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38 Our Readers Write B-T Needs Good People To The Editor: I would like to enlighten my friends in Cape May County in defense of our good doctor, Dr. Suketu Nanavati, and take this opportunity to express my opinion regarding the unjust dismissal of one of the finest cardiologists on the Eastern Seaboard from our local hospital, BurdetteTomlin. I came to this county in 1951 in the USCG in Cape May, married, worked and raised family of five children. Many times we have needed health care and always received adequate attention at Burdette-Tomlin Hospital. However, now there are forces at work trying to remove our best practitioner, Dr. Nanavati. We need all the good people in our hospital that we can get. Prejudice, greed and jealousy are some of the motives along with that famous almighty dollar. It seems that if one doctor can't get all the money and keep it in the family and he lives forever — good luck to him; but it will be our bad fortune to be without the expertise of a compassionate doctor such as Dr. Nanavati. By first hand experience, I feel that Dr. Nanavati has the most patient, understanding and good old-fashioned bedside manner of any doctor that I have ever encountered and I have been treated by numerous doctors over the past 35 years. Truly, we do have many fine doctors and nurses and an adequate hospital facility — let us not go a step backward, but continue forward and hold on to a most qualified physician who has travelled so far from his own country and invested so much time, energy and personal money to care for us. I beg all of you not to turn your back on this issue as someday you yourself may be in need of his expert care and service. Believe me, when an ambulance rushes you to the hospital, you want to be met by a competent doctor such as Dr. Nanavati.

TOM L. CHRIETZBERG Wildwood Crest

Gut Gun Law?

To The Editor:

On Nov. 22, we mark the 20th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. More than 400,000 Americans have been killed in gunfire since his death. Ironically, on this anniversary, Congress is considering legislation which would weaken, not strengthen, America’s feeble gun laws. In 1968, when Congress passed the Gun Control Act, our legislators specifically prohibited mail-order gun sales because President Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, used a cheap rifle purchased from a Chicago mail-order house. The weapon was fitted with a telescopic gunsight, also acquired through the mail. Less than an hour after killing the President, Oswald killed police officer J .D. Tippit with a .38 caliber handgun acquired from yet another mail-order house. Now, the National Rifle Association wants to gut the 1968 Act through passage of the McClure-Volkmer Gun Decontrol Bill (S. 914 and H R. 2420). This bill would lift the prohibition on mail-order sales and again ajlow easy access to firearms by criminals and would-be assassins. This bill nfQst be stopped. Our Congress should not enact legislation which only invites mail-order murder.

BARBARA LAUTMAN Communications Director Handgun Control, Inc. Washington, D.C.

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To The Editor: I just have to respond to the M.U.A. manager of solid waste, Ted O’Neil. He is now trying to cover up the harm he has done to the property owners, who are in the buffer zone of the proposed Landfill site in Woodbine. He says he will make a recreation area out of this mountain of rubbish and garbage. He says there is no law that requires proper closure of landfills. If O’Neil had checked he would have found that there is such a law in New Jersey. He has not told the taxpayers that this will be 304 acres of land that will be tax free, which means the taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He is making a lot of promises, which is like reaching for pie in the sky. It is time O’Neil’s spending of taxpayers monies be questioned by the appointing authority (the Freeholders). If the Freeholders won’t act, then let the prosecutor look into this whole M.U.A. MY HUSBAND AND I live within this buffer zone, along with five other families. To hear O’Neil tell it, there are no homes within this buffer zone. Either O’Neil makes proper statements to news media or he should be relieved of this position at once. I and my husband have become ill over these landfill proposals and the cost of litigation, trying to have them buy our properties, as ordered by an Administrative Law Judge, but the Pinelands Commission overruled the judge’s decisions. O’Neil has never consulted residents of Upper Township or Woodbine which is the borderline for this proposed landfill. He wants to do things his own way — like he is a

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Oye; Dame Dos Big Mac, Por Favor

Now for a problem a little closer to home, one that nearly every man, woman and child in America can relate to. It’s about Burger King. Down in Miami, Burger King has told its employes to speak English to each other. “We had complaints,” said a Cuban-born district manager, “that employes were speaking Spanish and not getting the orders right. We’re talking about no pickles, heavy onions, whatever.” Now the Miami Hispanic civil-rights community is up in arms about the order and is telling people to take their fast-food appetites to Burger King’s competitors. We’re not too sure we want to become deeply involved in this dispute. We shall diplomatically cast our sympathy with all those who work and eat in a world whose common discourse depends on the proper use of a vocabulary that includes mayo, fries, heavy on, Whopper and McNuggets. — Wall Street Journal

