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Official Rate 22 Cents Under City Estimate Gape Mar'a 1942 tax fate was officially set at *6.74 per *100 valuation this week by the Cape May County Board of Taxation. The official figure is 22 cents below the rate estimated at the time the city budget was adopted in February. Announcement of the official rate was made Tuesday by Edward L. Rice, secretary of the county tax board, following a meeting of that unit at the coun-

ty seat.

The sharp drop in the official rate below the estimated figure -was due primarily to inclusion of Cape May’s share of state franchise and railroad property taxes, which, under the budget law, cannot be anticipated by municipalities in computing their annual

budgets.

OFFICIALS PLEASED City officials welcomed the report of the rate decrease, declaring that despite the many special problems which forced an increase in Cape May’s 1942 rate, the official figure now compares favorably with the rates of other resort municipalities of the

county.

Cape May's original tax rate rise this year was due principally to increases in the county tax rate, ^he amount appropriated for the operation of city schools, and for the payment of principal and interest on the city’s debt while absorbing a loss of $100,000

in taxable valuations.

A list of official 1942 tax rates for county municipalities follows:

1942 1941

Avalon 6.08 6.46 Cape May 6.74 6.25 Cape May Point .. 6.02 6.06 Dennis Twp 3.68 4.04 Lower Twp 4.30 3.80 Middle Twp 4.82 4.76 N. Cape May 13.08 11.72 N. Wildwood 6.96 6.92

Ocean City 7.20 Sea Isle 6.04 S. Cape May 8.00 Stone Harbor 4.65 Upper Twp. 2.90 W. Cape May 6.40 W. Wildwood 9.60 Wildwood 5.00 Wildwood Crest ... 6.25

Woodbine 4.66 4i64 Coast Guard Seeking

Permit For Cable

6.90

10.06

4.72 3.30 6.46

Gasoline Ration Registry To IRailroad Cuts BejConducted May 12,13,14 (Excursions To

Shore Resorts

Automobile owners must register for gasoline rationing next Tueeday, Wednesday and Thursday in order to obtain ration books entitling them to their allotment of gasoline. Following closely the registration system set up for sugar users, who are registering this week, the gasoline ration registry will be carried out by faculty members and volunteers in elementary schools throughout the state. Registration will take place in elementary schools nearest the consumer’s home from 4 to 9 p. m. on the three days. Schools will close at 2:30 during the period. 'Registrants whose last names run from the letter “A” through “G" will register the first day, “H” through "F’ the second day, and “S” through “Z" the third

day.

Owners of large trucks are not to register for gasoline in next

weeks registration.

Until press time, little definite information and few specific instructions had been received in this county by school officials and

ration boards concerning the gasoline rationing. Five types of gasoline ration cards will be distributed. They

are:

Card A: This is the basic ration card for all car-owners. It contains provision for the purchase of seven "ration units” of gasoline during the six and a half week period from May 15 to June 80. The average car owner who does not use his car for business or to drive to work will receive Card A without the necessity of filling out any application forms whatever. Card B: ‘There are three "B” cards. B1 with 11 “ration units”; B2 with 16 units; and B3 with 19 units. These will be given on the basis of the distance the applicant must drive to get to work, or to carry on his business. Applicants for B cards must fill out an application form and state the distance they must travel to and from work. Can! X: This permits the hold(Continued on Page Eight)

Scogls Still Active IgjSalvage Drive

busy collecting waste paper, magazines and other salvaged material, Scout officials announced this week. Only half way through their much-needed camp fund quota, the Scouts, assisted by Scoutmaster Charles A. Swain, are busy each week making the rounds and trying to gather enough of ,the listed salvage materials so -their proposed summer camp trip can be realized. The Scouts, sponsored by the Cape May Kiwanis Club, solicit the aid and cooperation of the

U.

Sat-

, Army engineers

urday will act upon an application of the U. S. Coast Guard, seeking a permit to lay a submarine telephone cable across Cape May Inlet between Sewells Point and Two Mile Beach, Col. H. B. Vaughan, Jr., district Army en-

gineer, announced yesterday.

The plans, which are on file at the engineer’s office, Penn Mutual Building, Philadelphia, provide for the cable to rest on the natural bottom of the waterway. “The decision as to whether or not a permit will be issued on the plans submitted must rest primarily upon the effect of the proposed work on navigation,”

Colonel Vaughan said.

