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VOL. 15 NO. 21

WEDNESDAY .MAY 21. 1980

PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY THE SEAWAVE CORPORATION. P.O. BOA 0. AVALON. N.J. 0ST0J

Cape in the ‘70s

Y ear-round Growth

TVfE BOAT •Parade’ of fhhermwi beading back to the dock after a day of Delaware Bay falling haa begun and this was the weekend before Memorial Day. The view Is the Cape May Canal looking west. Major Cuts In Middle School Dist. Program COURT HOUSE - The According to Dr. elmination and reduction of Johnson, “Though a major components of the concerted effort was made education program in by the board to retain the Middle Township have same quality of education, been decided by the board only time will reveal the of education in the face of (Page3Please) the overwhelming defeat of the proposed $4.2 million district budget in March. The most severe cuts include closing of the Rio Grande Elementary School; reduction in transportation services which will require many elementary and secondary students to walk to school starting next fall; elimination pf local monies for the 1980 summer school; elimination of freshman and intermural sports-; elimination of behind the wheel driver’s education; and reduction of teaching staff with subsequent increase in class

size at many levels.

“THESE PROGRAM and service reductions represent a $300,000 cut in next year’s budget plus the sum of another $120,000 for under-budgeted utility,fuel and phone line items,” district superintendent Theodore Johnson said in a news release. “These adjustments represent a reduction or the elimination of some major services to the citizens of

this district.”.

More than Jersey Cape growth has been significant during the decade of the 1970s with population trends more toward year-round growth than summer increases, according to statistics released last week by the Cape May County

Chamber of Commerce.

Year-round population increased faster than summer population, with winter population up 27 percent to over 75,700 last year compared to only a two percent increase in summer population during the past decade. The year round pbpulation has increased over 16,000 in the past 10 years while the summer population has gone up almost

12,000, to a total last summer of over 557,000

Bob Patterson, executive director of the Chamber, said

the statistics indicate a "very healthy economy "

DECLINING TO CALL IT a boom area, Mr. Patterson nevertheless said the figures show the area "really took off in 1970." He termed the Jersey Cape economy "very

strong."

Ratables have shot up over 235 percent between 1970 and 1979, from $782 million to over $2.6 billion . During the same period, bank assets shot up almost 1,300 percent - from 1169 million #1 the start of the decade to over $2.3 billion last year.

Seasonal The Chamber director cautioned that the bank asset figures reflect a number of mergers and the inclusion of bank assets from other areas since Statistics from banks don’t show a breakdown by community or county. THUS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE multi-billioh dollar figures for the latter part of the 1970s include all of the many out. of county offices, of First People's and Guarantee banks, for example, when at the beginning of the decade onlytocal community banks were in operation in the county. The growth figures were compiled by the Chamber's Economic Development Committee and cov’e^ 25 areas of comparison ranging from population to traffic Most of the figures are for the years 1960,70.78 and 79 providing a basis of comparison for the decades of the 60s and 70s THE TREND TOWARD GREATER year round population is evident also in utility connections during the past deedde? Electric connections increasing 55 percent for the winter while .going up orgy 27 percent in the summer; winter gas connections iricreasing by 12 per cent, summer connections dropping four percent The declining nationwide birth rate and the older (Page 3 Please)

County Veteran’s Cemetery Will be Dedicated Sunday

COURT HOUSE - Dedication ceremonies for the Cape May County .Memorial Park and Cemetery will take place 2 p.m. May 25 in ceremonies scheduled for the cemetery site at Crest Haven on the Parkway, two miles north of

here.

Opening of the 17.6 acre parcel will provide 6,300 gravesites. TTie county veteran’s cemetery is only the second of its kind in New Jersey — the other begun in Salem County in 1961. According to County Freeholder Gerald Thornton, the county facility will offer free burial plots to resident Jersey Cape veterans and their spouses and came in response to requests from veterans' groups when it was learned that the two

nearest available federal veterans burial sites were in Long Island and Western

Pennsylvania.

MR. THORNTON SAID THE site, located behind the jail at Crest Haven, was selected since it was unusable for building purposes. A FAA navigational facility nearby precludes erection of any building over 10 feet in height. Negotiations for the creation of the cemetery got underway in 1977 with the Freeholders, veterans groups and the Cape May County Park Commission. The commission has agreed to take over maintenance of the cemetery, which will be functioning following dedication ceremonies on May 25.

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PACING OFF the distance from the flagpole to the site of a 3-Inch gun at the new County Veterans Cemetery Is Freeholder Gerald Thornton. At right are the committee

Labor Law For Minors^ Is Changed Stafe Latjor laws affecting the summer employment of young people have been amended providing more leeway for the working youngster and his or her employer. According to. an announcement from the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce, revision of the •laws for schooTvacation and holiday employment have come about "after many years of requests” by the Chamber. State Senator James Cafiero has also been a longtime ad vacate of updating the regulations. UNDER THE revision, minors between 16 and 18 may be employed after 11 p.m. and in a restaurant after midnight on days not preceding a- school day, providing there is written permission from the parent stating the hours the youth may work. Minors under 18 may NOT be employed more than six consecutive days, more than 40 hours a week, or more than 8 hours a day. MINORS UNDER 16 may NOT be employed before 7 a m. or after 6

p.m. ’

Minors between 16 and 18 must have written parental permission stating the hours the youth may work, and this permission imat be attached to the employer's work records • Detailed information about state wage and hour laws is available through the N.J. Job Service Office in Wildwood on Thursdays of veterans and County Service Officer Myrtle Hevener'(729-0997>. or through the who helped plan the facility, which will be dedicated VN.j. Wage li Hour Office in Sunday. trenton (292-2311)