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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1946-06-04152 19~6 WARRANT COMMONWEALTH OF ~ASSACHUSETTS 1946 Essex ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of North Andover: GREETING: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of North Andover, who are qualified to vote in Town Affairs, to.meet in the Court Room, Town BuilSing, in said North Andover, on Monday, the twenty- fourth day of June, 1946, at seven-thirty o.'clock'P. M., then a~d there to act on the following business: Article 1. To see if the town will raise and appropriate or transfer from surplus revenue or from funds received from the sale of real estate the sum of One Thousand Dollars', which includes Two Hundred Dollars for the 1946 taxes and title examination, to purchase from the New England Cities Ice Company about one acre of land situated on the northerly side of Lake Cochichewick and bounded on the north by Great Pond Road, on the west by land of Sarah B. Beck, Frank M. and Mabel E.'Greenwood and on the east by land of the Stefanowicz Family TEst, so as th secure the sanitary protection of the waters of Lake Cochichewick, used by the town of North Audover as the source of water supply. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting true and attested copies thereof at the TOwn Hall, and'at five or more public places in each voting precinct. Said copies to be posted not more than fifteen days ncr less than ten days before the time of holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands at North Andover, Massachusetts, this 3rd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-six. Arthur A. Thomson ) Joseph M. Finneran ) Arnold H. Salisbury) Selectmen 'of North Andover A true copy, Attest: Harold Wood, ..................... Constable. Officer's Return I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of North Andover, qualified to vote in Town Affairs, by posting true and attested copies of th.is warrant at the Town Hall and at five or more public places in each voting precinct. Said copies having been posted not more than fifteen days nor less than ten days before the time of holding said meeting. North Andover, Mass., June 11, 1946. Harold Wood, Constable. 1946 1946 SPECIAL TOWN METING June 24, 1946 Article 1. Voted: That there be transferred from funds receive-'6~-~'om~e sale"of real estate the sum of One Thousand Dollars, which included Two Hundred Dollars for the 1946 taxes and title examination, to purchase from the New England Cities Ice Company about one acre of land situated on the northerly side'of Lake Cochichewick and bounded on the north by Great Pond Road, on the west by land of Sarah B. Beck, Frank M. and Mabel E. Greenwood and on the east by land of the Stefanowicz Family TEst, so as to secure the sanitary protection of the waters of Lake Cochichewick, used by the Town of North Andover as the source of water supply. A .,true copy, Attest: J / Town Clerk 154 Precinct Officers~to Warden Deputy Warden Clerk Deputy Clerk Ballot Clerks Deputy Ballot Clerks Inspectors Deputy Inspectors Warden Deputy Warden Clerk Deputy Clerk Ballot Clerks Deputy Ballot Clerks Inspectors Deputy Inspectors Warden Deputy Warden Clerk Deputy Clerk Ballot Clerks Deputy ~allot Clerks Inspectors Deputy Inspectors Warden Deputy Warden Clerk Deputy Clerk Ballot Clerks Deputy Ballot Clerks Inspectors Deputy Inspectors Precinct One Katherine~ Benjamin Coates Leo Murphy Ethel G. Donovan Arlene ~ell Edward Costello Walter E. Ellingwood Fred Salois William C. McCarty Walter ~'amilton Elizabeth A. Cunion Hubert Wilcox Precinct Two George Norse ~George Fielding Elizabeth ~urphy Katherine V? Midgley Olive Morton George P. Leecock Alfred Garneau Stanley Armstrong Reginald deVebre John Hay John P. Harrington Fred Crosdale Precinct Three Frederick W. Bastian Charles Pitman Catherine Cain Elizabeth Trombly Louis Broad_bead Helena Gowans Vera S. Warwick Duncan Boyle James Hennessy Matteo DeTeresi Martin Johnson James E. Murphy Precinct Four Charles H. Driver John H. Milnes Natalie Forgetta William F. Lawler James Dillon GeorEe A. Rea Frank Cox John J. Burke Sidney Rea Mary Dolan Henry G. Schruender Herbert Me~de serve for o~1~ y~ar. (R) 22 Saunders Street (R) 58 Sargent Street (D) 42 Sargent Street (R) 52 S~unders Street (D) 58 Belmont Street (R) 155 Main Street (D) 60 Main Street (D) 60 Ashland Street (R) 27 Troy Road (D) 5 Railroad Ave. (R) 66 Thorndlke Road. (R) 85 Water Street (R) 52 Wiley Court (D) 26 Second Street (D) 75 Davis Street (R) 102 Second Street (D) 8 E. Water Street (D) l~l Water Street (R) 22 Pleasant Street (D) 162 Water Street (R) 17 Bixby Avenue (R) 155 Water Street (D)4~ Pleasant Street (R) 20 Harold Street (R) 19 Marblehead Street (D) 297 Middlesex Street (D) ~2 Union Street (R) U Beechwood Street (D) 1~6 Railroad Avenue (R) 54 Marblehead Street (D) 522 Middlesex Street (R) 62 Massachusetts Avenue (D) 85 Beverly Street (R) 59 Harold Street (D) 25 Union Street (R) 504 Main Street (R) 550 0sgo6d Street (D) 1210 Osgood Street (D) 555 Osgood Street (D) 290 Osgood Street (R) 671 Chestnut Street (R) ~96 Massachusetts Avenue (D)l~ Chickering Road (R) Dale Street (D) i Beacon Hill Blvd. (D) Dufton Court (R) 59 Phillips Court 155 1946 W A R R A N T 1946 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Essex To either of the Constables of the Town of North Andover: Greeting: - In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of North Andover who are qualified to vote for State, District and County Officers and upon all questions appearing on the ballot, to meet and assemble in the designated and appointed polling places in