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The new plant, under present plans, -will ’be ready for com- ■ merciai operatioii by late 1971, and will require a staff of about 65/ a number of whom will have to ; obtain special operating li censes from1he t Atomic Energy * tdjipmission in Washington, D. C. ; Administrative Vice President E H. Stratton : said today in i Albany that after montths of preliminary study the co mpany is exercising its options to pur chase the Gorsky properties, ’and w ill now', go' aheaM with other. extensive tests re quired •bef ore construction of the: plant can get under way. ; The corapiuay said. early last November that .it was • comsider- .ing as the location 'of its second huge nuclear electric generat ing plant $ l site in Washjngton county along the east side of- the Hudson river in the town of Eas(on, about opposite -Semis •Heights. - - -■ - Decision on the site selection, ■ the company, pointed out at that time, had to await preliminary^ test borings to satisfy engineer^ ring experts that the site could; meet this first of a series of exacting standards established by the company aiid the A. E. C. The\ preliminary tests have been completed anti the. decision to acquire the property made. Vast amounts of data, includ ing soil, weather, .and-water- in- forniation, will, he required both, by .the company. and- various regulatory agencies, before the authority is grasnted to start plant construction. The proposed 750,000 kilo watt generating plant will be the second, nuclear power-i generating p lliit Jo ie. built by Niagara Mohawk in 4its upstate New York service’ area. The first, scheduled to; go' into. Op eration in 196$, now is under construction o ji the shore of Lake Ontari-onoar pswego. ; The new plajit, like .the Nine Mile Point \plant near Oswego, will utilize as its source of heat energy a nuclear boiling water reactor.. The ;plant, will be de signed .and fengineered by the company’s engineering ^depart ment. TM^jnuclear system which wilypr»duce the steam to drive kilowatt electric geh|rator,- will be sup plied by General Electric com; .. pany. with .»! large amount n i the . equipment” being manufac tured in S^ejtectady. Niagara pointed out that the nejsw plant would not replace .any^sf Its ejdtsting coal-' fired plants^such as that along the Hudson river south ofAl- b&by in the |oty:n of Be|hlehem^ The company •; now lias four steam-electric and 76 hydro electric stations -with a total .capacity. offtearly 3,00,000 kilo- yvatts. , ; tteT t#o new nuclear plants will Mer^^se j^at capac ity to; 4,3^008 kilowatts. In ' additionr ih^-company has firm contracts foij purchase,>vof 1,400,- 000 kilowatt: Where M illibn Power Plant Will Be Located The possibility oi establish ing an organization to promote business and allied interests in, southern Washington. . county was explored at a jneeting held at 'the;Hfet^€«Hptaadge Friday afternoon. Fourteen people, including two •epresentatives r irodnV theAlbany office of the Ifev York state department of mMaetce; took part tn the dis cussion.\ ~ ■•Fhl^iganf < £ llke tfieeting wag called as a; result of the prospeet of >ndus i trial development \in thes town of Eastpjt; jEUchard Tefft of Tho' Greenwich Journal, who xeguested the meeting of bom- munity leaders, said- in opening the discussion that tlie entire section of southern Washington county would 'be affected''by the Niagara Mphawk Power corpo ration development planned in EastoSI and pointed out'that there would >be opportunities, which should* be grasped, arid problems which tie ’ section should be prepared to face.. There was general agreement that the changes anticipated Easton would doub*tless' bring many new people into this sec*, tion, that busin^M opportuni ties -would : therefore be. ex> tended, that there was good possibility industries would be seekiag to lo»eate in the area and nearby, and that an organ ization to promote this section of th« 'county would serve a useful purpose. -were present from the state c«toinercft department, and they* *too felt a community organization would be beneficial here} and to the commerce de partment too. Mr. Wyld said his office frequently has ’ re quests- from industries seeking to locate, in tBe state. He is not in a position to recommend sites in considerable areas of this section, as hip office has no information a y iil to submit to inquiring businesses. There are organizations in Salem and ill Cambridge which have list ings with the department of commerce. Sp far as records for the rest of this section are concerned, there are none in the commerce department. : 'Both sir. .Wyld