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Our Readers Write Outfall Pipe Not Feasible To The Editor: It has been reported that Avalon Councilman Richard Light is opposed to the proposed ocean pipe line carrying sewage from Stone Harbor, Sea Isle City and Avalon to a distance of one mile into the ocean off the beaches of Avalon. His statements were challenged by James Busha, another councilman and also a commissioner of the M.U.A. (Municipal Utilities Authority). Busha obviously is wearing two hats, and is like the , Roman God. Janus, who was depicted as facing in two | directions at once. He is quoted as saying that studies inJ dicated no harm could result to the "beaches," but, conveniently as a spokesman for M.U.A. , neglects to mention anything about the cost omeanup, and more importantly does not seem to be concerned about the possible injury to the residents, visitors and taxpayers in Avalon. THE HISTORY OF the M.U.A. is now an open book with the indictments of the president, the attorney, and the engineering outfit given a "sweetheart" contract over a long term. Their qualifications for projects of the type being sponsored by M.U.A. is questionable, at least. The whole life of the M.U.A. is one of conspiracy, chicanery, venality and bungling. • Now where were all the present members of the commission when all of this was going on? Were they so dumb that they did not know? The only name for the M.U.A. that I can think of is "Malice Unto All." * There is no possible way that a pipeline containing sewage on a primary basis or any other basis can be feasible. Common sense will dictate that any such construction over a sandy bottom consisting of shoal waters with no abrupt drop off can be maintained. The force exerted by waves is in direct proportion to its height. Thus a six-foot wa^e will disturb the bottom to the same extent. What is going to happen when we have the spring and fall storms, or hurricanes when the wave heights will go to 15, 20 feet or higher? BUSHA MENTIONS a saving of some $30 million by the use of the outfall pipeline. I submit that the upgrading of the Avalon, Stone Harbor and Sea Isle City treatment plants to secondary or tertiary will in the long run be less expensive than the $19 milWi budget for the excrescence of the pipeline, plus the awesome costs of repairs to it which are to be expected. Itoyone familiar with the marine construction industry fWiTl know that here you have expense that is unmatched inlany construction phase. » If this asininity is to continue unhbmed, then there is no question but that Councilman Light is entirely right and that the M.U.A. should not only reimburse the taxpayers of Avalon for the repairs made to the existing sewer plant, but also give Avalon a complete and 100 percent holdharmless agreement, indemnifying the borough for ^ ^ all loss cost damage and expense, including bodily injury and death which may be incurred as a result of all the nonsense foisted upon us by the M.U.A. In addition, if Busha and the other members of the commission are so sure of their ground, let them personally indemnify to the same extent as their "master." Hooray for Mr. Light. I wish we had more like him on the governing hoard of Avalon. FOWLER H. STJftATTON JR. ( Avalon(ED. NOTE: The five current M.U.A. board members were not on the board when the actions which resulted in indictments took place. Busha, for example, was appointed Oct. 12, 1982. Most of the indictments date to the mid-70s.)

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SHORE SCENE — There's no need to mow the "lawn" at 701 Commonwealth Avenue in Strathmere, hut that doesn't mean owners Mr. and Mrs. George Weber want people walking all over their property. Photo was taken by Bert Hodge, photographer for the Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times. He lives in Springfield, Pa., and vacations as close as possible to Henny's in Stone Harbor.

A DrJnk for All Occasions

To The Editor: It is most refreshing and confidence-inspiring to learn that high school students are' increasingly on their pwn taking stops to curb their intemperate drinking on and about campus. They are concerned that each year some 5,000 young men between 13 and 24 years die in accidents involving drunken driving. Recently 40 Claremont High School (California) students, members of SADD (Students Against Driving Drunk), went before the City Council for permission to hold a rally to emphasize the perils of driving under liquor's influence. * A prominent outstanding preparatory school here in theEast, — Episcopal Academy — before which I've spoken yearly for 42 years, recently sent me a copy of their monthly school paper, "The Scholium." The editor boldly wrote a concerned article about student drinking where he attempted to analyze the causes. PEER DRINKING is one of them. Non-drinking students conclude under peer pressure they must drink to be popular. They are actually embarrassed by the (Linking students when they don't. The editor then went on ib take parents to task where at home and in public they too frequently drink to intoxication. We have become a nation of far too many drunks. This

