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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942

DEUVEREO BY MAIL IN THE U.&A. POSTAGE PREPAID—*1.80 A YEAR

FIVE CENTS

Await Approval Of Project To Cot Mosquitoes

With federal approval pending for a large-scale mosquito control and elimination project in the Cape May area, Cape May’s city commission on Friday granted an easement to the Cape May County Mosquito Extermination Commission for the establishment

near the Broadway bridge across

Lafferty, of West Cape May, superintendent of the mosquito commission, announced that a federal project estimated cost $50,000 will be launched a five-mile radius of Cape May in the form of a WPA project under the sponsorship of the county commission and under the supervision of the U. S. Public Health Service. "Plans for the project are now in Washington for approval,” Lafferty said. “They are the first of a series of such projects ever to get that far.”

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Public Health Service entered the picture because the area is a defense area where a considerable number of service men are sta“By installing a pump and a drainage sump along the creek near the Broadway bridge,” Lafferty explained, “it will be possible to recondition the ditches west of Broadway and make some of them three feet deeper to improve drainage of the large tract

of meadow land.”

Washington and it is found that WPA labor is not available, it will be possible for the Mosquito Commission to carry on the work as it sees fit, Lafferty said. The question was raised by the commissioners who pointed out that with the exception of small sewer projects in operation in Wildwood and Ocean City, all WPA work in this county is centered at the Naval base here. “It is hoped,” Lafferty said, “that the federal project in . this area will be the first of a scries of such federally-sponsored projects in Cape May County to rid this area of mosquitoes." A conference of federal and state public health officials and municipal officials of Cape May and Cape May Point was held Mveral months ago to discuss the mosquito situation in this area and its relation to the defense units stationed here.

Until noon Tuesday, approximately 250 stamps had been sold, Miller said, and indications were that the entire 400 will have been sold by the end of the week.

is estimated that approximately .1,100 stamps will be needed to supply all the automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and buses which are registered in this immediate vicinity, in addition to several hundred more vehicles owned by service men stationed here and presently registered in other places. —

Boundary Fight

In High Court

Supreme Court Justice Frederic R. Colie last week took under consideration two applications for writs of certiorari filed by opponents in the Wildwood-Lower

One application was filed by Lower Township and the other by Wildwood. Lower Township's application for a writ asked for a review of Judge Thomas J. S i d d a 11' s refusal to render a decision to establish the boundary line between the two communities. His ruling that the boundary line is determined by • the course of Beach Creek favored the city of Wildwood's position in the controversy. The dispute grew out of a legal fight over which municipality has jurisdiction over the Ship Ahoy Cafe located near West Rio Grande avenue.

tempted to close the cafe on the grounds that it exceeded the quota of licensed premises in the resort. The cafe was licensed by Lower Township’s committee, which contends that it is located within the corporate limits of the township. Counsel for the city of Wildwood submitted an application for a writ to review the right of Lower Township to issue the liquor license to the cafe. Justice Colie indicated that he •rill render a decision on the applications next month. It was indicated that in the •vent Justice Colie issues a writ lo one and not to the other applicant, the dispute will be continued is the courts.

Wins Promotion

Orville Cresse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie R. Cresse, of Cape May, has beep promoted from the rank of private first class to sergeant in the U. S. Army, it was learned here this week. Sergeant Cresse, who has been to the Army since February 5, 1941. is now stationed on the west coast, where he is an inspector at foodstuff's in an Army camp. Before being transferred to the west a month age, he had been 1 at a fort in Alabama.

LEWIS T. STEVENS

Well known Cape May attorney who was elected president of the Cape May County Bar Association at that organization’s annual meeting Tuesday night at the Wildwood Golf Club. John Bright, of Wildwood, was elected

ling W. Cole was re-elected sec-retary-treasurer of the association for the ensuing year.

Vehicle Stamp Sales Gaining Momentum Here

With the sale of motor vehicle use tax stamps advancing rapidly at the Cape May postoffice, Postmaster Lemuel E. Miller, Jr. thif week ordered a new supply of the stamps to meet the demand. The original shipment to this postoffice was 400.

