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Responding to numerous inquiries, Df>l Brooks, Social Security manager in Wildwood. said today that a firm Operating in the C^pe May County area solicits people through direct mail. This Horse WJv Feed && 100 lb. Bog Sweet Feed , / >Jgl $9.70 For Your Garden: Vegetable Plants Tomato Plants Eggplant Flowers WAGNER UPHOLSTERY Custom Upholstering To Fit Your Needs! Before You Buy New. Call For An Estimate! CALL 263-3422 263-3297 6604 Landis Ave.. Sea We City

firm is selling a service which is provided at no charge by every Social Security office. The company obtains local birth records and then mails new parents an offer to get a Social Security number for their child for a $10 fee. This service can be obtained without charge at any Social Security office. IN ADDITION, the parent has to do everything for the company he or she would have to do if he or she contacted Social Security in the first place. For a parent to obtain a Social Security number for a child, the parent needs evidence of the child's date of birth, citizenship, and identity The parent will also need evidence of his or her own identity. The direct mail advertisement also indicates that newlegislation may require that children be listed by Social Security number on the parents' tax return. THERE IS no such legislation. Brooks said. In addition, Social Security does not provide counties with information about which children have Social Security numbers. The Wildwood Social Security office is at 136 E. Spicer Ave. and the telephone number is 800-272-1111. Crossings Being Fixed TUCKAHOE - Repair work on two railroad crossings in Upper Township is now well under way, reports Barbara A. Camp, municipal clerk, who said that arrangements have been made with Conrail for the repair of rail crossings at Rt.9-Butter Road and Stagecoach Road. Committeeman Robert Jeffers notes that work at both locations has been started and should be completed before the summer season. •

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Land Sales A Record? PETERSBURG - The recent private invitation opening of South Woods, a planned environmental community here, set an Upper Township sales record, according to Resort Marketing Associates of Ocean City. During the 2"?-hour opening sales event, more than 30 homesites were sold, say Larry Masi and Craig French, heads of the real estate brokerage firm. Road construction at the site is scheduled to start in June, and home construction in early July. Home owners may be moving in this fall. •

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