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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1980

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In S.J., Cape Hardest Hit % * By Gypsies TRENTON — Chomp Chomp. The sound you heard was gypsy moth caterpillars eating away in the trees. If you thought they were had last summer, you are right. The New Jersey Dept, of Agriculture reports after an aerial survey that a recdrtniigh of 411,975 acres of trees in the state sustained varying degrees of defoliation, more than twice the 193,700 acres last year. The previous record high was 258,425 acres in 1973. CAPE MAY COUNTY SUFFERED 19,070 acres damage from the crawly pests. Broken down, the figures are Dennis 8,770, Lower 1,195. Middle 6,445, Upper 1,095, Woodbine 785. Defoliation in Atlantic County totaled 2,300 acres. Cumberland County lost 5,480 acres and Gloucester only 345. John D. Kegg, state supervising entomologist, says that while many of the trees have grown new leaves, they underwent considerable stress in the summer drought. Many could die this winter if further weakened by root rots and boring insects. In addition to its cooperative spray program, the state has a contract with the U.S. Dept, of Agriculture to mass produce beneficial parasites in its labs in Trenton. State personnel have begun gypsy moth egg mass surveys to determine next year's problem areas in response to written requests. And, from their tents, the bugs chomp on.

SUMMER'S OVER but fish don't have calendars. Just ask Dante Santella, 10, of Camden. here lugging a mess of blues caught in the Cape May Point surf Saturday. (Yes. autumn began Monday!) Some are saying fishing this fall will be the best ever.

Heidens Due F or Bike Race WILDWOOD - Olympic, World, National and State cycling champions will converge on the Wildwoods this weekend for the 1966 Pro-Am Bike Races, with Eric and Beth Heiden arriving at the County Airport, Erma, at 5 p.m. Friday. The superstars will progress to Wildwood via motorcade with the Wildwood High School Band providing music. Eric is the winner of five gold medals in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, and his sister Beth is the U.S. Women’s World’s Champion road racer. A RECEPTION WILL honor these tWo Americans as well as all the Olympians and National Champions on hand for the races, including Greg LeMond who will be here as the Junior World's Champion. Entries such as the powerful Panasonic/Shimano teams, six-man Canadian Olympic team, six Canadian Women's National Team. A.M.F Wheel Goods, Schwinn. Austro-Daimler, GothanRoss. Inda/U.S.A.; Cedi/Grab On. Alpine. Kritchn/T.I./Raleigh/Campo, plus other national and international teams will compete. BETH HEIDEN WILL RACE in the Women's BAR event Saturday afternoon at 1:30. and Eric will race at about 8:30 Saturday night The winner of the main race will receive a $3,000 savings bond, a one-ounce solid gold medal, and the governor’s trophy. Second place winner^ receives $1,400 in bonds and a one-ounc^ sterling silver medal and the Wildwood trophy. Third wins a $750 savings bond, one-ounce bronze medal and trophy $3,850 in prizes will be shared by the 17 additional winners.

Sod Farm Solution

SWAINTON — Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority Chairman John Vinci has proposed land application as an interim altemath'e to the problem of septic waste disposal. , "We should at least explore the possibility of applying septage to a sod farm, for example," Vinci stated. "If it were possible and practical, it would be a low cost, low technology interim solution

to the dilemma we now face. "THE NEW JERSEY Dept, of Environmental Protection has ruled that septic waste must be treated at the Lower Township MUA plant by March 15, 1981, for a portion of the septage generation in the county and at the Atlantic County Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant for the remainder. Disposal in unlined landfills will be prohibited.

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"While we continue to study the feasibility and safety of using the existing Woodbine landfill to dispose of the septic waste, we are also going to investigate the land application alternative," Vinci said. "IT SEEMS LIKE a simple and equitable alternative to spending a lot of money to build facilities at the Lower Township MUA plant that will only be used until our Seven Mile Beach/Middle Region

plant is constructed." MUA acting Executive Director George Marinakis said the land application proposal wouldn’t be considered for food crops for humans and that the authority should be prepared to put monitoring wells on the farmers’ fields to insure that the quality of the ground water is not being degraded by this method of disposal.

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Unemployment Comp. Bill OK’d

WASHINGTON - A legislative proposal by Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ,) to stop cutbacks in unemployment compensation for many recipients of Social Security and pension income has received final approval in Congress. However, it doesn’t become effective until next year. "This should correct an inequity in the law that has created serious hardship for thousands of unemployed people, particularly senior citizens, in my state and throughout the country," Bradley said after the House and Senate finally agreed to pass his proposal as part of the "MultiEmployer Pension Act" Sept. 19. BRADLEY'S AMENDMENT WILL change a law requiring states to make a

But Nat Effective This Year

dollar-for-dollar reduction in unemployment benefits in cases where the applicant is getting Social Security or pension income from a previous job, even if the individual left that job years earlier and worked elsewhere afterward. Congress enacted the “offset requirement" in 1976, but the law did not take effect until April 1 of this year. It caught hundreds of Jersey Cape unemployed completely unawares, especially senior citizens who had been out of work and collecting benefits since previous summer employment ended. "SINCE THE BEGINNING of April, people otherwise qualified for full unemployment compensation have seen

their benefits diminished and sometimes wiped out entirely merely because they receive Social Security or other pension income," Bradley noted in his statement. "That kind of treatment is plainly unjust. especially when we have a recession and persistent inflation. Many of the people affected by the offset requirement were once retirees who had to return to work to augment their Social Security or pensions and then lost their jobs when the economy turned down. Such hard-working people must not be deprived of assistance that they deserve." Bradley said the offset requirement has been extra painful in New Jersey and other states where workers are compelled to

contribute to the unemployment insurance fund and may find that federal law keeps them from collecting full benefits later. THE SENATOR SAID THE NEW law would go into effect next year and that the federal government estimated the cost at less than $100million annually. Under the new legislation, Bradley said the offset requirement would only be imposed in certain limited situations and he offered an example of how the law would work: "Suppose an individual at Company A retires and begins to collect Social Security,” he said. "For whatever reason, this person then goes to work for some (Page 3 Please)