precincts One Two; Three and Pour; , The Engine House in Precinct One; the Merrimack Schoolhouse in Precinct Two; the Union Schoolhouse in Precinct Three and the Town Hall in Precinct Four; TUESDAY, the Fifth day of November 1946, at nine o"clock in the forenoon, to bring into the Election Officers their votes for Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secretary; Treasurer; Auditor; Attorney General; Senator in Congress; Representative in Congress Seventh District~ Councillor Fifth District; Senator Fourth Essex District; three Representatives in the General Court Fourth Essex District; District Attorney Eastern District; Clerk of Courts Essex County; Register of Deeds Essex Northern District; County Commissioner Essex County; A Register of Probate and Insolvency (to fill vacancy); County Treasurer (to fill vacancy); and upon the following questions:- Question No. 1. Law Proposed by Initiative Petition Shall this measure, which by amendments of the General Laws (Tar. Ed.), provides for payment by the Commonwealth of adequate pensions to deserving citizens sixty-five years of age or over in need of relief or support, who shall, have resided in the Commonwealth not less than five years immediately preceding the date of application for such pension, and who shall have resided in the Commonwealth continuously for one year immediately preceding said date of application, which is further described as follows: The measure, by amendments of General Laws (Ter.Ed.), c. 6, provides for an old age pension commission of three persons, one to be a qualified physician, another to be an attorney at law and a third to be a non-professional person, who are to be appointed and may be removed for cause by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Council, and are to serve under the Governor and Council. Not more than two members of said Commission shall be membe~sof the same political party. Original, appointments of members shall be for one, two and three years respectively, and thereafter appointments are to be for three years. Such members are to devot'e their whole time to'the work of the Commission during business hours and be en- gaged in no other business, occupation or profession. One of their number is ~o be designated as chairman by the Governor and shall receive a salary of $6,000, and each other member $S,500 per year, with their necessary expenses. The commission is empowered to make and enforce rules and regulations as it may deem necessary in~ the performance of its duties and as may be approved by the Governor and Council. The measure strikes out chapter ll~A of the General Laws (Tar. Ed.), and inserts in its place a new' chapter entitled "Adequate pensions for certain aged citizens." It is provided that pensions he~reunder shall be paid from the date of application therefor, but in n6 event before the applicant reaches the age of sixty-five. The Commission shall render a decision 156 19 46 WARRANT 1946 in not less than thirty days from th~ (late of the application for a pension or a request for an increase of the amount thereof. Such pension shall, wherever practicable, be paid to the aged person in his own home or in lodgings, or in a boarding home, which for the pur- poses hereof shall include any institution providing shelter, care and treatment for aged persons which is not supported in whole or in part by public funds; provided, that no inmate of such a boarding home or institution shall be eligible for a pension under this chapter while being cared for under a contract. Such pension shall be paid by check or in cash which shall be delivered to the pensioner at his residence, if he so requests, and shall be paid semi-monthly unless the pensioner prefers less frequent payments. Such pensions shall be on the basis of need and the amount thereof shall be determined in accordance with budgetary standards established by the Commission. Budgetary standards shall be such as to enable an individual pensioner to maintain a standard of living compatible with decency and health. Such pensions, except as hereinafter provided, shall be at the rate of not less than $48.00 ~onthly. The pensioner's budge~ at such time as may be required shall include medical care, if recommended by a recognized physician, eye-glasses, if recommended by a recognized optician, dental care and false teeth,, if recommended by a recognized dentist. In computing the pensioner's payment under this chapter, the Commission shall deduct from the pensioner's budget or the minimum payment, whichever is greater, the amount of income the person paid or to be paid a pension hereunder may be receiving from any source, and may deduct therefrom such reasonable amount as may be deemed to represent the financial value of board, lodging or other assistance which is being furnished to such persons from any source. Upon the death of a. person drawing a pension,whose funeral cost does not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ~nd in whose estate there are insufficient assets to cover the full cost of the funeral, the Commission shall pay to the funeral director the difference between the assets and theI cost of the funeral, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Expenses for medical, hospital and other services rendered to a pensioner, which remain unpaid at the time .of his death or com- mitment to an institution as an insane person, shall be paid directly .to the person rendering such services. .... No pension under this chapter shall be discontinued nor shall the amount thereof be decreased until the expiration of fifteen days after notice has been given by the Commission to the pensioner. Provision