o 4 Herald - lantern - Dispatch 2 July '86

WM 1 ' ' H W ' v M^|V« a i .HA — Hi BOUND FOR ACADEMY — Mark R. Hindle. son of George and Margaret Hindle of Avalon, receives his appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy from Cmdr. D.B. McKinley of the Cape May Training Center. Hindle, a 1986 Middle Township High School graduate, reported to New London, Conn., June 30 for SWAB summer training, before starting a four-year baccalaureate program in marine engineering.

All the Rage Right Now

(From Page 1) so many countries, and in so many civilizations it would take more than a lifetime to trace them all. "JUST SAY THAT anybody who thought they had the right to determine their own destiny, helped make me what I am," the voice said. "You don't mind if I sit down, do you? My feet are killing me," she said. "You know I'm all the rage right now But that wasn't the case when Bartholdi and another Frenchman, Edouard de Laboulaye, first got the idea of setting me up in New York Harbor." she said. She told me that while the French promoted a "Statue of American In- - dependence" as a gesture of FrancoAmerican friendship, quite a few wealthy, influential Americans and especially the American press were cool to the idea. "IT WAS JOE PULITZER, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, who was trying to start a newspaper called The World, who got behind it, and offered to print the names of everyone who made a donation." she said. Pulitzer's gimmick raised $102,000, and 120,000 Americans got their names in the paper. "One of the first donations came from an outfit called the Ten O'clock Poker Club." the voice said. "They kicked in their $4 daily jackpot, which I thought was neat " NEW YORK HARBOR was a lot different in those day. she told me. When Bartholdi first visited the U.S. in 1871, the city's waterway had more sailing ships than steam-powered vessels. The nation was expanding from an agrarian society into a industrial giant. "There were a lot of low-wage jobs to be filled in those days, and Congress relaxed immigration laws to Fill them, and in no time at all I got caught up in all that because most of the newcomers came through New York," she said. Most of them were processed at Ellis Island from 1900 to 1914, she said. In 1907 alone. 1,004,756 new Americans passed through Ellis Island. They came from Russia, Italy. Austria-Hungary. Germany, Ireland, and Poland. "What a lot of people either forget, or don't know, is that these people came through Castle Garden, an old fort at the foot of Manhattan, from 1853 until 1892," she said. "YOU KNOW. THEY PUT Emma Lazarus' poem on the wall here in 1903. The one about give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' But that doesn't tell you the whole picture. In 1849 in New York City there was an organization called the Order of the Star Spangled Banner that protested against Irish and German immigrants." the voice, suddenly grown weary, said. In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act that closed the gates of America to Chinese laborers for 10 years. And after World War I, the screws on immigration were again tightened. "There were a lot of other things that were hard to take, too," she went on. "In the cornerstone of my pedestal they included a coin with the inscription, 'If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.' What's that got to do with freedom?" ALL RIGHT. I SAID, who was there that

made it easier to keep holding a torch up in all kinds of weather for 100 years? "Well, there was Patrick Henry, Ben Franklin Haym Salomon, Cripus Attucks, Abe Lincoln, Martin Luther King," she said. "And don't forget John Peter Zenger who in 1735 established truth as a defense against libel. And Tom Paine. Especially Tom Paine. It's the rare ones like him that help you to shrug off the cramps in your arm and take the wind and the rain." Who were the ones that made you close your eyes and flinch? I asked. "Don't tempt me." she replied. "Can you imagine what it feels like to be a symbol for promise, opportunity, justice, and freedom, when there are guys like Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon in the headlines every day? I mean, an unindicted coconspirator in the White House? A guy who's trying to steal the country? "And that's not all," she said. "It was tough even with Eisenhower and Truman. Remember loyalty oaths? And who started the CIA?" FINALLY. I ASKED the voice what she called herself. "That could take a long time, too," she said. "They called me 'freiheit' in the Nazi death caAips. Miss Liberty, The Lady With The La^ip, Mother of Exiles, I've been calleclall these names. But maybe the way Earl Robinson and John LaTouche put it in theirOJEwllad for Americans,' was best. It was me they meant when they wrote, 'Nobody who was anybody believed it. Everybody who was anybody they doubted it.' In other words, I'm the everybody who is nobody."

