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The Woodwortl~ Motors of Andover 'informed the hoard by letter that they felt .~
that this town would get much better service by contacting the Ambulance-
Manufacturers directly and appreciated our asking for a bid. ...
Bids were received from the Flxible Company, C? E. Budd,.Regional Manager.of
87 Coleman Road, Wethersfield, Conn. complete price being $5401. at the factory.
Delivery to North Andover would cost an additional $125.00
The bid from the Wm. J. Troy Company, William Blanchard, Manager, of'6 Gl'e~ville
Terrace, Boston 34, was for $5243. delivered in Boston and delivery to he.in~
approximately .three months from date of order.
After due consideration of the bids the committee voted to award the bid ~to .
the Wm. J. Troy Company and the committee inspected the Andover ambulance '
which was brought over 'to the North Andover Fire Station by the Firs'Chief"
of Andover. Ail agreed that it was a good Job and were well pleased. The
committee voted to have a maroon ambulance.
Mr. Salisbury made a motion that we accep~the bid of the Wm. Troy Comph~y.
subject to.inspection of tbs Andcver ambulance,in accordance with the
specifications attached. Vote was ~nimous.
· .F.W. CARNIVAL REQUEST: . ' ' "' '
Commander Edward Garvey came'before the board an~d asked pe~rmission to
Carnival on August'll through August 16, at Suttons Field, off Sutton St~e%t.
Mr. Garvey informe~ the board that they have permission from Suttons Mill~?,~ i' '
to use the field 'and they.have circulated a paper requesting permission from
the neighbors for this purpose. - -
-They also requested permission to sell poppies on May 23 and May 24, 1947. ~,' .
which i's the National V.F.W. Poppy Day. ,
The board-wot~d ~animously to grant this permission fo~ both requests. ,. :~.: ,~
M~.'~ Salisbury sta. ted that he felt that no license was required, only thel' ,: ·
permission of the board. No fee will be charged for.. eithe~~, =~quest. Mr.-.~ , .~?, ·
Thomson asked if they Would have police protection at the carnival and
Garvey informed the board that they would.have. ~ .~ , . · ' $ ~ . 1
Ih~ITATION TO I~STALLATION -7.F.W .......... .,~ .~
The Board of, Selectmen were invited to attend the installation exercises~. -
Of' the V.F.W'. Oh April' 26, 1947 at Grange Hall"at 7:00 P;M. ' The board" ~' ~'.[
.unanimC'uSly%o accept this invitation with pleasure and will endea'vor!~:~''
STREET, FAIR: . · . - . .,,,~
The.:B6ard ,granted permission to the Donald C. Porter C. E. Fellowship. of~the,~ ,;.,, ~,,
Trinitarian~ Congregational Church to block Dudley Stroker on June ?,~ 1947. [j~?
'from [2:00 P'~M. ~nti~' 10:00 P.M. when they plan to hold a Street'fairJ ReqUes~t
was 'made by Marian McClung, Secretary. ..
'Cbtef A l£red H. McKee reported to the hoard that he had checked on Midd esex
md £ound'tha't more c, ars are parked on 'the' right, handside o£ ~ha:street'
coming from LaWrence. He suggested "No Parking" signs on' either 'side" '~f![ihe vi: !"i;'
street. The Board: voted unanimously/to instruct the ·Chief to 'erect '"No :Pa~king"'
signs on the' northerly side of. Nid~.~esgm~.S,tzeet. from Railroad Avenue:..t6~
Massach~s~tts"'Avenue'. ' '~ '"
:B6 ? ZING'BA ON mSS. "
Chief McKee..repurted: that~ he had several complaints on boys playing' basehhll
on Mas~s. Aven~e and that several windows had been'~6rbken. The Chief '
that if the board could a~ange to have 'the sandbank Ievelled off it
~ke 'a safe' .piece for these boys to play. No action was taken
STREET LIGHTS: ....:' "
Mr. Salisbury presented the cost of the'prq~osed.lightin , lights to.~be removed,.,
'.in addition to cost of lights requested requested on April 8, 1947 .and th~,~t0tal
cost which will be $1993.60, .to the b~ard. Mr. Salisbury had talked .to M~. Frost
about these lights'and ~he b~ar'd, had misinterp~e.t~ddt~ le~ter_rece~edl ~m;the
Lawrence Gas. & .Electric. Company. After Mr. Salisbury-explained this matter: to
the board, they decided to have the lights installed as suggested in their.
letter of December, 16, 1946 to the Board of Selectmen. _ ....
