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Our Readers Write Why Not Hotel , Motel Course? To The Editor: I am writing in reference to your Feb. 19 article. "HotelMotel Management: Who Needs It?" I was very dismayed, especially when it stated there were no applicants for the teaching job That is wrong I know, because I applied for the job about a week before the Christmas vacation. I WAS TOLD at the time that although my qualifications , were good, 1 did not have a teaching license; however, if I J were chosen they would help me become licensed. The interviewer also told me he was expecting another applicant. who was licensed, and that they had to interview him # ' also. He told me not to expect to hear from anyone until after Jan. 1. Until someone handed me a copy of your paper, 1 had heard nothing. I was also told that the job started at $18,500 a year I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED when I did not hear from the school, even to tell me the course never actuallymaterialized. I cannot speak for the lack of students. Perhaps the program was not marketed sufficiently. I was a student of Hotel-Motel Management when it was offered in Atlantic City High School and graduated in 1972. As a teenager. I grew up working in local hotels and motels and the course was a great help. In an area of tourism. I can't believe that there is no need. WHERE ARE all the teenagers who work during the summer in hotels and motels? Were these hotels and motels approached by someone from the school? Workrelated school programs can benefit many families, not to mention the faculty that hires such a student. With the exception of the actual teaching license (which I would have worked to obtain). I am qualified to teach this course. I spent half of my life working in small motels, large hotels and casino hotels. I have hired, fired, and written my own training programs. SUZANNE FISHER Ocean View L • 'No Way,' Devt^pers To The Editor : 1 read where we have campground developers and large builders that want Dennis Township to be their copermittee In order to get building permits, said developers will have to install sewerage plants. What they are doing is making the township responsible to build and pay with them. IN CASE OF breakdowns, the sale of camp grounds or the building of housing developments, the taxpayers will be stuck with maintaining the plants — which could result in a tax increase. As a resident of the Township. I say 'no way'. Being co-permittee is just like co-signing for a bank loan The first party doesn't pay and the second party does. In this case, it would be the taxpayers ELMER DOYLE Eldora - fix ~ ~ ivJ ITSSFSW^ fbmn v lantern Joseph R. Zelnik Editor Bonnie Reina General Manager Gary L. Rudy Advertising Director John Dunwoody Special Promotions Director Darrell Kopp Publisher pvhWoho* »»»oi t»» rtrt pfoport, ol - 0 '• C r.i p No port Ko'to* "*1 , bo 'tpfodvced " "" DEADLINES News & Photos Thursday Advertising Friday — 3 P.M. Classified Advertising Friday — 3 P.M. 465-5055 For News or Advertising Information Mail Subscription: Yearly, $40; Six Month, $20 Call 465-5055 For News, Advertising or Subscription Information portrt.pMMo Wwrtrt-r. l~.LL.trtn »( Urt H'JUUt AND UVTUS Jr» K T , tlrralO-iJispatrn

o — ' i "CrCAI/W-PuDMikN WWAfjBKy fe€Tn VDO HAV€ I * Respect Reciprocal To The Editor: In reading Joe Zelnik's column of March 5 regarding the presentation of a plaque to Freeholder Gerald Thornton. I find his statement that the presentation was given because I had received one from the Board of Chosen Freeholders. This is not true. The plaque had been ordered and intended to be given on reorganization day. but we. the Lower Township Republican.- Executive Committee, thought it would be in poor tasted this was Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick's day. One of your photographers was aware of this and asked to be informed when it was to be presented so that she could be there. 1 WAS RAISED by my parents to help others without any recognition for doing so. The certificate 1 received was signed by Freeholders Ralph Evans and Herbert Frederick and in fact, as I was told, was presented by the entire board. I was very proud of this, as I was of the framed newspaper page I received from Lower Township Mayor Robert Fothergill and Council for aiding in having a Memorial Day service on May 30. 1985. I happen to be the alternate to Freeholder Thornton and I made the presentation on behalf of 44 committeepersons who are proud and respect our freeholder. Please do not try to alter the spirit in which both Freeholder Thornton and I were so honored. RUTH J HART Alternate Leader Lower Township Republican Executive Committee Villas