February 1 is the deadline for purchasing motor vehicle use tax stamps. Miller said. The sale of stamps at the local office began January 17 immediately after the stamps had been received at the local office.

Each tax stamp purchaser receives a card on which he must pertinent information about his %-ehicle, giving make, body , motor number and name and address, which must be mailed to the Collector of Internal Revenue of his home district, where the cards are kept on file as proof of purchase in the event the stamps should be lost or destroyed. an instruction bulletin issued to all postmasters the U. S. Postoffice Department explained: Postmasters and postal employees shall not, in their official capacity, attempt to instruct local patrons with regard to the application of this law other than to advise that the tax is collectible on all motor vehicles including passenger cars, trucks and motorcycles that are in use on the highways. “Redemption or exchange of s.tamps from the public is prohibited. Postmasters shall not redeem, repurchase or exchange any motor vehicle stamps from any person, firm, company or corporation. Persons desiring to redeem, sell or exchange motor vehicle tax stamps held by them shall be advised to make application for relief to the nearest collector of internal revenue,”

Elevate Judge Jayne To Vice Chancellor

Circuit Court Judge Wilfred H. Jayne, who has presided in this circuit for the last eight years, was appointed last week to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Vice Chancellor Malcolm G. Buchanan, of Princeton. The appointment was made by Chanceller Luther A. Campbell.

Vice Chancellor Jayne took the

Equity

oath of office for the

Court on Tuesday.

Selection of Jayne preserves the political balance among the ten vice chancellors. Campbell, a Democrat himself, named a Republican to succeed a Republican. Judge Jayne, who will be 64 next month, ascended the equity bench with 30 years of legal experience, many of them as president of the Ocean County Bar Association and the last nine as

Circuit Court judge.

Chancellor Campbell's office, announcing Jayne's appointment, said Judge Jayne presented his resignation as Circuit judge, effective Tuesday, to Governor Edi-

! a vice chancellor, Jayne will receive $18,000 a year, $2,000 more than as circuit court judge. Jayne was designated to complete the term of Buchanan, who died two week} ago. Jayne will in Trenton, taking over the territory served by the late .Princeton jurist. Jayne was Republican Senator from Ocean County in 1931 and 1932, succeeding Thomas H. Mathis, Ocean County Republican leader. In 1932, he was appointed to the Circuit Court bench by Governor A. Harry Moore, and resigned from the Senate. He was appointed to a full Circuit term n 1933 ami reappointed in 1940. One of Judge Jayne’s important lecisions was handed down in 937 when he set aside the elecion of William C. Hunt, Republican, as Cape May County Senator. native of Setauket, N. Y.,

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Tax Board Sets County Values

Valuations of lands and buildings in Cape May County decreased $171,489 below the assessed values of 1941, according to a preliminary equalization table prepared by the Cape May County Tax Board this week. Rice, secretary of the board, said yesterday that a public hearing on the table has been scheduled for January 2G at the board’s office in Cape May Court House, at which time municipal representatives may protest the •aluation placed on property in their own or any other county

municipality.

The list of valuations follows:'

Avalon $ 1,573,214 Cape May 5,366,703 Cape May Point 360,630 Dennis Township ..... 660,470 Lower Township 1,023,806 Middle Township .... 1,750,055 North Cape May 184,785 North Wildwood 5,093,340 Ocean City 14,537,140

Ban Car Use Stamps From Windshields

Motor Vehicle Commissioner Arthur W .Magee announced today that tne federal use tax stamps which must- be attached to all motor vehicles effective February 1 should not be affixed to either the windshield or the front side windows of New Jersey registered motor vehicles. The stamps can be affixed to the instrument panel of the vehicle, to the back of the rearview mirror, rear windows or to any other part of the vehicle where it will be conspicuous and not become mutilated or detached. Under the New Jersey statutes, > sticker or emblem can be affixed to the windshield or front side windows except that which is authorized by law and the federal government is respecting existing state regulations in the matter of the use tax stamps in requesting that no local regulations be violated in the matter of affixing the stamp to the ve-

Sea Isle City ... South Cape May . Stone Harbor .... Upper Township , West Cape May .. West Wildwood .. Wildwood Wildwood Crest .. Woodbine Total Greatest change :

1,640,399

37,275

2,287,800 1,194,530

452,052

. 8,373,582 . 2,540,088

580,898

.$48,052,042 valuation

occurred in Avalon where several thousand dollars of value was cut this year. Other municipalities sustained only minor changes.

