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Our Readers Write No Reason For Recall To The Kditor: Robert Fineberg, solicitor to the borough of Avaion and the planning board, is most probably right when he states. "I feel the Board is being asked to look into this for political purposes, and I will not be a part of it." I agree. Indeed the recall movement seems not to be inspired by any premeditated, malicious, or dishonest act of the mayor. There are no lies, no corruption, no fraud. Nothing Mayor Sloan has done seems adversely to have affected the average citizen of Avaion. The mayor has freely admitted that she has made some mistakes, and she accepts responsibility for them. These were made involuntarily and in the honest and determined pursuit of her sworn duties. TIIK RECALL PROCEDURE, however, will harm the citizens the Avaion It will, if successful, set a precedent for removing from office, even without sufficient cause, any mayor or elected borough official who does not satisfy the interests of certain segments of the community. It will also sunder the community into rival factions, as is already becoming sadly evident Some are even trying to bring ethical considerations into the controversy, and I am surprised that the Board of f Kthics has even consented to consider the case, but I suppose they have no choice. ElhiO. as we know it. comes from a Greek word "ethos" character From earliest times it has been linked closely to morals and the treating of moral questions, especially in the church. Today it has In-come humanized and encompasses the science of human duty in its widest extent including civil, political, and even international law. To say there is something unethical about the way our mayor pursues her duties is to assail her very self. TO BK UNETHICAL the acts concerning which she is accused must have been damanging to the citizens of Avaion; moreover, those acts must Ik- the actual cause of the resulting damage, not just the occasion i.e.. the "moratorium." of unhappy memory, was only the "occasion" which led finally to the building of the new holding tank; the "cause" was the pollution in the bays! The State and the mayor were eminently correct — who wants pollution'' The damaging act must be formally unjust, that is. committed in the full knowledge that it is an unjust act. and with the deliberate intention to violate justice Without this condition, the act is not a fully voluntary act. and therefore cannot involve ethical responsibility I am con- < Page 67 Please)

Frothing nt the Mouth To The Kditor: » I find it a shame men like Kdwin Peulner (Aug 28 column: "Live-Aid Fans Cheapskates") are able to hold responsible and influential positions, but then again, one needs to look hard and long for traces of morality and sanity in the nation's capital. ^ The phrase, "guitar-bashing bunch of orange-coiffed wcirdballs" in reference to the rock and roll stars of Live Aid. IS much too close for me to the frothing at the-mouth lunacy that arms itself with a gun or a government in order to shoot a president or oppress a people This man Feulner needs to crucify what he doesn t understand and or approve of. and to keep his column out of your newspaper would Ik- a service to readers on any side of the proverbial fence. TKKKY O'NEILL Anglesea

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'Smut' Headline Inflammatory To The Editor: I was sorry to read your inflamatory headline 'Smut Board Looks Like Lonely Job," deadling with the Community Standards Review Board. Several things about the headline detract from E.J. Duffy's fine article. First, the CSRB is no "smut board". It is a body constituted by our Council to survey and accurately record the standards of the people of Lower Township on the matter of pornography. Calling it a "smut board" demeans its honorable purpose. The people of Lower Township made very clear in the petitions that were presented to the Council, that they had concern for the dignity of people and a desire to stay within the Constitutional framework of "Miller v. California." The people showed that they did not want women treated as objects, or to have our young people taught that violence against women is in some way erotic. Sadly, some feel that the work of the CSRB is that of censorship. I believe that the work of the Board is not to censor the free and open discussion of ideas. Rather, it is when those ideas manifest themselves in the movies, magazines, and other practices associated with porn that we have left the arena of free and open discussion of ideas and begun to accept the application of those ideas. We have those in this country who advocate the horrible and immoral apartheid. They have a right under the First Amendment to hold and espouse those ideas ( repulsive as we find them). Still, our understanding of civil rights forbids the application of those beliefs in discrimination or other forms of violence against a race of people. Porn is the practice of treating people as objects; a new 'Page 67 Please) Is That Smell of Salt? To The Editor: In light of recent events in Wildwood. a few questions come to mind about sewage in Avaion. Why is it that the bacteria counts from Avaion are taken at 8th and 21st Streets, but not again until 83rd Street? What about the 60 blocks in between? Let's see some readings from the beaches surrounding our new "Pollution Protection Project", i.e., our new sewage pipe at 30th Street. Our family has been coming to Avaion for 15 years and this summer there has been more than the smell of salt in the air on our beach. MARY MONAHAN GLYNN Avaion Villanova. Pa

