District 1,147.00 Total Education $217,560.00 Recreation Parks & Playgrounds $14,547.00 Total Recreation $14,547.00 Cemeteries Cemeteries & Tombs $455.00 Soldiers' Monuments 525.00 Total Cemeteries $980.00 Interest,&Maturing Debt Interest—Notes&Bonds $8,500.00 Maturing Notes and Bonds 32,000.00 Total Interest & Maturing Debt $40,500.00 Unclassified Insurance & Bonds $8,000.00 Town Reports 1,050.00 Memorial & Veterans' Day 400.00 Herring Brook 30.00 Shellfish 3,200-.00 Miscellaneous 500.00- Water Safety Committee 800.00 Total Unclassified $13,980.00 149 Article 2. To see if the Town will authorize the 'Down Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1958 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 Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the rev- enue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1958, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or note's as may be given for a period of less.than one year,in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, of the General Laws. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to sell, after first giving notice of time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the town, fourteen (14) days at least before the sale, or at private sale,property taken by the town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen or whomso- ever they authorize to hold such sale may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town authorize the Selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the town, fourteen (14) days at least before the sale, or at private sale,property taken by the town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen or whomsoever they authorize to hold such sale,may reject any bid which they deem inadequate. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 4. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or take any action relative thereto. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to meet the town's share of Chapter 90 Maintenance, and that in addition the sum of 92.000.09 be transferred from unanbranriated available funds 150 work, the reimbursements from the State and county be restored upon their receipt to unappropriated available funds in the •treasury. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 5. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Construction, or take any action relative thereto. Voted, voice vote, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 and transfer from funds on hand under Chapter 718, Acts of 1956, the sum of $8,212.87 to meet the Town's share of Chapter 90 Construction and that the sum $23,500.00 be transferred from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury to meet the State's and County's share of the work, the reimbursements from the State and County to be restored upon their receipt to unappropriated!available funds in the Treasury. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 6. To see if the Town will appropriate whatever money may be received from the Dog Tax of the previous year for the use of the Snow Library, to be available to the Trus- tees for the purchase of books or any other lawful expense of the Library. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town appropriate whatever money may be received from the Dog tax of the previous year for the use of the Snow Library,to be available to the Trustees for the purchase of books or any other law- ful expense of the Library. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 7. To see if the Town will assume liability, in the manner provided by Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the Gen- eral Laws, as amended by Chapters 516 and 524, Acts of 19.50, for all damages that may be incurred by work to be performed by the Department of Public Works of Massachusetts for the improvement,,development, maintenance and protection of tidal and non.-tidal rivers and streams, harbors, tide- waters, foreshores and shores along a public beach outside of of Boston Harbor, including the Merrimack and Connecticut Rivers, in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, and authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Commonwealth. Voted. voice vote. unanimous. that the Town assume lia- I 151 the General Laws as amended by Chapters 516 and 5.24 Acts of 1950,for.all damages that may be incurred by work to be per- formed by the Department of Public Works of Massachusetts for the improvement,development, maintenance and protec- tion of tidal and non-tidal rivers and streams, harbor, tide- waters, foreshores and shores along a public beach outside of Boston Harbor, including the Merrimack and Connecticut Rivers, in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, and authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Commonwealth. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 8. To see if the Town will transfer from the Overlay Surplus Account, the sum of Eight Thousand Nine Hundred (8,900) Dollars, for the Reserve Fund for 1958. Voted,voice vote,unanimous that the Town transfer from the Overlay Surplus Account,the sum of Eight Thousand Nine Hundred (8,900.) Dollars, far the Reserve Fund for 1958. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 9. To see if the Town will adopt the following amendments to the Protective By-Law for the Town of Or- leans, Massachusetts, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A of the General Laws, or take any action relative thereto and act fully thereon. Voted, rising vote, Yes 333, No 1, that the Protective By-Law of the Town of Orleans be amended as follows: Protective By-Law Section 2. Residence District Uses. - Paragraph 1. Amend paragraph 1 which now reads: "Detached one of two family dwelling except cabins as defin- ed in 10Q or tents.", to read: "Detached one or two family dwelling except cabins as defined in 10Q,,tents or trailers." Section 2. Residence District Uses. Paragraph 1. Amend paragraph 1 which now reads: "Detached one or two family dwelling except cabins as de- fined in 10Q or tents to read: "Detached one or two family dwelling except cabins as defined in 10Q, tents or trailers." Section 2. Residence District Uses. Insert paragraph 5A between paragraph 5 and paragraph 6 to read as follows: 5A. "Poultry or animal raising for non-commercial pur- 152 Section 2. Residence District Uses. Insert paragraph 5A between paragraph 5 and paragraph 6 to read as follows: 5A. "Poultry or animal raising for non-commercial pur- poses." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Amend Section 2, paragraph 10, sub-paragraph (o) which reads: "Boat building and storage", to read: "Boat yards and activities reasonably necessary and related thereto." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Amend Section 2,paragraph 10-,,sub-paragraph (o) which reads: "Boat building and storage", to read: "Boat yards and activities reasonably necessary and related :thereto." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Insert the following provisions after Section 2, paragraph 10, sub-paragraph (r): "(s) Exhibitions, fairs and displays of a similar nature, held for the benefit of charitable, religious, and non-profit organizations." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Insert the following provisions after Section 2, Para- graph 10, sub-paragraph (r): "(s) Exhibitions, fairs and dis- plays of a similar nature, held for the benefit of charitable, religious, and non-,profit organizations." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Insert the following provision after Section 2, paragraph 10, sub-paragraph (s) or "(r)": "(t) Poultry or animal raising for commercial purposes." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Insert the following provisions after Section 2, para- graph 10, sub-paragraph (s) "(t) Poultry or animal raising for commercial purposes." Section 3. Business District Uses. Insert the following after paragraph 9: "10. Any of the following uses, provided it is not injur- ious, noxious or offensive to the neighborhood, and only if authorized by the Board of Appeals: (a) Light industry and manufacturing provided not 153 Section 3. Business District Uses. Insert the following after paragraph 9. "10. Any of the following uses, provided it is not in- jurious, noxious or offensive to the neighborhood, and only if authorized by the. Board of Appeals: (a) Light industry, manufacturing and wholesale dis- tributing Section 1. Establishment of Districts. Amend Section 1, Paragraph 1, which now reads: "1. Classes of Districts. The Town of Orleans is hereby divided as shown on the Zoning Map dated October 1, 1953 and filed with the Town Clerk, into two classes of districts:", so that all that area of the Town lying East of the Mid-Cape Highway lay-out, and West of Route 7M shall be included in a Business District. Insert the following after paragraph 9,or (10,if adopted). "11. (or 10) No building or structure shall be erected within, 25, feet of the street line of any street or way in a business district, that is laid-out or originally constructed after March 10, 1959. Insert after Section 3, Business District Uses, after 10, a, "In a Business District no building or structure shall be erected within 25 feet of the street line of any street or way in a business district, that is laid-out or originally construct- ed-after March 10, 1953." Section 5. Area Regulations. Amend Section 5, paragraph 1, which now reads: "Lot size. No building, except one story buildings of accessory use, shall be erected in a residence district on a lot contain- ing less than fifteen thousand sq. ft. and having a minimum frontage of 100 feet; provided that one building may be erected on any lot which, at the time this by-law is adopted, either is separately owned or contains five thousand sq. ft.", to read: "l. Lot size. No building, except one story build- ings of accessory use, shall be erected in a residence district on a lot containing less than twenty thousand (20,00,0) square feet and having a minimum street frontage of 120 feet; pro- vided that one building may be erected on any lot which, at the time this by-law was adopted, either was separately owned or contained five thousand square feet; and provided that any lot which contains fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet and is shown on a plan approved by the Planning Board H4 prior to March 11, 1958,shall be an approved residence build- ing lot; and further provided that any lot which contains at least thirty thousand (30,000) square feet but less than forty thousand (40,000) square feet when this amendment is adopted, may be subdivided into two lots containing not less than fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet each and having a minimum street frontage of 100 feet. Section 5. Area Regulations. Add paragraph 3. "Any lot upon a dead-end street turn around may have a street frontage of not less than fifty (50) feet are distance, provided such lot and the plan upon which it is shown is approved by the Planning Board, and said lot shall be 12a feet wade at the building line." Under Section 5, Area Regulations, add paragraph 3 to read as follows: "3. Any lot upon a dead-end street turn around may have a street frontage of not less than fifty (50) feet arc distance, provided such lot and the plan upon which it is shown is approved by the Planning Board, and said lot shall be 120 feet wide at the residence building line." Section 2. Residence District Uses. Insert Paragraph 7A between#7,and#8 to read as follows: "7A. "Aatisans such as carpenter, builder, electrician, plumber, painter, plasterer, mason, resident on .the premises, provided that not more than two persons shall be substantial- ly constantly employed therein and provided further that all materials and equipment connected therewith shall be stored in a manner so so as not to be injurious, noxious or offensive to the neighborhood." Meeting recessed at 10:15 p. m. Recalled to order by the Moderator at 10:30 p. m. Quorum still present. Article 10. To see if the Town will adopt the following amendments to the Building Code, Orleans, Massachusetts, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 143 of the Gen- eral Laws, or take any action relative thereto and act fully thereon. Vated, rising vote, Yes 194, No 11, that the Town amend the Buiding Code as follows: Building Code Section 2 "Notification of intent to build, etc." amend paragraph 1 whirb reads: "A hermit shall be reauired for all buildings I 15'5 to a new foundation within the limits-of the Town of Orleans excepting small accessory buildings not to be used for the purpose of habitation and having a floor space of less than 450 sq. ft.", to read: "A permit shall be required for all build- ings or structures to be erected, altered, reconstructed or mioved to,anew foundation within the.limits of the Town of Orleans excepting small accessory buildings not to be used for the purpose of habitation and having a floor space of less than 100 square feet." Section 2 Notification of intent to build, etc. Amend paragraph 1 to read: "A permit shall be required for all buildings or structures to be erected, altered, recon- structed or moved to a new foundation within the limits of the Town of Orleans excepting small accessory buildings not to be used for the purpose of habitation and hawing a floor space of less than 100 square feet." Section 4. Building Lines. Amend Section 4 which now reads: "No part of a struc- ture for human habitation shall be nearer to the interior and rear lot lines than 25 ft.; and if on land of single ownership, they shall not be nearer to each other than 50 ft.", to read: "No part of a structure for human habitation shall be nearer to the interior and rear lot lines than 25 ft.; and if on land of single ownership, they shall not be nearer to each other than 50�ft.; provided that in a business district the Building Inspector may allow business structures to be used for human habitation to be erected within ten (10) feet of each other and within five (5) feet of the interior lot lines provided such buildings are constructed of Class A fire-safe materials." On a rising vote, Yes 196, No 127, a motion was carried that the meeting adjourn until 6:30 P.M.March 11, 1958. Tuesday, March 11, 1958 Meeting recalled to order by the moderator at 6:35 p. m. A standing count of registered voters showed a quorum to be present. Article 11. To see if the Town will accept the Report of the Highway Garage Building Committee and raise and appropriate, take from available funds or finance by borrow- ing,the sum of Twenty Nine Thousand Five Hundred (29,500.) Dollars. to erect and eauiD a Highway Garage on Town land 156' of the Committee appointed under Article 39 of the Annual Town Meeting in 1956. By request. After an amendment to strike out the words, "Tonset Road" and substituting therefor the words "on a site to be determined by the Planning Board and the Highway Garage Building Committee,said site to be reported to the next Town Meeting for approval," lost on a voice vote; it was voted by written ballot,yes 253, no 76 that the Town accept the report of the Highway Garage Building Committee and raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand ($3;000.) Dollars, and the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $22,009.00 under authority of Chapter 44 General Laws, and to issue notes of the Town therefor,payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than 10 years from the date of issue of the first issue of the first note,for the purpose of construct- ing and equipping a Highway Garage on Town land on Ton- set Road, said funds to be expended under the direction of the committee appointed under Article 39 of the Annual Town Meeting in 1956. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 12. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to sell, move, destroy or otherwise dispose of the pre- sent Town Highway Building and authorize the Selectmen to take any and all action necessary thereto. By request. Voted,voice vote,unanimous,that-the Town authorize•the Selectmen to sell, move, destroy or otherwise dispose of the present Town Highway Building and authorize the Selectmen to take any and all action necessary thereto. (Approved by the Finance Committee.) ,Article 13. To see if the Town will authorize the forma- tion of a Nauset Beach Building Committee, said committee to be the Park Commission, the Board of Selectmen and such additional members at large as necessary. The purpose of the Committee so appointed to study plans and specifications and cost data for a suitable building at Nauset Beach to house the Administration and Concessions under one rood; recom- mend site for erection of same and to bring in at a special or regular Town Meeting plans for such a building and to raise and appropriate the sure of Three Hundred (300.) Dol- lars to meet expenses of said Committee. 