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47,4 6 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD NOVEMBER 28, 1960 Meeting called to order by the Moderator, Charles E. Ferguson. 8: 06 P. M. There were 171 Town Meeting Members present. Invocation offered by Rabbi Herbert Rosenblum. 8:07 P. M. Town Clerk, James J. Carroll, read the warrant for the meeting until further reading was waived by the Moderator at 8:07 P. M. The Town Clerk read the Constable' s Return. 8:08 P. M. Article 1. Appropriation Committee Report presented by J. Harper Blaisdell which was on file.and accepted P placedle. 8.08 P.M. Article 2. Presented by Ruth Morey, Chairman, Board of Selectmen. VOTED: To establish as a Town way, and accept the layout of as a Town way, Worthen Road from Massachusetts Avenue 3370 feet, more or less, southeasterly to Waltham Street as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated September 12, 1960, and to authorize the Selectmen to take by eminent domain, purchase, or other- wise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; and to appropriate for acquisition of the land and for engineering services the sum of $10,000.00, and to provide for payment by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. 8:13 P. M. Planning Board Report presented by Levi G. Burnell. 8:25 P. M. Robert M. Caquillette moves that further action on Article 2 be postponed until the Annual Town Meeting. 8:58 P. M. Postponement voted on and declared lost by voice vote. 9:12 P. M. Main motion voted on by voice vote, vote in doubt so standing vote taken as follows: In Favor Tellers Opposed 26 Frederick E. Tucker 7 84 Thomas A. Napoli 18 23. Donald P. Noyes 7 133 32 Motion adopted 9:22 P. M. Article 3. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized and directed to take such action on behalf of the Town Presented as they may deem necessary or desirable to remove the by conditions on the use of certain parcels of land Ruth situated in the vicinity of the high school which were Morey conveyed to the Town by the late Augustus E. Scott in 1914 and 1915 by two deeds recorded respectively in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 3953, Page 561, and Book 3981, Page 109; which deeds restrict the use of the land to park and playground purposes and one of which requires that certain portions of the land shall always remain open as public ways, Carried Unanimously 9:27 P. M.