and Sir. Flt^n* igari. Encouraged the iniefa ^res> ent to look further into the possibility of establishing a_n organzation to promotethearear The men decided the idea had merit and deserved further study. Each of them is goiia$ to talk with others to deter mine' the public interest iriTlHe . project. - Those — present at- Friday’s meeting in Addition to the men from the commerce department and Mr. Tefft were: Stuart Cu.1- : linan and Dr. Charles R. Clark of Cambridge; (Donald D. Hanks of Salem; Emerson McLenithaun of Jackson; -Vincent Long, John Carmody, JoBH'Fullerton, AlbLn B. NelSOM,' John Crozier, RObferf A. Pratt and Rev. James L. Lowery Jr. of Greenwich. Another meeting of the group is planned for Friday, Febru ary 10, at the Hotel Cambridge. Each of the men who attended Friday's meeting is asked ttf take . two others to the iiest meeting. ■■-■k'VS Jarhes The-Outstanding Cooperator W, Janies Nulty of Easton ‘has been named outstanding cooper- atoj of the Washington county soil and waiter conse-rvatiort dis trict for 1966r and1 fais acliieve- ments will now toe j udged' on a stale-\vid©; ;basis in the Good year conservation (Eistrict con- te st. This conttst rates dis tricts on the services they provide ,to encourage a rounded program of soil, and-water ^on- l senation activities. .. Wr, Nulty has carried on an intensive conservation program on his farm with the assistance of Earl Gates of tlie soil con servation service .at Fort' Ed- ward He has reclaimed .a con- sickraible acreage fo>r crops -on his;. l^O^acre farnri 'th rough, vari- ousdrainage projects and.ditch .and' * has , also -co nstructed nfade draining ithe; land • more of an engineering problem than on most land. /However, it has been aecom.pllished and Mr. Nulty is continuing his ■ reclamation' of land. / : . “ Land is scarce for farming Jisrie Jtnd i t looks-like it- wiim be -scarcer,” Mr. Nulty says. \We have to press into use every bit of land we have.” . Mr. Nulty does rent some land in addition to the 160 acres lie owns. He has 160 head of Holsteins on '• his farm, 85 ! of them milkers at present. A year and a half ago he mod ernized his farm program, and put in a milking parlor: Hie has one hired man,^ and together these two operate the farm, producing more than a million poandSs .of milk t- year. The designation^ of outstand- es, »■ fawii ponds. ' iHe-Muify farm -iV'.afbout: four j ing cooperator oi the county and a half miles south, of route ........... ' 2i) on the- river road in the town .of Easton. 'It is 1-ocated a I oil g- the Hudson river and the larwl has presented a drainage proiblem. -because there is prac- came as a surprise to Mr. Nulty, He didn't know a thing about it until he got a letter from the* district offige. . ,1% awards by Goodyear will „noj be an- pajly. no.- fall, or pitch from the nouaUed unttil Nqveiribef- of this ■FdshfonedCaucusSet By Village GOP Committee The season of village politics ThB’ jictiirie} releasfed itt^NEoveralier by Jfia^aara Mdlla^k Power cdTpq^a^((» it ^aiioioitsed patrons tfce ;# b rsl^ sfiiJ’ws where the nuclear power generating jlant wdll 'fee- was ta&ea lop-Magf nocthieast, and lettered oil the picture are cer- t{#ii ' 'Siiot^EotLte 11$, th.® Biwer roafl in Easton; Route 4j iacross theHu.<lson xiv^er at; Bemja!, Heights; Willard mountaan in the backgromd; and the Gorsky property and the proposed -^ifce' of the plank^ Th« approximate 900 acres now. owned by. Niagara Mohawk ex tends to tihfr left, of the land^^ shoWn in thia pio- tiire. It iaclades considerable acreage across * the llSMghtway. ■*' '/ 1 ;/ ■- Raymond E.' iJohiison of Eas ton is New York state’s Out standing Young Farmer — ar. award conferred on. him by th« state Jaycees organization. H« w ill.. now ibe a candidate 'fiw1' ,^teTia^naTOiiEi®samg YouU| Farmer award, to -be announceil at the national Jaycee cotivehi- ■tion in Virginia in April. •' Mr. Johnson was selected: Washington county’s Outstand ing Young Farmer by thae Whitehall Jaycees w3io spoa sored the cWiity contest. Ther< were 17 entries in the count?, and Mr. Johnson. was^the choice for the title. His name and qualifications were entered in the state Jayce« contest, - and ou>t \of 19 counitj winners competing for the state <title he was chosen. He and Mrs. Johnson were invited to the Jaycee state convention at JanijestowH, las>t week end, one of thre* finalists for tlw. award. They were accompanied to Jaiiiestown -by Frank -Mar txieci of W^iiteliptll, representing the Jayceps, and it was at Hie banquet Saturday evening, at tended by 350 'iaycees, that Mr. Johnson’s' splection was- an nounced. .V-j, \ 'i1'.