is made by which a person receiving a pension may be absent from the Commonwealth on a visit without having such pension suspended. It is provided that General Laws (~er.Ed.) c. 2V3, sec.20, which relates to the support of parents, by childr?n, shall not apply when parents are eligible to receive a pension. Provision is made that there shall be set up in the Com- mission a subdivision of appeals under the. Jurisdiction of a super- visor of appeals. Any person aggrieved by the failure of the Com- mission to pay anadequate pension under this chapter, or by the failure cf the Commissione$o approve or reject an application for a pension or a eequest for an increase in the amount thereof, within thirty days after receiving such application or request, shall have a right to a fair hearing, after due notice, upon appeal to the subdivision of appeals in the form and manner prescribed by the commisston;, provided that such appeal is received by the subdivision of appeals within sixty days after official notice of the action taken by the 01d Age Pension Commission has been received by the applicant or pensioner. The decision of the subdivision of appeals shall be final and binding upon the Commission. 157 1946 W A R R A N T 1946 The Commission or any interested person aggrieved by any decision in any proceeding before the subdivision of appeals may obtain Judicial.review of such decision by filing, within twenty days of the date of mailing of such decision, a pebition for review thereof in the district court within the Judicial district wherein the pensioner or the applicant for a pension'liyesj In any proceeding for review the findings of the 'subdivision of appeals as to facts shall be conclusive, such proceedings shall be heard in a summary manner and given precedence over all other civil cases. From the decision of a district court upon review an appeal may be taken to the Supreme Judicial Court. The possession by an applicant for pension under this chapter of assets consisting of cash, active securities or inactive securities, or any combination of such assets, shall not disqualify him from receiving such pension; provided, that the total of such assets, figuring the present cash value of such inactive securities at the sum determined by the Old Age Pension Commission, does not exceed the sum of $300. A person is not to be disqualified from receiving a pension because of the ownership of an equity in vacant land from which there is insufficient income to provide for his budgetary needs or minimum payments, or the ownership of an equity in real estate by an applicant who resides thereon or who, in the opinion of the Commission is re- siding elsewhere because of physical or mental incapacity, provided that i~ such equity on the basis of assessed valuation exceeds an average of $3,000 during the five years immediately preceding appli- cation for the pension, the applicant shall execute a bond in the penal sum for the amount of the equity in excess of $3,000 con- ditioned on repayment to the Commonwealth of all amounts paid as such pension without interest, such bond to be secured by a mortgage on the applicant's real estate. Provision is made'for the recording of such bond and mortgage withouta fee and the apportionment of the proceeds realized from any of them between the Federal Government and the Commonwealth. A person, is not to be disqualified from recei¥ing a pension by reason of the ownership 'of a policy of group insurance or of a policy of insurance in an amount not exceeding $1,000 or of a policy of insurance in an amount not exceeding $3,000~ having a cash sur- render value not in excess of $1,000, if such policy has been in effect not less than fifteen years. No pension shall be granted to an applicant who at any time within five years immediately prior to the'filing of an application for such pension has made an assignment or transfer of property so as to render himself eligible to such pension. No pension 'shall be subject to trustee process or assignment, and no applicant for a pension, who knowingly makes any false statement or perpetrates any fraud or deception in relation to his application,~ shall be granted any pension nor be eligible for one during one year thereafter. A person, his executor or admlnistrator'shall be liable in contract to the Commonwealth for expenses incurred by it for a pension paid to such person under this chapter if such person or his estate is in possession of funds not otherwise exempted thereunder. ~, If an application for a pension under this chapter is effected by the eligibility of the applicant to receive aid under General Laws (Tar.Ed.), c. 115, which relates to Etate and Military Aid and Soldiers' Relief, the applicant shall be entitled to exercise such options and execute such waivers as may be necessary to receive the pension which he seeks. All cities and towns in the Commonwealth shall furnish suitable headquarters for the carrying out of the duties of the commission in such cities and towns. 