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Herald 9* Lantern 23 February '83

Reaction Mixed to Sheriff Nabs 624 Donuts

Sub-Minimum

By JOK ZELNIK President ReaRan’s prth poaal lor a sub minimum wage lot- seasonal workers under agl 22 has received mixe<l reactions in Cape May County. It could save local businesses 14 million in wages J * The I'bunty chamber of • commerce endorses the proposal, the county direc tor of economic develops ment opposes 4. anjJ U S Rep William J Hughes (D 2» is on the. fence for now The president would cut the$3 35 an hour minimum wage ny 25 percent to $2.50 from May 1 to Sept 30 He said it would result in in creased summer teen age employment Opponents, say that would come at the expense of older workers I’SINC A conservative estimate of 10,000 youths working in resort related businesses m the county, the sub minimum wage would save the businesses and cost the youths — about $4 million A 1970 county Planning Department study reported ■2.400 local students doing resort-relate<l work Thm did not take into account honlocal youths under 22 Sources estimate as many as half the county's 30.000 seasonal employes are under 22 As an example, a youth employed 40 hours a week would make $134 a week at $3.35 an hour, but $100 a week at. $2 50 <\nd a

business "with 20 full-time employes under 22 would save $680 n week or more than $8,000 over a 12-week season.* The executive board of directors of the county chamber has voted to urge Rep. Hughes to support the measure • IT Would BE a boon for all business people in this area,” said Ted Roman, chamber presi dent "These kids aren't worth $3.25 an hour They don't have the expertise or maturity " it's salvation for the smajl business that is hav ing difficulty staying above water in this economy." added Robert 0 Patterson. Jr chamber executive director But Donald M Kelly, ex ecutivc director of the county's Industrial and Economic Development Commission, opposed the proposal as "not having a whole lot of logic to it i WOULDN’T want to see it.” he said it wouldn't put more people to work, they'll hire the same number It wouldn't benefit anybody except the summer restaurants " Only one member of the chamber's board. Rio Grande realtor Peter C. Smith, opposed its action He also denied it would create jobs, but said it would simply replace older workers making the mimYnum wage with youths at the sub minimum

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rate. "If they can get the kids for $2 50,” he said, "why would they hire an adult who might need the job at $3.25?" REP. HUGHES said "the debate will center on the dislocation of jobs for senior citizens." He said many work in Cape May County at marinas and on boardwalks "No bill has yet been drafted.” pointed out Hughes "I’ll wait for the testimony and see what its impact on employment would be " A youth-wage differential has previously been suggested by the Reagan administration and backed by business groups The county chamber supported such a proposal several years ago. Patterson said.

By Owen Murphy (All of the books reviewed in this column are available at the Cape May County Library.) f . THOSE DRINKING DAYS: MYSELF AND OTHER WRITERS By Donald Newlove Donald Newlove's latest book. Those Drinking Days, is the most honest and illuminating account that I have ever read about one man's experiences as an uncontrolled alcoholic During most of his life, Newlove was an unpublished writer Today, a sober, responsible man in his early fifties, his novels receive

RIO GRANDE - Cape May County Sheriff Beech Fox will be eating at least one dozen donuts a week for the n^t52 weeks. ThttshcffTTWas one of 31 winners at Dunkin' Donuts first annual February Carnival Raffle Saturday. Fox was one of 12 contestants to receive a dozen free donuts each week for a year Other prizes awarded include a color TV. trips to the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City and a Polaroid camera. According to store owner Paul Matushcski, next year’s'camival will be even larger, probably including amusement rides.

rave reviews. But during his skid-row years, Newlove poured incredible amounts of alcohol and drugs into his sytem His booze ration during the worst years was one gallon of cheap wine and twelve quarts of ale per day And yet deep inside this bloated, sordid, stinking wino was a sensitive, aware man who knew the depths of his ow n masochism It’s remarkable, indeed, that Newlove lived to write this book Although he gives capsule commentaries on many famous literary alcoholics (Faulkner, Fitzterald. Kerouac. John Berryman. Malcolm Lowry. Sinclair

Other winners in Saturday’s raffle were: 19 inch Color TV, Susan Hellings, Avalon; AM-FM Radio, Frank Sudan, Whites boro; Polaroid camera. Robert F. Freet, Wildwood; Day Trip to Golden Nugget Casino via Ocean Breeze Bus Company, Shirley Allen, Villas; William Herwig, Villas; Elizabeth Verity, Villas and Mary Bennett, Cape May Point. A dozen donuts each week for a year: Richard Jackson. Whitesboro; Mike Nachtigail, Mayville, Carla Bartelson, Rio Grande; Janet Egan. North Cape May; Dptothy Shirley. North Cap^-May; David Smith. Cape'May;

Lewis and others), the best part of the book is Newlove on Newlove. how he climbed into the bottle, why he stayed there so long, how he finally got out. One might wish that every one of America’s estimated ten million hard-core alcoholics could read this book For some of. them, it might make the difference All of the following quota tions are by the author, Donald Newlove. That the greatest writing is made out of loneliness and despair magnified by booze is ah idea for arrested adolescents. All drunks lie about quantities, forget the hid-

Anja Smith, Cape May; Frank Christaldi, Villas; Luann Sturm, Wildwood, Robert Knight Sr., Woodbine; and Alfred Pallanto, Villas. Dunkin' Donuts Thermos Bottles: Eleanor Miscalwitch, Wildwood; James Janus, North Wildwood; Sandr^ Altoonian, North Wildwood; Bonnie Riddle, North Cape May, Andrea DeMeo, Avalon; Jaunita Stofocik. Villas; Edwin Bauman. Hammonton; John Alexander, Rio Grande; Walter Griffin, Cape May; William Brewster, Clementon; Mary Bennett, Cape May Point; and Pamela Gray^ North Wildwdod

dbn nips in the kitchen, cellar, bam, the very dry double martini they call a single, the farewell nightcap to another lush day of ' 'controlled drinking." It's the hardest job in the world, as hard as stopping yourself, to let a friend drink himself to his bottom before he asks for help It's spooky being an active drunk, waking up dead, your body ashes, eyelids glued tight, brain shut down. Day after day, climbing out of the grave, once more to fight the jimjams, the whammies, the quivers and quavers, the juice show, the spooks Ah, how I longed for self control and mastery over intake! I yearned to become a social drinker Someday!

Good Reading by Ov^?n Murphy

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