Clean-Up Week To Be Merited By 4-H Clubs Members of 4-H Clubs throughout Cape May County will take part in a Clean-Up campaign

from May 11-16. o

Each boy and girl plans to pick up any cans, brush, bottles or other unsightly objects that may be lying around the yard of his or her home, and to remove useless articles from attics and garages that might become fire

hazards.

Paper and metal that are collected will be tumped over to the salvage chairman in each com-

munity.

Matiy of the club members plan to set out flowers and shrubbery and to make a real start on home

grounds improvements.

Plan Spring Banquet Plans for the monthly meeting and spring banquet of the Young People’s Evangelistic Union which will be held in the Capo Island Baptist Church on Friday, June 6th, are being made by the local young people’s organization. On Sunday evening, Helen Porch, Jay Sibble and Marion Cohen will deliver the weekly meeting topic, defining each letter of

the word "Prayer”.

ty calls to any home where they know they can get the muchsought waste paper, magazines

and newspapers.

"Unfortunately the impression has been circulated that the Boy Scouts arc no longer collecting 4.90 ! waste paper,” Scoutmaster Swain B.24 said today. “This is definitely a ' mistaken idea. There -are few ways boys of this age can serve the nation's war effort, and the salvage campaign is one of them. We propose to continue with this work as long as the country requires salvaged waste paper and

other scrap materials.”

The Red Cross Motor Corps is

also collecting waste paper. City To Purchase Banner For Band

— city flag will be designed and purchased as a gift from the City of Cape May to the recently organized Cape May High School band, it was disclosed Friday at a meeting of the city

commission.

Mayor T. Millet Hand mode the recommendation at Friday’s meeting, that the city donate a city banner to the band. The commission unanimously adopted the plan and authorized purchase of

such a flag.

The proposed banner will consist of a blue field upon which will be a white circle bearing the official city seal, in blue, in the

center.

The commissioners authorized City Clerk Floyd C. Hughes to proceed with having the city banner designed and made at a cost of approximately *85. Discussing the banner, the commissioners were euthusiastic in their praise of the new musical organization and commented favorably on the progress the band has made in its short existence.

List 2 Meetings

Two important meetings will be

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> Island Baptist

Church next week. On Tuesday the annual meeting of the Ladies’ Aid Society will be held at 8 P. M. in the church. Next Wednesday evening, 1 annual church supper and business meeting will be held at 6:30

P. M.

Townsend Renamed As Tax Board Chairman Howard S. Townsend, of Eldora, was re-elected chairman of the Cape May County Board of Taxation at the board’s annual organization meeting Tuesday at Cape May Court House. The .tax board at present composed of three hold-over m bers, all of whom are serving until their successors are named, despite the fact that their terms have expired. Townsend has been serving der those circumstances for three years, Benjamin A. Tomes, of Wildwood, for two years, and Luther C. Ogden, of Cape May, it beginning his first year under those circumstances. His term expired May 1, but no successor has been appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the State Senate.

a joint statement today, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Reading Company and the Penn-sylvania-Reading Seashore Lines announced that due to heavy government demands on the railroads for passenger car transportation and heavy rail travel generally, resulting from the nation’s wartime production efforts, it will be necessary to discontinue immediately the operation of one-day excursions between Philadelphia, Camden and the South Jersey coast resorts. The railroad^ said however, that the full complement of regular trains would continue to be operated to and from seashore points on schedules comparable with those of last season and that every effort would be made to maintain this regular and convenient service into the future. ‘NECESSARY STEP” J. O. Hackenbcrg. general manager of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, speaking for his railroad and its parent systems, the Pennsylvania and the Reading, asked the public's cooperation and support in this necessary step to meet the country’s wartime emergency demands. He pointed out that the Seashore Lines operate only a small number of cars- of their own. Most of their equipment, in peak periods of travel as well as in normal day to day operation, must come from the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company. (Continued on Page Four)

2 Civilian Defense Films To Be Shown AH local Civilian Defense volunteers are expected to attend a showing of two defense sound films at Cape May High School auditorium tonight at 8 o’clock. The local defense council will present for the instruction of volunteers two talking motion picture films, “Fighting the Fire Bomb” and “The Warning”. The pictures are provided by the New Jefsey Defense Council. The public is invited to attend the show-

ing of the films.

Youths Sentenced In Larceny Of Auto Two Philadelphia boys, 14 and 17 years of age, were sentenced to New Jersey reformatories yesterday by Judge Robert A. Warke at Cape May Court House after they had been arraigned o: charge of stealing a car. The youths, Edward McBride, 14, and William Joseph Logue, 17, were arrested by state police 20 minutes after Morris Leedom, of Wildwood, had .reported his

car stolen.

