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Our Readers Write Recount: Who Paid the Help? ' j To the Editor: y. • ' i. In John,Wade s letter in your May 23 issue, he must be L •• jokingljvhen .he stated there was no cost to the Lower Township taxpayers. Who does he think paid for the time consumed by some 12 people involved, the election board, the judge, court secdrity people, the mechanics who opened -the *nachines. the petrount, etc. He claims his slate paid for this total cast. All his group paid/was $69. in no wiy paving for the time consumed by the people involved in the recount and the court hearing.^* All of these people could have spent their time on their regular duties, which had to suffer. The technicalities mentioned by Wade are the state law. - not questionable technicalities as he would have you \ fielie^er T THE INSTRUCTIONS on an absentee ballot are very ' p ejrfilidil Jn the cases where the ballots were disqualified, (iiese instructions were in most cases totally disregarded The election board, a bi-partisan group, in this case did an outstanding job in following the dictates of the state election law This was attested by the Attorney General of ysi New Jersey \ , The; absentee balMf is to help people meet their obligation I* vote; but there afce certain rules set up by the state. I admire people who try to' njeet this obligation by this method because of infirmities, business reasons, etc. The majority of the people who voted by the absentee ballot followed the rules exactly Wade tried Jo make it look like the one particular group that took the majority of seats in council did it in a par- * • lisan fashion But W'ade failed to point out the fact that his group included a Fepubjican committeewoman. a Republican commRTeeman. in addition to two other Republicans and himself. His so-called Non:Partisan group also outspent. during the campaign, the other two groups combined. THE Pl'BLfC should see the list of contributors for an insight into the non-partisanship of his group. The group that won thi* majority of the council seats. Common Sense Coalition, was a non-partisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans. I. too. would like to thank the many people thjw*tighout ^ Lower Township whogetected a majority of our truly non- • . partisan group as their representatives \ JOSEPH H DAVIS , • ' J Villas (ED. NOTE: Davis waf elected May 8 as the at large counpilman on the Common Sense Coalition ticket .) f

Cold Feet in Dennis * f \ To The Editor: * The Cape May County M L'. A. landfill, is now opened, and all other dumps are closed with the exception of a privately-owned landfill owned bv Structures and Foundations I would like to know what happened to Dennis Township Mayor Frank Murphy s plan to defytthe state and keep his dumps open, if the latter was permitted to remain open. , Murphy came out in the- newspaper and was on radio stating his plans to the public. But he sure closed his dumps pronto when ordered to do so Did he get cold feet or was he just letting off steanrand hot air? We need more action and less idle talk and promises If this private landfill can stay open to make more money, then why not Dennis Township dumps. We heave plenK of room on said dumps, apd would also benefit from revenues from same. As usual. Mayor Murphy. has missed the boat r ELMfcR D6YLE • jEldora

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Country Roads So many country roads I've seen Intriquing roads that twist and lean Past driveways where old trees stand guard, Protecting home and barn and yard. - They've ail such fascinating names • Original, with early claims To being old King Nummy's trail, Or Glover Mills or Tinker's Trail. Their past lost in obscurity ./ They flaunt their joy at being free. And sometimes run up hills and down , Or walk sedately into town. \ , < , With country roads like these to find I'd leave the cities far behind, ' And search for one that stopped to be ; Close neighbor to the lonely sea. . j Viney Endicott

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Fewer Than Thought Homeless: Debate Fodder t/

We keep looking for evidence that Washington hasn't turned into one of those colonies of weird people that were discovered each week on "Star Trek.'' Alas, with the published reaction to this week's release of a H(JD report on homelessness in America, it looks like we'll have to send in Mr. Spock to explain why people in Washington think the way they do. Because so much has been written and televised the past year about homeless people, the Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to try to count the homeless population. HUD said it looked "like there are between 250,000 and 350.000 homeless people in the U.S. This is less Jhan an earlier working estimate of two million homeless, a number most observers attributed to a Washington group called the Community for Creative Non-Violence. HERE'S THE REACTION to HUD's report on. the homeless. Rep. Barney Frank : "I'd be shocked if it were that low. This is an effort. to justify their lack of compassion.' Mitch Snyder of the Community for Creative Nonviolence: "an absolute absurdity." Thomas Cochran of the y.S Conference of Mayors: "a very conservative estimate.'' Now you would think that in a community of normal

