Folder 1: 1967, 9/2/1965 - 12/28/1967

- Thompson Blasts Pond Use: Opposes Pumped-Storage Power at Tocks Project - Newark Evening News - 6/5/67 - State finally releases Tocks Island area plan - Star-Ledger - 6/1/67 - Tocks Area Plan Unveiled: Maintenance of Rural Character Seen Desirable - Newark Evening News - 6/1/67 - Our national parks are becoming our national slums - New York Times - 7/28/67 - Gracing Tocks Island - Newark Evening News - 6/5/67 - Tocks Land Office Open Saturdays - 1967 - $208,201 Deposited For Tocks Land - Newark Evening News - 6/3/67 - Historians discuss Tocks - Pocono Record - 1967 - Save Sunfish Pond - 1967 - Area planners ready for Tocks - 5/19/67 - Save Sunfish Pond, Sunfish trip held in rain - 5/8/67 - Tocks assured A$8 million - Pocono Record - 5/18/67 - Engineers encourage visits to Walterm Pompton dams - 5/19/67 - Township Form Planning District For Tocks Area - 5/19/17 - $3 Million Cut From DWGNRA Acquisition Fund - Easton Express - 5/18/67 - On the Right by Barry Goldwater - Easton Express - 5/15/67 - Tocks needs more money; schedule to run behind - 3/4/67 - Goddard says U.S. aid unbalanced: Pitch made for water funds in East - 3/24/67 - Tocks acquisition has high priority - 4/30/67 - Sportsmen Express Fear On More Dams In Delaware - Easton Express - 3/31/67 - Conservation Unit Fights Tax Status- Newark News - 1/22/67 - Selling Sandy Hook, Law and the Meadow - Newark News - 1/22/67 - Hearing Set on Wildlife: Conservation Groups Join Solid Front on Great Swamp - Newark Sunday News - 1/22/67 - Our Views On The News: Above Tidewater - Public Affairs and Politics: Livening the Campaign - Easton Express - 4/12/67 - Peach Bottom atomic plant is power without pollution - 3/20/67 - Tocks Dam Seen Adding 265 School Pupils, Candidate Wants 'Open Door' Rule for Area Press - 4/18/67 - Eastburg district in precarious role - Pocono Record - 4/20/67 - Property goes up - Pocono Record - 2/7/67 - Pumped Storage At Tocks Awaits Result of Study - Express - 1/19/67 - Prophecy good for Tocks project: As river comes clean--better fishing - Pocono Record - 3/4/67 - Rep. Thompson Sees Tocks Booming Growth of Warren - 2/24/67 - How costly Tocks delay? - 3/6/67 - Tocks delay possible: DRBC approves anti-pollution plan - 3/3/67 - Early help needed for Tocks sellers - Pocono Record - 4/4/67 - Tocks plan delay releases pressure, Victory over drought - Pocono Record - 3/15/67 - Pocket-sized nuclear attack - Pocono Record - 1/10/67 - Tocks intensifies problem: Sign control big headache - Pocono Record - 4/11/67 - Our Views On the News: Basin Cleanup - 3/9/67 - Effects being felt already: E-burg school district faces Tocks financial crisis - Pocono Record - 3/17/67 - To Conserve Our Wildlife - Easton Express - 3/7/67 - Streams, Forests Are Prime Assets for Outdoorsmen - Express - 3/18/67 - Rooney Renews His Opposition to Area Hydroelectric Plant - Easton Express - 3/16/67 - Learn to protect our wilderness - Pocono Record - 3/23/67 - Tocks Unit Backs Land Buying Bills - Easton Express - 3/11/67 - DWGNRA land brings $28,500 - 3/17/67 - Time suspended along Delaware, Uncle Sam turns tightwad with county planning money - Pocono Record - 3/18/67 - Historical research needed to save sites, DAR hears - 1/21/67 - To buy Tocks land: $3 million 'trickle' - 1/21/67 - Tocks historian doesn't plan to rest under trees, Engineers buy Tocks area land - Pocono Record - 1/24/67 - $14.4 million requested by LBJ for Tocks work - Pocono Record - 1/25/67 - Tocks