User Fees Urged for Coast Guard Services

WASHINGTON.'d'c. - Boat owfcera may find themselves paying for many of the services now provided free by the Coast Guard if recommendations made in a Jiffit completed study are put into effect. The Coott Guard Roles and Mission Study, the first thorough review of Coast Guard mission responsibilities in 20 yenrs, has been sent to Congress by Secretary of

Transportation Drew Lewis.

The report urges that "user fees be adopted to recover the costs of various vessel safety functions, waterways management, aids to navigation, routine

icebreakirfg operations and other Coast Guard-provided’ services. "STATE AND LOC/U governments , should assume some Coast Guard functions," says the reiport, "and the costs of some services be recovered .through’ user fees.” Jt also suggests that the Coast Guard and .the Maritime Administration work more closely together in areas such as training • and licensing merchant mprine personnel, antrthat tlje Coast Guard Atixiliary he used to greater purpose. It is pointed out that some Coast Guard

activities have increased dramatically in reetnj years. Search and rescue activities,' for example, have doubled in the past 30 years, largely as a result of the-growth in recreational boating. EXTENSION OF THE fishing rone to 200 miles and the increase in drug interdiction responsibilities also, added to the; Coast Guard's resporisiBiUtieB in the 1970s, the report states. During the same period, Coast Guard activities in port and environmental safety increased significaht1y. \ *\

Among its other recommendations, the report suggests thab the states assume a larger role in recreational boating safety, that the potential for private sector contracting of aids to navigation services be explored. The Secretary's report has been^ubmitted to, among other units, the House Committee on Merchant Marine A Fisheries. Cong. William Huges of Ocean City sits on that committee but was on Easter vacation And unavailable for comment earlier this week.

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Vol. 17 No.16

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April 14,1962

Neighboring Leaders Not Fulfilling, Says Mayor by Bob Shiles WILDWOOD CREST - Police here recently received a written directive from the local governing body informing them not to respond to emergency calls in the Diamond Beach area of adjacent Lower Township unless a township police unit is already on the scene. The rhovfe comes in response to what Mayor John Pantalone described Monday as a "watering down” of the mutal aid agreement between the two communities — an unwritten agreement that says the Crest will backup township personnel in case of emergencies, but not be first on the scene. ACCORDING TO PANTALONE. Crest' protective services — including police, rescue Squads, and fire-fighters — are being relied on more and more by the township to respond first in emergency situations. ^ "We feel Lower Township is not providing services they’re supposed to supply," the mayor said, adding that the Crest’s decision not to be first on the scene of trouble in Diamond Beach puts in writing the policy that is currently supposed to be followed. “The former Twp. , mayor (Jake Lincoln) told us to stay the' hell out," Pantalone continued, noting that township officials said ffve years ago that if necessary they would supply a police substation to provide protectioh. THE MAYOR SAID the Crest is "very (Page 18 Please) Few Thousand Vote on Taxes In the Millions Voters in mainland communities were rough on school budgets this year, with three out of four township school district tax levies rejected by those who went to the polls for last Tuesday’s balloting. Countywide, some 5,000 voters (less than 11 per cent.of the electorate) decided almost $28 million worth of tax levies in 16 school districts, half of which featured contests for seats on the local board of education. In three school districts the voting results were unusqal: One township, (Page 18 Please)

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DENN1SVILLE LAKE is stocked with trout, but early-riser Keith Kolback wasn’t too. successful Saturday, the first day of fishing season. Perhaps it was the unseasonably

cold weather.

As Govt’t Funds Cut Needy Turning To Service Agencies

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DlgeSt Top Stories For Mayor-Council WILDWOOD — The Charter Study Commission here is recommending that • the city's existing commission form of government be replaced by a strong mayor-council form. The five commissioners are also calling for ward representation, nonpartisan elections and a five-member council with staggered terms. . . \ If voters approve the study group's recommendations when tney go to the polls in Noverrtt^r, a new council govern mctU will be elected in May 1983 ynder the proposed fofm of government. the city council would make policy and the mayor, elected seoarately, would see the policy Carried out. There also , would be an appointed administrator, although the ultimate executive power Woul4 still lie with the elected mayor. Orders Beach Vote • . BRIDGETON - A Chancery Court judge here last week.ordered that a special election be held in Wildwood Crest May 25 to once and for all deter mine if beaches there shoqld remain free Judge Edward S. Miller denied a molion by Crest solicitor James Waldron to stay, the special election order until an appeal is heard. He aiso.rejected the solicitor's suggested alternative to a ' special election that would place the question on the November ballot - allowing the borough to collect fees thru the summer and conduct an educational campaign on the importance of beach

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Killed on Bridge STONE HARBOR - A 23-year-^ld Court House man was killed the 96th St. Bridge here last Saturday when the westbound jeep in which he was a passenger skidded and overturned According to reports, Joseph Norton of Dias Creek Rd was killed and two others - driver Michael J I,oefflad r 21, of Court House, and Lena NiOhols, 21. of Rio Grande — injured when the vehicle skidded on the slippery bridge and overturned about 2 a m.

BURLEIGH - With cutbacks th government spending, the problem of serving the needy is falling more and more on religious charitable, and community organizations. . Among then) is the Caiholic Social Service Office on Rt. 9 here, which has seen a 50 per cent.increase in the number of persons visiting or being referred to the office, according to Wayne Whelan, administrator Citing the large number of senior citizens and unemployed in the county. Whelan said that the most significant rise in service cases has been emergency assistance and counseling. ••AS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS worsen, the reactiop' time for processing welfare benefits is lengthening," noted Whelan "In the past, persons eligible for govern

the resources and the support from Ihe community to meet the needs of our clients,’-’he added. , • THE CATHOLIC SERVICES Office is funded by the House of Charity, a diocesan-wide humanitarian-effort. It provides individual and group counseling, marital and pre marital counseling, family therapy; pregnancy counseling, adop tion information, substance abase provedtion’hroRra" 1 - emergency assistance, services for the aging, and support for separated and divorced Catholics Working with local organizations is an asset W> the Catholic 'Services Office Religioas. Civic and service groups are coordinating- their efforts to provide the most efficient and effective sorVice possible FOR EXAMPLE, members of tHe

‘The Band-Aid treatment for the poor doesn’t work anymore’

ment assistance could receive emergency aid within q day or two. That is no longer the case The ‘Band-Aid treatment for the poor doesn’t work anymore • "However, we can usually provide immediate assistance to the needy We have

.Catholic legion of Mary Society are visiting nursing homes, support is being given to area Right to Life chapteiW, and . county and stale agencies are providing assistance in the Substance Abuse Preven (Page 18Please)

Dies in Fire WEST CAPE MAY - An elderly man died here last Thursday when a fire gutted his home in the 400 block of Fourth St Although his body was completely cremated in the blaie, reportedly Walter Wright*- in his 80’s probably died of asphyxiation before being reached by the The fire was investigated by the County Arson Squad. (Page 16 Please)

inside GO FLY A KITE, the onefyou make with instructions inside... Page 23 FOOT STOMPllf music returns to the shore Saturday where last fall.thousands were tappin'.... Page23 GARDEN SHOW opens for three days next "Wednesday.... Page25