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Tennis Clinic COURT HOUSE - The New Jersey Tennis Association will conduct a Tennis Clinic at the Cape May County Park Thursday. Augusts. In announcing the clinic, Park Director Leon Fulginiti said the program will be divided between novices and intermediate children, ages 8 to lOand 12 to 16. Bill Stoner, a tennis pro from Mercer County will join John M. Geisel, President of the New Jersey Tennis Association and a member of the National Tennis Register, in conducting the clinic. Youngsters interested in attending the clinic should contact the Cape May County Park Office at 4655271. or a rra nge to be a t the park before the 10:00 a.m. starting time on Thursday.

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Seashore Line Back On Track

TRENTON - Che Department of Transportation announced today that full service has been resumed on the Cape May Branch of the Pennsylvania -Reading Seashore Line. The Cape May Branch had been out of service while track repairs were

completes. Alternative bus service had been provided during the service In-

terruption.

All three branches of the

PRSL - Cape May, Ocean City and Atlantic City - are now in full service following periods of in-

terruption due to nec

track work.

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A CURIOUS CRAB. A yellow plastic drifter used in blue crab studies is part of the treasure found by James Tweed along the shore of Delaware Bay.

Blue Crab Study Continues

Don't be surprised if it looks like the Coast Guard is throwing yellow frisbee’s with tails at you while you're fishing off New Jersey or in Delaware Bay this week. Its all part of a study of young blue crabs being conducted by the University of Delaware. Each yellow, saucershaped disk with a foot-and-a-half stem is a drifter which moves with the currents in the Ocean and Bay. The long-term circulation of water at the mouth of Delaware Bay is roughly off shore near the surface and on shore near the bottom. About half the drifters have a weight on the stem, these will sink and drift in currents along the bottom. The other drifters, without wejghts, float at the surface. It is thought that young blue crabs may be moved in and out of the bay on these currents. Release and recovery of these drifters will provide more detailed information about the bay’s Currents. the U.. Coast Guard and N.J. Marine Advisory Service in Cape May are cooperating with the

University of Delaware in the study. Coast Guard helicopters are making the drops and the Marine Advisory Service is collecting information on where the drifters are found in New Jersey. The drops will be repeated five more times through the fall. Each disk contains a dbrial number, a Delaware address and telephone numbers. The serial number, date, time and location are recorded when the drifter is released and the same information is needed when it is found. This information helps to determine the speed and direction of current movements. There is a $1 reward for this information. You can mail tly information to the University of Delaware, call the Delaware Marine laboratory in Lewes <302-645-4000). or call Stewart Tweed of the N.J. Marine Advisory Service in Cape, May Court House <609-465-5115). First released in April some of the disks are still washing up on the beaches. Approximately 3<J percertt

of the surface drifters have been recovered but only 8 percent of the bottbm drifters have been found. Most of the ones dropped at stations in Delaware Bay have come ashore in Delaware or have been carried out of the bay.

Keep, your eyes open for these disks to get your reward and to contribute to this study. The drifters give only a crude estimate of the currents, but the more that are found and returned, the more reliable the estimate.

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