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Norm Lochten, township code enforcement official, was the guest speaker at the Middle Township Chamber of Commerce meeting at the County Library Jan. 6. He spoke about a proposed mercantile license ordinance for Middle Township. He said there is not enough control of the movement and practices of business in the township. Lochten stated that a mercantile license ordinance is needed to control the business activities better and for easier enforcement of local, county, and state laws. IT WOULD require all business owners to pay their taxes as they come due and would result in a saving on legal C06ts. The general public and business community would be protected. A continued certificate of occupancy would be required which would give the local construction official's office the opportunity to inspect an applicant's electrical wiring and plumbing to ensure it meets the building code. ;AU persons, partnerships, and corporations would be required to apply -at the Township Clerk's office to conduct business in the township. There would be an initial fee of $50 for the first year with a renewal fee of $25 for each year thereafter. The construction official's office and the police department would enforce the ordinance. NONPROFIT organizations, veteran clubs, peddlers, transient merchants, and yard sales would be exempt. Chamber members who voiced their opinions regarding the license criticized it. Included among their comments were that it would create another bureaucracy within the system which would continuously increase the township office staff which in turn would increase an-

? nual fees to outrageous , proportions, t IT WOULD, they said, J penalize the honest, harde working businessperson f and mean more goyenf - mental control/over - legitimate businesses. It r would create a monopoly of another office and the pi*ot posal should be droppea, - they maintained. f One chamber member informed Lochten and the - 35 members in attendance i that Middle Township had ■ a mercantile license ordinance from 1940 to 1944. t The chamber will have a i discussion of the proposed license at a future meeting I at which time a vote will be ' taken among its members - on the issue. i Committeeman Charles - Leusner is against the merI cantile license. However, I Mayor Mike Voll and Committeeman James Alexis are in favor of the ordinance, according to sources at Township Hall. • • • The Middle Township High School Key Club will sponsor a pancake breakfast in the MTHS cafeteria 7 to 11 a.m., Jan. 25. Tickets will be available at the door. THE FIRST and second place winners in each of the five divisions of the Christmas Coloring Contest sponsored by the Middle Township Recreation Department will each receive McDonald's gift certificates and a winner's certificate while each of the third place winners will receive a winner's certificate. The winners in the fourth grade division, all students at Elementary School 3, are Kendra Licata. first; Shannon McMullen, second ; and Colleen Kosloski, third. The winners in the third grade division, students at Elementary School 1, are Trevor Hamann, first; Megan Eckstein, second; Josie O'Connor, third. THE WINNERS in the second grade division, also

students at Elementary School 1, are Heather Gallagher, first; Nathaniel Parsons, second; Lindsey Elliott, third. The winners in the first grade division are Jenny Wolfson, a student at Star of the Sea School, Cape May, first; Clay Compton, Dennis Township Elementary School, second; Elizabeth Tinney, Elementary School 1, third. The winners in the kindergarten division, students at Elementary School 1, are Heather Hand, first; Ryan Camp, second; and Bonnie Elizabeth Shepherd, third. CHUCK WERNER, marketing director for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus of Deland, Fla., was the guest speaker at a recent Court House Kiwanis Club meeting. He said that his circus is the world's largest under one biglop and it is "on the road" providing family entertainment to 120 towns 32 weeks a year. The three-ring circus, which gets a new "big top" every two to three years and has performing elephants, can seat approximately 3,500 people during one performance. Werner asked the club to sponsor his circus and sell tickets to its performances. The club's board of directors voted and approved the sponsorship of the circus. The club will also form a committee to find a location within the Court House area for the circus to set up its "big top" during its visit. Werner was awarded an appreciation certificate by Bob Hodges, president of the local Kiwanis Club. Betty Jean Jesuncosky and Jim Dramis decorated the Middle Township Chamber of Commerce Christmas Tree, located on the traffic island at the intersection of Magnolia Drive and Dennisville Road, Court House, during the holiday season.

• • • ASSISTANT Tax I Assessor Nina Simpson and her husband Joe spent the holidays visiting their daughter Jo-Ann McCausland and husband Richard in Guantanamo, Cuba. Richard is stationed in the navy there. Only military personnel and their families are permitted to travel to that location. The Simpsons traveled there with two other family members. Nina said that the temperature was in the 90s during most of their 18-day visit there. There were three movie theatres and only one television station for entertainment. Elfreda Andrea of Ocean City was reappointed to a two-year term as a member of the County Election Board in Court House. She is also the Democratic State Committee woman and secretary to the Election Board. THE MTHS GIRLS' Tennis Team awarded Dr. Ted Johnson, school superintendent, with its Championship Jacket Jan. 3. Coach Dennis Campbell accompanied the Cape Atlantic League Champions in this honorary presentation. Johnson enjoys playing tennis and played it with the members of the winning team while they were practicing during the season for their competitive games. He, along with Campbell and Hunter Anderson, a bus driver; assisted the girls with their training program. Johnson is looking forward to working with the boys in the spring, schedule , permitting. Both Bob Steck, district data processing coordinator for Middle Township Schools, and Mayor Voll have shaved off their mustaches for the new year. The new trend in our township has apparently stopped with the two of them; as all other men, in-

cluding myself, who wear facial hair above our kips intend to keep it throughout 1986 according to my interviews. THE MARCHING Band of MTHS scored an 88.6 to place second in its field show competition and show in the Holiday Bowl Christmas Parade in downtown San Diego, Calif. Dec. 21. In the halftime show during the Holiday Bowl Game Dec. 22, the band members, along with another 1,200 from other schools from across the country grouped into Christmas trees and sung holiday songs. One of the memorable moments of the trip was during their stay in Califor-

nia when one of the three buses carrying one third of the group of 135 from Middle Township broke dov/n on its way to Knott's Berry Farm. This group was enjoying the sights and sounds of California Freeway Traffic while the groups on the other two buses enjoyed the food and amusements at Knott's. The group on the "so-called" doomed bus never got to Knott's. The entire group did? enjoy trips to the San Diego Zoo and Sea World. MTHS Band Director Richard P. Ludwig, along with Dane Dufour, MTHS Principal John McVey. and school board member Ben Weimer. accompanied the band on the trip, Dec. 19 to 23.

How to Make Use Of Form SSA-1099

Every person who received or repaid any Social Security benefits during 1985 will receive a Form SSA-1099, Social Security Benefit Statement, during January 1986, Del Brooks, Social Security manager in Wildwood, said recently. Form SSA-1099 will show the amount of Social Security benefits the person received during 1985. Form SSA-1099 should be used just as any other form 1099 received from a financial institution should be used when the person completes his or her Federal income tax return for 1985, Brooks said. STARTING WITH Social Security benefits paid in 1984, people who have substantial other income may have to include up to half of their Social Security benefits in their taxable income. Included with Form SSA-1099 will be IRS Notice 703. This is a worksheet that people can complete to see if any of their Social

Security benefits may be subject to Federal income tax. PEOPLE WHO still have questions about the information shown on Form SSA-1099 after they read the explanation on the form itself can call the toll-free telephone number shown on the form. People who have questions about tax liability or figuring income tax should call the nearest office of the Internal Revenue Service at the number shown on the back of IRS Notice 703 if they cannot findithe answer in IRS publications. Saving Kd\ babies is ^Vy our goal! jfe-'

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