Herald & Lantern 30 November '83

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News Notes— (From Page 14) survival skills, what was safe to eat and what was not, bow to carve and make a bow drill to start fires, how to find or make shelters etc. We asked Bill what made him embark on such an ambitious course and he said it was mainly to learn how to track criminals or find lost children or adults. Fortunately for us our chief is a highly educated man and most articulate — we are

hoping that some day soon be will address us publicly and tell you what he has told us. Namely, how he can tell from a footprint; the approximate height and weight of the person, whether be or she is right or left handed or being carrying weapons and so much more. He would make a terrific after-dinner speaker as well as being a great guardian of our community.

SUNDAY, NOV. 2* at 7:99 p.m. the Ecamenical Fellowship of Seven Mile Beach met at the beautiful First United Methodist Church of Avalon. The annual gathering takes place in a different church each year and as always was heavily attended. Clergy conducting the service were: The Very Reverend Msgn. Vincent Giammarino, St. Paul’s R. Catholic; The Rev. Wesley

Martin, St. Mary’s Episcopal; The Rev. Michael P. Orsi, St. Paul’s R. Catholic; The Most Rev. James L. Schad, Maris Stella R. Catholic; The Rev. Glenn Schoenberger, Our Saviour Lutheran; and ■Rte Rev. Robert W. Scott Jr., First United Methodist. Usually among the clergy, The Rev. Ernest Anderson, Bethel A.M.E., \was unable to be present this year although his ’ name was listed on the program as delivering the 96th Psalm. Those attending the service brought gifts of food for the less fortunate which were turned over to Cape Human Resources for distribution. Gu?st organist and choir director was Stevenson C. Chase. 'Rie choir was made up of volunteers from the choirs of the seven difference churches and their voices filled the church with uplifting sound. The messages delivered by, various members of the clergy were inspiring and irregrangibly ecumenical. If one has doubts about the religious health of this country, attendance at this service allays them. There was time for spritely conversation, brotherhood and refreshments after the meeting and if you missed it this year, don’t miss it next time. • • • Pat and Councilman R. Jack Fitzpatrick are looking more bright-eyed and bushy-tailed than ever these days. They’ve just returned from a trip to the Southermost Key in Florida and a Pat expressed it, “We got to really travel around and sightsee for the first time." She was most entranced by the trips in the galss-bottomed boats. She described the coloring of the fish as incredibly exotic and was amazed that the fish swam peacefully around beneath them when they scattered at the approach of other boats. They were told that they (the fish) knew they would be fed from the flat see-through boats and there was nothing to fear from them as opposed to boats trying to capture them. She was rapturous and relaxed — sounds like a perfect vacation for two people who are constantly on the go. The New Jersey devil got into the make up room last week and dropped a couple of names from our item on the Stephen C. Ludlam Post of the American Legion. Hie newly elected officers are: Commander Ronald McFarland, Adjutant Wiley Christie. Chaplain The Rev. Wesley Martin and Treasurer Quentin Sternbergh.

Karen Andrus of Socks Lane, Cold Spring, was principal speaker at the jam-packed November meeting of the Stone Harbor Garden Club at the Fire House. These meetings are fun occasions as well as instructive. Karen is an excellent public speaker, the mother of two active youngsters, owner of Creative Catering (from the simple to the simply superb) and inveterate hoader. Eight-seven of the 147 members of the club were astonished at the variety of things Karen, who boasts she never throws away because she

never knows when she may use them, squirrels away in the two large attics of her old Victorian home. Her topic was “Use of Natural Materials’’ to create your own decorations. Examples: peach pits, pistachio nut shells, velvet dresses, bits'o&Lacc and ribbon and almost anything else you can think of. She brought along about 30 gorgeous arrangements she has created. Our favorite was "sugar and spice”, a kitchen bouquet composed of wooden spoons to which she had glued tiny sugar cubes and natural cinnamon sticks which she buys by the pound and uses in innumerable ways. She strongly advised our buying a hot glue gun for making dried flowers and all the above-mentioned articles stick to styrofoam forms and wreaths made of pliant grape vines. The most popular exhibit was a cornucopia made of puff pastry painted with a beaten egg and baked a yummy shade of gold to hold Christmas goodies. Bob Wilson sold chances on a wonderful Raggedy Anne doll which could be transformed to Raggedy Andy with the additional set of clothes which came with her. She was made and donated by Alice (Mrs. Luther) Supplee. This was - the low part of our day — we missed getting her by one number. • • • TWO OF OUR phones have been malfunctioning and we dialed 611 to report it. Hie voice with a smile inquired about the problems, told us to disconnect the phones and take them to the nearest telephone office, there we could trade them in at no cost. We explained that the wall phone in the kitchen was not detachable so she made an appointment for a repairman to come the following week to repair it. Meanwhile we should take the plug phone to the center and trade that one in. "And where could that be?" we asked sweetly. She apologetically replied that she didn’t know and the repairman would tell us when he arrived. That did it! We were about to let her have it verbally when we detected the tired note in the cheerful voice We then said, "Okay, you don’t make the rules. We’ll ask the repairman when he comes.” Less than an hour later a representative from New Jersey Bell called and asked if he could come right over. He was there immediately and calmly lifted the wall phone from v the caddy which we didn't even know existed. He explained the new setup and phones at Staller's True Value Hardware, on East Wildwood Ave. Wildwood. The trade-in didn't take 10 minutes and everyone involved in the whole thing was gracious but we are getting too old for change and still resent the government’s getting into fiw act. Incidentally, aren't you a little sick of receiving so much unasked for junk mail and having the rates for first class mail hiked?

