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Our Readers Write Unprepared For Evacuees To The Editor: / You are already aware of the evacuation order that took place at the Wildwood High School on Sept 26 at 8 p.m The Five Mile Beach bus took people to the First Baptist Church in the Court House vicinity There. 75 or more overly tired people went hungry and thirsty. There was no place to sleep except the floor or to put your head on a table. No one knew the church was going to be used so there wasn't enough nourishing food furnished. BELIEVE US. although we all worked together to do the very best we could, we feel it was quite unfair to ha ve been in such a situation at this one. The broadcasters elsewhere had announced other evacuation shelters were supplied with better facilities for sleeping such as cots, etc. and better supplied with nourishing food than the First Baptist Church I feel people must be sound in body and mind to keep up their morale and spiritual well-being as much as possible in this type of stressful situation. We at this particular evacuation site were not distributed the proper nutritious food b\ the Red Cross until an hour and a half before we were told to board buses and return ourselves to our Wildwood - North Wildwood homes THE RED CROSS arrived at 4 p.m. Friday, and at 5:30 we were able to return home with the help of Fare Free Transportation. We feel if the authorities knew the church was going to be used as an evacuation shelter, they should have been prepared to help out Thursday after they received the evacuation order. YVONNE and LEONARD WITCHEY DOROTHY and JOHN BRAZEL1S GEORGEANNA BELL GINGER PATON Great Publicity To The Editor. The 1985 Wings n Water Festival was an enormous success and. on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the m Wetlands Institute, thank you for the terrific press coverage provided by your newspapers. The tabloid section is a vital part of our public information and I'm sure that a great many of the 5,000 people who attended the Festival read about it in the Herald-Lantern-Dispatch. The art work and layout was beautiful I've heard many comments on the great publicity we had this year. CINDY O'CONNOR Festival Coordinator The Wetlands Institute Middle Township Business Leader To The Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Herald-Lantern-Dispatch and. in particular. Alan Morris of your staff, for the excellent news coverage you afford Middle Township. - We have received many good comments from our citizens schools and organizations about your newspaper You are to be commented as a business leader in our community and for its outstanding information and news contributions to the residents of Middle Township. MICHAEL J. VOLL Mayor Middle Township

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Alarming Disease: Extravagance (ED. NOTE: Following remarks were made on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on May 6. I9jJ. by Rep. Frederick Gillet (R-Mass) in support of a one-half of one percent income tax on those making Sl.000 t4.000 a year.) The main reason that I offer this amendment is that I think it would be an antidote to what is one of the most alarming diseases which we all recognize here today in Congress, the disease of extravagance I think everyone will admit that the last few years the tendency of national expenditure has been constantly increasing to an extended which the great mass of the people do not trouble themselves about and do not appreciate, and I can see no brake for the constant progress of that expenditure expect some such provision as this. The great mass of the people of the country do not appreciate that they are paying the expenses. They look upon the National Government as a great reservoir of wealth from which they extract as much as they can for , their district or for their enterprises without any cost to them; and in recent years there has been a prodigious increase of Federal activities. MOST OF I S probably approve of that increase. It is doing much for the country in every way. but it is costing money. It is making a constant necessary increase in our expenses, and it is changing the attitude of the people toward the Federal Government so that they are constant demanding more and are reckless of expense. Today every Congressman has a call from his home constituency to get all of the money that he can out of the Treasury for his district. His people do not pay much at1 j

Township, and publicly stated that we needed a change of government. The resolution I presented was seconded by Jack Moran. Tom Clydesdale also voted for it. It was only three short years ago. How can my opponents Jack Moran and Tom Clydesdale forget such a history making decision so conveniently? How can my opponents, in all good conscience, mislead the public with fabricated tales? Remember the true facts are public record I'm running for the Council-at-Large position because Lower Township is my home and it is where my heart is. I want to continue to work for the benefit of Lower Township, its taxpayers and residentsJ as I have always done in the past. M. M PEGGIE BIEBERBACH North Cape May