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one man band. Why are the Freeholders afraid to speak out on this M.U.A. Is it because there is a Grand Jury investigation? O’Neil should be giving us people involved some consideration in 1983, instead of worrying about 1990. He could be long gone by that time. ANNA LONG Woodbine

Freeholders Needed To The Editor: In response to a reader’s letter (Oct. 26) implying that we do not need freeholders— I have^i severely handicapped little boy. Thanks in part to the interest and concern of the freeholders, he has a very fine, beautiful school (Special Services) to attend. Also, it was frequently difficult for me to find a parking space near the ramp at the County Library when he is with me in his wheelchair. I happened to mention this frustration to Freeholder Bill Sturm. The next thing I knew, there were two parking spaces designated “handicapped" near the ramp. Some of us do need freeholders. ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON South Seaville

Hobble, Gobble, Gobble Nervous, Hungry, in Pain?

By JOE ZELNIK My apologies for this newspaper’s smaller size in recent weeks. The problem is, I’ve been getting to work late because I’m watching a TV show at 9 every morning on Channel 10. It’s called “Twenty Minute Workout.” Despite its name, incidentally, the show lasts 30 minutes, which shows how time flies when you’re having fun. “Twenty Minute Workout” features several flabless young ladies wearing leotards two sizes too small for them and doing aerobic exercises. Aerobic exercises, the show points out, “calm the nerves, relieve pain and suppress the appetite.” I must be doing something wrong because watching this show makes me nervous and hungry. Not so nervous and hungry I’m going to stop watching it, however. AFTER THE SHOW, I usually need about 15 minutes of rest time before I can start off to work. It’s necessary for my heart beat to slow and for my eyeballs to recede back into my head. I suppose this “wind down time” could take even longer if I ever start doing the exercises instead of just watching. At any rate, this all makes me almost an hour late to work and, although I labor through lunch to make up for it, I still am not getting as much accomplished. The publisher's time study shows our news volume is down 1.3' percent and my pay has been docked accordingly. I’ve tried to reduce this by preparing for work and watching the “Twenty Minute Workout” simultaneously. But I keep getting toothpaste on the mg and hair spray on the furniture. (I’ve got a rocking chair that won’t rock because it’s been hairsprayed into one position). SINCE I’M APOLOGIZING, I might as well offer my regrets to the many people who were offended by last week’s tasteless comment that safety from mass murderers is an advantage of living alone Many readers apparently thought I meant that was the only advantage, and thus felt I was knocking solitary living The negative reaction has already cost me my lifetime memberships in Parents Without Partners and

New Beginnings Single Again. r Actually, I would never intentionally anger singles, our country’s largest minority group. In fact, I agree with Nietzsche that “Solitude makes us tougher toward ourselves and tender toward others.” Unfortunately, he wrote it in German and not many understood him. I have already pointed out (how quickly you forget) other benefits of living alone, such as being able to sleep (Mi one side of the bed for a week, then the other for a second week, and go twice as long before laundering sheets. I KNOW SOME STUDIES indicate married couples are healthier than singles, but I disagree. People who live alone, for example, have 73 percent fewer colds than those who share their air. And if that someone you share air with has children, better buy facial tissues by the case. Little Janey gives her cold to her parent, her parent gives it to you, you give it to little Billy, Billy gives it to Janey, etc., etc. I also disagree with studies that indicate persons living alone have more mental problems than couples. I have found that people who live along talk to themselves, and that is good. Most of my own conversation is usually self-criticism. For example, when I burn the toast, I say “You jerk!” This is good for me because I don’t take criticism well. I am finding I can handle self-criticism much better than from friends. I ALSO DISPUTE the cliche that two can live as cheaply as one. I have never been able to find anyone willing to live as cheaply as me. My thermostat, for example, stays set at “low.” As soon as my friends start seeing their breath, they leave. Live alone and you can watch “Wheel of Fortune” at 7:30 every week night. Become a couple and there’s somebody who insists on seeing “Family Feud.” Or let’s say you're in the habit of cooking kelbasa every Thursday night. A new partner is certain to want mushroom omelettes. In the final analysis, people who live alone are smarter and tougher than couples. Take the turkey, for example The domesticated bird is a nitwit. But any hunter will tell you the wild turkey is canny. Now what kind of turkey would you rather be?