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(From Page 1) I ped to 70 percent this year, said the I Republican, because Hughes supported a I moment of silence in schools this election I year. •ON HIS CHAMBER OF Commerce I rating, he rates an F," Massie maintained. I "In other words, he's anti-business. When I we look at the Conservative Caucus rating, I again, he's, down there... at an amazingly I low figure for someone who's supposed to I be a conservative. "So, in essence, 'what he stands for is the I old guard, tax and spend, liberal Democratic Party...," Massie observed. "He (Massie) says he's a true conserl(~ vative. Who is he? Nobody ever heard of r him," Hughes responded. "I don't know I where he's established a record. P\ "I'm the most conservative member of (state) delegation, more so than any <y Republican in it," Hughes added, willing to compare his fiscal record with that of any Republican in New Jersey. He's usually rated between 40-70 percent by interest groups, he said, "which, if it indicates anything, indicates I'm an independent vote. If anything, it makes tham all mad at me one time or another because Tdon't vote ideology." EVIDENCE OF HUGHES' purported liberal leaning shows up in his voting record, according to Massie. He accused his opponent of stalling an omnibus crime bill supported by the President and overwhelmingly approved by the U.S. Senate. During a seminar for novice GOP candidates in Georgia, Massie said, conservative GOP Congressman Jack Kemp of New York heard Massie was challenging Hughes and told Massie: "Tell us what you need because we want Bill Hughes (out). > He's holding up important crime legislation." "That's how serious this fight is down in Washington," Massie added. "Well I don't believe that," said Hughes. "I don't believe that anybody in the Congress would say that because that just isn't the case." As chairman of the House's Crime Subcommittee he added, "I've moved more crime legislation (recently) than we've seen come up in 10 years. "But don't take my word for it," Hughes continued. He suggested the Herald and Lantern contact Kemp and verify Massie's statement. SPEAKING FOR KEMP, his press secretary replied: "The Congressman is a Foreman Indicated WILD WOOD — County grand jurors indicted resort sanitation foreman Edward Williams last week for falsifying a 1982 job application with the wrong Air Force discharge date to allegedly get a Civil Service hiring preference. City council was slated to probe his hiring yesterday. Suspended by Kevin Yecco, personnel director, Williams faces up to 18 months in jail and as much as $7,500 in fines if convicted. Fiscal Incentive STONE HARBOR — This town became i a little more difficult to get to and from I at 7 a.m. Monday as the Great Channel Bridge was closed for phase two of a I reconstruction project by Raymond Inter- < national Builders of Houston, Tex. Raymond only completed 20 percent of the < job in phase one, but Matt Barnes, Ray- i mond's Eastern Region coordinator, said s "We still intend to complete the project < on April 19 ( 1985). We'll do everything we can to make sure that occurs." The state \ has said it will levy a penalty of $2,500 j per calendar day, if Raymond doesn't. 1 I Wi anted for Murder ( t WOODBINE — Puerto Rican police i want Angel L. Martinez. 30, of Adams s Avenue for a murder several years ago < in the island town of Fajardo. Arrested under an assumed name during a drug * raid here and in Sea Isle City last month, s Martinez was later identified as the Puerto Rican fugitive. Awaiting extradition r last week, he was being held in the coun- t ty jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. 1