Quality, Not Quantity Tells To The Editor: Contrary to what my opponents say, I was never bitter or fully opposed to council/manager form of government. My main concern was and has always been the residents and taxpayers of Lower Township. I questioned the monetary burden, taxwise, that the residents of Lower Township would be paying to support five council members and a manager. The alternative that I suggested and issued to the various news media was a three-member council and an administrator. Good government does not depend on the quantity of people on council, but on the quality of people on our governing body. TOWNSHIP RECORDS will show that in 1982. it was I who offered the resolution to do a charter study in Lower (ED. NOTE: Tomorrow. Oct. 17. is the final deadline for political letters prior to the Nov. 5 election. To prevent unfair, last-minute charges, no political letters will appear after next week's issue. )

f . Letters Welcome The Herald. Lantern and Dispatch welcome lettiers to the editor on matters of public interest. Originals, not copies, are requested. Writers must sign name, address and phone number ^ * tention to what he votes for other districts. They do not care how much logrolling he does, how willing he is to pledge his vote to some reckless extravagance in some other portion of the country; so long as he gets what they want for their own district they are satisfied.

-And Vacation at Vo-Tech

Frequent Fare-Free Freebies?

By JOE ZELNIK Based on my reputation for accurate shooting from the hip, the county has retained me as a consultant to recom mend simple solutions for complex problems PROBLEM No 1 : No one wants to run the county's Landing Strip Restaurant in the county airport terminal SOLUTION: Guarantee a large clientele There are 140 county employes working at the airport Another 115 will be coming as soon as the courts temporarily relocate So. . distribute employe meal tickets giving them half-price at countv-owned restaurants This might even assist a bit with PROBLEM No. 2: No one wants to pay $15,000 to lease the Grange Restaurant in Historic Cold Spring Village, where the previous operator paid $7,500 and says he lost money SOLUTION: LOCAL restaurateurs must be made to understand that raising prices when business is bad is as American as apple pie. The U.S. hotel industry responded to reduced 1984 hotel occupancy with a 5.5 percent increase the first half of '85 And the auto industry, anticipating a soft '86 market, has instituted the sharpest price increases in years. How else minimize the anticipated decline in profits? Potential Grange Restaurant operators must be assured that the county's goal is for the village to be a year-round attraction. PROBLEM No. 3: How do we convince a restaurateur who says he can't wait that long"' SOLUTION: SHOW HIM our plans to attract crowds. That $250,000 state grant for a maritime museum is a drop < in the bucket. We need sexier projects I've got blueprints for a submarine ride through sharkinfested waters that will draw people from the entire East Coast We build a small artificial lake and the .sub runs on a track while locally -captured shark snap at its windows I also recommend a reptile house to appeal to the 1 female tourist The freeholders will like this because i snakes are cheap But. get this. 1 would build a 111-story i | reptile house, making it higher than the 110-story world's tallest building in Chicago. After all. who wants to see i snakes curled up when you can stretch em out7 The com- i

bination of reptile house and world's tallest building is a natural tourist attraction Only problem, none of the freeholders has a relative or close friend who can handle the $40.000-a-year job of snake charmer PROBLEM No. 4: Fare-free transportation is stagnant SOLUTION : Revamp the entire operation, which hasn't been the same since Jack Salvesen left, by getting on the "frequent flier" bandwagon Rent-a-car companies and even hotels are copying this airline promotion, which flourishes on the natural greed of business people who travel first-class on the company and reap personal freebies Locally, we can encourage ridership by giving coupons good for a free night at the eight-unit motel operated by the vo-tech school at Crest Haven PROBLEM No 5 The county has more than $25 million in cash, thanks partially to a recent borrowing of more than $16 million for some projects (Crest Haven nursing home and courts renovation the most notable) that are years away. In the meantime, the money is invested, but interest rates arefalling and the highest the county got recently was just under 8 percent SOLUTION: WE CAN double that by having the county issue local credit carcte, which are booming. Visa-Master, for example, had an oustanding balance of $53 4 billion at the end of 1984, a 38 percent increase over '83. The average outstanding balance was $815, up 16 percent over last year. And the interest rates, in most cases, are 18-21 percent The county can charge 16 percent, which will double its earnings and still save the public a couple percent. FINAL PROBLEM : Lack of a coherent work-pay policy for employes at times of snow, hurricane, national ' disaster, etc. The county was correct not to pay cowards who chose to huddle in their subsurface game rooms ( with wet bars » as Gloria breezed by. rather than going about their normal duties of mowing lawns, tarring roofs, spraying mosquitoes. whatever. Future policy will be clear and concise. The only excuse for failure to report is death (your own). And two weeks notice will be required.