157 Voted,voice vote, that the Town authorize the formation of a Nauset Beach Building Committee, said committee to be the Park Commission, and the Board of Selectmen and such additional members at large as necessary. The purpose of the Committee so appointed to study plans and specifications and cost data for a suitable building at Nauset Beach to house the Administration and Concessions under one roof; recom- mend site for erection of same and to bring in at a regular Town Meeting plans for such a building and to raise and ap- propriate the sum of Three Hundred (300.) Dollars to meet the expenses of said Committee. (Voted 4 in favor and 4 opposed by the Finance Com- mittee.) Article 14. To see if the Town will authorize the Park Commissioners to perform labor on the Parks and Play- grounds and Public Beaches and fix hourly wages of the Commissioners at $1.50 per hour when performing such labor, in accordance with the provisions of Section 4-A of Chapter 41, General Laws. By request. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the 'Town authorize the Park Commissioners to perform labor on the Parks and Playgrounds and Public Beaches:and fix hourly wages of the Commissioners at$1.50 per hour when performing such labor, in accordance with the Provisions of Section 4-A of Chapter 41, General Laws. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 15. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Nine Thousand One Hundred (9,100.) Dollars to grade and pave the Town Road known as Main Street, be- ginning atlVlonument Road and extending easterly,a distance of twenty-one hundred (2,100) feet. By request. Voted, written ballot, Yes 269, No 23, that the Town raise and appropriate-the sum of Nine Thousand One Hundred (9,100.) Dollars to grade and pave the Town Road known as Main Street, beginning at Monument Road and extending easterly, a distance of twenty-one hundred (2,100) feet. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 16. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Twenty-three Hundred (2,300.) Dollars to pur- chase and equip one (1) Pick-up Truck for the Highway 158 in as.part of the purchase price, the present Ford Pick-up Truck. By request. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Twenty-three Hundred (2,300.) Dollars _ to purchase and equip one (1) Pick-up Truck for the Highway Department and authorize the Surveyor of Highways to trade part of the purchase ,price, the present Ford Pick-up in Truck. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 17. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Fifteen Hundred (1,500.) Dollars for entertain- ment of a public nature, Chapter 158 of the Acts of 1929, to be spent under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen, or do or act.anything.thereon. By request. Voted, voice vote, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Fifteen Hundred-(1;500.) Dollars for entertainment of a public nature,Chapter 158 of the Acts of 1929,to be spent under the superivsion of the Board of Selectmen. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 18. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Two Hundred (2,200) Dollars to erect a suitable building, install toilets, water and cesspool at the, parking area at Rock Harbor. Voted, voice vote, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Two Hundred (2,200.) Dollars, to erect a suitable building, install toilets, water and cesspool at the parking area at Rock Harbor. (Disapproved by the Finance Committee) Article 19. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred Twenty-five (725.) Dollars, to install fresh water facilities along the bulkhead at Rock Harbor, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen. By request. Indefinitely postponed. (Approved-Finance Committee) Article 20. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Nine Hundred Seventy-five (9-75.) Dollars, to pur- chase and equip a new Auto Cruiser for the Police Depart- ment and authorize the Selectmen to trade in as part of the 159 Voted, voice vote, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Nine Hundred Seventy-five (975.) Dollars, to pur- chase and equip a new Auto Cruiser for.the Police Department and authorize the Selectmen to trade in as part of the pur- chase price,the.present Chevrolet Cruiser. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 21. To see if the Town will transfer the follow- ing amounts of money to the Excess and Deficiency account: $136.81 balance of the Sidewalk for Route 6 account; $61.06 balance of the Front-end Loader for Highway Department account; $4.20 balance of the Regional School Planning Com- mittee account; and $168.75 balance of the Water Investi- gating Committee account. Voted,voice vote, unanimous, that.the Town transfer the following amounts of money to the Excess and Deficiency account: $136.81 balance of the Sidewalk for Route 6 account; $61.06 balance of the Front-end Loader for Highway Depart- ment account; $4.20 balance of the Regional Shoal Planning Committee account; and$168.75 balance of the Water Invest- igating Committee .account. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 22. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Twenty-two Hundred (2,200.) Dollars, for six Band Concerts to be given in the Town of Orleans during 1958 by the Orleans Band. By request. Voted, voice vote, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Nineteen Hundred (1,900.) Dollars, for six Band Concerts to be given in the Town of Orleans during 1958 by the Orleans Band. (Approved (7-1) in the sum of$90'0. by the Finance Com- mittee) Article 23. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to purchase a used four wheel drive Jeep Beach Wagon, and to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Seven Hundred (1,700.) Dollars to defray the expenses thereof, including insurance, equipment and main- tenance and other additional expenses. By request. 160 Article 24. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred (1,500.) Dollars for the purpose of advertising the advantages of the Town and the operation of a Public Information Booth, said funds to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen and only if an equal matching sum has been deposited with the Town Treasurer prior to the expenditure of any of said appro- priation, under the prov"I Jon.5 of Chapter 30 of the Acts of 1958. By request. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 30 of the Acts of 195-8 and raise and appropriate.the sum of$1,50.0.00 for the purpose of advertising the advantages of the 'Town and the operation of a public information booth,said funds to be expended under the direc- tion of the Selectmen and only if an equal matching sum has been deposited with the Town Treasurer prior to the expend- iture of any of said appropriation. Article 25. To see if the Town will accept as a gift, the rudder and rudder post of the Katie J. Barrett and raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to move and install the same at Nauset Beach, and suitably inscribe a tablet thereon, said work to be done under the direction of the Park Commis- sioners. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that this article be amend- ed to read: "That the Town accept -as a gift from William Sparrow Murray, the rudder and rudder post of the Katie J. Barret and that the Town turn the rudder and rudder post over to the Orleans Historical Society for preservation."Voted, voice vote as amended. (It was voted by the Finance Committee to accept as a gift and raise and appropriate $75.00 for moving costs, 4 in favor and 4 opposed) Article 26. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand (1000.) Dollars to be expended by the Board of Fire Engineers with the approval of the Select- men to be used for making available water supplies for fire protection in areas within the Town of Orleans and improving the accessability of existing supplies. By request. Voted, voice vote, unanimous that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand (1,000.) Dollars to be 161 for fire protection in areas within the Town of Orleans and improving the accessability of existing supplies. (Approved by the Finance Committee) I Article 27. To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee to designate 7.5 acres of land, purchased by the Town under Article 35 of the Annual Town Meeting held on February 21, 1955, as appurtenant to the High School, and to be used in connection therewith, and further to see if the Town will authorize the same to be transferred to the East- ham-Orleans-Wellf lee t Regional School District, together with the High School as authorized under article 3 of a Special Town Meeting,held on November 23, 1956, said parcel being bounded and described as follows: Northerly by Boland's Pond, a distance of 380 feet, more or less; Easterly by land of the Orleans High School, 900 feet more or less; Southerly by land of Clayton P. Eldredge,,375 feet more or less; and Westerly by land of the Orleans Ele- mentary School, 1000 feet more or less; containing an area of 7.5 acres more or less, and being 350• feet in width, and being a portion of Lot 10,in Land Court Case Number 18010; and to authorize the Selectmen and the School Committee to take all and any necessary action hereunder. By request. Voted, rising vote,Yes 305. No 1, that the Town author- ize the School Conunittee to-designate 7.5 acres of land, pur- chased by the Town under Article 35 of the Annual Town Meeting held on February 21, 1955,as appurtenant-to the High School, and to be used in conection therewith, and further that the Town authorize the same to-be transferred to the Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School District, together with the High School as authorized under Article 3 of a Special Town Meeting, held on November 26, 1956, said parcel being bounded and described as follows: Northerly,by Boland's Pond, a distance of 380 feet; mare or less; easterly, by land of the Orleans High School, 900 ft. more or less; southerly by land of Clayton P. Eldredge, 375 feet, more or less; and westerly, by land of the Orleans Ele- mentary School, 1,000 feet,more or less;containing an area of 71/Z acres,more or less,and being 350 feet in width, and being a portion of Lot 10 in Land Court Case 18010; and to authorize the Selectmen and the School Committee to take all and any necessary action hereunder. /Av.v.w,-......i 162 Article 28. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Eight Thousand Five Hundred (8,500.) Dollars to grade and pave Lots Hollow Road from Tonset Road ex- tension to the Town Dump. Voted, voice vote, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum-of Eight Thousand Five Hundred (8,5010.) Dollars to grade and pave Lots Hollow Road, from Tonset Road exten- sion to the Town Dump. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 29. To see if the Town will increase the salary of the Town Clerk, Two Hundred (20.0.) Dollars; the salary of the Treasurer, Five Hundred (500.) Dollars; the salary of the Collector of Taxes, Three Hundred (300.) Dollars, and to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand (1,000.) Dol- lars for the same, being retroactive to January 1, 1968. Voted, voice vote, to amend the motion under Article 29 to read as follows: "That the Town increase the salary of the Treasurer, Five Hundred (500.) Dollars and that said sum be raised and appropriated for the same, being retroactive to January 1, 19'58." Voted, voice vote as amended. (Approved by the Finance Committee) A-°ticle 30. To see if the Town will combine the salaries and pay of the Board of Selectmen, Assessors, Public Welfare and Health, under a single salary of Four Thousand Five Hundred (4,500.) Dollars per member, retroactive to Janu- ary 1, 1958 and raise and appropriate the necessary sum of money to put into effect the new salary rate. Voted, written ballot, Yes 159, No 160, the motion lost, "that the Town increase the salaries of the members of the Board of Selectmen$500.00 each and increase the per day pay of the members-of the Board of Assessors to $12.00 per day, including automobile expense !and raise and appropriate the sum of $3,300.to put these increases into effect,retroactive to January 1, 1958." (Disapproved by the Finance Committee) Article 31. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Three Hundred (1,300.) Dollars to purchase and equip a new automobile for the use of the Town Health Department and authorize the Selectmen to trade in as part of the purchase price, the automobile now in use. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town raise and I 163 Dollars to purchase and equip a new automobile for the use of the Town Health Department and authorize the Selectmen to trade in as part of the purchase price, the automobile now in use. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 32. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred (600.) Dollars to install a pump and tank at the town dump. Voted,voice vote,that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred (600.) Dollars to install a pump and tank at the town dump. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 33. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Eight Hundred (3,800) Dollars to grade and pave the Town Road known as Herring Brook Way from the Herring Brook to Kescayogansett Road, and to grade and construct Herring Brook Way from Kescayogansett Road to Pilgrim Lake, and to pave the Town Road known as Kescayogansett Road from Herring Brook Way to Arey's Lane, so called, work to be done under the supervision of the High- way Surveyor. By request. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Eight Hundred (3,800.) Dollars to grade and pave the Town Road known as Herring Brook Way from the Herring Brook to Kescayogansett Road and to grade and construct Herring Brook Way from Kescayogansett Road to Pilgrim Lake, and to pave the Town Road known as Kescayogansett Road from Herring Brook Way to Arey's Lane, so called, work to be done under the supervision of the Highway Surveyor. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 34. To see if the Town will transfer to the con- trol of the Park Commission,the Beach Area at Route No. 28, lying south of Tar Kiln Creek, the Beach Area at Route No. 28 at the northwesterly end of Crystal Lake, the Beach Area at Nauset Harbor at the end of Priscilla Road, the Beach Area at Pilgrim Lake at the end of Herring Brook Way, and the Beach Area at Skaket Beach lying westerly of the 40 foot way on the former Rote property, and take any and all ac- tion necessary thereto. VntcA c irc t.. --i—n— that tic Tn�xvn tr�n efor to 164 #28 lying south of Tar Kiln Creek, the Beach Area at Route #28.2:t the northwesterly end of Crystal Lake, the Beach Area at Nauset Harbor at the end of Priscilla Road, the Beach Area at Pilgrim Lake at the end of Herring Brook Way, and the Beach Area at Skaket Beach lying westerly of the 40 foot way on the former Rote property, and take any,and all action necessary thereto. Article 35. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred (300.) Dollars, to be expended un- der the direction of the Division of Marine Fisheries of the Department of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, for the improvement of the Herring Brook. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred (300.) Dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Division of Marine Fish- eries of the Department of Natural Resources,Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the improvement of the Herring Brook. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 36. To see if the Town will direct the Selectmen to annually appoint a Commission in accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of Chapter 45 to control the play- ground and recreation area at Nauset Beach, acquired under Article 21 of the 1957 Town Meeting, said Commission to serve without pay. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town direct the Selectmen to annually appoint a Commission in accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of Chapter 45 to control the playground .and recreation ;area at Nauset Beach, acquired under Article 2.1 of the 1957 Town Meeting, said Commission to serve without pay. Article 37. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $3,600., to be used together with an equal amount of State funds, to build a launching ramp or ramps to be located at proper site or sites in the Town. Voted,voice vote,that the Town raise and appropriate the the sum of$3,600., to be used together with an equal amount of State Funds, to build a launching Tamp or ramps to be lo- cated at proper site or sites in the Town. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 38. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 for the improvement of boat launching i 165 ' Voted,voice vote,that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $2,5.00:00 for the improvement of boat launching facil- ities at Town Cove and Pleasant Bay. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 39. To see if the Town will instruct the Moder- ator to reappoint the Waterways Investigating Committee and raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred (500.) Dollars for the expense of said Committee. By request. Voted, voice vote,unanimous, that the Town instruct the Moderator to reappoint the Waterways Improvement Com- mittee and raise and -appropriate the sum of Five Hundred (500.) Dollars for the expense of said Committee. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 40. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for new navigation buoys in Pleasant Bay to be expended under the direction of the Harbormaster. By request. Voted, voice vote, unanimous, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for new navigation buoys in Pleasant Bay to be expended under the direction of the Har- bormaster. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 41. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Eight Hundred (800.) Dollars to properly observe the July 4th Holiday,to be spent by the Orleans Post No. 308 Inc.,American Legion,under the supervision of the Selectmen. Voted, voice vote, unanimous but 1, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Eight Hundred (800.) Dollars to properly observe the July 4th Holiday, to be spent by the Orleans Post No. 308 Inc., American Legion, under the super- vision of the Selectmen. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 42. To see if the Town will sell to Delbert M. Johnson, Sr., .04 acre of land at the junction of Route 6, Lots Hollow Road and Tonset Road, shown as Lot No. 13, in Land Court Case No. 18010, for the sum of Two Hundred (200) Dol- lars, and authorize the Selectmen to take any and all action necessary thereto. Voted, rising vote, Yes 199, No 0, that the Town sell to 166 No. 13, in Land Court Case No. 18010, for the sum of Two Hundred (200.) Dollars, and authorize the Selectmen to take any and all action necessary thereto. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 43. And to act upon any other business that may legally come before the meeting. Voted, voice vote, that the Moderator be directed to ap- point a committee of five citizens to study the administration and operation of the Town business by its major elected and appointed officials, including consideration of salary schedules and working arrangements and conditions,and re- port to the next annual Town Meeting. Voted, voice vote, unanimous., that the following Resolu- tion be accepted: Whereas James H. Critchett, former chairman and mem- ber of the Finance Committee of the Town of Orleans, depart- ed this life December 17,1957, and whereas we remember with gratitude his public service, devotion to the Town of Orleans and its best interests, and his intelligent, helpful and selfless leadership. Therefore be it highly resolved that this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this meeting and a copy thereof be presented to the Critchett family. Town Clerk's Note: Additional Tellers—Chester A. Landers, Richard H. Ad- ams, Franklin S. Murray, and William P. Quinn were sworn by the Moderator for written ballots after Article 10. Meeting adjourned at 11:20 P'.M.. Attest: FRANCIS I.ROGERS Town Clerk Total Appropriations and Selectmen's and Departmental Recommendations for 1958 $501,067.00 Article 4 Chapter 90 Maintenance $1,000.00 Article 5 Chapter 90 Construction 500.00 Article 11 Highway Garage Building 3,000.00 Article 13 Nauset Beach Building Committee (Expense) 300.00 Article 15 Main Street (Easterly from Monument Road) 9,100.00 r,;,,,.,,, m,.,..,.i, a inn nn 167 Article 18 Rock Harbor Building (Toilets, etc.) 2,200.00 Article 20 New Police Cruiser 975.00 Article 22 Band Concerts 1,900.00 Article 24 Chapter 30, Acts of 1958 1,500.00 Article 26 Water Supplies for Fire Protection (Water Holes) 1,000.00 Article 28 Lot's Hollow Road 8,500.00 Article 29 Raise for Town Treasurer (Salary) 500•.00 Article 31 New Car for Town Nurse 1,300.00 Article 32 Pump and Tank-at Town Dump 600.00 Article 33 Herring Brook Way&Kescayogan•sett Road 3,800'.00 Article 35 Herring Brook Improvement 300.00 Article 37 Launching Ramps 3,600.00 Article 38 Town Cove&Pleasant Bay Launching Facilities 2,500.00 Article 39 Waterways Improvement Committee (Expense) 500.00 Article 40 Navigation Buoys in Pleasant Bay 100.00 Article 40 July 4th Celebration 800.00 Total $548,842.00 WEDNESDAY,MARCH 12, 1958 To vote for the election of the following Town Officers: One Moderator for'one year. One Selectman for three years. One Assessor for three years. One Member Board of Public Welfare for three years. One Member Board of Health for three years. Two Constables for one year. One Park Commissioner for three years. One Member of School Committee for three years. One Member of Regional School Committee for two years. One Trustee Snow Library for three years. One IViember Planning Board for five years. One Member Recreation Commission for five years. 168 Orleans, Mass., March 10, 1958 Drawing of Jurors made this day at 9:20 A.M. by Select- men Arthur R.Finlay and Franklin S.Murray in the presence of Deputy Sheriff, Lawrence R. Gardiner and Town Clerk, Francis I.Rogers. Gerhard Seitz—Grand Juror Ernest Mazzarella—Traverse. Jurors William E. .7iau--c• ing Term Attest: FRANCIS I. ROGERS Town Clerk WEDNESDAY,MARCH 12, 1958 Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 10:00 A.M. The following election officers and ballot clerks were sworn in at 9:30 A. M. by the Town Clerk, Francis I. Rogers: Arthur R. Finlay, Franklin S. Murray, Adele V. Brown, Harry F. Childs, Jennie B. Clapp, Evelyn H. Clark, Ella B. Darling, Thelma M. Ellis, Katherine Lai and Special Officer, Walter M. Knowles. After reading of the list of officers to be filled, the ballot box was examined, set at zero, the polls were declared open. At 10:55 A. M., fifty (50) ballots were removed from the ballot box for counting by Election Officer,Franklin S.Murray and Teller,Harry F. Childs in the presence of Special Officer, Walter M.Knowles,Moderator,Kenrick A. Sparrow and Town Clerk, Francis I. Rogers. Paul P. Henson, Jr. sworn in as additional teller by the Town Clerk. At 11:40 A. M., fifty (50) ballots were removed from the ballot box for counting by Election Officer,Franklin S.Murray and Teller, Harry F. Childs in the presence of Special Officer, Walter M.Knowles,Moderator Kenrick A. Sparrow and Teller, Paul P. Henson, Jr. At 1:15 P. M. one hundred (100) ballots were removed from the ballot box for counting by Election Officer, Franklin S.Murray and Teller,Harry F.Childs in the presence of Chief of Police, Chester A. Landers, Moderator Kenrick A. Sparrow and Teller Paul.P. Henson,Jr. At 2:28 P. M., fifty (50) ballots were removed for count- ing by Election Officer, Franklin S. Murray and Teller Paul P. Henson, Jr. in presence of Special Officer, Walter M. Knowles, Moderator Kenrick A. Sparrow and Teller Harry F. i i I 169 At 3:30 P. M., one hundred (100) ballots were removed for counting by Election Officer,Franklin S.Murray and Tell- er Paul P. Henson, Jr. in presence of Special Officer Walter M.Knowles and Town Clerk, Francis I.Rogers. At 4:45 P. M., fifty (50) ballots were removed for count- ing by Election Officer, Franklin S.-Murray and Teller Paul P. Henson, Jr. in presence of Special Officer, Walter M. Knowles, Tellers Harry F. Childs and Adele V. Brown and Town Clerk, Francis I. Rogers. At 5:20 P. M., one hundred (10,0) ballots were removed for counting by Election Officer,Franklin S.Murray and Tell- er Harry F. Childs in presence of Teller Paul P. Henson, Jr. Moderator Kenrick A. Sparrow, Chief of Police Chester A. Landers and Town Clerk, Francis I. Rogers. At 6:15 P.M., one hundred (100) .ballots were removed for counting by Election Officer Franklin S. Murray and Teller Paul P. Henson, Jr. in presence of Special Officer Walter M. Knowles, Moderator Kenrick A. Sparrow and Town Clerk, Francis I.Rogers. At 6:30 P. M., the Polls were declared closed by the Moderator Kenrick A. Sparrow. The number of ballots cast were 612. There were 22 absentee ballots, making a total of 634. All ballots were removed that remained in the ballot box for counting by Election Officer, Franklin S.Murray and Tell- er Paul P.Henson,Jr.in presence of Special Off=icer Walter M. Knowles, Moderator Kenrick A. Sparrow and all other Tellers and Ballot Clerks and Town Clerk,Francis I.Rogers. All ballots were tallied ;and sealed in their proper con- tainers by the Election Officials. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 P. M. RESULT OF BALLOTING AS FOLLOWS Moderator for One Year Kenrick A. Sparrow, five hundred ;thirty-four 534 Blanks, ninety-four 94 All others, six 6 170 Selectmen,Assessor,Member of Boards of health and Public Welfare for Three Years Arthur R. Finlay, five hundred twenty-one 521 Blanks, one hundred eight 108 All Others, five 5 6"s4 Two Constables for One Year George A.Bissonnette, five hundred sixty-six 566 Henry A.Perry,five hundred one 501 Blanks,two hundred 200 All others, one 1 1,268 Highway Surveyor for Three Years Frederick G. Mayo, five hundred ninety-six 596 Blanks, thirty-seven 37 All others, one 1 634 Park Commissioner for Three Years Alvin H. Wright,five hundred eighty 580 Blanks,fifty-two a2 All others, two 2 634 School Committee for Three Years Dorothea M. Nargeot, one hundred ninety 190 Charity M. Kidd, three hundred fifteen (elected) 315 Laurin C. Peterson, one hundred twenty-four 124 Blanks,five 5 634 Trustee of Snow Library for Three-Years Harry H.Snow,six hundred one 601 Blanks, thirty-three 33 I 171 Planning Board for Five Years Milton M. Gray,Jr., five hundred forty-five 545 Blanks, eighty-eight 88 All others,one 1 634 Recreation Commission for five Years John D. W. Joy, three hundred twelve (elected) 312 Gordon F. Parent, two hundred eighty-eight 288 Blanks, thirty-four 34 634 Regional School Committee for Two Years Donald C.MacKenzie, five hundred eighty 508 Blanks, fifty-four 54 634 Attest: FRANCIS I. ROGERS Town Clerk 1958—Committee Appointed by the Moderator Finance Committee; Term three years Reappointed—Reginald H. Sprague Frederick F. Rockwell Joseph D. Whittemore 1958—Committee Appointed by the Moderator Under Article 39— Waterways Investigating & Improvement Committee Reappointed-Elmer R. Darling Paul P. Henson, Jr. Kenneth G. Huber R. Frederick Raddin Charles Francis Richardson Reappointed Associate Members: Philip Martin James S. L. Kidd 1958—Committee Appointed by the Moderator Under Article 43— Albion H. Besse Winthrop A. Griffin Eleanor G. Lund Edward J. Smith 172 Sy-Law Amendments Advertised COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Town of Orleans By-law Amendment adopted at the Annual Town Meeting, March 10, 11, 12, 1958.Voted, rising vote. Yes 194, No 11, that the Town amend the Building Code as follows: Section 2. Notification of intent to build, etc. Amend paragraph 1 to read: "A permit shall be required for all buildings or structures to be erected, altered, recon- structed or moved to a new foundation within the limits of the Town of Orleans excepting small accessory buildings not to be used for the .purpose of habitation and having a floor space of less than 100 square feet." A true copy attest: FRANCIS I. ROGERS Town Clerk Boston,Mass.,May 9, 1958 The foregoing amendment to building code is hereby ap- proved. George Fingold Attorney General (5-22-58) COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Town of Orleans By-law amendment adopted at the Annual Town Meeting March 10, 11, 12, 1958. Voted,rising vote,Yes 333, No 1,that the Protective By- Law of the Town of Orleans be amended!as follows: Section 2. Residence District Uses. Paragraph 1. Amend paragraph 1 which now reads: "Detached one or two family dwelling except cabins as defined in 10Q or tents.", to read; "Detached one or two family dwelling except cabins as defined in 10Q, tents or I 173 Section 2. Residence District Uses. Insert paragraph 5A between paragraph 5 and paragraph 6 to read as follows: "5A. Poultry or animal raising for non-commercial pur- poses." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Amend section 2, paragraph 10, subparagraph (o) which reads: "Boat building and storage", to read: "Boat yards and activities reasonably necessary and related thereto." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Insert the following provisions after Section 2, para- graph 10, sub-paragraph (r): (s) Exhibitions, fairs and displays of a similar nature, held for the benefit of charitable, religious, and non-profit organizations." Section 2. Paragraph 10. Insert the following provisions after Section 2, paragraph "(t) Poultry or animal raising for commercial purposes." Section 3. Business District Uses. Insert the following after paragraph 9: "10.Any of the following uses,provided it is not injurious, noxious or offensive to the neighborhood, and only if author- ized by the Board of Appeals: a) Light industry,manufacturing and wholesale distribu- ting." Insert after Section 3, Business District Uses, after 10, a, "In a Business District no building or structure shall be erected within 25 feet of the street line of any street or way in a business district, that is laid-out or originally constructed after March 10, 1958." Under Section 5, Area Regulations, add paragraph 3.to read as follows: "3.Any lot upon a deadend street turn around may have a street frontage of not less than fifty (50) feet are distance, provided such lot and the plan upon. which it is shown is approved by the Planning Board, and said lot shall be 120 feet wide at the residence building line.,, 174 Insert Paragraph 7A between #7 and #8 to read as fol- lows; "7a. Artisans such as carpenter, builder, electrician, plumber, painter, plasterer, mason, resident on the premises, provided that not more than two persons shall be substan- tially constantly employed therein and provided further that all materials and equipment connected therewith shall be stored in a •manner so as not to be injurious, noxious or offensive to the neighborhood." A true copy attest: FRANCIS I. ROGERS Town Clerk Boston, Mass.,May 9, 1958 The foregoing amendments to zoning by-law -are hereby approved. GEORGE FINGOLD Attorney General (5-22-58) A true copy attest: FRANCIS I. ROGERS Town Clerk Special 'Town Meeting May 26, 1958 In response to a legally posted Warrant, the Inhabitants of the Town of Orleans, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, met at the High School Auditorium, on Monday, the 26th day of May next,gat 8:00 o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles: The meeting was called to order at 8:05 P.M.by the Mod- erator Kenrick A. Sparrow. Elmer R.Darling and Harry F.Childs were appointed and sworn as Tellers by the Moderator. Voted, voice vote, to ,dispense with the reading of the Warrant except the preamble,- conclusion and attestation thereof, and the Officer's return of service thereon. The Moderator read the Warrant in accordance with the vote taken.' A standing count of Registered Voters disclosed a quorum present of 331. Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to express approv- al or disapproval of the amount of debt, namely $1,500,000.00 authorized by the regional district school committee of the Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School District on May 175 On a motion for a written ballot,it was voted,voice vote, that this procedure be taken. Voted, written ballot, Yes 245, No 140, that the Town approve the amount of debt, namely $1,500,000.00 authorized by the regional district school com- mittee of the Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School District on May 16, 1958. A rising vote of thanks was extended to Chairman Win- throp A. Griffin of the regional district school committee, for his efforts in cooperating with the other members of the committee in bringing a Regional School District into reality for the joint towns of Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 2. To see if the Town will increase the salaries of the Board of Selectmen $500,00 each and increase the per day pay of the members of the Board of Assessors to $12.00 per day, and take from available funds in the treasury, the sum of $3,300.00 to put these increases into effect retroactive to January 1,1958. On a motion fora written ballot, it was voted, voice vote, that this procedure be taken. Voted, written ballot, Yes 140, No 225, the motion was lost that the Town increase the salaries of the Board of Selectmen $500.00 each and increase the per day pay of the members of the Board of Assessors to $12.00 per day, and take from available funds in the treas- ury,the sum of $3,300.00 to put these increases into effect re- troactive to January 1, 1958. (Disapproved by the Finance Committee) Article 3. To see if the Town will increase the number of members on the School Committee from three to five, said five-member committee to become operative the day following the annual town election in 1959, and that the initial mem- bership of the five-member committee shall consist of the committee whose terms of office shall not have expired on said election date, and one member elected for three years, one for two years,and one for one year: thereafter members shall be elected for three-year terms,of-the number necessary to maintain a membership of five. Voted,:voice vote, unanimous, that the Town increase the number of members on the School Committee from three to five,said five-member committee to become operative the day following the annual town election in 1959,and that the ini- tial membership of the five-member committee shall consist 176 not have expired on said election date,and one member elect- ed for three years, one for two years, and one for one year; thereafter members shall be elected for three-year terms, of the number necessary to maintain a membership,of five. After a doubtful voice vote, it was voted rising vote Yes 109, No 81, that Article 2 be reconsidered. After a doubtful voice vote, it was voted rising vote Yes 115, No 62, that the per day pay of the —Board of A-messors. be increaser) to $12.00 per day and that $1,000.00 be taken from available funds in the treasury to put this increase into effect beginning June 1, 1958. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 4. To see if the Town will sell a parcel of land at Nauset Heights containing 8,500 square feet, more or less, as shown on a sketch plan on file in the Selectmen's Office, to Mark Hopkins,for the sum of One (1.00) Dollar, and purchase a parcel of land at Nauset Harbor containing 12,000 square - feet,more or less,as shown on said plan, from Mark Hopkins, for the sum of One (1.00) Dollar and authorize the Selectmen to take any and all action necessary thereto. Voted,voice vote, unanimous, that the Town sell a parcel of land at Nauset Heights-containing 8,500 square feet, more or less, as shown on 'a sketch plan on file in the Selectmen's Office,to Mark Hopkins, for the sum of One (1.00) Dollar,and purchase a parcel of land at Nauset Harbor•containing 12,000 square feet, more or less, as shown on said plan, from Mark Hopkins, for the sum of One (1.00) Dollar, and authorize the Selectmen to take.any and all action necessary thereto. (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article 5. To see 'if the Town will take from available funds the sum of $400.00 to be used with $600.00 appropriated at the Annual Town Meeting of March 11,..1958, to install water at the Town Dump. Voted, voice vote, that the Town take from available funds the sum of$400.00 to be used with $600.00 appropriated at the Annual Town Meeting of March 11, 1958, to install water at the Town Dump. - (Approved by the Finance Committee) Article G. And to act upon any_gther business that may legally come before this meeting. Meeting adjourned at 10:45 P.M. Attest: 'FRANCIS I. ROGERS 177 Orleans, Mass., September 15, 1958 Drawing of Jurors made this day,at 9:30 A.M. by Select- men, Franklin S. Murray, Arthur R. Finlay in the presence of Richard H. Adams,Deputy Sheriff, Lawrence R. Gardinier and Town Clerk,Francis I. Rogers, for the Fall Term. Frederick S. Harris- Brigetta M. Wichester- Traverse Jurors, Fall Term Attest: FRANCIS I. ROGERS Town Clerk Dog Licenses Issued in 1958 195 Males @ $2.00 $390.00 40 Females @ 5.00 200.00 123 Spayed Females @ 2.00 246.00 5 Kennel @ 10.00 50.00 1 Kennel @ 25.00 25.00 $911.00 Fees retained @ .25 91.00 Payable to County Treasurer $820.00 Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS I. ROGERS Town Clerk RIR,THS RECORDED FOR YEAR 1958 IN ORLEANS to Name Of Child Name of Father Name of Mother 7 vember: 9 Caroline Lee Gallagher 8 rnary: 20 Julie Clark 27 Dale Alan Livingston bruary: 2 Bruce Allen White 5 Wendy Alane Taylor 7 David Allan Baker 18 Pamela Jean Fernald 27 Frank Joseph Richards, Jr. ,rch: 2 Kenneth William Fettig 9 Thomas Joseph Finlay 10 Cynthia Arleen Kew 10 Susah Adele Kew. 15 Victoria Louise Richardson 22 Philip Paul Peterson, Jr. 23 Amy Elizabeth Reed M Deborah Ann Youngren ril: 1 Robert George Brainard Leo F. Gallagher Robert Clayton Clark George Frederick Livingston Paul Lester White Peter Wolcott Taylor Leslie David Baker James Joseph Fernald, Jr. Frank Joseph Richards Francis Anthony Fettig, Jr. Arthur Rupert Finlay, Jr. Harold Walter Kew, Jr. Harold Walter Kew, Jr. Earl Monroe Richardson, Jr. Philip Paul Peterson Dickinson Alford Reed Alfred Peter Youngren Clifford William Brainard Vilma Ivansons-Jansen Elizabeth Ann Chase Marian Isabelle Scott Patricia Lou Reed Sandra Sutherland Shaw Elva Allen Ellis Elizabeth Frances Cahoon Betty Watson Boggs Ann Elizabeth Corcoran Lola Belle Allen Adele Wiles Adele Wiles Elizabeth Louise Landry Lois Marjorie Steele Esther May Tibbals Amin Arlene Rogers Caroline Ann Campbell a co 14 Kim Elizabeth Taylor William Lloyd Taylor Phyllis Warner Rogers 15 Cindy Marie Higgins Reginald Louis Higgins Muriel Smith 15 Kebhryn Churchill Pierce Bion Clifford Pierce Charlotte Louise Woodward 18 Robert Alan Atwood Alton Stacy Atwood Barbara Ann Young 21 Joseph Collis Peters Collis Dustin Peters Joanne Dorothy Doyle lay: 5 Karen Harrar Gray Milton Mervin Gray, Jr. Eleanor Frances Lake 11 Douglas James Ryder Richard Douglas Ryder Pamela Rae Crosby 23 Stephen Joseph Forde, 3rd Stephen Joseph Forde,Jr. Theresa Rose Veneto 24 Susan Katherine Faster David Fuller Foster Marion Etta Coombs tine: 14 Eric Starr Fowler Richard Carlton Fowler Ann Thorne Bishop illy: 2 Karol Germaine Berger Rie.hard Sidney Berger Helen Emma Hamilton 0 Barbara Jean Murdock David Somers Murdock Bette Jean Adams 22 Frances Elizabeth Mayo Roland Melvin Mayo Joan Matilda Zukowski Ougust: 4 James Elwin Nickerson,Jr. James Elwin Nickerson Judith Ann Johnson 11 Katie Earlene Gould Maurence Herbert Gould Floyae Lee Owen 27 Kevin Joseph Malley Joseph Antthony Malley,Jr. Dorothy Ann Nickerson 31 Wes Mark Brown Richard Earl Brown Edwina Regis Brennan ieptember: 16 Fern Margaret Kroll Ferdinand Waldemar Kroll Fern Louise Chadbourne 20 Sigurd Anthony Winslow Everett Carpenter Winslow, Jr. Frnnces Harriet Midelfart 30 Lisa Marie Ferreira Wilfred Joseph Ferreira Nancy Ann Young Births—Continued Date Name of Child Name of Father Name of Mother )otober: 11 Jeffrey Alan Baker Donald Emery Baker Helen Elizabeth Collura 12 Pamela Peters Bruce Crowell Peters Marilyn Elizabeth Chace 29 David Earle Chase Daniel Chase Jane Loreen Sears dovember: 26 Jo-Ellen Antoinette Harris Gordon Charles Harris Henriette Elizabeth Davis )eeemberi 14 Walter Damon Argo Gordon Harold Argo Elizabeth Curry Brunk 21 Timothy Richard Gainey William Joseph Gainey Anne Rice on n MARRIAGES RECORDED FOR YEAR 1958 IN ORLEANS Date Name of Parties Age Residence 1957 ` August: 23 Alfred Peter Youngren 18 Orleans,Mass. Ann Arlene Rogers 17 Brewster, Mass. 1958 March: 1 Robert Rea Walsh 20 Kingsport, Tenn. Nancy Reed Whitbread 20 Orleans,Mass. June: 8 David Eugene Fulcher 23 Orleans, Mass. Marilyn (Kent) Fulcher 25 Orleans,Mass. 14 Peter Stone Howell 22 New York,N.Y. Anne Lee Johnson 23 Newton, Mass. 14 Henri P. Ozo•n 26 Orleans, Mass. Jeanne I.Rioux 23 Westpoint, Mass. 14 George Lee Walker 34 Cambridge,Mass, Katherine Roach 28 Cambridge, Mass. 21 John W. Graf, Jr, 22 Rochelle, Ill. Lois Jean Anderson 19 Eastharn, Mass. 28 Ognian Robert Jordan 20 Orleans, Mass. Donna Ethel Mayo 17 Orleams, Mass. July: 12 Jean-Charles DuCharme 26 Orleans, Mass. Elaine Joan Flores 18 Provincetown,Mass. 19 Richard A. Debs 27 Brooklyn, N.Y. Barbara Knowles 26 Orleans,Wass. 22 Peter Edward•Blodgett 23 New York,N.Y. Isabel DeMaurier Tapley 18 Sarasota, Fla. August: 2 Victor S.Noerdlinger 27 New York,N.Y. Charlotte D. Johnson 24 Orleans, Mass. 16 Roger Leonard Carlsen 24 Pittsburgh, Pa. Anna Katherine Forest 22 Alexandria,Va. 16 Pierre William Fitzpatrick 29 Orleans, Mass. Betty (Baxter) Allard 37 Orleans, Mass. 23 Charles Thomas Smith, Jr. 22 Needham, Mass. Carol Ann Gibson 21 Orleans, Mass. 23 James Vaughan Zuill 26 Smith's Parish,Bermuda Alix Robbins McIvor 23 Chatham, Mass. 28 John M. Hamilton, Jr. 22 Orleans, Mass. Josephine T. Smith 26 Milton, Mass. 182 Marriages—Continued Date Name of Parties Age Residence September:_ 5 James A. Doucette 20 Orleans, Mass. Susan Jane Baker 17 Orleans, Mass. 6 Arthur. M Paddon 72 Orleans,Mass. Edith (McCallum-) 11ho` nson 63 Orleans, Mass.. 27 Charles M. Wiley 23 Eastham, Mass. Duane E. Chipman 17 Orleans,Mass. October: 4 Charles Hall Jacob, Jr. 27 Hartsdale,N.Y. Sadly Williamson Wilcox 24 Orleans, Mass, 4 Robert Hammatt Melcher 30 Orleans,Mass. Phyllis Phillips Fri.zzell 35 Chatham,Mass. 12 Alonzo L.Gill 60 Eastham,Mass. Edith E. (Truesdell) Studley 51 Orleans,Mass. November: 1 Albert J. DuCharme, Jr. 24 Orleans, Mass. .Patricia G. Knowles- 20 Eastharn, Mass. 29 Peter C. Hamilton 19 Orleans, Mass. Katherine M. Beyer 19 Orleans, Mass. December: 27 Richard Newcomb Gould 22 Orleans,Mass. Jahanna T.McCarthy 25 Orleans,Mass. 183 DEATHS RECORDED FOR YEAR 1958 IN ORLEANS Date Name Age—Y M D 1957 December: 17 James H.Critchett 71 4 20 1958 January: 26 Warren Edwards 86 5 28 February: 11 Almira Higgins 82 10 24 17 Everett Allen Cole 93 9 7 March: 19 Walter Morsel Snyder 34 2 18 22 Abbie Jane Taylor 85 2 9 May: 20 Lettie Belle Cummirigs 70 10 9 30 Elmer Grover Chandler 73 11 4 June: 8 James Earl Richardson 73 7 13 July: 2 Ida Rebecca Myers 80 8 26 4 Mary Drew Tyler 82 4 5 9 George Gifford Hand 76 2 24 25 HAen Nichols 62 10 24 27 Russell K. Chipman 44 8 12 27 Joseph Anthony Zarba 21:hours 30 Maurice D.Bessom 47 7 7 August: 6 Anna Abina Pohjola 67 7 0 9' Robert E.Nash 64 9 22 16 Henry S.Reuben Freeman 67 7 23 19 James Dickie 85 D 14 25 Barbara Ross (Johnston) Weatherby 64 0 28 September: 14 Everett C.Winslow 76 1 27 A Viola (Anderson) Eugley 70 7 21 25 Florence Harvey Smith 61 9 11 184 Deaths—Continued Date Name Age—y M D October: 7 George Harvey Ding 84 7 22 13 Jeffrey Alan Baker 0 0 2 16 Franklin A. ugh 78 9 28 17 Bertha Fiske V 78 5 12 26 William Patrick Hanlon 74 7 25 November: 6 Colonel Kenneth Dewey Johnson 60 2 1 8 Edgar Thomas Downs 67 10 14 20 Frieda Johanna Unterschutz 67 7 10 28 Lester Willis Quinn 63 3 0 December: 6 Marcia Ellen Coughlan 83 6 3 27 Gertrude Alice Poor 75 3 7 30 Arthur Francis Healey 87 6 15 $1,312.25 $90.25 $1,222.00 Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS I.ROGERS Town Clerk FISH AND GAME LICENSES ISSUED IN 1958 Paid Div. Fees Fisheries Retained &Game 76 Series No. 1 Resident Citizen Fishing Co $3.25 $247.00 $19.00 $228.00 .54 Series No. 2 Resident Citizen Hunting @ 3.25 500.50 38.50 462.00 48 Series No. 3 Resident Citizen Sporting (aD 5.25 252.00 12.00 240.00 14 Series No. 4 Resident Citizen Minor Fishing @ 1.25 17.50 3.50 14.00 13 Series No. 4A Resident Citizen Female Fishing @ 2.2.5 29.25 3.25 26.00 2 Series No. 6 Resident Citizen Trapping @ 7.75 15.50 .50 15.00 38 .Series No. 7 Special Non-Resident Fishing @ 2.75 104.50 9.50 95.00 2 Series No. 8 Non-Resident Citizen Minor Fishing @ 2.25 4.50 .50 4.00 co 10 Series No. 9 Nan-Resident Citizen Fishing @ 7.7'5 77.50 2.50 75.0-0 4 Series No. 10 Non-Resident Citizen Hunting @ 15.25 61.00 1.00 60.00 6 Series No. 12 Duplicate @ .50 3.00 3.00 21 Series No. 15 Resident Citizen Sporting @ Free $1,312.25 $90.25 $1,222.00 Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS I.ROGERS Town Clerk 186 Annual Report of the School Committee Town of Orleans Organization for 1958 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Francis P. Burling, Chairman Term Expires 1960 Mrs. Charity Kidd, Secretary Term Expires 1961 Joseph W. Higgins Term Expires 1959 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Sydney G. Pierce SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Henry A. White, M. D. SCHOOL NURSES Doris Pond, R. N. Marion Chase,R.N. SUPERVISOR OF ATTENDANCE 187 FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1955 GENERAL CONTROL: School Committee Expenses $79.05 Superintendent of Schools Enforcement of Law Salaries and Travel 7,503.32 Other Expenses of General Control 449.97 $8,032.34 $6,642.00 INSTRUCTION: Supervisors $11,344.11 Principals and Teachers 133,259.89 Textbooks 2,840.01 Supplies 6,378,73 $153,822.74 $133,570.00 OPERATION: Janitors $10,637.80 Fuel 4,222.82 j Miscellaneous—Electricity, Janitors' Supplies, etc. 6,069.22 $20,929.84 $15,800.00 MAINTENANCE: Repairs, Replacements & Upkeep $2,459.12 $1,800.00 AUXILIARY AGENCIES: Library $908.39 Health—Physician, Nurse's, Supplies 459.39 Transportation 15,038.09 Miscellaneous Expenses (Telephone, Graduation,Films,Insurance, Pre-Driver Ed.) 3,255.96 $19,661.83 $21,590.00 OUTLAY: New Equipment $1,997.09 $2,400.00 CONTINGENCIES: .. ....I...., $2,000.00 188 1958 Appropriation $207,213.00 Refunds 15.74 Holdover from 1957 14.50 $207,243.24 1958 Expenditure 206,902.96 Balance $340.28 Holdover from 1958 337.10 UNEXPENDED $3.18 NET COST OF SCHOOLS 1958 Expenditure $206,902.96 Accounts Receivable School Funds &State Aid for Public Schools--Chap. 70 $29,872.63 All School Transportation—Chap. 71 12,757.63 Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Dept.Public Welfare 363.00 Reimbursement account of mentally handicapped children 75.00 Town of Brewster—Tuition 5,934.42 Town of Eastham 33,786.56 Cash Collected—School books lost or damaged 80.00 Cash collected from vending machine 9.55 Rent of gymnasium 50.00 $82,928.66 $123,974.30 SPECIAL SCHOOL, LUNCH ACCOUNT Receipts Expenses Brought forward from 1957 $886.52 Appropriation 1958 1,000.00 Sale of School Lunches 1958 18,188.99 189 Salaries $9,525.00 Food and Supplies 17,610.70 $27,910.56 $27,135.70 Forward to 1959 774.86 Funds requested for 1959 $1,000.-00 HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ACCOUNT Brought forward from 1957 $379.54 Appropriation 1958 1,500.00 Receipts 1958 1,023.24 $2,902.78 Expenditures 1958 $2,499.25 Carried forward to 1959 $403.53 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Appropriated 1958 $3,600.00 Expended 1958 2,759.58 Unexpended $840.42 Received on account of Vocational Education for the year ending August 31, 1958 $364.80 Funds requested for 1959 $5,800.00 SCHOOL COMMITTEE SALARIES 1958 Appropriation $200.00 Expended 133.34 Unexpended $6,6.66 190 Report of the School Committee Anyone who reads the history of education in Massa- chusetts will be struck by the fact that the quality of that education has always been in direct relation to the interest shown by the community concerned and the financial sup- port given as an earnest of that concern. The reader must also be struck by the thought that strong interest in, and support of, education has tended so to improve the intellectual atmosphere of the community that the enlargement of both atmosphere and community has become almost automatic. The stronger the support for schools, the richer the community; the richer the commu- nity, the stronger its support for schools. Neither rich nor poor, the people of Orleans have always managed -to give their children the necessities of life and have wisely and consistently given them more than the necessities in education. Time and again, Orleans Town Meetings have discussed and rejected articles to raise and appropriate $500 and then, in the next breath, said aye to an appropriation of $218,587 for education. This has been true from the earliest days. From Simeon Deyo's"History of Barnstable County"pub- lished in 1390, we learn: "When the town was organized especial care was taken to institute schools to accommo- date the children." In 1797, when Orleans broke away from the mother town of Eastham and was incorporated, the people of the town at their first Town Meeting voted to divide the town into three definite districts and build a school house in each. The eastern district was to be east of a "line drawn as the road runs from the westerly side of Thomas Mayo's house, along said road to the Meeting House thence northerly to the eastward side of Dr. Seeabury's." Then "a line drawn from the heart of Frostfish Cove, running westerly between Syl- vanus and Asa Higgins', still westerly between Elnathan and .r,,.. ui—i— —i 1—f— agar anri .Tavio,iia'h Yminv'.