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Vol. 22 No. 3

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January 15, 1986

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inside... I COURT HOUSE nursing home finally opens, page 43. HOW can two pounds of chocolates turn into seven pounds of fat? Joyride, page 43. AVALON recall election turns readers into writers. Letters to the editor, page 42. MIDDLE sewage budget up 22 percent, page 5.

^ Cape May County's Twenty-Five Largest Taxpayers VMM— mmmm i ' ' Taxpayer in Which'Lcated Type of Business '^akia'tfoiT'1 New Jersey Bell County wide Public Utility J 5 7 , 6 0 1 , 8 2 0 Howard S. Staintin Corp Ocean City Department Store and Land Development 17, rj 1,320 ■ Hunt's Theatres, Inc Countywide Theatres and Amusements . ... 13, T93, 700 Atlaitic City Electric Countywide Public Utility 10,235,400 Sam Berman, Inc Ocean City Retail Store 8,741,110 ■ Charles aid Helen Schilling Ocean City Retail Stores 8,654,911 ■ Diamond Beach Motel Lower Township Motel and Restaurant 8,371,600 Flanders Hotel ii.J . Ocean City Hotel and Boardwalk Stores .. . 7,486,600 Grand Motel ,J Lower Township Motel and Restafrant 7,190,600 I Baguette, tot ..Lower Township Land 1...* 6,420,801 I Samuel and Josephine Ocean City Motels 6, 398, 500 I Charles Masciarella Countywide ....Motels 6,329,609 ■ Eugene Davotol Countywide JHo|efc.i.,.,...,. 5,166,911 I rpap p|y ■ 4 ■ . 1 .j. 4 .Hnlel and Motel :... 5,220,900 1 •Hlflli'"""' 5,too,i90 1 ■ Magton, Inc. ..... ,~?Vrv : , ■; 5. .8t*» Qtj Apartments tad Motel 4,990,111 Richard and Dorothy Raab Ocean dyTT^^ ... Offfcet Burdwaik 4,940.301 Stores and Lmd Robert Nilon J Wildwood Amusement Phr 1,517,101 BAF Corp Wildwood Crest Motel.....;.... 4,500,701 . *» I Beach Wave Entetprtses Wildwood Crest .Motel i 4 , 3 1 7 , 00 1 ■ EJ. Realty .,..J>wer Township Rental Properties 4,261,910 ■ Belansens, Inc. .. 1. . . .OJfltoeMay ..... ........ SnOfe. 4,174,300 Orristian Beacon Presu Cape May Miscellaneous Properties 4,117,111

Sachs Strategy: Bring Island Industries to County Airport

By JOE ZELNIK Three months into his new job, Walter S. Sachs Jr. has a wish list. "Im talking goals and objectives," he cautioned. "I don't want to create unfulfilled expectations early in the game." But if achieved, those goals could mean a changed local economy with more yearround jobs. Sachs took over as director of the county airport, airport industrial park, and economic development on Oct. 15. Already, he has proposed, and expects, a 25 percent budget hike, to $400,000 from $300,000. And he has filled an eight-month-old vacancy, hired one new person, and promoted another. The three make up his "middle management" group (he calls them "deputies" ) and the idea is that they will free him for what he considers his key focus: attracting new industry, especially to the airport industrial park. SACHS' PRIORITIES appear to differ considerably from those of his predecessor, A. H. (Rick) Childs, who was asked to resign last September. Childs, aviation-oriented, focused on the airport. Sachs said he has put a hold on plans to extend the airport's main runway to 6,000 feet from 5,000 feet. That would have cost $4 million, Sachs said, and, even though 95 percent of that presumably would be state and federal money, "Five percent is still a substantial amount. "The premise for spending money on the airport was to prepare for future oppor- ] t unities that ought to spin off from Atlantic < City," said Sachs. "That opportunity could

materialize, but getting ready for it won't make it happen. I'd rather react to than lead on that one." Sachs does intend to lead in what he sees as three potention major economic growth areas: • A "RELOCATION strategy" that would bring industry from the barrier islands to the airport industrial park.

• The "leisure industry." his preferred term for tourism. • "Low tech" (that's right, low techi that would emphasize the work of local artisans. Sachs' relocation strategy depends on making the airport industrial park more attractive, developing a master plan for it, (Page 41 Please)

k^NEWSflfc&Y DIGEST rf J,/ The Week's I II l // *»«»*» Dollar Days COURT HOUSE - If you've always wanted to see how county freeholders come up with an annual budget, those deliberations began Monday and continue all week starting at 4 p.m. in the freeholder meeting room in the county library office building. If you go and the door's locked, that's because freeholders last week passed a blanket resolution reserving the right to go into closed session if the topic under discussion involved personnel or land acquisition. No. i, And Counting COURT HOUSE - In their first caucus of the new year, county freeholders last Thursday unanimously okayed two resolutions to permit closed < "excluding the public") meetings. One set up a 4:30 p.m. secret session that day, and the other reserved the right to closed budget deliberations (see above) if they involve personnel or land acquisition. "This is No. 1," commented Freeholder James E. Kilpatrick Jr. as he offered the first closed meeting resolution, "and we'll see how many we nave this year. I'm glad somebody keeps a box score." He apparently referred to this newspaper's account last week of 41 closed sessions held in 1985. J Super Resigns COLD SPRING — Edward J Campbell tendered, and this Lower Township elementary school board accepted, his resignation as district superintendent during a special meeting Monday night The resignation is effective March 1. Board members voted unanimously to 'accept Campbell's resignation with one member leaving just before the vote, a source confirmed A new superintendent is expected to be named by July 1 with an interim appointee in the near future. Takes It to Make It COURT HOUSE — County Treasurer Philip R. Matalucci reports the county earned a record $2,476,582 on investments (Page 22 Please)

A Viet Vet Concerned About Others

By GREGG LAWSON Barbara J. ("B.J.") Rasmussen represents an often-neglected minority in America: the female war veteran. Rasmussen. of Cape May, was an Army nurse at the 93rd evacuation hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam, in the late 1960s. Today she's vice president of nursing at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital in> Court House and viqe president of the new South Jersey chapter 228 of the Vietnam Veterans of America (WA). WA aims at educating the public, advising veterans on educational, employment and counseling opportunities, and seeing Vietnam veterans take, their place in American society. Rasmussen said she joined because the 7,000 females who were sent to Vietnam "aren't considered veterans" and because, prompted by her nursing ex periences, she is concerned about helping other veterans. "I WAS COMING ACROSS people in my

job who were Vietnam vets and who were still having coping problems, drinking problems, drug problems, who weren't able to hold a job," she said. "One of my concerns was that there are limited resources available in the county and in South Jersey". Her organization, with assistance from the new Vietnam Veterans Center in Linwood, is working on new programs for Vietnam vetff in the county, Rasmussen said. Her group also is pushing for the recognition of female veterans, a group Rasmussen said has special problems. "A lot of wpmen are in the situation where they're in a marriage, or are a parent, and they're supposed to be able to cope," she said. "They're not supposed to suffer the same problems as the men did, or at least that's the thinking." BECAUSE OF THIS, she said, most facilities like the Veterans Administration hospitals are geared toward dealing with

and treating men. The same is true of social groups like the VFW and American Legion, she added. "These are social clubs, and are a good place to tell your war stories and get them out of your system," Rasmussen said. (Page 22 Please) a» v-- % •BJ.' RASMUSSEN In Vietnam. Left, and Today