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Our Readers Write What’s Wrong With ‘Florist’? To The Editor: I don’t know how the Lower Township Republican Party selects its candidates, but in my opinion it.certainly could find a better method I do know : the majority of the candidates selected by the Republicans work for the county, or their husbands are employed by the county Normally it is‘unusual when you see either Sam Stubbs or Debi de la Cretaz, Republican candidatesfor council, at township meetings But since they are candidates you see and hear them at most of the public meetings. But you never see them at the committee work session meetings because there is not any audience present to impress IT WAS A DISGRACE to the township the way Mrs. de la (^retaz acted at the recent incinerator pubic informa•'tron meeting conducted by the Lower Township Committee This meet^ig Was held in order to acquaint and educate the public on the feasibility of incineration in Lower Township. . Present were sofne very know ledgeable speakers in the financial, equipment supply, and environmental engineering areas to explain and answer related questions Mrs, la Cretaz insisted on ridiculing the study provided by and the qualifications of Sue Sanborn of SanbornWielenga Associates. A well-qualified engineer from Delaware County (Pa.) stated for Mrs de la Cretaz’s enlightment that the preliminary s(udy prepared by Sanbom-Wielenga was the best one he had ever seen. Mrs. de la Cretaz was quoted as calling Sanborn "a florist.’’ I wonder what is wrong with being* fldrist*’ HERE IS A WOMAN, de la Cretaz. who was, I believe, a service representative for Bell Telephone, criticizing a woman, Ms. Sanborn, who has a master's tlegree in environmental science, which entails studies involving geology, -hydrogeology, environmental impact assessment, etc. She is an assistant professor at Utah State University Need I say more? What bothers me most is that Stubbs and de.la Cretaz in -all their press releases cannot come up with a solution to the township's trash problems. If these two candidates were sincere in their endeavors, their time could be well spent getting after the county MUA where millions of dollars are being spent, some in my opinion foolishly Why do we need an engineer as suggested by de la Cretaz for a feasibility study of incineration? Ms. Sanborn has a much broader education for this purpose then most of the engineers employed by the county My A. The MUA is worried. I believe, that Lower Township has upstaged them in the incineration idea r As a result, there are all kinds’of roadblocks being thrown in the way of the Lower Township Incineration Authority. All the taxpayer has to do is look at the past record of the MUA. I think Robert Fothergill should be lauded for his at- ' tempt to solve a Terrible problem facing the taxpayers of LowerTowrtship; i.e., the expense of trash disposal. JOSEPH H. DAVIS

Villas

(ED. NOTE: Davis is a member of the Lower Township Incinerator Advisory Council and was defeated by Sam Stubbs last year for the GOP nomination for township committee.)

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Herald & Lantern 7 March '84

David Boyd

THERE’S NOTHING QUITE AS PATRIOTIC AS TURNING A BUCK

Office Jobs Lost to Homes

Computers New Sweatshops?

More and more people are, working at home. A recent AT&T study reportedly fowK that 11 million Americans work at home; 7 percent of 4 the total labor force work at home fyll time and 6 percent pursue part-time jobs at

home.

Futurist Alvin Toffler haf predicted that by 1990 as many as 15 million people will be working at home, socalled ‘telecommuting,’.’ due to the ease of electronic data transmission compared with the cost and burdens of commuting to an office. Many more people,^- especially women rearing small children, the elderly and the handicapped — probably would welcome a chance to earn a living at home. But federal and state laws, along with union pressure, have conspired to reduce opportunities. Sen. Orrin Hatch, apparently angered by the notorious “Vermont knitters” case, has introduced legislation to start to change that by eiiminating.the homework restrictions in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which originally were envisioned as a means of enforcing the federal minimum wage. UNION LEADERS vehemently oppose the attempts to lift the homework restrictions, declaring that these will lead to new “sweatshops.” But as Michael E. Avakian, senior attorney for the Center on National Labor Policy, pointed out recently before a Senate labor subcommittee: “Sweatshops are nothing more than illegal factories where federal or state minimum w-age, record-keeping, health and safety standards are violated. They do not exist in one’s home; that is. workers do not live in a sweatshop, they live in their home and commute to a sweatshop to work." While the federal homework restrictions are limited to knitting, setong and other craftwork, at least 18 states and the Disfffct of Columbia have even more onerous prohibitions extending to manufacturing and assembly work. Now, the AFL-CIO would ike to see the restrictions extended to include the most promising areas of new technology—the home computer; at their convention last October, union leaders voted in favor of banning computer homework. Sol Chaikin, AFL-CIO vice president and head of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, said recently in support of a federal ban on computer homework that “we cannot afford to wait for a new history of exploitation wage and hour violations, child labor abuse, and loss of ofColumnist Cancuning By JOSEPH R. ZELNIK

