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Our Readers Write Would Jersey Sort , Crush? To The Editor: Just had a chuckle, over a flashback of my. trip to California last spring. In Cupertino, just outside of San Jose, resides an old friend from Pennsylvania named Bucky. One Saturday, after a ride in his Ferrari and a look around the Apple Computer Complex, he suggested we do something really exciting. "Let's take all the crap out in the garage to the Recycling Center! " (Those Californians sure know how to have fun! ) So, into the Mercedes sedan went many a saved grocery bag full of glass, sorted by color. ( Mouton Cadet-Green. Bud Lite-Brown, Vinegar & Oil-Clear, etc....) THE RECYCLING CENTER was small but very clean, consisting of 10 huge dumpsters on a paved 4 acre. The procedure was obvious, so Hook a recycled grocery bag full of brown glass and dumped it into the dumpster that was full of brown glass. A young yuppie threw me a look that said "Transplanted New Jerseyite". As I returned to the car to get another fun bag of glass in the color of my choice. I saw why I had gotten the dirty look. Everyone else was taking out the bottles one at a time and smashing them against the far wall of the container. OK. I'll do it your way, I thought. After several minutes, someone came up to me and showed me the cute little set of cutting pliers hanging on a chain from each dumpster. and how everyone else was cutting off the little metal rings that stay on the bottles when you remove the cap. That's when I hit the dirt. NO WAY ARE people going to pre-sort, de-metal-ring-ize, and crush garbage after hauling it across town in their luxury sedan, on their Saturday off, without being held at gunpoint. Yet, a search of the grounds turned up no guards, the fellow at the gate was unarmed, and some of the depositors were actually smiling! Transplanted New Jerseyite indeed; so what if your community has dumpsters full of clean glass to sell to help run the city and keep taxes down. And so what if your citizens feel responsible for their community and the en vironment. you still can't make a decent hoagie out there... BOB HERTZLER Villas Buy 'East of Pittsburgh' To The Editor: ' The Concerned Citizens of Cape May are deeply troubled by the rapid growth of Cape May City The problems of traffic congestion and drinkable water continue to grow It would seem that the city's growth should be checked WE WISH TO encourage the Cape May City Council to go forth with a proposal to investigate the possibility of acquiring the areas commonly known as "East of Pittsburgh." The city needs open space and this area would be perfect for recreational use rather than residential housing. We urge residents to contact the city to express their t support for this. CRAIG VAN BEAL Secretary Concerned Citizens of ^ Cape May

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Gambling Industry: A Cancer on Society To The Editor: President Reagan said he might be a prude for suggesting that states raise money the legitimate way and not through gambling, but if he is prude, I guess I am too. Unfortunately our state has both forms of vice, lotteries, and what is worse, casino gambling. Furthermore, there seems to be no end to this decline, to this cancer on our moral fiber. Now. our casino interests are not content with things as they are and are pushing for 24 hour-a-day gambling, once they have the poor gambler in their grasp, they don't want to let him out of the door, he might come to his senses and not come back. AN INDUSTRY based upon greed, the greed of the casino operator and the greed of the gambler who thinks he can win something free, cannot bear fruit for society. I feel sure the next thing they will want will be legalized nude shows in their theatres, arguing their economic viability is dependent upon it. The President's advice to the states is timely. I hope they heed it . ARTHUR R. HALL Wildwood Crest

Touch, Push, Wait a Week By TOM PORCH When doing my grocery shopping. I can never get past that stack of Nationwide Inquirers that are placed at the check-out counter. I always get hooked by the headline on page one and I have to a buy a copy. In last week's issue, the headline was: "INSANE DENTIST TRIPS OUT I.R.S. AGENT S TONGUE!" ("Happened during tax audit at dental office," say witnesses! ) As usual, I couldn't pass it up. I had to buy a copy and bring it home with me. ■p. is not my purpose to describe the gory details of the dentist's tax problem, but rather to warn you about the advertisements that appear in that newspaper. IF YOU ARE a reader of the Nationwide Inquirer, you have probably noticed an ad for the "Eureka Blackhead Eradicator" ("Just Touch the Tip of the EBE to the Blackhead, Push the Plunger, and — GOOD-BYE BLACKHEAD!") I have already received my Eradicator, and if you are planning to order one, this is what you can expect: You will follow the instructions carefully and you will wind up with a large red ring on your face. Inside the large red ring will be a small black dot. The soreness will go away in a couple of days and within a week you will be able to go out in public again "How To Pick Up Girls! — It Works Or Your Money Back!," reads another of their ads. Since I am a married man, it would not be seemly for me to answer this; but I have always been curious as to how the "money back" part of it works. IT HAS BEEN my experience that, when you want your money back on a product that is guaranteed, you have to somehow prove that it didn't come up to expectations. Suppose you have just tried to pick up a girl and you have failed miserably. She won't speak to you. She won't even look at you, and yet you must somehow convince her to follow you to a Notary Public where she will sign an affidavit stating that your approach did not work', and that she finds you to be less appealing than a wart hog. I'll never get the answer to that one, I guess. Well. I have just returned from the store. My groceries are sitting on the kitchen table, and yes. there is a copy of this week's Nationwide Inquirer sticking out of the bag. The headline this week is: "CRAZED DIETER TRIES TO EAT LIVE ELEPHANT!" ("I ain't never seen nothing like it," says circus employe. > You'd like for me to describe what hunger can do to a person, wouldn't you? I'm not going to do it. Go and buy your own copy, but — watch out for the ads (ED NOTE: Porch writes from Sea Isle City. J

