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Our Readers Write Sea Isle City: A Big Mistake To The Editor My husband and I are full-time residents of Sea Isle City It is hindsight now to say we’ve made a big mistake This city is hot just dirty, it is filthy In some areas, many, one must circumvent a five foot hill of sand to get to the beach That is certainly had enough, but the ap prdaches to the beach are strewn with all kinds of litter; not cleaned summer or winter The beacjh is raked once a day This consists of running a rake over a portion of the beach, usually the one closest to the ocean, and dragging all the debris to the nearest groin, where it is piled until the next tide, scatters it around Beach badges are a "joke ” The checkers are m many cases so young, they are doing a child like job We have ordinances here in Sea Isle to cover everything, hut no effort is being made to enforce them. BK'YCI.ES on the promenade at any hour, creating a hazard to strollers, trash all over the place in illegal plastic bags without benefit of containers, dogs running loose everywhere, restaurants without dumpsters piling smelly trash at curbside, parking across driveways fore mg pedestrians to walk in the street No effort to stop this unless a specific complaint is made Then we have the municipal pier at 59th Street and the Bay People arriving in our resort are astounded at the sight of pilings and boards where they expected a place to sit and view the activities on the Bay and to watch the beau!iful sunsets. There are no warning signs to prohibit the children w ho are accustomed to swim from this pier, and are now just venturing out on the ruins As long as there is no pier. I suppose it has been determined no benches, no tables, no trash containers are required One can only pray no one ichiid or adult) sustains an injury as a result of this negligence on the city's part We really can hardly afford another lawsuit ' Oh well, our mayor tells us we have a beautiful beach, a lovely town, and we should be happy with it all. Well. I for one, am not! Isabel R Gillespie Sea Isle City Do you have an opinion on this subject? Write a letter to the editor. Herald and Lantern. P O Box 430. Cape May Court House. N J 08210

A Stranger Helped To The Kditor With reference to Joe Zelmk's July I* column. I had a similar experience a couple of years ago at Jamesway Store. Court House A woman in the line ahead of me ha^ bought a couple articles and was about $5 short Being all the way from ('apt* May she didn't Itnow which article to leave behind, until I stopped into the fray and lent her the necessary balance The dear sout couldn't believe that a perfect stranger would lx- of such help The check was mailed to me the same day when she got home Recently read an interesting paperback. "Bread I'lnm the Waters" by Irwin Shaw On page 299 "When one is poor in one's youth, even if later on. one is quite comfor tably fixed, thinking about money is an activity, which can send one into a state that borders on anything from a slight uneasiness to terror ' All I can add is that, having gone through such a period it is so true Keep up the good work

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Capital Comments f Job Training for Unemployed

By SEN. JAMES HURLEY Gov Thomas Kean is expected shortly to sign into law a bill I cosponsored that will train several thousand New Jerseyans for guaranteed jobs in private business. This would be a unique state program involving a part ritrship between government and business in preparing workers for available jobs Although New Jersey's unemployment rate is below the national average and much lower than other northeastern states, unemployment remains a major problem There are 272.000 New Jersey residents out of work My district has been especially hard hit Some 7.800 Cumberland County residents and 5,300 Cape May County residents were unemployed in May. CUMBERLAND and Cape May counties have the top two highest rates of unemployment in the state. Many of *he unemployed have spent months fruitlessly looking for vyork In addition, there are many New Jerseyans working at jobs that do not pay enough to meet family expenses and are forced to seek public assistance This job training program is aimed at these residents - the long-term unemployed, those who lost their jobs because of plant closings and the economically disadvantaged The program would provide one-the-job training.

Letters Welcome

Th«t Herald and Lantern welcome letters to the editor on matters of public interest. Originals, not copies, are requested. Writers should sign name, address and phone number.

Flat on Our Faces

To The Editor: July 2, my wife and I enjoyed a well planned and well executed show of fireworks on the beach in Cape May in front of (he Congress Hall No thanks to the Herald or Lantern Why was this popular*cvent. attended by thousands of people, not even mentioned in the issue of June 29 9 My wife and I scoured through the issue page by page and column by column and found not a word about it It was only because a neighbor told us of the notice in the Atlantic City Press that we knew' there was going to Ik* any celebration at all If we have to get such news from a paper published as far away as Atlantic City, I think the local newsmongers have fallen flat on their collective faces with this one WILLIAM H ZANE North Cape May

classroom instruction and customized training for workers, depending on individual needs. BUSINESS WOULD PAY at least 25 percent of the cost of training workers. When on the-job training is involved, employers would pay half the cost Unlike past federal jobs programs, this will not be a make-work project. Workers will be taught the skills they need to fill identified job openings. This program will make a good start at putting New Jerseyans xvho are eager to find jobs back to work. In addition, the. state will be receiving $80 million in federal funds in October to greatly expand our job training efforts. I AM SERVING on a special commission appointed by the governor to recommend how federal funds should be used to best serve the state. So far, the New Jersey Job Training Coordinating Council has proposed that regional boards be established to develop job training programs that meet area needs Combined the federal and state problems should provide training for 14,000 residents to prepare them for jobs with a promising future (Sen. Hurley represents Cape May County and much" of Cumberland County.)

