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$50,000 for ai To the Editor Recycling for Lower Township*? I can't believe what the people in high office have on their minds and who they represent, especially when it comes to spending The hotneowners money. If they con limy to spend the taxes the way they have, they will run this area into the ground. I have the most simple answer: a freeze on hiring, salary increases and, most of all, spending on things not needed at this time. An example: Gerald Thornton, township Republican leader, and GOP candidate for township committee. Samuel Stubbs spoke out against Mayor Peggie Bieberbacb and felt she doesn't know what she is doing when it comes down to money (budgetary matters). I question their credibility. They said that a township manager should receive a salary of $40,000 a year plus $12,000 to $15,000 in fringe benefits. Ha, ha — $50,000 for an advisor is ridiculous — unless my soil gets the job The average hard-working man makes around $200 to $300 a week in this area. All one has to do is run a few ads in several different newspapers and you will have a lot of good men knocking down the doors pf the little city hall of

i ‘Advisor’? Lower Township. J j At a starting salary of $25,000 per yhear, and increases of $1,000 a year, up to five years — if he can’t do the job well, let him go and hire another advisor. Don’t they realize that the mayor of Baltimore, Md., receives $50,000 per year with a population of almost one million people? He is a full-time working person and he is doing such a good job he has been elected for the third time. y. What’s the population here, about 20,000? Task Thornton and-Stubbs, why don’t we build a Harbor Place (like Baltimore’s attraction) on the Delaware Bay? It's a better idea than the members of the Lower Township school board did in a vote of £ to l last Week to approve the $60,000 purchase of 12 acres of ground next to the elementary school. That's a lot of money with taxes going up as last as they are for land that’s not needed — more waste of money. \' School board member Debi de la Cretaz was the only person that spoke out against the action taken by the eight other members who, I feel, should also be recycled. -Little city hall of Lower Township needs more people like de la Cretaz in office. THOMAS R. BRASKIS North Cape May

Herald & Lantern 5 October '83

Dump Sen. Courtesy To The Editor: ^ . I find it hard to believe that in 1963 the Senate of the State of New Jersey still.permits a senator to veto gubernatorial appointments that are made from a senator’s home county. Tliis “unwritten" policy gives one senator "au>olute’’ authority to block any appointment which the senator opposes — even if the people, local leaders, and civic organizations approve of that appointment. The essence of democracy is to represent the people and provide them with effective leadership, not to play games with appointments for political or personal animosities one person may have. The 13 original colonies opposed the King of England because of his unfair tax on tea during the 18th Century and that led to the Boston Tea Party. Maybe it is time for the people to demand good government from our New Jersey State Senate and consider doing with Senatorial Courtesy the same as the Patriots did with George's tax on tea. Dump it.

JAMES E. ALEXIS Cape May Court House (ED. NOTE : Alexis is the Democratic candidate for Middle Township Committee.)

Freeholder Silence a Wonderment

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To The Editor: Well, the Municipal Utilities Authority has pulled another trick on the five families in the proposed Woodbine landfill’s 2,500-foot buffer zone by getting a waiver of said buffer zone frorti the Pinelands Commission. They seem to have made a point of buying some ground within this buffer zone. Yet these other homes, some within three-tenths of a mile, are left to live with a landfill which'will be a mountain 40 feet high, plus flying paper, rodents, seagulls and always a possibility of a dump fire. Once this landfill is in operation, land values will decrease in an eight-square-mile area. Maybe when other property owners complain of decreases in land value, the county freeholders will speak out on this matter, as they appointed all members of the MUA and two members of the Pinelands Commission At the waiver hearing, one Cape May County member abstained for fear of conflict of interest. As members of a commission where ticklish problems such as this arise, or when people are made to invest their life savings of $30,000 for lawsuits, we think our county members should be able to give a yes or no answer and give the taxpayers some input in decisions affecting them. At this late date the freeholders say nothing about what is happening with this proposed landfill. Htey appointed these mem heirs, so th^bear some responsibility and coneditorial Two Weeks, Folks Delayed by an extended fall political campaign was have arrived at last. Cape May County voters fices of state senator assemblyman, freeholder and local committee and council members at the Nov. 8 election. To prevent unanswerable, last-minute charges on this page, we will publish no letters to the editor on the political races after Wednesday, Oct. 26. The deadline for that issue, of course, is Thursday, Oct. 20. Pleasp' write original letters to this newspaper, and sign them with a complete name, address and phone number.

