Folder 2: News Clips, 1960 - 1990

- 1965 February 18 The Choice Is Ours - The Tocks Island National Recreation Area - haphazard or guided growth; The Lincoln Family Line Pike County Dispatch - 1965 February 25 Take Time to Attend Meetings - Tocks Island National Recreation Area Pike County Dispatch - 1965 March 25 League of Women Voters Sponsoring Public Meeting on Tocks Island Dam Pike County Dispatch - 1955 March 4 Tocks Land Acquisition To Cost $37,412,000 Pike County Dispatch - 1965 April 15 Tock Island Hearing Re-scheduled Pike County Dispatch - 1965 April 29 Pike County Officials Attend Recreational Area Hearings Pike County Dispatch - 1966 January Rooney Requests $3.7 Million To Get Tocks Land Immediately - 1968 June 7 Letter from Celia Keller to Nancy Shukaitis RE: thinks she [Nancy] Is doing a magnificent job. - 1969 July 9 Couple Agrees to Appraisal Of Property RE: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shukaitis agree to let federal appraisers on their property, by F. Alan Shirk Express Staff Writer - 1969 July 23 Journalism Group At Blair Hears Engineer Corps Officer RE: Tocks Island Dam by Suzanne Iudicello on Express Scholarship - 1970 January 6 Embattled Corps Army Engineers Draw Increasing Critical Fire For Disturbing Nature Citizens Fight Dams, Canals In Court and in Protests; Attacks Made in Congress Wall Street Journal - 1970 April 14 4,496 Acres Acquired In Year for Tocks by James M. Staples Evening News Newark, N.J. Staff Writer; Moggy Hollow, Sunfish Pond Approved as Nature Areas by Ben St. John Evening News Newark, N..J. - 1970 May 5 The Evening News Not Consulted To the Editor RE: Anti-Dam Committee of Bushkill, Pa. and Delaware Valley Conservation Association Not receiving questionnaire sent out by the Tocks Island Citizens Association… from Henry R. Schnitzer, President, Anti-Dam Committee - 1970 June 5 Tocks Island Association…to preserve and enhance its natural Environment and to hurry completion of the projected 12,000 Tocks Island Delaware Water Gap National Park… - 1970 November 4 Tocks Appeal To Case…residents of Sandyston Township not Satisfied with prices being paid for their land….Newark News - 1970 November 18 Asks Tocks Delay Sierra Club called for moratorium on con-struction of Tocks Island dam…Newark News - 1970 November 29 Hearings On Tocks Plan Set Newark News - 1970 December 10 Tocks Dam Rated Force in Ecology by Richard Harpster Evening News Newark - 1971 February 10 Tocks Island Park Usage Accelerates Evening News Newark;; Letter to Editor from Mrs. Norma King Into the Delaware - 1971 February 24 Wants Prof Named to Tocks Group RE: Monroe County (Pa.) Commissioners battling over question of naming biologist to Tocks Island Regional Advisory Council - Dr. Richard Salch - 1971 February 28 Tocks Island Plan Defended Newark News - 1971 March 1 Top-Level Tocks Talks to Weigh Project’s Fate by Richard Harpster RE: Rep. Fred B. Rooney, D. Pa. conducting a closed-door conference in Washington connected with Tocks Island projects Newark News - 1971 March 7 Conservationists Buoyed by Florida Canal Halt by Richard Harpster RE: parallels fight to save Delaware River from impact of the Tocks project; Answers on Tocks Newark Sunday News - 1971 March 22 Tocks Protest To Congress by Richard Harpster Evening News - 1971 March 23 Army Engineer Tells Tocks Island Role by Richard Harpster - 1971 March 24 Letter from Frank Thompson, Jr. to Ms. Francis Brooks RE: opposition to construction of Tocks Island Dam - 1971 April 5 Tocks Island draws 2,000 protesters by Marcia Chambers News Tribune - 1971 April 10 Study to delay Tocks Star Ledger - 1971 April 22 New Tocks Island Study Waits by Richard Harpster; Saving Tocks Landmarks by William May Evening News Newark - 1971 May 7 Squatters and Vandals Move In As River Valley Awaits Dam by Richard Harpster RE: Pennsylvania stone farmhouses targeted Newark News - 1971 May 25 Against Tocks Push… Letter to Editor from Mrs. Frances F. Brooks Newark Evening News - 1971 May 26 Name suggested for Tocks Dam [Congressman Frank Thompson’s Dam] Jersey Free Press - 1971 May 27 Says TIRA should support elected officials stand RE: Hampton- Resolutions passed by the Tocks Island Regional Advisory Council met with opposition North Jersey Photo News - 1971 September 8 Tocks water not needed, foes claim Star Ledger - 1971 September 22 A Tocks dam isn’t vital…Star Ledger - 1971 September 23 Dams and other Disasters, A Century of the Army Corps of Engineers in Civil Works by Arthur E. Morgan Christian Science Monitor - 1971 October 7 Shrunken River RE: Tocks Island project Express - 1971 October 8 Where we stand on the Tocks Island project Editorial Free Press - 1971 October 10 Tocks Island Dispute Seems Destined to Spill Into the Courts Philadelphia Inquire - 1971 October 21 Engineers corps under fire - Ecology an issue Courier-News - 1971 October 23 Work Is Delayed On Tocks I. Dam - Environmental Panel Asks