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PAGE 4 — SECTION TWO THE OCEJN CITY (NiSii SEF
Cape May County Freeholder
Thomas,- B. Tucker has. been
listed in the 1W7 volume of
Outstanding Young Men In
America, \. ' '•
Tucker and. his wife, the
former Susan V. Verna, and bis
twbsons, Tommy, 10, and Brad,
7, live at 5541 Simpson av. here.
The annual'edition of Outstanding
Young, men presents
the career, achievements of
thousands of young men contributing
to their community
and profession, and who are
leaders' in their areas of
proficiency.
The young men, 21 to 36 years
of age, listed have been
selected for listing on the oasis
of their service to others,'
professional achievements, and
community activities. The
volume preface notes "it is the
purpose of the Outstanding
Young Men of American
program to recognize And
honor such individual.
leadership."
Frank Meuitelli Jr.
FRANKS
Plumbing a Heating
Uc.#4tM
ft Heating Needs
•Oil Burner
Sales ft Service
r Tucker listed
g Young Man'
Introducing
K&D
Cabinet
Makers
• Custom kitchens
• Vanities
• Bathrooms
• Formica Work
; 399-3085 399-0382 or 3994876
; See Our Showroom at
2152 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N.J.
LANDIS AVENUE
CITY ~
:L Electronic Repairs - Sales and Service
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Warranty Repair on (Approx. 15) Famous Brand C.B'$
C.B's by Midland,
Motorola, Hy-Gain, S.B.L,
Robyn, Tram ft Browning
Liberalism versus elitism:
Old forces still contending
-The more notable of Tucker's Two forces that Jiave been
recent achievements is his contending in education -toe
. innovative approach to setting over a century still rejbabi hi
tip JINS (Juveniles in Need of opposition today.' One
Supervision)' in- Cape May
County. He has-also been instrumental
in establishing the
new county holding facility for
juvenile delinquents.
He is a graduate of Lower
Merion (Pa.) High School and
holds.a BS Degree hi Political
Economics from St. Joseph's
.College, hi Philadelphia. His
professional career includes
the post of products supervisor
with Xerox Corp., in marketing
.and sales; - marketing area
manager for Nashua Corp., and
Midwest operations manager
for Old Town Corp.
He is a veteran of the United
States Marine Corps, with
service in Vietnam. He was also
a defenseman for the now
defunct Philadelphia Wings, a
professional lacrosse team.
Tucker is active in the South
Ocean City Civic Council,
1 1912. New Jersey used State
exams to keep all but the
brightest academics out of high
slide school. Beyond the elementary
thinks the public schools should grades, says NJEA, public
help all (Children; the, other 'education, remained elitist.
believes; the public is obligated . Only in this century have the
to provide education only, to the "education for all" forces
most able. "... prevailed. After World War, I,
, 'Through most of /history, the .junior high school
reports the New Jersey movement spread, designed to
Education Association, formal keep all students in school at
whicaripn has/beenjeHtist. On)y least one year beyond 8th
those with "brains^ and wealth grade Even then, however,
receivedd
~. schooling: The students lacking th6 inborn
common f. folk;dkl wU|UW pot. UMI. rnynn Progress traits . that constitute.
c a m e ktawty toot today die "academic ability" were held
' " 'minority. • - in the lower grades until they
quit school.
Because of high unemployment
during The Great
Depression, America in the.
: " ' ---••-•elitist
ire to
Into the 19th y, just one
country took
educate its" troublelo
was the newborn 'poor. That
soil afire withithe principles ed States, of early 1930s made an effort to
the ReVplution'.
offer all students the chance for
After- the Civil War, NJEA 12 years of public education - to
says, America's leaders eyed delay their entry into the job
public fjaucatJOB as a wayto re- market. As non-academics
unite the North and South, and poshed beyond 8th grade for the
the itie i d tb hl
S&^SL&STS S'ta^jp'-ess.- Strarti^" 1 . had been deliberately excluded..
Low reading ability •caused
problems. These students had
learned the mechanical skills
Involved in reading but did not
have' the gifts needed for
creative reading. A child can be
taught to break a word into
syllables, but it takes far more
ability and experience to,
•understand the- author's
meaning or to read between the
fines.
For decades, NJEA reports,
the most difficult problem
facing the American high
schools was: what torequire of
non-academic students. Simply
watering down the traditional
subjects into less demanding
courses did not provide area!
solution: The non-college'
bound needed practical
education, not
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mvum
He has been active in the migrants.
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S Eadatea is $5.00 (Check or Money Order) fara
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under social security. If your
mother himMmfM 11 ^ income and
resources and is 65 or dyer or
disabled or bond, she might
qualify for -supplemental
security Income : . (SSI)
payments. Contact the. social
security office for more' information.
