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by Bob Shiles , '■ Joanne Erausquin, who is listed on^the . Arizona and Puerto Rico. T NORTH CAPE MAY —An evangelist FCC application as the assistant'ad' ’ Mrs: Erausquin also indicated that radiowno plans to file ^hundreds of similar ap- ipinistrator of the propbsed station, Mr preacher, the r¥v. Carl Mclntlre has applications throughout the world, has.sub- Ortiz is an evangelist ordained'by the plied for a low power tv license in the Cape mitted documentation to^he Federal Com-' ^

munications Commission for a license to» • , operate a low'power tv (LPTV) station^

here to provide this community with "wholesome family programing." The proposed transmitter site for the

‘LPTV is up-atid-cor in neighborhoods’

W-Mtt -translater .station would be the Assembly ot God Chgrch and is president Mav area ShKnoted too how keenrri. Whittier Ave. home here of- Carlos and of Agape TV- Media. She said Mr. Ortiz comwWtan is ■ ' ' *

Joanne Erausquin. The station would plans to file at least 1,500 applications with - serve an estimated 5,000 area residents the FCC this year, for LPTV translators THE FCC APPLICATION for the station ; throughout the world, and is actively apwas filed by Mr. Erausquin and Carlos Or- * plying for stations in numerous U.S. locatiz of San Benito, Texas. According to tidns including. New York City,'Texas,

"THE IMPORTANT thing is to get the application for the license in quickly," she said in an interview last week. The FCC has been swamped by applications. "They’re only going to/permit so many,"

CAPE MAY COUNTY

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Vol.17 No.16 . ©11®3$#owov«Cofp. All flghti

April 21,1982

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The Call For Help Goes Out Once More

COURT HOUSE — In what Marilyn Ciccarpne, president of the Jersey Cape Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament, says will be the first in’ a string of similar events; there will be an Ecumenical Peace Service,. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25, at the First Baptist Church in WildWood* The service is being held to educate the public on the necessity for an immediate world-wide freeze on the production of nuclear .weapons, a staged reduction of • present nuclear arsenals and the eventual abolition of all nuclear arms. But more importantly — as described by Leslie Chrismer of the Society of Friends — the service will be a chan^'for the people of Cape May County to near exactly what their local religious leaders feel about the current state of nuclear technology. ACCORDING TO MEMBERS of the clergy and representatives of the Nuclear Disarmament Coalition who met Friday in the county library to discuss the nuclear threat, the voice of opposition to increased production of nuclear arms is becoming louder throughout the world. It has become an issue that has also united clergy and various religions — having become an issue that has Crossed denominational lines. . "We’d be insane not to recognize a need to unite,” commented the Rev. Kenneth Carpenter of the First Baptist Church in ’ (Page 16 Please) inside

PREPARING FOR SUNDAY’S Ecumenical Peace Service in Wildwood. Msgr. Martin ’ Killeen of Sea Isle City discusses with Leslie Chrismer of, Cape May, ways of'educating the public on the immediate need to press for a nuclear arms freeze. ‘ A Call to ‘Freeze’ A Nuclear Weaponry

JrlRST ANNUAL CAPTAIN MEY

by John Andrus Yet another, grass roots effort to get the government.ihvolved in protecting property and lives behind the South Cape May beachfront will convene in West Cape May Borough Hall this Sunday afternoon, when Cong. Bill Hughes and representatives, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are expected to be on hand to lend an ear to the oft-repeated plea. All residents of West Cape May, Cape May and Cape May Point have known the threat of Pood waters! |s the way a flier announcing the 3 p.m. April 25 gathering proclaim^ K under a large, hand-lettered

home for salt water meadow flora and fauna, and incompatible human strollers in seasbn. The U.S. govenjiment — which has come to its rescue at least twice Before following major inundations - has proclaimed if, amd. the area immediately behind the meadow, officially off-limits to further funding. The specific proclamation was the Army Corps’ findihg a couple years ago that the federal expenditure involved in fortifyirig the territory against a relentless sea outweighs the benefit , measured in assessed valuations. ACCORDING TO THE notice for this

‘The movement will reshape our souls’

headline: RESCUE YOUR HOME.

