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Shops "Plan Donation To 'Hands' RIO GRANDE - All three Family Hair Care shops will donate $1 from every haircut and $2.50 » from every permanent wave done Saturday. May 24. to the "Hands Across America" fund drive. The shops in Northfield. Ocean City and Rio Grande ■»will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Owner Carlo Melini asks participants to call for an appointment. 'Hands Across America" seeks to fight hunger and homelessness in the United States by having six million pledgers " join hands from Los Angeles to New York at 3 j J p.m. Sunday. " For more . information % call Family Hair Care at J 641-0777 in Northfield. ■ 398-8755 in Ocean City and 888-1866 in Rio Grande.

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KHV r V fe I 61, ■ mmm VI HONORS FOR VOLUNTEERS — Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital president William H. Waldron III extends thanks and congratulations to some of hospital volunteers at recent awards tea. Honorees. from second left, are: Johanna Mahan, Court House. 12,000 hours emergency department and gift shop; Lillie Smith. Cape May. 4,000 hours coffee shop; Elsie Snyder. Stone Harbor. 2.5000 hours coffee shop: Mary Keaveny. Avalon. 4.500 hours emergency department. Right is Bettie Crilly. director of volunteers.

Center Aids Battle on Erosion

SWAINTON - For almost 20 years, the Cape May Plant Materials

r Center here has been ? developing and testing > natural defenses against the unending encroachment of the ocean onto the land along the coast. As a result of the center's work, five improved plant cultivars to aid in the fight agaiast erosion have been released The best known was "Cape" American beachgrass in 1972. The plant is commonly found on frontal dunes all along the coast IT HAS THE ability to catch large amounts of sand with its thick stems and leaves. Often the plant becomes completely buried only to put out new roots ■ and emerge from the sand. Of the other releases, two are sand-stabilizing plants and two are used to provide food and cover for wildlife This year, the PMC expects to release "Avalon saltmeadow cordgrass. It will be used for restoration of marshland and protection of tidal banks on low energy tidal areas THE CENTER is also working with smooth cordgrass to stabilize tidal banks below the mean high tide level. Currently, the center is also working to develop plants and cultural farming practices to protect cropland from erosion One field on the 88-acre site contains 300 different accessions (samples: of various species, part of a project examining nearly 1,100 plants with hopes of selecting a superior plant for a cover corp A cover crop is seeded in the fall to provide protection to the soil surface against wind and water erosion during the winter on fields planted with late maturing crops THE PMC W A S established on what was the Barber Farm on Route 9 here. It is operated by the Soil Conservation Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Funding for the center was approved by Congress following the March 1972 storm which brought widespread destruction to resort towns all along the Atlantic Coast l*he PMC serves the coastal plain from Cape ■ Cod to Cape Hatteras. The center is headed hv

Don Hamer. manager He is assisted by fiarold E Yohn. Other staff members are: Noel J Murray, soil conservationist; Wilson J Merrick, foreman, and Barbara Turnier. secretary Cape May Awarded 2 Grants CAPE MAY - The city was recently awarded two matching grants from the state Division of Travel and Tourism totalling $2,000. This marks the fourth consecutive year Cape May has received such a grant. This year's recipients are two diverse events — the 4th Annual Superathlon Lifeguard Championship scheduled for July 21 and Capt Mey's weekend slated for Sept. 27 and 28. Beach patrols all along the New Jersey Coast will send a representative to compete in the Superathlon. which is actually a run-row-swim triathlon, to determine who is New Jersey's Beach Patrol superathlete. CAPTAIN MEY'S weekend will honor Cape May's founding father. Capt. Cornelius Jacobsen Mey. with a beach front run, the Kiwanis pet parade, an antique auto show, a bandstand concert and the National Hobie Cat 16' Championship. For information contact the Cape May Civic Affairs Dept. 884-8411. ext. 20 or 27. PTA Meeting ERMA — Mrs. Madeline Palm, president of the Chapter I Parent council of the Richard M. Teitelman School, announces the group's program evaluation meeting will be held 4 p.m. Thursday, May 29, in the Frances E. Jackson Media Center. Refreshments will be served. The public is invited