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Our Readers Write Pay-As- You-Go Unaffordable To The Editor: As my past record shows. I do not answer "poor losers" when they start and/or continue to pick apart my decisions as mayor of Lower Township, to use surplus monies and go to bonding rather than increase the taxes of our residents. The only reason that I am answering is due to the lies and innuendos that are beginning in the newspapers now that election time is now here. It is unfair to Lower Township residents to be constantly misled by people who the voters wouldn't put into office and who constantly the newspapers for political purposes. Why aren't these questions asked at township meetings? I STAND FIRM in my convictions that the people of Lower Township cannot afford to pay an increase every year, due to a pay-as-you-go program. The proposal for a tax increase this year is mainly due to monies to be put into surplus (laymen's language: a savings account) and to pay for the road program "as we go" not put it out for bonding as we have done in the past. My contention still is that our majority in Lower Township cannot pay as we go and most of us' do not have a savings Account. The tax increase proposed is not due to "frivoulous" spending, as the poor losers are trying to lead you to believe. THE SUPPOSED 112 percent tax increase over a threeyear period was due to of our homes at a cost almost onehalf million dollars, purchases of new trash trucks of which three were purchased in less than one year, a $6,000 increase for a department head who worked for the Republicans during their campaign, a 100 percent increase in committee members' salaries and many other needless expenditures too numerous to mention. Bf the way didn't poor losers' counterparts hold the majority of the committee, at that time. Yet I am constantly being blamed for a tax increase. Poor loser showed get her facts straight and stop misleading the public, even though they didn't vote her into office. Can't she take the hint'. PEGGIE BIEBERBACH Bayshore EAST Lower Township (ED NOTE Bieberbach is a Democratic Candidate for county freeholder. )

Papers Still Sitting To The Editor: Approximately five to six weeks ago, I put some newspapers in front of my home to be collected by the local recyclable materials truck. They are still sitting there. Last Thursday. I called the Middle Township Road Department and asked them to pick up the papers. The gentlemen with whom I spoke said that they would. One t week has passed, and the newspapers are still sitting. But they will be gone tomorrpw because, after I finish this letter, 1 am putting them in plastic bags so that they will be collected with my regular trash. ' By the way, I saved those newspapers on my porch for the same amount of time that they laid on my lawn. I made a sincere effort to help. I will not do it again. I am certain my children and neighbors won't either. m They saw what happened. EDWARD ROSENBERG Cape May Court House f H trail*. V '^1 Bmny W„tm Mii.y B* Tto 6nmmm CmpotmUom 9X>. B— 430 €•»« *Uy tow Horn—, tij. 06110 I

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Smoke Menace To The Editor: Every day morei information is accummulating regarding the dangers' of secondary smoke, and with each new revelation it becomes more imperative for the nonsmoker to exert his rchts for free air. The chairman of the Tobacco Institute, Horace R. Kornegay, (Herald/Lantern Oct. 3) obviously has smoke in his eyes, when the subject of smoking 's deleterious effects is raised. His attitude reeks of the very poison he proselytizes. ; Anyone wanting FACTS about smoking and health should write to: ASH :jSmoking and Health Review 2013 H. Street, N.W., Washington. D.C. 20006. ASH is a national nonprofit organization concerned with the problems of smoking and the rights of nonsmokers. If Nuclear War is the threat to our macrocosmic existence, it follows that smoke and pollution are the menaces of our micricosmic lives. v The issue is not cigarettes; it is survival. HARRY EMERSON OTTO Stone Harbor

.1 • Dems Nebd Punch To The Editor: Musings on Electio^i Day: If "Fritz" had beep named "Tom", then the ticket of Tom and Gerry woulji have more punch. J ! BOB CUNNINGHAM ! Cape May