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sideration or an explanation to the people involved. Why they have been silent is a wonderment to a lot of taxpayers in the county. The only elected official who tried to help by listening and, meeting with these people was state Assemblyman Guy Muziam. At least he showed compassion for these Peopk ELMER DOYLE Eldora

Long, Hard Fight? Chase Manhattan Bank had a rousing two-page ad in the Sunday New York Times celebrating the/leregulation of bank CDs, something the ad says Chase "fought long and hard for.” v We share Chase’s exultation in the removal of these federal limits on what the small saver can be paid on his money in the bank. And we commend Chase for that long, hard fight. But we would have had a far greater thrill a decade or so ago if we had seen the same enthusiasm among banks and savings and loan associations. Back then, with inflation boiling up, folks were losing money on savings accounts and CDs. If memory serves, the bank crusade for emancipating the little guy from the government's vicious yoke began when the little guy wised up and started putting his cash into unregulated money market funds.

Colleges Improved To The Editor: I read with interest your Sept. 14 article, “Shelton: Cape May's Fundamentalist Oasis.” Then 1 recalled that when I came to this country as a foreign student 31 years ago, the standards of conduct atthe state university which I attended were indeed very similar to the standards of Shelton College. There were no coejl dorms and there was a dress code (no pants or shorts at the campus, much less blue jeans for girls). No alcohol, illicit sex, drugs, rock or any loud music of any kind. We were supposed to leave our rooms in order, beds made every morning by 8 a.m. There was check-in time for the girls, parties were always chaperoned, everything was clean and orderly. Property was respected. The SAT scores were at least 75 points higher than the ones at present. Question: Which way have we gone down the road since then? Where are the improvements over the past in the way the universities and colleges — and our present way of life in general — are run since then, with all this tremendous "change” and “exciting experimentation” we have committed ourselves to? EFFRE COUGHANOWR St. David’s, Pa.

Surrounded by Gloom, Doom Waking With a Blah Feeling?

By JOE ZELMK I've got a headache, a sore throat, anda r^nny nose. Did you ever try to be funny when your nose wasVunning? The best advice I can give you is to pass up this week's column and read the classified ads. Those of you still reading may be wondering why I’m at work. That's not a bad question A recent survey found that 11 percent of employes think it's okay to miss work because of a sunburn, 9 percent think it’s permissible for lack of sleep, and 7 percent think its all r ight to stay home if they wake up with 6 “blah feeling.'' I'm here because I'm a responsible citizen. But I wish I wasn't (a responsible citizen). And I'm thinking of trying to do something about it. , For example, in a. letter to the editor elsewhere on this f page, Effre Coughanowr proudly cites "beds made every morning by 8 a.m." qs one in a list of things done in more responsible days. That's curious because I’ve recently been giving serious thought to no longer making my bed I've been making my bed every morning-for probably 30 years. Well, actually 1 don't remember v/homade the bed when 1 was married. We-probably each made half Who cares if a bed is made? What's the point ^ If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it. does it make a sou^d? Isn’^a nimpled tied rqgre inviting than a made one? I! s been months since 1 had a contest. So, 111 offer a nifty prize for tne best answer, in 25 words orless (in writing, please, no phone calls) to the question: "Why should I make my bed every morning? " Probably my disinterest in made beds stems from my normal end-of-summer depression. I know fall has advantages: apple cider and no more sweating. But I still get blue when the leaves turn red. And fall comes so suddenly to the shore One day the women are wearing shorts. The next day, jackets with furlined hoods. Ug. Tl^e end of September means the end of Buddy Murray

singing at Henny’s until next spring. Now that’s depressing. Usually I can shake it by going home and watching the 8 p.m. movie oh one of those funny two-digit Philadelphia UHF channels. Tuesday I watched “Machine Gun McCain" only to see John Cassavates and Britt Ekland gunned down practically in each other’s arms. I gave the set one more change on Wednesday and ended up flipping back and forth between "Griffin and Phoenix" — two lonely people in love and suffering from a terminal illness — and "Rebel without a Cause" — James Dean knifed to death at the end. Everything around the house is depressing. My living room carpets smell like dog, and I don't have a pet. My bedroom shades won’t rewind. The toilet bowl cleaner guaranteed to last 30 days stops turning the water blue in 15. Would you believe 1 have Eastern Airline tickets for a November vacation and the company is expected to go bankrupt in October? Even at work I’m surrounded by gloom and doom. Across the page, for example, Kathy Duggan writes about the Soviet threat and Dr. Robert Beitman explains genital herpes. And you ought to see the mail we get in this office: Legal associations advise me to make my will. Banking institutions ask if I’ve invested wisely. The American Heart Association reports that living alone is unhealthy. An insurance compam wants to know if I have enough. Nutrition experts explain that hotdogs — my regular Thursday night dinner — contain a high percentage of fat j sodium, which is linked to hypertension; and nitrates', possibly cancer-causing. And medical school warns that stress is killing me. Among a half-dozen suggestions it makes on how to avoid it: “Learn to unload unnecessary tasks." Like making ray bed?