Word: ompompanoosuc
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Union Village Dam. Five miles north of where Vermont's Ompompanoosuc River empties into the Connecticut, the dam was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1950 to control flooding. The dam itself will remain in federal hands, but 259 acres of surrounding land, most of it steeply sloped and heavily forested, are for sale. The site, which is not very accessible, is now used by hikers, hunters and fishermen. But its covering of pine trees might prove attractive to loggers, and this could push its price...
With these words Governor George D. Aiken last week stirred his legislature to come to the defense of Union Village. The Governor had a letter from Secretary of War Woodring directing that work begin on a Federal flood control dam on the Ompompanoosuc River before a contract had been made compensating Union Village and other towns for the loss of taxes on land condemned by the U. S. for the dam site...
...snowy mountains at Montpelier, Vermont's legislators-mostly Republicans as they have been throughout the New Deal, mostly farmers like their Governor, mostly thrifty taciturn New Englanders-made history: they cheered. They also petitioned Congress 1) to make Secretary Woodring approve the Ompompanoosuc contract, 2) to repeal that section of the Flood Control Act of 1938 which so invades States' rights. Most noteworthy of all, they voted Governor Aiken $67,500 of Vermont's carefully guarded money to fight the case through the U. S. Supreme Court if need...
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