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Heralt/ - Lantern - Dispatch 16 October '85

a* END OF SEASON SALE 30% TO 60% OFF Take Advantage Of Our Low Prices FANTASTIC Markdowns To Reduce Our Stock Prior To Closing • Winter Coats • Fall Suits in Pure Wool • Knit Costumes • Ultra Suede Coats and Suits • Sweaters and Sporswear • STONE HARBOR • 95TH. ST. OFF 2ND AVE. • OCEAN CITY • 9TH AND THE BOARDWALK

Stone Harbor's ^appaqofl2cys ANNUAL FALL _ / SALE BEGINS ^ 20% OFF ^ Fall Clothing and Shoes 237 96th St., Stone Harbor • 368-6141 Open Daily V^VVITH Jj]l)r HI/HI jf fl lf JL I C I Y fUt N /UN CAXUUfU Man.- Sat. 9:30-5:30. Sun. 11-4 95th & 2nd Aw. Stone Habor 368-6131 - 368-3488

HISTORICAL NOTE — Principals in lecture sponsored by Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society at County Library are. from left: Virginia Wilson, society president; Edward Michaud. who spoke on •'The Sindia"; Somers Corson, acting curator, and Mary Conover. chairman.

Aids LIFELINE

MOORESTOWN - Involve New Jersey. Inc.. a private non-profit, tax ex- ■*. empt corporation here serving the handicapped has recently announced the receipt of a $365,000 federal grant. Project LIFELINE will provide statewide training to the handicapped, their parents, agency, educational. legal, medical and community professionals. Information about educational and governmental assistance of services, employment and lifetime planning for handicapped individuals will be presented. LIFELINE conferences will first address Cumberland. Atlantic and Cape May couhties this month and continue throughout the state

over the next three years. Parents, professionals and community members are invited to attend this free training program at the Flanders Hotel in Ocean City. Oct. 22. 23. and 24. For detailed registration information contact the Involve office at 778-0599. This is the third federal grant in six years Involve has received for parent and community training. Involve has been designated as the Parent Information Center for the state of NewJersey by the U.S. Department of Education under P L. 98-199. As such. Involve provides information, refer ral. follow along coordination and direct intervention for the handicapped.

Epileptics Meet Thurs. VILLAS - Dr. Faith Walsh, a neurologist at Underwood Memorial Hospital, will address local epileptics, their families, friends and supporters during the initial meeting of the Epileptic Self-Help Group 7-8 p.m. tomorrow in the Lower Township Recreation Center. 2600 Bayshore Rd. here. According to founder Linda Kampmeier LPN, members of the Atlantic County self-help group from Shore Memorial Hospital will also be on hand. Supervisors, families with epilepsy, will likewise be there to mind children, she said. «,ne saia.

Batten < From Page 20 » bowed out in favor of Ocean City school board member Jeanne Gorman, a protege of Congressman William Hughes. About the same time. Batten said, he was offered the job of Wildwood solicitor if Earl Ostrander were elected. He was. though deposed later, and Batten served as solicitor for a year. He currently serves as Sea Isle prosecutor, a member of the resort's school board and as solicitor for the Dennis Township Planning Board. Batten caught the eyes of Iannone and Ostrander after he was credited with helping to trim $100 million from a $173 million rate hike requested by Atlantic Electric in 1982. He fought the hike for a local group called Stop the Electric Punch (STEP). He had just hung his legal shingle in Avalon the year before with $8,000 in borrowed money and won recognition that fall by fighting garage construction in Sea Isle for Save Our Seashore (SOS). "I JUST DIDN'T THINK I wanted to be rank and file Republican," he said of his fall 1982 switch in voter registration from the GOP to independent "The biggest reason was my continuing effort to get involved with the Republican Party in a meaningful way." the candidate recalled, "which was really impossible because of the numbers involved and the power structure. " He reregistered later as a Democrat Batten was born May 13. 1954 to Doris E i Donaldson i. a public school teacher for 37 years, and Raymond E Batten, a lifelong DuPont employe, when thev lived in Mullica Hill With his sister <now Karen E Schnee. a Rutgers law student > . the family moved to Avalon in 1969 where his mother taught at and he attended Middle Township High School During the school year. Batten played football, basketball and threw the javelin In the summers between 1969- 78. he was an Avalon lifeguard "It was the best paying job in town.' he said. "I'm serious; it paid more ($77 a week) than summer policemen." In the summers between 1973- '76. Batten also worked nights, checking IDs at the Rock Room of Matalucci's Princeton Grill.

Avalon. Ironically, that's also where he met his wife. Mary Frances (Boles), a former Seventeen magazine covergirl from Avon by the Sea in Monmouth County. They were married in October 1979 after • Batten was graduated from Delaware Law School. He completed his undergraduate work in politics at Princeton where he rowed with the heavy-weight crew The Battens have two daughters, Alexis Boles, 3Vi. and a recent arrival. Bryna Boles.

Amico i From Page 20) Democratic nomination in the senate race that Hurley also won. "I get the feeling you'd be more comfortable with the GOP but can't get in," this paper's interviewer told Amico. "THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. " the former Republican replied. He said Hurley told him after the 1981 election that he would never be a GOP candidate "They endorsed me." Amico said of the Democratic organizations in Cape May and Cumberland counties But Cumberland Democrats gave his running mate, Raymond Batten, the nod before they officially backed Amico. Born in Downstown, Gloucester County the candidate is the son of Ann and Samuel Amico. a poultry dealer The Democrat contender has one brother and five sisters He attended Vineland High School and has a couple years under his belt at LaSalle Extension University for law Amico started in business with Martin Steel fabrication company in 1968 but he recently sold controlling interests in it and other steel companies to devote more time to. politics and his security firm Amico entered the security business in 1972 and later began Titan Detective Ser vices Inc It employes about 100 people in Vineland. Wilmington. Del . and overseas as labor strike specialist, security guards, corporate and civil investigations, interna tional escorts for aviation services and counter-surveillance equipment Both Amico and his wife, Patricia, are licensed private investigators, he said. They have three children at home: Patrice. Kimberly and Albert Joseph