Wednesday, February 2S, 1981

The Herald and The Lantern

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Ruritan Honors Awarded

DENNIS TWP. William S. Thompepri of Dennisville was the recipient of the Citizenship Award presented by the Dennis Township Ruritan Club at its February meeting. The award is given each year to a person in the township who has made significant contributions through time and leadership toward the improvement of the township and county. Gary Errickson of Dennisville, citizenship committee chairman, made the presentation. He praised Thompson for his outstanding public service in the improvement of rural life in the county and state for over 50l

OPRUATING a successful 415-acre general and salt hay farm in Cape May from 1911 to 1934, Thompson then became administrator of the U.S.D.A.

Rural Rehabilitation Corporation in the county. Later he worked as a district supervisor with the Farm Security Administration, working with low income families throughout New Jersey. During World War II, Thompson was a district supervisor for the War Food Administration. In this capacity, he was instrumental in* getting the School Lunch Program started in New Jersdy. From 1946 until his retirement in 1961 Thompson was South Jersey district field man for the U.S.D.A. Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Service. The award recipient operated the William S. Thompson Insurance Agency until 1979. ACTIVE IN community and county affairs, he served 26 years on the Middle Township Board of Education, is a charter member of the Cape May County

Board of Agriculture, and is a life member of the N. J. State Grange, which honored him with its Silver Star Builder Award. Thompson was one of five boys and one girl of the first graduating class of Middle Township High School on June 9, 1909. Newspaper clippings indicate that he gave an oration at that graduation titled “The Price of Liberty". He worked for many years with the old Cape May County Fair Association. In the early 1960’s Thompson chaired the Farmland Assessment Referendum Committee. After successful passage, the farmland tax assessment law, by constitutional amendment, allowed for assessment of farmland at its productive value. THOMPSON HAS served on the Dennis Township Planning Board and has worked closely in his

RURITAN CITIZENSHIP Award is made by Garry Errickson of Dennisville to William S. Thompson, center, as William M. Robinson, president of Dennis Township Ruritan Club, right, looks on.

township with the Boy Scouts of America. He was honored in 1961 by the Cape May County Board of Agriculture and received the state Board of Agriculture citation for distinguished service to New Jersey agriculture in

Thompson lives with his daughter, Mary Frances Barto, in Dennisville and is a member of the Dennisville Baptist Church. Hfe is also a charter member of the Dennis Township Ruritan'Club.

Overeaters 1 Expanding

AVALON - Overeaters Anonymous will begin a new meeting at 7.30 p m Monday, March 2, at the Borough Hall, 3100 Dune drive, Avalon Meetings will be held each Week thereaftei- and will be led by people who have found success in losing and maintaining their weight using the O. A. program / Overeaters is a felowship of men and women yho use the same approach to controling compulsive overeating as the alcoholic has found successful in tfk’ A.A .program There are no dues, no fees, and no weigh-ins in O.A Call 428 7015 for . further information.

Chamber Opposes Hi-Level Span

by M'Ellen Rowland STONE HARBOR - The Feb. 16th dinner meeting acquainted local Chamber of Commerce members with three issues affecting the future and pocketbooks of merchants and taxpayers. Mayor James Wood’s 1981 Budget Message was read and it was reported lhat despite a local purpose tax increase, with prudent decisions in the expenditure of public funds, “Stone Harbor will probably continue to enjoy the second or third lowest tax rate in the county and at the same time, continue to maintain its reputation as the Seashore 'at Its Best.” GEORGE MARINAKAS. director of the county MUA, reported on the area’s waste water system which currently discharges effluent into the bay, posing a potential health

hazard and resulting in a ban on shelfishii'ig. Countywide, the ^.MUA waste water project has been underway since 1972 and its target is to replace ajmost obsolete treatment facilities in Stone Harbor, Avalon, Sea Isle city and the Cape May courthouse area. RAW SEWAGE will be conveyed to the corridor under Ocean dr. to 39th St. in Avalon and under Third Ave. to 80th St. in Stone Harbor thertce through conecting links to the main trunk line to a new treatment site east of Garden State Pkwy. and north of the Racquet club. There treatment will be increased three times over the present level and the effluent pumped to sea through a pipe terminating at a point more than a mile from shore in the ocean off 30th st. Architecturally, the new pumping stations will resemble brick residences. Funding, hopefully, will be obtained 75 per cent from the federal government and 25 per cent frorp local users — with a potential of up to 8 per cent from state

funds to be deducted from thd local user’s share. COUNCILMAN Jack Fitzpatrick discussed plans for the controversial highlevel bridge into Stone Harbor. He. the. mayor, members of Borough - Council and the county freeholders attended a Jan. 28 meeting which Fitz- ' patrick contended was really "a sales pitch (or a high-rise bridge". AT ITS HIGHEST point, the bridge would feach 35 ft. with the approach, starting near Topeka . Lodge .and the descent ending at Hall Harbor, disrupting, it was said, businesses at both ends and depriving the borough of 30 badly-needed parking spaces. A SHOW-OF-HANDS vote revealed that mbre than 95 |Jer cent of the members present were against construction of such a bridge. * A1 Westhoff’s report on the Chambers booklet was read by James Oulings who told membes this year's issue would contain eight more pages and that 16,000 booklets are being readied for distribution.

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