needs money - Pocono Record - 1/25/67 - $3.4 million request set for Tocks land acquisition - Pocono Record - 1/24/67 - Round Valley Prospects UNcertain As Newark Quits Water District - 1/12/67 - First Gap Park area ready this summer - Pocono Record - 5/5/67 - Pike to discuss move from Tocks - Pocono Record - 3/21/67 - DWG changes to come with park - Pocono Record - 2/20/67 - Fighting city hall - Pocono Record - 2/9/67 - Zoning Regulations Proposed To Prevent River Flooding - Easton Express - 2/17/67 - To Lose $3.5 Million In Ratables: Monroe School District Faces Tax Squeeze, Monroe Report Recommends Water And Sewer Survey - Easton Express - 5/2/67 - Amended river heat control could exempt steam plants - Pocono Record - 4/27/67 - House defeats cut in Tocks $11 million - Pocono Record - 4/28/67 - House committee gives approval - 4/22/67 - Marquis Childs: Resources Besieged - Easton Express - 5/5/67 - $14.4 Million Asked For Tocks Land Purchases - 1/24/67 - Doubts, dears in minds of Tocks area residents - Pocono Record - 2/14/67 - Sunfish hearing aid promised - Pocono Record - 2/13/67 - Planners hope zoning to end Tocks Speculation, Brief ordered in Tocks case - Pocono Record - 2/14/67 - Early acquisition not Tocks' plan - 3/30/67 - Intended victim: gypsy moth: Aerial attack ahead on Pike and Monroe - Pocono Record - 4/13/67 - Few people at public hearing: Stiff pollution controls proposed for upper Delaware - Pocono Record - 3/31/67 - But Open Dumps Remain: Waste Disposal Methods Studied For Tocks Area - Express - 8/3/67 - 1 of 5 Tocks parcels taken - Pocono Record - 6/26/67 - Bid to halt Tocks project is delayed - 1/11/67 - Poconos Face Suburbia Role, Expert Warns - The Evening News - 10/10/67 - Vast Park Proposed Along Appalachian Range - Philadelphia Inquirer - 5/21/67 - Welcome Home (photo) - Pocono Record - High Price Paid For Property In Hidden Lake - Express - Scouts Can Use Site Until 1970: Government To Acquire Camp Weygadt This Fall - 6/9/67 - Tock costs spark remark - Pocono Record - 6/5/67 - 'Save Kittatinny Beach' may be in last stages - Pocono Record - 6/6/67 - Jersey releasing Tocks Island plan - Newark Star Ledger - 6/1/67 - Park service move: Gap signs to come down - Pocono Record - 7/10/67 - New TIRAC aide: Planner will solve problems - Pocono Record - 9/11/67 - Drew Pearson: Rivers' Power - Express - 3/10/67 - GUest Editorial: Trade for parks - Washington Post - 5/17/67 - Our Views on the News: Pennsylvania's Water Share - 3/11/67 - Inevitable Escalation - NJ Herald - 7/27/67 - House, Senate Bicker: Scrap looms on U.S. funds for Tocks Island - Star Ledger - 6/4/67 - House Committee to Investigate Increasing Tocks Island Costs - NJ Sunday Herald - 7/23/67 - Army attempts to justify soaring costs of Tocks - Star Ledger - 7/25/67 - A Matter of Opinion: Enormous Potential - Sunday Star Ledger - 7/30/67 - Tocks Island Costs Probe - NJ Sunday Herald - 7/23/67 - Army Explains Tocks - 7/25/67 - 'We're a Little Appalled': Tocks cost hike faces House probe - 7/21/67 - Engineers Tell House Why Tocks Costs More - NJ Herald - 7/27/67 - House Committee To Investigate Increasing Tocks Island Costs - NJ Sunday Herald - 7/23/67 - S. 1401 In the Senate of the United States - 4/3/67 - A Bill to amend title I of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, and for other purposes - 267 Tocks Tracts Acquirer, Engineers To Buy 53 More - Express - 6/23/67 - Pike Co. Chamber of Commerce Meets, DV Phone Co. Drops Rates in New Jersey, TIRAC