-- . Tho award- was based on ‘‘ex ceptional,. progress; i-in^-iS^iciaK. ture. and contribution's'ito tOie oonamunity.’!’ *.;>'• ’-’ j . f Mr. Johnson, who is 33' years •old, was bfought up - om the’ farm he now owns in Easton. He graduated fr-om the college p-f 'agricudture; Cornell '.univer sity, in 1954, and Tetutn*ed to the home tyrm. In 195-8 ’he went into par>tners'hip -with his father, Richard Johnson, i n -the operation of the fami-ly faranl. His father’s deatli occurre-d- tiie\ following year, -and Mav. John son purchased\ 74S per ce nt of the. equity of. his father’ s es tate from his three brothers, to becora.*'®ble owner of the 3 >lace, known as Dufelwood farin. - (Continued on Page 4, ,Sece.. A) Folks a Chance to Reminisce : A gireat. many people were prepared for'- . the emergency, when late l&st Friday afternoon electric power ..’went ofL In |act the apprehensive had been pre-: dieting-just. S««h a 'happening that day, w|Mti freezing rain and sleet arrived, V ’ Two hot. sif^tant expefi- erices—tile Ice s’to'Tm in Deceni- terf 1964, a^tl^e g^ea-t iblackottt k -were-. stiU, fresh in mtey if^l'ks’ memories, and most -fa.nii 1 ies' were equipped with, ’oil or battery powered lamps and lanterns, and auxiliary cookirtg devices. A few in fact had generators that’they had purchased for jiist such -Sn emergency; * Just' about .thie time everyone had their emergency - equipment roilhded up alld ready for use, the j^btt'er pSihe baefe-on; . The trouble -^as that a limb fell’ acros.f -the primary lines near the Hojrie f br Aged Women on Academy street in .Green wich. Most power was cut.then and somellost fclieLr power a bit latfer wlien ^#&;'f«p8ar». - 'began, In .all. 1,165 customers were affected. All in all, power was off for •only three-quarters o£ ah; hour to .an hour. It was at- a critical tim e though. -4^ dinner it&fie —^ from15 ~to 6' ‘ o'clock.t^TJb.e-'nfit result for >th« customers' was their dinners were late,- but (Continued on Page 6, Sec. A) is..already 'in ^u.d, and in the ‘fcou-rse of the next few weeks it will burst into bloom. This year voters cf the village of. Greenwich will name a mayor 'and, two trustees. The term-of Jlajor Charles IL Do-lan expires April 1, as do those «f Trustees Gerald Bulger and J. Walter Fitzpatrick. The Republican party in the village, which tradntionally is fil'si in announcing its slate of candidates for ele ctio n in JMafch, is now going through; tie' process of ‘setting up its. caucus. This 'year- Hie GOP committee is changing 'the form of- M caucus to a'pwMic meet- iig o f: Republican electors of fete village.* Tfi^_ meeting wiltv be held at thfe Gomjuuxity cen ter Monday evenirag, Febru ary 13. at 7:30 o’clo*ck. Heretofore, for nt?ay years, the Republican committee \ has required that- ’ party me mb'ers' ^' seefeing. the GOP endorsement as Catfdidates In tihe village election file with the committee secretary. When Sling .time expired the committee had 'bal lots printed with , the names of the candidates, .'and at the cau cus the voters checked these names, or wrote in other names, ani the party’s candidates were tjjus chosen. : The System of former j^ears has worked after a fashion, .but in recent years it tees *been dif ficult to interest anyane in seek ing village office. T3ie commit tee met last week and 'after some discussion <>n this condi tion, . decided that in calling a rneeting: open to all enrolled iReptibHcans in the Ullage- they might generate more iaterest in the party, its candidates, and thfe village in general. At .the February 13 meeting * - * FortrAnn Soldier Ki lle d in V ie tn a m .Sp/4 Owen^G\. G-oodsell7''25, of Fort/Ann was killed -in ac tion in .Vietnam January 24. Specialist Goodsell lia^been in Vietnam with the U.. S. artny for the past sax months. He is survived t>y ‘his mother; two sisters, Miss Barbara. Goodsell o£ Hudson Falls and Mrs. Mary Ann Hurley of Hartford; six brothers, Arnold and Robert of Hudson.Falls, Richiard of Fort Ann, Clifford of South .Glens Falls, H a r o l d of Saratoga Springs#* and Donald Goodsel} of . Argyle. ' —\r election ..will be .made from the floor. • The nie&ting w ill also felect a new village committee and a: WnSanittee' to\ \H r vacan cies. It is anticipated that re freshments will toe serve d fol lowing tihe meeting. A ll resi dents of the village of Green- wic(i who are enrolled -mem bers of the Hepublacan party may attend the meeting and are entitled to,vote. Present members ef the Re publican village computtee are: John Crozier and Richajrd S. Tefft, co-chairmen; James Catal- tfuno, secretary; Clillord Whit aker, John . Ross, Ro»bert A. Pratt, Robert T. IVresick