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WEEKLY GRADUATION exercise* for young men and women assigned to upita al foat or ashore throughout the world. The Fricompleting basic training at the U.8. Coast Guard Recruit Train- day morning ceremonies on the parade grounds are public; specing Center Is an exciting time. From Cape May, they may be tators should be seated by 10:50.

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June 9,1982

The One & Only By Jacob Schaad CAPE MAY — The Coast Guard Training Center here is now the ohly one in the United States.' The West Coast station in Alameda. Calif., closed down on June I after graduating its last company in May. and now all of the nation's recruits will he, trained in Cape May It is projected 7.056 retruitsfrom all sections of the natiop will be trained at the Cape May facility during the 1983 Coast Guard year, which begins jn October This year’s figure, which includes only recruits east of the Rockies, is 3,492 ANOTHER 32 PERMANENT party per sonnel have been added to the 344 officers and enlisted men already stationed here. Mayor Arthur Blomkvest is pleased the Guard has chosen to consolidate its national training program tl^re He calls the Coast Guard "a real ass^t .tothecity ." TheGuard, he points out, has helped Cape May in times of stbrihs and fires and. more recently, in moving library books in the highly successful ‘‘Book Brigade." He points out too that the expanded facilities here should help motel and restaurant businesses in the off season when parents and other relatives come to Cape May for the recruit graduation exercises. THE MAYOR IS HOPEFUL too. that the. merger will have an impact on federal of ficials, especially Congress, in bringing about Cape May’s $15 million beach restoration project Part of the Coast Guard Center fronts on the beach which is badly in need of rehabilitation there loo There has been some reluctance in Con gress to appropriate that money because (Page 15 Please)

NeWSs—^ . Week’s DlgCSt Top Stories f Tax Idea on Hold

WILDWOOD CREST - Opposition from elected officials and businessmen has temporarily stopped Commissioner McCall's proposal for state legislation that would permit shore communities to levy a 2 per cent sales tax to fund tourist promotion and beach maintenance. The legislation was to have been introduced in Trenton June 3 by Sen. James Hurley but held back by the senator after he learned that little input into the bill had been obtained from groups such as the chambers of cdThmerce and hotel-motel associations. McCall's proposal — which he began developing some six months ago — reportedly would permit seaside resorts, except Atlantic City, to pass an ordinance calling for a 2 per cent sales tax. This revenue would be collected by merchants and forwarded to the state, where figures would be worked out and 2 per cent returned to the municipalities.

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Pane’s Wire Last minute decisions by Upper Township and Woodbine to agree to bring their lortl zoning and land use ordinances into compliance with the Pinelands Management Plan, saved the two municipalities from becoming the first communities in Cape May County to have their comprehensive plans decertified by the N.J. Pinelands Commission. Commission executive director Terrence Moore said Monday that both communities submitted resolutions indicating their intent to conform with the Pinelands Plan just one day before the June 4 deadline. The Commission had been prepared to pass resolutions at last Fri(Page 15 Please) Ad Banner

Murder on Beach WILDWOOD — Authorities are still hunting for clues to the killer(s) of a 21-year-old Moorestown woman whose nude body was found here under the Fun Pier last Tuesday. Chief of county detectives William Matthews said Monday there are still no suspects or significant leads pointing to an early solving of the crime. ACCORDING TO autopsy reports, Patricia Ann Thompson was strangled. She had a broken nose and minor bruises but apparently wasn't sexually assaulted. The crime is similar to an unsolved 1970 murder. Around Memorial Day 12 years ago, the body of a woman was found under Hunts Pier at Juniper Ave. and the Boardwalk. She had been strangled and raped. Killed in Crash LOWER TWP. — One woman was killed and another seriously injured here Monday when the.car in which they were traveling ran off Rt. 9 just north of Lake Laurie Campground and struck a utility „ pole, around 7 p.m. According to tdwnship police, Jennifer (Page 28 Please)

Assertion

Doesn’t Fly by Bob Shiles Cape May County Airport officials last week denied recent charges by an aviation firm operator that he was refused permission to use the county facility for towing advertising banners. "That is totally untrue," airport manager Robert A. Laws said Friday of allegations by Thurman Mason, owner of Astro Aerial Service, that no banner towing may be conducted from the airport. "We have certain requirements that have to be met," the manager stressed, noting that the county is currently in the process of putting together regulations pertaining specifically to banner towing. "If Mr. Mason adequately meets those requirements, we’llt' greet him with open arms,” he added. BUT ACCORDING TO the towing operator’s testimony last week before the Lower Township Zoning Board of Adjustment. airport officials as recently as onlytwo weeks ago informed him that the coun- * (Page 15 Please)

Barking Up the Right Tree

A Call to Help

by John Andrus

RIO GRANDE — If animals could talk, there would undoubtedly be hundreds out there right now speaking up for the Animal Welfare Society of Cape May County. But even without canine and feline testimonials, word of mouth among humans is creating quite a chatter as this outfit of homemakers, blue collar workers, professionals, retired men and women, and young people embarks on its latest and most ambitious project — the wtablishment of a shelter for abandonedjlost or otherwise owner-less pets. J Actually, the shelter AWS has ar agreement of sale on is for dogs and cats — not the wild animals such as birds and skunks and other creatures Society members occasionally receive calls about. WHILE ANIMAL WELFARE volunteers are naturally compassionate individuals, they have come to specialize,

the Homeless so to speak, in the care of and concern for dogs and cats, since these are the animals most often neglected or outright abandon ed by,thoughtless humans And if practice makes perfect, the network of Animal Welfare .Society volunteers throughout Cape May County are experts A bare handful of them are pictured in this article. Actually the organization is about 300 stropg; although, as in any group, there's a nucleus of most active members. But the others supportive thru the $3 yearly membership dues, and the goodies they bake for cake sales, the penny parties they sponsor, the donation cans they distribute, the used items they donate, and all the other things they do to help raise money for costly but free services provided by the Society JEAN hfISSEN, the president and charter member, probably personifies (Page 28 Please)

OnfN Hard NORTH WILDWOOD resident Marie Rhoades is one of Animal Welfare's most active members when it comes to providing loving care and a temporary home for lost, abandoned or unowned dogs.