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Catfish Market Surveyed

ThENTON A curious state Department of Agriculture staff member has been spending time with consumers to determine whether they’re ready to add catfish to their grocery lists. A popular staple in southern diets, catfish is rarely found in New Jersey or Northeast markets. Cultivated and processed on large fish farms throughout the south, catfish also could thrive easily on New .Jersey farms, according to the . defmrtment's seafood and fish - market development project specialists, Nancy Kunz. Farming the fish is a scientifically controlled environment would help ensure its quality, i • , STUDIES j HAVE already shown that this hearty variety could adapt to temoerature variations and cold winten^ said Ms. Kunz, but her current survey, funded equally by the state and federal agriculture department, is expected to determine whether the harvested fish would eventually crop up on New Jersey dinner tables. "We have*to find out if ■there is a market for the fish,,” she said. "Even in the south, they are facing a glut of catfish because growers and processors were very interested in improving production, but didn’t survey or develop new maiket areas." MS. KUNZ'S survey, which includes supermarket demonstrations and questionnaires, has indicated that most people enjoy catfish • and would continue to purchase it on a regular basis.

According to Ms. Ki_, people who have tasted the fish during visits to the south bemoan the fact that the fish is nearly impossi-

ble to buy here. -

MOST CUSTOMERS, eager to sample the catfish Ms. Kunz prepaid:at special tables in the Btofea’ seafood departments, are buying the fish to' take

home.

"A store in Middlesex, for example, has already sold 200 pounds," she said. "They can’t keep it in the

store.”

The catfisfr marketing survey is part of affovcrall cooperative department effort to evaluate the potential' for a major aquaculture, or fishfarming, industry in the Garden State. IN ADDITION TO Channel catfish, other species will be .tested for acceptability by the New Jersey consumer In a previous study funded by the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Marketing Service, five species of fish were analyzed for their marketability in New Jersey and other northern and mid western markets. The fish — Nile perch, American eel, Rainbow trout, Chinese carp and Channel catfish all have some potential, to be cultivated in New Jersey.

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Elderly Get Tax Break

PAST AND FUTURE get together at retiree Mrs. Jean

— luiauun oi entrance i© new hospital tower to be built at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Looking on are Mrs. v Ann Nor cut. left, a member of original staff, fellow retiree Mrs. Anna May Goodway. and William H Waldron III, hospital administrator. Retirees Honored

COURT HOUSE - Mrs. Jean Brennan, nurse anesthetist in the Surgical Department at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, and Mrs. Anna May Gobdway of Food Services were honored at a luncheon in the hospital recently upon retirement. Mrs. Brennan has been with the hospital since it opened and Mrs. Goodway since a, short time after opening. The retirees were guests at a luncheon with Hospital Administrator William H. Waldron III, Assistant Administrator Brian Buonani, Personnel Director Frank Baker and Food Services Director Raymond Green. Mrs. Ann Norciitt, a^ former employee of Burdette Tomlin .and one of the

original staff, was also present. 'FOLLOWING LUNCHEON, the retirees were presented gifts from the Hospital at a reception where their fellow employees were present. Mrs. Goodway received a beautiful painting of the Higbee Beach dunes and Mrs. Brennan an engraved gold bracelet. Both of the women have memories of the early days at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, some humorous and other sad. They say they will miss the' hospital routine but are) looking forward to spending much of their retirement traveling in this country and abroad.

Learning About Law

ERMA — Legal issues involving the criminal and civil court system were explained by Thomas Rossi, county Public Defender, to the Business Law classes at Lower Cape

May Regional High School. Rossi discussed the handling of juvenile offenders, who are normally treated more leniently than adults. He also stressed the overcrowding of local

detention facilities and state penal institutions. Rossi was invited by James Ridgway, teacher of Business Law. The class recently started a unit on crimes and torts.

NEWARK-Elderly taxpayers should be certain to consider the numerdbs benefits provided by tax law when preparing their 1961 federal*iftedme tax

, returns.

A single taxpayer over age 65 or more is not required to file a tax return unless income from all taxable sources is $4,300. Married couples over age 65 are not required to file unless income is over $7,400. If one spouse is under 65 the limit

is $6,400. ;

ANOTHER BENEFIT . for those age 65 or over is that ah extra $l,000 exemption can be claimed on the tax return. Accordingly, a married couple filing a. joint return, where both husband and wife are age 65, will be able to reduce income by a total of $4,000 by claiming four exemptions. A special tax credit for the elderly is also available for those age 65 or over if. income from non-taxable pensions (including social security) and tbtal income for 1961 was low. The income cut-off level vines depending upon filing status. Those qualifying may be entitled to a reduction in th4ir tax bill by as much as $375 for single persons and $562 for married couples filing jointly. The credit is 'computed and claimed on Schedule R in conjunction with Form

1040.

THOSE UNDER age 65 who refceive public retirement pensions may . also qualify for the tax credit for the elderly if their total income is low. TaxpayeVs age 55 or over may be eligible for a "once-in-a-lifetime’’ $125,000 exclusion of gain on the sale of their principal residence. If the home was sold before July 21,' 1961, however, the exclusion is

limited to $100,000 This exclusion is computed and claimed using Form 2119 with the Form 1040 tax return. Additional information is available in Publication 554, Tax Benefit* for dlder Americana; free fromithe

IRS

SS Student Aid Cutoff Under Fire WASHINGTON, D C. Congressman Bill Hughes (D'-NJ) has thrown his support behind legislation Which would extend the cutoff deadnne to Oct. l for students eligible for Social Security college education

benefits.

In a letter to Rep. J.J. . Pickle (D-Tex), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Social Security, Hughes urged the panel to take prompt and favorable action

on the bill.

SOCIAL SECURITY student benefits, which provide fuifds to enable students whose parents are deceased or disabled to continue their education, are scheduled to terminate iri August of this year for college studehts over age

18. -

The budget reconciliation act, which established this deadline, made it possible for certain students to continue receiving benefits until April, 1965, but only if they are enrolled in and attending a full-time post secondary school before May. 1962. HUGHES CRITICIZED the Social Security. Administration's inefficiency in notifying high s^nool seniors of the change in benefit laws. '

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