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CREST HAVEN - In these days of skyrocketing costs, which even include such necessities as cemetery plots, many veterans are taking advantage of a unique offer by the Cape May .County Cemetery and Veterans Memorial Park. The county facility, which is located behind Crest Haven, has S.SOO plots available free to veterans and their wives. In less than two years, 102 have been buried there, Including 13 veterans' wives. To reserve a plot, a veteran need only bring his Honorable Discharge and marriage certificate to be photostated free of charge by Myrtle Hevener, superintendent of the cemetery-park at the Social Services Building, Rio Grande. MRS. HEVENER IS PLEASED at the response and has already reserved 600 plots for county veterans and their spouses. It is a case of "first come, first served," according to the superintendent and plots are assigned in the order in which registrants pass away. Uncle Sam and the VA furnishes a -Trash Change—| AVALON. The Borough announced a change in trash collection' for Christmas week. West of Dune Drive will be picked up on Tuesday, Dec. 22nd and east of Dune Drive on Thursday, Dec. 24th. There will be no collections Friday or' Saturday.'. Normal schedule will 1 resume Dec. 28th.

bronze plaque which is encased in concrete for each veteran. The veterans plaques are free, but family members must pay for similar plaques for the wives. THE PARK ON GENTLY roUing land is beautifully landscaped arid has a sprinkling of park monuments furnished by Uncle Sam. Needless to say, the variety of individual monuments as seen in the usual cemetery are not permitted in the veterans park. Mrs. Hevener has received a bronze plaque honoring Cape May County GOId Star Mothers, which will probably be dedicated in a monument around next Memorial

Day.

—Charles Mathis

LOGO ADOPTED BY Sea Isle City Centennial Committee marks city’s 100th anniversary In l»82. It was designed by Mrs. John DeGenni, and copies will be available to residents wishing to have it printed on their business stationery or in-' elude it in their advertising.

Fulltime Erosion Unit Eyed-

(From Page 1) added cmphasmng-that if it means having to throw more money into the effort or . form a new commission, it should be done. While there are statutes that allow for the creation of a management commission or authority for certain other areas, none currently, exist for beaches or inlets. Legislation would be necessary to establish legal groi^ids for the establishment of a management body — with taxing authorization similar to a Library Com-

mission.

The planner said that a viable solution to the problem may be to amend the County Improvement Authority Act to allow thisentity to handle beaches and inlets. •A LOT OF PEOPLE don’t like the taste of another semi-autonomous authority, but they get the job done," Jarmer opined, “We’ve found over the years that elected officials don’t like to take on such responsibility," he added. "If you leave some things up to elected officials they won’t get

done."

The planner explained that the authority

to handle beaches and inlets could be at a regional or county level but that individual municipalities must have input into its operations. "There would have to be some central control, maybe not from Trenton but from the regional or local level," he said “The authority wouldn't be autonomous/.' he added. citing some oversight by other state and federal agencies such as the State DEP and U S. Army Corps, of Engineers. “You have to have some oversight, but not too much." WHILE NOTING THERE are several ways a beach and inlet management unit could be set up, the planner stressed that municipalities must be provided input into decisions that will involve their communities. He also said municipalities shouldn't be shouldered with the full burden or financially supporting entire projects. "I think beaches are a resource for the entire state," Jarmer added. “It’s (beach arid inlet management) a statewide problem that they (state) should help finance."

Hearing seen Big Step for Fish Plant-

(From Page 1) theless was hopeful some concrete action may be taken on ihe facility by next spr- • n R- \ ' “We’re getting closer, but we can’t pro- . ject ^(construction) date," she said Friday. adding the township still hasn’t received word back from various federal agencies on the necessary permits required from that level of government. Public notification of the township’s re-^ quest for an Army Corps, of Engineers permit to construct the docking and unloading facilities in the channel was only recently publicized by the Engineers' Philadelphia regional office. MS. BEITEL, THE TOWNSHIP’S grants coordinator, agreed with Ms. Hovik, that the CAFRA hearing is important. “I think getting the permits in hand will be an affirmative step and facilitate a developer’s decision," she said. She explained that the township has received several inquiries from prospective developers Of the fish processing facility. “We’ve had lots," she elaborated, “but they'll have to come down to the bottom line. Nibbles don't count." ’ The grants coordinator indicated that prospective developers were interested in a processing plant in the $2-3 million range. She described today’s hearing process as a step toward gaining the necessary permits. "It’s one more hurdle — a veryl important hurdle in attracting a \ developer." Ms. Beitel also noted it is a costly process sinee the various government agencies charge aplication review fee based on a percentage of the estimated cost. The CAFRA permit fee, for example, is $4,000.

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SHE AI.SO DESCRIBED the hearing today as a "pro forma number." In which the government agencies have an opportunity to question the applicant on any physical or environmental problems they \ foresee on the site. Several months ago this and another fish processing proposal were frequently in the news since Middle Township’s and the other, similar plan - advanced by the county Industrial Developmfnt Commission on behalf of a private concern. Sea Harvest Industrial Park (SHIP) for a site off Ocean Dr. near the Middle Thoroughfare toll bridge in Lower Township - were seemingly vying for funding thru the federal Economic Development Administration (EDA). However, Ms. Beitel last week referred to the controversial EDA meeting last June as a "rhetorical theatre,” indicating the gathering of county Industrial Development Commission officials in Diamond Beach was a futile session because the availability of federal funding thru EDA had been “long since dead." SHE SAID FRIDAY that the Middle Township proposal has Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) eligibility thru the Dept, of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the N.J. Economic Development Authority. And she underscored the importance of today's CAFRA hearing by noting that government funding isn't available under the various government programs wilfeout developers being first signed up. "You don't apply in a vacuum," she said in a reiterating that.private developers for a fish processing facility won't come aboard until the government approves applications for the harbor project.