Proposal Effects Months Away-

(From Page 1) quiries relating to the internal affairs of the county.” And he has the authority ‘to appoint temporary citizens’ advisory committees” and “to assume and take charge of any department office, bureau or agency ...” But all of those powers are "subject to the approval of the Burlington Board of Freeholders.” Apparently some of Cape May County's freeholders thought that was too strong, and others thought it was too weak. Freeholder Ralph W. Evans said he was “against an administrator, so to speak.” And Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr. said he felt the board “shouldn’t abdicate responsibilities to an administrator,” yet “it accomplishes nothing if everything the administrator does has to be approved by the freeholders.” And Freeholder William Sturm Jr., who proposed a county administrator during his reelection campaign said he felt the nronosal was “premature ” “I FEEL AN ADMINISTRATOR is needed,” he said, “but it’s absurd to have one without duties spelled out by an administrative code. “You don’t appoint first and figure out later what you're going to do, what kind of person you’re looking fa-,” said Sturm.

Reference— (From Page 1) “They said, ‘You’re coming upstairs.’ ” he remembered. BESIDES ANSWERING questions, Sague and Szymanski are responsible fa indexing local papers, maintaining ver tical files of subject clippings, and grooming the collection of 400 magazines. They also introduce the technology novice to the microfilm machines. And there are special projects to take away the “tedium” of discovering that the name of Paul Revere’s horse was Brown Beauty, it is 238,857 miles to the moon; a butterly only lives a few weeks, and Timbuktu is in Mali, Africa. The longer you work as a reference librarian, the better off you are, said Sague. “The same questions start to come around,” she said. Sague and Szymanski don’t mind answering questions, except if you ask them after hours. By then they are so tired of providing answers, said the librarians that they will not tell you how old Betsy Ross was when she got married, and they might not even give you the time of the day.

Pre-Dawn Blaze (From Page 1) conscious McCartney to safety. ATTEMPTING TO SOUND the alarm, Stokl ran several blocks before be alerted N. R. Fowler of Linden Lane who called fire and rescue units. They arrived at the scene around 5:36 a.m. Stokl and McCartney were rushed to Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, Court House. Stokl was treated fa cuts suffered while breaking the window and released. McCartney was admitted fa observation. Firemen remained at the scene until noon and reported that the McCartney hone was not equipped with smoke detectors. Hie fire was still under investigation Monday by county officials. Witnesses to the Maze and neighborhood residents commented that, had the fire occurred 14 hours earlier, when there were 50 miles-per-hour wind gusts, it could have spread and caused untold damage.

Sturm said he was not for a clerk/administrator. “That’s not my concept.” And he said the proposed resolution was “broad and vague; it did not pinpoint the responsibilities." “I think we should proceed," said Thornton. “We’ve been talking about this for about three years. One of the reasons the freeholders asked fa an efficiency study was so that we'd have some documentation and foundation to do those things we were considering, something to hang our hat on. I can assure you I will bring it up for discussion again.” THE PROPOSAL to expand county data processing procedures would, the report said, bring “significant savings in personnel.” Salvesen said data-processing “has a quick payoff with a tremendous labor saving.” But be said this would be achieved through normal attrition rather than layoffs. He said counties have a norma! 10-12 percent annual attrition rate and "wfe would develop a plan within that.” The report recommended the merger of coynty maintenance departments, now split between Buildings and Grounds, Roads, and the airport. Hiey presumably would all be placed under Buildings and Grounds Supt. Harry E. Kehr, who is supposed to do a cost analysis on that suggestion. The study suggested “abolishment" of local welfare programs and consolidation at the county level. Fourteen of the county’s 16 municipalities — all but Ocean City and Cape May Point, according to Scbellinger — now administer their own General Assistance programs. “We offered to do this about two years ago,” said Scbellinger. Local welfare directors, holding parttime appointed patronage positions, are not expected to welcome this proposal. The study said some of them “know little about administering general assistance” and said that “in some cases, the cost of administration is greater than the money disbursed by the board." THE STUDY CALLED FOR looking into ways to put welfare recipients to wok. “A long history of tourism and recreation in this county spawns a large unproductive work force for a major part of the year," it said. “A high percentage of these workers are able-bodied and currently receiving welfare. This causes a drain on county and state resources and is psychologically detrimental to the attitude of the permanent population in the area. “Various ways of putting these people to work should be examined. Legislation may be necessary in order to design a work program that will fulfill the needs of both the county and the welfare recipients.” Hie six-week-long study was conducted by a six-member team of department beads directed by Willis. Salvesen and Carmine Capone of the Division of Local Government Services of the state Department of Community Affairs coordinated it. Four mayors and three business people reviewed the recommendations. The final report was written by consultants from the Boston, Mass., firm of Braxton Associates which was paid $25,000 by Community Affairs. Salvesen said 63 persons were "directly involved, other than the people interviewed.” ♦ The study of the county was billed as a “pilot project,” patterned on the con troversial Governor’s Management Improvement Plan, and intended to be the basis fa similar probes throughout the state. But Salvesen said the state wants to do “two more before we start bragging. We got good results, but we want to find out if this is a fluke. If we go to a county where we won't find this degree of enthusiasm, we could have egg on our face.”

