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EVA JOHANNSON, right. Swedish exchange student, shows Cindy C*ssman of

Doth Ward Marmora how to make Swedish Christmas decorations. See story Pages .

By Joe Zelnik

Cape May County business and profes sional people apparently don't wapt young ladies "shadowing" them for a day in

April.

The Holly Shores Girl Scout Council reports a "very poor response" to letters sent to 200 persons in the county asking if they'd let a Girl Scout have a first-hand look at their careers. Only five said yes. The letters went out in late October with a Dec. 1 deadline. Catherine Cooper, in charge of the project, called "Walk-a-Day-in-My-Shoes." said she will extend the deadline in an attempt to get more sponsors. "ANYONE WHO HAS any kind of a career should please get in touch with me at 769-0328," she said. Cape May County has almost 1,000 of the Holly Shore’s 7,000 members. The remainder are in Atlantic, Cumberland. Gloucester and Salem counties. This program is for Senior Scouts, ages 14-18. The idea is that the girls, by spending a day with employed or self-employed persons, will have an understanding of their work and be better prepared for mak ing career choices. Ms. Cooper will mail a list of the job

fields available to Girl Scouts in mid January The Scouts will pick careers anc the council will match them with sponsor;

by location

THE GIRL SCOUTS and sponsors will lx notified and choose a day to get togethei tyring the week of April 25. An orientatior seminar will be held for the girls on Apri Non-Girl Scouts may participate in the program by paying a $3 membership fee which provides insurance coverage and

membership in the Scouts.

"Walk-a-Day-in-My-Shoes" was named after the Indian legend which suggests that to understand a person s life, one must walk for a day in his or her

moccasins.

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——NOTICE The Herald and Lantern offlee will be I closed Dec. 24 and 31 tor the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. News deadUne for the Dec. 29 Issues will he Wedneaday. Dec. 22, and advertising deadline will be Thursday, Dec. 23. News deadline for the Jan. 5 Issue will be Wednesday, Dec. 29, and advertising deadline will be Thursday. Dec. 30. 1

Summer Opening?

Public Fishing Pier Seen by Summer

Few Dispute •» Doubled Appraisals

CAPE MAY — The city’s 3,100 property owners have received new appraisals two to two-and-one half times higher than current assessments. As a result of the county-mandated reappraisal, Cape May’s ratables are slated to ' climb from the current $115 million to $253 million next year. Appraisal Surveys, Inc. of Cherry Hill, which did the $70,000 job for the city, gave interviews last week to about 150 property owners who questioned their new appraisals. That is 5 per cent of the total, compared to a "normal” 10 per cent, according to Harry J. Supple Jr., Appraisal Surveys vice president. "I think that indicates we did a good job,” he said. THE APPRAISAIJi, mailed to property owners, Nov. 29, told each taxpayer what his 1982 tax bill would have been if the new appraisal were in effect. The tax rate would have dropped from $3.60 per hundred dollars of assessed valuation to $1.64, it said. N The appraisal form also pointed out that "Although the city collects the taxes. M per cent goes to the county and schools./' Supple said there might be "some minor changes” as a result of last week’s interviews. All who were interviewed will be notified by mail in 3-4 weeks, he said. Final appraisals — Supple called them “recommendations” — will go to city tax assessor John T. Dollinger who must file them with the county Board of Taxation by Jah. 10. TAXPAYERS can appeal their new assessments after they receive their 1983 (Page 8 Please)

By Bob Shiles VILLAS — If everything goes ahead as planned, there may be a public fishing pier in operation by next summer at the site of the old Abinanti’s Pier at Millman Lane and Schellenger Avenue. The township Zoning Board of Adjustment last week 1 granted the last of the necessary use variances for the project — one that will allow rentals, storage and onsite moorings df smallboaLs. - Last month, Sjahley\Leszczynski of Philadelphia was granted a variance to construct the 1,000-foot pier and reopen a bait and tackle and luncheonette that exMeadows Restoration

isted when Abinanti’s Pier was in operation. The former, pier was used by Delaware Bay fishermen *for some 50 years. ^ A USE VARIANCE for Leszczynski's project had to be obtained because the pro perty, formerly commercial, was rezoned residential when the township's present , zoning ordinance was adopted in June 1981. The site is in a R-3 residential district located near several commercial uses in eluding Cam-Den Glass, the Villas Fishing Club and Layre’s Dutch Kitchen. Property (Page 8 Please I

It Whs Cold, Too A winter storm 10 days before the

season’s official arrival, left four to six inches of the slippery stuff on Cape May County roads Sunday Icy conditions caused nuihorous fender-benders and a day off from school for many children

Monday

If You Fail Oner... N. CAPE MAY The Second Annual Lower Township (.'hristmas Parade sponsored by the local Rotary will step-off from the Breakwater Shopping Center at 7 p.m. Saturday Marchers will proceed south on Bayshore Hoad to the North Cape May Shopping Center where prizes will be awarded The parade. * originally scheduled for last week, wpk postponed due to inclement, weather Shaky hut Safe? . (’APE — City council has been told that IT year-old convention hall needs about $200,000 worth of structural repairs Engineer Leonard Bitch of Trenton blamed poor construction and natural forces for the deterioration, but saidlhere is np present danger to occupants. More Traffic Lights The state Department of Transportation plans a third set of traffic signals on the Garden State Parkway at Shellbay Avenue and a blinking light ul Route 9 and Shellbay Shopper Survey OCEAN CITY — The city .will apply for a federal grant of up to^lO.OOO for a shop (Page8Plea.se)

Unlikely

WEST CAPE MAY — Lower Township Mayor Tom Clydesdale said Monday that it doesn't look like federal funding is going to be available to extend the $14-million beach restoration project in Cape May to include the flood-prone dune area of the South Cape Meadows. Clydesdale and officials from Cape May, Cape May Point and West Cape May met here Friday to discuss with Joe Auburg of the Army Corps of Enginw.Ts the existing flooding and erosion situation in the meadows area. "Nothing that hasn't been said before came out of the conference," Clydesdale said, adding that the 15 to 18 representatives at the session agreed that a meeting should be set up as soon as possible with Congressman William Hughes. Auburg reportedly indicated that Hughes’ political clout will play an important part in obtaining federal monies that may be targeted for beach restoration. ATTEMPTS BY local officials to havfc the restoration project expanded to in(Page 8 Please)

tAVEL WRITERS and Victoria I) Schmidt, director of the slate's Division of Travel and Tourism, leave the Emlen Physkk Estate in Cape May. Left to right. James Morris, free-lance writer represen-

Dor'I. Ward ling the Camden Courier-Post; Marion Burdick, Central Jersey Magazine editor: Joyce Cunningham of the Trentonian. Ms. Schmidt and Shirley Horner of the New York Times. See story, Page 15.