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r00radford's Gary Moore to head [ Garone steps down--two new trustees, new budget
Itate Fish and Game Department} Voters meet at annual Vdlage meeting
BRADFORD-- Bradford another masters degree in
native Gary W. Moore has administration from the
been picked to take over the
reins of the Vermont Fish and
Game Department when
commissioner Edward F.
Kehoe resigns after 17 years
as head of the department in
September.
Moore, a 35-year old
assistant headmaster at St.
Johnsbury Academy and a
free-lance outdoor columnist,
was named to succeed Kehoc
last Friday by Environmental
Conservation Secretary
Brendan Whittaker.
Whittaker said Moore would
start as a deputy com-
missioner next month until
Kehoe retires in the fall in
order to gain knowledge about
the department to "effect an
oderly transition." Moore has
been a member of the Ver-
mont Fish and Game Board
for the past five years. The
hoard is a quasi-judicial panel
which sets seasons for hun-
ting, fishing, and trapping
along with accompanying
regulations.
Moore is a life-long resident
it( of Bradford and is a graduate
ml of Bradford Academy. He is
also a graduate of Lyndon
{ State College in Lyndonville,
Vt., has received a masters
degree from Dartmouth
_" Gary-W. Moore College and is working on
• of ,00urp,u00
University of Vermont.
Local Outdoorsman
Moore's weekly column,
Thoughts on the Out-of-Doors,
has appeared in the Journal
Opinion for the last five years.
The column has included
everything from recent
hunting or fishing regulation
changes to personal accounts
of important game club or
environmental and wildlife
organization meetings. The
column has often included
tales of Moore's own hunting
and fishing experiences.
Along with being an avid
outdoorsman, Moore is a
Vietnam veteran, an
auxilliary state trooper, a
justice-of the peace in
Bradford, a Bradford Fire
Department captain and he is
a member of the Bradford
FAST Squad.
Moore has been at St.
Johnsbury Academy for the
past 11 years and has received
a leave of absence from the
school after accepting the
deputy commissioner
BRADFORD -- Approx-
imately 80 people
showed up at Bradford
Village's annual meeting on
Monday night where they saw
long-time trustee Gary
Garone, in a surprise move,
step down in his bid for re-
election and where voters
elected two new trustees and
approved the 1982 village
budget as recommended by
the trustees and village of-
ficials.
For the village budget of
1982, voters approved a $16,400
budget for the general fund
compared to $14,966.09 last
year--a 9.5 percent increase
over last year. The voters also
approved a public . works
budget of $22,500 as compared
to $18,693.27 last year--a 20
percent increase.
A budget of $54,500 was
approved for the village's
sewer fund as compared to
$147,237.81 last year--a
substantial decrease due to
the repayment of an $81,500
note. However, at the
meeting, village ad-
ministrator Susan Spaulding
said that the sewer plant will
end up with an approximate
deficit of $20,000 for the year.
Budget figures in the village
report show a deficit of at
least $17,000.
The public safety budget of
$23,950 was also approved by
the voters. This year's figure
is five percent higher than last
year's $22,760.71 budget.
The total for all four budgets
plus $41,698.61 budgeted for
the village's Goshen Road
pipe replacement'project now
stands at $159,048.61, as ap-
proved by village voters. This
figure represents an increase
of 6.8 percent over the same
five expenses last year--
$148,858.49.
Village voters voted to raise
a total of $53,600 in taxes for
the year at the meeting.
Grand List
May Double
A tax rate has not yet been
set because the Village's
listers have not yet completed
their grand list, said
Spaulding. One lister and
Spaulding told the voters
Monday night that the amount
in the grand list is "likely to
double."
New Trustees
The voters voted-in two new
village trustees at the
meeting.
For the three-year trustee
position, Gary Garone chose
not to run for re-election.
Chester Allen, owner of Allen
Refrigeration in Bradford
defeated Lou Menure 48 votes
Garone said after the commissioner. James Barton,
nominations for the sea(were Alfa Gautreau and ttelena
made that, "I had decided that Kinney were re-elected as
if someone else ran then I auditors.
would step down." Garone inventory Tax
said of his last term as trustee, Repeal
"We've had our problems but Voters also approved a
(on stepping down) it's article that says the villa.
nothing personal." will go along with the Town
Encumbent trustee Henry Bradford if town votersdecid
McGreevy lost his re-election to repeal the town's inven,
bid to Larry Drew, a school tax at their annual towr
teacher, by a vote of 29 to 21. meeting in March.
