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Advocate Archives
Take a look back in time to 1939, 1953 and 1966
April 27, 1939
Provincetown To Observe Arbor Day By Planting 25 Trees in Town
Through the efforts of Tree Warden Horace S. Watson, Provincetown will play its part in Arbor Day activities, which this year take on a special significance because of the terrible devastation wrought by the September hurricane.
Next Saturday is the day set aside by Governor Leverett Saltonstall as Arbor and Bird Day throughout the State and on that day the work of planting about 25 new trees, for which an appropriation of $150 was made at the last regular town meeting, will be made through Oliver Austin of Wellfleet and three types of trees will be planted, catalpas and elms from eight to ten feet in height, and pines.
According to present plans Jesse D. Rogers, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and Jimmy Sants, mayor of Boys’ Town of the Community Center, will assist Tree Warden Watson in the planting of a tree near the Town Hall on Saturday as an opening of the observance of Arbor Day.
April 30, 1953
Truro Must Abide By Traffic Plan
A petition asking for a flashing blinker light on Route 6 at the approach to Truro Center so that traffic from the south would be permitted to make a left turn from the main highway to the post office and other nearby points, has been refused by the State Department of Public Works, according to a statement by the Selectmen of Truro.
There has been a great deal of dissatisfaction with the present traffic plan which makes it necessary for the motorist to continue along Route 6 to the Pamet exit and then circle under the underpass to reach the village center. Those in business in the area complain that motorists who otherwise would make purchases in the center go on to other points.
April 28, 1966
Opposition Raised To Possibility of Carousel on Commercial St.
More than 50 opponents, reinforced with a petition signed by more than 65 voters, registered their opposition Monday night to work under way on the premises at 324 Commercial Street, adjacent to the Universalist Church, which the petitioners said “appears to be a carousel.”
The opposition was raised at the regular meeting of the Selectmen, at which Town Manager Robert Hancock and Building Inspector Fernando Gonsalves were present. Asked by Mr. Hancock if the owner of the property, Hallet L. Tobin, had applied for a building permit, Mr. Gonsalves answered that he had not. Whereupon Mr. Hancock announced that Town Counsel would be consulted to determine if the work at the Commercial Street premises was in violation of the law and if so an injunction would be sought to stop it.
Since then the Advocate talked with Mr. Tobin. Mr. Tobin said “no construction of a building was going on” on his premises requiring a building permit but agreed there was “work” under way.
“I’m painting something in my back yard,” Mr. Tobin said, “the way you’d paint a boat or a car. I’m restoring something in my back yard.”
Mr. Tobin last year had applied for permission to operate a carousel — a merry-go-round — on the premises, and with considerable public opposition at the time, the application was denied.
The Advocate asked Mr. Tobin if he now contemplated a carousel on his premises provided permission were granted him. Mr. Tobin said he did.
Besides the petition the Selectmen received a number of letters from local residents protesting any proposed carousel at the Commercial Street premises. Particular opposition was registered in a letter from Ina S. Snow, clerk of trustees for the Universalist Church, speaking “for the church.” Other letters protested location of a carousel in the virtual “center” of the town and declared that the “noise” and confusion would be “obnoxious.”
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Apr 26th, 2007