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October 21,1981

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Chamber Says‘Yes’ To Riparian COURT HOUSE - The Cape May County Chamber of Commerce has come out in support of the Rioarian Lands Amendments Question on the Nov. 3 General Election ballot; arid the repeal of the governor’s pocket veto power, another question to be resolved by the electorate in

less than two weeks.

According to a press release from the County Chamber, ‘'many, many people's property rights are at stake in this most recent effort by the State of New Jersey to confiscate more land area." THE, RIPARIAN LANDS question, number 7 on the ballot, asks the voters if they want to place a double time limitation on the state's rkge-old right over public ownership of all lands flowed by the tides. If approved k the state would have slightly more than a year to stake its claim on all questionable riparian lands which have

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Fall Back Sunday*

«•*- - ,rv£ •: • . : J; . >V, ~ g. '**■■ ' v »'i 'W' * ■ tututr- ■ .* ' CONSTRUCTION OF THE I^iwer Township branch of the county library is underway. Site work began at the Rayshore Rd. location early last week. In the background is the Recreation Center. MUA Gets $26 Million Fund Offer From EPA

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For those of you who’ve waited since last spring, ybu’ll gain that hour back between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Remember to set your clocks back one hour before going to bed Oct. 24 as we go off Daylight Saving Time.

SWAINTON — Four federal grant offers totaling $26,749,010 for design and construction of wastewater treatment^and sludge composting facilities in Cape May County have been received by the Municipal Utilities Authority, according to Chairman Johq Vinci: Vinci announced receipt of the grant offers at the MUA’s regular meeting. “With these four grant offers, we will be

Food Stamp Units Cuts

RIO GRANDE — Budget cutbacks and resulting smaller staff are forcing the Cape May County Food Stamp Office to close four of six outreach sites, effective Nov 1. f Representatives will no longer visit Cape May City Hall, North Wildwood City Hall, Wildwood Community Center and the Millman Center in Villas. Clients of prospective participants living these areas will have to visit the main food stamp of-

fice in the Social Service Building, Rts. 9 and 47 here Clients may still be serviced at the Woodbine Community Center, Longfellow and Monroe Aves., on the first Monday of each month between 9:30 a.m .and noon; or at the Ocean City Youth Center, Sixth and Atlantic Aves. on the first Friday of each month between 9:30 a.m. and noon. The Food Stamp Program provides low income families with the ability to purchase additional food.

able to move swiftly ahead with these projects which are essential if we are to meet , our wastewater treatment goals in the county," Vinci said. THE FOUR GRANTS, offered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, include: $14,908,281 for construction of the Gape May Region's wastewater treatment plant, pumping station and interceptors; $7,193,390 for construction ol' a sludge composting facility to be built at the site of the Seven Mile BeacH/Middle Regional plant; $2,541,378 for the design of the Seven Mile Beach/Middle Region's wastewater treatment plant, pumping station, interceptors and outfall; and $2,105,961 for design of treatment facilities interceptors and pumping station for the Wildwood/Lower Region. All four grants represent increased allowances by the EPA over the standard 75 percent funding rate. The EPA increased the rate because it approved the Seven Mile Beach/Middle Region's composting ' (Page 20 Please)

The Race for Assembly

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Digest Top'stones Beach Fees In The Wildwoods? Free beaches in the Jersey Cape may soon be a thing of the past. Last Wednesday the Wildwood Crest Commissioners introduced an ordinance that would establish fees In their com/nunity for the first time, while Thursday' found Wildwood Mayor Guy MuzianI saying fees in his community are "in-'

evitable^

ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS in both resorts, thq additional revenue is necessary — due to increasing cost of ’

govemmentV if the municipalities are to

continue providing adequate services to

their residents

While the ordinance in Wildwood Crest is expected to be presented for publia hearing and adoption on Oct ,28. Mayor Muziani has said fees won’t come right , away tc^WjldWood — but they wijl even

tually.

