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Hurley Admonished President

and essential victories you have achieved. "HEPUBICAN MEMBERS of Congress and Republican officeholders everywhere will repudiate your program," Mr. Hurley, . himself a candidate for the State-Senate,

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MILLVILLE — Assemblyman James R. Hurley was among members of the

Republican Party nationwide who, ap>

parently succesafillly, urged President Ronald Reagan not to proceed with plans to reduce Social Security benefits.

In his first letter to a President, the Cape May-Cumberland Assemblyman wrote to Reagan dn S«pt. 21: "If you continue to pursue Social Security, the Democrats will be given the^ opportunity to demagogue your performance, negating the brilliant

THE WAY IT USED TO BE, tennis Victorian style, is displayed by Betty Ann and John Bodnar of Yardley and Cape May on Sunday at the William J. Moore Tennis Center. The matches were among several events which attracted thousands during the annual Victorian Weekend in Cape May over the Columbus Day holiday Weekend. Dr. Wenzel Will Head , Co. Vocational Schools

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Campaign by Bob Shiles VILLAS — If Democrats and Republicans campaigning for state and county office this year have anything in common, it Ws" to be their mutual disatisfaction with the Byrne Administration and their belief that voters should vote for individual candidates rather than party labels. At least that's what most of the candidates told more than 150 residents who attended the Lower Township Taxpayers Assn’s "Candidates Night" last Wednesday. ' •‘IT'S TIME FOR a change,’’ Democratic state Senate candidate Ed Salmon said. "We’ve been shortchanged down here long enough," he added, calling for the creation of a block of South Jersey legislators —both Republicans and Democrats — to work for more local state appointments and funding. Salmon’s republican opponent, Assemblyman James Hurley, thrashed out at the governor’s recent stand on the Riparian Lands Question and his proposal that the state take over all the local police departments. "Can you imagine a police state?,” Hurley asked. Hurley also said he expects the juvenile justice bill he sponsored to pass the Legislature this winter. The bill calls for juveniles who commit cnmes to be fined or (Page 19 Please)

COURT HOUSE - The Board of Education for Vocational Schools has selected Dr. William Wenzel as superintendent of the county vocational schools effective Jan. 1. Dr. Wenzel will succeed Robert Toft, initial superintendent from 1961 until his retirement as of Dec. 31.

The board and its screening committee had 30 applicants for the position. 14 presented doctorates in education, 1$ had five or more years of vocational teaching experience, 13 had five or more years of staff level experience. 8 had five or more (Page 19 Please)

NewsDigest

The Week's Top Stories

To Watch Courts COURT HOUSE - Members of the county NAACP are forming a team of observers to keep an eye-on how blacks are treated in the local’ courts Members of the organization mefwith an attorney last week to discuss how the watch* team should work Team membe^srboth black and white, will be attending court sessions as observers County KlAACP president Dorothy ’ Mack has referred to*the watch team as being long overdue, saying that in the past year the number of complaints of people being wrongly a'ccused in court has tripled Tanker Spills Gas BURLEIGH — More than*a mile of RK 9 between Indian Trail Rd. and Exit 8 of ■fte Garden State Pkwy Was closed for more than two hours last Thursday aftef an undetermined amount of gasoline was spilled on the roadway from an 8.000-gallon tank truck owned bv Grace Oil Co of North Wildwood, According to Middle Township police, the truck was heading south on Rt 9 when a pipe on the (anker broke. The leak was discovered by th£ driver and reported to authorities. Firemen and company personnel helped clean the roadway To Talk Limits WILDWOOD - City officials are expected to meet Oct. 16 with local amuse ment representatives to discuss a ceiling , on the number of boardwalk games licenses. An ordinance was adopted last year that would have removed the ceiling in 1965 - a move calculated to lessen the Value of individual.licenses and thereby end the practicb of roundaboimt license transfers which sometimes involved the city into law suits brought by squabbling games merchants. . The Commissioners are also considcfing making it mandatory that license holders be corporations, so thdt licenses could "change hands" by the buying and selling of corporation stock while ownership remained under the same company — thereby meeting the state law pro-, hibiting transfer of amusement game licenses. Sandman Zoning LOWER TWP. - The Township Committee latf week authorized an amend * ment to be. drawn up and included in the packet of recommended changes to its zoning ordinance that if approved will allow condominiums to be a permitted use In the Marine Development zone (Fag^ 19 Please)

Race for Freeholder

,— p The Holding Office, Is^ Part of His Life • You’ve Been d county freeholder almost two decades. During that time the county's philosophy on the use of federal funds has gone from hands off because of the str Inga attached to not missing out on a piece of the pie. What major policy decisions face county government today in the wake of a greatly diminished role by the federal government? ffow will the countyjaxes be affected? CATANOSO: The fact that federal government has cut down on its grants and stuff like that, the county will have to change some of its policies as far as how their departments are being run. They may have to streamline some of them. Some departments may have to absorb work that other departments do. And eventually, maybe. I’m no so sure that, it’ll have to be absorbed by the taxpayers. • Do you have any idea at this time of the impact on local taxpayers? ' CATANOSO: No, I have no idea. Actually, we really haven’t had any serious cuts in the county oth#r than the CETA program or something like that. That was something that was just given to us in the last few years. Most of those people have been either picked up by the county because of retirements and people resigning, and it really hasn’t been a big problem. • You say most have been picked up by retirements? CATANOSO: Of other people retiring. ..We picked most of them (CETA workers) up as replacements (for people who have retired). » * ■ (Page2Plcase)

Issues of Health Are His Concern •As the freeholder overseeing health and human services for the county, what specifically will be the impact of Reagonomlcs on programs, personnel and funds irf these two areas of county service? THORNTON: As of last week we were informed that we’ll have about $87,000 in budget cuts thru the Title XX program. After I met with the department heads of the human service agencies in the'Ebunty—I think we can absorb almost all those cuts by some new, innovative ad(Page^ Please)

Herald Interview

Three people are running for two seats on the county governing body this year, the Democrats having come up with only one candidate for Freeholder this campaign. The Republican incumbents are Anthony Catanaso of North Wildwood, the current Freeholder director; and Gerald Thornton of Lower Township, the vice director. Challenging them is Democrat Michael Vistenzo of Middle Township. The two highest vote getters assume office in January for three years.

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Lone Democrat Seeks A Balance • You candidacy on ths November ballot cafhe about as the result of a write-in during the primary. Can you tell us why the County Democratic Organization didn't run a full slate of candidates this year, rrsultipg in there being only one Democrat (you). In the race for the two Freeholder seats? VISTENZO: They didn’t have any candidates because none came forward; they just couldn’t find anybody at the time (prior to the primary). That’s what it amounted to. There were people that wanted to rtin; you know, various individuals that had run and wanted to run I guess nobody got their det together. , . r ol course, you know Mrs. Peterson (Middle Township Committeewoman Patricia Peterson) had gotten Write-in votes as well. But with her family and kids going to school and her working her other job (she's worked for many summers at a Capd Mpy restaurant), she just didn’t have to time to really devote, so she decided not to participate. • Basically, why are you seeking election to county of /Ice; and. do^you think being the sole Democrat running against two Incurribent Republicans will enhance your changes of victory? VISTENZO: Yes, I do think it enhances the chances because of the fact that there may be some people out there — quite a few people. I’m sure — that might not like one or the other, and I would get the benefit . So I think the (Page 2 Please).