Lou Menure was also According to one villa
nominated for the position and auditor who spoke at Mo
he received six votes, day' meeting, the inve, ).,')
Lawrence Coffin was re- tax accounts for roughly tout
elected as moderator. Chester percent of the town's tax H
to eight in a ballot election. Allen was elected as a water come.
W. Fairlee's Arnold Dean
designed CRREL's
underwater radar system
* 9
[}Falrleeal town budgor et
position.
The Verrat IFiShha: and106 Thetford budget
employees. All money for
Game Department has
operation of the department
comes from in-state and out-
of-state hunting, fishing and
trapping licenses and from
revenue sharing from a
federal tax on sporting
equipment.
Moore was also appointed
(please turn to page 8)
JRLEE-- Town budget committee, will be taxes the town's highway
attributing a projected 35 raised from $3.40 per $1,000 of fund willincrease from $35,000 g
itio
'cent increase in the assessed property value in in1981to $39,:00 this year. a, t, r
it.lee tax rate this year to 1981 to $4.60 per $1,000 Of Totais Ior this year's town
} leas of surplus monies that assessed valuation in 1982, budget have reached $102,733 are up over
bre used up over the year in Budget Increases for the general fund and
I1. Budget increases for the $65,000 for the highway IH'let
; [)ther than the surplus general fund and highway budget. """ 00ear
' eyloss, one selectman has budgets means increases of
J ld increased expenses are 10.8 percent and 6.7 percent
n ely due to "fixed costs respectively. Without the
.r which we have no con- $17,000 surplus that helped out
l:' such as town salaries taxpayers last year, the tax
a. legal fees. Overall in: rate is expected to jump 35
, (ton of costs in goods and percent.
"vices was another of the According to FairleeBudget
get factors that town o!- Committee figures, the
| m ls say ate up last year s amount needed to be raised by
tew taxes for the general fund will
non-school
tax
rate,
increase from $53,893 in 1981 to
i recommended by the this year's $82,150. The
ectaen and the town's amount needed to be raised in
)r00ord board finds
d lo • 1
ditlonal cuts
tha Tuition up $300
RD--The Orford school $2,000 from insurance costs by
s found the additional revising the school s policy.
cuts that it believes are This year s Orford budget
ary to drop budget includes a 10.1 percent pay
ases in their proposed increase for teachers in the
lbudget from 10 percent district.
sat percent for this year. The pay raise was approved
le new proposed budget of last fall after a deadlock over
;,695 was reportedly the issue forced the board to
ved at by decreasing the postpone finalization of
ary and the work week of a Orford's 1981 budget until
dance counselor at the October when the contract
1 and by cutting plans to settlement was reached.
e custodial help this Taxlncrease
nmer. Additional money Of the new $656,695 budget
B saved by eliminating figure, $579,674 will need to be
as to install new rugs and raised by the town--the rest
.des in SOme areas of the will come from state and
ol and by decreasing (please turn to page 8)
EMERGENCY
CONSERVATION
• .00PPFAL
Dean
"black boxes"
committee okays after plane Potomac crash
school budget W. FAIRLEE-- A plane crash
in which the wreckage of the
plane is trapped on the bottom
THETFORD-- The town cut or reduced this year in of an ice-choked river is an
budget committee has okayed order to limit the budget to a unusual, not to mention tragic,
BMU budget
Due to the shutdown of the
ermont Yankee nuclear facility
l Central Vermont Public Service
0 must purdmse oil-fired
retflaeement fuel at
10 to 20 times the
cost
' .of nuclear power. We are
for a and prolonged
i cOnservation effort by
CVI00 customers.
More Causes WELLS RIVER-- The school
A $6500 rubbish removal board has recommended and
cost increase set by Barker approved a budget for the
Sargent Corp., plus $2,500 in 1982-83 school year that is 11.5
rubbish removal fees the town percent higher than last
still owes from last year is year's budget for the Blue
another one of the factors that Mountain Union School
town officials say is con-District.
tributing to the budget in- The new budget has been set
creases. Selectmen say the at $1,284,185. Of that amount
$4,000 highway budget in-$789,950 would need to be
crease is due to increases in raised by the three towns in
the cost of petroleum products the Blue Mountain District
that are applied to the town's --Wells River, Ryegate and
roads. Groton.
