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Questioned about the
pcBsiblefaUuiv of the current hospital fund drive,
Lawson responded that he
would rather view the
fund drive in a podtive
light and thought the fund
drive to be an assured success,: V-*
"There's no question
that the community will
support the capital fund
d r i v e f o r ,-thej n e w
hospital/' said Lawson.
The chief administrator
a d d e d , t h o u g h , that
whether or not the
hospital fund drive is a
success, the money is still
thereBill Chaney, who locally heads the firm hired by
the hospital to conduct
the drive, said later in the
week that the statement
by Lawson needed to be
clarified.
jr "The money has been
guaranteed through lines
Of credit," said Chaney,
who was not asked to attend last week's conference, "But that money
has to be paid back and
that's the reason for the
|und drive. The money
isn't there unless the peoiAs contribute to the new
hospital."
| The $1,060,000 has
been borrowed through
two lines of credit, he
Said. The State Bank of
Albany has guaranteed a
personal
credit
of
$450,000 and International Paper has done the
same with the Morgan
G u a r a n t y Trust for
$610,000. Both of these
lines of credit are to be
paid back first, hopefully
through the fund drive,
before payments are
made on the FHA-insured
foan of 5^,900,000 which
was borrowed through a
Buffalo banking firm.
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threc-weiL old fund drive v
Iway behind" on its time
Taming vtitwpoWB^onJpffiim*
schedule, largely because
of a late receipt of printed
materials, these arriving
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economic growth and
prosperity.
Asbf Jatelastweek, the;
drive had amassed around
« 6 5 , 0 0 0 towards the ,.
$700,000 goal. Chan#
said that he had hoped to
wrap up the soliciting /of.$
the "hospital f « ^ r l # |
this week and begin ask*
ing for donations from the
many local groups, such
as International Pa i-'-M
Grand Union. P & C and
Ames.
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T m still opHmj»%,'f| j
s a i d the
peskom^M
.Chaney, "because J / s t f | y
believe that there are a l o t ;
of people who wanit-•.$,.
hospital here no matter
what the cost."
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Local fund drive chairman Adolpb Diskin concurred with Cheney's
view, stating; *i knew it
was going to be hard when
I started, but we're still
confident that we are going to hit the top figure.
DuRoss, who iionethlless
Tm sure that the people of
managed
to lure an eightTiconderoga realize the
pound
nbrtbern
pike from
importance of the hospital,
La
Chute
last
July.
to Ti. Tm confident that
O'Neil has ill memories
they'll help."
of the forced drying of La
Chute in 1977.
"There were these
young boys carrying out
four-pound bass," said
O'Neil. "You couldn't
Condnoed from page 1
blame them because these
bass would die anyway.
proach its current state of
There was no water."
readiness to act on the
repairs.
Both
O'Neil and
Posdick said that the
DuRoss agreed that had it
DOT officials "would
not been for the sewer
meet with anybody at any system, with the water as
time" on the issue of exlow as its present twc-toplaining the "40 ra.p.h.
three foot level, the stink
alternative." A meeting is
would be unbearable.
being
planned
for
A few houses down
Ticonderoga in the near
Schuyler Street lives Mrs.
future.
John Pomerleau. She
remembers promises to
make the waters there
safe for swimming.
Petco
CONNA Corporation
"My husband was going
has reached agreement in
to build a restrainer here
principle to acquire up to
by the bank, because the
26 gasoline stations and 16
current gets strong, so
convenience-type food
that the kids could swim,'1
-storesf form' *^fb*H^jW| she' Remembered, 1adding^
Company Inc., Sdutn
that the water's so low and
Royal ton, Vermont.
not that clean for swimm-
DOT gets
feedback
Xn an era when water
power was kjbug, the
waters of La Chute tnrnev
the wheel* that ran the
mills that transformed a
nineteenth
century
agricultural village into an
industrial center.
year. The receding water
ea«Md dw tanned t o the
dry spcljbi i> JI ^
While cflumttess communities barriesaed their
"old mdl ttteawt"
the
watei po»et afforded by
La Chute was in many
ways unusupl. Most areas
had to cojkt^nt themselves
with> tew null sites that
sawed the local lumber, or
ground the? local grain.