Lookin'and Listenin' Hungry Baby By DOROTHY D. FREAS Listening to a choras of bird voices, not sweet songs, but the raspy sounds made by the baby starlings, lured me to the window. Baby birds are such fun to watch when they arc being taught how to find their food in the grass. If there are two or three young ones, there always seems to be one in the family that wanders off from the group The parent bird scurried along picking up anything thal was edible The young ones, like little children, went off in various directions, but suddenly discovered that they had lost Mama, so they ran to catch up — all but one, the in dividualist who went on a tangent, and kept on his own path. Of course, he too reverses suddenly when he decides that he also is too young to be on his own IT OCCURRED TO me that a couple of crumbled cookies might help Mama Starling in her frantic search fot* food, so I stepped outside my back door with crumbs in my hand. One of the gawky babies looked over and started walking toward me. He seemed so interested in my presence that I slowly knelt, and with the crumbs in my hand I put my knuckles on the ground and turned my hand palm up My breath was held for a minute, for that awkward baby bird walked slowly over, hopped on my thumb and Tie cookie crumbs as fast as he could, finally rejoining his family There was a real thrill in seeing the innocence of babyhood that brought a little wild bird to my hand

_ocaI Attitudes Suffer Tourists Behave Shamefully

By JOE ZELNIK When are all these tourists going home’’ I know, when I got here in December, I complained about the solitude People warned me a little loneliness would look mighty good come July Well, it's July and they were right I mean, name one thing tourists are good for Okay, name two Consider the negative effect on local residents when tourists zoom into town in their 1983 Buick Regals. fresh from their $15-an-hour jobs One of two things happens. MANY LOCAIJi look at their rusty 1974 Dodges and wonder why they bother trying, sweating for minimum age Their ambition is destroyed They become sullen, resentful, apathetic, and often seek political office Others react the opposite Burning with envy, they get three or four jobs, abandoning family and friends in order to work, work, work and make enough money to be a tourist someday i People warned me that if I didn't make friends in the winter. I'd never do iFin the summer Once again, they were right > FEMALES \RE especially susceptible to the envysyndrome Ashamed that they own only three bathing suits, while their tourist rivals have two for each day of the week, mortified at the knowledge the tan they achieve in two days a week can never match the tourist's, they go beserk with multijobitis I know a lady (that is. I knew her in the winter) with a five-figure salary professional job who waitresses in three places You can spot he^ by the dark circles under her eyes and large biceps It changes her entire mental attitude In the winter she's a bleeding-heart liberal _who can cbnverse intelligently on any social issue In the summer, she's a right-winger obsessed with the tax on tips.

But the worst thing about tourists is that, while they may be nice people at home 50 weeks out of the year, their conduct while on vacation is shameful I'M TRYING to sleep until my normal waking hour of 7 and many arc getting up at dawn to see the sun rise over the ocean. Five a m and they're banging around making orange juice from frozen concentrate. One guy walks his dog at that hour every morning, shouting "Heel 1 " He couldn't teach him that back in Pennsylvania? So I finally do get up at 7 and the other half of these tourists are still sleeping in around me. You can feel the vibration of tens of thousands of persons snoring, while I’ve got to be awake. Infuriating After I've been at work for an hour or two. the tourists start to stir Smell the frying of bacon that I didn't have time for? I brownbag it for lunch (who but tourists can afford to eat out in Cape May County in the summer?) with a dry cheese sandwich, and I can practically hear the tourists, calling for Pina Coladas as they sit poolside I FINALLY go home from work around 5 or 6. anxious to see what the little woman has prepared < I just threw that in to infuriate the fetiitnistsi and rest in front of the TV. and the damn tourists are just finishing their showers, putting on their green and blue clothes, and heading off for the clubs I crawl into bed exhausted after watching the 11 o'clock news and sure as heck, four or five hours later, the tourists will be getting home, all happy, slamming car doors and house doors and making love. Making love dur ing the w«ek! The tourist’s entire lifestyle is revolting, repugnant, disturbing, disgusting And I’m going to become one of 'em next week