to Meet At Tom Quick Inn - 3/9/67 - Scenery to be improved at entrance to our state - Pocono Record - 7/10/67 - Public Affairs and Politics: Loss of Local Rights? - Easton Express - 6/25/67 - Most Monroe, Pike units of government too small - Pocono Record - 7/27/67 - Testimony Affects Monroe, Pike: Governmental Efficiency is Impaired by Small Population, Consultant Insists - Easton Express - 7/24/67 - Corps takes 430 acres of Tocks Island - 7/13/67 - Public Affairs and Politics - Conservation Vs. Population - Express - Portland could be site of DWGNRA sewer plant - 5/31/67 - 3,100 acres near DWGNRA: $900,000 Pike land sale - Pocono Record - 8/10/67 - 2 to stay in DWGNRA - 5/31/67 - TIRAC to study solid wastes - 156-Acre Tract On Mount Minsi Bought By U.S. - Express - 8/9/67 - State Compensation Asked For Tocks Isle Tax Squeeze - 6/8/67 - Hard to imagine certain growth - Pocono Record - 6/10/67 - Computers will gauge floods - 6/2/67 - Corps takes over six properties - Pocono Record - 6/2/67 - Checks Artery's Quality: Telemetry Receiving Unit Monitors Delaware River - 6/13/67 - Rep. Rooney predicts: Weygadt OK till '70 - 6/12/67 - Land Acquisition Papers Seek 48 Acres In Warren - Express - 6/3/67 - Public Affairs And Politics: Another River Basin Hangup?, Bethlehem Mayor Succeeds Smith As Cities League Head, Proposal To Cut Governmental Units Discussed - Easton Express - 8/16/67 - Action urged on watershed funds - Pocono Record - 9/5/67 - Corps pays $2.5 million for Jersey Development - Pocono Record - 9/5/67 - Tocks Island Opportunities - Philadelphia Inquirer - 6/4/67 - Medical Needs Study Set In Areas Affected By Tocks - 9/8/67 - Easton Mayor Named Head of National Group - Express - Public Affairs And Politics: Sodden Sequel to Unzoned Plain - Easton Express - TIRAC names engineer - 6/24/67 - Our Views on the News: Water Needs, Proposals Submitted For Enlarging Easton's Water System Capacity - Express - 7/14/67 - For Tocks Island Dam: 'Crash' land buy planned - Pocono Record - Land Purchase - Its Name is MUD - Field & Stream - April 1967 - Tocks Island Dam Seen Flood, Threat To Northwest NJ - Newark Evening News - 11/9/67 - The mechanism by which River and Harbor Projects are Conceived, Authorized and Constructed - A Release For: All News Media, From A.J. Watson, State Chairman - For release 2/26/67 - Gap Billboards Falling: Scenery Improving as Tocks Progresses - Newark Evening News - 2/1/67 - News Release from the office of the district engineer, U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers - 5/23/67 - Congress Efforts Renewed on Water Gap Purchases - Newark Evening News - 2/1/67 - DWGNRA Organizations Plan Meeting On Sewage Plant For Portland Borough - Easton Express - 5/29/67 - Delaware Still an 'Open Sewer', River Unit Gets Plan To Save $180 Million On Pollution Curbs - Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/17/67 - Township officials favor 'Grassroots Democracy' - Pocono Record - 11/9/67 - TIRAC cited for planning during Washington ceremony - 10/26/67 - Losers deserve tribute from all - Pocono Record - 11/8/67 - Major planning in Tocks design - Pocono Record - 11/9/67 - Washington ceremonies Wednesday: TIRAC to receive HUD award - Pocono Record - 10/20/67 - $5 million real estate rise expected in county - Pocono Record - 10/24/67 - Mrs. Shukaitis speaks before ESSC class - Pocono record - 10/24/67 - 'Slum' Warning Given On Tocks, Tocks Area Seen on 'Gold Mine' - - Tocks Island Inventory: Action talks face