Rice explained.

3 Mentioned To Succeed Jayne

Elevation of Circuit Court Judge Wilfred H. Jayne, of this circuit, to the position of vice chancellor, leaves a vacancy the circuit to be filled by pointment. Three Cape May County men, prominent in legal circles, wer« reported today to be under consideration for the position of circuit court judge. Those reported as possible candidates to succeed Jayne on the Circuit Court bench are T. Millet Hand, Cape May mayor and former prosecutor; Palmer M. Way, of North Wildwood, former county Common Pleas judge; and Robert K. Bell, of Oman City,' county solicitor and corporation

lawyer.

With civil trials in Atlantic County postponed pending appointment of a successor to Judge Jayne, it is |xpected that an appointment will be made shortlyScheduled to begin Friday, Atlantic County’s civil court cases were delayed indefinitely. Judge Jayne’s most recent appearance in this county was during the winter court term several weeks ago, at which he presidedf

Following his appeal last week Cape May citizens to save waste paper, John J. Spencer, Jr., chairman of the Local Defense Council, this week received further proof of the emergency existing in the need for paper in the form of a letter from the Office of Price Administration in

Washington.

“This office has already secured the cooperation of the Boy Scouts of America, the Boys’ Clubs, Goodwill Industries, Salvation Ar-

and other organization

must be done in a big way. State duties will be enlarged, at the same time state revenues are shrinking drastically. It’s no school boy’s work and we know the Governor and Legislature will do the job in a typically thorough American manner." Commenting on Senator Robert Hendrickson’s suggestion for suspension of some mandatory spending law s for the duration, Jackson declared the Legislature should go farther and repeal some of the current spending laws. Among these he specifically mentioned the permanent registration law, now in the first stages of execution. He said the counties of the state could save more than one and a half million dollars per year at a time it would do the most good, if the measure were postponed for the

duration.

‘It’s a good law,” Jackson said, it we can do without it until the war’s over. It’ll help relieve ir war tax burdens.” President Jackson also reiterated the association's plea for more consideration from the Leg-

islature for additional aid for repair and maintenance of county

highways.

Cape Team Wins Judging Honors

the collection of waste materials,'' said J. R. Galbraith, assistant administrator. x io doubt your local scout troops have received information about this campaign from their

head office.

“Since we entered the war, 'aste paper has become even lore important. We must make

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County Tire Quota For February Is Cut

Daylight Saving To Start February 9

Daylight saving time will become effective February 9 to conserve electricity for the nation's war effort, it was announced in Washington Tuesday. President Roosevelt signed a daylight-saving bill Tuesday and at 2 a.m. (local time) on February 9 the clocks will be turned ahead an hour for -the duration of the war. Although the bill applies only to interstate commerce activities and the federal government, it is expected to be observed by most of the nation.

Theatre Aids In Cape Polio Fund Campaign

A Wishing Well has been established in the lobby of Hunt's Liberty Theatre here as part of the March of Dimes drive in the Cape May County infantile paralysis fund campaign, the management of the local theatre an-

nounced this week

It Is planned, with the cooperalion of the local campaign committee, to have several young ladies as attendants at ihe wishing well some night during

campaign drive.

Cape May County's tire quota for the month of February has been reduced to 74 tires and 111 tubes for all classes of vehicles, it was disclosed yesterday by State Rationing Administrator Robert W. Johnson. Under the new quota, this county will be eligible for 17 tires for passenger cars, motor cycles, and light trucks during the month, and 14 tubes for this classification. For heavy trucks and buses. Cape May County has been allotted 57 tires and 97 tubes. The Office of Price Administration has cut New Jersey's February - tire allotment 2,663 below January’s quota, but has boosted the allowance of tubes for trucks and buses. Johnson said the OPA advised him the tire allotment for passenger cars, motorcycles and light delivery vehicles next month would be cut from 2,717 to 2,183.

