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Copycats It’s twins for Lower and Upper townships Our congratulations lo the parents, the Cape May County freeholders. They decided to copy the artist’s design used for the Lower Township branch of the county library in laying out the planned Upper Township branch. As a result, architect Carmen La Kosa will be paid 6.5 percent of the building's cost instead of 8 percent. Assuming a price tag of about $700,000, the county will save $11,500 Similar design for buildings with similar purpose has long been a recommendation of those interested in economy in government. It is particularly appropriate for school buildings, for example. The freeholders' effort to save taxpayers' money is appreciated. Capital Comments Drunk Driving: Another Tool By Sen. JA.MKS III HI.K^ Officials ifi New Jersey have recently be^un to crack down on drunk driving in the state . Patrols by law enforcement officials have been intensified Breathalyzers are frequently utilized to determine if a motorist is intoxicated However, the results gained from breathalyzers are now being questioned in the courts In order lo devise an accurate method of proving whether or not a person is drunk behind the wheel of a car, I have sponsored a bill that would require the suspected drunk drivers to take a bloojfbr urine test Itl.ool) AMi t HINK analyses are more precise ntethods of testing for alcohol and can be used to delect the presence of other drugs as well The bill permits a law enforcement official to order a motorist to take either a blood or unhe test only after a breathalyzer fads lo register an alcohol level sufficenl to charge drunk driving or if the officer has good reason to suspect the driver is under the influence of drugs Failure to submit to a blood or urine test would carry a $l2f» surcharge as well as a loss of driving privileges for six months and a minimum S2SO fine for the first offense The surcharge would lx 1 placed in a special fund to beef up ' highway patrols UHTNK I)HIVI\(• has reached epidemic proportions in New Jersey. My bill will increase the chances of convicting drunk drivers and should discourage others from driving after drinking Ahd, other bills to toughen New Jersey's drunk driving , laws are making their way through the Legislature in eluding a measure to increase the penally for causing death* by,auto My biirwas recently passed by the Senate It now goes to the Assembly for a vote I urge the members of the Assembly to pass the lull so that we can-coniinuc in our efforts to get drunk drivers off * the roads (.Sen liprIcy represents Cupe Mnv County find much of Ctmijrrhind County I .

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To Escalate On June 21. Kenneth Adelman. recently appointed director of the U S Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. suggested that the United States would bo willing to forego 100 MX missiles which have not yet been produced if the Soviet Union will dismantle 650 SS IR and 19 missiles which are already in position This proposal is a symptom of President Reagan's so called '‘new flexible negotiating position ' In reality, it is an attempt to intimidate the Soviets into making capitulations by threatening them with an unprecedented build-up of first-strike weapons - However, far from surrendering, it is likely that the Soviets will reply in kind This will escalate the arms race, increasing the probability of a nuclear holocaust IT IS MOST unfortunate that the president has blinded himself to the fact that a lasting peace can only be built on a foundation of justice In a world of overkill, a multilateral freeze would be a first step towards accomplishing this This means that all nuclear weapons states, the U S.. Soviet Union. Britain. France. China and Pakistan, would stop where they are Only then will it tie possible to have the truly flexible negotiations which will Ik* followed by mutual and balanced arms reductions Jon B Kerman North Cape May