If approved in both resorts* only.'North Wildwood and Strathmere would remain 9th free beaches along the Jersey Cape KRK Eyes Cape? COURT HOUSE - The Klu Klux Klan may soon have a training camp somewhere in Cape May County. Accor ding to published accounts, the Clan would like to buy 20 acres in the county to hold picnics, private rallies and physical exercises Dorothy Mack, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, says the situation poses a serious pToUlem for blackS and other minorities. According to the NAACP S president, there’s been unverified reports over the past year that the KKK.has been meeting in homes in the Wildwoods and other areas, and that a drive has been on to r purchase land for the organization. Sinks With Crewman Aboard ATLANTIC CITY - The Coast Guard calleti off its search early last week for a Rio Grande man vyho disappeared when the clammer h£ was on sank some four/ miles Off the Absecon Inlet Oct. 11. The missihg man, William Besemer, 31, of Main St.. Rio Grande, apparently was trapped in the pump room of the Funny Face when the ship went under. Memorial services were held for Besemer Saturday at St Simeon's By ' The Sea, Wildwood Crest. THE OTHER TWO MEN aboard, skijv per Christian G. Madsen. 33. of North Cape May and Richard Calverley Jr., 26, . of Villas were picked up by the crew of a coastal tankeij in the area at the time of. (Page 20 Please)

Republican Incumbent Has Been Plugging Away

• Anyone who has been on the job /or any length of time gains a sense of security. Success (n politics especially often leads to aspirations'/or higher office. You and Jim Hurley together have both served the First Legislative District for at least 10 years. How is It that it's Jim Hurley and not Joe Chinnici running for State Senate? Chinnkl: Let me say this. Jim has got four years seniority on me in the Assembly, and I felt I was not going to argue with my running mate to try to run for the seat when I feel that he had seniority and first shot at it. And the main reason I did not hm [for Senate} is because I felt that Jim had seniority over me, and something he deserved first shot. Now, if he had turned it down, more than likely I would have been happy to be the can-

didate.

• Speaking of Mr. Hurley, he admonish ed the President for Mr. Reagan's plan to reduce Social Security benefits. Do^you, in the same vein, have any bones to pick with

Chinnici: Well, that’s a very difficult question tor me to answer on behalf of Tom Kean; you know, it’s pretty hard to answer (Page 2 Please)'

Democrat Challenger Wants to Assure a Voice

• You ‘are an Ocean City Councilman neglect you? current responsibilities and plus the owner of a real estate and In- your future constituents, if elected to the

surance agency. What provisions have you General Assembly?

made dr will you make so that you don't

The Herald Interview

The ‘ race for the two General Assembly seats from the First Legislative District of Cape May antfYnpft of Cumberland counties in-

volves one incumbent and three local officeholders.

The other incumbent Assemblyman, Republican lamps Hurley of Millville, is running for the State Senate seat being vacated by retiring

Republican Senator James Cafierb of Wildwood.

The Assembly candidates are Republican incumbent Joseph Chinnici of Bridgeton and his running mate Guy Muziani, the mayor of Wildwood, and Democrats Henry Ricci of Vineland, a Cumberland County freeholder, and Bill Woods, an Ocean City Councilman. *The District will bfe represented for the next two years by the two highest vote-getters in the copibined Cape May/Cumberland County balloting. . I Editor’s note: We were unable to interview two of the four can-

Tom Kean, the Republican gobernatorial . -.. . .. . .. candidate, who. afterall, hat embraced ~ didates: Mr. Ricci being out of the country on his honeymoon; Mr. Mu much of the Reagan philosophy? ziani unable to accommodate us despite attempts to reach him.)

Woods:* Well, that’s easy for me to answer because I have never, ever agreed that one person should hold — as far as elective office is concerned ~ two offices at the^same time, In my estimation, that’s a conflict. You can’t serve two masters. And if I were elected to the Assembly — and I think I probably w(ll be — I would resign from the City Council So, that would solve that particular problem right

away. ,

I’ve had some people, as a matter of fact, tell me they don’t want to voteVor me for Assembly because they would rather have me on the City Council But I would handle that by resigning from the City, Council tmmeifiately So that can be served by someone from my ward, beginning

when I was sent to Trenton

As far as my business is concerned; Well, I’ve been in business for IB years, and fortunately I’ve done fairly well. I have quite a large staff ; an assistant in in-