To Canvass City To Register All Dogs

Harry F. Greaves, Cape May County S.P.C.A. representative and agent in charge of registering and licensing all dogs in Cape May, will soon start a house-to-house canvass to register and license all dogs over the age of seven months in Cape May. The registration and licensing of dogs is in accordance with a New Jersey statute and a city ordinance requiring that all dogs be registered and licensed before

February 28.

To facilitate the work, Greaves will- be at the council chamber, city hall, every Monday during January and February from 1 to 4 and from 7 to 9 p.m. to issue Persons owning or harboring dogs are subject to a fine for each dog not registered and licensed by February 28. Due to unavoidable causes, the final date for registering dogs has been extended from January 31 'to February 28 in this community.

Jackson Heads Association Of Freeholders

The New Jersey Association of Chosen Freeholders, in nmmal session at Trenton Monday, pledged all-out cooperation to the defense effort and added a word of praise for the Governor and Legislature in their proposed

“truce for the duration.”

“War must mean peace right here at home before it can mean peace anywhere else,” declared Freeholder Percy H. Jackson, of Cape May County, re-elected president for a second term, in his inaugural talk. “Our association stands four-square behind the defense effort and is ready at any time to cooperate with the Gov-

ernor and Legislature.

“The Legislature must concentrate for the present on essential state business, such as pas-

sage of the appropriation bills. It has a big job to do, and it

Seek Helpers To Register Men For Draft

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Cape May High School was represented by apple packing and com husking teams on Wednesday when southern New Jersey high schools held their annual contests at Glassboro State Teachers College. Twelve schools competed in the apple packing contest. Cape May’s team, composed of Charles Taylor and Clement Reeves, Jr., easily placed first. Millville High School took second place, and Middle Township on third honors. The winning of first place gives Cape May the right to compete in the state finals to be held in Trenton on January 30. The Trenton contest is an integral part of the annual Farm Week sponsored by the State Department of Agriculture. In the com husking contest Cape May, represented by George Reeves, placed third. ' The three leading schools were Burlington first, Middle Township, second, and Cape May, third. The county vocational agricultural work in this county is carried on under the leadership of Lee W. Courier, county vocational instructor, who conducts ses in Cape May High School Monday and Tuesday of each week. Farmers, agriculturists and others interested in. work of this nature are invited to visit the classes at any time on these days.

Heads N. J. Group

County Rate To Jump 22 Cents, Budget Reveals

PERCY H. JACKSON

Director of the Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders who this week was reelected as president of the State Association of Boards of Chosen Freeholders at Trenton.

With nearly 30 volunteers offering their services to aid in the registration of men in midFebruary under the Selective Service law, Cape May County's Local _ Board No. 2 this week ap-

the work. More volunteers are needed in Cape May, Wildwood and Middle Township to man the three registration places which will be open Febraary 14, 15 and -16 for the third registration of men under the law. In Cape May, 10 volunteers have offered their services to the local board, in Wildwood five have volunteered and in Cape May Court House there have been 12 volunteers. More helpers to augment the local board’s personnel on the registration days are needed in all three districts, it was said, particularly in Wildwood, where the heaviest registration is expected. Schedules will be formulated to stagger the working hours of the registrars. The Local Board has designated its office in Cape May High School as the local registration center, the lobby of Wildwood High School as the Five Mile Beach center, and the court room of -the old court building, Cape May Court House, as the inland post for registration. The registration centers will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on February 14 and 16 and from 7 m. to 9 p.m. on February 16. Members of the Local Board this week urged all men who will be required to register under the law to make every effort to register on Saturday or Sunday, February 14 or 15, to avoid a last minute rush on the final registration day. The registration, according to the clerk of the Local Board, will cover men from 20 to 44 who have not previously registered for Selective Service.

Cape May County’s 1942 tax rate will be 22*4 cents higher than the 1941 county rate, according to estimates made ye ' day when the county budget introduced at a meeting of Board of Freeholders at C May Court House. This year’s lima ted rate will be .786 per * valuation. Last year’s rate was

.661 per *100.

Introducing the budget, Freeholder Ralph T. Stevens, director of revenue and finance, pointed out that the new budget had been cut to the lowest possible amount consistent with sound finandng, and that the principal reasons for the increase .are new items included due to mandatory legislation and the defense program. Most general items in -the new budget are approximately the same as those of 1941, with slight increases and decreases in var-

ious individual items.