Medically Needy: New Help

(From Page 1) ing paid 50-50 by the federal and state governments in the first year, but in the second year the federal government will pay 50 percent, the state 37.5 percent, and the county 12.5 percent. Schellinger said he estimated the county would spend $12,000 to $15,000 the second year. The program aims, according to a news release from the state Department of Human Services (DHS) at people "with medical costs who have assets and income too high to allow them to qualify for assistance under current Medicaid standards." The state has set aside $80 million for the first year. ELIGIBILITY STANDARDS are complicated, said Schellinger, but generally the program is for persons with "less than $3,400 in the bank" compared to the $1,000 maximum for AFDC (Aid for Dependent Children). Monthly income maximum is $333 Those with higher income still can become eligible according to a "spend down" concept that allows applicants to deduct the cost of medical bills and health insurance premiums from their total income. Schellinger pointed out that this program could help AFDC recipients who had

seriously ill children and would have been "foolish" to get a job and lo6e Medicaid. "Under this," said Schellinger, "they can keep working, earn over the AFDC, spend down to the standard, and get coverage." BUT SCHELLINGER said the bulk of I eligible clients will be elderly people for whom there is a "a perceived need" because a CCPED program (Community Care Program for Elderly and Disabled) i is limited to 40 persons in the county. Services covered under the new program include physician, dental, optometrist, and independent clinic care; i medical equipment such as wheelchairs and hospital beds; laboratory and x-ray services. Hospitalization is not covered but, > Schellinger said, no hospital will turn i away a patient for inability fo pay. The new program also covers glasses, hearing aids, orthopedic shoes and artificial limbs. And it includes medical i transportation, psychologist care, proI s theses and home health and personal care i services. i Podiatry, chiropractic and medical day care, as well as prescribed drugs, are also covered by the program, according to the group a person belongs to, the state DHS release said.

Cape May Will Buy Water

By E. J. DUFFY Cape may is about to become Lower Township MUA's biggest water customer. Running $130,000 in the red last year, the MUA expects to finish in the black when it more than doubles its present 2,000 customers by installing two water mains to the city across Cape May Canal. But the township source is only one part of a five-point water program City Manager Fred Coldren presented to Cape May councilmen Monday night. The 10-year (maximum), $3-million package includes a desalinization plant feasibility study, a million gallon water tower, those water mains from Lower, $100,000 for a joint water resouces study, plus water conservation measures. CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZED Coldren to proceed with the project. "We're willing to spend a lot of money," said Mayor Arthur Blomkvest, "because that's what it's going to take." Over the past 10 years, Coldren said, the city has spent $5 million on sanitary sewers, $3 million on storm sewers, $4 million on streets, but only a few hundred thousand for the water supply. Cape May has three wells in Lower Township but two of them are tainted by salt water. The city planned to drill a fourth well at an estimated $100,000, but that could threaten nearby private wells in North Cape May with salt water intrusion. Council was told. The city pumps 1.8 million gallons on a peak summer day. Lower Township Manager James R. Stump, who also serves as township MUA executive director, wants to retain control of the municipal water supply anyway and reduce or eliminate the authority's water operations deficit by selling water to Cape May. "WE'VE PROPOSED A CONTRACT,"he said of the MUA last week. "It has been approved and it's awaiting their (Cape May officials') approval." Citing "initial engineering estimates" from Metcalf & Eddy of Somerville, Stump said a 12-inch water main along Seashore Road would cost $110,000 with another $80,000 to install it across the canal to city supply lines. Another eight-inch main would be installed along Route 109 to the Cape May Canal Bridge at Schellenger's Landing for $155,000, with $65,000 to cross the canal there. Held for Sex Attack NORTH WILDWOOD - Richard A. Cuttone Jr., 18, of Levittown, Pa., was arrested Thursday for sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania girl, 17, in her room at 22nd Avenue guest house, police reported. Charged with sexual assault and criminal restraint, Cuttone is being held in the county jail for 10 percent of $5,000 cash bail.