rightly disturbs the President of these United States. TV commercials constantly glorify the joy and pleasures of drinking, never, naturally, the mind-boggling effects of any form of drinking. Alcohol, the experts tell us, is the most dangerous of all drugs. Alcohol slows up the mind of even moderate drinkers. It is in any form an addiction. Yet in any TV series as soon as one of its characters has a problem, he must have a drink. NEVER A PRAYER. Not a counselor. Not even dependence on his own moral character, for not all alcoholics are ill. And to insist all alcoholism is a sickness is a "cop out." We'absolutely must have a drink for all occasions. A conference even on religion requires the "happy hour". Even in the parish houses of far too many churches where members attending meetings can and do actually get drunk. At any reception following a church wedding, drinking -* becomes more important than the sacrament. Drinking. is actually an ugly problem among those clergy who must use wine in the Holy Communion service — obliged to drink what is not consumed. Alcohol is actually the "come on" for righteous causes with social drinking a degenerative must. Silly, isn't it? Once luncheon clubs would NOT meet where there were (Page 67 Please)

-Poignant Memories Hungry Editor Posed Semi- Nude

By JOE ZELNIK The Vanessa Williams affair spreads. Now the American Society of Newspaper Editors has demanded I resign this position because of the seminude photo of me below Purpose of the picture was to sell children's undershirts. It appeared in the "Sears catalog — last day to order: Dec. 15. 1934." I was not quite two. So I made an error in youthful innocence. I think everyone should be forgiven a foolish mistake as a child. What if I'd done something irreversible, like get a tattoo? Some nubby person with a magnifying glass has correctly pointed out that I am wearing no underpants in the photo. THAT IS TRUE, there were two reasons. First, Sears was only selling undershirts, not underpants. Second, we were poor It was the Great Depression which, I always add, wasn't so Great. We were a large family - father, mother and me — and: money was short. I was putting together a modeling portfolio, hoping to parlay my curly hair into a career. We were dickering at the time with Wildroot Creme Oil. The photographer convinced me the semi-nude Sears shot would be in silhouette form. Who would have thought these pictures would surface years later? I WON'T DENY that money was my object We were so poor that there were days we had nothing to eafltfiit jelly donuts. / That's because my dad had (still has) a grocery store in 1 wHWh he sold jelly donuts Nn was Kiminii

them. They'd get stale, but the baker wouldn't take 'em back. Many's the night my dad would put a box of jelly donuts on top of the Moore gas space heater to "freshen "em up." They'd get so hot the jelly would burn my tongue. I still break out in a sweat everytimei I drive past Mister Donut or Dunkin Donuts. — ' \/*r^ —

Mv dad also sold (still does) beer. That his customers / bought. Depression or no Depression (~A~ ONE OF MY MOST poignant memories is of the father V and child who came into the store. / ) "Daddy, I want a jelly donut." whined the little tyke. Jf The father peered into his wallet. (j Give me a six-pack of Genny," he said. Genesee was a local - Rochester. N.Y. — beer in those days. \ "I want a jelly donut!" screamed the kid. Wham! the father cuffed the kid. That deprived child grew up to be a better adult - or a mass murderer - because he didn't get everything he asked for. Thinner, too. I, on the other hand, subsisting on jelly donuts, have a weight problem and am in constant touch with Ruth Wanberg who writes "Diet Do's" for this paper. I THINK this whole photo thing is a bum rap, or is it bunWhy am I being singled out? Have you seen M^ptura- V Rucci of the Atlantic City Press in her bikini? \ In the first place, what's the big deal about not wearing,- "" underpants? I had so little to cover anyway. " ./ Second, I think I'm being persecutechbeoaus* of'tiiy Slovenian ancestry. The "arrogant Aryan press," to use a - phrase of Jesse Jackson's, has deep feelings against * Yugoslav immigrants who came here and quickly rose to f the top, as I have. This furor would never have happened to Henry Cabot Lodge, for example. I'VE RECEIVED support from most of my fellow journalists, although I am a little disappointed in my colleague, E.J. Duffy. Everytime I come back from the bathroom, I find him sitting in my chair. I understand he's given an interview to "Shout" in which he's quoted as saying he's wanted to be an editor since he was seven. But I am not a person who gives up when the going gets tough. I'm a fighter and I'll fight for my job. I always thought I'd die on this jobTprobably of apoplexy while opening the Monday mail filled with items too late for deadline. I'll leave this up to you, the reader. Drop us a note or a postcard. Do I resign under fire, or hang in here? «.