22 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 18 December '85

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Assault Badge Goes to Young WOODBINE - Spec. 4 Dion R. Young, son of Marie Young of this community was presented the Air Assault Badge upon graduation from the Army's air assault school at Fort Campbell, Ky. Young will remain at Fort Campbell with the 327th Infantry. iiuaiui j.

f Silen s Shoes i 5000 Pacific Ave., Wildwood \ SANTA'S SPECIALS! 20% OFF blm i Isotoner Gloves • Isotoner Slippers 20% ■ 50% OFF Selected Styles Of Shoes & Handbags j 50% OFF AIGNER • CANDIES • LIFE-STRIDE NATURALIZER • CALICO • ISOTONER JT/kJ OPEN Y KAK HOLM) ^3? Open Fri.-Sat. Evenings until 8 Sun. 11-2 Avalon Citizens: We Cannot Afford Rachel Sloan as Mayor! ■ Rachel Sloan Doubled our Water and Sewer Bills. —COST: Severe Hardship on All our Citizens particularly those on fixed incomes. ■ Rachel Sloan has not corrected our Water and Sewer Problems and has no MASTER PLAN for resolving imminent higher additional sewer rates. ■ —Potential Cost to Taxpayers: Hundreds of thousands of dollars. I Rachel Sloan rejected free Beach Sand from our Streets, then bought road gravel to put on the beach. ■ -COST: Over $100,000. ■ Rachel Sloan built permanent wood walkways on the beach on private property. Because they were built in error, she had to tear them up. I —COST: Thousands of wasted tax dollars. I Rachel Sloan removed a Historic Pavillion at 21st St. and the beach which could have been repaired for $3000. The new replacement was condemned by the Borough Engineer and summarily demolished. ■ -COST: $20,000 Tax Dollars. WHY? I We Can No Longer Afford Rachel Sloan As Mayor ■Vote YES for the Recall - Vote YES for Jim Redditt ■(Special Recall Election January 28, 1986) Ordered and paid for by Committee to Elect Jim Redditt. Martin L. Pagliughi. Jr.. Treasurer

TRADITIONAL TOUCH — Mrs. Leroy Westcott lights candles on Advent wreath at Hetty Hand house in Court House, which dates back to 1700s and will be included on Christmas on Mechanic Street House Tour 7-9 p.m. Dec. 27. Tour is sponsored by Middle Township Branch of Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.

Loans Open To Bay Oystermen

TRENTON - A top Department of Commerce and Economic Development official has informed state Sen. James R. Hurley, R-Cumberland, Cape May, that loans up to $250,000 at 7.5 percent interest are available to help Delaware Bay oystermen survive this year's disastrous season. "I am happy that the state is willing to help with low-cost loans.'' Hurley said. "I only hope now that the Department of Environmental Protection will step up funding for research being conducted at the Rutgers Shellfish Research Lab at Bivalve." IN MID-NOVEMBER i Hurley called for a two- | pronged approach to help the beleaguered oystermen survive the recent recordbreaking mortality rate in this year's crop. The low-cost loans, he said, would help them stay afloat until next year's crop comes in. while more research is needed to help the industry survive. The mortality rate among this year's crop of oysters is the highest since records have been kept and may reach as much as 90 precent before the season is over, threatening the ability of oystermen to meet expenses, let alone make a profit. •WITHOUT MORE research and more support. we could lose an entire industry," Hurley said. "This is definitely a threat to the oystermen themselves, but it is also a threat to all the jobs associated with this industry." In a letter to Hurley. Henry T Blekicki. assistant commissioner in the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, said the oystermen are eligible to use a direct loan program of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. "LOANS OF up to $250,000 at 7.5 percent interest rate are available." Blekicki said, "and I have taken the liberty of alerting John Walsh, deputy director of the NJDEP, of this problem." Walsh can be reached, Hurley said, by contacting the New Jersey Economic Development Authority at Capital Place One. CN 990, 200 South Warren St., Tren-

ton, New Jersey 08625. The telephone number is 609-292-0348. A MYSTERIOUS disease, known as MSX, nearly wiped out the oyster industry in the early 1950s and scientists are still no closer to determining a way to combat this scourge, which this year may be responsible for 50 percent or more of the oyster deaths. Hurley said in his November call for help for the oystermen that, after the passage of so much time, "you'd think by now we'd have found a way of controlling this menace to the oyster industry". Most of the oystermen agree that the state must commit itself to the level of funding needed to enable this industry to survive. Hurley said. -I AGREE with the r~

oystermen who said in a recent interview that the right level of research funding could help put this industry back on its feet." Hurley said. "And we're talking about an industry that at one time ranked second only to farming in Cumberland County." Hurley commended the Commerce Department for responding so quickly with news of the loan program, but called once again for an increased commitment to research funding. J . I t TV

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