strong supporter of Mr. Massie but he does not remember saying that." "Ofi, it's just an irresponsible remark." said Congressman Hal Sawyer, ranking Republican on the Crime Subcommittee. "It simply isn't true." Some other House subcommittees have been "playing games" with the crime bill "but not us," Sawyer added. It arrived in the House in 44 parts, he recalled Congressman Peter Rodina (DNJ), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, gave the crime subcommittee 10 parts to consider, all of which committee members processed. Congressman John Conyer's Criminal Justice subcommittee received 22 parts of the bill and delaying action on them. "There's not a damn thing Hughes or I could do about it," Sawyer complained. "We'd like to take 'em away from Conyers." Hughes, Sawyer §aid, aslced Rodino to reroute the Criminal Justice Subcomittee's portions of the crime bill to the Crime Subcommittee. "BOTH OF US HAVE identical outlooks on crime," Sawyer continued, noting that he and Hughes are former prosecutors — Sawyer from Michigan where he now serves in former President Gerald Ford's Fifth District Congressional seat. Arguing that Massie "hasn't made a simple basic effort to secure the* facts," Hughes cited his 10 years experience as an assistant Cape May County prosecutor with a reputation that "stands for itself." He was honored last month by the nation's pharmacists for supporting laws to hamper pharmacy crime that were signed last spring, Hughes noted, and he was named Humanitarian of the Year by the Food Marketing Institute for drafting anti- . tampering legislation signed into law last year. His subcommittee parsed three crime measures on to the Senate in one week last month and has pushed through 14 major crime bills during this session of Congress, Hughes said. \ , "THE PRESIDENT pAS signed five crime bills which I autjtored," he added, "including the tdughest child pornography legislation we've ever had in federal law." Conservative House Republicans succeeded in tacking President Reagan's anticrime package onto an emergency funding bill last Tuesday by a vote of 243-166. ' Hughes and Congressman Mario Biaggi (D-NY) co-sponsored a Democratic crime pacxage. They faulted one measure in the president's bill on armor-piercing ammunition, which they griped, didn't go far enough to protect lawmen from the copkiller bullets. Hughes and Biaggi want sales of the bullets made illegal and the government required to buy back the ammunition from dealers. They attempted to push their version through last Wednesday but House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. IDMass.) pulled it from the legislative schedule to avoid a protracted battle. That angered Hughes who maintained that the only purpose of the armorpiercing ammo is to kill police wearing bullet-proof vests. He was ready to battle supporters of the president's armorpiercing legislation, among them the National Rifle Association. The congressman, Massie said, has a "very strange record" on national defense. Hughes, he added, voted against the MX mis%jle and B-l bomber, helped cut $1.4 billion for two destroyers and tried to delete funds for nuclear aircraft carriers ; cut AWAC funding by $260 million. ' "But, on the other hand, the things that ( Hughes) has favored are endemic with defense waste," Massie continued, like voting for $15.5 million to recruit reserve officers. Hughes voted to prohibit closing military bases unless Congress is notified; since 1977, Massie said, that's stopped the closing of 14 bases. His opponent, Massie observed, has voted against every ma'jor NASA appropriation bill. Ironically, he said, voted in 1978 to finance VanderSpace Center but against the space shuttle that would use it. HUGHES MAINTAINS that be is strong defense but "that doesn't mean I vote for every appropriation that every admiral and general wants." He's opposed weapons systems* "as wasteful" based on classified information. "The record is replete with instances of wasteful spending in the Pentagon." he said. When the MX was first proposed as a mobile system. Hughes explained, he backed the plan because be regarded it as vulnerable to enemy attack that

Minuteman missiles in stationary silos. He opposes the present plan to deploy MXs in Minuteman because it would only be marginally less vulnerable. Taxpayers can't afford the revised $80 million MX plan, Hughes argued, proposing instead to use the money to deploy more missiles at sea on Tirdent submarines that can't be detected. Conventional' forces, moreover, have been neglected in favor of the expensive stategic weaponry'

A congressman should be able to sell his district to businesses. Massie said, and "that has not happened" during Hughes' tenure THAT'S NOT SO." Hughes replied "Let me give you some specific examples " Because of his direcLefforts, he said, the FAA Technical Center operates in Pomona with 500 contractors and subcontractors projected in the region by the end of 1987

Hughes Former O.C. Solicitor

Democrat Bill Hughes, 52, of Ocean City is a lawyer who served as the resort's solicitor from 197^ until he won the Second District Congressional seat in 1974. Two years after he earned his lawdegree from Rutgers University (1958), he became an assistant county prosecutor and served for 10 years. He also was awarded an undergraduate degree from Rutgers. In Congress, Hughes chairs the Crime Subcommittee and sits on the Monopolies and Commercial Law Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. He is* a member of select committees and Aging and Narcotics Abuse and Controf. and the. Merchant Marine and Fisheries subcom- /

mittees of Coast Guard and Navigation. ~ Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and . the Environment, plus Oceanography With 12 full-time and three part-time staffers. Hughes maintains two district of fices. His staff assists an estimated 6,000 district residents a year. Originally from Salem County, the candidate was one of four children born to Pauline and the late William W Hughes who operated a seafood market in Pennsgrove Hughes and his wife, the former Nancy L. Gibson, have three grown daughters — Lynne, Barbara and Tana - and a son. Bill Jr., a senior at Georgetown Prep, Washington, D.C.

Massie Stockton Professor

Republican Raymond Massie, 33, is a Brigantine bachelor currently teaching business law as an assistant professor at Stockton State College. f He has also taught government regulation of casino gambling, at Atlantic Courttv College. He served as an Affirmative Action regulator for the Casino Control Commission, dispute mediator from the Community Justice Institute and as an Essex County Superior Court judical secretary. A member of the American Business Law Association. Massie was awarded a law degree from Seaton Hall University in 1977 ; he attended on a full scholarship. He

has yet to pass the state bar exam despite 12 attempts but results of the most recent ,exam (July) are due next month Massie also attended Seaton Hall as an undergraduate, earned a bachelor's degree in psycology and made the dean's list: He was also graduated from Holy Spirit High School, Absecon Born and raised in Atlantic City, the candidate is the son of the late Hilda (Maxwell) massie. a seamstress, originally from the Bronx, and Emmett Massie, 81, a retired presser, originally from Virginia. Besides his father, Massie's family includes two older brothers, a younger sister ' and younger brother.

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