There Must Be Fat

Board Tells Supt. to Cut

Rv .Rob Shllrs KRMA Tho I>owpr < iijK- May'KeRional School Hoard >w*nt adm.lnintra non l»ark to the drawing hoard Thurvtay tocome.up with a iiahlc plan.for ah* sortung rfS**nt tutx in the district's.slate aid Hoard mirmhers voted to tepfi a resolution that wbuld »h«vr au%ofi/ed aiiut l74.«ion to be tfaasfer red from appropriated halamrs to cover the an ticifiaM shortfall in the KMZ Kl hudrfCt According to board •MiTeta'ryVane Turkington, Hegionals original $979^391 allpcatton was cut earlier this year to IM Now it is antiripatod )herr will be another three per Cent, or £28,000 rbductipn in state e<|ualixation aid. transpor tation aid. special educa tion aid and compensen lory education aid between Jan t and June ;Mi . , Supt fvphraim Keller recommended the shortfall he ahsortietf by. utilizing

some of the $290,0(10 available •in, una p preprinted funds » IMtN’T HAVE'that much left in stipples and erpnpment accounts,\ he, said "The only alternalyve would * be to cut pofiitdms. and programs.' "The problem istrying to estimate how much we will be getting from the state.'' the 'superintendent continued "We know we've been cut $46,000. we're anticipating another $28,000 reduction, and unless a state tax is passed right away it looks like inore euts/bext year '' Hut board member Stephen Todd argued that the money* to make up for cuts in fid should come from funds appropriated to operate the district’s twfo school* for' the next six months The district includes Ca'pe May, West Cape May and Lower Township *“THE MESSAGE is Coming' down from the state

that we should try to be frugal he said, question mg KOller further on whether 1 all alternatives had been fulfy examined. ‘ There must be fat somewhere that we can cut," Todd said '"The only place there might be fat is in th? unappropriated balances," the superintendent replied According to president Paul Luhdholm, politicians are to blame for funding problems today facing state schoof districts. "We're becoming more a victim of politicians," he' said. "We're being hurt by politicians who won't back us up." School administrators from across the state met with legislators in Trenton last week 1 to lobby against the $44 5 million in state aid cuts announced eaHier this month by Gov. Thomas Kean They also discussed the $83 million cut in state aid in June, and the seriousness Af the state's

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responsibility for funding education ACCORDING TO the educators, if the state doesn't meet its respofi sibiTfty to secure adequate funding sources, such a#an income or sales tax, or both, it will befpassing education # expettt% on to

local communities. In effect, they said a state imposed property tax for education will be created. The Lower Cape May Regional Board is expected to decide in early January how td absorb its $74,000 loss According to school,. • officials, the matter must

be rectified before Jan. J5. 1 County Supt. of Schools Robert Bongart is requiring all \districts to show they 'have balanced their current budgets to reflect loss of state aid before he will'receive proposed budgets * for the 1983-84 school year ~

•Coast Guard Sinks Liberty

(From Page 1) ing schedule on Friday, but a "more relaxed atmosphere" will start atll a.m. "Close scrutiny" will be reduced, Winslow said, although regulations will be observed and (he recruits presumably will spend the afternoon cleaning unifonts and ’ the barracks A traditional Christmas dinner, will be ' served in the base galley that evening. TWO COMPANIES, made up of about 100 third- and fourth-week recruits, will go caroling throughout the Coast Guard housing area that evening. There will be a Protestant candlelight

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engineer, Walker, PrCviti Totten and Holmes/mercantile inspector, Dolly . Hughes; yard sale inspector, Francis Krebs; land use official, Fern Detwileh and secretary to the Environmental Commission, Robert Welsh. Farmers Protest

VINELAND — Tip state Department of Environmental Pj&tectiofi extended to Jan. 31 the deadline^r comment on proposed water-use regulations after 150 South Jersey farmers attended a hearing to protest potential fee increases of up to $50 a year.