The school portion of School officials attribute the
Fairlee's tax rate will not be 11.5 percent budget increase
finalized until the school's to electricity, salary and
annual meeting in June. transportation cost increases.
Fairlee voters will vote on Tuition Increases
the approval of the town's Tuition costs will alsoriseat
budget recommendation at Blue Mountain High School
their March 2 annual town and forelementarystudents.
meeting. (please turn to page 8)
the Thetford school's
recommended budget of over
a million dollars for 1982 but
has held the tax rate down to a
three percent increase over
last year.
Budget committee figures
reportedly show the school's
portion of this year's tax rate
to be at $33.10 per $1,000 of
assessed property value.
The school's tax rate
combined with Thetford's
town and highway taxes,
would raise the total tax rate
for the town to $41.10 per $1,000
of assessed property value.
Small Increase
The $41.10 figure is said to
be only three percent more
than last year's tax rate in the
town.
The school budget for this
year is up approximately six
percent over last year. The
budget, passed by the budget
committee last week, stands
at $I,059,897.
The amount the town needs
to raise in order to meet the
$1,059,897 budget figure is
$932,812. The remainder will
come from state and federal
funding.
School officials say a
number of programs had to be
six percent increase and that
funding for the school's lunch
program was not included in
the budget. School officials
say the program was forced
"into the red" last year by
federal lunch program cut-
backs.
It may be up to Thetford
voters to decide the final fate
of the lunch program at their
town meeting in March. Town
and school officials are said to
be consideringplacing fun-
ding for the program as a
separate article on the war-
ning for the town meeting.
This year's school budget is
also said to include a 10 per-
cent raise "across the board"
for teachers at the school. The
Thetford Teachers
Association is currently
negotiating a contract with the
Thetford school hoard.
Tuition that the town pays to
Thetford Academy is not
included in the general school
budget. However, this year
the Academy's executive
committee has recently ap-
proved a $120 increase in
student tuition costs.
No second, fires
in Vershire
Correction
VERSHIRE-- Following a
story in the previous issue of
the Journal Opinion involving
a fire at the Mountain School
in Vershire, the director of the
Mountain School, W. McNiven
Carnard, has informed us that
there are in fact two private
schools in the Town of Ver-
occurrence. It is also the kind
of accident that calls for
unusual recovery methods.
When an Air Florida jet
crashed into the icy Potomac
River in Washington, D.C.
killing 78 people, two weeks
ago, recovery of the "black
boxes" storing vital in-
formation relating to the
cause of the crash and the
location of the many of the
bodies of the victims of the
crash were made possible by a
remarkable set of cir-
cumstances. "
Those circumstances made
the difficult recovery mission
possible through the use of an
electronic system devised for
studying ice jams on rivers--
designed by a man from W.
Fairlee.
Arnold Dean, a nine-year
resident of W. Fairlee and an
electronic engineer at the
Army Corps of Engineers'
Cold Regions Research and
Engineering Laboratory
(CRREL) in Hanover, is the
designer of what he describes
as a kind of "impulse radar
system" that was originally
developed for measuring ice
jams. Dean has developed the
:system into the only radar
system that can see through
water.
One of a Kind
Unlike conventional radar
which emits only one
frequency • signal, Dean's
system can emit many signal
frequencies which gives it the
ability to locate objects un-
derwater. Dean and his
assistants at CRREL have
been working on the system
for eight years.
shire and that the Mountain The system doesn't register
School is in no way connected radar's traditional blips on a
to the Vershire School that is screen. Instead, Dean says,
located approximatel five there is a delay in the time
miles away. between when the device is
Carnard said that his school
"has never received any fire
code violations before the
(Jan. 13) fire and has not
received any fire code
violations as a result of the
fire."
