Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 11 December '85 67 — — .

Our Readers Write Blame It On Sloan To The Editor: I read with interest. Mary McBride's letter of November 27th in your newspaper. MRS. McBRIDE seems to blame Jim Busha for everything, but fails to mention that Rachel Sloan has been the Mayor of Avalon for the past two and a half years. That Mayor Sloan, because of bad judgment and down right incompetence. caused our sewer bills to double and our taxes to increase. But. of course. Sloan can always blame someone else. When the Mayor wasted S20.000.00 on the Pavillion fiasco, she blamed the construction department and anyone else convenient to receive the blame. When the Mayor refused free sand for our beaches and then bought road gravel, she also blamed everyone else. AM) MOST recently, when the borough spent $51,000.00 for a new roof on Borough Hall, which leaked on the veryfirst rainy day. she continued to blame others Well. Mrs. McBride. remember Rachel Sloan is the Mayor, and the buck should stop with her. but perhaps she can find someone else to. blame. JOSEPH DEL VESCIO AVALON 'Lighten Up' On Parking To The Editor: In reponse to your Nov. 20 article. ' Meters Stay." I. at no time, said I wanted the meters off. I did. however, ask council to look into the amount of money that was generated by paid parking summonses during September and October versus the meter maids' salary. I ALSO spoke of the extremely bad publicity, constant complaints and bad feelings that thousands of tourists have regarding tickets being issued after "The Season." when most meters along the beachfront resort areas were alreadyremoved or not in use. My statement was also in favor of leaving the meter heads on as usual t tickets do not generate more meter income directly), because most people will read the meter dates and put in their quarters I DID ASK council and Chief Stotz to perhaps relax the methods of the meter maids. Some have been seen waiting for the red flag to come up in order to write a ticket Some tickets. I understand, were written as late as 9:45 p.m . when most of the streets were empty. My whole point was to lighten up on the so-called harassing by ticket writers Let the people put their quarters in and if their walk on the beach or their lunch or dinner took 10 or 15 minutes more and their meter ran out. so what, let the people who came to see Historic Cape May go away happy and pleased that they got away with something for nothing. A rare thing today. P.S. MAYBE the meter maid hours next year could be 1 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. That would defray some of the summons ROSEMARY C. STUMPO CAPE MAY

The State (From Page 66) to continue to improve public transit opportunities, perhaps with some private options like rail and minibus service for small cities. And we need to reduce the favored treatment supplied to auto users. We especially need to equalize the subsidies by making auto users pay for mass transit services. SOMETHING ELSE we can do is preserve the right-of-way abandoned rail lines throughout New Jersey, for the day of fast, electrified light-rail transportation has to come, provided there is a place for the rails. We need onlylook to Los Angeles for the example of what was the country's best interurban rail service succumbing to efforts of rubber-tired lobbyists. The freeways won in Low Angeles and everybody's lungs lost. While I don't see much happening in the short term, transit-wise, it's clear that highway gridlock isn't far away for some parts of this state we're in. at least in commuter hours. There are no instant solutions for that one. but our long-range hope still lies with mass transit.

m WINNING WAYS — Bridget Henry. right, of Sea isle City, president of the Student Government Association of Cumberland County Community College, tells Joe McCulley. radio personality , how her team won the college bowl competition at a recent conference of The Association of College Unions. Region III. at Trenton State College. The CCC team swamped Columbia University team in the competition final. You Don't Know What It's Like To The Editor: This is an answer to Grace Bielkowski's letter in Ihe Nov. 27 issue. I AM SURE you are not a senior citizen and alone. Or have not been at the Millman Center to eat when we are serving meals. So how could you know what goes on? First of all. I am a volunteer 71 years old. Most of the people who come to eat are old and alone. They come to socialize and to have someone to talk to. SOMETIMES they bring in something they can't use. I& we can't use. we try to give it to someone who can. The day your letter was in this paper. 1 had a beautiful pair of slacks given to me which I can use. Was I supposed to throw the bag out? I don't know where you are getting your information, but come to the Millman Center, if you are old enough ■ 62 > . Or just visit and find out. MARY T. KERNON Villas i

Numbering Deadline March 3 COURT HOUSE - Township Committee has thanked the many residents and business establishments of Middle Township who have changed their numbers to comply with the uniform numbering system adopted and amended Sept 4. Norman Van Meter, postmaster of Court House, said. "I estimate that 75 percent of property owners ' have made the changeover and the program is continuing to run smoothly." Emergency squads, police and fire departments have been studying the new plan and believe that many of their past difficulties locating addresses will be relieved as soon as everyone displays the newnumbers. March 3, 1986, is the deadline for the display of the new numbers. Said numbers shall be at least three inches in height. Anyone who is still having problems is asked to call the construction official's i office at 465-4586 or the tax assessor at 465-4434. A $10 fine may be levied on any person who has not changed over by the deadline. Inspections for i uniformity will begin following the March date.

loyride III By Libby Demp Forrest O | "This place looks like a gypsy parlor." I said to The Hub by as I peered out from a sheet hanging in the doorway of I the living room. The Hubby was on a ladder in the hallway, chopping a hole in the ceiling No 2 came down the staircase- and headed for the kitchen. "Watch out for the ladder." I said "Huh?" said No. 2. "The ladder. ..." I said. / "Oh. I saw it." said No. 2. He paused for a moment and studied the sheets hanging from the doorways. "How come you've got sheets hanging all over the place?" No. 2 asked. "I'm going to open a fortune parlor." I said. "Huh°" said No. 2. "DON'T YOU THINK this place looks like a gypsyparlor?" I asked. "I don't know." said No. 2. "You never took me to a place like that." No. 2 stared at The Hubby at work. "How come y ou're chopping a hole in the ceiling?" asked No. 2. "I got tired of sitting around watching violence on TV." said The Hubby. "I thought I'd get violent with the ceiling." "Seriously." I said to No. 2. "remember that teeny tinylittle itsv bitsv leak we used to get from time to time'.'" "Yeah, it's been getting worse, hasn't it?" said No. 2. "It isn't teeny tiny little itsy bitsv anymore." 1 agreed. . Pieces of the ceiling started dropping onto the floor "Gang way. you fools. I'm coming after you." The Hub by called into the hole he was enlarging. "Are you talking to us?" asked No. 2. "No " The Hubby called down. "I'm talking to the bad guys in the ceiling. "He's funnv. isn't he''" No. 2 said to me. "HE LIKES TO KEEP things exciting." I said "What's happening up there.'" No. 2 shouted to The Hubby. "They've disguised themselves and they're running, but when this hole is big enough I'll get them." The Hubby shouted down: "I was going to watch TV for awhile." said No. 2. "but I like this show better." He sat down on the staircase and watched The Hubby at work . "Watch out below." The Hubby shouted down. "Better put a hard hat on. just in case one of these guys escapes." No. 2 went to the hall closet and found an old. hard baseball hat "How's this0" he shouted up to The Hubby "Okay." said The Hubby. "I've found their leader He's holed up in the hot water pipe "

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