-Check Your Church Envelopes — Summer' s Bizarre Events

By JOE ZKI.NIK Wasn't that a helluva summer? Did you ever see so many strange happenings between Memorial Day and Labor Day? Almost everyone has commented, for example, that this summer seemed to go faster than any previous one And they were right' I did some research and found that the last week in June and first week in July never happened Think about it . do you remember hearing any 4th of Julyfireworks'' Look at your checkbook or payroll stubs or church envelopes or whatever and you'll see This caused havoc for a number of people who missed their mortgage or car payments as a result Plus, think of . the poor souls who need 20 weeks to collect unemployment AMONG TIIK MOST bizarre events of the summer: Wildwood Mayor Vic Di Sylvester attacked that American institution, the t -shirt shop. Based on complaints from mere tourists, who could always go back where they came from if they didn't like it here, the mayor had the nerve to grumble about prices and obscene messages. I can assure the mayor that only one question counts when it comes to t-shirts: all-cotton or 50-50? In a Cape May restaurant, an inexperienced cook at the beginning of the season burned the heck out of a piece of fish. The owner, under extreme pressure to make enough money in 10 weeks to take his wife on a winter cruise, took a chance and served it anyway. He told the customer, a South Philadelphian. it was "blackened redfish." It is a well-kept secret that most fish tastes almost as bad as it smells. The burning had taken away the awful taste and the customer was delighted. Word-of-mouth soon had tourists flocking to the restaurant to order the same delicacy. Of course other restaurants imitated its success, and by Labor Day 173.000 pounds of burnt fish had been served to tourists. IN NUMMY. a small settlement a stone's throw from Menz Restaurant, residents attempted to stage a King Nummy Festival. The festival committee invited the remains of the Iroquois tribe to come to the community and do whatever it is Indians do nowadays.

The county got wind of the whole thing, became concerned that the festival would compete with Cold Spring Village, where it is desperately trying to show a profit, and bought the tiny (two-acre) plot "that was Nummy (for $7,500 an acre) The county then tried to relocate the festival to Cold Spring Village, but the Indians refused A barbershop quartet from Newark was substituted and the whole thing flopped. In North Wildwood. Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, residents were ordered to limit flushing to three per day or face stiff fines Most complied, but urologists reported a bevy of bladder infections from holding too long A CONSUMER GROUP in Court House filed an $8-million class action suit against the county Health Department, charging sodium (salt) in county water was prematurely rusting their cars. Health Officer Louis Lamanna couldn't be reached to comment. He was off organizing a chain of auto body shops. In Avaion. a group of citizens began a recall drive against the incumbent mayor, charging she was personally responsible for gnats, sandflies, mosquitoes, high waves, air pollution, horseshoe crabs, tourists, noxious odors, poor surfing, a golf course shortage and spicy foods. A West Wildwood man got a telescope for his birthday and discovered "No Man's Island" in Grassy Sound. He got together with a Realtor and within a week a new condo development called "Villas of Sunset Shores by the Tranquil Sea" was proposed. It's described as "close to beach, restaurants and shops," and two-bedroom units start at $176,000. a pre-construction price. FINALLY, normally sedate Stone Harbor was shocked with disturbances throughout the summer. Each weekend, hundreds of tourists, looking in vain for Hahn's Restauant, demolished almost two years ago, wandered into Hillary's Ice Cream, ordered beers, got rootbeer floats, and rioted. For next season, borough council is considering an overhead walkway that would lead tourists from Hillary's to Fred's, a drinking establishment owned by the mayor