The boys were nabbed on the Rio Grande Boulevard, where, police said, they were speeding at the rate of 85 miles an hour. After their sentence, the boys were held by county authorities and will be turned over to Philadelphia police for having violated Philadelphia paroles.

County Women Complete

Red Cross Training Courses

A large number of Cape May County women have completed Red Cross training courses in motor corps, staff assistance, canteen and other branches of Red Cross work, it was announced today at Cape May County Red Cross headquarters here. Those who have completed the motor corps training have completed 24 hours of instruction in motor mechanics, the standard and advanced first aid courses, a safe driving lecture by an inspector of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Departmept and six hours’ instruction in blackout and con-

voy driving.

The Cape May motor corps, first in the county to be qualified and uniformed, consists of Captain Catherine Nagle Callaway, Lieutenant-Hazel Littlefield Steger, 'Inez McLean Scarlett, Ruth Eliza Hines, Jnlia Smith McNnlta, Emily Cornelius Cookman, Katheryn Lewis Stevens, Ann Stetson Norris, Gleneita GoodeH Hand, Rosa McCarty Alexander, Mary Lawton and Dorothy Dew-

ier Smith.

The Wildwood motor corps

sists of Eve Zamsky Allen, Mary Williams Bright, Marion Pield Barkalow, Helen Southwick Barkalow, Jeannette Juanita Brower,

Hq)en Keating Callahan,

Lillian Dandois, Lillian Marsden Fox, Alma Richards Farrow, Amelia Nee be Ferrill, Camilla Edna Fulper Henry, Sophie Marie Huppert, Anna Mae Streib Haslett. Marguerite Alice Hobbs, Natalie Holmes Heil, Dorothy Jean Heil;. Margarette ScheUinger Keene, Helen Mason Kay, Julia Eldredge Mathis, May Grim McAndrew, Helen Howell Sutton, Evelyn Sheets ScheUinger, Margaret Dolores Scully, Beatrice MaxweU Sharp, Helen Virginia

Whealon, and Ethel May Leh. Ocean City motor corps mem-

bers are Martha McAllister Harbaugh, Elizabeth Kress BeU, Jane Lore Dickinson, Ruth Halleran Darby, Miriam Reichly, Pauline

Janney Cooper, Jean Blundi (Centinned on Page Four)

Succumbs Sunday Hold RitOS Fof

Tomlin, County Philanthropist

Start Appraisal Of Property For Canal Cape May County residents who own property in the vicinity of the right-of-way of the proposed cross-county canal are being interviewed this week in connection with preparations for construction of the waterway from Cape May Harbor to Delaware Bay. The New Jersey Legislature last week passed a bill introduced by Senate President I. Grant Scott, of Cape May, appropriating *100,000 for the project and the measure now awaits Governor Edison's signature to make it law.' The money is to be used to purchase rights-of-way through the area where the canal will be built.

BURDETTE TOMLIN

Prominent Ocean City resident and instigator of the Cape May County hospital campaign last year, died at his home on Su day after a 10 months’ Ulness.

Senior Trip To New York May 14-16 Thirty-nine members of Caj May High School’s senjp*—CTai will go to New Yorlyfrom May 14 -16 for the annual class trip. The group recently dropped plans for the annual Washington trip due to war-time conditions prevailing in the nation’s capital, and substituted the New York

trip.

The class wiU leave Cape May at 6:55 a.m. on May 14 on a PRSL train and will arrive in New York at 10:40. The Governor Clinton Hotel will be class headquarters. Chaperones will be Principal Paul S. Ensminger, John Stinner, Mrs. E. A. Cresse and Miss Kathryn Konowitch, members of the high school faculty. Among the places of interest which will be visited are Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Natural History, Radio City Music Hall, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Midtown Tunnel and Highway, LaGuardia Airport, TriBorough Bridge, Harlem, Central Park West, New York Stock Exchange, Chinatown, Bronx Park Zoo, and Rockefeller Center.

