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Our Readers Write An Important , Awesome Job To The Editor: t On April 7, Lower Township Council held its regularly scheduled meeting and we witnessed what one can only call embarrassing behavior. With this an election year, it is important that the electorate pay attention to all those promises made in the heat of the battle p win votes, and to have our councilpersons stand accountable to those promises of the past and the future. Now. it's also the time to remind the councilpersons that we the voters elected them to represent us and our views, and to be our voices. IT'S A JOB WHERE one must on occasion suppress one's personal desires and vote as those in the majority would vote in the district they represent. (Of course this would require some foot work to find a consensus of constituants on various issues.) It's a very important and awesone job. this job of being a councilperson. Handle it with care. Treat the public with respect , they do have opinions, and worthy ones at that. I might add here also, that as the only woman on the council. Deputy Mayor (Peggie) Bieberbach, has an even more important role to fill — to set the standards for the women who will follow her in township politics. From * (Page 55 Please) Hughes Too Liberal To The Editor: Congressman William Hughes is on "the most liberal list" of congressmen: every vote he casts, practically, is for big government spending of your hard earned tax dollar. You have to be very liberal to make that list, and he has us all convinced he is conserving our money and freedom. Sen. William Bradley voted for aid to the Nicaraguan freedom fighters. This was a very crucial vote, and it showed that Sen. Bradley, of the three of our legislators, is the only one interested in protecting our freedom without entering into a war on our own borders We must write our legislators and object to their raising their own salaries, wasteful spending on ridiculous projects, high insurance premiums, constant spending on legal fees, etc. It would seem to me they have but one object in mind: to bankrupt the taxpayers. A GOOD EXAMPLE is Tuckerton. They have raised real estate taxes three times what they were to pay their police department. This does not mean they have raised the police departments salaries; it means they did not count their salaries into their budget. Poor planning by their legislators. k If we do not support our local police and firemen now. we are not going to have them. But we will have legislators with their pockets filled with money and their gestapo ways worse than ever. Call or write your legislators. They are representing you. Tell them you want Assemblyman Richard A. Zimmer to bring Assembly Bill No. 299 to the assembly floor. Assembly gill No. 299 is the 20-years-and-out retirement bill for police and firemen, and it is time the legislators passed this into law and did something for the men who protect us rather than for themselves. SIDNEY WETHERIL^ Cape May

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K -Election Letters DeadlineTo prevent unanswerable, last-minute political charges. April 30 is the last issue in which letters to the editor about the May 13 municipal elections will appear. Deadline for that issue is Thursday. April 24. Try A White Glove To The Editor: Here is a suggestion to help our school bus drivers. Wear a white glove on your left hand; then when you have to wave traffic on by, the drivers can very clearly see you signaling and know they are to pass you. CLARE CAMPBELL Court House

Lab Techs: Dedicated Pros

To The Editor: During National Laboratory Week (April 13-19) our goal as health care professionals should be to make the public and our patients more aware of the important role that the Medical Laboratory Technician/Technologist plays in their care and treatment. Many patients are unaware of the part played by the laboratory in health cape;-aod how the physician depends on the prompt and reliable work of the laboratory professional to make an accurate diagnosis. Laboratory professionals perform more than five billion tests annually, and each one requires accurate and reliable performance by the technician. Each technician is not only educated in the traditional college curriculum, but also specialized in clinical training in the six disciplines of Blood Banking, Microbiology. Hematology, Chemistry, Urinalysis and Histology. OUR WORK DAY doesn't end with the collection of blood samples; it only begins there. Specimens are collected throughout the day and night and may be brought to the Blood Bank, where it undergoes compatibility testing for a patient who needs a blood transfusion after being involved in a serious car accident. Or it may be brought to Hematology, where a pre-ieukemic state in a small child may be detected so that early treatment may begin by the physician. The Chemistry Department may keep the pediatrician informed of a hilirubin level of a newborn, a substance that could cause brain damage or death if not monitored and treated appropriately. The Urinalysis Department may detect an inflammatory process in the genitourinary tract of a patient. MICROBIOLOGY INFORMS the physician what an tibiotic to administer that will rid a patient of an irritating eye infection. The Histology Department prepares operating room specimens for examination by the pathologist, who looks for the presence of malignant cells. These are just a few examples of the job of a medical technologist/technolgist. Hopefully jt will begin to make our patients aware of the educated, compassionate, and dedicated professionals who are serving you. the people of Cape May County. KAREN D'ARCANGELO Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital LaboratoryCape May Court House