- . •', ,• '
It's very important that
people tell social security how
much cash they have in
checking or savings accounts
when they apply for supplemental
.security income
(SSI) payments, according to
Oscar p. Ernst, Jr,,. social
security district manager in
Atlantic Coy.
"Many people have been
found ineligible for SSI checks
because of .money in their
cSeddng or savings accounts
and have had to pay back the
SSI payments they received,"
Ernst said.
The SSI program, administered
by the Social
Community Cm^:M^. : Tm^^'0SiW^^^^
. Atlantic Community Office on Aging, and $1,350 in
College's, SAGES (Senior the form nf the services of a'
Adults Gainmg Hdw*iirt«i and Cape May County CETA
Stimulation) program has (Comprehensive Employment
received local funding which and Training Act) employee.
will .enable it to continue Established by,ACC in 1973.
through the end of this year. SAGES during the last three
ACC2
President Dr. Lawrence years has, hi addition to other
R. Winchell, We, Jr r , told o the activities; offered free nan*
College's Board of Trustees at credit courses .-. specially
its August xoeetuk that $14^50 designed for senior adults at
, .had been secured-from < local locations, throughput'- Atlantic
governmental agencies- $10,000 and Cape May Counties, last
from. Atlantic County's spring, more than 2,000 SAGES
Department of Social Services, were enrolled in 66 such courses
$3,000 from Cape Blay County's at 41 locations.
windfall'
were put into effect October 1,
1975, under bond, pending an
FPC decision and subject to
to the Board'of Public UtUities nuking refunds. • • '
to refund $6.5 million to its The proposed rates were
customers • ta the form of a collected from October 1,1975,
credit with the October bills. until June 30, 1997, when the
• The company announced FPC approved rates, sub-
receiving die refund last week stantially below those filed. The'
andsaidit was studying several new rates became effective
Q. My mother lives with ine
ways to determine which would July 1, and in the order issued
and has been supported by me Security Administration, be most beneficial to the by the FPC on August 1, it
for nhie years. Now that I ammakes
monthly payments to customers.
directed Texas Eastern to
tfffiiiytff moQuily ^y^JClf^l security people with'little or no income "We have found that giving a make refunds to its customers
Tr"'rfi puny DGDButOk wny oocsm- limited resources who are credit on the October bul would for the 21 months in which the
she-get-benefits-as-a-ddepen--
"65 or over or bond or disabled.
^ _ were collected
dent?
To be eligible, people generally the refund," said Edward E. under bond.
A. Monthly y benefits to a can have resources of $1,500 or Anthony, y, asaistant s vice 1 New Jersey Natural's refund
dependent dt parent are payable kss for one person and $2,290 president in charge of com-
onty when the son or daughter for a couple, including cash hi mercial operations, "and so we
dies after working long enough. wlGduOfi flf 8AVU10B * A0C0UHt8» will ask the BPU this week for
Failure to report resources hi permission to start refunding
checking or *y*"flf acciwints is with the October bills. ,
one of die most common causes Hesaldthathtadditiontotiie
of SSI payment error, ac- base amount, the customer
cording, to Ernst.
wouldreceive? percent interest;
"If we don't know' about : for the two months. That wiU
people's •resourcea over.; the, coyer the time period from the
•' he said, "we inay in- fs receipt of the $6\S
until the refunds are
SSI checks. X«ter,^roaB«^ ;inaae.
learn of cash over the ifmlt.Jn
tbeiracrauhts, they have to pay
back tile iol payuniids; winch
can bbe
a
"Social security wantsTo,
spare people that problem,"
Ernst said. "But we can only do
that if we know what n
they bave, UKluding ttj
checking or savings accounts,"
he said.
Social Security can verify
whether or not people. who
apply for SSI payments have
cash In cJiecUng or savings
; -'v - , N y
for that period came to
$8,500,670.01, which Vice
President-Treasurer Thomas
B. Toohey described as the
largest single refund check the
company had ever received.
Toohey said the money will be
distributed to all of the company's
customers proportionately,
based on each
customer's usage
,: __?..:',
The average residential
heatiugcustomerlast year paid
New—Jersey Natural Gas
Company $445, according to
Mr. Anthony, and wfll receivea
credjt for $32.12, plus 42 cents
interest: He pointed out that uie
average gas heating customer
has at least two other gas appliances.,
.In the-case of a residential
cusbHner who does' not 'heat
with gas, the average amount
paid last year was $107. Such a CHRIS JACOBY
customer will be credited $8.04, —PLASTERING—
plus 7 cents interest on the
•Bricklaying and
.. the money to be refunded Pointing
was collected tauie form of the . C*t$f
tbelr drcumstancee to! purchased gas 'alSJuBtinenn
get SSI payments can -be portion of the monthly bins for WAL 399-2717
prosecuted for fraud," he said. 21 mondu, and that was one of
' People can get information the methods considered for
about applying for SSI refunding, Mr: Anthony said. -
1 "However, we felt it would be !»*e.j»e.>e
PBVBB0Dul DST'CttUulS OT'^WafftUMt •
any soddu
security office. more beneficial to the customer
"When at Ernst said, to get it all at once, rather than
"it's a good to brim have it spread over a-period or
tune." ^
The windfall came as a result
^^og
and bonds, life insurance
Texas Eastern m
policies, - automobile March, 1975, for $103,200,000
registration cards, last year's atMitJnnal onl revenues annually.