Burdette Tomlin, Ocean City philanthropist, dvie leader and K ninent business man, died day afternoon •t i his resort home, 801 Plaza Place, after an illness of 10 months. He was 65. Mr. Tomlin was president of the New Jersey Silica Sand Co., of MiUville, and had been active in many organizations. He gained much public renown a year ago when he contributed *25,000 toward a Tomlin Memorial Hospital at Cape May,. Court House. The money was placed in escrow for release if county residents could raise a like amount. During a concerted campaign last summer, the citizens accumulated more than *35,000 to match his giftr Work on the hospital was not started, as it was dedded that more than *100,000 would be needed to create an adequate inILL SINCE SUMMER Mr. Tomlin suffered a heart attack early last summer, during the height of the hospital campaign, and had been gradually weakening during the winter and spring. The decline became even more pronounced during the last

two weeks.

Born in Cape May County at Petersburg, he acquired his early education at Petersburg and Court House public schools and later was graduated in 1895 from the^gouth Jersey Institute at

BridgetOn^

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rena B. Tomlin, formerly Miss Rena Smith, of Camden. She also was formerly a resident of

this county. *

Funeral services were held yesterday at his late residence, fol-

May 23 Will Be Observed As Poppy Day By Auxiliary Unit The first war-time Poppy Day is just ahead. Poppies of patriotic remembrance will bloom in Cape May on Saturday. May 23, Mrs^Johr^J. Spencer, Jr., president of the Harry

Snyder UthV'1U3, A-merican ‘ Legion Auxiliary, announced

today.

Every man. woman and child ... the city will be asked to wear a poppy on that day i *■

_ _ , honor of the men who have given their lives for America. The poppies will be distributed by volunteer workers from the Auxiliary and, the coins contributed for ihem will be used in Legion Auxiliary work for vhe war disabled, their families and the famil/es of the

dead.

“This year,” sai^dtlrs. Spencer, 'the poppy not-'only honors and aids the men who defended America 24 years ago and their families, but also those defending America today and their families. Funds collected on Poppy Day will be used in the work the Legion and Auxiliary are doing for the disabled of both wars, and for needy families of men in the service as well as those of veterans.” Poppy Day has been observed by the Legion and Auxiliary annually for the last 20 years. With the nation again at war, the poppy has new significance this year and will be worn as a symbol of patriotism by millions of Americans throughout the country. Farmers Map Plans Farmers who will grow factory lima beans this year met Wednesday evening at Lower Township’s Consolidated School with Agents Smalley and Clark, of the Deerfield Packing Co. Planting dates were arranged at the meeting, and plans for this year’s factory-bean plantings were discussed. .

A. R. Chapter To Meet Saturday

Th annual meeting of Cape May Patriots Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will

Saturday at Cape May Jftat 11:30 o’clock with

the jiegent, Mrs. Palmer M. Way,

presiding.

A meeting of the Board of Management will precede the business session at 10:30. Annual reports vtyl be given, by Chapter officers aqd chairmen. Mrs. Way will repor^ on the Continental Congress now being held in Chi-

cago.

At one o’clock there will be a, pot luck luncheon with the mem-\ bers of the Board acting as hostesses. Following the luncheon, Mrs. Olivia Waters Regar, of the Homstead, Collegeville, Pa., am’ Cape May, will speak on "Antiqui Glass”. There will be an exhibit of members’ heirloom glass. This is the last meeting of the Chapter before the summer vacation and members are urged to be present and bring their most prized glass for display. The annual luncheon, usually held the last Saturday in June will omitted this year due to war ditions.

Highway Work Is Curtailod For Dorafioo Highway maintenance and construction work la Cape Map' County will he brought to a virtual staiidtsi.l for the duration under a policy announced Tnaoday by Spencer Miller, Jr., newly installed State Highway Commissioner, Freeholder Osman M. Corson, director of county highways, revealed at a meeting .yesterday. >rson said following a meeting addressed by Miller and James Logan, .chief engineer of the State Highway Department that no construction work or maintenance operations utilizing vital war materials will be permitted in the future. The financial limit of any highway project unless it is directly in the interests of the nation’s war effort is *5,000. "The effect of the new policy," Corson said, “is that practically all Cape May County work wiH be curtailed. All use of asphaltic road oils will probably be curtailed due to the shortage of ofl, and it is possible that all such work in this county will have ts be suspended for the duration," the Freeholder declared. The Board of Freeholders at yesterday’s meeting went on record opposing any legislative bill or bills designed to divert funds collected through fees paid for automobile license fees and collected through state gasoline taxes for any purpose other thaw highway improvements.

