Niagara Gazette Newspaper Clippings - Love Canal Collections

Niagara Gazette newspaper clippings
(Niagara Falls, New York)

Please note: permission was granted in 1998 to include online digitized versions of these selected Niagara Gazette news articles as part of the Library Services and Technology Act Grant.

1978

August 2 - Evacuation of Kids Urged (2 pages)
August 3 - Canal Residents Vow a Tax Strike (2 pages)
August 3 - Who Will Help Them?
August 5 - Cheers Greet Word of Relief (2 pages)
August 7 - Board Session Set to Decide Future of 99th Street Pupils
August 7 - Canal Attracts Little Attention
August 8 - State to Assume Canal Mortgages (2 pages)
August 9 - Sealed Vault Effort Failed at Canal Site
August 12 - Forster Memo Cited Chemical Odors in '64
August 18 - Canal Aid Phone Numbers
August 20 - Reporters Flock to Canal Crisis
August 20 - Later Hours Voted for Canal Students (2 pages)
August 20 - Photo - "Boxes, Boxes..."

1980

April 7 - State to Submit Canal Records
April 8 - Officials to Discuss Canal
April 9 - Daly Responds
April 9 - County Officials Fear Canal Effort Could Bring New Costs
April 11 - $10.5 Million Loan Eyed for Canal, Waste Plant
April 27 - Every Mother is Scared to Death
May 20 - Canal Residents Look for Home
May 22 - Hooker: City Should Pay for Problems
May 22 - Emergency Phones / What's Chromosome Damage All About?
May 22 - Rooms Will Be Few and Far Between
May 22 - Litigation Over Canal to Last Years (2 pages)
May 23 - State Officials Questioning the Validity of Health Tests
May 24 - Store Operators Fear Canal Relocations Will Hurt Business
May 24 - Carey Urges Permanent Relocation of 710 Canal Families
May 24 - Insurers Seek Consolidation of Canal Claims
May 28 - State Opposes Joining U.S. Suit Against Hooker
June 1 - Gibbs Did More than Politicians
June 2 - Falls Residents Backing Permanent Relocation
June 2 - Gibbs in Washington for Relocation Session
June 3 - Vultures Confront Canal Residents
June 3 - Forgotten Families
June 3 - Cause of River Explosions Probed
June 3 - Relocation
June 4 - Who's Grimy?
June 7 - The Exception
June 8 - Hooker Holds Open House, Canal Groups Stage Demonstration
June 8 - Link Between Canal Chemicals, Illnesses May Never Be Proven
June 10 - Council Declares City 'Disaster Area,' Asks Federal Help
June 10 - Fate of Canal Renewal Plan in State Hands
June 12 - State Ordered to Join Hooker as Defendant in Toxics' Suit
June 13 - Class Action Request Denied
June 14 - Guinea Pigs
June 15 - LaFalce: U.S. Placing Suit Ahead of Canal Residents' Health

1981

May 2 - Falls Still May Receive a Portion of Love Canal Grant
May 3 - Canal Tragedy Not Yet Over
May 5 - Canal Proceedings OK'd
May 7 - Wesley Methodist to Close, a Victim of the Love Canal
May 16 - Street Left out of Tax Break Plan
May 17 - A Year Later, Canal Homes Sit in Silence
May 18 - Morris May Purchase Home in Love Canal
May 27 - Morris' Proposed Move to Canal Home is Premature
May 27 - Morris Canal Move Makes Light of Serious Problem
May 30 - Canal Residents Fuming Over Delays of EPA Tests