problem - Pocono Record - 10/9/67 - Poconos Battle to Save Tocks Beauty - Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/15/67 - TICA sets opening for January - Pocono Record - 4/13/67 - TIRAC to undergo major reorganization this month - Pocono Record - 11/11/67 - Tocks benefits discussed - Pocono Record - 10/23/67 - $50 Million In Road Work Planned in Area - Expanded role for TIRAC is proposed by planners - Pocono Record - 10/13/67 - Tocks Island not included in new economy order on national front - Pocono Record - 10/7/67 - Investment in Tocks up like national debt - Pocono Record - 10/12/67 - Public Affairs - Reservoirs Alter River Chemistry - Express - 10/7/67 - Contract Ban Not Expected To Affect Tocks Projects - Express - 10/7/67 - Slate Belt Highway Seen In Wake Of Tocks Project - Express - Sunfish Pond Draws Backing of Candidates - Easton Express - 10/9/67 - Shawnee golf course can't be national park concession - Pocono Record - 11/28/64 - 'Pork Barrel' Totters As Critics Flail Army Corps of Engineers - Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/15/67 - Tocks Dam roads not needed yet - Pocono Record - 10/25/67 - $4 million approved for Tocks - Pocono Record - 10/26/67 - Summer Hordes Pile in: Manhattan Looks Deserted Compared with Yellowstone - The Sunday Bulletin - 8/20/67 - Pennsylvania Farmer Opinion (Protect Pennsylvania, Value of Soil Surveys, Pork Promotion) - Rooney Explains Costs Prohibit Monroe Office - Use of federal funds urged for conservation in school - Pocono Record - 12/1/67 - Tocks Island Area Seen 'Sitting on Gold Mine', 'Slum Warning Given By Head Of Tocks Unit - Express - Tocks may ride barrel over congressional cuts - Pocono Record - 10/24/67 - Douglas marches to manu bugles - Pocono Record - November 1967 - Power Companies Contend Sunfish Lake Project Vital - Newark Evening News - 12/28/67 - Sunfish Pond (editorial) - Newark News - 12/28/67 - Redwood Area Developer Keeps Conservationists Happy - New York Times - Botanists Fight A Dam in Illinois: Army Engineers Back Plan for the Sangamon River - New York Times - 12/16/67 - Sierra Club Scores Company For Starting to Cut Redwoods - New York Times - 12/17/67 - Douglas At the Pond - 6/16/67 - Club Asks Utilities: 'Give Sunfish Pond Back to People' - Newark Sunday News - 12/31/67 - Recreation Area buys five acres of property, Rooney offers aid on taxes - Pocono Record - 11/4/67 - 1985 Projections Show No Boom, No Bust: Steady Growth and Prosperity Forecast for the Delaware Valley - Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/22/67 - The Impact of Tocks - Pocono Record - 8/21/67 - Plans plentiful - Believe it or not, Tocks is coming - Pocono Record - 8/14/67 - $120 million injection: Tocks economic boost - 8/15/67 - Third of 12 parts: Tocks will crowd Stroudsburgs - Pocono Record - 8/16/67 - Amended bill supported: Tide turns in land-tax battle, County wins battle; - pinebrook to be taxed, Sewage water big Tocks worry - Pocono Record - 8/17/67 - Townships must absorb more people, Growth brings problems - Pocono Record - 8/18/67 - Regional Centers to be urban areas - Pocono Record - 8/19/67 - Tocks urban clusters planned - Pocono Record - 8/21/67 - 209 major route: Highways key to Tocks growth - Pocono Record - 8/22/67 - All roads lead to Tocks: 15,000 cars expected on Sunday - Pocono Record - 8/23/67 - Area development must strike balance: No room for fear, favor - Pocono Record - 8/24/67 - Local governments hold key to preserving open space - Pocono Record - 8/25/67 - 4 counties have means to make Tocks blessing - Pocono Record - 8/26/67 - Tocks Island area returns to 7000 B.C. (includes pictures) - Pocono Record - 8/27/67 - Time big question on Tocks - Pocono Record - 8/25/67 - New use for land rockets its value - Pocono Record - 8/12/67 - Shawnee Inn golf course may be bought for Tocks - Pocono Record - 8/25/67 - Record loses strong lifelines - Pocono Record - 8/23/67 - Tocks series had impact on those who prepared it - Pocono Record - 8/26/67 - Tocks assured by millions spent, Tocks funds Ok'd--sound warning - Pocono Record - 7/21/67 - Tocks acquisition review: Corps approaches national average - Pocono Record - 7/18/67 - Fate Of Tocks Communities Is Local Problem, Beaty Tells J-Students At Blair - New Jersey News (Easton Express) - 7/5/67 - U.S. Officials Hope to Open Tocks Island Park By 1976, Geologists Trace Indians On Delaware To 7000 B. C. - Easton Express - 8/17/67 - Tract cost $180,000 in 1963: Hidden Lake cost Corps $483,000 and is going up - Pocono Record - 1967 - Plan sees S-burg as Tocks center - Pocono Record - 6/1/67 - Tocks Cost Has Doubled, Figures Show - Express - 6/5/67 - Two-Year Study: Tocks Island Unit Starts $192,000 Garbage Survey - Express - 7/31/67 - Officials Concerned: Tocks Area Endangered By Increase In Waste - Express - 8/1/67 - In Tocks Island Area: Increases In Population Will Create Waste Problem - Express - 8/3/67 - PM district gets $89,611 federal grant (includes pictures) - Pocono Record - 5/24/67 - Concern over subdivisions within Tocks area - Pocono Record - 1/19/67 - Kittatinny Beach faces death by condemnations - Pocono Record - 1/11/67 - Johnson signs Water Gap Park bill - Pocono Record - 9/2/65 - State powers on Tocks asked by Gov. Hughes - The Tocks Island Dam (editorial 6/30/39) - Pocono Record - advertisement 1967 - Our Views on the News: To Curb Floods - Express - 8/16/67 - Salvage Project on Delaware: Archeologists Seek Indian Relies in Tocks Area - Newark Sunday News - 1/22/67 - Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area - Historical Base Map Narrative Part 1 (Booklet) - 11/1/67 - The Sierra Club Caper - Field & Stream September 1967 - Douglas Will Press Battle To Preserve Sunfish Pond - Easton Express - 6/19/67 - Rift on Reservoirs: parley to Consider Use for Play - Newark Sunday News - 4/16/67 - Army attempts to justify soaring costs of Tocks - Star-Ledger - 7/25/67 - Speaking Out: Save Sunfish Pond - 4/28/67 - Tocks Island Honkey-Tonk - Easton Express - 1/15/67 - Tocks, Not Coney - Philadelphia Bulletin Editorial - 1/15/67 - Shafer Picks Out His Trusty Aides - Philadelphia Inquirer - 1/15/67 - Report From The Poconos: U.S. Land Purchases Criticized - Easton Express - 6/19/67 - Property Owners Listed In Latest Land Acquisition - 7/13/67 - Tocks Island Dam Seem Flood Threat to Northwest N.J. - Newark Evening News - 11/9/67 - 'Economics' Congress Huddled Around Its Pork Barrel - Easton Express - 12/20/67 - 165-Acre Farm Sold in Layton - Newark News - 1/22/67 - Drought Continuation Seen As Tocks Island Plan Speedup - Newark Evening News - 12/6/65 - Udall Urges County Move To Protect Resort Land Value - Newark Evening News - 3/9/66 - Udall Criticixed: Issue Taken With Tocks Island Plea - Newark Evening News - 3/10/66 - Fight for Sunfish Pond Goes On: Drive Opposes Power Plant on Kittatinny Range - Newark Evening News - 3/14/66 - U.S. to Probe Tocks Project As Cost Soars to $198 Million - Philadelphia Inquirer - 7/30/67