Folder 5: DVCA Early Material, 1939 - 1987

- 1939 June 30 The Tock’s Island Dam The Record Stroudsburg, Pa - 1964 December [implied photograph] Taken December 1964 Kittatinny location South of Wallpack Center [ no photograph attached] - 1964 January [implied photograph] Picture taken in January 1965 Crater Lake …some scheme like Hidden Lake [no photograph attached] - 1965 April 13 Woman Gets Her Hearing on Tocks Island Plan Philadelphia Inquirer - 1965 April 15 [postcard] from Wm A. LaMac to Mrs. N. Shukaitis RE: interest In Del. Valley Co. As. - 1966 August 25 Group fears A-bombs to drop on Tocks Pocono Record - 1966 November 15 Water Gap Master Plan Revealed Top Recreation Areas Slated; U.S. Has Deeds to Tocks Land Held by Squatters, Court Told S. Times - 1966 December 6 DVCA suit against Tocks is continues - 1967 February 10 {typed note] from Kathy King Richlands? Colorado Springs, To Delaware Valley Conservation Ass’n RE: advertisement for HELP In Human Events - 1967 February 14 Judge Orders Briefs Filed in Tocks Lawsuit - 1967 March 2 DVCA urges water supply - 1967 April 19 Authors review books on area - East Stroudsburg “Before the Waters: Upper Delaware Valley” by G.C. Menzies - 1967 April 13 Story of “Year Outdoors” open to adults, children - Eva Mildred Rodimer of Newton, N.J. - 1967 April 18 Conservation Group Hears of New Book - “Before the Waters” - 1967 April ? Delaware Valley Conservation Assn., Inc. to membership RE: Two women authors to speak at meeting: Eva Rodimer and Elizabeth Menzies - 1968 October [typed three pages legal sized paper] Delaware Valley Conservation Assn. Inc. to Members RE: legal action to preserve Delaware Valley region - 1968 December 16 [photocopy of postcard] from Al Perlee? To Sgt. Marshall - 1968 December 20 [handwritten letter] from Sid [Marshall?] to Nancy RE: S.A.R. [Sons of American Revolution?] support and T.I.R.A. C. - 1969 January 10 [handwritten letter] from Nendawen?to Nancy RE: VietNam War and Air Force letting go thousands of G.I.s early because Air Force Ran short of payroll - 1969 February 24 [typed two page letter] from Sidney G. Marshall, Jr., Franklin T. Marshall and Dorothy R. Marshall to Lake Success Property Owners” Association Inc. Mr. Fitzpatrick RE: condemnation of Mr. Levigne’s Holdings in Skyline Acres/Lake Success development for a government Lease - 1969 February 25 [typed two page letter] from Nendawen to Nancy RE: federal Government assuming individual properties, Camp Pokono Ramona gone - 1969 March 5 [typed note] from Edith J. Hull to Delaware Valley Conservation Assn RE: thanks for all their efforts - 1969 April 1 [handwritten] from Nendawen RE: Sunfish Pond Saved????? Public Service GIVES land back????? Hydroelectric at Tock’s Dam - 1969 April 29 [typed note] from Margaret [M PK] to Nancy RE: Justice Department looks with disfavor on the Susquehanna Compact because Congress begins to suspect it may be giving away too much power to Compacts, thinks about writing to the U.S. Justice Department, House Judiciary, Senate Judiciary Committees regarding the Delaware - 1969 May 12 [handwritten letter] from Delaware Valley Conservation Association Officers - Frank Jones, George Wilson, Eleanor Egger, N. Shukaitis, J. Matheson to Loyal DVCA Member RE: events concerning the Tocks Island Dam, Sunfish Pond, DWGN Recreation Area - 1969 May 15 [typed letter] from Margaret to Nancy RE: reservoir in limestone Area, cites Dr. Trembley [Francis J., professor at Lehigh] - 1969 June 8 Tocks Area Residents Growing More Bitter Newark Sunday News - 1969 June 16 [typed letter] from Henry R. Schnitzer [Bayonne, N.J] to Nancy RE: Nancy’s visit to Washington, D.C. - 1969 July 5 Delaware Valley Conservation Association [notice] Announcing the Annual Membership Meeting and Special Program by the National Audubon Society [2 copies] - 1969 July 28 DVCA, TICA, lock horns over Tocks Island project Pocono Record - 1969 November 16 [handwritten note] from Mrs. Conover to Mrs. Fuller RE: enclosed copy [no copy] of paper Harpster loaned to her, Mrs. Shukaitis should have a copy too - 1969 November 19 [handwritten note] from Virginia Fuller to Mrs. Sukaitis RE: Enclosed copy [no copy] of John Sherman Cooper’s speech as to the Legality of Congress perpetuating the T. I. projects - 1970 October 25 Agenda - Delaware Valley Conservation Assn. Fourth Annual Meeting - 1970 November 13 [typed note] from George? To Nancy RE: account balance - 1971 June 16 Grossman Publishers - Julia C. Colmore, Publicity Director to Nancy Shukaitis RE: Ralph Nader’s Raiders speaking to Delaware Valley Conservation Association - 1971 June 29 [letterhead] United States Department of the Interior - Peter DeGelleke to Edith J. Hull RE: master plan for Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area - 1971 July 2 from Edith to Nancy RE: chance of Ian L. McHarg coming to speak at Annual DVCA meeting, Al Green of the Times-Herald picked up protest Against the land grab - 1971 December 14 [letterhead] U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers Philadelphia RE: opening a Real Estate Office in Fire Hall in Dingmans Ferry to assist Those persons whose property is being purchased in connection with Tocks Island Lake project - 1971 December 15 Tocks Sewage Plan Draws