1st Honors

Awarded 8

At WHS

WILDWOOD - Eight students have been named to the First Honor Roll at Wildwood High School fa the first marking period of the 1963-84 school year, with 102 being named for second honors On the First Honor Roll were: Kristin Anderson and Luci Staller, seniors; Lisa Fligier and Lynne Goldberg, junios; Tracey McGowan, sophomore; Thomas Worrell, freshman; Howard Cole, Eighth Grade, and Stephanie Williams, Seventh Grade. SECOND HONOR ROIX Senior*: Doris BUdy Ronald Berber. Michael Beit tel. Darlene Benson. Ltsa Berdel. Bruce Blake. Barbara Burke. Stephanie Butts. Rachelle Cacci. Kellie Canning. Dawn Clark. Christine Douglass. William FiUpatnck. Robert FUcco. Tina Fuller. Bernadette GeUura. Lisa Grookett. Paul * Grossman. Vickie Haebnel. Kim Hanlon. Anita Hood. Jennifer Johnson. Julie Johnson, John Kent. Caroline Lind say. Michael Nagel. Carla Onofhet *ti. William Osborn. Regina Pepe, Jean Rusaello. Michele Sawyer. Victoria Snyder. Linda Springer. Michael Tomlinson. Nancy Weiden man. Barbara Wotring. Traci Young. Kim Zaitkovsky Juniors Lynn Becker. Tracey Bilhardt. Barbara Bradway. Brenda Clark, Harry Colson. Joel! Covello. Renee DiFelice. Gary Heitxmann Marie Larsen. Heather Lee. Sylvia Maestre, Ronald Marker, \ Lisa Mas ton. Amy McCullough. Dee Palmisano. Thomas Reilly. Karen Saraceno. Scott Vance. Gerald Wright Sophomores: Stephanie DeTkm pie. Michael Ekstrom. Trad Gould. Wendy Harkins. Michael Howell. Mary Jaroe Kipie. Marie Laffdrty. Douglass Larson. Vincent Montecalvo. Donna Narciso. Robert Patterson. Robert Spalding. Elizabeth Springer. Holly Tgylor. Tammy Vance. Jay Wallmark. John Young Freshmen Carey Aspen berg. Margaret Borneman. John Ernst. Diana Gloria. Vicki Goldberg. Thomas Grookett. Matthew Johnson. Karen L Kelly. Michael Matthews. Thomas Maxlowe. Billy Nastasi. Daniel Polini. Bretu Robertson Eighth Grade Phil Campbell. David Dougherty. Becky Eacibano. Aaron Meyer. Steven Orilz Seventh Grade Michael Alesander. 'Heather Bilhardt, An Dakogiou. Desiree Daletlo. Stacey Hams. Philip Hettenbach. Sean Nelson. Arthur Sanceciz. Jorge Torres. Jill Wilson AirWoman In Germany

WiCAPE MAY - Spec 4 Beale A Pohlig, Daughter of Betty J. and Thomas J. Pohlig Jr. of 845 Broadway, has arrived for duty in Augsburg. West Germany. Pohlig, an electronic warfare specialist with the 3rd Operations Battalion, was previously assigned at Goodfellow Air Force Base. Texas. She received an associate degree in 1981 from Atlantic Community College, Mays Landing.

Promoted

SEA ISLE CITY - Jeffrey S. Gardner, son of Aloysia Gardner of 21117th St., has been promoted in the U.S. Army to the rank of specialist four. Gardner is a radar err member at Fort Knox, K; with the 194th Armor Brigade. His wife, Melody, is t daughter of Wesley M. a Susan R. Garrison of < S.E. Broad St., South* Pines, N.C.