PLEDGES TOTALING more than 14.000 were raised during Saturday's two-mile bike-a-thon in Court House for the benefit of St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Here the participants line up for the start at Boyd pnd Mechanic Sts.

On the Road to Protect School Transportation Aid

Four County municipalities will hold their local elections May 12 — the communities of Sea Isle City, Avalon, Wildwood Crest and West Cape May. Unlike other elections these are supposedly nonpartisan. According to Deputy County Clerk Diane E. Rudolph, most of municipalities that are commissions elect members to their governing body either every 4 years or every 2 years. She noted that the elections are staggered, and not all county municipalities that govern in this fashion hold their elections during the same year. FIVE CANDIDATES are squaring off against each other for three seats on the governing body in Wildwood Crest. Incumbent Commissioner Louis Del Conte and former Commissioner Arthur Sc hard will be facing the "Best for the Crest" slate of Frank J. McCall and incumbents Charles Guhr and John Pantakme. In West Cape May, there are also five candidates running for three Commission seats. Winners will serve four-year terms. Incumbents Leroy Reeves and Mayor John Vasser are running on a slate with newcomer Lewis K. Feger. The field also includes incumbent Marvin Morrell Jr. and Francis McElwaine. '

In an effort to prevent additional state transportation aid from being lost to local school districts, Lower Cape May Regional Superintendent Ephraim Keller will travel to Trenton today to speak to the state Joint Apppoprations Committee. Plans to reduce state funding for public school transportation will hit Cape May County In excess of $177,700 — affecting nine local school districts. "What’s happening is that expenses are becoming greater while less revenue is be^ ing received from the state," Mr. Relief explained last week.

ALTHOUGH THE FINANCIAL burden t of providing a public education at the local level was supposed to be offset by passage of the state’s T&E (thorough and efficient) regulations in 1978, the superintendent noted the move to provide school districts with less transportation funding is just one more indication of the state's current trend toward transferring the cost of education back to the local level. According to Mr. Keller, for years state law required that school districts receive (Page 16 Please)

—Resort Celebrating Spring—7 With Giant Block Party

THE BATTLE* IN Sea Isle City for 3 seats on the city Commission includes two incumbents-Mayor Dominic Raffa and William Kehner. Raffa has served on the commission since 1961, Kehner since 1977. Other candidates for the four-year positions include former Commissioner Alfred Lignelle, William H. Van Artsdalen, president of the local Chamber of Commerce; and J. Allan Gansert, a Sea Isle City Elementary School teacher. In the Avalon contest there are four candidates vying for three four-year terms. Newcomer Jeannett Glazier is challenging incumbents Raymond S. Gray Jr., Philip F. Judyski and James Busha.

OCEAN CITY — Continuous entertainment, a giant flea market, a boat show, auto show, antique auto and motorcycle Show and special exhibits will be featured in Ocean City’s third annual Block Party, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., May 2. The event, which will be expanded an additional block to accommodate the flea

market, will extend from 10th Street to 7th Street on Asbury Ave. SPECIAL GUESTS for the day will be radio and TV personality Ed Hurst, and big band leader William Sackett. Hurst will help to emcee the party and Sackett (Page 16 Please)

NeWSMBMM The Digest Tories /

3 of 4 Losing Aid TRENTON - Cape May will be the only school district in South Jersey to con tinue receiving federal funds to support students whose parents work or live on federal installation^ if President Reagan’s budget is approved. The cutbacks in "impact aid" to 18 other school districts, 3 of which are in Cape May County, would become effective during the.l9614B school year. County districts to be affected and the total aid they will-lose are: Lower Cape May Regional, $39,000; I»wer Township, $19,000; and Ocean City, $t,800. 2 Die in Crash DENNIS TOWNSHIP.- An accident at ■ the intersection of CoraOns Tavern Rd. and Woodbine-Ocean View Rd. here last Thursday left two persons dead and four seriously injured. Those killed when their car apparently didn't brake at a blinking stop light and was hit broadside by a pickup truck Were Deborah Miller, 21, of South Seaville and Storm Brown, 17, of South Dennis. The four injured were Susan Fowler, 22, of Tuckahoe; Phyllis Hansen, 18, of Swainton; Keith Moser, 17, of South Seaville, and James Ganley Jr., 29, of Ocean View. Resorts Receive ‘Out’ for Police WILDWOOD - A state appelate court handed down a decision last Wednesday that has made it possible for coastal resort communities to hire and arm their summer policemen. The appellate court interpreted a recent Superior Court decision, permitting only officers who have received 13 weeks of intensive training to carry guns, in such a way as to provide an “out" for resorts that must ttra aeaaooal and temporary officers to supplement their regular police force. Should the appellate court have not reversed the earlier decision, Wildwood Mayor Guy Muziani was prepared to request that the State Police send officers to his community to aid the local police force during the summer. Earlier Spray On the Way? COURT HOUSE - There was much concern last week over whether the state Dept, of Agriculture should advance the (Page 16 Please) ‘

As Pinal Recourse* % Reagan Influence Sought for Beach Work

S. CAPE MAY — Lower Township committeeman Jack Moran has written to

President Reagan requesting that the chief executive use his influence to cause

the Army Corps of Engineers to accept responsibility for replacing township beaches between Cape May and Cape May Point, lost as a result of the federal government's 1911 installation of two stone jetties at the entrance to Cold Springs Inlet. Although the jetties have served the purpose of assuring a navigable channel to the harbor, one of the unfortunate side effects of the project was to increase the rate of erosion to the degree that it is now causing severe flooding problems in Lower Township, Cape May and West Cape May. In addition, erosion has progressed to such an extent that should a severe storm occur, the borough of Cape May Point could virtually become isolated from the rest of the mainland. ACCORDING TO MR. MORAN, since at least 1973 the four affected municipalities have worked together to try to find a solution to the flooding problem. Drainage improvements have been made by both the municipalities and the county, applications have been submitted for state and federal funding, and various appeals have been filed with congressional representatives and the governor.

The latest attempt to remedy the situation was a meeting Feb. 27 between Congressman William Hughes (D-2nd), Colonel James G. Ton of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and representatives of the state, count) and affected local municipalities. AT THAT GATHERING it was disclosed that the Army Corps will only consider total, restoration of the beaches lost since 1911, with the condition that the state, county and municipal governments provide matching funds for the replacement of sand not lost ns a result of the inlet jetties.

"As this match would be well in excess of a million dollars and would, in addition, commit the township to periodic maintenance expenses in excess of $100,000 per occurrence, it is neither feasible nor possible for the township to par ticipato to that extent," Committeeman Moran wrote the President. "We have pursued all potential sources of assistance." he added. "Our final recourse, in despera lion, is to ask that you intercede for us in this matter of upmost importance."

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CLOWNING AROUND during the annual Spring Fair of Our Lady Star of the Sea School in Cape May on Saturday was this polkdotted lady, here making up fair-goer Brian Giancola.