Little INterest at Hearing by Gary Brooten Evening Bulletin Philadelphia - 1973 May 14 [five typed pages] Summary of Statement of Mrs. Mina Haefele, Vice President of the Delaware Valley Conservation Association Before The House and Senate Subcommittees on Public Works Appropriations - 1973 July 20 United States Department of the Interior - Raymond L. Freeman To Honorable John C. Stennis, Subcommittee on Public Works RE; Response to statement made by Mrs. Mina Haefele [13 printed pages] - 1973 August 9 [letterhead] Environmental Law Group University of Pennsylvania Law School to Delaware Valley Conservation Assoc. Inc. RE: law Students dedicated to legal methods to solution of environmental problems - 1974 ? Proposed Program Inventory historic structures Minisink - 1974 [booklet] A Watershed Association for Your Valley, published by MACWA Mid-Atlantic Council of Watershed Associations [12 pages] - 1974 March 4 Delaware Valley Conservation Association Attacks Chamber of Commerce Tocks Report - 1974 August 27 [letterhead] Schnader, Harrison, Degal & Lewis - Sterling H. Schoen, Jr. to Honorable Daniel H. Huyett, 3rd RE: D.V.C.A. et al. v. Calloway et al Civil Action No. 74-1044 (E.D. Pa.) - 1974 December 20 Delaware Valley Conservation Association - Statement by Mina Haefele, President, DVCA, before Four County Task Force Meeting - 1975 January 27 Delaware Valley Conservation Association news release United States District Court Denies DVCA Preliminary Injunction Against National Park Service Headquarters Building - at Bushkill, Pa. [2 copies] - 1975 January 31 from Mina Haefele announcing a Task Force Tour on Old Mine Road [Minisink Valley] on N.J. side of the Delaware River leaving Millbrook, N.J. tour conducted by Mina Haefele [letter] from Mina to Nancy RE: NY Times admitted that historic structures exist In area, car tour visit of Van Campen Inn, Hull House, Ennis and Westbrook-Bell, timme;s pf copper mines just discovered by Sid Marshall - 1975 February 2 [handwritten letter] from Edith to Nancy RE: meeting of DVCA Concern about liability on a countersuit - 1975 February 2 [typed in red] from Sid Marshall to Nancy RE: Nancy’s Friendship with Park Service might split the DVCA - 1978 March 10 Tocks Checkerboard park? Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. - 1978 July 9 Tammany and Minsi form natural gateway to Poconos Monroe County Sunday Herald - 1980 Fall DVCA News Management Plan Highlights: Lease Update, Feds to Get Route 209 - 1981 April 14 [letter] from Robert L. Dalley - Western Carolina University to Nancy RE: Tocks Island Dam, The Late Little T: A Lesson in Defeat Outdoor Life October 1980 - 1984 December 31[handwritten note] Sid Roberts to Nancy RE: getting new Lease, six color photos enclosed [no identification] - 1985 January 18 Are River Basin Authorities Un-American by Lt. Col. F. P. Farrell Letters to Editor News Eagle The Wallenpaupack Area - 1985 January 31 Eugene Underwood, Jr. Office of Legal Services notice of Address change - 1986 Water Resources Development Act of 1986 Fish & Wildlife - 1986 [handwritten notes] Water Development Act P.L. 99-662 of 1986 - 1987 January 21 Tocks Dam proposal could get final blow Pocono Record - 1987 July 2 [letterhead] Committee on Public Works and Transportation - James J. Howard to Ms. Nancy M. Shukaitis RE: Section 1001, Public Law 99-662 Water Resources Development Act of 1986 - 1987 September 29 [Letter] to Harold Lockwood - Save the Delaware, Mina Hamilton - Delaware Valley Conservation Assn., Gretchen Leahy and Thomas Iessi and all other Honorable Anti-Tocksers from Nancy Shukaitis RE: enclosed 1986 November 17 Public Law 99-662 Water Resources Development Act of 1986 --No Years attributed-- - Obtaining “fair and just compensation” for property being taken by the U.S. Government for the Tocks Island Dam and National Recreation Area - [letter] from Mina to Nancy RE; “how to get a better price for your Property” - [letter] from Mina to SDC Member RE: Save the Delaware Coalition and Tocks Island Dam and Recreation area, Minisink Plan - Delaware Valley Conservation Association $1.5 Million Tocks Study in Jeopardy - Delaware Valley Conservation Association 10 million dollars at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area - The Billion Dollar Beavers October 10-12 Army Corps of Engineers - Delaware Valley Conservation Association - An Open Letter to Congresswoman - Helen Meyner RE: proposed Tocks Island Dam - [petition from residents of] Monroe County to Congress Wayne B. Aspinall RE: - Proposed Tocks Island National Recreation Area - [handwritten notes] RE: 30 bills before Congress to wipe out permit program, - 40 Corps district in the country permit to plow, stock pond and pools - IN DEFENSE OF RIVERS A Citizens’ Workbook Impacts of Dam and Canal - Projects - Delaware Valley Conservation Association - SAVE THE DELAWARE COALITION Questionnaire - Science Versus Atomic Energy - Delaware Valley Conservation Assn. Fourth - Annual Meeting - [Notes] DVCA strongly supports the goal of preserving th Upper Delaware… - [2 copies] - Yet Another Urgent Tocks Alert - Delaware Valley Conservation Association - Sussex County Historical Society protests Army Corps demolitions - Delaware - Valley Conservation Association