rYour Last Chance A Platform With Pizazz

By JOE ZELNIK « 1 My October announcement that I would be willing to seek 1 county public office — any office — brought no cheers, no endorsements, and, worst of all, no contributions. c In fact, mo6t of you seem to be as apathetic as a Crest 1 motel owner in January : sitting on your duffs, scratching j k at your winter dry skin, and waiting for the first robin 1 A Obviously my major campaign pledge — offering com- ' munity college courses on tourism, trash and totalitarianism in the cars of the reopened Seashore ( Railroad Line as it took garbage to a resource recovery . plant in Woodbine — failed to ignite the electorate. I can only think that you didn't like the prospect of riding in passenger cars trailing trash cars. The order can be reversed, of course. But I apparently need a platform with more pizazz. IF THIS DOESN'T start the contributions rolling in, I'm going to forget the whole thing. I pledge more year-round jobs for this county, based on refining the well-intentioned, but too idealistic proposal of J . H Economic Development Director Walter Sachs to bring aril tisan industries to the airport industrial park ■ I already have several industries poised and waiting on- ■ ly for my go-ahead. y H THERE IS THE FELLOW, for exam pi eV ho went into ■ Chapter 11 last year because his "Open YeanRound" sign I industry failed. He has secured new financing and intends D to take a shot at "Clo6ed" signs where his prosperity seems fl A number of Wildwood boardwalk t-shirt store operators, " |H enraged at the city's new ordinance requiring U.S. citizenH ship or legal residency status, are anxious to move to the . II airport industrial park. | I .This, of course, will provide dozens of translator jobs. ^ I In addition, the aliens are willing to push t-shirts, sweat- - I shirts, caps, visors, beer mugs, etc. with the Cape May Com|r munity College logo. And they have agreed to give the coun0 ty 35 percent of the gross receipts. B THE COUNTY'S tourist promotion effort should move inyt to the postcard industry. The typical tourist, or "outsider"

many people in Cape May City prefer to call them, mails 7.3 postcards. But many are offended by the usual choice of seminude people cavorting on beaches. That gap could be filled — and at the same time enhance our image as a fine place to live — with picture postcards of scenes such as the MUA transfer station in Burleigh, the Mosquito Control Commission building in Dias Creek, storm aftermath in Reeds Beach, the county prison in Crest King Nummy's grave in Nummy, etc. I HAVE A BRILLIANT proposal to invigorate Historic Cold Spring Village in the winter and also use the closed plant at the airport year-round. The answer : dogs. Sled dog racing is the world's fastest growing winter sport. Working closely with promoter Jack La Bounty, I have all but assured a contract to bring the Alpo International Sled Dog Races to the 20-acre village. Everlon, retrofitted into one huge kennel, will provide the dogs a place to stay during their winter season. And when the sled dogs leave, there are the kennels, waiting for the pets of tourists who have been finding it almost impossible to locate kennel space. I HAVE ONE additional money-making proposal. Cape May is expected to go to 50cent parking meters by next year and will have 1,000 useless quarter machines. We in county government will either get Harry Gilbert to give 'em to us (after all, we give enough to him), or we'll confiscate them by eminent domain. The meters will be installed behind the court bouse and at the temporary court house at the airport and should net $350,000 a year. Finally, every campaign needs a scandal, and I've got one. Did you know that the county zoo has had two buffaloes since the spring of 1904 and no offspring'' This is a disgrace Buffalo meat, let alone the valuable byproducts of hides and hooves, is bringing 25 percent more than beef. It has 30 percent less cholesterol, 25 percent more protein, and 45 percent fewer calories. There is no earthly reason why Olaf and Falo have not started a family. Elect me and I will put the county on the road to a valuable buffalo herd. In fact, that will be my campaign slogan: "Bring Us Together." /