Ask New Permit For Chemical Plant Work An application for permission to place two 24-inch pipe-lines in Delaware Bay, about 500 feet north of the end of Sunset Boulevard, Cape May Point, will be considered by TJ. S. Army engineers on Saturday, Colonel H. B. Vaughan, Jr., district engineer, announced Tuesday, after revised plans for the project had been submitted to him by the Northwest Magnesite Company. Permit for laying the pipeline as issued November 12. The revised plans provide £pr an inflow pipe extending 753 feet channelward from the mean high water line instead of 625 feet as authorized by the permit issued. The outflow pipe is to extend 212 feet channelward instead of 300 feet. The decision as to whether not the revised plans will be approved must rest primarily upon the effect of the proposed work on navigation,” Colonel Vaughan said. “Any criticism or protest regarding the plans from the standpoint of navigation should be submitted to this office prior to May 9, as it is desired to act on the application on that date.” With construction of the mil-lion-dollar chemical plant progressing rapidly, installation of the intake and outflow pipelines is expected to be started shortly after the proposed new permit is granted.

Erma Woman Stunned By Lightning Monday Mrs. A. H. Swain, of Old Shore Road, Erma, was severely shocked by lightning shortly after noon on Monday while she was washing dishes in the kitchen of her home during a thunderstorm. Although she was stunned for several minutes, she suffered no serious injury. Mrs. Swain said she was turning the faucet of the kitchen qink when lightning apparently struck the water line. TTie intense electric shock traveled through the pipe and entered her hand and m Mr. Swain and their daughter, Mrs. Mary Isabel Rice, who were in the house at the time, rushed to her aid and she quickly recovered from the shock which had stunned her.

MRS. JACKSON NAMED Mrs. Sarah Jackson, of Erma,

was re-appointed as Lower Township’s registrar of vital statistics at a meeting of the township

committee on Friday evening. Mrs. Jackson has completed two

full three-year terms in the posittion and is starting her seventh

year as township registrar.

Mosquito Fighters Seek New Project Cape May County’s Mosquito Extermination Commission this week is preparing its 10th application for a WPA project with which to rid this county of mosquitd\breoding conditions, O. W. Lafferty, superintendent of the commisiKon, reported to the Board of ^Freeholders yesterday. Lafferty said the Works Projects Administration headquarters at Washington this week had rejected the ninth application made by the county commission such a project

Consumers Flock To Schools For Sugar Ration Registry

With more than 2,000 Cape May residents registered for sugar rationing books until press time yesterday, and large* numbers registered in all surrounding communities, the sugar book registry moved toward completion. Sugar iregistration is scheduled to end tomorrow night, after whkh anyone still unregistered must apply to local rationing boards for sugar books. During the registration periods Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, registrars were kept busy constantly with a large flow of reg-

istrants.

Sugar went back on sale at tail stores Tuesday after haV been banned for a week, and

Citizens, mainly those whose names begin with the letters from A to R, have gone cheerfully to the elementary schools nearest their homes to resigter for sugar rationing in the alphabetical order reCommemled by Daniel J. Ricker, countyv school superintendent, who is in charge of the

registration.

Registrants are on duty from 2 until 8 p.m. in all elementary ig schools in this county, and in Cape May Point at the fire house.

Dog License Drive Is Completed This Week Canvasses to license all dogs in Cape May and West Cape May were completed this week by Harry F. Greaves, agent of the Cape May County S.P.C.A. and special officer in charge of dog licensing the two communities. Effective Tuesday, any dog found running at large without a 1942 municipal license, with the exception of those owned by transients or visitors here for a short period, will be caught and impounded. If they are not redeemed in the seven-day period of grace, they will be destroyed, Greaves said. A surprising increase in the number of licenses in Cape May was noted this year, with the total rising from 227, the 1941 figure, to approximately 325. In West Cape May licenses issued to date total approximately 150, an increase of 25 over last year.

New First Aid Series Is Started Here A series of first aid classes for Cape May civilian defense volunteers started Monday night with the first class in Cape May High School auditorium. Classes will be held each Monday evening at * ’clock. The classes will be instructed by qualified instructors and per- - who have had long experience in the medical profession. The course is a 10-hour instruction period.

At Club Parley Cape May Kiwanians yesterday attended the annual Delsea Division Conference at Ocean City where panel discussions for officers and committee chairmen proceeded the evening dinner meeting. All clubs in the Delsea Divian, which covers all of South Jersey, were represented- at the spring conference. Card Party NOTE CHANGE OF PLACE Originally scheduled to be held at 242 Windsor Ave. on Friday, May 8th, will now be held in the Odd Fellows Hall, 33 Perry St. 5-7-lt-3918