The fire was reported as the
second fire at the school when
in fact the first fire referred to
in the story had taken place at
the neighboring Vershire
School. The Vershire School
was the recipient of a number
of fire code violations issued
by fire inspectors in May of
1981 and was the sight of the
Nov. 14 cabin fire in which two
students were injured. As
reported, Vershire school
Officials have been engaged in
a cooperative effort to comply
with the state's fire codes,
according to state fire of-
ficials.
It should also be made clear
that there was no fire at the
WINTER SCENE-- The cupola, the fir tree, the cloud and the sun blend together
for this winter scene.
Vershire School on Jan. 13;
the fire was five miles away at
the Mountain School in Ver-
shire. Neither school has had a
second fire.
RADAR PROFILE CHART-- Dean is shown in this
photograph interpreting river bottom data that his
impulse radar system has provided on a radar profile
chart.
SENDING IMPULSES THROUGH THE ICE-- Radar
measurement can be made through the ice using a
helicopter. The information is gained with the use of
the helicopter and then taken to a ground station for
print out and interpretation, said Dean.
bouncing signals off objects "squiggly lines." This in-
underwater and when the formation is then transformed
machine delivers the in- to magnetic tape and the
formation. The machinepick_s result comes out in in-
up its information by sending formation tapes looking
out pulses through the ice and similar to those used in some
water to outline the size and fish finder machines. In other
shapes of objects on the river words, the device is still
bottom or submerged un-somewhat difficult for the
derwater.
average person to
The device has a screen that read--something Dean and his
reads like an oscillioscope assistants at CRREL are
showing pulse sign waves or currently working on.
Although Dean is not
responsible for the initial
design of the machine
(originally purchased by
CRREL from an engineering
firm in Nassau, N.H.), he is
responsible for development
of modifications to the
machine which has produced
the system that can ac-
curately find objects ac-
cording to their density and
dimensions under.water. This
same system Dean used to
locate the information boxes
and bodies in the Potomac
River last week.
Called to Washington
Dean's supervisor at
CRREL, Col. Wayne Hanson,
was in Washington, D.C. at the
time of the crash, talking with
the Corps of Engineers'
Director of Research and
Development, James
Choromokos, about, among
other things, CRREL's im-
pulse radar system. In fact,
Dean himself had recently
been briefing a US. Senator
on "the military capability" of
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r00radford's Gary Moore to head [ Garone steps down--two new trustees, new budget
Itate Fish and Game Department} Voters meet at annual Vdlage meeting
BRADFORD-- Bradford another masters degree in
native Gary W. Moore has administration from the
been picked to take over the
reins of the Vermont Fish and
Game Department when
commissioner Edward F.
Kehoe resigns after 17 years
as head of the department in
September.
Moore, a 35-year old
assistant headmaster at St.
Johnsbury Academy and a
free-lance outdoor columnist,
was named to succeed Kehoc
last Friday by Environmental
Conservation Secretary
Brendan Whittaker.
Whittaker said Moore would
start as a deputy com-
missioner next month until
Kehoe retires in the fall in
order to gain knowledge about
the department to "effect an
oderly transition." Moore has
been a member of the Ver-
mont Fish and Game Board
for the past five years. The
hoard is a quasi-judicial panel
which sets seasons for hun-
ting, fishing, and trapping
along with accompanying
regulations.
Moore is a life-long resident
it( of Bradford and is a graduate
ml of Bradford Academy. He is
also a graduate of Lyndon
{ State College in Lyndonville,
Vt., has received a masters
degree from Dartmouth
_" Gary-W. Moore College and is working on
• of ,00urp,u00
University of Vermont.
Local Outdoorsman
Moore's weekly column,
Thoughts on the Out-of-Doors,
has appeared in the Journal
Opinion for the last five years.
The column has included
everything from recent
hunting or fishing regulation
changes to personal accounts
of important game club or
environmental and wildlife
organization meetings. The
column has often included
tales of Moore's own hunting
and fishing experiences.
Along with being an avid
outdoorsman, Moore is a
Vietnam veteran, an
auxilliary state trooper, a
justice-of the peace in
Bradford, a Bradford Fire
Department captain and he is
a member of the Bradford
FAST Squad.
Moore has been at St.
Johnsbury Academy for the
past 11 years and has received
a leave of absence from the
school after accepting the
deputy commissioner
BRADFORD -- Approx-
imately 80 people
showed up at Bradford
Village's annual meeting on
Monday night where they saw
long-time trustee Gary
Garone, in a surprise move,
step down in his bid for re-
election and where voters
elected two new trustees and
approved the 1982 village
budget as recommended by
the trustees and village of-
ficials.