people, the news that there might be a lot fewer people •than previously thought living in boxes, tents and alleys would be greeted with: "We certainly hope the data behind the government's lower estimates stand up under scrutiny, because if true that would be awfujlv good news." . . ' By Washington's logic, however, the belief that there might be several million homeless is comfortably appropriate. but a Reagan-sponsored report saying that fewer peopi« are living in degradation is badrtews indeed. UNDOUBTEDLY HCD's homeless report-guarantees that homeless people will be fed like fodder into tfie debate over the "fairness issue." We will not soon see anyone in Washington doing anything significant about homeless people The lost political community of Washington today deals with such issues in terms of data extrapolations, front-page coverage and pious statements for the evening news That's about it. A writer in the Dartmouth Review recently described the politics of compassion in this way : A man is drowning 50 feet offshore A conservative will' throw him 25 feet of rope and lell him to start swimming A liberal will throw dll 50 feet, then drop his end. saying he has to go off to oo another good deed — W'alf Street Journal

-White Linen' fcf Everyone ■<£ - The Battle s About to Begin I

By JOE ZELNIK Sheriff Henderson Jordan of Arcadia. La., was one of six lawmen who pumped a hail of bullets into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow 50 years ago According to his daughter, now 60, Jordan's hair "turn ed gray overnight and he developed a nervous "condition where he couldn't swallow right." Cape May County year-round residents suffer similar afflictions each Memorial Day weekend as gnats and tourists arrive I have a theory that there aren't as many older people in this county as supposed They're all fairly young, but their hair has turned white from repeated cultural shock - each start of the season. SUDDENLY the five-minute trip to. the supermarket becomes an hour travail, the once-empty checkout line an endless column of shopping carts. The throng at the drugstore prescription counter is supplanted by a younger crowd at its family planning center. Restaurants that welcomed local people and gave them a choice of tables now warn that there will be a two-hour wait Their tone of voice suggests maybe they shouldn't bother. The laughing gulls are drowned out bv the cries of children. Thousands of dogs bark. Havpi't Phiiadelphians heard of kennels9 t.LOij'iirSuDI?rfAYED at 11,686 changes in their lives should be thankful they can't hear the battle plans under way as ( female tourists gather in their four-bedroom. .$8,000-for-the-season encampments. The innocent might expect to hear the ladies deciding who will cook, who will clean, and who will have the bunkbeds Hardly Instead, r - oarations are made reminiscent of.the plan mngf.. the. «sion of Normandy. The battle between the sexes that is a key to the seashore economy is about to begin.

The females gather over a plateiof chocolate brownies to agree on strict diet rules. In thisijasic training phase a vigorous regime of thigh radurtiotf and tan accumulation • is established , ♦here is no conflict ovjbr goals. After a work week of drudgery, a new invasion each Fridav night will aim at capture of the richest aptfmost powerful and handsome hunk in town The enem< is to be released each Monday morning. J - (Secretly, some of tljeAvomen permit themselves the fantasy of snaring the perfect prisoner and keeping him forever in a "relationship." They would never admit this to their colleagues. » Should they themselves be captured, which is unlikely they are sworn to die rather than reveal two things: true age and natural hair color. Each female has selected an age she likes (27 is, popular this year! and commits it to 3 memory. Remembering fictitious last names is too diflicult. so a first-name-only policy is adopted. E\;T,IOIiU professions also are agreed upon. No one vvants to be a nurse (^secretary, for example. Stock vogue*5 ° Prod"***«»^eem to be the current Perfumes must not clash, so one scent — "White Linen." for example - is agreed to by all. But an attempt to concede proprietary rights lo whoever first sights the enemy fails. There are no noncompete agreements. It's every woman forlierself. wrth no hard feelings or sulking by the losers. Fat chance IN ADJACENT HOMES, sometimes even adjacent rooms males go through similar planning, but in much less detail. I am not about to betray my own sex except to point out that hairpiqees are never to Be acknowledged There is much less attention to false appearance or ohonv age. On the other hand there is more option. All ate to be. professionals or casino executives The male strategy is simple: forage in groups select the prey, then divide and conquer. Mote and females alike, planning their campaigns > separately, agree on one basic: Never tell the truth