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Electric Rate Cut Approved By PUC

ATLANTIC CIJY - The State Board of Public Utilities has approved a $59 million annualized reduction in Atlantic Electric’s • Energy Adjustment rate Security Bids CAPE MAY - The Coast Guard Training Center is seeking bids to provide security gate guard service at the center, with procurement cost estimated at $25,000 to $100,000. Bid opening is set for 2 p.m. Sept .M.

that will lower customer bills by an average of 11 to 15 percent, depending on use. The new rate went into effect Monday, Aug. 23 The latest decrease is the. third this year, and combined with reductions in J January and May. has lowered bills for residential. commercial, and industrial customers by $161 millipn. almost 30 percent smee the beginning of the year. THE NEW reduction will lower electric bills by 1.0510 cents'per Kwh, and will appear as part of a

1.3797 cents pel- Kwh credit on monthly statements. The reductions represent the largest percentage decrease ever made by any utility in the state. They were the result of lower projected oil prices foP the rest of 1982, the company's recovery of $62.5 million in uncollected fuel costs, the increased use of coal, and the exceptional performance of the Salem II

nuclear plant. The BPU also approved a 1.9004 cents per Kwh inciTOse in the Marginal Energy Adjustment rate for casinos, and endorsed a n company proposal to pay / for trie conversion of the Carll's Corner combustion turbine to natural gas by sharing the resulting $3 million in annual fuel savings with customers over the next two years.

Muziani To Be Guest Speaker

PUC Seeks Utility Aid For Farms

A PREV IOUS DON ATION of $1,725 by Hunt s Theatres is acknowledged by David VonSavage of United Way of < ape May County, here presenting certificate to Bud Dry. left, of Hunt"*. The amusement enterprise will shortly announce a donation to the pre-campaign drive begun recently by United Way as part of effort to raise $150,000 for the 12 agencies and services funded through UW.

C A P E MAY - Assemblyman Guy Muziani, guest speaker, will discuss the state of tourism in New Jersey at the dinner meeting of the Greater Cape May Chamber of Commerce 7 p.m. Monday,

Sept. 13 at the Atlas Motor Inn* An amendment to the chamber bylaws calling for a change ini the manner of electing officers will be offered for action.

NEWARK - The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities today announced that it will undertake an investigation to determine all means to assist New Jersey farmers to come to terms with high electric bills. Tlie board, in a meeting

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scheduled for today, Sept. 8, with the major electric utilities, (Jersey Central Power and Light, Atlantic City Electric and Public Service Electric and Gas), will work toward implementing an agricultural conservation program. The Departments of Commerce and Agriculture are also invited to this conference. According to Barbara A. Curran, president of the Board of Public Utilities, “The agricultural sector is a vital sector of the state's economy and it is state policy to encourage the preservation of farms as viable economic enterprises. New Jersey's farmers are extremely sensitive to (he cost of electric energy and the board ■eager to assist them ... coming to terms with these

costs."

Under the new program, utilities will promote conservation on the farm by making presentations to agricultural organizations and conducting energy audits which specifically recognize agricultural electricity usage. Further, the board will investigate ways in which frates can be adjusted to Jmeet the specific needs of farmers.

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New Boro Principal

AVALON - This fall students at the borough’s ■ Public School will be greeted by a new administrative principal, Ronald C. Jost, formerly principal and acting superintendent of the Fairfield Twp. Public School near Bridgeton. Before that he served with the Vineland Public School System. He received his education at Glass boro State, Temple University and the University of Delaware. IN 1968 HE married the former Sandra Leonelli, an office manager for a camera supply company. They have two children, a daughter 13 and son 9. They will attend school in Avalon when their relocation is completed. Jost’s predecessor, Albert Ogden, who lives in Ocean City, took early retirement after serving as principal 10 years to the day in Avalon. He has made no definite plans for the future but will spend some of his time pursuing his two hobbies, boating and skiing.