For the village budget of
1982, voters approved a $16,400
budget for the general fund
compared to $14,966.09 last
year--a 9.5 percent increase
over last year. The voters also
approved a public . works
budget of $22,500 as compared
to $18,693.27 last year--a 20
percent increase.
A budget of $54,500 was
approved for the village's
sewer fund as compared to
$147,237.81 last year--a
substantial decrease due to
the repayment of an $81,500
note. However, at the
meeting, village ad-
ministrator Susan Spaulding
said that the sewer plant will
end up with an approximate
deficit of $20,000 for the year.
Budget figures in the village
report show a deficit of at
least $17,000.
The public safety budget of
$23,950 was also approved by
the voters. This year's figure
is five percent higher than last
year's $22,760.71 budget.
The total for all four budgets
plus $41,698.61 budgeted for
the village's Goshen Road
pipe replacement'project now
stands at $159,048.61, as ap-
proved by village voters. This
figure represents an increase
of 6.8 percent over the same
five expenses last year--
$148,858.49.
Village voters voted to raise
a total of $53,600 in taxes for
the year at the meeting.
Grand List
May Double
A tax rate has not yet been
set because the Village's
listers have not yet completed
their grand list, said
Spaulding. One lister and
Spaulding told the voters
Monday night that the amount
in the grand list is "likely to
double."
New Trustees
The voters voted-in two new
village trustees at the
meeting.
For the three-year trustee
position, Gary Garone chose
not to run for re-election.
Chester Allen, owner of Allen
Refrigeration in Bradford
defeated Lou Menure 48 votes
Garone said after the commissioner. James Barton,
nominations for the sea(were Alfa Gautreau and ttelena
made that, "I had decided that Kinney were re-elected as
if someone else ran then I auditors.
would step down." Garone inventory Tax
said of his last term as trustee, Repeal
"We've had our problems but Voters also approved a
(on stepping down) it's article that says the villa.
nothing personal." will go along with the Town
Encumbent trustee Henry Bradford if town votersdecid
McGreevy lost his re-election to repeal the town's inven,
bid to Larry Drew, a school tax at their annual towr
teacher, by a vote of 29 to 21. meeting in March.
Lou Menure was also According to one villa
nominated for the position and auditor who spoke at Mo
he received six votes, day' meeting, the inve, ).,')
Lawrence Coffin was re- tax accounts for roughly tout
elected as moderator. Chester percent of the town's tax H
to eight in a ballot election. Allen was elected as a water come.
W. Fairlee's Arnold Dean
designed CRREL's
underwater radar system
* 9
[}Falrleeal town budgor et
position.
The Verrat IFiShha: and106 Thetford budget
employees. All money for
Game Department has
operation of the department
comes from in-state and out-
of-state hunting, fishing and
trapping licenses and from
revenue sharing from a
federal tax on sporting
equipment.
Moore was also appointed
(please turn to page 8)
JRLEE-- Town budget committee, will be taxes the town's highway
attributing a projected 35 raised from $3.40 per $1,000 of fund willincrease from $35,000 g
itio
'cent increase in the assessed property value in in1981to $39,:00 this year. a, t, r
it.lee tax rate this year to 1981 to $4.60 per $1,000 Of Totais Ior this year's town
} leas of surplus monies that assessed valuation in 1982, budget have reached $102,733 are up over
bre used up over the year in Budget Increases for the general fund and
I1. Budget increases for the $65,000 for the highway IH'let
; [)ther than the surplus general fund and highway budget. """ 00ear
' eyloss, one selectman has budgets means increases of
J ld increased expenses are 10.8 percent and 6.7 percent
n ely due to "fixed costs respectively. Without the
.r which we have no con- $17,000 surplus that helped out
l:' such as town salaries taxpayers last year, the tax
a. legal fees. Overall in: rate is expected to jump 35
, (ton of costs in goods and percent.
