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The Tourists Are Coming, So SMILE

An estimated 25,000 seasonal employes are getting ready to return to jobs in Cape May CountV's major industry — tourism. TTiey'll satisfy the needs of as many as three-quarters of a million vacationers a day on peak weekends. Many of those 25,000 have been ouLoL-^ _ work for eight months: staying up Of watch late movies, "sleeping in, not doing much. Now it's time to get up6arlyjplke one's self presentable, and work-Kliours a day serving tourists. IN CASE the thought of that makes anyone surly, the county Chamber of Commerce is offering wallet -sized cards urging

mem to do their jobs with a smile. \ Chamber Executive Director Robert C. Patterson Jr. said the "hospitality grooming, tips" cards are being sent to each of (he chamber's 625 members along with /order forms so employes can supply the cards to their workers. He didn't know the j price yet, but said this was not a moneymaking project for the chamber "They have to realize which side of the bread their butter is on," explained Patterson. MESSAGE ON' THE cards is that "YOU" are the most important person in' the entire Cape May County tourism industry. Each year millions of visitors

come to our resorts and other attractions. YOU are the person who makes them WELCOME, make them RELAXED, and only YOU can make them want to come back. Returning guests guarantee our jobs." the card continues. "We can speak to our guests in comeback phrases Pike WELCOME to Cape May County. THNAK YOU Sir, YES Ma'm, no sir, I'm GLAD you're here. PLEASE, EXCUSE me "Using these word phrases can make your job more rewarding, especially if you say them with a SMILE!" the card concludes. ( \ ^ \ :

I AT LEAST employes may not have to be bilingual. Patterson indicated "we're not looking for much from Canada." French-speaking Canadians from Quebec have been an important part of the tourist economy, especially the Wildwoods, in July and August. But, Patterson said, it's felt the 35 percent exchange rate is too high. Other than that, though, "everything indicates a-good season if the weather holds up," he said. "The last couple weekends were very good and everyone seems very pleased with reservations." So SMILE.

Npws The nlppcf Weeks o Top Stories Now What? COURT HOUSE — Brenda Harrison of Whitesboro gave birth at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital to her ninth child May 8, a 9-pound, 14-ounce son, Bobby Clay John Lewis Jerome Harrison, born by Caesarean section. The Harrisons lost their home in a fire Dec. 7, 1983, They are in a two-bedroom trailer, without running wa'ter, adjacent - to a new home Under construction with a recently-approved $10,600 no-interest loan. Father Bobby Harrison said he has tried every social service agency in a fruitless attempt to find a temporary home for his family. Mrs. Harrison is due to be discharged this week. Harrison said he won't take her back to the trailer: Suspenseful, Huh? STONE HARBOR — The Great Channel (96th Street) Bridge linking Stone Harbor and Middle Township could be open today. Then again it might not be. At press time, DOT ( Department of Transportation) spokesmen said May 15 was the goal if the connection of newelectrical components to the old lift mechanism is completed and tested. If (Page 61 Please) Early Deadlines COURT HOUSE - This newspaper's staff will be observing Memorial Day on May 27 like everybody else. That means early deadlines for news and advertising for the May 29 issue. News must be in our office by 5 p.m. Wedne^iay, May 22. Display and classified advertising have a 12 noon Thursday, May 23, deadline.

\iPtV. m mm4 Doris Ward . UNEASY RIDER — 15- month-old Jill Marie Moran doesn't look too thrilled with ». her first horse ride at the Hidden ValleyRanch in Cold Spring last weekend. Holding the baby, dad. Wayne; holding the horse, sister Kimberly Mary. 10. Mom. Doreen, successfully avoided the photographer. The family is from Wildwood Crest.

Vietnam Vets9 Parade Helped Erase Williams9 15-Year Hurt

By JOE ZELNIK "You can't erase a hurt in one day," said John R. Williams. But May 7 "went a whole long way." He took a day off from work, drove to Vineland, bused to New York City, and paraded through Lower Manhattan with 25,000 other Vietnam veterans. It was a belated welcome home party by a million people, and for former sailor Williams, "it was the most incredible thing I'd. ever seen. If I'd had to crawl down Broadway, I would have done it. "My eyes were wet the whole way through," he said. "I could hardly focus my camera." Like so many others, Williams, 37, a science teacher at Richard M. Teitelman School in Erma, had resented the lack of an official homecoming since he returned to his home of Harrisburg, Pa., in 1969, a 22-year-old veteran of four years in the service, 18 months in DaNang. WELL, THERE WAS sort of a homecoming. A man in the airport saw Williams, in uniform and wearing campaign ribbons, and called him a murderer. They had a fight. "It's been that way for the last 15