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-1 Love Mom' Won't Do Roquefort Minus the Mold

By JOE ZELNIK Every once in a while I get fed up with the cynicism and callousness of this profession. Let's face it; many in this business will do absolutely anything to sell newspapers. For example, an out-of-county daily newspaper recently discovered Ralph Galloway. 64, living out of his 1971 AMC Matador and a broken-down 1972 Buck station wagon at a a drive-in movie in Rio Grande. Galloway and his 1 1 dogs probably were reasonably content But the newspaper invaded Galloway's privacy and splashed his photo across its front page AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED, a bunch of do-gooders intruded and in no time at all Galloway had received contributions of about $200 and a nonprofit organization offered him a job doing maintenance at its 182-acre farm near Alexandria Bay. New York. Galloway left last week, in his Matador Have you ever been to Alexandria Bay? That newspaper described it as "about 90 miles north of Syracuse" Another way to put it: about 10 miles south of the Canadian border You know what greeted Galloway the day he arrived? Snow showers. I guess one could be positive and say his dogs probably got jobs too — pulling dog sleds. THAT PLACE, on the St. 'Lawrence River, has a wind chill factor of 10 below — m August Galloway could have existed here by taking daily casino bus tours: pay $10 and get back $15 in quarters, lunch, a shoeshine. a 14 -hour stage show, a complimentary cocktail and the cocktail waitress's phone number By comparison, do you know how much maintenance there is on a 182-acre farm? Did anyone at that newspaper know or care what would really happen to Ralph Galloway? No. It sold newspapers IS THIS ANY WAY to make a living? Did you know there are people called police reporters who spend their entire work day calling police stations and asking, "Got anything good?" They don't mean anything "good." They mean anything "bad." The worse, the better. Did you know there are people called court reporters J who spend their entire work day prowling courthouse cor-

ridors looking for murder, arson, or at least assault cases'' This kind of malaise has even infected me. When I cover a government meeting, do I listen when department heads report success, bureau chiefs laud their employes, officials cite economies or efficiency? No. My ears don't even function until they pick up some hint of a mistake or snafu. THIS SUPERCRITICAL attitude is beginning to affect my home life. My wife greets me at the door with a I perfectly chilled Margarita followed by the tastiest escargot; a magnificent, fresh salad with Roquefort cheese dressing from which she has scraped the blue mold ; a porterhouse steak, juicy and pink in the center ; a baked, stuffed potato: fresh asparagus sauteed to perfection; homemade red raspberry pie alamode; and a bottomless cup of Kona coffee. Do I say. "Great job. dear!" — No, I say. "There could have been more salt around the rim of my Margarita glass, honey f I fear that continued exposure to journalists who make their living catering to the readers' basest instincts is going to permanently sour my outlook on life. > IT'S TRUE I don't know how to do anything but write, but there are other places to do it. you know. I A string of tattoo parlors, set to open in Stone Harbor. Wildwood Crest and Cape May, is needling me to come oil i board and create comments for various parts of the body, i People just aren't satisfied anymore with "I Love Mom," ■ you know. And the County Association of Chinese Restaurants has s offered me twice what I'm making here to write messages to go inside fortune cookies. I Some could be generic, such as, "Your taxes will rise like the moon over the horizon." But what they really want are locally-oriented sayings, i For the Dragon House in Wildwood, for example: "Dig i Deep Your Moat and Let Loose the Wild Dogs Lest Earl Ostrander Return." For the Kim Moon in Cape May: ! "Park Not Among the Avaricious Unless Your Pockets Sag With Qaurters." For the Hunan in Rio Grande: "If : Seven Middle Democrats Seek One Nomination in June, Wager Your Yuan on a Republican in November."