"vices was another of the According to FairleeBudget
get factors that town o!- Committee figures, the
| m ls say ate up last year s amount needed to be raised by
tew taxes for the general fund will
non-school
tax
rate,
increase from $53,893 in 1981 to
i recommended by the this year's $82,150. The
ectaen and the town's amount needed to be raised in
)r00ord board finds
d lo • 1
ditlonal cuts
tha Tuition up $300
RD--The Orford school $2,000 from insurance costs by
s found the additional revising the school s policy.
cuts that it believes are This year s Orford budget
ary to drop budget includes a 10.1 percent pay
ases in their proposed increase for teachers in the
lbudget from 10 percent district.
sat percent for this year. The pay raise was approved
le new proposed budget of last fall after a deadlock over
;,695 was reportedly the issue forced the board to
ved at by decreasing the postpone finalization of
ary and the work week of a Orford's 1981 budget until
dance counselor at the October when the contract
1 and by cutting plans to settlement was reached.
e custodial help this Taxlncrease
nmer. Additional money Of the new $656,695 budget
B saved by eliminating figure, $579,674 will need to be
as to install new rugs and raised by the town--the rest
.des in SOme areas of the will come from state and
ol and by decreasing (please turn to page 8)
EMERGENCY
CONSERVATION
• .00PPFAL
Dean
"black boxes"
committee okays after plane Potomac crash
school budget W. FAIRLEE-- A plane crash
in which the wreckage of the
plane is trapped on the bottom
THETFORD-- The town cut or reduced this year in of an ice-choked river is an
budget committee has okayed order to limit the budget to a unusual, not to mention tragic,
BMU budget
Due to the shutdown of the
ermont Yankee nuclear facility
l Central Vermont Public Service
0 must purdmse oil-fired
retflaeement fuel at
10 to 20 times the
cost
' .of nuclear power. We are
for a and prolonged
i cOnservation effort by
CVI00 customers.
More Causes WELLS RIVER-- The school
A $6500 rubbish removal board has recommended and
cost increase set by Barker approved a budget for the
Sargent Corp., plus $2,500 in 1982-83 school year that is 11.5
rubbish removal fees the town percent higher than last
still owes from last year is year's budget for the Blue
another one of the factors that Mountain Union School
town officials say is con-District.
tributing to the budget in- The new budget has been set
creases. Selectmen say the at $1,284,185. Of that amount
$4,000 highway budget in-$789,950 would need to be
crease is due to increases in raised by the three towns in
the cost of petroleum products the Blue Mountain District
that are applied to the town's --Wells River, Ryegate and
roads. Groton.
The school portion of School officials attribute the
Fairlee's tax rate will not be 11.5 percent budget increase
finalized until the school's to electricity, salary and
annual meeting in June. transportation cost increases.
Fairlee voters will vote on Tuition Increases
the approval of the town's Tuition costs will alsoriseat
budget recommendation at Blue Mountain High School
their March 2 annual town and forelementarystudents.
meeting. (please turn to page 8)
the Thetford school's
recommended budget of over
a million dollars for 1982 but
has held the tax rate down to a
three percent increase over
last year.
Budget committee figures
reportedly show the school's
portion of this year's tax rate
to be at $33.10 per $1,000 of
assessed property value.
The school's tax rate
combined with Thetford's
town and highway taxes,
would raise the total tax rate
for the town to $41.10 per $1,000
of assessed property value.
Small Increase
The $41.10 figure is said to
be only three percent more
than last year's tax rate in the
town.
The school budget for this
year is up approximately six
percent over last year. The
budget, passed by the budget
committee last week, stands
at $I,059,897.
The amount the town needs
to raise in order to meet the
$1,059,897 budget figure is
$932,812. The remainder will
come from state and federal
funding.
School officials say a
number of programs had to be
six percent increase and that
funding for the school's lunch
program was not included in
the budget. School officials
say the program was forced
"into the red" last year by
federal lunch program cut-
backs.
It may be up to Thetford
voters to decide the final fate
of the lunch program at their
town meeting in March. Town
and school officials are said to
be consideringplacing fun-
ding for the program as a
separate article on the war-
ning for the town meeting.
This year's school budget is
also said to include a 10 per-
cent raise "across the board"
for teachers at the school. The
Thetford Teachers
Association is currently
negotiating a contract with the
Thetford school hoard.