income tax return, W-2 forms, As in all rate cases before the
and evidence of all other in- FPC, the proposed rates were
come. These can also affect suspended for six months and
eligibility for SSIjpy
must t promptly tl report hj jp
in their Inconw, resources, and
living arrangements to social
security.
The social. security administration
is an agency of the
U.S. Department of Health,
Education, d o n , and Welfare. The
Atlantic City social security
office is at Pennsylvania and
Pacific avs. The phone number
Is 347-3400.
Buy and sell
with
classified ads
ATTENTION FIREPLACE OWNERS:
The cntmney is an often neglected part of
home maintenance. A build-up of soot
deposits in your chimney represents a serious
fire tiaurd. You can prevent problems this
winter by having your chimney cleaned now. •
No tailcoats, no top hats, no put-ons, iust a
'Clean Sweep'of your chimney. •
. For A Free Estimate, Call
'CLEAN SWEEP'.
398-2089 ""V
Prop. b. Peifer ' Chimney Service
PLASTERING
NEW WORK ft PATCHING
WATERPROOFED
STUCCO
PLASTER!NO Of All Kind*
DRY WALL
CONTRACTOR
RESIDENTIAL*
COMMERCIAL
SHEETR0CKM6
& FINISHING
GREG. K.
CORSON
399-7683
IPNOANltMIII CALLltt-lin
V4 mile South of TIltonRd. on Fire Rd.
CEDARWOOD FENCES
•. Choose from bur Complete Line of
Wood Fences Constructed &V Exhibited
on our Premises. •
Call 641-6210
These courses were financed
by a state grant • which: was
renewed twice. Sbue, by law,
the grant could not'.be renewed
again, other sources of SAGES
funding were sought by ACC.
. SAGES membership is free
aiadojieh to all Atlantic and
Cape May County residents 60
and • older. Currently nearly
5,000 persons belong. Membership
.also entitled them to
take regular ACC college-credit
and non-credit courses on a
tuitlorf-free, space available
•basted.- •'- ; '• • :• •• • •
Dr. Winchell reported to the
Trustees that Dr. Richard.
Ernest, president of Northern
VTrginJa; Community College,
Annadale, Va., baa'}be^n
retained by the College and'
Atlantic County to make an
Independent, impartial study of
Dr. Ernest has spent a
in New Jersey, Dr. Winchell
said, conferring with officials
from the executive and
legislative branches of Atlantic
County government, ACC, die
Atlantic County Vocational-
Technical School, Richard
Stockton State College, die
State Department, of Higher
Education, and other
Jacob C.
SCHUFF, Jr.
ELECTRICAL
CONTRACTOR
VKCflifsrAhlER
Dial 309-4724
ROBERTA.GILL
Registered Builder
CUSTOM BUIETTHOMES
933 West Ave, Dial 399-1808
Jerry McDonald
Keglstered Pullder
One Call for All Types of Residential
and Commercial Renovation and Repairs
JOB TOO LAME OR TOO SMALL
CRLLMITIME
398-1332
S TIN LI R ' S
.: 3315 Wist Ave., Dial 399-2980-
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• Roofing* Siding:* Interior* Exterior Painting
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J. R. NIXON
Re/gistered Builder
223 WEST AVENOE
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Dr. WincheU said Dr. Ernst
currently is j*Tfnmlnl^g pertinent
.documents preparatory
to writing a report on, his fin*
dings. The report is expected
to be completed by mid*
September..
The Trustees adopted a
resolution supporting the.
flc^ with the (New ^JerawJ
Sjate Depai^em oT ~ "'
Education. ''''-.' '^r^^-T^S^M-I^M
W. - Wallace ''•«a^*-^-
' establishment of the position of
execMtive director of' - the
Council of County .(Community)
Colleges^ and supporting
the appointment of Dr.
: ^Mn'^^'-^
dean of stud
Trustees, that
; persons-: currently ^seeWnje;-yxS
' admission to ACC as' fnll-^ef ? '
students is sUghUy higher than M
it was a : yea?afi>.-i>^^^
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Ulterior -Exterior
Insured
Edward H. Reed
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• Shingltt • Siding
• Gutters • Repairs
10 E. 21st SL, Ocea City
ROBERT JOHNSON
399-0142
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810 Ocean Avt.
399-0900
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