Editor

The usual (unusual?) column by Joe Zelnik (no re lation) does not appear this week. Burned out from covering the Burdette Tomlin board of governors election, he is vacationing in Cancun, Mexico. Apparently in order to write off the trip,’ Zelnik claims to be representing the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce in an attempt to negotiate a tourist swap. In fact, we understand be is in Cancun in search of: 1. A Mexican restaurant. 2. THE PERFECT Margarita. 3. A new job. , **— We are not concerned about the latter, since he speaks no Spanish. Comme ci com me ca. The consummate workaholic, Zelnik cabled the following dispatch from aboard his Air Mexicanna flight somewhere above Pine Bluff, Ark.: My fellow Americans: I know your prayers and best wishes are with measlset forth on this dangerous mission to arrange for Mexican tourists to vacation in Cape May County in the winter. L«t me say that I will leave no taco unturned in my efforts to convince Pancho Villa, pr whoever is in charge now, that nothing can compare with winter in Cape Mav County. Finally, let me clear up one item left on my desk before I embarked: There is no winner of my recent “Favorite Fantasy” contest. FRANKLY. I was appalledby your entries. Don’t any of you ever think about anything but sex? I scrapped the contest primarily because I do not feel competent to judge sexual fantasies. Further, I have turned over the entries to U.S. Postal authoriUes and arrests are expected shortly. My only regret is that the contest prize, 0 previouslyowned 1974 Mercedes Benz, must continue 4o sit and rust in the salt air. Hasta la vista.

fice and factory jobs to homework in that (the computer) field." WORKING on computers at home surely is not going to produce a generation of dullards; more likely, it will spawn a generation of whiz kids a’nd would-be millionaires. What really has Mr. Chaikin and other union leaders worried is that homework and telecommuting threaten their union clout and membership dues. Rather than impeding the proliferation of homework, the federal and state governments should move quickly to eliminate the existing restrictions. Then America would truly be the home of opportunity.

—Wall Street Journal

Lookin' and Listenin' Relax at Higbee

BY DOROTHY D. FREAS

to a landing on Delaware Bay called the Cove. There was a smaU tavern there, but lafer Jaseph Higbee bought this area and built a hotel, the “Hermitage ’’ At first this was known as Higbee’s Landing; later called Higbee Beach. . Of course the steamboats anchored some distance off, ashore^ Bay ’ 30(1 wha,eboats brou 8 ht ^ passengers Those people who planned to vacation in Cape Island (Cape May City) then had a jouncy ride to the boarding house where they were to stay. In those days, the board might be six dollar^ a week, a dollar a day otherwise Times have changed. ALONG HIGBEE and other beaches on the southern perimeter of our county, all during good weather, one may watch squatters,” those who hunker down in soccessive v spots to search for Cape May Diamonds, square yard by square yard. ^ J 3 There are the “stoopers,” who walk in a slighUy bent p«iUon. Some (possibly more religious and hoping to fintf a big qne) kneel for some time, picking through a drift of pebbles. The reward is in finding even a small stone, although when ground and polished, the larger ooes become a serniprecious gem, it set in a piece of jewelry On or behind the dunes of Higbee Beach is an example of the forests that once grew along the coast of the county covering both the barrier islands and the beaches along the Delaware Bay. 6 This . ‘TP? °f vegetation invites the hundreds of migrating hurts (and bird-watchers) to Higbee Beach and adjoining areas. It is an.interesUng place to visit — for treatment! 61 * ° r ** th ° Se Wh ° want an antl stress

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