c Herald - Lantern Dispatch 19 March '86 5. %

Chamber Study: Most Country Growth Continues

By GREGG LAWSON COURT HOUSE - With the exception of parochial school enrollment,

restaurant facilities and hospital patients, the county Chamber of Commerce survey of 1985 economic indicators shows continuing growth. Parochial school enrollment dropped from 1,528 in 1984 to 1,1416 in 1985. Restaurant and dining facilities went from 1,538 in 1984 to 1,278 in 1985. The number of patients at Burdette Tomlin Memorial (Hospital decreased from 1 7,722 in 1984 to 6,835 in 1985, j but patient days edged up i from 64,436 to 64,577. The various figures for 1984 and 1985, respectively, are: Winter population: 93,028, ■95,718; Summer: 587,798, 593,856. Winter electrical connections: 77,624, 80,230; summer: 83,337, 85,841. Business telephone connections: 10,814, 14,101; resident: 59,750, 60,090. WINTER GAS connections: 22,035, 22,800; summer: 27,015, 27,350. Year round cable television hookups: 42,668. 48,373; seasonal: 18,161, 30,496.

I Retail sales: $661,214,000, $701,543,000. Republican registration: 22,441, 23,794; Democratic: 8,545, 9,150; Independent: 15,170, 18,197. Bank assets: i $639,041,333, $707,157,665. Savings and loan assets: $531,886,074, $742,818,899. 1 Volumes in the county library: 289,556, 309.248*; circulation: 312,228, i 318,456. i Births: 656, 762. Total assessed value ' (ratables) : $6,310,270,195. $6,589,826,804. County and municipal taxes collected: $90,376,426, $98,833,313. Hotel and motel buildings: 2,175, 2,201; units and rooms: 19,944, 25,485. Campground sites: 13,157, 13,663. Public school enroll- I ment: 11,392, 12.007; i Special services enrollment: 398, 471. Postal receipts : $4,631,840, $4,935,716. Building permits issued: 7,948, 8,474; value: $105,088,921, $136,687,595. Allegheny air flights:

1,560, 3,133; passengers: 6,382, 8,947. Vehicles over Ocean Drive bridges: 6.462.617, 6.479,704. Vehicles on Cape MayLewes Ferry: 286,058. 291.710; passengers: 878,089, 1,921,026. Traffic through Garden I State Parkway Egg Harbor Toll Plaza: 8,942,820. 9,600,090: revenue: $2,232,243, $2,403,890. Cape May Toll Plaza traffic: 7,831,780. 8,526,380; revenue: $1,948,884. $2,115,561. Tall Cedars Fight MD This week, March 16-22, been designated National Tall Cedars Week. The masonic organization, which also participates in the Labor Day telethon, will be out collecting for its favorite charity, Muscular Dystfophy. The Cedars ask that everyone give generously.

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