MlDutfisTOWNSHIF - The state Department dfJCnvironmental Protection agreed to examihe eroding dunes and a "sinking" jetty along the Delaware Bay. A promised February probe at Reeds Beach never took place, prompting charges the state was ignoring the bay area. Still a Bargain OCEAN CITY - City Council by a 4-3 vote nixed a proposed $1.50 increase in beach tags, leaving rates at $p.50 preseason. $5.50 season, and $2 weekly. Opponents of Che hike cited Cape May’s increase which brought it more money this year, but less visitors. _ Pizzas Arraigned NORTH WILDWOOD - Brothers I^uis and Elio Pizza were arraigned in Superior. Court on charges stemming frotn a police raid at^the A&LP Market Elio owns. Various weapons and illegal drugs were confiscated. Patrolman Suspended WILDWOOD - Police patrolman Michael Nicely was suspended without pay after being indicted on charges of illegally transferring a gun and failirjg to submmproof of a second legal weapons transiek^Nicely is the stepson of suspendhief Harry Breslin, one of /seven lo&irpolice officials charged with t brutality ^tid a coverup. For l LOWER TOWNSHIP - The Two Mile Inn in Diamond Beach won’t be opening . in the Spring unlms First Peoples Bank l of Westmont finds a buyer. Owner and former congressman Charles Sandman gave the restaurant to the bank for $1 rather than have it foreclose because he couldn't meet payments on his $1,975,000 mortgage. The restaurant employed 100 last summer.

service at 7:30p.m. in the year-old chapel, and a Catholic midnight mass starting with carols at 11 p.m. The normal 5:15 a.m. reveille will be delayed to 8a.m. Christmas dgy, followed by church sefvices and a brunch, from 9 a.m. to .12 noon, instead of thfc usual breakfast. . On^Christmas Day, the center’s gymnasium and movie theatre will be open. Recruits invited to dinner irt the community will be able to leave from 12 noon until 8 p.m. A NEW CLASS starts at the center each week and the recruits ake identified according to their week of training. One class arrives every Monday arid one graduates every Friday, leaving seven classes present on the weekend.'For the Christmas weekend, the seventh-week class will have liberty, fifth and sixth will be permitted off the center for Christmas, dinner, third and fourth will be caroling. Only the newest recruits, first- and second-week, will have no special Christmas activities. That was a deliberate decision based on past ex^ perience that "normal homesickness hits in the second week and is over by the third week," according to Chaplain Drake. "We didn’t want to do anything to generate homesickness," he said, "and also they aren't in full uniform until their fourth week." Catholic chaplain Drake and Protestant chaplain George W. Dando said they have noted an increase in requests for counseling iA recent days. The numbers are small, jumping from perhaps 15 a week to 30, they said, but that is a sizable percentage increase. / "THEY DON’T identify their problems as Christmas-related," said Chaplain Dando. "But they get letters from home cbout Christmas and the Seed is' planted," said Chaplain Drake. "They’re more sensitive to anything that comes up. I don’t want to see anybody get a ‘Dear John’ letter at Christmas." , The center is staffed to train a maximum of 7,80d recruits a year with 60 to 150 arriving each Monday. Only about 50 to 75 have been coming In recent weeks, Winslow said, because "It’s hard to get people to come into training daring the holidays. But in January we’ll go right iip to our maximum for the rest of the year.” He said economic conditions have caused an increase in the tuttnber of young people joining the Coast Guard and in the number electing to reenlist.

“First CalP’-

(From Page 1 \ provide direct service such as the Office of Aging, Veterans Bureau, Health Department, etc. "Unfortunately, the extra services, the special attention and the effective work David and his stuff have done will be' gone," said Cape May City Manager Fred Coldren, who also is a United Way board' member. "We don’t like this one bit," he said. "We feel the program should be continued in it's present form and, if anything, we’re spending too little money on the entry level information referral." He praised "First Call" as “extremelysuccessful" and said United Way will do everything it can to find additional funding •to maintain the program. "IT’S A REAL BLOW to our social service system and a sad situation.” he said. "The Uriited Way has a lot of faith in 'First Call’ and we believe in it." A five-member United Way committee has been named to attempt to work out a compromise that "will satisfy the county government's concerns." It is also prepar ing a "worst .case" emergency plan for "First Call services in 1983,