Herald & Lantern 6 July '83 Another Deal? Chrysler’s Chutzpah Chutzpah There's just no other word for Chrysler’s request that the federal government turn over to it another couple of hundred million dollars in the form of stock warrants. In this deal the government represents the citizens' interest, which is to turn those warrants into money. Back in 1979, Chrysler made a deal with the government. (Some might say that Chrysler blackmailed the government, but let’s forgive and forget. > The deal was a rather one-sided one: The feds agreed to guarantee some $1,2 billion in loans, Chrysler agreed to pay the government a 1 percent annual fee on the notes. The government and the car company also agreed to what's called an equity kicker; that is. since the govern ment was assuming a billion-dollar risk, it was. perforce, entitled to participate in the rewards if the venture succeeded. So the government got the right to buy 144 4 million shares of Chrysler's stock at $13 a pop Mind you, the slock was then selling at around $5 a share WELL. FEW EXPECTED the car company to be able lo pay the loan fee. let alone expected lh»* warrants to be worth anything near $13 a share, let alone their current value of around $2H a share Indeed, more than a few people-emphatically including Us-thought the deal stunk Now the warrants are worth^ibout double their price Actually, wc still think the deal slinks, although we have to admire the fast footwork by Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca that shunted the damage over to Ford and CM. that have had to compete with a subsidized Chrysler So. voila, here comes Chrysler again to make another deal with the government The car company maintains that the return on the notes would constitute 'usury '’ Morevoer. that if the government exercised its warrants, the usurious deed might render Chrysler unable to repay its government-guaranteed notes (We’re still in a forgiv mg mood, so we won't suggest that Chrysler is attempting some mofe blackmail here.» THIS DEAL STINKS, too The government took a giant risk when it guaranteed the notes of a car company which was, truth be told, bankrupt. And, we daresay, any rate of * return to justify that risk would have, at the time, seemed reasonable to Chrysler. Moreover, if the government exercised its warrants. Chrylser would get an immediate cash boost, the better to improve its balance sheet and start paying back its debt Congress —which okayed the first deal—quite reasonably went berserk about this second deal So Chrysler has decided to lay low for awhile But with the car company laying low and with Congress fuming, this is a good moment for the government lo behave like the in vestor it decided to be three years ago: Exercise the warrants and then sell the stock, since the government has no business holding equity in business More simply, along Wall Street there are people who know how' to sell and buy warrants directly That the government can now get us out of a bad deal with money to spare is a piece of sheer luck Let's quit while we re ahead — Wall Street Journal

n Search of 'Whoppers' Drama at the Checkout Counter

By JOE ZEL.MK I rushed off to a local department store or the closest Cape May County has to a department store — after work the other evening to take advantage of a fantastic sale: malted milk Whoppers ' for 77 cents a txix instead of $1 27 It seemed worth going lour miles out of my way and fak mg the toss of a dime into the slot machine at the parkway entrance But whim I came to the checkout counter. I had almost a dozen items totaling. $17 70 And 17 bucks was all I had on me SOME CASIIIEBS probably would.have said. Aw. shucks, that's close enough " But this one was a stickler for perfection and I had the problem of choosing one item to return I picked a $2.64 hair spray since I don't have much hair anyway It was easy for me. bm not for the cashier Having rung up $17 70. she now had to unring $2 64. Apparently not permitted to do this herself, she had to seek a manager nr some other trustworthy person ''Void’ Void!" she called to someone apparently several miles away People seemed lo come from all corners of the store lo watch the drama unfold Void was apparently busy elsewhere and the line of shoppers behind me grew Everyone looked at me accusingly I felt like a child molester Eventually, Void' showed up and wanted to krfnw who made the mistake, me or the cashier I readily' admitted my guilt "Not her fault." I said gallantly Customer changed his mind." the cashier offered I put forth my hands for the cuffs THE LINE OF customers grew longer They were all women. I noted, obviously wives and mothers who had dinners in the oven (it was around «» p m > and I was responsible for burning the meals of their husbands and

children. Their piercing. Jack Nicholson eyes seemed to accuse me of not having a dinner in my oven. Somehow I was sure they sensed I had never even lit my oven These were the same women I have cursed for ever be ing allowed to get behind the wheel of a car Now I understood why they fell, justly, it turns out. that men should not lx* allowed behind a supermarket carl After a great deal of consultation between "Void" and the cashier, and after some stroking of the petulant cash register, it was decided not to press charges and I was permitted to leave Once home, I tried to figure out how I went shopping for a 77-cent item and spent $17 1 BLAME IT ALL on being a "depression baby " That, for those of you who don't understand, means I was born during the Great Depression (which wasn't so great i that started in 1929 under Republican President Herbert Hoover and ended under Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (with a little help from world War IIi People who lived through the depression learned the value of a penny It left me permanently scarred — unable to pay full price for anything Bat the corollary to that is that I will buy anything cn sale Once in a store, I head straight for the CLEARANCE signs If the price is right. I buy. If it's one-third off. I'll buy catfood, and I don't have a eat If it's half off. I'll even buy maternity tops, and 1 don't well, you get the idea WHAT HAPPENED in that "department store" is that I was seduced by sale signs (red letters on white background) offering huge discounts Thus I bought for example, a rollup hat. and I hate rollup hats, and a bottle of Woolite. and 1 have never handwashed anything in my life. The best buy I got was 50 feet of garden hose. Terrific price Only $3 99 If only I had an outside water faucet.