^ opinion Herald & Lantern 15 August '84

★ New Transfer Station *New "Sludge" Plant | *New "No-Tax" County Offices It 1' 1/ We Take It From Everyone.

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4This Is Your Lucky Day'

*» To The Editor: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Klemick of Mechanicsburg, while vacationing in Stone Harbor the week of Aug. 4. went to the Acme in Cape May Court House and when he reached for his money, it was gone. He returned to his apartment and the money was not there. - ( . He immediately returned to the Acme and told the manager of his loss. The Manager replied. "This is your lucky day" and handed him his four $100 bills in hi* money clip. Jamie Grueri?. a 12-year-old Vietnamese boy. found it and turned it in all by himself while his parents were shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gruerio adopted him at the age of three. His mother told me he has always been honest and is an excellent student. In September he enters the seventh County Does Its Part To The Editor To the residents of the Cape May area. I would like to express my sincere thanks to your community for opening your homes, schools, and hearts to European exchange students participating in this year's Educational Foundation for Foreign Study program. Your community is going to have the opportunity (ogive much oi itself to these students during the coming 10 mon ths. With tlje support of the local host families and the educational guidance provided by your local high school teachers, y ou will be allowing a student from Europe to become part ol your community , to le^rn about your way ot life, to take par! in local sporting, events, and to make Iriends that will last a lifetime ^ In these times, when war seems the major course of action that nations consider to resolve differences, it is encouraging to know that Cape May is doing its part in br inging a little more understanding and love to a troubled world. I know that Charles and Toni Miles, the local area representatives for EFFS. join me in expressing our warmest thanks and deepest appreciation to the residents ol the Cape May area. You can bring the world closer together.^ President Educational Foundation for Foreign S*tudySanta Barbara. Cal.

grade at the Grove Fisher Middle School in Carmel. They are, very proud of him. They were vacationing in Wildwood Crest Aug. 4-l1. at the Colonial Court. I felt this fine young man deserved recognition. MILDRED B. BLAKELY Stone Harbor Contact Senators To The Editor: We urge anyone interested in restoring our beaches to immediately contact his United States senators requesting strong support for S. 1739 with the inclusion of Plan A language found in (be recently approved H.R. 3678. which will include the Obstruction of beach erosion mitigation trom the Cape May Inlet to Lehigh Avenue in Cape May Point. This Senate Bill is expected to be acted upon sometime this week and your voice will give weight to the vote of our representatives » Call or Write: Honorable Frank R. I^iutenberg 1' S Senate Washington. D C 20510 202-224-4744 Honorable Bill Bradiey IS Senate Washington 1) ( 2<fcl0 202-224-3224. FRANK S RUTHERFORD. JR. r Mayor Cape May Point

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t Our Readers Write Seven Mile Or Two Mile?

r\ To The Editor: I am yvritin&*»ncerning your column "News Notes From SeveifcMjk Beach". The column heading is, and has been for sometime, a misnomer. It should be more pro-perly-named "News Notes From Two Mile Beach," that figure being the approximate distance from 80th Street to the south end of the island. Several months ago someone wrote a letter commenting on the fact that so few events north of 80th Street were ever reported. For the week of July 25, there were 12 lines in total. The report iijg-does not seem likely to change, so I would like to make a few constructive suggestions. , First, change the column heading as suggested and make an appropriate reduction in the number of lines. Second, start a new column written by someone who has knowledge of, and an interest in, the happenings north of 80th Street. 0 These suggestions may appear to be facetious, but they do seem to address the anomaly; namely that 95 percent of the items reported are from 25 percent of the island. J. RICHARD PETERSEN Avalon (ED. NOTE: Seven Mile Beach correspondent M'Ellen Rowland has lived on the island for almost 45 years, 40 of them in Avalon, five of them in Stone Harbor. She welcomes news items from individuals and organizations of both communities. This week, for example, her column includes four items from each community.) •

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By JOE ZELNIK I'm just back from special assignment to Canada, checking the quality of Molson's ale. I returned with a perfect scheme, or is it scam? Keep this to yourself, but when you go TO Canada, the Canadians give you a 30 percent bonus for your American money. When you return to America, the Americans subtract 28 percent (or give you 72 percent, if you prefer) for your Canadian money. There's a 2 percent difference there. Let's say you take up $10 million American, for which the Canadians give you $13 million. Let's say you return with the $13 million Canadian, for which the Americans give you $9,360,000. Don't ask me to explain this, but SOMEBODY just made $640,000. As soon as I can figure out who made it how, I'll be on easy street. Anybody got $19 million to lend for a couple days? MY FIRST PURCHASE will be an automobile. I got car fever on this trip after renting a 1984 Lincoln with 10,000 miles on it. When I returned and got behind the wheel of my 1976 Olds with 140,000 miles on it, it just didn't feel the same. ) I've got nothing against my present car; I like it better than my last one, a '74 Chrysler. That car used to give me a lot of trouble. But I found how to get it purring like a kitten. Talk to it. Any time that car balked, I'd threaten out loud to sell it to someone in Chester, Pa. No offense to Chester Mayor Joe Battle, but that was VMain Line Chrysler and mere mention of moving to Chester made it perform like a Mercedes. But nothing scares this car. A few weeks ago it dropped its exhaust system as I was crossing Baltimore Pike in Springfield, Delaware County. It was a Friday evening and all the muffler shops were closed, so I had to drive it over the next moniing. I waited until 8 a.m. when all the suburbanites started up their power motors so the roar of my car wouldn't be quite as noticeable. )

HAVE YOU EVER spent a Saturday ma muffler shop? Second only to being under fire in battle, this is an experience that can bring one back to the church. It's surely a preview of hell, or at least purgatory: loud noises, sparks flying, being at the mercy of a powerful being with superior knowledge (the muffler manager). Dozens of us stood around, all men (don't women's mufflers ever wear out?) with worried looks, like expectant fathers. Only this was even more tense. In a maternity ward, all you have to worry about is whether it will be a boy or girl. In a muffler shop, a total stranger is deciding whether it will cost you $100, $M0, $300.^ M(^t of us, not knowing what to do with our hands, counted the money in our wallets over and over. ' f I was lucky ; all I needed was a muffler, two pipes, and four shocks. Only cost me $321, and the Midas man guaranteed my car would ride like a Cadillac. He didn't say what year. CARS DO COST money. The best solution, of course, is to use public transportation. I am about to reveal one of the county's best-kept secrets: Fare Free transportation ' is NOT just tor senior citizens. Honest to God, anyone can ride it and, in fact, about 35 county employes use it to no back and fourth to work. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion the county set up the Fare Free schedule with its employes in mind. Check it out; call 886-2011, but don't tell them I sent you. Fare Free is fine, but no comparison to the public transportation I rode while vacationing in Cancun Mexico, in March. THE BUSES GO BY every couple minutes and stop absolutely any place if you wave them down. And you can get off anywhere, too, simply by pounding the back door. If the driver hears you, he'll slow down to practically , ^ nothing. It's easy to pick out persons who ride Mexican buses. They always have call used hands from pounding and they usually limp from disembarking at five miles an hour It beats a day in a muffler shop.