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B\ Owen Miirphx I *jis a child Ini men and women wen 1 ihe exreplions in mir eommumly In the Into 4is and early alls, the adulis I knew l«H»k prelIV,Rood eare of Ihemselves Those were Hie Jonu aRo^ays before lelevision had Rol len ns s^raHRlehold on America’s minds and bodies, and lief ore the food mduslry had polluled our inner envirnnmenls wllh processed anr) packaged kapok in summertime, families pteyW games outside until it was loo dark to see fverylxifly burned a lot of calories eaph day in nafural. unforced exercise And since much o4 ihe liio^i we ate came from local sources, there was no new! to saturate it in preservatives and other ad . ditives In fact. 75 percent of the'producls in today s sulHTmarkel.didn't exist in W50 I m not sure whether p. ople had more pride in themselves back then, but Micro v no doubt that the herd was slimmer and trim trier Today, the term ,, fat man ’ has no meaning because most American men ore fat And so an 1 their wives and . ari alarming number of their ejifldren And not just pleasantly plump: an enormous number of. Americans are shivering, quivering, jiggly Fatsos, with the muscle tone of a bowl ol jello 'If you were given $1 right now for every acquaintance of yours who is af least 25 pounds overweight. how rich would you be? Would you like your money in fifties or hundreds’’ > \ MA.ioit HKASOS for this national disgrace is the sham lood that most people seeTn to prefer to real food Fast Food IS Fat Food and it's all Junque FoimI Most .processed and packaged foods are junque fqj>ds. loaded with sugar and soaked in some of the 90 million pounds of flavor enhancers and BOO million pounds of additives that the 1 food industry treats us to each year Your turkey probably comes from (ireyhouhd. your ham from ITT. your.vogotnhlos from Tenneco. your potatoes from BiN'ing. your mixed ntfls from .Getty ’ - The meat that you oaf in 19H2 inevitably contains residues of the 145 drugs and pesticides used in livestock productidn today f»H of mhich are known or strongly sus|M‘cted Id'cause cancer, birth defects, and mutations Onions are bombarded with cobalt, flour with X-rays, graftes. tomatoes, and cucumbers are all irradiated the ghastly list goes on and on .'so. t MMHTITKIM.Y part of the retlson so many Americans are grossly overweight is tweause they re eating chemioals instead of fiwid And part of the reason is-that instead of exercising on weekends, they re down mg thousand calorie sixpacks w^iile watching 74ic Hnlllr of the Nctuhrk Superstars But above and beyond w rel ched rating habits and the addictive little lightbox, most Americans are fat because they are undisciplined and cannot cnrrtrnl their hands Whenever I see a Moated blimp of either sex <or neither i. I know that Vm looking at someone who cannot slop bis own hands from putting harmful things in his own mouth And if you can't control your own hands. Bubba. then don't tjother to tell me about your other ac eomplishments Your stomach gives you the he Any mother will tell you that most infants will put anything right into their mouths In America today, so will Oiost adults Owerr Murphy is a resident of Court House

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Disinflation: a Reversal

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by Wilson.S, Johnson It has been a long time since we heard the word dMn/ln f j 0 rf' Inflation has been the number one concern of most people for many years But in the first quarter of I9H2. small business reported disinflation In the quarterly economic survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business, the percent of firms reporting price decreases from January through March rose 5 points The index of Reported Price Decreases rose more tnan 33 percent According to economist, this means 5 3 percent annual deflation ra.e across the entire small business community Wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers were the leaders in lowering prices because of declming sales and the high cost of financing their inventories Those responding to the NFIB survey were ambivalent about the future of the economy The data showed no evidence the economy will slump further, but neifbgr were their anv encouraging signs of an upturn - one analyst said the tenor of the survey results strongly resembled those of the late 70s ’Then, it wAsHhc recession that was just around the corner. ' he saf|. "Now it s recovery that is just around the corner, but thete is still no evidence of recovery, al least among small WRiness HOW Wil l. DISINFLATION KFFKC’T the smallbusiness community? Prof. William Dunkelberg of Pur due 'University says. "If you are a debtor -'and many small fflbos land consumersi are debtors these days - you w ilfrlnd vnurself repaying loans with dollars that are worth more than the dollars borrowed That is a complete reversal of the situation over the last 10 years, during which time lenders were repaid with dollars that Were worth less and less The result is that small firms will find the repayment burden growing morediffietilt aF prices remain stable or decline, and that will make it much mor*difficult for those-firms to get back on their feePtinancial ly They w ill have to earn more than one dollar t<\opay a dollar in real terms "

This news comeS at a time when the effects of slow sales and high interest rate* have resulted in the greatest number of business failures since the (Ireat Depression

And with whose businesses go thousands of jobs

The problem will not Ik* solved until confidence is restored among those that put up the money for business - to operate and expand The key is some sign from Washington that Congress is re/idy to act responsibly to

reduce the deficit - and not by huge tax increases

What are the chances of that happening soon 9 If the per formahee of the-past two months is apy indication the

situation shows little hope of early improvement.