and -Kwxiiefli Tt. Petteys, Sunday Pickup A t Post. O ffice Postmaster E. A Lesson an nounces that in <the -future JsuhJ day and holiday onail will *be picked up only' at the mall box in front of the. post office for dlspateh that, afternoon from the Glens Falls office. The col lection will be made at 4 p.m. frphi Ahls. box. M ail placed in other boxes ip . the village on Sundays and holidays, will toe collected Alonday morning ’ for dispatch that day. itcfl to Open Part of Its Mew Wing Twelve senii-priv^te rooms'.in the new wing at the' Mary Mc Clellan hospital in Cambridge will be ready for occupancy later this month, it is expected. This wing is ' cbiff^cted'- wlth the present 200 floor, with a nurses’ ‘station at the entry of the wing. Mrs. Leona Scott will be in charge of the new sta tion, sharing the duties with Mrs. Jane-PortWirte. - S ; * , * '* f V An automatic conveyor to carry supplies to. all parts of the hospital has_fee.en, installed, and an elevator .has been built in the new wijtg, making two elevators available, to carry pa tients to this floor. ... . The new .wiflg; w ill also in clude operating Suites, supply rooms and laboratory, but these are not eompietfedi: Extensive renovations are be ing made to the existing build ings and these ^ progressing,, so that it is hoped .the entire building program w ill be1 com pleted this spring. An open house will be held when the building is completed so. .people of this section niay become ac- auainted with the new hospital facilities and‘layout. , Renovations have, necessitated moving Certain \ . departments tenapoparily, Tli^Gflb^tetiicar pa tients are now loused on the third floor of; _ the original building, and’. this requited milting a number Of alterations to meet patients’ needs. The Washington c.®,ttut;y mental health .clinic formerly jtad these quarters, and the clinic is how located in the house on the hos pital grounds provided' for the aaminLstrator, . ' ” Wasser to Current Sexual Attitudes i*n: Teenagers is to b6- the topic oi; i Ja lk ; br. iljavid .Wasser, a: t, |he meeting of the Green-wicli central school Parent Teaeliei-s 'issd(*rtlcai^.'nexf 40& ^ hing at rth^ -;dem^|aiy- schoosl Ctfeterip. . 'J : '' - , 'Tlie^meeting begins1’’at -8 p.mt.. and residents of the school dis trict are welcome to attend. Fot- lowing Dr. Wasser’s remarka\ there will be a discussion pe riod and refreshments w ill be Sen^edv . ; Dr. Wasser was born in To*- ronto,_Canada. May 22, 1925, and after complpting his prelim;- . inaiy** edxfeation in the pitblic school system or-that city, he earned his M.D. degree from the , University of Toronto in 1948. 'A fter serving two years- internship, he took three years of post-graduate training in psy chiatry at the State University of. Iowa College of Medicine iin |owa City, complpting his tfaln:-: ing in 1953^ 'Following a yefiir Of work at the Provincial Mental hospital ih British Columbia, he.... returned to Iowa City where he served as an' instructor in the psychiatry department and a4 the same time held the post of psychiatrist in the' university’s student health service., .. Dr. Wasser and his family moyed to .Saratoga Sjycifigs ini. 1957 and for a while he served orj the staffs of the mental health clinics in Washington, Warren and Saratoga counties. For several years he served as director Of. the mental health services ih both Washington and Saratoga counties and was con sultant in psychiatry to the Skidmore college health service. Tn 1963 he relinquished his positions with the Saratoga county mental health clinic and Skidmore college and Since that time his professional activities have included serving as direc tor of community mental health services for Washington county and engaging in the private practice of psychiatry in Sara toga Springs. Dr. Wasser holds positions on the .consulting staffs of Mary McClellan and Saratoga hospitals. In 1956 he was certified, as a diplomate in psychiatry by the \ American Board of Psychiatry and Neurol ogy, IriS.1' H i holds membership, in a number of national and local medicar and psychiatry .associations and, societies^. Ih addition to his professional activities, Dr. Wasser has served on committees for the -annual Saratoga art fair,, is a life mem ber of the Saratoga Performing arts center and is on the board of directors of the Washington county economic opportunities committee. • ' He is married to the former Florence E. McAninch, who was . an instructor iri psychiatric nursing at the State University of. Iowa. Dr. and Mrs. Wasser reside in Saratoga Springs with their children, Rdchel 12, Joha 10 and Erte 8. *1 v.*■- ! ■ H, A