La Chute^however, Was
over a mule long with
several rapids .allowing
numerous sites -where
waterwheels o r turbines.,
could be constructed
without interfering with
flow of water through La
other * industries. Also, A
Chute, Mrs. Pomerleau
Tjconderoga's mill stream
feared a day when the;
emptied into
Lake
1
stream/would be dry e*
Champlain and the Lake
ecept for the,Spring
Champlarn Canal, so
"Where would t h e goods -produced of refinanimals go 9 What abqut ed at Ticonderoga could
the fish, they would die?'' be shipped to major
asked a
p e r p l e x e d markets cheaply
Pomerleai
A gazeteer of New.*
In dicussions about La York published in 1813,
Chute, such questions are lists' for Ti^kderoga:
seldom or. never raised,' seven saw nulls, three
except, it,seems, by the grain mills, three forges,
concerned residents of two carding machines [us- .
Schuyler Street.
ed. to comb wool] and a
br<oom factory - all
powered by water and
located on La Chute or its
tributaries. This was an
that the Town Board
amazing a m o u n t o f
meeting this Thursday will
development for a farmbe held in the Main St.
ing: community of 200
building. An official mo- families and less than
tion has to be offered
l ,00Q total inhabitants.
before such a transition
can take place.
By the-middle of the
i n g that he* family is still
/waiting.
,
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Vhaye3,,,|^2loV|
:.pt;me
neighboring wildlife. Sitting by' the edge 61 La
Chute,
the
little
Pomerleau girls named all
the animals ~ racoons,
skunks, beavers — that
they have watched from
their backyard.
With talk of IP
breaching the dam and
the State regulating Lake
G e o r g e water levels
which cuts the natural
Crown Pt. has new town hall
Data abont Naw c
cular saw and ;
refinery, a/woolen milk
capable of handlmt pulp
planning mills and several
wood sixteen inches in
tanneries I
diameter.
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Industrial \development
A variety of factors
of La Chute reached its
combined to bring about a
peak during the final
daclw*inthe«aiaflr^ate*
quarter of the 19th Cen- power teTicc^ideroga and
turyi well into the age of
throughout the nation,
steam. During tins time,
The
expansion
of
the river powered a sash railroads diminished the
and door factory, cotton
impoutanoe o f ^»**r
mill, custom grisr and
travel
*nd
W*de
plaster: mill, a < machine T i w i i d e i r o ^ * . loo*tff« M*> I
works, a shirt factory u*r less appealing for to- W
ing 150 water-powered
dustry. This increased use
sewing machines^ and of raikoads'ano; peveropthree pulp and- paper inenf o t ^team, £t%, a ^
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A * > eleptrlcal power^madc }t *
f
'tfaodes, the, numerous ntnch easier to locate fac-,
Jtocations* afforded by La
tor|ek nearer t o &*>
ver
Chute, the 4
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materials or markets and ,
que j n the amount of
sounded the death knell
wafer power that it could
for small, local industries v
supply? The 2|X)-f<x>tdro^
, ajV 9ver the country.. - V 'Mi"
between - and the large
t^fn Ticonderoga, ' t h e j w
volutnej-pf wafer cohjuig
^ater-^owered industries'" ^
pver -"ttie^falls^reat^a « « i i
y i t h e t s closed, ntoved
water power the year-}
elsewhtSref ^or converted
round and allowed the
to electricity. In the 20th
establishment of large facCentury',,
there' is hrtle/ Jo
tories
and
he,dvy t
machinery
1 „ iy * * reniindtus that LaChu|e;
fllirthe 1890's/the river_ whatever modernjmagejif
was estimated at dehver-' elieits, once provided fac .
ing 10,000 h p. and it was economic ^lifeblood ; t o | ^
T^ondei;oga, - ;
^
^
noted that this figure
represented only a partial
development
The Honcon Iron Company
used
two.
