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October 9, 1985

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Welcome to Cape May CAPE MAY — A number of persons at the county Chamber of Commerce annual banquet at the Golden Eagle Motor Inn last Wednesday emerged to find parking tickets on their cars on Beach Drive. It may have been Oct. 2, after dark, and a post-Gloria, mud-covered street, but a police officer was having "a field day." Chamber members were incredulous to learn that, unlike other county communities where meters are ignored after Sept. 1, Cape May perseveres from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. through the end of this month.

Association Cited COURT HOUSE - The Cape May Court House Neighborhood Association has been selected to receive a 1985 Environmental Achievement Award from the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions. Presentation twill take place in Princeton Oct. 26. The association was formed in December, 1984, to oppose the septic system of the proposed Court House Convalescent Center. The association won that battle, but still owes about $9,000 of $18,000 in costs for legal and engineering fees. It has more than 200 members Now Voters Decide COURT HOUSE - Middle Township committeemen decided last week to pay for a proposed police pension change in 25 annual installments rather than with a lump sun>t That's provided voters approve the\pension change on the Nov. 5 ballot. If they do, the installments of $93,731 will total $2,343,275 over 25 years while the lump sum would have been $1,080,870. Besides the installments, the township would pay $63,713 next year to change the pensions. (Page 17 Please)

Tom Pohlic MIAMI VICE! — Ryan and J.R. Golley, 14-month and 8-year-old sons of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Golley of Court House, check the view from behind the wheel of a boat at the Stone Harbor Marina October Boat Fest last week.

July Tourists Wanted Freebies

By JOE ZEI.NIK CREST HAVEN - The county Chamber of Commerce, which hates the phrase "off season." last week referred to July as an "off month" during the past season Although the chamber had a record year

— 94,201 persons at its main information center here, compared to 69,340 last year r — the tourist business was punk in July, rf Executive Director Robert C. Patterson n Jr. told guests at its annual banquet in the Golden Eagle Motor Inn in Cape May last r Wednesday.

"They were asking for free things." said Patterson, "free parking, free beaches, the free zoo. They weren't staying over night and they weren't eating " CALLING IT "PUZZLING." Patterson said that the chamber had ud to 800 per ( Page 69 Please >

—Freeholdei No Opposition Means ' I've Done My Job' OCEAN CITY — County Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick, Jr., a lawyer from this city, is running for a second three-year term in the Nov. 5 election on the grounds that he has done a good job. Since he has no opponent, Republican Kilpatrick is assured of reelection. "I like to think I've done something right in three years, that I've brought some ideas and skills in dealing with personnel that have benefited Cape May County," Kilpatrick said last week. He interprets the fact that the I Democrats are not running anyone against ■ him as indicating "I've done my job. and I I deserve a second term. "If I didn't do my job, I would expect ■ them (Democrats) to jump all over me.'" Kilpatrick rejected criticism that the ■ county has been slow to bring a communi- ■ ty college to the county; that the I vocational-technical school is dying and failing to meet the need for certain ■ tradesmen; or that the county holds too ■ many secret meetings and is slow to I release the minutes of them. "WE WILL PROBABLY NOT have a ■ recommendation until the spring or summer of 1986,'' Kilpatrick said of proposals ■ from Atlantic Community College and ■ to establish branch campuses in the county Kilpatrick guJUhe painty also has the

Campaign '85 W£WSk&£Mt The Job The five-member Board of Chosen Freeholders has broad powers and has organized county government into the following departments : Administration, public works, public affairs, county airport, health, human services. revenue and finance, education, courts, buildings and grounds, and public safety. This year's county budget totaled almost $42 million, about 66 percent of which comes from the equalized local property tax rate of 41 .6 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation That amounts to $4 16 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation That amounts to $416 for a per son with a home assessed at $100,000 Two members are elected at each general fall election, and one member every third year Terms are for three years. Pay for the part-time position is $15,750 a year The director makes $16,800 The board meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 8 p.m. and fourth Tuesday at 4:30. Caucus meetings are held on the I Thursday prior to each regular meeting at I 4. on the second Tuesday at 7, and on the | fourth Tuesday at 4 All are held in th^. I freeholder meeting room on the second I floor of the county Library Office Building in Cape May Court House. \

DEP Snafu r' Cited to Ok Wild woods Growth By JOE ZELNIK TRENTON — An apparent intradepartment snafu has the state Depart ment of Environmental Projection (DEP) banning new sewer connections in the Wildwoods and a tri-department state committee with the ultimate say approving them. "You're going to find this hard to believe," was the way FreeholderDirector Gerald M. Thornton prefaced his recent description of the situation. There's been a DEP ban on new sewer connections in the Wildwoods since last August, in response to a six-day closing of the ocean and bay waters blamed on pollution from over-capacity sewage treatment plants. AT ISSUE IS the application of the Eddy Motel Condominium at 505 E. 4th Ave. in North Wildwood to add 12 units to an existing 36. already condo'd. sold and renam . ed "A Shore View Motel." Edward Evanc»*k of Wildwood Crest is the developer. He did not return this newspaper's phone calls. DEP's Division of Coastal Resources, which administer the CAFRA (Coastal Area Facilities Review Acti. turned down Evanchyk's application in Aprils citing North Wildwood's over-capacity sewage treatment plant Evanchyk. represented by Trenton attorney Richard Hluchan. appealed to the CAFRA Review Board made up of representatives of DEP. the Department of Community Affairs, and the Depart - + (Page 69 Please)

Lower Sr. Class Trip Scrubbed CAPE MAY — Senior class trips have long been a staple of American high schools. Perhaps Conceived for their educational value, trips have become more "fun" occasions where students can have one last good time together As the emphasis has shifted, destinations have changed Thirty or forty years ago, seniors got on (Page 69 Please) inside... r~ .->• — ■ . m. . — a-, GLORIA'S aftermath. Pages 14-15 THE COUNTY'S lint artificial reef, and is it time for another one? Lou Kodia, page 24. THE SCHOLASTIC soccer, field •hockey, tennis and football scene; sports by Sue Mckinley. page 22. PORCELAIN: the most beautiful of ~ s man-made materials. Antiques by Ar- )/ fhurSchwerdt, page 52. . T )