Data on Pollution Effect New York Times - 1972 March 1 Letters To the Editor from Mrs. J.K. Britton, Bushkill, Pa. RE: Tocks Island hydroelectric - 1972 March 3 Tocks Dam Completion Delayed to ‘79, Army Says; Building Burned for Tocks [Bushkill. Pa]; Pa. Tax Relief Vowed - Gov. Shapp Indicates support for Tocks Island project Easton Express - 1972 March 7 2 Petitioners On Tocks Face Drug Charges Express - 1972 March 18 Tocks Island Dam a public ‘rape’ - Letters to the Editor Courier News - 1972 May 26 Letter from Laura Seese to Nancy RE: Newark News enclosed articles about Tocks Island from May 8 to 24, 1972 - 1972 June 6 Tocks dam ‘dead’ - U.S. Rep. Pierre S. duPont, R-Del. Says he has been told controversial Tocks Island Dam project is probably dead - 1972 June 7 Tocks alive, Army says corps determined the Tocks Island Dam Project would be environmentally unsound - 1972 June 7 Yough Sought in Clubbing of U.S. Forest Ranger; Rep. du Pont Says Tocks Plan Dead Newark News - 1972 June 7 Du Pont Denial Made on Tocks by Richard Harpster Evening News - 1972 June 8 Sierra Club Forms N.J. Chapter Evening News - 1972 June 13 Du Pont Urges Tocks Fund Cut by Richard Harpster - 1972 June 14 Tocks Sewerage Cost Estimate Hit by Richard Harpster - 1972 June 15 Tocks Vote Suggested by Richard Harpster - 1972 June 16 Squatters Refuse to Leave Valley Land by Richard Harpster New Jersey Evening News - 1972 June 17 Democrats to Fight Delay-On Tocks Island Project Evening News - 1973 nothing - 1974 January Gotcha! By Richard Starnes RE: Army Corps of Engineers Field & Stream - 1974 February 4 Late ‘74 Tocks Construction Forecast by Bob Cross Union Gazette Port Jervis, N.Y. - 1974 February 5 Tocks Questions Remain – Biggane by Bob Cross Union Gazette Port Jervis, N.Y. - 1974 February 7 Does Energy Lack Warrant Tock’s? Roundtable: Elsie Kayton, Bob Cross, Tony Krzczuk, John Kinney, Steve Rago - 1974 March 1 Build now-plan later Editorial U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - [cartoon of Army Engineers’ methods [pie in the sky]] - 1974 March 12 Biggane pledges to fight Tocks Dam project by bob Cross Union Gazette - 1974 March 23 Tocks foes address advisory council by Bob Cross [Kathryn Gomory and Hal Lockwood] Union-Gazette - 1974 March 25 Tocks dike contract awarded Union-Gazette - 1974 March 28 Ban asked of Tocks historical destruction by Bob Cross - 1974 April 1 DRBC urges final approval for Tocks dam construction Union-Gazette - 1974 April 8 Tocks status change opposed by Bob Cross - 1974 April 10 TIRAC in danger of folding. TIRAC may fold, director says by Bob Cross Union-Gazette - 1974 April 24 Court orders army engineers to stop destruction of historic Buildings in temporary order by Richard E. Harpster Free Press - 1974 November 1 DRBC releases new study plan on Tocks dam; it may Include citizen’s group in each state - 1974 ? Tocks funds voted - House Appropriations Committee has approved Another $14.3 million for Tocks Island Dam project - 1970s - 1990s no dates - 1977 June 15 Tocks: The nightmare goes on… Tocks Island residents land Ruined by heavy hand of Army Corps of Engineers - 1979 April 10 Tocks Island Dam Construction Urged Times Express - ???? Dam funds approved by panel; Problems may hold up Tocks Island Project; Tocks dam years away; Tocks Island project delay suggested; Opposes Tocks Dam by George P. Nimmo; Fish deaths laid to Thermal Drop; Many fish die near nuclear plant says Tocks Dam unnecessary for park site; Army Unit Favors Tocks Island Plan; Tocks Island faults seen; Army admits Tocks may harm ecology; Tocks Was Bad Idea From the Very Start; Alternatives asked on Tocks issue; Cahill’s Tocks position Called ‘wishy-washy’; Tocks project advantages seen outweighing Drawbacks; - 1990 May 5 Dumont, Courter & Tocks Island Dam, Leaders Must Keep Our Children’s Children In Mind by Richard E. Harpster Daily Record - ???? Cartoon - two fish talking "After swimming past the sewer outlets of the Glue factory and the asbestos works, the power plant pipes didn’t bother me a bit." - ???? Jerseyana [newspaper feature by William F. Augustine] Road runs deep into the past RE: historic sites in Delaware Water Gap Across the river to victory RE: Delaware River at Washington Crossing That old road of mine… history of Sussex County River flows through history…bridge across the Delaware at Trenton History’s ebb and flow - Delaware River - ???? The Mountain Ear - A Sampling from The Mountaineer’s Mailbag - [newspaper Pocono Mountaineer feature by Robert Fuller] RE: Route 209 - Nancy Shukaitis and Pike County,[ Pa.] Commissioner Warner Depuy designating Route 209 scenic highway Route 209 - Monroe County Commissioner Stuart Pipher vote against Resolution to include Delaware River from Delaware Water Gap To Hancock, N.Y. in Wild and Scenic Rivers legislation Route 209 - discourage truck traffic Monroe County has surplus of money; Nancy Shukaitis re-elected by Wide majority