¢ 191 � north and south districts. This was succeeded, says Deyo, "by liberal support in the Town Meeting votes and the taxes levied" Deyo says that the highest number of students in his day was in 1846 when 614 pupils attend ten separate schools in Orleans and were taught by 17 teachers. "In 1873,"he reports, "a high school was instituted in the central building, with Hyram Myers as princpal, -and from this time the interest in and the standard of the schools rapidly increased." He reports that the ten districts were later consolidated and that"four large school buildings,termed Northwest now Odd Fellows Hall at the junction of Rock Harbor and Nam- skaket Roads. Com.) Central, East (then on Brick Hill Road between land currently owned by Ira Denman :and Charles Moore, Sr. Com.) and South (about east of the junction of Routes 28 and 39 in South Orleans, now a small park. Corn.) with the high school at the center, took their place." Deyo says that "On the morning of September 29, 1887, the Central House was burned. This school was continued in the Town House until the close of the school year. Another was erected on the site, in which a grammar school was com- menced December 16, 1889." We have neither space nor knowledge to report the de- tailed history of the Orleans schools from that date to this. It would be remiss, however, to not mention Herbert "Pop" Stewart, who came to Orleans High from Bowdoin College around the turn of the century and who kept a firm, strong and inspiring hand on the helm of ORS for about 40 years. For every boy he knocked down the school stairs he helped two or more up the ladder of success. The most signficant change in Orleans school will take place this year when,in September, 1959,Orleans High School will become a part of the new Eastham-Orleans-Wellfieet Re- gional High School. This consolidation is a natural and de- sirable continuation of the process described by Deyo. We, who serve on the last committee to administer both the elementary and High School of Orleans, trust and know that our schools will :continue .to educate, not solely for the purpose of winning a struggle with dictatorship. In handing on, as the Town Meetng has decreed, some 192 we are pleased to be giving it to a body which we believe will cherish knowledge for itself and which will see that the "education of youth is provided at public expense and nour- ished with anxious solicitude through the periods of our histary." FRANCIS P. BURLING, chairman JOSEPH W. HIGGINS, member VddLdd4d11 dtll. SMY'L, �JelM.dcVC41 J' Report of the Superintendent of Schools To the School Committee and Citizens of Orleans I submit herewith my fourth in the series of annual re- ports of the superintendent of schools of this town. UNION#54 We are now in the second year of the superintendency union involving the towns of Eastham, Orleans and Well- fleet. Since this administrative arrangement was established, July 1, 1954 our number designation has changed from 55 to 54, Union #21 having dissolved. The main purpose of union organization is to enable small communities to employ administrative and super- visory personnel on a sharing basis, because the school sys- tems are too small to justify individually the employment of full-time personnel for these services. In our particular situation, where these same three towns have entered into regional district organization for grades seven through twelve, the sharing arrangement of administrative and supervisory services provides opportunity for consistent and coordinated policies and programs throughout the schools of these towns. There is another step in administrative organization that these towns may wish to consider in the next few years, and that is regionalization throughout the grades. At present there are three policy-making bodies (the school committees),—and next year the regional committee will make a fourth,—far the operation of schools for less than a thousand pupils. This involves considerable duplication of time and effort in administration and impedes flexibility in 193 This does not mean building a new school for the.ele- mentary school children of all three towns; it means the ap- eration of all the schools of the three towns under one com- mittee composed of members representing all three towns. Of course there are problems to be worked out in developing a satisfactory agreement of this kind, but there may be enough to be gained to make serious consideration worth- while. Regular •meetings of the committees of the union were held in March and October, with consideration devoted to our common problems. The establishment of a special,,class to serve the needs of retarded pupils is ,a matter of imme- diate concern, and at present each town has pupils in need of special -attention. Some pupils are attending special classes outside the union. Plans were developed in 1958.for establishing such a class in one of the towns, but the plans were abandoned due to lack of space. With the opening of the regional school, space will become available for a spe- cial class at the Wellfleet School, and all three towns have made provisions in their 1959 budgets for supporting this service for the retarded pupils of their respective towns. At the October meeting concern was expressed for pu- pils with emotional disturbances which develop into school and community problems.In recognition of the growing prev- alence and seriousness of such cases across the state, and in an effort to deal with this source of potential delinquency as early as passible, legislation was established in 1955 to en- courage school committees to employ school adjustment counselors whose specific function is to work directly with children showing signs of maladjustment or emotional dis- turbance at the elementary school level, and to coordinate the services of community and county agencies in their behalf. Substantial reimbursement for the salaries of such counselors is available to communities employing them. While juvenile delinquency has not loomed as a seri- ous problem in our towns, the educational and social loss which may be prevented through the services of a counselor seem sufficient to justify the employment of one to serve our three towns,-and tentative plans have been made through budgetary provision. There was one change of personnel at the union level this year. Mrs. Dulce Ryder of Ootuit was employed bo teach vocal music, replacing Mr. Joseph Zarba of Boston. Mrs. Ry- 194 mentary education, Mr.Edward Bolton on art, and Mr.Frank James on instrumental music are a part of this volume, and attention to these reports is urged. Personnel Our corps of teachers was increased by two members when school opened in September. One of these additions was brought about by une need for two divisions at the first grade level, and the arrangement is described in the report of the Principal of the Elementary School. The second addi- tion was at the high school level and was made for the pur- pose of reducing teacher load in the English department. This is considered•necessary in order to emphasize expression through composition in high school English classes. Mrs. Dorothy Evans, who had taught French and English during the year that Mr. Gordon Argo was on leave-of-absence, was employed to continue after Mr. Argo's return to the staff, and she is, thus, the additional member. Mrs.Joan C.Dugener resigned as teacher of girls physical education, and Mrs. Dorothy Connors was employed to fill this assignment and to coach girls athletics for the 1958-59 school year. Mrs.Ruth Denman resigned as teacher of home econom- ics. The services of Mrs. Elizabeth Collins were secured to fill this vacancy. These are the only changes in personnel during the past year.` Finance In accordance with custom the following table is in- cluded to compare school operation costs over the past five years. 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 Total Cost of Schools: $117,932.38 $135,227.87 $159,847.09 $181,288.47 $206,902.96 Reimbursements: 19,639.47 25,359.98 27,794.09 33,653.27 43,207.68 Tuition,Receipts: 28,879.48 29,896.40 31,067.97 35,969.74 39,720.98 Net Cost to flown: 60,413.42 79,971.49 100,985.03 111,665.46 123,974.30 Valuation of TwAm: $6,978,000. 10,163,940. 10,944,780. 11,633,985. 12,183,790. i 135 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 No. of Pupils Oct. 1 466 502 493 524 522 No.of Orleans Pupils Oct 1: 345 383 375 409 413 Gross Cost per pupil: $253.26 $269.38 $324.23 $345.97 $396.37 Net Cost per Pupil: $210.92 $21836 $267.85 $281.36 $313.59 Net Cost per Orleans Pupil: $201.50 $20830 $269.29 $273.02 $300.16 These figures show that operating costs continue to ad- vance. Reimbursements are gaining, also, with the result that the rise in net costs is moderate.Furthermore,the steady rise.in valuation helps keep our tax rate for schools among the lowest in the state. Curriculum With the protracted clamor for more and better educa- tion it is sometimes difficult to resist the urge to start off in several directions at once. The demands upon the schools are somewhat like -currents and crass-currents across which the schools must navigate, benefiting by some tides, strug- gling against others in order to maintain a fairly direct course to destination. Our objective, if it can be stated simply, is to foster the development of every child in accordance with his capacity. It may be fitting to look at some of the things we are doing to see if they -are in keeping with our objective. In the elementary grades major emphasis is on a sturdy foundation in reading, upon which so much else depends. Recently we have been trying in two ways to see that this "sturdy foundation" reaches individuals as well as groups. At the primary level, where children are grouped according to ability within the grade room, there is great care and in- sistence that individuals accomplish thoroughly the work and skills at a given reading level before proceeding to the next. This should help provide the solid ground upon which indi- viduals can build as they are able, and preclude subsequent failure for lack of fundamentals. It is being accomplished now by a careful testing program at each level of reading to aid the teacher in the assessment -of individual pupil weak- ness and in the proper reading-level placement of individual 196 At the intermediate level pupils are grouped for reading according to reading level, across grades 4-6. This plan is described in Mrs. Wright's report, and is designed to gear instruction more closely with individual reading level, and to provide time for greater emphasis upon directed reading skills. It assures that more pupils will receive instruction in reading at a level that corresponds with their ability. We still do not take case of the rare extreme cases at either end of the scale, but we are reaching in both directions from "average". We feel a need to study each area of the curriculum in the order of need as indicated by our achievement test results. This work will be carried on as promptly as time for thor- ough work permits. For a look at the secondary level we may be guided by .some of the phases of a recent study of American high schools by Dr.James B. Conant, 1. This study calls first for a program of general edu- cation courses that are required of everyone. These courses are four years of English; three or four years of social studies, including two years of history (one, American), and a senior course in American Problems or American Government; one year of mathematics (algebra or general mathematics); and at least one year of science, which might well be Biology or -general physical science. General education includes nine or ten -courses requiring homework, and makes nine or ten of the sixteen units necessary for graduation. Our own requirements call for more than this general program of subjects.We call for 4 years of English,four years of social studies, two years of mathematics and two years of science. This makes twelve of the sixteen units required for graduation. 2. A report on the study says: "In the required subjects and in subjects elected by students with a wide range of ability, pupils should be grouped according to ability, subject by subject. Three groups usually are enough: one for the more able in the subject, one for the middle group and one for the slow learners who really need special attention." At the high school level pupils'are encouraged to choose electives which are related to ability, and required courses have been offered in two groups for several years in most cases. At this level. too. there is some flexibility, subject, by 197 grade, on the basis of general achievement, but there is no opportunity at present for a pupil to be in the upper section in mathematics and the lower division in English according to his ability. With the increased enrollments in the regional school the three groups are going to be feasible and necessary. Grouping on a basis of general classification is no problem, but to make grouping completely flexible on a subject-by-sub- ject basis is no small task in a school with but one division at each level of grouping. In short, we believe that -ability grouping is important to the development of individual capacities, and we group as much as enrollments.and schedule allow. 3. Diversified elective programs are advocated by Dr. Conant's study.They should meet the needs of a) the highly gifted, b) the talented, c) those going into fields of market- able skills directly from high school, d) pupils whose read- ing skill is markedly low. For the highly gifted we do not offer college level courses as advocated in the study. However, in Mr. Guarino's report is described an acceleration of the seventh grade program that should progress through the next few years so that some pupils will be taking college level work in the twelfth grade, and going on to college with advanced standing. The talented pupils now have a program equal to the four years of mathematics, three years of science and four years of one foreign language, .as advocated, except for the foreign language recommendation.We have had many pupils taking two years of two languages,and some with more than two years of one language. The swing in emphasis to more time in one language seems •a sensible one and an easy one to make. For the third group we offer industrial arts, home eco- nomics,and courses in the commercial field.We have no voca- tional programs, but they are made available through larger school systems nearby. Some expansion of our own depart- ments mentioned above will enable us to meet the elective needs of the pupils in this group favorably in terms of the study recommendations. For the pupils with low reading skills a pilot program is in the process of organization for some savant.h a.nri eighth 198 diminished emphasis beyond elementary grades although it is needed by some pupils. The establishment of this program denotes again a "reaching out from the average." 4. Our school provides counseling service, as recom- mended by the Conant study. One counselor for each 250-300 pupils is advocated, and we are in that range. Pupils are counseled -concerning their educational programs, future plans, and college selection, with the benefit of comprehen- sive testing program results. 