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Hearings On Needs For Funds COURT HOUSE — Have an idea on how government funds could best be spent to improve your conitnunity? Public hearings on the County Community Development Program have been scheduled for 3 p.m. Oct. 22 and 7 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Old White Courthouse on Main St. here. Purpose of the gatherings is to provide citizen input before a pre-application is filed by the county for federal Dept: of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Block Grant Small Cities funds for fiscal 1981,'82, and '83. PREVIOUS PROJECTS funded thru the program included senior centers in Ocean City and Upper Township, a facility for the Jersey Cape Diagnostic and Training Corp. and housing rehabilitation programs in Middle and Lower Townships. Only the Middle Township program is still active. Maximum funding available this time around will be 1300,000 for a single project and $500,000 annually for a comprehensfv? multi-year effort. Funds are awarded on a .competitive basis, and requests norm^fly exceed available funds, a spokesperson said in urging all interested county citizens to participate in the hearing process. — Time to Fall Back in Time Q. When will 2 a.m. really be 1 a.m.? A. This Sunday when DaylightSaving Time reverts to Eastern Standard Time. So, before going to bed Saturday night, set your clocks back an hour and enjoy that extra hour of sleep.

Where will Co. SWAINTON - The county Municipal Utilities Authority is continuing its efforts to solve the problem of septic waste disposal. Meetings were scheduled this week with. Cape May County septic waste haulers, and with the staff of the state Department of Environmental Protection. The MUA staff also planned to inspect a land application system in Ambler, Pa., conducted since 1971 by a firm headed by an Avalon resident. THE AUTHORITY HAS awarded a contract for $197,440 to its consulting

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engineers, Pandullo Quirk Associates, to conduct a site selection study for the county’s new interim landfill for solid waste. George Marinakis, MUA executive director, said that the studv will include detailed screening of possible locations, and Pandullo Quirk wifi subcontract special technical consultants. The landfill, which will conform to state standards, must have a liner and a leachate collection system. It ts expected to be in operation by late 1982.

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Add Stores LOWER TWP. - Plans are underway tp double the number of stores in the new Breakwater Plaza shopping center which opened earlier this year in the Fishing Creek. Last Thursday night the township Planning Board tabled a decision on a site plan proposal for a 12,640 sq. ft. separate building which would be constructed on the northwest corner of the plaza along Bayshoreand Breakwater Rds The board will continue its site plan review of proposal during a special board meeting, 7:30 p.m. Oct 30 in township hall, Villas. A sketch plat review for 14 new lots in developer Carl Mitnick's North Cape May development, further south on Bayshore Rd., will also be continued. THE BOARD'S FOUR-HOUR Oct. 16 meeting included five items and began with a 2Mi hour review of Marmora developer John Davis' proposed 100-unit senior citizen mobile home park, on Bayshore Rd., directly across from Breakwater Plaza. By a 6-2 vote, the board gave final approval to the condominium mobile home park subject to numerous conditions (which include that owners must be at least 52-years old). State Coastal Area Facilities Review (CAFRA) approval is necessary before the project can commence. CAFRA o’kay will also be necessary for the bigger, shopping center because the proposal will add 344 parking spaces to the current 299. CAFRA review is necessary when a plan includes 300 or more parking spaces. The actual size (dimensions) of the shopping plaza remains unchanged. IT IS BELIEVED THAT spaces for 10 new stores will be included in the new grouping of shops, which will be arranged (Page 3 Please)

Interviews with Sturm & Evans

Q. Mr. Sturm, you and R&uald Reagan have at least one thing in common*, you are both latecomers to the Republican Party; Reagan in 1M2 and you, a former Democrat Freeholder, switching in April

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Reagan’s shift appears based on ideology. You have been a consistently popular vote-getter, presumably getting votes from members of both political parties. What does that tell us about Bill Sturm as a county representative? Mr. Sturm: The best way l couifl answer is I know a lot of people, and I’ve always been kind of open and fortright, kind of strong-willed about the way I take stands on things; kind of an independent nature — and people know me for saying what’s on my mind. Q. Mr. Evans, you’re a bulkier by trade, and as a freeholder are Just completing your first term. In your thrae years of county government, what, in retrospect, stands out as the biggest difference between running for the office and serving In ft; and what affect has it has on your vocation? Mr. Evans: I waited until my 33 years in the building business was just about in, and I took the time to devote to the county government after I felt that I didn't have to spend as much time with my business...In

Editor’s note — The Harold and The Lantern continued interviews with candidates in the Nov. 4 election this past weekend by questioning, separately, the Republican candidatee for County Freeholder. As with our previous interviews with the Congressional candidates. we asked the /reehofders at least one question tailored to the individual

candidate, and several others of all the candidates (including some also asked of the candidates for Congress). Here are the questions asked the two Republican incumbent Freeholders, and the replies of William F. Sturm Jr. of Rio Grande, and Ralph W. Evans of Stone Harbor:

The Incumbent Republican Freeholders

other words, I put my,time in as a builder and felt that now I had time to devote to the county because the county's been so good to me thru my building trade. It takes an awful lot of time. People don't realize just how much time it does take. That’s why, really, I didn’t gdt involved until later in my life. You can really see what happens when a young fellow, which we had on our board — Tommy Tucker (former Democrat freeholder from Ocean City) was a young fellow. He just couldn’t...put the time in. A nice guy, not a nicer guy you ever knew, but he just couldn’t put the time In. Q. Fishing and farming are compatible to the seashore resort economy and character. Because of the seasonal nature of the economy, however, there Is also a

high unemployment rate most of the year. Should there be attempts to change this, or hi seasonal unemployment acceptable or. at least, less Objectionable than the side effects of programs and efforts to change H? ^ Mr. Sturm: Our economy is abofct 80 per cent resort-based and has been for the last 65 years in Cape May County. There's benefits to having that kind of economy in one respect in that it does keep, for at least eight or nine months of the year, an atmosphere of a fine place to nve, a good place to raise children. But whenever you have a resort-based economy, you're going to have these fluctuations in unemployment. I don’t know that Cape May County - due to its geographical location and its difficulty for

industry to get in and out of — will ever be an industrial center. I see our long suit is continuing our resort economy; doing the things that we are doing to strengthen the fishing industry — which, Incidentally, we are the third largest on the eastern seaboard. The only thing that surpasses us is Gloucester and New Bedford (Mass.) — and we have added a Marine Extension Agent to the County Extension Service, which is one of my departments — that’s a first in the

state.

We can continue to attempt to try to attract some types of industry to the county. But it’s very difficult anywhere in New Jersey to attract new industry; it's very difficult to keep what they have here (in the state) because of the tax structure, very, very strong environmental laws and a very strong labor-oriented society in the metropolitan areas of New Jersey. So, I think our long suit is go with what you’re gobd at: We got the beaches. We got the seashore. Try to lengthen the season — which they’re doing with the senior citizen tours, the package tours. (We couldn't handle many more than we had last summer, anyway 1 .) Mr. Evans: I'd like to see more light industry come into the area, and I think (Page 35 Please)