Folder 9: Land Acquisition, 1965 - 1991

- 1965 Government Land Acquisition A Summary of Land Acquisition by Federal, State and Local Governments up to 1964 Percentage of land owned by The Federal and State governments and tax-exempt Indian land in the United States as of June 30, 1963 by American Forest Products Industries, Inc. 127 pages - 1965 June 30 Percent of Land Owned by the Federal Government in the United States Chart 4, Federal Land Within the United States Chart 5 - 1966 November 10 Testimony of Gladys Long, Collbran, Colorado Before the Public Land Law Review Commission Hearing, Alburquerque - 1966 November-December Public Lands Testimony by David F. Nolan Freedom Magazine - 1967 April Analysis of Corps Statement Price Paid at Time of Condemnation Tract #122, 552 - 1967 July 1 [small brochure] Land Acquisition Procedure for Tocks Island Dam And Reservoir and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, U.S. Army Engineer District, Philadelphia Corps of Engineers - 1968 January Government Land Acquisition Plans and Programs by States Report No. 6 - 1968 August 23, 27 Kittatinny Beach Lifeless Under Federal Auspices; Memories Of Kittatinny Beach The Morning Call Allentown, Pa - 1968 December 16 New relocation law to benefit homeowners Pocono Record - 1969 May 25 High Prices for Tocks Billboard Land Draws Gasps; Senate to Begin Work on Tocks Island Bill Newark Sunday News - 1969 June 8 Where’s the Justice? RE: Mrs. Ruth Huber Sounding Off by Terry Connelly Newark News - 1969 July 20 Missing Ingredients - Editorials RE: Bill introduced in Congress by Representative Thompson “uniform and equitable treatment of Landowners displaced by Federal projects New Jersey Sunday Herald - 1970 March 17, December 30 Analysis of Corps Statement RE: Price Paid at Time of Condemnation Tracts #620, 805, 807, 6510, 7062, 7111-1, 7111-2 - 1971 January 1 Public Law 91-646 Expenses Incidental to Transfer of Title to United States, Litigation Expenses, Requirements for Uniform Land Acquisition policies… - 1971 September 30 Press Release: Rooney [U.S. Rep. Fred B] Says Permissive Approach to Land Development in Tri-State Tocks Island Region Poses Biggest Threat to Dam, Asks Delaware River Basin Commission to Crack Down Hard [2 copies] - 1974 January 24 Tocks acquisition suit by John Hedin New Jersey Herald - 1977 April 20 [letterhead] Commissioners’ Office Monroe County SPECIAL FOR THE MORNING CALL by Nancy Shukaitis RE: Trexler Property Owners, Beware - 1977 April 23 READERS WRITE Message from a neighbor: ‘Trexlelrites beware!’ By Nancy Shukaitis Morning Call Allentown [3 copies] - 1977 November 9 Department of the Army Philadelphia District, Corps of Engineers - Col. Harry V. Dutchyshyn to Monroe County Commissioners Island Lake Project [no status report attached] - 1979 April [newsletter] Our Scenic Delaware - Law preserves 113 miles of Delaware River, National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Region - 1979 June [small tablet campaign give-away for Claude Heller for County Auditor] all pages filled with Nancy’s notes - National Park Service Meeting - 1980 February 7 Park service continues to buy land for rec area The Pocono Record - 1981 June [newspaper] Sportsmen face eviction by Adam Zdrodowski New Jersey Federated Sportsmen - 1984 July 13 Bill before Congress would give DWGNRA $1.8 million Pocono Record - 1991 November 2 [small note] Harrison Whittaker blt pond 75 yd wide 400-500 Yd long fish NPS tore it out = 70 yrs old “unsafe” old meadow old bogs Down in there = Dingsmans’ launch - [small note] Earth day a few yrs back - otter coming beaver eagle … - [envelope] Arthur Rall to Jos. B. McFeeley 10 acres $40,000 H. Bruce Sherman To Rhinehart 27.84 acres…. Tocks Area Owners Paid Half a Million Mina to Nancy “Here is a copy of the Corps comments on my May 14 testimony & of my rebuttal to their comments. Its a lot of material to go through but I hope you have a chance to do so.” [13 pages attached] - Statement of Mrs. Nancy Shukaitis, Commissioner, Monroe County, Pa to Senator Cooper and Chairman Senator Ellender RE: Tocks Project [2 c] - [cartoon] Losses of Government Owned Corporations Personal Taxes (on scales of justice held by blindfolded figure of Justice) - [flyer for documentary film] For All People, For All Time U.S. Property NO TrespassingAugust 26, 27, 28 Sherman Theatre Stroudsburg, Valley Filmworks, Inc. Waverly, Pennsylvania