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392 _ PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE Pre.1 Pre.2 Pre. 3 Pre.4 Total Dever 3 3 1 7 Tobin 1 1 Taft 4. 1 2 7 Kefauver 18 9 9 19 55- MacArthur 2 1 3 Eisenhower 8 7 9 3 27 Truman 10 1 1 3 15 Douglass 3 2 5 Stevenson 3 1 2 2 8 W. Averill Harriman 1 1 2 Putnam 1 1 Blanks 12 8 8 6 2. 1 64 34- 29 38 165 Attest ; 7' ---)(/ '\----- Zr.,..,4,-_. I '.4.4 _ _.7 • / Town Glei.k. // / 7 / y SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD MAY 26 , 1952 Meeting called to order by Charles E. Ferguson , Moderator , at 8:02 P. M. There were 142 Town Meeting Members present . Town Clerk, James J. Carroll , read the Warrant for the meeting until further reading waived by vote of the Town Meeting Members present . 8:03 P. M. Town Clerk read the Constable 's Return of the Warrant for the meeting. 8:03 P. M. Article 1. Leon W. Bateman, Chairman of the Appropriation Committee presented Appropriation Committee Report which was voted to be accepted and placed on file . 8:04 P. M. Martin A. Gilman presented the following resolution : Voted: That it is the sense of this Town Meeting 1. That whereas the Federal departments and committees who have studied the proposal of the United States Air Force to base an oper- ating squadron of jet fighter/interceptor planes at Hanscom Airport disagree as to whether such action is necessary for national defense and as to whether other and safer areas for such an operation are available ; This meeting opposes the Air Force proposal to base such a squadron at Hanscom Airport unless and until it is demonstrated that such action is essential for national defense and that other and safer areas for such an operation are not available . 2. That this Meeting opposes as unnecessarily endangering the in- habitants of Lexington the plan of the Air Force to develop and use Runway 11/29 as the principal runway at Hanscom Airport and to extend it 2 ,000 feet toward the populous Manor section of the Town and dir- ectly toward and less than 1 1/2 miles from the Town 's Parker School. 3 That this Meeting supports fully the actions of the Board of Sel- ectmen and of the Town Counsel in opposing the foregoing proposal and plan of the Air Force.