EEVALUATION.COMMITTEE:
Mr. Salisbury suggested that we should have a ~eeting of this committee and
the board voted to hold a meeting on May 5,1947 at $;30 P.~I. and suggested
that Mr. Brasseur and Mr. Goodwin attend, also the Board of Assessors,
Clinton Gog~in. engineers, wasszgned c¥ the ~e~ec~men aha the engxneers:.
and ison.rl~e in the Revaluation~older. Selectmen's File. '"
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APRIL 21 1' '7- continued::
Wi~ENING SUTTON STREET:
The Selectmen received s letter from the Advisory Board informing, that
their hoard does not approve of a major expenditure as required for widening
Suttong Street and feels ~hat this is a matter which should be properly brought
~fore'the next Annual Town Meeting, together with other projects and points
corresponding danger and hazard to motorists. '
~The Advisory Bosrd approves the sum of $200 for immediate proptection of
Sutton Street area b,y means of an appropriate fence and warning sign of
protective measures.
The Board voted to rsfer this matter to Oornalius J. Mahoney for an opinion
as to whether the town has the right to fence off this area as proposed.
No action was taken on the removal of the %roes at this point of Sutton Street
PERMISSION TO USE OAA OFFICE:
Donald Thomson was granted permission to use the Old Age Assistance Office
:o hold s meeting of the Memorial Day Committee.
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS ST. RAILWAY CO:
N~tice received that on Sunday May 4, there will be an average increase of
l&% charged by this company. The letter stated that this was done with great
reluctance but under the statute defining public control and management
'of this compsny we have no option, as Section 8 of Chapter 98 reads, and
Section 8 was quoted in their letter.
Official announcement of this necessity will be made on April 21, in the
'daily papers hut the company felt'that this board was entitled to t he
courtesy in advance. No action was taken b y the board.
PLANNING BOARD NOTICE:
~: Notice received that a public hearing will be 'held on May 2, 1947 at 7:30 P~
in the Town Building for consideration by the board of s proposed amendment
to the Zoning by-laws by changing the classification of the following
property from a residence to abusinass district: Northerly side of Great
" Pond Road, t00 feet westerly from the westerly side of Cooke Stre'~t. Full
information was given in the notice, as to location.
BY#I~W COI¢~ITTEE:
J$hn V. Donovan, William Bartlett, John~lter, Arnold H. Salisbury and Arthur
A. Thomson met at 8:45 P.M. ~ith Mr. Finneran sitting in with them, to discuss
the procedure thay would follow in revising the tcwn by-laws as voted at the
annual To~n Meeting in March of 1947.
Mr~'Sa!isbury stated that they would probably be expectedto hold public hear-
~ihgs later on and suggested that letter be sent ~o all towns in the Common-
wealth and rsques~ a copy of their by-laws. He also stated that each member
· %aka time to look through the town report, zoning by-laws end building-laws
pamphlets which were given to each member, o ..
~Mrj"Donovan felt that ho'could havethis work done at the High School by the
students and the Selectmen will provide the stationar2yand postage.
' ~4~eting will be called at a later date to further discuss' this project.
~S~AGENZ.ISALARY:
'~'The Board of Selectmen set the salary of the Veterans' Agent,,Bernard Bingham
.at $250.00 for the year 1947. Mr. Bingham, will be so notified.
MEETING ADJOURNED:
~--T~e reg~ekly meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held at 7:00 P.M.
with Members Finaeran and Salisbury present. Chairm~n Thomson was unable to
attend as hewas out of town.. Weakly bills and payrolls were approved.
JUROR DRAWN:
~,.Josgph Finaeran drew the name of James J.Lane of ll6 UntonStreet to serve as
a,~uror at Lawrence Superior. Court on May 19, 1947 - criminal busin~ss. Juror
is an operative.
VETERANS' HOUSING:
Russell Donnelly and about fourteen other veterans appeared before the board
~to again discuss Quonset Huts. Mr. Donnelly'explained that he and others
had met with the Veterans' Housing Committee recently and they instructed them-
,.to come before this board. A letter had been received from Mr. Alter, chairman
of the above committee stating that the board was in favor of having a
temporary housing project such as quonset huts, if there were sufficient
veterans' who would be willing to live in them. This matter would have to be
taken up befor the town at a special town meeting.
Mr. Donnelly stated he had visited the huts at Beverly and some of them were
He said the huts would cost $2300 unit, end
said th@ ~v~s were paying to the