Hazardous Dumps Local Responsibility? By FRED L. SMITH JR. Expansion of the Superfund for toxic-waste cleanup now appears to have been deferred at least until 1965, and that is a good thing. During the recent congressional haggling over reauthorization, the program, initially viewed as an emergency $1.6 billion response to hazardous dumps, seemed destined to grow in the traditional "Christmas tree" federal fashion. Superfund is part of a second generation of environmental programs: Its task is not to reduce current pollution, but to manage possible future risks of past disposal practices. This is a substantial chore. The U.S. has, by current estimates, about 22.000 candidate sites, each containing widely varying quantities of diverse materials and each posing some potential risk to the environment. As the Environmental Protection Agency lists potential sites for cleanup, citizens in the surrounding communities are alerted to the presence of such dumps, often for the first time. The citizens are likely to react with some degree of panic to this news — especially when the press treats the event as akin to the discovery of a live mine field in their midst and recalls the Love Canal incident. Most citizens, after all, have been led to believe that cancer is caused primarily by exposure to trace elements of industrial chemicals and therefore want the dump to "go away;" r In the absence of Superfund, communities would deal directly with such risks. Similar ones involving 1 contaminated water supplies, uncovered drainage ditches and abandoned buildings have long been a concern of private parties and local governments. Absent Superfund, however, the parties would ensure that the reductions in risk justified the costs entailed. Under Superfund, 90 percent of the costs of cleanup are paid by the EPA. while the state covers the remainder. The local communities get all the benefits and pay none of the costs. As a result, Superfund is a "free .good." Not surprisingly, therefore, Superfund has proven to be an extremely popular program. A community has every incentive to demand that its dump sites be placed on the cleanup list. If funding permits, we may find ourselves "gold plating" all 22,000 potential sites. That, accordir^ to General Accounting Office estimates, might cost about 526 billion - Wall Street Journal To be continued (ED. NOTE: Smith, formerly an EPA policy analyst, is president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington.) Shoot QuicklyThe Herald and Lantern publish no political letters in the issue prior to the Nov. 6 election, in order to prevent unanswerable charges. So next week's issue will be the final for political letters, and the deadline for that is tomorrow, Oct. 18.

: rStalling Out at 25— Sipping Wild Blueberry?

By JQE ZELNIK B.S. of Benny's tending writes: I saw your recent tirade against "E.Ti," the cereal. Did you know you can send the boxtop and a note to General Mills telling them you were dissatisfied and they'll return your money7 Answer: Funny you should write. I did just that and one of the General's lieutenant! sent me a check for $1.99. That was 70 cents more than I paid for it since I had used a (double) 35-cents-#ff coupon. I think this might be a way to get people off welfare. Issue them General Milk coupons and require they be used at stores that pay double coupons. After the people eat the food, require jthem to write the general and complain; then use the refund for back-to-school clothes, or whatever. A Incidentally, along with my check came a nig^letter from Jeanette Eckiund, manager, Consumer/ftesponse and Investigation, Quality Control Department. How's that for a title? We are thinking of establishing a similar position at the Herald-Lantern — as soon as we get a Quality Control Department. Anyway, althou^i I wrote to complain about "E T " the letter from Lt. Ecklund said, "Thank you for taking— the time to let us know that you were not satisfied with Wild Blueberry Muffin Mix." This suggests a couple of things. Possibly Jeanette is sipping some wild blueberry that isn't in the muffin mix if you know what I mean. Or, maybe there are so many muffin mix complaints that she automatically reached out for that form letter. I don't think I'd try the muffin mix R.R. of Shellbay Landing writes: I thought it was very enterprising of Seven-Mile Beach correspondent M 'Ellen Rowland to test <irive both routes from Stone Harbor to the mainland (Coirt House) now that the bridge is closed Thanks for her advice that Avalon takes only 16 minutes compared to 19 via North Wildwood Boulevard. Answer: I'm glad this appealed to you. I thought of the same thing, made the same test runs, and came up with somewhat different conclusions.

I prefer North Wildwood Boulevard, one reason being the beautiful sunrises you see at dawn, which are less visible going through Avalon. More important, Avalon police crouch behind every holly tree, waiting to catch speeders and stuff the ?ut Mid,dle Township police seldom patrol North lldwood Boulevard because their cars fall apart going over the bumps/. As a result, I often lake the boulevard, don't worry too much about the speed limit, and make it to Court House in about six minutes. (I /could do better if I didn't have to slow down to about id m.p.h. to give the 40 cents to the bridge toll collector). ) I'm not knocking-Avalon. There is something to be said tor driving through it in the quiet season at 25 m.p.h., and as soon as I think what it is I'D let you know. One thing you can do to make the time pass \s count the "for sale" signs and 'for renf " signs and "sold" signs and "closed for the season signs. / .WrW' °< toy* and you're shll left Witt a detour (for another six months, a you believe the contractor . eight months a you have common IVeTvggetfSa few things/in hjy carfind, when I go via Avalon, intend to put the driuisecdntrol on 25 m.p.h. and myltta-8 ed|hreakfasti\mish my teeth, and blow dry But in general I a We wiih Babe D'Ignazio owner of the Towne House Resfluranl in Media, Delaware County, Pa., who also has | horpy in Avalon. He says his car 'damn near stalls optaj£5 m.p.h." Babe's restauranUiis a separate dining room just for the dozen county jbttges whom he counts as friends, and iawyere ete T"ng district attorneys, Babe feels Avalon i iktoo strict about £ lot of things. "No ^ V$?re'SIK" a fanjily in Avalon that, tasn t tad a member oAhe family, or its.dog, in court " \ Babe s turn comes Monday:. (