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Our Readers Write Home Waiting For Murphy To The Editor: I recently read your article on Dennis Township Mayor Frank Murphy I just wanted to inform you that Murphy's remark concerning Dino's Restaurant being one of the township's largest employers, is false. Dino’s is not in Dennis Township, but in Upper Township I feel that the people of Dennis Township should know this. One of the largest employers of Dennis Township is the Lutheran Home at Ocean View, wjth approximately 123 full and part-time employees. Also, the residents of the Lutheran Home were concerned after reading Murphy’s comments, because Murphy has not knocked on their doors to inform them of the township's happenings, or to answer any questions they might have. I hope they receive a visit soon JEFFREY R. KISSAM Administrator Lutheran Home at Ocean View

Planning to Kill To The Editor: While many are relaxing during this beautiful summer, sportsmen are once again planning to kill 350,000 tiny gray mourning doves. Our office has received information that New Jersey sportsmen are busy preparing legislation to enable them to do just that. This group is looking forward to a 70-<iay season with a daily bag limit of 12 birds. We believe that most New Jer'sey citizens agree with us that this outrageous action should be stopped. If you feel that this delightful songbird should not become the victim of man's "recreation.” please clip this letter and send it with your name and address to our office, Lamington Road, Bedminster, NJ 07921, and write a letter in opposition to mourning dove hunting to Gov. Thomas Kean, State House, Trenton, NJ.08625 NINA AUSTENBERG Mid-Atlantic Regional Director The Humane Society of the United States Bedminster Archway Explained To The Editor: There is a new medical program in Cape May County that can help to delay or prevent nursing home placement for many elderly, persons who have chronic medical problems. It is the Archway Medical Day Care Center, and it is located in the Sandman Towers in Wildwood. Some people have mistakenly assumed that it is first meant to serve Wildwood or the Sandman Towers’ residents. That is not true. This program is for patiehts in need throughout the county. A program director, a registered nurse, a social worker, and a patient activities coordinator are on staff. Clients attend one to five days per week. Archway is in Cape May County to serve I recently met with Freeholder Gerald M Thornton, and he personally endorsed our medical day care program. We accept referrals from the patient or his family, friends, doctors, social service or health agencies. We accept Medicaid or private reimbursement For information or service, please call 729 3597. CHESTER M WHITFAKER Executive Director — Archway Programs Atco

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7 Survived Summer — 1983’ There aren't going to be any movies, songs or novels about the summer of 1983. No "Summer Song,” no “Summer of ’83," nothing. Oh well, maybe there will be one thing. They'll probably come up with a T-shirt: “I Survived Summer — 1983." Now we realize that it's probably bad form to knock summer. And it’s probably another example of arrogant press power to have a big newspaper turn over its editorial columns to an attack on summer. All over America, men, women and children — enslaved most of the year to their jobs, kitchens and teachers — are, for a few measly weeks, free at last to swim, sail, fish, read, rap, romance stay out all night and feel all right. In fact, summer’s so great that Ronald Reagan’s own national poets laureate, the Beach Boys, made a fortune singing about it. Yeah, summer is just great. But not if you lived through the summer of ’83, crucified on a daily cross of hot, humid, dead, disgusting air. You'd have to be a Democrat not to agree with the truth of that statement, so obvious and widespread are the manifestations of this pestilent summer. Menachem Begin is said to be depressed. We're not surprised, considering the heat they’ve got in Israel. Tom Watson opened the PGA tournament with a 75, natch. Playing catch in the outfield in Toronto, Dave Winfield hit a seagull, which died, and the city arrested him. A farmer in sweltering Fauquier County, VA.: "The late corn is a total disaster. "Ronald Reagan tells a joke to a women’s group, no one laughs and the press says it’s because the joke was anti-women. That’s bunk. Nobody but the president has laughed in Washington all summer. Everyone knows that. Why is this happening? We’ll tell you why. It’s the Russians. We hope you don’t believe this hokum about El Nino, the warm air mass in the Pacific that's supposedly disrupting the weather. That’s hogwash. It’s the Commies. It’s a plot, and we intend to get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately, that’ll have to wait until our writers get back from their vacations. — Wall Street Journal

