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The Morning Call 8/12/02
Roof leak leads to 'lost' records of Lehigh Crane Iron
By Frank Whelan
Of The Morning Call
As National Canal Museum's collections manager Tom Smith tells it, the discovery of the long-lost papers of Catasauqua's Lehigh Crane Iron Co., the first commercially successful anthracite-coalpowered iron furnace in America, began with a water leak a few months ago.
The leaky building that once housed the Lehigh Crane's offices is owned by a Catasauqua resident, Vince Smith. He had heard from a previous owner that the building had a leak and sent a work crew in to find the source. ''I had heard from him that there were some documents in the attic but that they were really not all that interesting,'' says Vince
Smith.
http://www.mcall.com/features/all-historyledeaug12.story?coll=all-features-hed


5ChannelOklohoman.com 8/12/02
Jim Norick Donates Papers To Historical Society
Scrapbooks Provide Snapshot Of City's History
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Former Oklahoma City Mayor Jim Norick, whose son Ron also served as mayor, has donated 36 scrapbooks to the Oklahoma Historical Society that provide an insider's look at the city's political history.
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/okl/news/stories/news-160737920020812-090807.html


Anchorage Daily News 8/12/02
Institute gets artifact collection
SEALASKA Oregon businessman donates more than 50 items from early 1900s.
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1583736p-1700276c.html


Wall Street Journal 8/17/02
Auschwitz Repairs Stir Up Tough Preservation Debate
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON and BOB DAVIS
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
OSWIECIM, Poland -- By the side of the main railroad spur at Auschwitz, 14 Polish construction workers repair the death camp's barbed-wire fences. Concrete fence posts, cast by prisoners 60 years ago, are crumbling. For six years, an international
preservation committee debated whether and how to restore them.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1029272807968457555,00.html?


Editor and Publisher 8/13/02
National Security Archive Shines Brightly
FOIA Site Publishes Declassified Documents
By Charles Bowen
Generations of reporters have learned how to "follow the paper trail." And thanks to movies and television shows, even the general public is familiar with that descriptive term for digging out documents in the pursuit of a story.
What the public may not realize is that our hunt got a bit easier 35 years ago with the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal law promising public access to U.S. government records. Those of us who were working in a newsroom at the time the law was enacted still remember Justice Louis D. Brandeis' classic phrase that was widely cited at the time: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." In fact, many states that passed similar acts dealing with open records and open meetings called them "sunshine laws."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1601568



ArabicNews.com 8/15/02
UN envoy optimistic about return of Kuwaiti archives from Iraq
Iraq-Kuwait, Politics, 8/15/2002
Richard Fouran, the envoy of the UN secretary general for the Kuwaiti
documents and records affairs which were lost during the Gulf war in 1991, on Wednesday in Baghdad praised the Iraqi cooperation in organizing the return of the Kuwaiti national archive. He said he expects the return back of the Kuwaiti archive within weeks.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020815/2002081509.html


Washington Times 8/17/02
Revere the turtle at UMCP
By Vaishali Honawar
Testudo thought he'd take a trip
To Reno, loaded up his grip
(Lines from "Travels of Testudo," a
poem that appeared in the 1949 George
Washington University yearbook after
students kidnapped the University of
Maryland mascot)
In a land of more than 40,000 terrapins, Testudo, the diamondback mascot of the University of Maryland at College Park, is undisputed king. He is loved, revered,
even worshipped. Come exam time, the 1,000-pound bronze turtle that stands before the university's McKeldin Library gets offerings of flowers, food, computer discs and even beer. His nose shines from 70 years of rubbing by students who wish some of his luck would wipe off on them.
http://www.washtimes.com/arts/20020817-21315706.htm



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va