The operating budget 'of the county was cut more than $200,-

000, and the items representing.

) on the Dew

the greatest influence e_. tax rate were' the debt service

road maintenance work lother item controlling the - new rate, Stevens said, is the fset that this year the county is able to include a cash reserve of only $124,000 compared with a reserve approximately three times that amount which was included last year’s budget h a statement issued as the budget was introduced. Freeholder Stevens saidt “In preparing the 1942 budget it was found necessary to increase the county tax rate. "The 1942 operating appropriations have been reduced wherever possible, however it was necessary to increase the budget for the permanent registration required by new legislation and an appropriation for defense due to the present world conditions. “It will be noticed that the county closed its books for the (Continued on Page Four)

Returns To Duty

Retired for 19 months, Commander Gideon W. Hitchens, formerly in charge of lighthouses and lightships in this district, was recalled Tuesday by the Coast

Guard.

Commander Hitchens, who is 61. is a resident of Cape May. February Before coming to the district he

stationed in Puerto Rico as

B & L Association Considers Merger

Pending decision on a proposal to merge the Cape May Building and Loan Association and the Wildwood Savings and Loan Association, no action was taken this week on the proposed liquidation of the local organization. The annual association meeting, held on Monday, was postponed until February 16 after directors of the association reported that negotiations had been started with the Wildwood organization. Present officers of the Cafie May association are continuing in office until a definite decision is made. If negotiations with the Wildwood association can be satisfactorily completed by midFebruary, It is expected that stockholders of the local institution will be asked to vote their

an organizer of the lighthouse approval of the plan to merge, system. He will now be officer' Otherwise, they will be asked in charge of the coastal lookout to vote their approval of a presystem with headquarters in At- viously announced plan to liquid-

lantic City. ate.

INCOME TAX REPORTS

PREPARED

Have your Income Tax prepared early, and avoid

the last minute worry.

Also Social Security Forms and Unemployment

Forms prepared.

PAUL SNYDER, 281 WINDSOR AVENUE Key. Phone 900 - Residence Phone 681 - Bell Phone 90

Skater Suffers Stroke; Dies

Charles fi. Lehman, Sr., of Millville, died Saturday evening in Millville Hospital several hours after he had suffered a stroke while ice skating at Lake Lily, Cape May Point. Mr. Lehman and his wife had been skating at the lake for some time Saturday afternoon when he suddenly fell to the ice. Seeing he was unable to rise, his wife and his brother, George, of West Cape May, and several other skaters went to his assistance. Strained by the weight of the group, the ice broke and plunged the stricken man and those who were trying to aid him .into the icy water. Soldiers from Cape May Point assisted in removing him to the Woolson home nearby, where he was treated by Dr. A. C. Moon before being sent to the hospital in the American Legion ambulance. Besides his wife, Helen, Mr. Lehman is survived by a sister, Mrs. Carl Taylor, and two brothers, George and Harry, all of Cape May, three children, Helen, Charlotte, and Charles Jr., of Millville, and two brothers, Clarence,. of Millville, and Corbet of Alliance, O. Mr. Lehman, a former resident of this community, was a frequent visitor here. He was a past commander of the Millville American Legion post. Funeral services were held at his late residence, 809 N. Fifth street, Millville, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Interment was made in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Mr. Lehman was an employee of The Albert Hand Co. prior to his enlistment in the U. 5. Navy in 1917.

USOCIubBranchToBe Opened Next Week

The Cold Spring am

luxiliary branch of the Cape May USO Club will be opened next week, although the definite date has not yet been fixed, Adjutant Theodore F. Thompson, director of the local dub, said today. Work on the repair and remodelling of the Junior Order of American Mechanics hall for use as a combination service club

and living quarters for an Army unit stationed in the township ia

nearing completion, Thompson said. Through former Judge Palmer M. Way, of Wildwood, 16 tons of gravel has been obtained for the construction of driveways and other necessary additions to the property, and the State Highway Department has donated a number of metal drums for use ss wash tubs. Recreational facilities st the new club are nearing completion and a formal opening program is being arranged. '