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PUTTING THEIR*MEART IN IT. Two Avalon Girl Scouts really seem to be putting their heart into the solemn occasion when they placed one ol 18 floral tributes to the nation's war dead during ceremonies at 9 A.M. yesterday morning. A crowd of 350 attended the ritual held at the 21st Street Circle in Avalon. (Left), Betsy Parrish, (Right) Lynne Sponaugle. Shell Collector

Gas Hotline «From Page 1) stranded without gas in the county and no serious snags in the county's gas supple developed, Patterson said. Of the county’s over 100 gas stations the bulk were open the entire weekend, with about 10 closing Sunday. Some stations did impose limits on the amount of gas purchased and several stations did run out of gas completely. Patterson said. The hotline had "very good results;; on its opening weekend, the director said. Bad weather caused a rash of cancellations at area campgrounds Friday, but no appreciable loss was attributed to the gas shortage, he added. The toll free number is; 609-465-2111.

(From Pagel) Drive was led by two men from the Consortium in Palermo who dove off the rocks and brought up sealife they found around the jetties and rocks. Then members of the club traveled to Palermo to view specimens under the microscope "We looked at sea urchins." Mrs. Ecchevarria said. During another trip, last autumn, shell dub members went in search of worm life found behind the Wetlands Institute, then trooped back to the Institute to hear a lecture about them. On her own, Mrs. Ecchevarria likes to look for shells from dumps alongside of fishing boats. "They're hard to find," she said. "They come from northern waters. When scallops are dredged these things tome up They are so scarce now I’m no longer able to find them." Mrs Ecchevarria. a graduate of Atlantic City High School, went to Syracuse University before going to New York City "to seek my fortune". She became an artist with United Features Syndicate and did "comic book type things ”. While in New York she met her husband, an engineering draftsman The Ecchevarria’s eventually settled in North Wildwood Mrs Ecchevarria became a reporter with a lo^al daily and later was probation officer for all females in Cape May County. Mr Ecchevarria worked as a

civilian employee with the Coast Guard in Wildwood Crest. They raised three children Their daughter. JoAnne Myers is a wellknown artist in Cape May. A son Donald E.. of Avalon, is a teacher at Vo-Tech, and another son Fred is a psychologist in Downingtown. Pa. As her interest in shelling grows, Mrs Ecchevarria says a whole new natural world continually unfolds "I Wonder how the animal makes the shell, and how it makes its shell shiny or dull. It is the secretions that an animal has which causes this Each beach affords its own particular shell life. The bay beaches have a different shell life than say where there are rough waters, such as off Hatteras orJFire Island "Environment is very important to the sheller. As I’ve learned more about the theory of continental drift. I find myself mare and more fascinated with the, similarities of shell species Although they become separated, they can still be traced to their origin " Shell club members have a "hotline" to let each other know when they find something unusual, such as shells that have washed up after a storm. "We are lobbying to Senator Cafiero and other politicians to make the local Knobby Whelk the state shell." she said "That would be a nice tribute to South Jersey ’’

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