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345,000 Rabbits Harvested; Hiding Places Declining

N1<*1A/C ^ — tl t ! Digest (From Page l) organization. According to reports, the request was forwarded to committee members in a letter accusing Fox of “disrupting” the

party.

Meanwhile, the Sheriff sent his own letter to committee members countering the leader’s charges. He refwrtedly attributed the problem to be a "serious disagreement” between himself and the leader over the chairmans methods of exercising his power. Whale Beaches AVALON — There was plenty of excitement on the beach here Saturday when a pigmy sperm whale tried to beach itself. According to reports, bathers spent the afternoon trying to keep the 1,000 pound whale in the water until rescuers from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Atlantic City arrived. Once on the scene, stranding center rescuers reportedly organized a group of 20 people to assist in removing the whale from the water and getting it into a vehicle for a trip to Atlantic City. Killed in Collapse WOODBINE — Investigators from the ^ federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, county prosecutor's office, State Police, local MUA and the con- ; 1 struction company, were expected to begin Monday looking into last Friday’s water-tower construction accident here in which one construction worker was killed and another seriously injured. Bobbie Lemon, 36, of Smyrna, Del., was killed and Todd Suss. 21, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, received multiple fractures when a beem on the 100 ft. tower collapsed. The two men — employees of Universal Tank and Iron Works Inc., of Indianapolis — were among approximately eight crew members working on construction of the MUA’s 1.5 milliongallon water tower when the accident oc^

cured.

Two Auto Deaths Two men were killed and one injured last week in two separate auto accidents, according to authorities: Early Friday morning Kenneth Jones, 23, of Shore Rd. Court House was killed in Dennis Twp. when he lost control of his car and hit a tree on Rt. 550. 24 hours later, Mark Anderson, 22, of Wharton St.. Philadelphia, died after the car in which he was a passenger ran off South Dennis Rd., smashed into a number of trees, rolled over and skidded almost 90 ft., according to reports, the driver of the car — Anthony Kersis, 23. of Emile St,, Philadelphia, was admitted and treated at Burdette Tomlin Hospital. Getting the Poop SEA ISLE CITY — This resort will be the latest in the county to enforce a "Pooper Scooper" law, effective Aug. 28. The new ordinance requires all dog owners to curb their animals and immediately clean up after them. Those found guilty of violating the new code are

suDjeci io a 5200 tine. ,

TRENTON — Preliminary results for the 1981-82 hunting seasons reveals that rabbits and pheasants were by far the Training Hunters— (From Page l) “We do not understand how the project will accomplish the goal: wildlife restoration," Jarmer’s letter said. ^‘Specifically, we question how the objectives of the project — training more than 15,000 persons annually in the usaof firearms and traps to kill wildlife — would lead to wildlife restoration.” JARMKR POINTED out that the plann-. ing board is the statutory agency which reviews any project seeking federal funds to ensure that it is consistent with local plans and does not conflict with other agencies of programs. Objections to the federal grant were also filed by Cldy C. Sutton Jr., chairman of the conservation committee of the New Jersey Audubon Society’s board of directors. Sutton suggested that the federal money might be better used to purchase Bear Swamp in Cumberland County, home of the last nesting pair of bald eagles in the

state.

THE AUDUBON SOCIETY supports the concept of hunter education, Sutton said, but not the use of wildlife restoration fun-

ding.

Also opposed was the Monmouth-based Friends of Animals, which publicly assailed the request after it had been granted. Susan Russell, education director of the organization, pointed out that according to the .state’s own figures, New Jersey already has 120,000 licensed deer hunters and only 125,000 deer. WHERE WOULD the additional 100,000 hunters go to find game, Ms. Russell queried. Fisher emphasized the inadvisability of teaching anyone to kill animals. Jarmer asked if the state had considered "wildljfe ecology and wildlife habitat protection" in the public school curricula, which he suggested would be a "more legitimate" use of federal wildlife funds. DOT Cuts in Cape Reconstruction of Seashore Rd. in Lower Township and the replacement of the 104th St. Bridge in Stone Harbor were among 120 project*: statewide affected by recent cuts in the state Dept, of Transportation's budget. While the county freeholders have opted to pay the state’s $40,000 share of tbe $200,000 bridge project, it has yet to decide whether the state’s $250,000 share of the $1 million Seashore Rd. project will be picked up.

Seek Reversal

LOWER TWP. - Officials here are expected to appear in Superior Court Aug. 27 to try and reverse the state BPU decision that Cape May shouldn’t bear the entire responsibility for maintaining water lines in the township’s Schellenger’s Lan-

ding area.

The township contends the BPU didn’t issue its decision within the alotted 45-day period. The previous decision of Administrative Law Judge Jeff Masin — which cited Cape May as being solely responsible for maintaining the lines — should be enforced, the township argues

Son. Behind Beach

WASHINGTON — Senator Nicholas Brady (R-N.J.) has called for “continued support" of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers restoration project at Cape May whose beaches were seriously eroded following federal government's construction of the Cold Spring Jetties in 1911. The government has acknowledged responsibilities for the problem and has designated Cape May as a mitigation project to be 100 per cent federally funded In a letter to the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Mark Hatfield, Brady asked that the committee include $106,000 for the Cape May Project in the FY 1983 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. The funds are needed to complete Phase Two of the engineering and design work, and ready the project for a construction start in fiscal 1984

most popular quarry by the state’s small game hunters. The survey by the N.J. Bureau of Wildlife Management showed that during the past season there were approximately 92,600 persons taking part in small game hunting and of those, 79 per cent Kunted rabbits, and 75 per cent pheasants. Quail were hunted by 39 per cent and grouse by 37 per cent. Squirrels were hunted by 34 per cent, and 28 per cent of the small game hunters sought woodcock. THE TOTAL estimated harvest by

species were rabbits, 345,600; pheasants, 240.000; quail, 182.400; grouse. 42,400; squirrels, 126,000. and woodcock, 45,726 Waterfowl hunters took 237,300 ducks, 49,600 Canada geese, and 6,500 snow geese. The continuing survey of 4>nd availability for hunting and trapping in New Jersey indicates there is 2 45 million acres of potentially hunfable land in the state. This is an ll per bent decline (307.400 acres! since 1972, which reprt*sents a decline rate of 1.2 per cent annually during the past decade. ‘,

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