Herald & Lantern 17 June 81

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Hearing May Determine Fate of Arthritis Clinic

COURT HOUSE - The Board of Freeholders have agreed lo convene a public hearing on the closing earlier Ihis year of the county arthritis clinic—If health care consumer advocate Joseph Ward of West Cape May "can bring the physicians and patients together for such a hearing." Funds are available to reopen the clinic as early as next January but the county governing body will finance the project only if it can be determined that the clinic provided a "valuable service.” IN A LETTER TO COUNTY physicians, the Freeholders are asking each doctor for his or her personal evaluation of the clinic, and if the doctors feel the allegations of substandard service provided by the clinic as advanced by Dr. John Napoleon, presi-

dent of the county Osteopathic Medical Society, were justified. Napoleon, who is also county coroner, was highly critical of the clinic, indicating its services were unnecessary and represented an unwarrented government infrigement into health care. THE CLINIC WAS CLOSED last January because of too few patient referrals by physicians. Between the end of June 1978 and the first week of October 1980, of 59 physicians, 63 per cent made only one referral or none, while 36 per cent referred patients to the clinic at least twice. Fewer than 14 per cent of the doctors had five or more referrals. A survey of the patients who used the clinic, to get their opinions, is also in the offering.

Chamber to Dot: Cut Roadside Grass

COURT HOUSE — The county Chamber of Commerce has petitioned Louis J. Gambaccini, commissioner of the state Department of Transportation, to continue to cut the grass and clean up litter along the state's roadsides. "As the ‘Garden State’ of the nation and a s(ate which generates its largest source of Wome and employment from the touristn and travel industry," says the Chamber, "we should not let the highways and byways of the state become eyesores to the millions of tourists and visitors who come to New Jersey every summer and keep our state economically healthy. “Those tourists generate hundreds of millions of tax dollars for the state. Are we to risk the loss or curtailment of this

Senior Drivers-

(From Page U. residence. USING THE 65-year-old driver example, senior citizens residing in the Trenton suburbs will be the hardest hit with a $151, or 51 percent increase. Senior citizens residing in only four areas of the state will receive a reduction in auto insurance rates as a result of the commissioner’s ruling. The Newark over-65 driver in the example would pay $212 or 32 percent less, while jersey City resident will experience a $45 reduction or 9 percent, a Camden resident a $48 decrease of 10 percent and an East Orange resident an $11 drop amounting to a/2 percent break. ••NEW JERSEY MOTORISTS should be aware that insurance companies will not receive one more penny under the new system," Robert Tally, president of the Insurance News Service, said. “The proposed change in the way insurance rates are set means that people over "75, women, rural and suburban residents as well as senior citizens who comprise 86 percent of the insurance-buying public, will pay more -for auto insurance so that the other 14 percent, mainly young, male, urban drivers, will pay less," Tally added. Virtually the entire New Jersey automobile insurance industry applied for a stay of the order's effective date and filed notices of appeal to the Appellate Division of Superior Court on May 26. On June 5, an Appellate court threejudge panel granted a permanent stay of the Insurance Department's classification order. The court justified its ruling by indicating that legal issues raised by the insurance industry "should be resolved before any such radical steps are to be taken” (that would implement the order).

valuable industry by neglecting the appearance of our highways which most of our tourists use motoring to and from our beaches, mountains and resort areas?" The Chamber concludes with a plea to DOT to give a second thought to the decision to eliminate maintenance of the roadsides because of budget restriction. Copies were sent to Larry Newbold, county extension agent, and members of the Cape May legislative delegation.

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Hit-Run Death

LOWER TWP. — Township police said Monday they expected to make an arrest earlier this week in connection with the hit and run which left a fisherman dead by the side of the Rt. 109 canal bridge ap-| proach in Schellenger Landing. The body of James M. Seaver, 29. of Newport News, Va. was found in the northbound lane around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Authorities said they were looking for a metallic blue auto with square headlights at least one of which was broken. The victim, a crew member aboard the fishing boat Dolphin, sustained several broken bones in the impact. Noise Code Dies WILDWOQD — An ordinance city fathers were hoping would quiet things down here, literally, this summer won’t be adopted after all because of its implicit double standard. However, Mayor Guy Muzianni remains adamant that execessive noise will be dealt with under existing local codes and repeated offenders will find the welcome mat pulled out from under them. The intended ordinance would have made the owners of noisy rooming houses responsible for the behavior of their tenants. The double standard realization came about recently when it was pointed out that as a convention city, this resort welcomes with open arms many conventioneers who aren’t exactly the quietest persons while away from home. Chairman Dropped CAPE MAY — Veteran Planning Board chairman Tom Carroll is being replaced on the board by Dennis DeSatnick, a former teacher now in the window blind business. While lauding Carroll’s service, Mayor Arthur Blomkvest nevertheless cited a desire to have someone of his own choosing on the board. Carroll, who along with his wife Sue'is proprietor of the Mainstay Inn, one of this historic city’s most noted Victorian landmarks, has served on the board since 1973 and been chairman seven years. He was appointed by the previous administration of Mayor Bruce Minnix and has been a leading exponent of historic preservation for both aesthetic and economic reasons here.

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