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SINEWS llNs / DIGEST (7/ Ifi/ Week's // // II ***** Hold That Chainsatv! COURT HOUSE - Hurricane Gloria took its toll of trees in the Cape last week. If your stately sycamore or sweet cherry was among them, and you can't bear to see it chain-sawed into firewood, the county Extension Service, Route 585 here, has a booklet on how to save uprooted and limb-lo6t friends. Ask for "Storm-Injured Trees' by landscape design specialist Raymond P. Korbobo. Child's Successor? COURT HOUSE - Freeholder Herbert Frederick told this newspaper he has "talked to a couple people," but done no formal interviewing for the county's vacant economic development director post. The county forced A.H. (Rick) Childs out of his job as director of economic development and the county airport on Sept. 6, but has never said why. And Childs has yet to resign in writing. Frederick said economic development was "my main concern right now, but I hope for an assistant with airport management and fiscal (Page 61 Please) A PLACE erf one's own, strangely reminiscent <rf home. Joyride, page ' SEASON'S last water quality chart Page 59. HURRICANE Ctoria photos, pages H-34. i EVERYTHING you ever wanted to Bjjgiow about sewers and never dared K WUdwood News Notes, page I .SDMI unusual fish reports. Lou Mb™*

Gary Rudy DEMOLISHED — Robert Lee of Gloucester City looks to see if anything is salvagable from his Reeds Beach cottage, smashed by Hurricane Gloria last Friday. No one was in it at the time. Other pictures on pages 31-34. But From 50 Miles Off Shore

Gloria 'Eyes' County

"We were lucky," everyone said. "Thank God," many added. Those were the most-heard comments after Hurricane Gloria spared the county last Friday. Packing 130 miles-per-hour winds and 300 miles wide, the storm crept northward, hugging the U.S. East Coast, but in Cape

May County it was a relatively gentle hug instead df a bearhug Wind gusts of 75 mph s were reported, but the storm's eye api parently was 50 miles off shore. AS A RESULT, a summer homes at i Reeds Beach were destroyed, a number handful of Cape May's ocean-front 5 (Page 4 Please)

County Eateries Lack Chefs By JOE ZELNIK Two county-owned restaurants closed last weekend with a bad tast^ in some mouths - and it wasn't garlic. The Landing Strip restaurant in the county airport terminal in Erma closed Sunday. The Grange restaurant at Historic Cold Spring Village closed Monday Previous bid solicitations failed to find new tenants for either and the county has no current prospects, although it will reconsider its specifications and "try to make them a little more attractive," according to Purchasing Agent Edmund Grant. MR. AND MRS. ROBERT PETERSON had operated the Landing Strip for four years and two months, Mrs. Peterson had high praise for "lots of really good customers," but no comment about her landlord, the county. She said she had not bid on a new lease — minimum bid of $6,757 — because of "high overhead." There had been one bidder. Patricia Gift of North Cape May, on Sept 9. But after two meetings with the county, she bowed (Page 4 Please)

~F or Governor" 5 Kean Unavailable Shapiro Starved ED. NOTE: Unsuccessful efforts to interview Gov. Kean in person, or on the telephone, began in mid-August. He never made himself available and the story (Page 42 Please) « ragi? i : lease)

Shapiro Lists Issues He'd Solve Faster

Peter Shapiro is 33, looks younger, and calls his youth "one of my greatest strengths. People think it means limitless horizons." The Democratic candidate for governor says he'll be "far more aggressive than (Republican incumbent) Tom Kean, 50. "I'll move faster and more forcefully. Government has to be willing to try different things." In an interview Aug. 28, possibly before some issues had yet to sur-

face, Shapiro said his appeal to Cape May County voters would focus on the environment, toxic waste, auto insurance rate$, higher education, senior citizens and property taxes. He also attacked the credibility of the governor. "WHATEVER GOV. KEAN says now, it's probably safe to believe the opposite," : i i i i

Kl PETER SHAPIRO

Kean Cites Good Times, New Pride

Gov. Thomas H. Kean is the odds-on favorite to win a second fouryear term on Nov. 5. A Republican, his support apparently cuts across party lines and includes such traditional Democratic constituencies as labor and blacks. Why? Explanations offered include the views that the state is enjoying prosperity, Kean's administration has hurt no one, and he looks like a hero

compared to his unpopular Democratic ■ predecessor. Brendan Byrne. COUNTIANS ALSO SAY South Jersey I has done better than ever before in receiv- 1 ing state appointments. Kean's administration has been relative- 1 ly scandal-free, although the director ofl the Division of Motor Vehicles recently I resigned amid charges of contracts award- 1

Campaign '85 Interviews |y «___«. y f I ' I BB <Myr!rffv —

he said. "He said he'd cut the corporation < tax from 9 percent to 4.5. He didn't touch it. He said he'd veto an increase in the income | tax. It went up as much as 40 percent j (from 2'/2 to 3Vj percent). He said he'd « lower the sales tax. He increased it from 5 ( percent to 6." Those taxes. Shapiro said, have helped j the state amass a surplus that "exceeds , $600 million." In his first major policy | statement, given the day after this interview, he proposed to use $500 million for a , 15 percent across-the-board property tax , cut for an estimated 2.5 million people. | Yes, the property is a local tax: county, , I school and municipal. But Shapiro's pro- , (Page 42 Please)

ed to Republican contributors. Kean has been reluctant to debate his op- I ponent, Democrat Peter Shapiro, but that I the normal position of incumbents who I no need to share their limelight or risk I their lead. Kean literature claims he's responsible I for prosperity, better schools, less crime, I environmental cleanups, and a "new I pride" in New Jersey. KEAN'S FATHER served in the House I of Representatives from 1939 to 1959. His I official biography reports that another of I ancestors, William Livingston, was the I state's first constitutional governor I (1776-1790) who also set the record fori (Page 42 Please)

GOV. THOMAS KEAN