158 1946 WARRANT 1946 The measure further provides that there shall be estab- lished and set up on the books of the Commonwealth a separate fund, to be known as the Old Age Pension Fund, consisting of receipts credited to said fundunder General Laws (Tot.Ed.), c. 64B, G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 128A, sec.lS, as amended, G. L. (Tot.Ed.) c' 138, se. 27, as amended, a~zl~lproceeds of taxes assessed under Acts of 1941, c. V29, secs. 9 and 9A. The 01d Age Assistance Fund as in force immediately prior to the effective date of this act is hereby continued in existence, shall herafter be entitled "The 01d Age Pension Fund". It is provided that all civil service employees in the Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth, including the super- visor, referees and employees of the. subdivision of appeals in said department or of any city or'town, employed in the administration of 'the Old Age Assistance Law on the effective date of this' proposed measure, shall be transferred to the service of the 01d Age Pension commission, retaining their present civil service seniority retire- ment rights and any step increases from the minimum pay of their grade earned during their service with said department or said It is provided that all records and'property used in the administration of the 01d Age Assistance Law and which are the property of the Commonwealth are to transferred to the 01d Age Pension .Com- mission. This act shall take. effect on March first, nineteen hundred and forty-seven,-- Which proposed law was approved in the House of Representati{es by a vote of 125 in the affirmative and 79 in the negative, and on which the Senate Yes did not vote, ~ . --be approved? Question No. 2. Law Proposed by Initiative Petition. Shall this measure 'which provides that no labor union may ~.be.operated or maintained unless there is filed with the commissioner of Labor and Industries a statemen~ signed by the President and Treasurer .setting forth the union's officers., aims, scale of dues, fees, fines., assessments and the salaries of the officers. The President and Treasurer of a labor union is required to file'-annually with the Commissioner of ~abor and Industries a de- tailed statemen~ in writing setting forth all receipts and expendl- bures of the union which shall be open to the public, and the said commissioner is given the power to summons witnesses and records; ~and there is a penalty of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 ~fer whoever fails to file a statement or whoever knowingly makes a false statement,---which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 50 in the affirmative and 154 in the negative and in the Senate by a vo~e of Yes 6 in the a~firmatlve and 24 in the negative, No ~-be approved? To obtain a full expression of opinion, voters should vote on all three of the following questions:- 159 1946 WARRANT 1946 (a) If a voter desires to permit the sale in this town of any and all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "yes" on all three questions. (b) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages only to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on question one, "Yes" om question two and "No" on question th_tee. (c) If he desires to permit the sale herein of all alcoholic beverages, but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on questions one and two and "Yes" on question three. (d) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages to be drunk on and off premises where sold and in addition other alcoholic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the preraises where sold, he will vote "no" on question one and "Yes" on questi6ns two and three. (e) If he desires to prohibit the sale herein of any and all alcoholic beverages whether to be drunk on or off the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on all three questions. 1. Shall licensed be granted in this' town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whisky, rum, Yes gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic beverages? No 2. Shall licenses be granted the sale therein of wlhes.tan~o~Altbbever~Ees%wl~eS~and.' beer, ale, and all other malt beverages)? 3% Shall licenses be 'granted in tk~is town for Yes the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages so called,, not to be drunk on the premises? No 1. Shall the"pari-matuel system of betting on licensed horse races be permitted in this county? 2. Shall the pari-mutuel system of'betti~g on licensed dog races be permitted in this county? Yes ~e s "Shallthe General Court enact legislation requiring Jury service by women, with such reserva~ tlons as it may prescribe?" Yes Nc QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC POLICY U~ER GENERAL LAWS (Tercentenary Edition) Chapter 53, Section 19 "Shall the Senator in the General Court from th_is District be instructed to vote to request the P~esident and the Congress of the United States to direct our Delegates to the United Nations to propose or support Amendments to its charter wb-ich will strengthen the United Nations andmake it a World Federal Government able to prevent War?" No 160 1946 WARRANT 1946 All to be voted for on one ballot. The,polls will be open at nine o'clock A. M. and will close at eight o clock P. M. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting true and attested copies thereof at the Town Hall and at five or more public places in each voting precinct; said copies to be posted not more than fifteen days nor less than ten days before the time ef said meeting. Hereof fail not and make dne return of this warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of holding said meeting. Given under our hands at North Andover this t~irtieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-six. 'Arthur A. Thomson Joseph M. Finneran Arnold H. Salisbury Selectmen of North Andover Officer's Return I have notified the inhabitants of the'Town of North Andover, qualified to vote in State Elections, by posting true and attested coples~bf this warrant at the Town Hall and at five or more public places in each Voting precinct, said copies having been posted not more than fifteen days nor less than ten days before the time of holding said meeting. North Andover, October 21, 1946. Harold Wood, C'onstable.