5. The study places heavy emphasis on the importance of English composition. As .pointed out in Mr. Guarino's re- port we have reduced the pupil load of English teachers specifically to enable them to have time to devote to more composition work. 6. In order to assure that capable pupils take challeng- ing courses, an annual academic inventory is recommended. Such an inventory would examine the programs of talented students through the .four years of high school to show to what extent they have studied the subjects they should have studied. A recent inventory.on graduates of. Orleans High School over the past five years shows that approximately 85 percent of the- pupils who had I. Q.'s of 110 or higher took programs of college preparatory courses. Also, above 76 per- cent of this group were accepted at colleges. We hope these percentages will rise, but we are in good standing when one considers the figures of a National Education Association survey which show that of American students with I. Q. ranges of 110 and above, 20 percent drop out of high school before graduation. (Our drop-outs in this range are negligi- ble). Of those who remain and are graduated, 60 percent do not go to college. This sketchy treatment of a number of aspects of cur- riculum should indicate that we have some strengths and some shortcomings. There is much work to be done in the vineyard, and your continued support and encouragement will foster progress,I know. Respectfully submitted, SYDNEY G. PIERCE 199 Report of the High School Principal The following is my Annual Report submitted as Princi- pal of Orleans Junior-Senior High School: Enrollment Dec. 1 1958 Grade Brewster Eastham Orleans Total 12 0 7 21 28 11 3 17 31 51 10 6 17 30 53 9 1 16 28 45 8 lot 42 52 7 12 30 42 Total 10 79 182 271 It will perhaps be more meaningful to dwell on new as- pects of the school program that have occured during the past school year, without dwelling in detail on the reasons for these changes. One of the most comprehensive aspects has been the Summer Reading Program instituted by the English Dept., School Committee and Administration. Results of this Program have been very gratifying,and show that 81% of the student body have read four or more -of the books required. Only 2%read no books. Refinements in this program are be- ing made. The reading lists for the Junior and Senior High School are being revised, alphabetized, and in all probability 4 will be arranged according to fiction and non-fiction titles.A great deal of credit must be given to the parents !and stu- dents for their support and favorable reception of this pro- gram, this past summer. French has been introduced -into the 7th -and 8th Grade curriculum for study by the "A" divisions for 3 periods a week each. This is in line with trends toward introducing foreign language study earlier in the pupil's school career.Al- though emphasis is placed largely on conversational and cultural aspects of the language, it is felt that in all proba- bilty enough familiarity with the language and its structure will be developed to enable the majority of these students to continue their stntiv in Franclh for a 7nnoar—ri—I .f fi, 200 wider variety of courses. In short, this is one means of pro- viding depth and;breadth of training. In line with this attempt to provide depth and breadth of training for those students capable of assimilating it, the seventh grade "A" division—on an experimental basis—is being given a concentrated program of mathematics, cover- ing those fundamental understandings of mathematical con- cepts usually covered in the 7th and 'Stn - raae curricliW131 in order to make it possible for this group to undertake Algebra I in the eighth grade.This again will facilitate means whereby students may undertake further study in higher mathematics than is now available in the High School, or leave room for the .student to elect training in other subject matter areas. This is obviously an ambitious program, how- ever, all present indications give promise of ultimate fulfill- ment of these objectives. These pilot programs may lead to similar approaches in the history and science. areas. These measures, of course, have direct implications for development of the Regional School curriculum. In order to provide the opportunity for students enter- ing the High School from Grade School to continue to develop skill with instruments; the schedule was so adjusted as to provide free time during the activity period so that 7th and 8th graders might participate in the Band and Orchestra. In the past, several Junior High School classes were scheduled during this period and caused-a break in continuity of study with musical instruments. Courses in music theory have also been made available to students therein interested and whose free time corresponds with that of our instrumental music supervisor, Mr. James. Mr. James conducts four extra classes in Music Theory, involving 21 students. After school and when possible during the school day he gives individual music lessons. The Band has increased in size from 16 to 26 students, and the Orchestra from 18 to 28 students. If I may for a moment, I should like to take this opportunity to com- mend Mr. James for the excellence of performance of the instrumental groups, and for the increasing interest in the instrumental music area, which I attribute to Mr. James' competency and motivational abilities. Personal typing has been made available during the ac- tivity period to those students interested in typing, with pre- ference being given to upper classmen. The course runs for n . ....._. - T..,..,i. f.., � half it mha Pnnnn nnntliwr e'Y`nim 201 Another new and interesting feature is the course being conducted on a voluntary basis for students interested in a basic understanding of atomic energy and radiation. This course meets once a week for 12 or more weeks and has reg- istered 34 interested students, of whom approximately half are juniors and half are seniors.Because of the large number of students signing up for the course, it will be presented to one group first and repeated for the second group. This course in Atomic Energy and Radiation is being con- ducted voluntarily by Herbert Pettengill and comes as a re- sult of receipt by the school of a complete and comprehen- sive radiological detection kit provided for school use by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. Mr. Pettengill is basing his course on information derived through his function as a science.teacher and through a course sponsored by the Civil Defense Administration which he recently 'attended at Bridgewater State Teachers College for a period of five con- secutive Saturdays from 9-3. The information being supplied by him is particularly worthwhile and practical in light of developments in this atomic age. It is planned that infor- mation from these lectures will eventually be assembled in booklet form and presented to students and parents as a public service performed by the school. In an attempt to provide conditions for maximal edu- cational effectiveness, Junior High School students have been separated from Senior High School students as much as scheduling and physical facilities will permit. At present, which is a-considerable improvement over the past, the Junior High studies have been separated except for the last two periods of the day when.Junior High students are assign- ed to the cafeteria study hall with upper classmen on cer- tain days. Classes in physical education are largely confined to similar age groups and, in general, Junior High School sub- ject matter classes are confined. to one end of the building. From an instructional standpoint, this situation is greatly improved, though still not ideal. The Regional School should help solve this problem. As a result of recommendations of the School Committee following a meeting held by the School Committee, Admin- istration, and English Department, the usual subject-matter lead of English teachers was reduced by one period, and by two in the case of the English teacher who also serves as librarian. This allows teachers of English more time to devntp 202 time comsuming—and also the teachers a period for sched- uling teacher-student conferences during a class period. This policy is in line with practices in many good schools and in line with the recommendations of James B. Conant and other educational leaders. The advanced mathematics course formerly termed Solid Geometry and Trigonometry, with a half year devoted to each, is now called Advanced Mathematics and includes in- struction in Review Algebra as well. Half a year is devoted to Trigonometry and a quarter year each to Review Algebra and Solid Geometry. This was done because of an apparent need for review of algebra, as expressed by graduates of the High School who went on for further schooling. Under Mr. Boyn- ton's tutelage, this division seems to be functioning effective- ly. In the developmental process is a program in remedial and developmental reading for students in the Junior High School having reading problems.Diagnostic reading tests will be given to determine levels of reading ability which will re- sult in division of this group to :provide more individual at- tention. One group will be taught by Mrs. Lowell, another by Mrs. Blake and the third by me. These classes will be held five periods a week and should be a long .step forward in remedying reading difficulties and deficiencies. I should also like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Barbara Wright, Elementary Supervisor, for the invaluable help and informa- tion she-has given us in discussing the requirements of this program, and for the materials and suggestions presented to us for handling individual needs of several of our students in the Junior High School in other subject matter areas. Two changes have been made in the mechanics of opera- tion. First, the school year has been divided into two semes- ters with grades being issued on a quarterly basis.This makes for a more equal division of the school year and a more natural break in the year for half-year courses. Mid-year grades are more readily available for transcripts to colleges and advanced schools requiring them. In addition, feasibility of mid-year exams is enhanced. Secondly, senior graduation has been delayed from its present time to the last week of the school year. This elimin- ates duplication of examination schedules, and all students thus take examinations at the same time under more uniform conditions. Pressure on teachers to correct examinations 203 necessity for making separate examinations for those seniors in classes with underclassmen is eliminated. Over all, greater ease of administration is facilitated with no education loss to students. It is also planned that periodic bulletins will be sent to parents throughout the school year to keep parents informed on school policies, procedures, and programs. In summation, much effort, thought, and consideration is being brought to bear on problems facing the school by the School Committee,m ttee Administration and Faculty. Curriculum development is a long process and Y appear changes ma a ear to g occur slowly at times, but nonetheless relentlessly, as the re- sult of the pooled efforts and opinions of people concerned with these problems—within the framework of local condi- tions and needs. It is hoped that this report based on specific conditions will clarify and help explain various aspects in the school program, which are not commonly known and that it will be more meaningful than a brief and general report of condi- tions. In evaluation of teaching, definite measures are being taken to observe, analyze, and report on the effectiveness of teaching and the teaching function on the part of our faculty. On the whole, our staff seems to be a competent one and should be commended for its effectiveness in educating the youth of Orleans. While accepting this condition, it may be pointed out that our efforts to improve the teaching func- tion are not being curtailed or lessened and that the teaching function is continuously subject to scrutiny and evaluation— which, I may iadd, is a normal and desirable condition in school systems. I close this report with sincere appreciation for your understanding and -cooperation. I deem it a privilege to be able to work with you in attempting to provide the best possi- ble education for Orleans youth—who, I firmly believe, are deserving of the best that can be made available. Respectfully submitted, ARMAND A. GUARINO 204 Report of the Guidance Director To the School Committee and Citizens of Orleans: Reverting to the general plan of our report for 1956, we •t + o of our fourth year as Guidance herewith present .:',:r re`Re'FJ - Director for Orleans High School by discussing activities car- ried on in the following areas: 1. Individual cumulative records; 2.Vocational Information; 3. Orientation; 4. Group Guidance; 5. Counseling; 6. Educa- tional and Job Placement; 7.Followup. 1. Individual Cumulative Records: The records kept for each pupil consist basically of: (a) marks from grade one through his current grade; (b) results of standardized tests over the same period. For the primary and elementary grades, these consist of reading tests, such as the Iowa Silent Reading Test; scholastic aptitude tests (or"intelligence"tests), such as the Otis Alpha or Kuhlman- Anderson; and achievement tests, such as the Progressive Achievement or California Achievement tests. Tests given in the high school, in addition to the three described in de- tail in our 1956 report and the four additional ones listed last year,are: (1) The Cooperative Tests of the Educational Test- ing Service, given in specific areas, such as French, Latin, algebra, or chemistry to measure achievement in particular fields; (2) the Bennett Mechanical Aptitude Test, given to applicants to vocational -schools; (3) the American Council on Education Psychological Examination, to be given to the seniors this year on an experimental basis in the search for a high-level mental ability test; (4) the Stanford-Binet, an individually administered test of mental ability given for the most part to atypical or under-achieving students for diagnostic purposes. In addition to marks and test results, the individual records include teacher remarks, rating scales, and counsel- ing records, in !addition to four-year program planning sheets. 2. Vocational Information: Information on vocations continues to pour into our office in a never-ending stream, and far too much of it stays �Hovo. i+r, (,, j .ci,ob.t Mssemination to the student body.It is 205 our current crowded condition, no time has been available to schedule group guidance sessions specifically for vocation- al orientation. However, two channels are currently being used to spread this type of information. The first is by means of tape recordings of radio interviews on various vocations, distributed each week throughout the school year by North- eastern University. The e second is through afour-p g a. e infor- mational sheet entitled, "Your Future Occupation", distri- buted to all High School homerooms every two weeks, to be read and discussed by the homeroom teacher. We look for- ward to the increased room and-greater flexibility of schedule in 'the Regional School to aid us in this problem of getting vocational information out to all students. 3. Orientation: For the third consecutive year, grade six spent a day at the high school for purposes of orientation last spring under the aegis of Mr.Stanley Smith of the junior high school. This has proved to be an efficient and popular method of introduc- ing each incoming class to the mysteries of high school pro- cedure and will, we trust, be continued in the future. Regular •classes in Orientation and Health are taught once a week to grades seven and eight by the boys' and girls' physical education instructors, Mr. Lavery and Mrs. Connors. During these classes, self knowledge, social knowledge, and personal health and hygiene for twelve-and-thirteen-year- .olds are taught and discussed. Group program planning sessions have been held for each of the four high school classes, nine through twelve, by the principal and guidance director jointly, during which courses for the ensuing year are scheduled. In similar ses- sions for the eighth grade, tentative plans for the four high school years are _planned in order to insure the taking of all necessary courses for college preparation or for other specific goals. 4. Group Guidance: Because of the limitations of time and space caused by the present overcrowded situation at -the high school, little group guidance in addition to that referred to under, "Orien- tation" has been carried on by the Director this year. What little has been done has consisted for the most part of group sessions with juniors and seniors to discuss procedures for filling out College Board Examination and college applica- tions. Also.group classes hava bP..P.n rain with Pn,ti, m neio s„_ 206 Iowa Tests of Educational Development, the achievement -test battery which was administered as usual this fall. 5. Counseling: As in the past, counseling has occupied a major part of the Director's time this year. A large proportion of this time has been occupied with educational placement, and almost as much in the solution u f serious problems connected with home and school adjustments and involving a comparative- ly small percentage of the school population. A re-aportion- ment -of counseling time in the future is planned, to insure at least one individual interview per year for every high school student, and a second if passible. 6. Educational and Job Placement: Of the 45 seniors graduating from Orleans High School last spring,twenty-eight, or 62 percent,continued their form- al education at schools or colleges this fall. Sixteen of these, or 36 percent of the class, are continuing on fora bachelor's degree at a four-year institution. Among the colleges and schools attended are the following: (One OHS graduate is attending each of these unless otherwise indicated): Barnard, Ambler Junior College, Boston University School of Music ($400. scholarship), Massachusetts Radio School, (two Stu- dents), Bridgewater State Teachers College, Massachusetts Maritime Academy (two), Franklin Technical Institute (.two), University of Massachusetts (two accepted, one working for a year before attending), University of Maine (three, one at School of Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy ($1,200. scholarship), Cape Cod Secretarial School, Cape Cod Hospital School of Practical Nursing, University of Con- necticut,Cornell, School of Hotel Management, Mansfield and Wilfred Academies (hairdressing), Fryeburg Academy (pre- paratory school), St. Lawrence College, the Rhode Island School of Design, Boston University Junior College, and Wor- cester Junior College. In addition to the college scholarships noted above, seven local scholarships ranging in value.from $100. to $500. were given. In an attempt to find out whether there is a trend upward in the number and percent of Orleans High School graduates continuing on for further education, we made a study of the educational plans of the graduating classes from 1948 through 1958. Using figures for the classes from 1948 to 1954 which are based on rather incomplete records, we found that the per- 4- ,.,,r+,* , i_o +hair Priiirra.tlnn hevond hieh school ranved I i 207 the percentages have been as follows: Class of 1955—sixty- two percent; 1956—fifty-seven percent; 1957—sixty percent; 1958—sixty-two percent; 1959=seventy-five percent (this fi- nal figure is an admittedly optimistic estimate based on pres- ent plans). Job placement continues to be a comparatively small item in the overall work of the department, being carried on in- formally at the request of individual students or employers. 