"• . , ) * V Herald & Lantern 4 July '84 bllSIIICSS 59

Beautification Awards Planned

Lions Club Installation WILDWOOD CREST - Lee Robinson, of Marine ! Bank in Wildwood, was installed as president of the Greater Wildwoods Lions Club at a dinner held June 24 at the Mariner Inn here. Other officers installed were: Edward Hanker, first vice president; Leon Stratoti, second vice president; Bud Kalafski. third vice president; Frank H. George, treasurer, Ed Grendysa, secretary; Scotti MacPherson, Lion tamer, and Thomas John, tail twister. Directors are: Arnold Podell, Carl Stella. Bud Kalafski, Milton Brown. Samuel Baker, Alan Gould, and John MacPherson.

I COURT HOUSE - CounI ty Chamber of Commerce I president Ted Roman I announced this week the I opening of the chamber's I 1984 Beautificatioo^Kards I Contest and Pt^grawk ^ ; This will be/the 16th ytor I the Chamber has sjh^I sored this Nprogr/am\ < I Roman said.^amd air 1 I members are urged bo i I search their communities / I and submit nominations of i I projects that ha je t I significantly contributes? to i I the beautification ad3im- ' provement of theiA neigh- < I borhood. J j ' Roman said there are t three categories of < nominations: J i • Business - New Con- i struction; this carers newly constructed stores, t motels, hotels, con- f £ r Four Elected J > / ; As Directors J; 1 L r McKEESPORT, PA. - tl Management's nominees for the board of directors of the G.C. Murphy Co. were m elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. ; Chosen for the board were Robert J. Dowie, Judson M. Ellis Jr., Thomas F. Hudak, who is board chairman, and Walter C. Shaw Jr., who will, serve threeyear terms.

dominiums, campgrounds, banks, savings and loans, offices and any other commercial property, • Business - Renovation and Improvement covers all existing commercial property that has been recently improved through construction, renovation, and exterior decoration. • Projects of a non commercial nature are eligible under Community, Civic and Non-Profit Categories. covers municipal, county buildings, parks, playgrounds, civic association improvements, churches, schools and other non-commercial buildings and projects. ALL PROJECTS MUST be completed by Sept.- 10 judging and photographing. Nominations must be sent to the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce Beautification Award, Box 74, Cape May Court House, NJ 8210. Ail nominations must be received ,by Sept. 10th in chamber office. 1

Nominating forms may be obtained from either the Seaville Center or Court House office of the chamber, concluded Roman. Last year's beautification program was the largest ever with nearly 30 projects being nominated for the Prestigious countywide Awards. Winners in the 1983 Contest were the Sturdy Savings and Loan Building in Court House for first place in the Business - New Construction Cateogrv The Victorian Rose Gu&»t House in Cape May City took the first place award in the Business - Renovation Category and the City of North Wildwood won the top award in the Civic, Community - Non Profit division for its Central Avenue islands landscaping and planting project. The awards are presented at the chamber s annual meeting and installation banquet in early October.

LEE RORINSON

Microcomputers Aid Meter Reader

FOLSOM'-SoSlhtojpy Gas Company's team oTs^ meter readers will be per I forming their daily routes A throughout the utility's j seven-county service area f - with the assistance of hand- f held microcomputers beginning in December. This summer. Sou^n Jersey Gas will jtfart programming aneHesting the Itron DataCap H microcomputers, which will replace the company's existing meter reading system of recording customer data on paper documents. The hand-held device weighs about 2'_> pounds and contains 64,000 positions of memory. "The conversion to electronic meter reading will increase the accuracy of all * meter readings and help reduce estimated bills." stated William F. Ryan, president of South Jersey Gas. "We will be able to record more customer in- ~ formation at each location in the field," Ryan continued, "enhancing productivity and the quality of customer service." UTILIZING THE new hand-held device, meter readers will read meters by entering numbers into the microcomputer instead of on paper documents. The microcomputers will bd programmed to alert the meter readers to an excessively high or abnormally low reading at a particular location. This function permits immediate verification of the reading, reducing return trips for special and costly rereads.

The DataCap H \ microcomputer is en | vironmentally protected A against rain, humidity. f temperature changes and I is constructed to handle / daily use outdoors. Many ' problems caused by inclement weather will be reduced. Under the present system, when meter readers note readings or related customer informa tion on the paper documents, this informa tion is rejected by the scanner because of excessive moisture caused by rain or snow, or because the written data has been smeared V obliterated. Since the new microcomputers are weatherproof, this problem ~will be eliminated. DATA COLLECTED by the meter readers will be recorded within the microcomputer on both a ~ solid-state memory and a cassette tape. An estimated 300 meter readings can be recorded on each cassette. The microcomputers will be returned by the meter readers to the operating divisions at the end of each day. The cassettes will then be removed and transferred to the main computer site in Folsom for processing and billing. Cassette tapes containing customer information for the next day's rputes will then be transferred to divisional locations to be ready for meter readers the following morning. ™

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