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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1946-04-08:I 86. APRIL 8,1946- continued NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY LAWRENCE GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY: A petition for Joint or identical locations and permission to locate wires, poles and fixtures on the northerly and southerly sides of Boxford Street from a point approximately 700 feet easterly from Forest Street, easterly 14 poles was received and set down for a hearing to be held on April 22, 1946 at 7:30 P.M. Unanimous vote. VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AND AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERE: John Willis and Edward Garvey appeared for the V. of F. W. and John A. Cronin, Commander~ the American Legion represented that organization and presented ~ names forconsidaration for appeiStmmnt to a nine member committee of.~ the Permanent Memorial for Veterans of World War II. The six names submitted for the 'above organizations are as follows: VFW- John Willis, Edward B.Garvey, Anthony'Kapeika and the ~.mer. Legion, John A. Oronin, William F. Rock. and Cyril Knowles. The board appointed the following members-to plan a war. memorial for the veterans of World War II: John A. Cronin, Chairman, _William P. Rock, John Willis, Edward Garvey, Francis Kittredge, Joseph D. S,,llivan Fred Pitkin, James Maker and John Bo~le. Each member will be notif~ied.~ John Willis stated that there had been a considerable amount of publicity about the dedication of the triangle at High and Suttons Streets and' they would still like to make this dedication on Memorial Day, for Sergeant Thompson. The above committee will serve for a period of three years. Mr. Salisbury s~ated that he would like to make it clear that committee when formed shall have complete charge of memorials .for veterans and : may refer to this board.on occasions. Mr. Willis felt that it was going to tie the hands of individual groups if committee had full charge of this work and if it were to consider, only s memorial to world'war two veterans it should be left to individual ~oups. Mr. Salisbury stated that tl~s was a town affair whether.dedication of. some-specific mamorial, or triangles. He thought the:first consideration should-be the triangles tewhich Mr. Willis replied that .he would dbfinitelY like to have this straightened out tonight. There' was a ,question ~aised as to whether the committee would function in regard the permanent war memorial. Mr. Thomson stated that in so far as the permanen~ memmrisl.~ommittee~T they will report to the ~own meeting as to the progress made. Mr. Salisbury made a motion to appoint a permanent War Memorial committee ..of nine members for a period of three years and to report to this board fr6m. time to time, No~alon~.droppe~or~.the~'%ime. Will appoint later. M~. Salisbury further stated'that the committee he instructed to eonsidar the priority of dedicating public triangles from time to time throughout the town for the world war dead. Unanimous vote. .... Mr. Thomson asked Mr. Willis if he had thought of some system of dedicating triangles and he replied that this aould be left to family, of some p~rson and since there are only 15 triangles ~o be dedicated the committee could probably handle it. VICTORY CELEBRATION: Mr. Salisbury stated that he thought' the town should start to think about s committee for.a victory celebrate. Ion along the lines suggested in Chapter of the current year. Mr. Salisbury-.i'elt the way to handle this was to, give authority to the commanders .of the two organizations and let them · plan comething. Mr. Willis inquired .what.type of celebration the board had.in mind, the likes and dislikes of veterans or the feelings of the townspeople. Mr. Finneran stated that they could get a consensus of the opinion of.. the two organizations and bring in a report. George Oullen mentioned that there are about 700 veterans in the town and that there are only about one third of these veterans who are members of the two organizations, and his feeling was that all. veterans should'be considered in this matter. Re suggested James Maker as a good man for this committee since h6 did such a splendid Job on the flag committee. Mr. Thomson then stated that he hoped the committee app.oi, hted would give the board a guiding light as to the dedication of the triangles. MOTH