Additional costs, based on the MUA doing the work, he said, include $140,000 for engineering and $20,000 for legal fees. The entire project would cost about $570,000 with Cape May paying the lion's share. The MUA would bear part of the cost. Stump said, to service customers in the township's Schellenger's Landing harborfront. "OUR WHOLE GOAL IS TO sell any excess water we have," STump said for the MUA. "My whole objective to this is, if I can eliminate any red ink..." The MUA has excess water, he explained, based on "the state allocation" of "how much you can draw down (pump)." He didn't have figures available Monday night on what the state allocation is for the MUA, but he did say it pumps 200 million gallons a year while Cape May uses 40* million gallons annually. Both municipalities and Wildwood were originally suposed to divide the cost of a three-year, $3000,000 water study by the U.S. Geological Survey according to their water usage. Wildwood reportedly balked at that deal, however, probalby because it pump6 1.7 billion gallons a year out of Middle Township. The three municipalities have decided, though, to split the study co6t into equal $100,000 shares. "It has been approved by all three," Stump confirmed Monday night. "Our share would be $100,000 over three years, "Coldren told Council the. But the state's expected to kick in $75,000 with other funding or in-kind help from Uncle Sam. The "exact dollars, "he later told this paper, still have "to be worked out." THE SAME HOLDS TRUE, he said, of the water supply from Lower Township. He estimated that as a $6000,000 job, but included in city costs its share of expenses for any new township well that might be needed. Sites for a second city water tower (it now has a 750,000 gallon tank on Madison Avenue) and any desalinization plant have not been determined, Coldren said, but the new tower he estimated will cost $500,000. "We're just dealing in concepts," he said of the feasibility study for a desalinizsation plant. Such a plant, trating l-14million gallons of brackish well water a day, would cost about $lmillion to $1.5 million, to build though, according to Howard J. Davis of Illinois Avenuae, major proponent of reverse osmosis, a desalinization process. Plant operating costs would translate into roughly 65 cents for each thousand gallons, he said, or about a dollar less than Lower Township's current rate for bulk users like the city. "THEY DIDN'T MAKE A decision, but I don't think they have any choice but to go with Ro," Davis said of city officials and reverse osmesis. It's the most costeffective as he sees it. Retired senior staff scientist in membrane technologies for Celanese Laboratory, Summit, Davis described that process as a "very efficient, tight filter that will no allow salt to pass through. "It will remove bacteria," he added. "It will remove a lot of toxins, iron..." A 1-1 Vi million gallon-a-day plant would be "more than adequate" for Cape May's needs, he said, but"you can build it in modular arrays" with p re-sized pipes and other fixtures, to allow for expansion. The 1-14 million gallon-a-day plant would only require about 2,500 square feet and would be best located near the city's salt-tainted wells in Lower Charlotte Todd, city Environmental Commission chairman, urged officials Monday not to locate such a plant near any landfill site. OTHER DESALINIZATION processes are available, Davis said, like distillation and electro-dialysis, but reverse osmo6is seems suited "for our particular needs in Cape May." DuPont, Dow, Fluid Systems and Hyrdranautics manufacture desalinization equipment, he added, and "lots of' plants are located in Florida where resorts like Sanibel suffer from poor ground water supplies. Conservation is also part of Coldren's five-point program, he said. The city will encourage use of devices that reduce water consumption, and continue efforts toward detecting leaks. Coldren reported in December that Cape May pumped 158.9 million gallons from its wells in Lower last summer — up 11 million gallons from the summer of 1984. Three million gallons wCfe lost through leaks last summer, he said, down from the 40-60 percent of the past.