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Wednesday, April 16,1980

Big Horse Show Due In June under the auspice, of the America HtorS enlelf Si! c r_ p<f ' IU T , . wil1 ^

Slow Association has been scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, June u and 15 at

Meadowcreek Farm, Clermont.

According to show coehalrmen Helen Westcott of this community and Jane Hartin of Sea Isle City, the riding and show event will be sponsored by the Burdette Tomlin Hospital Auxiliary with proceech

benefiting the hospital,

_Recently, Ms. Westcott and Ruth Wehe,

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of the Sponsors Committee, met at the home of show publicity chairman Carol Harvey whose two horses (see front page photo) will be entered in the Hunter class

at the show.

Ir announcing the show and fair dates, Ms. HafUn noted It will be the first officially recognized compeUtion of its kind ever to be offered in the county. Riders will be competing for trophies and other prizes and points won in this show will be applied to national ratings, attractir* quality

wais|*cuuiMS Will

entering from New Jersey, Delaware Maryland and Pennsylvania as well as

other nearby states and Canada

Event} from pleasure classes Jo ponv competIUon will be offered, making Cape May County the meeting place from some of the finest young Olympic aspirants In

the country, Ms. Hartin said.

Watern classes and jumper division will

be offered too.

Tents and a variety of Informal food service booths will be available. ' "We are hoping to met the entire community as well as vlsKSs to Cape May County and not Just the horse lovers for the two days of competition," Ms. Hartlnsald "The ladles Auxiliary is hoplr^ to greet jtat plain fun lovers, families, friends and tourists for the show and fair," shi added. For additional Information on.the horse show, write: Carol Joy Harvey, Chrysallls DennisvIJIe Rd., CMCH, N.J.sazio/

Birth Defects

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The report's findings are due this spring - after this year’s campground spraying program by the government. Some authorities have cited Sevin as a substance that is especially dangerous to pregnant women. Even before the reports began, Lower Township authorities had come out against the state's use of the Sevin spray to fight

gypsy moths.

IN THE WAKE of the birth defect reports, the director of the county board of freeholders sent a personal letter to other municipalities in the county asking them to sijspend spraying with Sevin until Conclusive reports are in. Freeholder

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director Anthony Catanoso's plea was personal because the freeholders as a governing body didn’t agree the Sevin spray was culpable. The lack of a consensus among the freeholders isn’t unioue upon county residents. Even among neighbors of the women who experienced the abnormal births, there is lack of agreement about cause. SOME FEEL the birth defects were coincidences. Others point to the many normal births among farm

, Reminder The Herald is published on Wednesday. but all community interest news items must reach the newspaper office by the previous Thursday’s mail to be considered for publication.

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animals in the area during the same time. Some feel the drinking water may be a factor more than the chemical spray. One woman called the County Mosquito Commission; sobbing, she explained she was two months pregnant and pleaded with the commission not to spray for mosquitoes this year. IN A LETTER to municipal officials, the head of the mosquito unit noted the commission doesn’t use Sevin and isn’t involved with moth spraying. Commission director Judy Hansen said the mosquito spray program will go on this year as usual using the chemical Abate at five lbs

$3.2 MILLION HOUSING project for the Coast Guard Training Center is underway between Pennsylvania and Delaware Aves. In Cape May. It represents the largest single Coast Guard contract ever awarded in South Jersey and will provide 40 units of three- and four-bedroom town

houses. The project replaces substandard houses built in the early 40s. Some of the • older thtU* have been sold by contract or Martel Construction and are being moved off the site. The rest are being demolished Some of the new units will be completed bv the end of this vear.

per acre. She termed it "relatively non-toxic” and said it was safe to use If a follow-up spraying program is warranted, Malathion will be used, which was described as "safe for humans." Referring to "much emotional speculation," Ms, Hansen pointed out that mosquitoes are "proven vectors of disease" such as malaria, dog heartworms and equine and St. Louis encephalitis.

HEALTH authorities have been interviewing the mothers gathering data for« what appears will be a lengthy statistical analysis which they indicate may take months of study before any conclusions are reached Ip the meantime, the mystery continues as docs speculation about the cause. And the worry and concern of expectant mothers in a new spring The range of emotions go from the veteran farmer who contends that without

chemicals there would be no food to the young mother who asks what is more important, a baby's fife or a gypsy moth Vet Careers Top ic COURT*HOUSE - Dr Frank Kingsbury, Extension Veterinarian from Cook College, will be speaking on "Various Careers in Veterinary Medicine"* at the Lockwood 4-H Youth Cienter, DennisVille Rd , here 7:30p m. on April 30. ,

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