Tuition that the town pays to
Thetford Academy is not
included in the general school
budget. However, this year
the Academy's executive
committee has recently ap-
proved a $120 increase in
student tuition costs.
No second, fires
in Vershire
Correction
VERSHIRE-- Following a
story in the previous issue of
the Journal Opinion involving
a fire at the Mountain School
in Vershire, the director of the
Mountain School, W. McNiven
Carnard, has informed us that
there are in fact two private
schools in the Town of Ver-
occurrence. It is also the kind
of accident that calls for
unusual recovery methods.
When an Air Florida jet
crashed into the icy Potomac
River in Washington, D.C.
killing 78 people, two weeks
ago, recovery of the "black
boxes" storing vital in-
formation relating to the
cause of the crash and the
location of the many of the
bodies of the victims of the
crash were made possible by a
remarkable set of cir-
cumstances. "
Those circumstances made
the difficult recovery mission
possible through the use of an
electronic system devised for
studying ice jams on rivers--
designed by a man from W.
Fairlee.
Arnold Dean, a nine-year
resident of W. Fairlee and an
electronic engineer at the
Army Corps of Engineers'
Cold Regions Research and
Engineering Laboratory
(CRREL) in Hanover, is the
designer of what he describes
as a kind of "impulse radar
system" that was originally
developed for measuring ice
jams. Dean has developed the
:system into the only radar
system that can see through
water.
One of a Kind
Unlike conventional radar
which emits only one
frequency • signal, Dean's
system can emit many signal
frequencies which gives it the
ability to locate objects un-
derwater. Dean and his
assistants at CRREL have
been working on the system
for eight years.
shire and that the Mountain The system doesn't register
School is in no way connected radar's traditional blips on a
to the Vershire School that is screen. Instead, Dean says,
located approximatel five there is a delay in the time
miles away. between when the device is
Carnard said that his school
"has never received any fire
code violations before the
(Jan. 13) fire and has not
received any fire code
violations as a result of the
fire."
The fire was reported as the
second fire at the school when
in fact the first fire referred to
in the story had taken place at
the neighboring Vershire
School. The Vershire School
was the recipient of a number
of fire code violations issued
by fire inspectors in May of
1981 and was the sight of the
Nov. 14 cabin fire in which two
students were injured. As
reported, Vershire school
Officials have been engaged in
a cooperative effort to comply
with the state's fire codes,
according to state fire of-
ficials.
It should also be made clear
that there was no fire at the
WINTER SCENE-- The cupola, the fir tree, the cloud and the sun blend together
for this winter scene.
Vershire School on Jan. 13;
the fire was five miles away at
the Mountain School in Ver-
shire. Neither school has had a
second fire.
RADAR PROFILE CHART-- Dean is shown in this
photograph interpreting river bottom data that his
impulse radar system has provided on a radar profile
chart.
SENDING IMPULSES THROUGH THE ICE-- Radar
measurement can be made through the ice using a
helicopter. The information is gained with the use of
the helicopter and then taken to a ground station for
print out and interpretation, said Dean.
bouncing signals off objects "squiggly lines." This in-
underwater and when the formation is then transformed
machine delivers the in- to magnetic tape and the
formation. The machinepick_s result comes out in in-
up its information by sending formation tapes looking
out pulses through the ice and similar to those used in some
water to outline the size and fish finder machines. In other
shapes of objects on the river words, the device is still
bottom or submerged un-somewhat difficult for the
derwater.
average person to
The device has a screen that read--something Dean and his
reads like an oscillioscope assistants at CRREL are
showing pulse sign waves or currently working on.
Although Dean is not
responsible for the initial
design of the machine
(originally purchased by
CRREL from an engineering
firm in Nassau, N.H.), he is
responsible for development
of modifications to the
machine which has produced
the system that can ac-
curately find objects ac-
cording to their density and
dimensions under.water. This
same system Dean used to
locate the information boxes
and bodies in the Potomac
River last week.
Called to Washington
Dean's supervisor at
CRREL, Col. Wayne Hanson,
was in Washington, D.C. at the
time of the crash, talking with
the Corps of Engineers'
Director of Research and
Development, James
Choromokos, about, among
other things, CRREL's im-
pulse radar system. In fact,
Dean himself had recently
been briefing a US. Senator
on "the military capability" of
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