DEPARTMENT -TRUCK The board voted unanimously to grant permission to John J. ¢onnors to go ahead and purchase, a truck for his department which was provided for A~ the annual town meeting. APRIL S~ 1926- oontinusd POLICE DEPARTMENT -PAY INCB~AgE APPROVAL: Approval was received from the Division of Civil Service on the.increase in salaries for all members of the Police Department which was voted at the annual town meeting on March 16, 1946. The amount of the increase is $150.00 for each employee. DEPARTMENT OF 00RPORATIONS AND TAXATION: Notice received that in compliance with the provisions of Section 18, of Chapter 58 of the General. Laws, the income taxes collected under Chapter 62 is now available for distribution. This amount is to be figured in proportion to the amount of the state %ax imposed. The amount to be by the treasurer is to he' credited, to the 1946 estimated receipts accounts and must be used by the assessors in the determination of the.1946 tax rate. SOLDIER'S RELIEF COMMISSIONER: A report of the expenditures for this department by Mr. Joseph Flanagan during the months of January, Februaryamd March 1946 was received by this board and the balance on hand on 3/30/1946is $3880.79. Filed under Veterans Relief folder. i -GENERAL RELEASE: A general'release signed by Robert Mitchell of 33 Herrick-Road was "received hy this hoard and the amoffnt of $7.00 was approved, as payment 'for repairs on the car which was damaged when the springs broke due to holes, !'in the road on Pleasant Street about 200 yards from Great Pond Road. vA, copy of the hill is also filed with the General release under Damages. ,',!~EGISL~TION- C~ J. MA~ONE¥-FIRE CHIEF: ~Mr. Salisbury mentioned that there seemed to be the impression given at the -~ /abate house that C. J. Mahuney acting as towncounsel had been authorized by' the Board' of Selectmen to file in the Wouse*'of R&presentatives legisla- ~ tion which Mr. Salisbury did not recall. Mr~ Thomson stated that there had ~'" been no official ~uthorizatiom and that he was perfectly aware that no . official authorization had 'been given to Mr. Mahoney in regard to the Fire ...... Chief. Re stated that the original bill, voted in the last election .wTthoht any official delegation. Mr.' Salisbury stated, that he happened to hear of the Bill within several :, 'minutes a~ter it was received and the impression given was that a measure approved by officials of North Andover was to be filed. He would like %o · have an official record made, denying this rumor. Mr. Salisbury then made a motion that any legislation filed' hy Cornelius. ,:Nahoney on behalf of anybody was not at the suggestion <,<tha.Bo~rd of Selectman~ Motion.~as seconded,by Mr. Finneranand vote was ~n-~imous e ,.?RANKLIN SOl~OOL: . ' ._~ ?. ' · ~:~ ~Dward O~rvey'~i~qutred [~' the Frankl~'n school and stated that he had look< '~"' ~d at',the deed' and i% ~ea'd~]th~? heirs have noticing, to' do with it. There~ was ('!.,..~a .'general discussion about['~his matter ~nd',Mr, Gsrvey was informed that '~it will he =hacked by Mr.',Mah0ney and a report, made to this boardJ r~S~ COUNT ~-*EEECTMEN'S ASSOCIATION: ~Anl invitation to attend: the spring meeting of the Essex County Selectmen's .vAssociation tn be heldon. Saturday at the Essex County Agricultur~l School r,~WaS received., and the memhsra Will try to attend. The ~peaker will be [~Nenry.F.' Long,~atate commissionersof corporations and tax~tion. ,STRIKE SITUATION: ~ ,, The'matter of entering into the strike s~ttlament was discussed by the f, board an~ Mr. Salisbury stated that it WoUld have to be.made very clear that ~i~vitations would, go out to both parties at the same time so that there '. might.be no inference that one party sought help of this board. He thought we might be considered presumptuous in asking the men to come to this office. .,= ~r. Thomson stated that we would simply invite them and have them suggest a time if they feel we can help them. Mr. Salisbury then made a motion that. two letter be drafted in accordance ~, with Mr. Thomsoma's suggestion inviting each party of the strike to discuss the matter with us. A letter will be sent to Frederick Winning and to the Davis and Furber Company. Unani~0us vote. Mr. Thomson brought this matter up a week ago and it was tabled at that time as there had been rumors that the strike would be settled but when no settlement was made, Mr. Thomson again brought the matter up before the 1~.