'Wilson S_ Johnson is president of Ihe National Federa tion of Independent Business, represented more than ’hal/

a million small-business, men and women.

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Bid Ex£hit)tion For Workshops

by James R. Hurley

• For the past year handicapped workers have been sorting glass and aluminum cans and loaning them into trucks at the Cape May County Municipal Utlities Authori-

ty-recycling center. .

These workers are employed hyMjjg., Jersey Cape Diagnostic Training and Opportunity Center, one of about 60 sheltered workshops for handicapped people in the

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Jersey (’ape got the contract for the recycling center

work bystjbmittmg t^e lowest bid

But other sheltered workshops — nonprofit centers pro viding training and jobs for the handicapped — have not been so successful in obtaining public service contracts THAT IS WHY 1 sponsored legislation to exempt work performed by handicapped persons employed by sheltered workshops from local government bidding re-

quirements

There are 2.200 handicapped persons employed by sheltered workshops who are qualified and eager to get

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My bill, which passed the Senate without a dissenting vote last week, should open up more jobs in local govern-

ment for these people

Sheltered workshops now get work from private in dustry hut obtain very few public sector contracts. They find it difficult to compete with private firms, which may Ik* able to do the job slightly cheaper because they have sophisticated equipment and have experience

with’public bidding

MY HIM. WOl l.D spare sheltered workshops from going through the time-consuming and costly bid process to

ontain public contracts

The legislation should give local governments an incen-

tive to hire the handicapped

Hopefully, other government agencies w ill then be able to follow the-County Municipal IJlilities^Authority's lead and provide work for handicapped persons in their commumly. s

Frankly. Win*»on.,.For The Peace Movement I'd Say Thai's A Bit Ovetkill

British Seagull 387 More Than Doves # by Ima Byrd All things considered, the nuclear protest rally in New York several weeks ago was a great success. More,than hoo.ikx) people from all over the world jammed Central Park and marched past the United Nations building in an orderly and silent protest against the stockpiling -and building of nuclear weapons Several birds joined forces, mostly doves, to voice their unity with humans in the matter. All things considered, they said it was good to see so many forces in one place with a dedicated effort to let the world leaders know that people and birds are tired of being fodder for wars qnd of being manipulated for destruction THK BIRDS SAID SO.MK PKOIM.K thought the protest lacked the horror of Hiroshima or the excitement of antiwar movements in the past Kxcept for some Rev. Carl Mclntire pro-nuclear supporters who livened up the rally with their nonsense that "anyone that's for peace is a communist" smear, it was an effective meeting. The wiser, more informed people knew that behind the protest hundreds of thousands of determined individuals intent on tn-ing able to raise their children in a world free from strife had made a statement The birds couldn't agree more because what affects humans, usually hurts small

creatures first

This gathering of peace-loving peoples is not to lie taken lightly in spite of all the media reports of the low-key characterization of the peaceful-like encampment Peaceloving people gathered in New York built a quiet monument ot sanity, to common sense and to understanding among all the peoples of the world. They are not a bunch of cowards who will run at thklirsl shot or leave their children to save themselves These people are the heart of our nation, of the world hnd they are brave, warriors for a cause that is jOsband right OF TIMKS THK CYNICAL AND CRITICAL think that a show of peace is a weakness! World leaders too fail to recogni/.e it as the greatest strength for good. They sometimes fail to take such movements seriously\ But this time they'd better listen to the drumbeat, for theB.dOO.OOO people and 100.000 doves gathered as a unified fojte. mean business. / ^ People far outnumbered the birds and came from Japan. Australia.'Guam. Norway. Sweden. Italy. France — from almost every part of the'world The 1.000 Japanese chijjjren whose families understand the horror of Hiroshima, whose relatives wc>e burned beyond recognition by the big bomb and whose dignity and honor were shattered by the devastation of the nuclear holocaust know what it’s all about as they cast their strength with the rest of the nations^of the world. LK.ADKRS GATHKRKD FOR A CONFKRKNCK on Ihe nuclear question cannot fail to be influenced by the show of force at the rally This is no longer a small group of "peaceniks" making a point - this is a unified, worldwide effort for survival That’s pretty heavy stuff The issue the people and birds fight against is critical. It is an issue that will ultimately affect all of us. every single living thing on the face of Ihe Earth. With the situation m the Falklands Islands and in Israel, it seems man is destined to continue the idiocy of war With this in mind, it would in* well to remove some of his playthings especially those that cause total destruction ior all ol us'