2,700-pound hammers'
and. received' its wateif
from a tube 400 ffije^Jbng^
and six feet in diameter. A : FROM BOSTON HARBOB
slightly smaller.tube pro-*'
vided enough power to
operate 60,000 spindles at
the cotton mill, while at
least one of the pulp mills '
used a water-pbwered cir-."
Continued from page 1
Each official will have his
or her own office, with a
large meeting hall connecting all three rooms. A
ramp has been constructed to allow for handicap access to the
Wth 4Cejftury, the inbuilding. Crews have also
At Thursday's meeting,
dustrial, lis* of La Chute
been spreading dirt and
one of the items up for
had
discussion is a new con- ; and outlying streams
gravel for extended park12
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Look for models with low
energy requirements
R e c o g n i z e that t h e
amount of energy needed
IQ your home may vary
from the estimate based
^ esi standard conditions.
(flat G a | ranges use energy
legs efficiently than electric ranges. For example,
Surface burners on gas
ranges may be about 40
percent efficient, whereas
surface units on electric
ranges may be about 60
percent
efficient.
^ A l t h o u g h electric'ranges
V a r e more efficient than
ga( ranges within the
home,' there is a loss of
energy in producing elec' tricity.Wheh fossil fuels
at^ used to generate electrlcity, about 33 percent
o f tbe"energy used is converted t o electricity^ the
rest is waited, The choice of energy
I source fdr cooking c a i be
based on it* efficiency;
however* it will more likely be $ased on dther con-,
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whether gas i s available,
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the energy used by the appliance in the home.
The energy efficiency
of a refrigerator-freezer is
determined by overall
size, insulation, method
of defrosting, andfreezercompartmenlL Location,
size and temperature.
When you shop for a new
refrigerator, sleet an appropriate,- size_ tix serve
household requirements
and future* needs. Too
large a unit wastes energy
as it cook unused space;
loo small a refrigerator
necessitates extra shopping trips. ,
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New forms of insulation
are used to decrease the
enrgy used, in some
refrigerators and freezers
To prevent the^unit from
"sweating" in hot, Tnunid
air, some new modehj use
a neater to keep the out9U& walk from being t o o
cold: A switch, to turn off
the heater in winter,
allows you to save energy
and dollars. In other
models, a part of the condenser tubing, called a
jMst-cendenser loop, is
installed In the walls of
each time they M , depending upon the size of the
load
A dishwasher makes efficient use of energy and
your time, but for the
sake of energy conservation it is important to
maximize its efficiency
Consider a unit with an
energy-saving switch that
automatically omits the
use of heat during the drying cycle and thereby
saves 20-40 percent of
dishwasher operating
costs. If your present
dishwasher does not have
an energy-saving switch,
you can save the same
amount of energy by turning off the unit and opening the door at the end of
the rinse cycle.
Like a clothes washer, a
dishwasher uses a very
small amount of energy
Its mam operating cost
hes in the use of hot
water
For efficient
operation, a dishwasher
requires 140 degrees
Farenheit water The high
setting improves cleaning
and sanitation, inhibits
streaking and sporting,
and
provides
best
detergent action. Becuase
the water temperature is
10-20 dregrees Farenheit
above that needed for
other household tasks,
you may want to consider
installing a separate
20-gallon water heater
near the dishwasher. This
will permit you to lower
the thermostat setting on
your main water heater.
Over time, the smaller
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freezers.
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washers, dryef^ a n d
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necessarily a s oftear as
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The^' American Gas manula-defrost models.
( There are a number of
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The freezer compartenergy. More efficient safety, UL standards ment of a refngertftorunits, usually cost more e v a l u a t e
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Because estimates are bakes one potato or a
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