Troy Record, The (Newspaper) - October 24, 1977, Troy, New York Troy Council Page 16 Spending in areas Page 17 A man of Henry took control of a small iron and nail factory in By the Civil War hed built his Burden Iron Works into a sprawling in plantation with works along the Wynantskill and down on the banks of the His ingenious inventions continually modernized the iron industry a puddling a device to make horseshoes in one motion and he built the most powerful water wheel in the BURDEN POND at Mill Street and Cambeil Avenue stored the water that turned the huge water In the dry summer season water was also stored in system of lakes 24 miles long including the Burden and Crystal A system of gates and dams kept the water flowing in every month but Water reached the wheel by a labyrinth of locks and causeways above and below the Photo by Bump called effective CLIFTON PARK Preventing Johnny from shooting peas all over the elementary school cafeteria and making sure the high school lavatories dont fill with smoke are part of the School Districts on go ing according to school superintendent Edwin In a report on discipline he delivered to the school he said he was op about the effectiveness of the discipline crackdown which began last It is difficult to get statistics which say we have clearly succeeded or he but I have had only two complaints from parents about the discipline guidelines and many positive One of the complaints accus ed me of being too West Point ish and the other said I was not concerned with how children He continued that he thought dis had improved at although we have a long way to get back to how we had he told the school board He said the hiring of seven halftime discipline aides in the seven district elementary schools had eased the dis burden off the shoulders of the principals of those Out of the referrals to the aides from bus drivers and there were only seven complaints about the way aides handled the Dunmire said that even though il was difficult for bus drivers to take the time to fill out complaint and referral forms about students who misbehave on buses and everything from failing to stay in their seats to shouting excessively is a violation of bus behavior there were 335 parents contacted by sides as a result of referrals by Out of those 27 children had their bus privileges suspended for one day or In the area of cafeteria there were 71 elementary students referred to with 29 suspensions which mean children cannot eat in the cafeteria un less their parents are Sometimes the children eat in the principals and sometimes in a In the middle bus curbing and cleaning up the lavatories were priorities in the dis Dunmire said bus referrals increased from 19 in the 1975 76 school year to 79 last He said there were 234 referrals for bad language and 48 for more than one inci dent of He also said the lavatories had been considerably cleaned In the high the big discipline problem is class The district in a new policy last year that said anyone caught cutting a class five or more times would be expelled from that Dunmire said as a result the total number of class cuts has decreased by from to Kids will follow the I Dunmire if they believe we mean what we Another objective at the high school is to reduce the graffiti on the desks i Visitors can sit at a desk and see all kinds of profanity written on and to reduce truancy He said 19 per cent of the high school students miss more than 20 days of school during the 188 day He compared that figure with the absentee rate in which generally has the highest illness and said the kindergarten absences were about half that The school board has reaffirmed the district policy on REMAINS of a foundry stand heating puddling forges among the fallen This is the punching storage rooms and only bit of a building still above the rivet factories and hundreds of feet The huge industrial com of great brick Photo by plex once included shearing Bump By MARIE STANLEY Staff Writer Chance of precipitation near zero has been a phrase missing from media weather reports in recent here and in most of the If the rain drops keep the area could make the Top not but for a wet weather The unusual autumn is not on the Hit Parade of with millions reported in crop loss and equip ment mired in muddy The area has had inches of precipitation rain and snow since the first of the an increase of in ches more than The eighth wettest year was in 1972 with inches of precipitation So if we have a snowy we might be in the Top There was an unbelievable and fan tastic amount of rain that fell in said Ray Wrightson of National Weather Service at Albany County It rained 20 out of 30 he with a total of which is inches above It was the eighth wettest September on record since Ariel this month its rained 13 out of 20 The wettest year in the history of the area ever recorded was in with inches of The ninth wettest year was 1975 with They are sharp contrasts from the drought of tlie Even August was above normal in with Normal rainfall is The seriousness of the heavy rains to farmers was stressed last week in Syracuse at emergency aid meetings with 10 rain soaked counties reporting total crop losses at ac cording to Associated Crop damages could exceed state Agriculture Commissioner Roger said at the The 10 counties won preliminary approval for designation by the Agriculture Secretary Bob as agricultural disaster AP noted Thai designa up on givin tion allows farmers in those areas to apply for special low interest In the report from it was noted that as many as more counties might make applications for disaster As of none had been made by Warren or Saratoga but of were keeping an eye on the Glenn Kinkade of Farm and Home Ad ministration Office in Hudson said thai based on a meeting of the Emergency Hoard it appeared quite immi nent that farmers in Columbia County have suffered at least a 20 per ccn He added that another meeting is planned in about two weeks with Cooperative Extension relating to crop In George executive director of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation noted the abnormal rains in the He said that a number of meetings have been held on the harvest and crop The Times October 1977 9 A RUSTED RELIC of the great iron a cast iron bolt probably used to shore up machine With the rise in steam power during the 19th industry tended to move down out of the Burden opened extensive plants along the Hudson in South Troy and at one point he boasted having a mile of Photo by Bump Last week Tom of County Cooperative Extension Service noted that about 43 per cent of the corn crop was but the remainder was literally under He said last year at this time 65 per cent had been He added thai a close watch was being kept on the In the report from Syranise last it was noted in a special survey 20 per cent of the upstate onion crop out side Orange County would be lost 30 per cent of the dry bean fields would he abandoned and nearly 25 per cent of the states sweel corn and 25 per cent of its beet fields would not be harvested Some sunny Indian Summer weather would certainly but a glance at the extended forecast sees more showers in the An on off again situation is predicted for this Tuesday is ex to be but showers are predicted for Thursday will be and perhaps provide shades of Indian Showers are seen for TODAYS EARLY MORNING temperature was minus two degrees centigrade or 28 degrees Fahrenheit as recorded in down town Troy just after the sun came Photo by The National Service ex perls temperatures to rise to a more normal range after Mondays cold snap The record low temperature for this date was 16 After all that we didnt even set a By RANDY WYNN Record Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Taken at face it seemed likely to be one of the most unpopular ideas since swine flu Asking 435 House members to pass up vacations of nearly two months and in stead stay in Washington and work figured to be a difficult proposition to And on Thursday Edward D West Sand finally stopped pushing his proposal to make a work session of the period after Congress adjourns next plan was to convene seminars and committee sessions dur ing most of the adjournment which is due to begin in November and end when Congress goes back in session He began talking about the plan several weeks and said then he had ihe ear of Speaker Thomas D who he hoped would endorse the ONeill did send a letter drafted by Pattison to committee but never fully embraced the The who is president of the sophomore class of House said he and members of that groups executive committee decid ed to face realities and wait for a better opportunity to institute the program He said the plan continued to have the backing of House Adjournment was initially scheduled for early this but has now been put off until according to Pat He said the urgency of concluding the legislative work of the House between now and then precludes organization of a worthwhile post ad The traditional approach to a long recess is for individual members to at tack the laziness of Congress while assuring constituents the situation is beyond their Many members make their homes in Washington and are visitors to their dis Pattison contended that most would prefer to remain in Washington during the adjournment period if they could avoid political damage resulting from their absence from their To make the stay Pat tison proposed seminars on issues and work sessions be conducted Pattison said his plan would have helped correct the perception of Congress as a body that does little but give long vacations and sizable fringe benefits This what was to have been a long adjournment following the session in which members raised their own that perception is especially in The congressman said letters to chairmen state no opposition to his but also revealed only minor