7. Follow-up: A questionnaire for a follow-up study of Orleans High School graduates is still "in the works" (as, frankly, it has been for some time). Right now, we can't see when we'll get to it,but hope to before our next report. In conclusion, we should like to report briefly on another study which we inaugurated on our return from the Univer- sity of Massachusetts this fall to hear Dr. James B. Conant speak on "The Comprehensive High School in America". Dr. Conant recommended the making of an "Academic Survey" of all high schools. This was to consist of a good hard look at the number of elective college preparatory courses in high school taken by all students making up the top fifteen percent of their classes in intelligence. In our report below, which supplements (or ,perhaps merely reduplicates) one made by Superintendent Sydney G. Pierce, we chose our top fifteen percent on the basis of a combination of aptitude and achievement test results. The study consisted of a survey of the number of years of English, mathematics, science, social studies, and foreign languages taken by nineteen members of the classes of 1957, 1958, and 1959. The results for each sub- ject were as follows: English: All 19 students had taken four years. Mathematics: No. of Years: 4 3 2 No. of Students 9 8 2 Science: No, of Years: 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 No. of Students 4 3 5 2 3 2 Languages: (Fr.&Lat.) No. of Years: 5 4 3 2 1 0 208 Dr. Conant's theme was that at least eighty-five percent of the academically talented group ought to,take a majority of academic •courses. Orleans High School appears to have more than achieved this goal. And we can do better in the future. We must, in fact,'if we are to protect our way of life from the ominous forces which threaten it today. Our thanks to all those, both faculty members and stu- dents, who have cooperated 50 w lolclxcai tcdiy ..wl 5 dur:no the past year. Respectfully submitted, MONCRIEFF M. COCHRAN, JR. Report of the Elementary Supervisor To the School Committee and Citizens of Orleans: I hereby submit my second'annual report as Elementary Supervisor of School Union #54. I wish at this time to thank the members of the School Committees of the Towns of Eastham, Orleans and Wellfleet for making it possible for me to visit the 'school of Joplin, Missouri last March, in order to make a study of the Joplin Reading Plan. It was a very worthwhile experience and has led us to use some of the ideas in reorganizing the reading program in our school. The teaching of reading is one of the school's greatest responsibilities. Learning to read well is of utmost import- ance to a child. It is necessary to his schoolwork, as a means of enriching living, and as a fact in his becoming a thinking, intelligent -citizen. An intregral part of our program is teaching the reading skills at the level on which the pupil is working. Phonetics are taught in our program but taught in their proper relation- ship to other skills. All words in the English language are not phonetic and children cannot be taught to attack all words phonetically. The structure of words, including root words, variant endings, prefixes, suffixes, accent, dictionary skills, syllabication, etc. are -all taught in addition to the phonetic nbaic !'+'hiTriran arc ta,rne'ht to summarize, to reach conclusions, i' 209 is vital. Reading, real reading, is reading with meaning and understanding and being able to evaluate the material read. It includes a reaction to what is read and bringing about a change in the individual. It involves being able to separate facts from opinions and truth from propaganda. It involves creating an interest in reading and a desire to read. It sets up needs to be met through reading. Because of the wide range of abilities of children entering school,it becomes necessary to group pupils within the class- room for effective reading. Thus the first grade teacher may have from three to four reading groups within the classroom. As children progress in school this range becomes wider and wider so that by the time pupils enter grade four, tests re- peatedly have shown a reading achievement range from sec- ond to seventh or eighth grade level. The difficulty for teachers to adequately provide for these differences within the time alloted for the reading program has been a problem to schools everywhere. In October, we reorganized our reading program in an attempt to allow more time for the teaching of the many skills involved in reading, and to allow each child to receive instruction on his own level of achievement and at his own rate of learning. Three batteries of reading tests were administered to the pupils of grades 4, 5, and 6, in an effort to determine each child's proper reading level. Careful study of the test scores together with all available information concerning each child, plus teacher observation and judgement, formed the basis upon which we assigned each pupil in these grades to a reading Class. The results of the testing disclosed the presence of six instructional levels. The teachers of grades 4, 5, and 6 were assigned a reading level to instruct and Mrs. Mayo, Supervis- ing Principal, offered to assist by instructing the two levels having the smallest number of pupils. The number of 4th, 5th and 6th grade children currently receiving instruction on the following levels may be of in- terest. 20 pupils on Level 7 and above 20 pupils Level 6 30 pupils Level 5 22 pupils Level 4 6 pupils Level 3 io r _ile T.A,,PI `J. - 210 These groups are to be kept flexible so that any time a pupil needs more challenge or additional help, he can move up or down accordingly. A fifty minute period is scheduled daily for the reading lesson. This amount of time was formerly shared by three or four reading groups within the-classroom of each grade. On the primary level we are carefully testing to insure that no child ,proceeds to the next more difficult reading level until he has throughly mastered the skills of the previous level. Cumulative Reading Record Cards have been purchased to enable us to maintain a comprehensive picture of each child's growth in the reading skills. We hope in this way to eliminate frustration and confusion that can lead to dis- couragement and possible failure in reading. The fine assistance from members of the PTA in manning the School Library afternoons, is helping to encourage in- dependent reading which is so important to the cultural growth of our children. Last spring an evaluation of our arithmetic program was begun with a view toward curriculum improvement in this area.Temporarily interrupted this fall due to the emphasis on the reading program, we intend to resume this study at the beginning of the year. In continuing the study to determine the need for an Ungraded Class for Union #54, this year's new pupil enroll- ment has disclosed a definite need for such a class by 1959. Plans are being made to provide a class at the Wellfleet School in September 1955, for the elementary pupils of Orleans, Eastham and Wellfleet Schools in need of special help. It is hoped that another year it will be possible to ar- range the bus schedules so that all elementary school children will-be dismissed at the same time.This would allow us to ex- tend the teaching day and eleminate the long period that many of our children are forced to remain on the school play- ground after school hours. School now closes at 2:20 p. m. but many pupils must wait until 3:05 and on certain bus schedule days until 3:15 before leaving the school property. Teachers and pupils would both benefit if all pupils were dis- missed at once. The testing program 'i's continuing to be carried out as outlined in last year's report. Stanford Achievement Tests i 211 tests are administered annually to grades I,III,VI, and Stan- ford-Binet Intelligence Tests are given to individuals when the need is felt for further evaluation. In conclusion I should like to express my appreciation to all those who have contributed to making my association with the Orleans Schools a pleasant one. Respectfully submitted, BARBARA N.WRIGHT Elementary Supervisor Principal of the Elementary School To the School Committee and the Citizens of Orleans: I submit my annual report as supervising principal of the elementary school. Before school recessed for the summer vacation, it was evident that the incoming first grade would need to be divid- ed into classes.Mrs.Eleanor Fisher consented to be the second first grade teacher, and Mrs. Constance Newell was procured to take the third grade vacated by Mrs. Fisher. This brings the teaching staff of the elementary school to nine full time teachers with the principal teaching two levels in reading daily. When school opened in September two hundred forty- three enthusiastic youngsters trouped in. We marvelled at the rapidity with which they settled into the routine of group living and began moving along the paths of learning in the grade assigned. The first graders were especially eager hav- ing had the experiences of the kindergarten.Their skills were well taught and they anticipated learning to read right away. Enthusiasm at any age is catching as well as stimulating. I am happy to report we are still with it. The studies made regarding the report to Parents and the Library are bearing fruit. Parents have now received the first report and we hope better understand how the child stands academically in his class. Educators and Parents are still searching for the best that is in each pupil and the best ways of evaluation. The group.of teachers making the study are to be commended for their time and careful considera- 212 Teachers find the evaluation of pupils progress more sat- isfactory in terms of A meaning excellent or consistently superior work,B meaning above average, C meaning the pupil does average work,D meaning fair work,but not satisfactory, and F meaning complete failure for promotion. We realize that 'a certain amount of competition is good for pupils, but we wish to stress cooperation in the class- rooi!!!_'attempting to better his own marks. That each is an individual with differences and limitations is considered since behavoral change of pupils varies as circumstances change. The report card is sent home four times a year to share in- formation fundamental to a co-operative relationship be- tween the classroom and the home. It is sincerely hoped that no,parent will be satisfied with the report card alone but will ask for at least one conference during the school year. As there is much expense involved in the library project the progress seems slow. The whist party last winter along with the proceeds from the Spring Concert gave us a working fund of$225.00. Our custodian gave a great deal of time con- structing the bookshelves. Parents and children gave books from home libraries and the P. T. A. has been most coopera- tive in many ways. About 75 new books were added to the library this fall.Subscriptions to Boys Life and Nature Maga- zines have been donated. At present the P. T. A. is sponsoring a project which is most helpful to the children and teachers. Parents, grand- parents and aunts are giving one hour and a half daily in coming to school to supervise the library so that pupils may get books and return them regularly. This relieves the teachers for classroom teaching and at the same time pro- vides-supervision for use of the library. For this we are most grateful. Professional associations at all levels are working to- gether to raise the standards of the teaching profession. It was my pleasure to attend the Annual Conference of Elemen- tary Principals and Supervisors at Amherst last spring. Here, one area,of the curriculum is usually reviewed and discussed, stressing problem areas and modern practices. Well known speakers give much food for thought. November 8th two hundred-fifty principals in the state were chosen to witness a Team Learning experiment conduct- ed by Dr. Durrell of Boston University. This meeting was at the Elliot School in Needham. I was most interested and 213 levels of ability in the regular classroom. These meetings are an inspiration to me as your principal. There is always some- thing to be learned. Two years ago when we moved into our new building we were impressed and thrilled with space in which to work. Now, just two years later, every available space is utilized to the point where two storage areas are part time office space for three supervisors, the staff cannot all meet in the teachers'room, the nurse's room cannot be used for eye tests, and the multipurpose room becomes a no purpose room. Serious thought must be given for additional classrooms and storage if we are to,accommodate more pupils. Once again I express my sincere appreciation to all for the splendid co-operation and assistance which makes my task a most pleasant one.It is only when we all work together that we may achieve the very best in education for our child- ren. Respectfully submitted, CORA M.MAYO, Principal of the Elementary School Report of the Art Supervisor At the outset of the Art Supervisor's Report I would like to express my appreciation to the elementary school teachers. Almost every teacher in the elementary .schools throughout the Union has had a workshop in art materials and methods within the past two years. This inservice training means that the art program advances and becomes constant in the all over pattern of education. Without the close cooperation and interest that I have received from all of our teachers, the art program could not-progress or create a lasting interest in the children. As we face the year ahead one looks longingly toward the completion of the Nauset Regional High School. But, we will and have encountered problems as our Union becomes more complex. One of these problems,art wise, is the added time needed to carry on an extensive art program that will be available to all students. Consequently, as we intensify on one level we must maintain the quality on every level. As a result,the time allotment will affect the teacher load. At pre- . 214 person each week on the elementary school level. With the predicted increase in the school population and the addi- tional Junior-Senior High School teaching load an assistant in the art department would be warrented on the elementary school level. This additional personnel would strengthen and maintain a well balanced art program in all of our element- ary schools. Tn the pa.et •tux yea.TS the emphaslis of the prop'u ram has been slanted toward the building of a solid foundation in the elementary schools without neglecting the high schools. But, we have poured the forms and are ready for the super- structure, which is in keeping with the regionalization. Here, with the additional space, materials and student interest, we will be able to bring more trained art people into the art accented world of today. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD E.BOLTON Deport of the Supervisor of Instrumental Music T hereby submit my second annual report as Supervisor of Instrumental music in the Schools of Orleans. During the past school year the quality of the senior in- strumental groups, namely the High School Orchestra and the Nigh School Band, showed marked improvement not only in musicianship but also• in prestige gained through their many public appearances. The materials studied and performed by these groups ranged from the early church music of Bach and Purcell, the classical works of Beethoven, Mozart and Hayden to their contemoraries Brahms, Grieg, and Tchaikovsky up to and including Bartok and Prokofieff. These works were chosen not because of their popularity but because each contained a definite challenge of musicianship of not only technical skills but also a knowledge of correct interpretation. Membership in these organizations has nearly doubled. Because of limited time and schedule conflicts it is necess- ary to meet one afternoon a week after school hours with those desirous of experience in ensemble playing, individual instruction for the beginners and also •preparation for the 215 participated in the All New England Music Festival held March 20-22 at Dover, New Hampshire and twenty-two stu- dents participated in the All Cape God Music Festival held May 10 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Increased interest, which also exists in the Elementary School, clearly shows that an expanded program and cur- riculum.will be necessary even to the point of daily supervis- ed instruction in the Elementary School and the inclusion of a Music Course at the New N:auset Regional High School. I am well aware of the above meaning in regard to added cost and personnel. Much has been said concerning the value of the arts. In Ancient Greece, Music was classified as the second most difficult science; second only to the science of As- tronomy. Even today, many have the opinion that the study and performance of music is a recreational pastime for the participants only and'is of little value beyond this point. The true musician, no matter how little or how far advanced he may be in his exacting science feels that he is sharing with others that which they are not fortunate enough to do by themselves. This viewpoint alone is of great value when over ten per -cent of the student body are actively participating in the instrumental program. In conclusion I wish to express my most sincere apprecia- tion for the cooperation received from the Superintendent of Schools, the supervisor of Elementary education, Principal of the Schools and their teaching staffs,parents and pupils. Respectfully submitted, FRANK B.JAMES Report of the Supervisor of Vocal Music It is with pleasure that I submit my first annual report as Supervisor of Vocal Music in School Union #54. First of all, I would like to express my appreciation to those who ate responsible for giving me the opportunity to work in the field of my talents with the children and young men and women in the Towns of Eastham, Orleans, and Well- fleet. There is no greater potential to be found than that in a child. My :philosophy with regard to the teaching of music is 4-;;+; + t, a,4,V,1. +n hntl, rlhilrlran and 216 teachers; it is on the basis of pleasurable experiences that learnings emerge most readily and most successfully. Through a music program providing experiences in three areas of activity—listening to music, moving to music, and making music by means of singing and playing instruments— it is my aim to help each individual child develop an apprecia- tion and a love of music and some degree of skill in under- standing and interpreting the written sy.mbals of music that will carry over into adult life. To implement these aims it is most important to estab- lish a coordinated program at the elementary level which builds the firm foundation for greater achievement at the secondary level. A basal music series containing songs of musical worth and geared to the interest of various grade levels is requisite. Grades I and II in the Orleans Elementary School, Grade II in Eastham Elementary School, and Grades VII and VIII in Orleans High School have acquired these texts this year, as well as records to accompany the texts for Grades VII and VIII.It is hoped that, as finances permit,the remaining elementary grades will receive new texts in the same series. The Wellfleet Grades I, III, IV, and VI already own these basic texts. There is a need for simple melody instruments, such as Song Sells, in the primary grades and recorder-type instru- ments in the Intermediate grades, and a need for simple accompaniment instruments,such as the Autaharp in the in- termediate grades.Not all students are equipped to be success- ful on the simple instruments and can contribute satisfactori- ly to the group activities. The listening and appreciation program is introduced through the Keyboard, Jr., and Young Keyboard, Jr., Maga- zines to which the students are given individual copies; re- cordings to accompany the articles are played and discussed monthly in the classroom. At the secondary level we are looking forward to the classroom facilities in the Nauset Regional High School and the opportunity to consolidate the materials at the secondary level and to build up a reference library of music texts for the use of students and teachers.The recording library has an excellent collection of fine music, and listening opportunities will increase in enjoyment with proper acoustics. The High School Choruses and the Girls' Glee Club are fortunate in having new choral music additions this year, i 217 numbers.Vocal testing was accomplished at the beginning of the year, and accompanists were chosen. The groups are.on the elective-selective basis. The boys have requested a glee club of their own, and it is hoped that we may find a suitable day to meet after school hours. One of the highlights of the school musical year in Orleans was the appearance of the Lexington String Quartet, -the first in a series of three school concerts, to which parents are invited also. Movies on chamber music and the string instruments prepared the students for the treat in store for them, and proper behavior and dress on the part of the stu- dents at the concert was stressed. The reaction of the stu- dents was one of keen interest and admirable hospitality to- ward the artist who turned in an inspiring performance. It is my hope that some civic organization will consider sponsoring the choral groups for the purpose of attending a concert by the Boston Pops Orchestra in the spring. As a fol- low-up activity by the groups, after their participation in the various spring music festivals, it would be most satisfying musically and educationally. In closing I wish to expreess my thanks for the friendly cooperation and courtesy of all concerned with the music program.It is indeed a pleasure to live and work on Cape Cod. Respectfully submitted, DULCE WATSON R<YDER Report of the School Physician As I remarked in my last report, the school population has been vaccinated against Polio and we hope to escape any epidemic of the same. There would be fewer complications if we could only escape the yearly prevalence of colds that causes many lost school days. During the spring, there was a small measles epidemic,virus infections, eye and ear infec- tions, intestinal grippe and a few pneumonia cases.As to the number of these cases, please consult the report of the school nurse, I found the teeth of the children examined to be well cared for. The six year molars, the first of the permanent teeth, are no longer being allowed to go the way of the tem- 218 I want to emphasize again the need for glasses to over- come the handicaps for the children who are near-sighted, and those with marked astigmatism that distorts vision. Notices are sent home'if either condition is found. Respectfully submitted, HENRY A.WHITE,M.D. School Physician Report of the School Nurses The school year of 1957 and 1958 came to a close with several epidemics of common colds, virus intestinal disturb- ances and measles, starting in the fall and continuing into the spring. The vision, audiometer and physical examinations were conducted during fall and early winter. Parents were notified of defects and advice given regarding corrections. In the fall, Dr. Fred L. Moore, Barnstable County Health Officer, held the Tetanus and Diphtheria Clinic. Innocula- tions were given the second and fourth grade students. During the year several Salk Vaccine Clinics were held, so that all students would be able to complete their series of three innoculations. In the winter, Mrs. Alice Dalzell, Barnstable County Health Hygienist conducted the Fluorine Clinic for ages 7, 14, 13. In the summer a clinic was given for pre-school and the incoming kindergarten group, which was well attended by the children. At these clinics teeth were cleaned, checked for cavities and fillings were recorded and fluorine applied four times. Parents were notified of •condition of teeth. During the year a number of children attended the Crip- pled Children's Clinic which is held at the Cape Cod Hospital the fourth'Thursday of the month and is conducted by Doctor Paul Norton. Parents of pre-school and school children wish- ing to attend this clinic may obtain application blanks from the school or town nurse. A preschool physical checkup was held in the late spring by Doctor Gerald Hoeffle, Pediatrician, for the incoming kin- dergarten children. This gave the parents the opportunity to make corrections of any defects before entering school. Children not attending this clinic had their physical exami- 219 In May, a registration of incoming kindergarten students was held to obtain health and vital statistics. In closing, I wish to thank the parents, faculty and all persons who helped make a progressive Health Program in our schools. Program for the Year 1957-1958 1. Inspection by physician and nurse 242 2. Individual pupil examination by physician 242 3. Individual pupil examinaton by physician with parent present 32 4: Pupils admitted to nursing service 390 5. Field visits by nurse 75 6. Office visits to nurse 2,830 7. Inspection by dental hygienist 91 8. Prophylaxis by dental hygienist 91 9. Pupils given first aid 150 10. Pupils sent home for sickness 65 11. Lectures attended 20 Other Services: Massachusetts Vision Test 529 Audiometer Test 521 Registration Day 40 Weighed and Measured 324 Clinics:_ 1. Pre-school checkup by Dr.Gerald Hoeffle,Pediatrician 32 Boosters—Diphtheria,Tetanus&Whooping Cough 4 Small Pox Vaccinations 13 2. Booster Clinic for Diphtheria and Tetanus held by Dr. Fred L.Moore, County Health Doctor 70 3. Fluorine Clinics conducted by Mrs. Alice Dalzell, County Hygienist,'5,7, 10, 13 year age group 91 4. Polio—Salk Vaccine Innoculations 34 5. State Orthopedic Clinics 5 Contributions for glasses—Salvation Army Fund $20.00 Contagious and infection diseases: German Measles 7 Mumps 1 Measles 26 Impetigo 6 Conjunctivitis 7 Ring Worm 6 Scabies I Respectfully submitted, DORIS A. POND, R.N. 220 School Calendar-Union No. 54 September 1958—December 1959 September 5, 1958—Friday—Meeting of all Teachers and Su- pervisors 9:30 A.M.at the Wellfleet School September 8, 1958—All schools open September 8, 19.58—December 23, 1958 72 days January 5, 1959—February 20, 1959 35 days March 1, 1959—April 17, 1959 34 days April 27, 1959—June 19, 1959 40 days 181 days Days when Schools are not in Session October 13, 1958—Monday—Columbus Day—Celebrated October 24, 1958—Friday—Barnstable County Teachers'Meet- ing at Barnstable High School November 11, 1958—Tuesday—Veterans Day November 27 & 28, 1958—Thursday and Friday—Thanksgiv- ing Recess—Schools close Wednesday at noon December 23, 1958—Tuesday to January 5, 1959—Monday- Christmas Vacation—Schools close at usual hour. February 23, 1959—February 27—Midwinter Vacation March 27, 1959—Good Friday April 20, 1959—April 24, 1959—Spring Vacation Closing Date All schools Friday June 19,1959 Fall 1959 September 8, 1959—Tuesday-9:30 A.M. Meeting of Teachers and Supervisors at Orleans Elementary School, September 9, 1959—Wednesday—All schools re-open October 12, 1959--Monday—Columbus Day October (one day) Barnstable County Teachers'Meeting November 11, 1959—Wednesday—Veterans Day November 26 &27,1959—Thanksgiving Recess (Thursday and Friday) Schools close at noon Wednesday 221 SCHOOL CENSUS Boys Girls Five years or over and under seven 48 45 Seven years or over and under sixteen 234 199 282 244 Distribution of Above Minors In public day school membership Five years or over and under seven 66 Seven years or over and under sixteen 303 In private school membership Five years or over and under seven 26 Seven years or over.and under sixteen 127 In vocational school membership Seven years or over and under sixteen 2 In State & County Institutions Five years or over and under seven 1 Seven years or over and under sixteen 1 ENROLLMENT BY GRADES Grade Boys Girls Total 1 23 15 38 2 6 19 25 3 15 8 23 4 20 11 31 5 21 13 34 6 22 25 47 7 22 23 45 8 27 24 51 9 25 20 45 10 24 30 54 11 24 29 53 12 16 14 30 245 231 476 I Kindergarten Boys Girls Total 22 24 46 Graduation Exercises—Wednesday June 11, 1958 CLASS OF 1958 Howard Leslie Anderson,Jr. Thomas Maurice Lee Lois Jean Anderson Edward Martin Leonard,Jr. Fredrick Waldo Bartlett Robert Charles Linnell Stephanie Louise Bonnell William Livesey Patricia Jane Boyer Donna Ethel Mayo Samuel Jay.Brackett Jean Gail Mayo Fred George Cary,Jr. Patricia Ann Mayo Vint_.nr Pahl Chrietn.nlier Mary-Louise McPhee Mary Louise Clancy Arnold Warren Miner Robert Reginald Clark Christie Jane Munsey Sally Ann Clark Neal Lovejoy Nevin John Robert Deschamps Peter Stevens Norgeot Richard Joseph Francis Jeanne Antoinette Ozon Jerauld Wayne Fulcher Donald Lee Richardson . Susan Jane Gill Phillip James Richardson Mervyn Sinclair Hammatt Richard Henry Rogers George Friedrich Handel Suzanne Ryder Freeman Clark Hatch,IV David Allen Schofield Paul Capen Hooper,Jr. Marie Louise Sears Judith Ftances Johnson Anastasia Rose Shakliks Edwin Albert Jones Peter Nicholas Vroundgos James Harry Knowles David Newkirk White Jeanne Elizabeth Whiting TABULAR STATEMENT OF MEMBERSHIP By Grades as of October 1948-1958 Grade 1948 '49 '50 '51 '52 '53 154 '515 '56 '57 '58 Kind'ten .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 46 1 21 35 27 26 30 39 23 26 27 23 38 2 28 28 32 25 27 28 46 29 24 25 25 3 23 28 30 29 25 31 30 51 33 30 23 4 26 2.1 32 30 32 24 33 29 52 29 31 5 26 27 22 33 3-5 35 28 35 27 47 34 6 14 27 26 21 33 35 32 29, 36 30 47 7 22 15 28 30 22 39 60, 58 51 49 45 8 22 25 15 29 30 44 42 59 50 53 51 9 36 42 53 35 55 55 59 46 62 52 45 10 30 31 35 41 31 51 50 51 42 56 54 11 31 28 3,5 34 42 28 49 47 51 34 53 12 35 25 23 34 27 33 2.0 42 38 46 30 314 332 358 367 389 442 473 502 493 474 476 1-6 138 166 169 164 1821 192 192 199 199 184 198 7-12 176 166 189 203 207 250 281 303 294 290 278 Teachers Who Have Left the Service During 1958 CORPS OF TEACHERS—December 1958 Service Experience Began'in Prior to \Tame Position Preparation Degree Orleans Sept.1958 Address mand A.Guarino Principal-High Dartmouth Col.,Univ. of Vt., Harvard Undv. M.Ed. 11-5-56 11 yrs. Orleans to C. Blake High-Assist. Univ. of Michigan, Eastern Mich. Col. M.A. 9-9-57 2 yra. 6 mos. Orleans anley M. Boynton High-Assist. Clark Univ.,Boston Univ. M.A. 9-6-50 8 yrs. Orleans Stewart Brooks High-Assist. Princeton Ph.D. 9-8-42 31 yrs. Orleans mcrieff Cochran,Jr. High-Assist. McGill Univ., Harvard Univ. M.Ed. 5-1-47 11 yrs. S. Orleans ,rnard C. Collins, Jr, High-Assist. Fitchburg Col. B.S. 1-1-47 11 yrs. Easthum izabeth C. Collins High-Assist. 9-8-58 0 yrs. Orleans, R.D. irathy M. Connors High-Assist. Bridgewater Tchrs. Col. B.S. 9-8-58 0 yrs. Dennis David Edwards high-Assist. Colby Col. & Univ.of Rochester B.A. 9-9-53 5 yrs. Orleans frothy B. Evans High-Assist. Bates Col., Smith Col. B.A. 9-9-57 3 yrs. W.Dennis ivid A. Ganes High-Assist. Stonehill Col.& Bridgewater Tchrs. Col.M.Ed. 9-9-57 4 yrs. Chatham xo'thy Fulcher High-Assist. Bridgewater Tchrs.Col. B.S. 9-8-52 7 yrs. 8 mos. Orleans gene M. Lavery High-Assist. Boston Univ. B.S. 9-9-57 2 yrs. Chatham icy A. Leary High-Assist. Boston Univ. M.C.S. 9-9-57 29 yrs. W.Yarmouth Borgia R.Lowell Hugh-Assist. Tufts A.B. 9-8-52 15 yrs. S. Orleans arbert F. Pettengill High-Assist. Ricker Col.,Univ.of Maine B.S. 9-8-54 4 yrs. Eastham anley E. Smith, Jr. High-Assist. Roston Univ. M.Ed. .9-7-55 6 yrs. Orleans ra W. Mayo Elem.-Principal Gorham, Bridgewater State Tchrs. Cal. B.S. 1-1-49 24 yrs. Orleans ederick D.Cole Elem.-Assist. Fitchburg Tchrs. Col, M.Ed, 9-9-57 5 yrs. Chatham CORPS OF TEACHERS—Continued N N Service Experience Began in Prior to lame Position Preparation Degree Orleans Sept. 1958 Address rothy P.Eldredge Elem.-Assist. Plymouth Normal 9-4-44 22 yrs. Orleans arl EPlis Elem.-Assist. Perry Normal 9-14-46 12 yrs. Orleans Manor B.Fisher Elem.-Assist. Wheelock Col., B.U. B.S. 9-9-57 21 yrs. E. Orleans E'lizabe'th Jones Elem.-Assist. Lowell Tchrs Col. B.S. 9-8-52 12 yrs. Orleans rtha E.Keefe Elem.-Assist. Hyannis Tchrs.Cal. -2-1-30 27 yrs. Eastham oert G.Kolodzik Elem.-Assist. B.U.,Boston Tchrs. Col. M.A. 9-5-56 51/2 yrs. Chatham nstance M.Newell Elem.-Assist. Simmons Col., Hillyer Col. M.Ed. 9-8-5B 4 yrs. Orleans therine M. Skinner Elem.-Assist. Bridgewater State 9-6-46 26 yrs. Harwich ward E. Bolton Art Supervisor Bridgewater-St.,Tufts M.Ed. 9-5-56 7 yrs. E'astham ank B. James Ins't. Music N.E. Consv. of Music B.M. 9-9-57 1 yr. W.Chatham ael T.Reed Physical Ed. (Elem.) Sargent, U. of Buffalo 9-9-57 26 yrs. Rastham ace W.Ryder Vocal Music Christian Col., B.U. S.M. 9-8-58 0 yrs. E.Orleans rbara N. Wright Elem. Supervisor Tufts A.B. 9-$-52 6 yrs. Orleans N N