We must prove our concern to'the Congressman Hughes in a united effort...the literature continues...We must pack the hall with our support. There is strength in

numbers. Your help Is urgent!

ALSO EXPECTED ARE the mayors from the four Greater Cape May-Lower Township communities surrounding 3outh Cape May Meadow — that two-mile stretch of no man’s land once-a-town til determined storm tossed tides washed it away finally in the 1940s. Today,, it remains a naturally reclaimed territory,

latest meeting, the mayors of Lower Township, Cape May, West Cape May, and Cape May Point want to petition for immediate funding and repair of the beaches and dunes from Cape. May along the meadow into Cape May Point. It is a plea that likely will fall not on deaf ears, but on government functionaries wtose departmental budgets match the dwindling rolq of government envisioned, by the Commander in Chief. The people who ase being asked to turn nut Sunday afternoon are aware of (Page 16 Please)

she explained, adding that while LPTV isdesigned, for smaller operations, even large business conglomeTStes such as Sears, Roebuck and Co., Gannett Corp., and th^ ABC.arid NBC networks have applied for licenses. “LPTV is up-and-coming in f neighborhoods," Mrs. Erausquin noted, terming such stations "a good source of income.” She and her husband hold 40 per cent of the stock in the proposed station here; Mr. Ortiz, 60 per cent . She said the main purpose Of seeking the license here js to provide programming geared for the average family In addition Mo providing Christian, educational and (Page 16 Please r. NeWSv^L^^ • . Week's L/lgCSt fop Stories ' TouriSm BooSt? TRENTON — NeWi Jersey plans to more than double its(tourism promotion budget, but the 64 million expenditure be : ing proposed for the fiscal year beginning in July is still millions less than spent by some neighboring states. N.J. Commerce Commissioner Borden Putnam also informed the Joint Appropriations Committee last Wednesday he was transferring a half-million dollars into the current budget to beef up spr inghme tv advertising,-expected to begin later this month. He, told the legislators the Empire State is spending $10 million on its / Love New York campaign; Pennsylvania, $6.5 million. The Garden State’s current tourism promotion budget, including the $500,090 transfer, totals <1.7 million, the . equivalent'of what the state of Maryland spends. ^ DEP Chief Tours State Dept, of Environmental'Protection Commissioner Robert tfughey has declared there will be less bureaucratic •red' tape.and more direct action from the DEP whilp he's in office at least the next four years. Hughey reportedly made the comments last week while making an on-site inspec7 tioo of some County environmental pro■bfem areas. Included in his toqr was the environmentally sensitive SoutwCape 'Meadows and the toxic waste-mimp site ifi Swainton. s' Gov’t to Grow? UPPER TWP. — Voters here will have the chance in November 16 decide if the Township ComYriiftee should be increased from three to five members. Township clerk Barbara Camp last week validated more than the necessary number of , signatures needed to get the question dn the ballot. If approved ih.Noverqber, the two new Committee seats will become available in ’ the next June primary, and filled during the 1983 November general election. Beach Work Set OCEAN CITY r*- The pumping of some 1 million cubic feet of sand onto eroding , centef city beaches here is expected to • begin by July. Seventy-five per cent of the total $3.4 million beach registration project is being funded by the sfate - the city expected to pay its $1.75 million share before pumping begins. Runoff Vote Set DENNIS TWP. — A special school board runoff election has been tentatively "iSdt here for May 25 — pending a state’recount'of the April 6 results showing a tie between incumbent Bradley Neilson and newcomer Glenn E. Beebe. Both candidates for the three-year position appear to have received 148 votes. Tax Rate Rising WOODBINE — The tax rate here is jumping 44 per cent — 69 cents per $100 of assessed valuation to $1 — under the $499,691 budget approved by Borough Council last week. The total budget — up about $34,000 (Page 17 Please)