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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1979

editorial

Letters To The Editor

Heart disease is the nation’s toprlqller. And it is one disease that can be fought successfully ^ecause people are becoming aware of the ways to combat it. each year the incidence is decreasing. This won't help YOU unless you are actively trying. You have more to do with how your heart and circulatory system are working than any doctor, any medicine or any new technical advance. L With the hew year, |t is time to take stock and make^ decisions. No matter what your age, you are now making the choices which determine the length of your life. Do* you want to sec. your children ahd grandchildren grow op? Do you want to be in the best shape you can be ai long as you live? You have it in your own power to help determine your future. . Do you smoke? This is considered to be one of fhe predisposing causes of heart and circulatory diseases. The time to stop is now. Everyone knows smoking is also the cause of the No. 2 killer, cancer, in certain parts of the

body.

Overweight? Figure out just how many pounds you are over your desire^ veightrCarry something that weighs that amount and you will begin to realize the extra strain on the heart and circulatory system. Make a sihcerfe effort to cut down on your calories and eat a balanced diet. Exercise? Do you sit around all week and play strenuous on weekends? That is a prescription for death. Everyone' should exercise at least 30 minutes a day. BUT - this should be done as an organized routine. If you are over 30, and Especially if you have had heart or' circulatory problems in the past, you should have a- physical examination by your doctor, including a stress test Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinics can help you plan the ri ghl kind of exepciatfprogram, individualized to your special needs. n 4 * \ Under stress? This is one of the by-products of 20th Century lining. A technique caildd biofeedback which instils a "relaxation response" has been found to be more beneficial than.medication in many cases. You and you alone can help prevent your own death or perhaps permanent disability-from hdart disease. Think about it PAAPROGRAM

PLANNING BOARD

REPUES

Mayor E. Armacost Comm. O. P'. Quinn Comm. H.M. Peddle Borough of Avalon

Gentlemen:

We would like to remind you of the New Jersey State Pharmaceutical Anfetance tel the ' Aged (PAA) Program. Residents of the State who are 65 yean of age or older and whose total income, including social security, is not over $9,000 for ar. individual or $12,000 -for a couple are eligible to receive an identification card permitting the prehase of prescription drugs for $2.00. Applications are available at pharmacies and the Office on Aging. For those who are already enroDed in this program it is necessary to file a renewal application each year. The

renewal applications are sent from the Trenton PAA office 45 to 60 days before the expiration date on the individual’s identification card. This expiration date usually occurs in the month of the cardholder’? birthday. Please watch your mail for this important renewal application! The renewal application must be completed and returned to the Trenton PAA office for continued coverage. If you have any questions regarding your application please call the PAA toD free number, 1-800-793*745.

BALANCE OF POWER

This communication is written in reply to recent "letters to you, and published in the press, concerning the Avalon Master Plan, and will attempt to clarify certain aspects of the Plan, mentioned in those fetters. The Master Plan does not call for “re installation of parking meters." The Plan actually recommends that a Parking Authority or Commission be appointed to study and attempt to resolve parking and traffic problems in the Borough

The responsibility of the,

Commission would embrace traffic circulation, speed limits, parking facili ties, and the possible installation of additional traffic signals, parking time limit signs, parking meters,

etc.

Likewise, the Master Plan does not call for the development of additional wetlands. The Plan has set aside approximately 60% of the Borough as open space, including du nes, wetlands, park lands, and recreation areas. The area referred to in the above mentioned letters has been zoned residential for twenty years and this zoning has not been changed under the Plan. For the Planning Board to set aside additional Borough owned land, with a value estimated at over a million dollars, would be sheer folly and completely irresponsible considering the fiscal problems looming on the horizon and presently being encountered by some municipalities. The Master SJ. Si Nan News The New Jersey Senate has passed S-1052, a bill sponsored by Senator James S. Cafiero, expanding the authority of ministers of every religion and every religious society to solemnize marriages between individuals when neither party is a member of that particular faith or religious society. * ... Assemblyman Joseph W. Chinnici (R-Cumber!and. Cape May) declared that the Administration’s 1979-80 budget proposal, submitted by Governor Byrne to the New Jersey Legislature on January 30th, “is not the austerity budget that the Administration claims it to be." The $4.6 billion budget proposed for fiscal 1980 increases state spending by $242.6 million, or only 5.5% over the current budget. But Chinnid noted that the budget calls for expenditures of $183 million more than will be raised in revenues in 1979-80. The New Jersey Constitution requires that the State’s budget be balanced — Under *tepped-«p/ pressure from the Govstnor’i office, the Legislature how appears ready, if not eager, to; fpptove ^taked^er of New Jersey’s financially-troubled private bus

companies

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Plan proposed for the 21st Street Mall is just that, a proposal that could possibly be implemented some time in the future to enhance' and preserve the quillty of the northern end of the business district. Before

1 implementation, vital questions

concerning the impact of the Mall on traffic movement, the effect on the entire business district as well as the effect on businesses directly involvtd, etc., would have to be explored. Input would be needed from the Departments of Public Safety, Public Works, Revenue and Finance, the County Engineers, the business community as well as the dtizeriry of Avalon before any decision could be ipade to proceed with construction. In summary, the Planning Board and the Citizens Advisory Committee, along with o ther concerned citizens, labored on the Master Plan for approximately eighteen months. Aside from the two regular monthly public meetings of the board, many special meetings were called. Three public hearings, consuming approximately thirteen hours, were hdd prior to adoption of

the Master Plan.

It is especially significant that those persons now recommending major revisions in the Plan and expressing deep concern over the welfare of the borough, contributed nothing during the months the. Plan was under consideration. While the Planning Board will continue to hear and consider constructive criticism and ideas concerning the Master Plan, the Board definitely and specifically will not make changes or revisions based on pressure extended by anyone publicizing incorrect information and rumors concerning the Plan.

RetpecthiDy, WiUltm J. Miher Avalon Planning Board STATE TO TAKE OVER BUS COMPANIES? Letter to Editor: One can agree with Governor Byrne when in his January 7 state of the State message he calls for a lower-profile government and says “it’s time New Jersey went on a legislative and regulatory diet." But the proposal of Transportation Commissioner Gambacdni for the state to take over bus companies is at variance with this. It is hard to see how in these days of limited state resources any responsible official can seriously propose that the state government get into a new area where potential problems and costs are horrendous and where the possible benefits are negligible. \ The State has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into an iM-advised experiment. In spite of these hundreds of millions of dollars, the ridership on mass transit has declined 41% since 1970 while subsidies have risen to $61 million per year. Taxpayer money keeps seeping away into keeping empty busses on the roacis. Rather than jump over the cliff, as proposed by Gambaccini, we should look at reality and turn our back bn further state intervention in man transit. A reduction in the DOT bureaucracy and a rapid phaseout of subsidies would free substantial funds for more worthwhile purposes. The bus system can be viewed in terms of three major categories. There are those routes which serve a real need and where ridership is heavy. These routes need no subsidy (continued on pafce 9)

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