Wiley House: More Facts To The Ed;tor: I thought E.J Duffy's March 5 articles on the John Wiley house were basically good and well researched. There were, however, a few things I would like to correct The property is significantly larger than a half acre. Any wedding gowns found in the house did not include that of my sister-in-law, who did not wear a gown when she was married The wedding was in 1925, not 1927 THE LAST TIME my brother and his wife were in Europe was the summer of either 1931 or 1932, when they dia . search on lobsters at the University of Parish Marin* Biological Station at Roscoff. on the English Channel. Tht results of their investigations were published in . 1932. The> 1 mght the Jaguar second-hand in north Jersey after World 1 ir II. My oldes >rother died in infancy and not in the infantry. , The so-calleu "unicorn" skull was that of a modern Africar black rhinoceros that my brother acquired from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, when the Museum decided that they had more rhinoceros heads than they needed It was not extinct, and had nothing to do with China MY SISTER-IN-LAW did extensive illustration for my brother's technical publications (and some for me), but never did any for National Georgraphic Magazine. My sister-in-law taught at New York University in the early days of her marriage, when my brother was also there, but never for Rutgers. My nephew Thurston was a computer programmer, who had majored in mathematics in college, but who had no training or experience in engineering. The statement quoted from my son. Roger Wood, is technically correct, but misleading. The expression "I could take anything I wanted" referred solely to the fossils, and not to the other contents of the house, although the article suggests otherwise. ALBERT E. WOOD Court House

-Outwacked Again

A Lively DED Proposal

By JOE ZELNIK \ "Ha. ha." writes A.S. of Skeeter Island. "You've really outsmarted yourself this time. Your prop^al for Guy Muziani to introduce legislation requiring candidates to pass a vo-tecn test eliminates you from further political consideration." Ha. ha, A S. You are correct to imply that I am as mechanically skilled as a pregnant wrodchuck. but my proposal won't hurt me a bit since no legislation introduced by Guy Muziani has ever become law. I must admit, though, that I am becoming discouraged in my campaign for county office Every time I come up with a wacky idea, they outwack me LAST MONTH, for example. I proposed a "Closed" sign manufacturing industry at the airport. Now the county has suggested building and operating a cold storage plant there to help all those down-and-out folks that process fish. Don't think I'm going to take that lying down. To coin a phrase, if you can t beat em, join em. The county is looking at the 159.000-square-foot Everlon plant at the airport industrial park. But it only needs 20.000 square feet of cold storage for the fishing industry. What to do with the other 139,000 square feet? ElJtEWIIERE in this issue, you will note that people in (his county are dying faster than they are being born, the only place in the state with that claim to fame. I hope this doesn't depress you, but the fact is that a lot of people are moving here to retire and we all know what happens after retirement, don't we? Like it or not, we've got a tomb boom. ■ As a result, the county has a severe shortage of funeral f homes and cemetery space. The funeral home industry is every bit as much in need of cold storage facilities and

government help as the fishing industry. And it's a lot more stable, too, because the supply of fish will be ' depleted sooner than the supply of the deceased. THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY meets the county's ) criteria for desirable economic growth: a nonpoiluling, I white collar, service industry. Plus, your customers can t talk back, complain, or vote against you. i In addition, cemetery space is available near the airport's main runway, a symbolically significant place for those who believe they'll eventually "take off" for heaven. And who runs both the airport and the industrial park? 1 The Department of Development . -Consider the promo- > tionai possibilities of its acronym: DED. And where is DED headquartered? In the top floors of i the airport terminal building. TERMINAL, get it? What an ideal place for funeral services. How much closer to i heaven can you get except maybe at the Top of the Marq? FOR THE OBLIGATORY funeral procession, we already have a huge fleet of late-model county cars i available at all times. Lastly, we tie in the county's already blooming, two- ) greenhouse flower-growing business at Crest Haven: > Facilities and Services and the vo-tech school. That covers the entire funeral, except for the minister. Are you ready for my knockout idea, the coup de grace for my coup d'etat, so to speak? i FOR MY RUNNING MATE. I select a minister. He's : paid the annual freeholder salary of $16,538 plus all he can make from the funerals. My only problem : selecting one candidate from the long list of worthy applicants. ; Right now there are three front-runners: Rev. George Fincke of North Cape May, Fr. Peter Jones of Court I House, and Rev. Charles Rowe of Wildwood Crest. But I'm a little worried about Fr. Jones. Already he I wants to include Catholic dogs and cats