Herald St lantern 24 August *83 Lookin' and Listenin' The Button Box { By DOROTHY D. FREAS Looking through the button box, and being thirdgeneration owner of it, the buttons stirred some memories as I handled them. These were not antique buttons, carved from ivory in China, walrus ivory from Alaska, or even bone or wood or leather, such as interest collectors, but there were many “the likes of which are seen no more.” Several light blue enameled buttons, shaped like a halfsphere, and having tiny painted roses on them, were on a "Sunday dress.” Gold color metal buttons, hollow, with anchors as decoration, once sewed on a red rain-cape were next to a large gray glass button, circled in metal. ThM was from a winter coat of 1920. There were a dozen tiny pink buttons from a pair of ladies’ gloves. These gloves were long enough to cover the elbows — and only open for a few inches at the wrist. With a miniature button-hook made for the purpose, the buttons would close the opening of the glove. AT THE BOTTOM of the box, there are a large number of little, round black buttons with small metal loops on them. These are shoe-buttons, and I believe that those who wore high button shoes never threw a pair away without cutting off the dozen or more little buttons on each shoe. No wonder we have so many. Almost as numerous, but so much more delicate and pretty, are the half-inch pearl buttons, some of which, when closely examined, hold a pastel rainbow on their surface. As "shell” buttons, they were hand cut for a couple of centuries. Around 1850, a machine was invented that cut large numbers of circles from fresh water clam shells — those of the pearly lining. Untold numbers were made in a plain form, sewed in a row, to close the front of a man’s shirt. OF COURSE, other garments had pearl buttons for fasteners or for decoration, and in due time, extra work was done to make them prettier. There, was carving of larger sizes; also gold was used to eftrich the designs carved in the little round bits of clam shell. So many different materials have been used to make buttons — and to make them both useful and interesting.

Dorothy Fro at BUTTON-BOUND — "Blanks” cut from fresh water clams are destined to become buttons.

He Doesn't Paint His Toe Nails -r — How to Find the Right Man

By JOE ZELNIK The avalanche of mail in response to my column on "Finding the Right Woman" was heart-rending. Men wrote to thank me. women wrote to curse me. and restaurants wrote to complain that they were selling out of seafood combinations (I had advised that watching your sweetie eat a seafood combo was the best way to determine a relationship's future). The saddest letters came from T.C. of Potato Island and G.L. of Cedar Grove. Each, completely unaware of the other, complained because B.D. of Nummy had stopped seeing her after watching her eat a king crab leg. Clearly. B.D. had been carrying on with two women at the same time. MANY WOMEN were angry because I advised men to be skeptical of women who undressed in the bathroom "Don't men ever do that?" sneered L.F. of Cape May. Yes, they do, and better you don’t find out why. But even the women most bitter because I had revealed their secrets concluded by begging me to use my obvious expertise on matters of the heart to advise them on how to meet and mate with the right man. There is a desperate need for this because of a tremendous male shortage. In the U.S., there are 21.5 million unmarried men and 30 million unmarried women. And it’s been estimated 13.4 percent of the males are gay, compared to 4.5 percent of the women. New Jersey is the eighth worst (or best, if you’re a man) state in the nation with 88 men for every 100 women. Cape May County has 42,763 females, 39,503 males. MY RESEARCH nas turned up conclusive evidence that the male shortage in the county is acute. Throughout the U.S., "Daddy's Little Girl" is the song that most often evokes female tears. In Cape May County, it’s "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." That leads to my first nugget of advice to the ladies. Stay out of the Windrift Lounge on the Avalon-Stone Harbor border. It is already so jammed with beautiful women

that you’ll just get depressed. On a recent ladies’ night, for example, I saw three women come to fisticuffs over a 77-year-old man who smoked cigars and drove a 1964 Rambler. Other brief hints: Skirt men who wear pancake makeup and paint their toenails. They’re narcissistic. Steer clear of men who claim the same waist size as 20 years ago by wearing their pants at their hips. They cannot face reality and one day their bathing suits will come off in the surf. SUSPECT MEN who tell you they are separated from their wives. They usually mean for that night. Be on guard against men who bring candy or flowers. They’re insecure. Accept all invitations to walk th^ beach at midnight. This is your best opportunity to find out whether he’s romantic or ravenous. Wear flat runnink shoes in case it’s the latter. / Look cautiously at men who open yjmr car door. They’re older than they look. And beware of men who ask you to drive. They either can’t afford gas or can’t hold their liquor. ^ Look askance at men who (1.) suggest dinner at your place and (2.) arrive carrying an overnight bag. IF HE HAS YOU to his place for dinner, beware the one-dish-meal-maniac. If he makes chicken, rice, brussel sprouts and apple sauce all in one pan, he hates doing the dishes and will be a lousy mate. If, on the other hand, he asks you to take off your shoes before you come in, he is excessively fussy and will expect you to be running a vacuum cleaner all the time. Finally, give second thought if he has a large teddy bear on his bed. And get out fast if there are chains hanging from the ceiling. Some of you may meet a man who passes all these tests. And some of you then face a difficult question: How to introduce him to your children. My advice: Place them up for adoption.