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editorial Cafiero Wants Health^Services, Pine Barrens Developnient

Senator James S. Cafiero (RCape May-Cumberland) has gone on ni ttrd in opposition to a plan for the regionalization bf emergency medical services in the Slate", by co-sponsoring a Senate Joint Resolution that directs the Health Care Administration Board to. disapprove the proposed plan for the regionalization of emergency medical services. Senator Cafiero Pointed out that the State’s commitment to the volunteer nature of the delivery of emergency> medical services has been consistent throughout the years and has been rewarded by the effective, efficient and selfless performance of those services, by over 450 first aid or rescue squads The adoption of the proposed regulations could well jeopardize the coverage of patients in many municipalities as well as the dedicated manner in which the volunteers carry out their duties The Senator was one of a dozen legislators co-sponsoring the bipartisan resolution, SJR-3003, which passed the Senate ' unanimously on February 22nd. The plan, drawing Senate opposition, provides for the training of members of first aid or rescue squads as paramedics and requires agreements between such squads and designated hospitals within ‘emergency medical services regions for the transportation of patients. Cafiero has joined prime sponsor. Majority Leader Senator John Russo (D-Ocean) and Senators Stephen Perskic (DAtlantic) and Eugene Bedell (DMonmouth) in offering a bill to lift the State moratorium on building in most of the pine barrens for at least two years and also compensate municipalities and property owners. Cafiero pointed out that the morat.H ium, which for practical purposes, halts any development in 1500. square miles of pine barrens located in Atlantic, Cape May. Cumberland, Burlington, Gloucester. Ocean and Camden counties, was imposed by Governor Byrne on February 9. ‘This bill. S-3138, makes any permanent preservation program involving State land use controls contingent on a State Pinelands Bond Issue that would fund State aid to those municipalities whose tax bases

are affected and payments to individuals whose property values decline It continues the Governor’s interim moratorium strategy for the preservation of the 596 square miles comprising the ‘heart of the pines’ located in Atlantic. Burlington, Ocean and Camden Counties. However, the moratorium would be dropped insofar as it now affects the outer 925 square miles of pinelands covering most of Atlantic, as well as parts of Cumberland, Cape May. Gloucester, Ocean, Burlington and Camden Counties’. Senator Cafiero explained. Reports on GOP Cost Cutting Assemblyman Joseph W. Chinnici (R-Cumberland-Cape May> recently Stated that "costcutting proposals totaling in excess of $100 million have been developed by the GOP members of the. Joint Committee on Appropriations as part of an overall program to reduce spending for government operations while upgrading state aid programs." The largest single reduction proposed is an across-the-board cut of 5 per cent in state operations, other than state aid programs, calculated to save some $98 million. "The savings which would result from these cuts could be - used to fund the.GOPproposals to. increase the homestead rebate program by 725 million, and to roll back the proposed $10 million increase in tuition at state colleges," chinnici said. The Republicans on the Joint Appropriations Committee also called for a delay until January 1, I960, in the proposed increase in Aid to Families with Deperident Children to save $2.3 million. Chinnici, who is serving his 8th year on the Joint Appropriations Committee, pointed out that county governments are liable for 12.5 per cent of the welfare costs and, since they operate on a calendar fiscal year, any increase would have to be borne Jolally out of the current budget at the local level for nearly six months. "The delay would avert a potentially serious fiscal crunch for local government and would not. in my judgment, pose a hardship for recipient families." •Chinnici said.

"Would You Soy This Marks The Beginning Of A New Era In U.S. Diplomacy Or The Beginning Of An Old One?"

Letters To The Editor Opposes Federal Dept. Of Education

To the Editor: The following article, written by John F. McManus and copyrighted by the John Birch Society Features, states a case against the creation of a U.S. Department of Education. I submit it for your own interest and that of your readers. Thank you. Robert H. Barron, PhD. Avalon Until 1976, the National Education Association had never endorsed any political candidates. In the last presidential election, however, the gttnip openly supported Jimmy Carter. Because the Nea has 1.8 million members, and because the Carter victory was a squeaker, NEA officials are now reminding the President of their vital support. In 1978, the NEA endorsed 271 Congressional candidates (210 of whom won), and it financed 155 of them with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Also, the educators spent a great deal more cash in a surprisingly-successful drive to defeat tax-limitation proposals in various states. They know that Proposition 13 fever is a dagger aimed at the heart of expensive school systems. The NEA, actually a labor union second in size only to the Teamsters, has suddenly become a political powerhouse. Pointing to its previous support, the NEA now wants Jimmy Carter and its friends in Congress to separate the “E” from Hew, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and to form a new,, cabinet-level Department of Education. Carter endorsed this proposal even before the 1976 election, and he backed it during the last Congress. But now, the big guns are being assembled because the NEA wants results. The creation of a Department of Education presupposes that anything as important as education should be directed by the federal government. Who will doubt that education is important? But look at what Washington has done to agriculture, welfare, housing and transportation. Look at what the learned bureaucrats are now doing to America’s energy needs. Other than national defense which the federal government also handles poorly, Washington has no business meddling in any of these areas. In fact,* the solution fo most of America’s ills Misses “Mr. Jones” Trash Pick-Up To the Editor: Mr. Jones, wherever you are we want you to know you are missed! We called you that because your trucks carried signs "Jones Farm" and you gave us a brand of sanitary service which was uncommonly good! We were glad that we had the opportunity to say “Thank you” a few times because now that you are gone we have little to be thankful about. You^ men, with a smile, efficiently emptied our trash and then took the containers back to their proper housing, where they would not blow away and they also replaced the covers on the cans. The service we have now is as opposite as anything could be to the kind your people delivered. Now we’re chasing our cans all over the neighborhood and the lids that have been jammed in instead of on, no longer fit like they should. Maybe. Mr. Jones, you were underbid but if we knew about it in time, my neighbors and I would gladly pay more to have the kind of service you gave us. We miss you! Avalon Resident

is to get the government out. But the NEA disagrees totally and wants heavier federal presence in education via the creation of the neW department. The proposal, of course, would mean a greatly increased appropriation, which the NEA wants in order to protect the jobs and salaries of all of those teachers and administrators who face rapidly declining school enrollments. America’s education, already in a sorry state, gets worse each year. On February 13, Rudolph Flesch, author of the 1965 bestselling bombshell Why Johany Can’t Read, toM a Senate Education subcommittee that America is “lapsing back into illiteracy” so fast that we will soon have to import doctors, scientists and writers. A strong advocate of the phonics methods of teaching youngsters to read, he insists that the "look-say” technique has caused one-half of our population to be functionally illiterate. His critical view of

American education was shared in further testimony by Californian Paul Copperman, an education consultant who blamed the decline on permissiveness and federal bureaucratic in-

terference.

In our view, both men are right as far as they go. But the most significant statistic regarding education that we can find is the one which shows the direct ratio between spiralling cost and tumbling quality. It’s not more money that is needed; it’s less government control, which would allow school districts to solve their own problems. Ultimately, education ought to be removed entirely from government control. Then, whatever costs are involved will be carefully watched by the bill-payers. ’Hie proposal to create a separate Department of Education will only lead to more federal control over education. It will benefit teachers and administrators, not students. It should be soundly defeated.

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