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RIO OKANDE A t2 million plus health care .expansion proposal for the Lutheran Home in O^ean View is _ •wheduhnl lo‘ be rewvwi'd'during this evenCamp Owners To Fig hi Rise (HT.AN VIES ' Ttir cVunty f’ampground Assonation hdN joined the growing ranks in npposition to the proposed $172 million rate.hike for Allan lie Electric In th«* resolii lion, vmilhg its opponMion*. the camp owtots also voted a conkrihulion of $100 to ST E I* »Stpp the Electric Punch) to nid-mals fight

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Kissam, administrator at the Lutheran Home, the initial cost estimates were low because they hadn't been compiled by. or included Ihe. services of, an architect who has since been engaged Mr Kissam also explained that the original plans to add 36 more sheltered care beds to - those currently in the nursing home were changed because of a desire not to have more than one bed in a room. The added bedfc weren’t dropped, he em-. phasized, because of financial reasons.

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WASHINGTON. .D C, Congressman Bill Hughes (D-NJ) has announced the U-S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to consolidate its East Coast dredging fleet in the Philadelphia District office Hughes said the decision ts "significant because it represents^ a build-up of ' responsibilities in the Philadelphia District of-. fice. Just one year ago. the ’ Philadelphia office had been targeted for closing by the Army Corps. Although the Army Corps still faces personnel reduc tions as Ihe result of budget cuts. Hughes said Philadelphia is no longer being singled out to bear the brunt of these cuts IN \ RELATED matter, Hughes said the Justice Department has dropped , its plans to close the Philadelphia field office of ifs Antitrust Division, as had been- proposed earlier ' this year. Hughes, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, had ^protested the proposal on grounds that it would weaken the government's .efforts to epforce antitrust la'Mk "I m very pleased with both of these decisions." Hughes said "In their own < ways, both of these agen ciek play important roles jn our region We need their continued presence in Philadelphia ■' IN THE CASE of the Army Corps. Hughes said he has been assured in writing by Gch E R Heiberg, Director of Civil Works, that there are no plans to close the Philadelphia District office. In response to a letter from Hughes. Geh Heiberg said the Philadelphia District office will continue to be responsible for maintenance* dredging in the Philadelphia port In addition, he said the Army Corps has odeided to consolidate the mangement of the Corps-owned hopper. dredge activities / alOng the Atlantic coast ''in the Philadelphia District

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AN USA spokesperson said the original project estimates were very low. This is typical of ipitial applications coming before the health review agency,* it was explffine4|Mince applicants are rcractant to engage architects atW . engineers to draw up expensive formal documents before gaining initial approval for a project. The HSA doesn’t view the Ocean View nursing home expansion as a corfiplicated projecl/ because much of the phyktcirf facility, such expensive heating plant, Is already in place. Mr. Kissftm, the nursing home administrator, is looking forward, to final approval and the start of the project. "We are truly ex- > cited about our plans and we feel that it will definitely help our senior citizens in their time of need," he stated. In other action at tonight's meeting of the HSA Advisory Council, which meets in the Social Services Building in Rio Grande. Ihe group is expected to elect officers and establish committees.

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