years," he said. "Fifty thousand guys died for other people that didn't have to go. But I felt the most for the guys who came back and were treated like I was. But I had a good family that kind of took care of me. "Lots couldn't get jobs. They were treated bad, they went into fespair, killed themselves. Fourteen percent of our prison inmates are Vietnam vets. "Nobody seemed to care whether we were there or not. It was a nasty experience all the way down the line. I always had a chip on my shoulder for the whole thing." HIS FATHER, now dead, in particular was supportive, Williams said. He saw and accepted a different son than had left home four years earlier. "I'd been quiet and mild-mannered in high school" said Williams. I came back mad as hell. I had a bad transition period. I wrecked a car, had fights. "I still tell you what I think, and do things my own way," he added. Williams got home on Dec. 23 and started school at Harrisburg Community College Jan. 3. He was "wild and woolly." Fellow students were younger and hated the war. But in his final two years, at Slip- - (Page 61 Pleaeei

WcLCO/A »L_ Ho A1 fc .1 W j, j? Doris Ward OUR HERO — John R. Williams came heme from the Vietnam veterans' parade to a family celebration. He holds sons Erin, left,- 6. and John Jr.. 4.

Toxic Dump Study Still Not Scheduled

By JOE ZELNIK SWAINTON — The Williams toxic dump situation is "back where it was eight months ago," according to Mark Brown in the office of U.S. Rep. William Hughes. Last September the congressman announced the availability of $540,646 in federal Super Fund money to do a Remedial Investigation Feasibility Study (RIFS) that would determine how best to clean up the site, discovered in 1979. Actually, a case could be made to say that everything is wherealwas 11 months ago, since that's when county freeholders interrupted their meeting to announce, with a cheer, the RIFS would begin in September (1984). Since then, nothing has happened. THE LATEST REASON was a proposal, plus law suit last fall by Wheaton Industries of Millville that, as a "potentially responsible party," it be allowed to do the RIFS. With the project then put "on hold," county Planning Director Elwood Jarmer protested to DEP that be couldn't unders-

tand the delay, points out that the county has banned development within a one-mile radius of the site. Thai ban was adopted by the freeholders on Feb. 10, 1984, 15 months ago. Initially they claimed it was the reason DEP "moved up" its RIFS schedule. No one is saying that any more. INSIDE THAT CIRCLE are 127 singlefamily dwellings, 44 multiple-family dwellings. and two campgrounds with a total of 1,550 sites, according to the Planning Department. The Blue Dolphin campground. in particular, has been threatening a lawsuit since last summer The two-pronged defensive measure includes a Health Department ban on well or septic permits and a Planning Department nix on site or subdivision plans. Although U.S. District Judge Stanley S. Brotman, Camden, has not yet ruled on the Wheaton suit, heard April 1, the EPA in late March rejected Wheaton and reestablished DEP as the "lead agency" to go ahead with the RIFS. DEP SOURCES told this newspaper this week that this will issue'a Request for Proposals (RFP) "before Memorial Day" to a group of contractors already qualified to do RIFSs. An attorney with Wheaton's Washington, D.C. law firm declined to speculate what would happen if Wheaton wins its suit after the DEP has awarded the contract to an outside firm. * The RIFS takes 9-12 months, the DEP source said. An EPA source said six months in an interview in March. And Clay C Sutton Jr., environmental program administrator with the county Health Department, said in an internal # memo in February that "we cannot guarantee that the RIFS will FIND the plume nor will we necessarily have good data by which to review the < development ) ban." BROWN SAID that DEP monitoring" of wells at the Williams site and off-site (Page 61 Please) i-insi^e ... . GEMINly ease your pace; Scor- I pio, learn to say no. Planetarily I Speaking, page 63. CHIP LAMEY reviews the newest rock and roll books. Sounds, page 46. THE FISH are big in size, small in numbers. Lou Rodio, page 48. LITTLE LEAGUE snafu in Dennis Township: letter, page 62. BETWEEN the (soap opera) sheets. Joyride III, page 63.