DELAWARE VALLEY SCIENCE FAIIt winners Peter Freese and Debbie Ran recelvi last minute instructions from teacher Rill Doan before leaving for the International Science Fair competition in Milwaukee.

Science More Than Fair at High School

300 Youth Jobs Open? COURT HOUSE — Cape Human Resources, Inc./CETA is currently taking applications to fill approximately 300 Summer Youth Employment positions throughout the county, according to program officials early this week. Those positions will be available to economically disidvantaged youth 14-21 who reside in the county, and will provide participants with an opportunity to gain first-hand work experience at such jobs as laboratory aides, landscape assistants and clerical aides. INTERESTED YOUTH are encouraged to pick-up pre-application forms at their local High School. Community Service Center or local Employment Service Office, and return them completed to one of the same pick up sites as soon as possible. Interviewing for those positions will be carried out throughout May and no applications will be accepted after June. The pre-application will be used only as registration for interviews and does not determine eligibility. Applicants must submit a social security card, proof of age, residency and family income at the time of interview. For further s information .and preapplication forms contact CHR/CETA at 465-2263. Veteran’s Monument Dedication

BY Bob Whiles COURT HOUSE - Since the first International Science Fair competition was held 33 years ago. there has never been a South Jersey student represented in this prestigious competition. To qualify, a student must first excell at the Delaware Valley contest, an event that brings together the best science minds in the Philadelphia, Delaware and Southern

Jersey areas. Out of about 63,000 entrants in local science fairs, only some 344 are chosen to compete in the regional contest and only four of these will have the oppor tunity to go on to the international event. BUT THIS YEAR, two South Jersey students — both from Middle Township High School—have earned the right to par ticipate in this week's international com- ' (Page 17 Please I

Menhaden Plant Site For Waste Transfer?

COURT HOUSE - The Veteran s Monument will be dedicated at the Cape May County Veteran's Memorial Cemetery behind the Crest Haven complex during ceremonies beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday. The 10 ft. granite stone, paid for solely thru donations by individuals, veterans organiiation and businesses, bears the inscription For Your Tomorrow, We gave Our Today and the insignia of each service branch. Cape May County is only the second county in the nation to offer its veterans an alternative to interment in national cemeteries in New York state or western Pennsylvania. FREEHOLDER GERALD THORNTON of Villas brought the problem to the attention of the county governing body in September 1977, noting that while a veteran’s cemetery was beyond the county’s mandated legal responsiblities, it was within its civic considerations. Three years after airing the problem, the Cape May County Veterans Memorial Park and Cemetery was dedicated on county land following the cooperation of numerous individuals and agencies on all levels of government. THE 18-ACRE SITE will accomodate an estimated 6,300 gravesites. 37 are already buried there, and over 500 othr reserva(Page 17 Please)

SWAINTON - John Vinci, County Municipal Utilities Authority chairman, offered to incorporate the solid waste transfer station into the site of the Wildwood/Lower waste water treatment plant. “As an alternative,'' Vinci said, "the former menhaden plant site has a number of advantages. "FIRST. IT HAS already been identified as a location of a waste water treatment facility. Second, the site can accommodate the solid waste transfer station. The MUA could save between $150,000 and $200,000 since we wouldn't be required to purchase a separate site." Vinci said he is proposing this location "4o fulfil] my pledge to the people of Middle Township that no solid waste facility that would disrupt the social and economic life of the municipality would be located there." THE ADDITIONAL site is located on the Middle/Lower Township border on Rio Grande Boulevard east of the Garden State Parkway. The four original sites proposed were all

located in the Rio Grande section of Middle Township and were opposed by several groups, including the Middle Township governing body. A fifth site in Lower Township was proposed but conflicted with the contemplated extension of airport runway. Vinci indicated his strong interest that the concerns expressed by the Middle Township committee caused him to search for and find this additional site. "It would appear to me," Vinci said, "that no further inconvenience would be caused by the location of the transfer station on the same site as the Wildwood/Lower Region waste water transfer facility. DANIEL D. KELLY, project manager, observed. "This site would have the least impact on the neighborhoods of any site previously considered by the engineers." Other reasons given by Vinci for proposing the menhaden plant site include reduced travel time because it is located close to the bulk of the solid waste flow, and the fact that personnel from the waste water treatment facility could also be used to operate the transfer station, particularly in the off peak months. 4 "The obvious economy of the proposal impacted heavily on my decision," Vinci related. Vinci commended Pandullo Quirk Associates for moving very quickly to study the proposal. “The consulting engineers did an extraordinary job Daniel D. Kelly told me the solid waste transfer station could be incorporated into the waste water treatment facility site without interfering with the operation of either facility. They have shoehomed it in there to accommodate my request," Vinci related. The MUA chairman said he would urge the other commissioners to consider his new transfer station proposal.

r-Armed Forces Week At Center

CAPE MAY - The Coast Guard Training Center is celebrating Armed Forced Week (May 11-16) with several activities open to the public. Tours of the Training Center and Air Station are being conducted from 10 a m. to noon thru Friday. Graduation ceremonies of Recruit Company Bravo 119 will commence at 2:30 p.m. Friday. ON SATURDAY, the Armed Forces Day program will commence at noon with a special ceremony featuring the

Training Center^Band and Regiment. Following this ceremony will be a walking tour of the Air Station. The 180-ft buoy tender Hornbeam and 82-ft. patrol boat Point Franklin will have “open house" between 2:36 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. The day's activities will wind up with a search and rescue demonstration featuring a Coast Guard helicopter and small rescue boat at 4:30 p.m.

News--—• Digest

Wells Are Clean TRENTON — Private and p—hftr portable water welb in southern Cape May County have been given a clean biD of health by state health authorities in connection with the unusual cluster of birth defects, particularly in the Cold Spring area, last year. According to a state health official, tests on 30 wells disclosed nothing that could have led to the defects. Dr. George Halpin. director of parental and child health services for the state, ako reportedly indicated a virus may have been responsible for the defects <m eluding spina bifida and hydrocephaulus). IS major defects and 20 cases of babies with minor abnormalities had come to the attention of authorities At the time the defects were first reported, the chemicil Sevin became suspect and its spraying suspended tast month, the stole reversed its previous stand and supported renewal of the car baryl spraying against gypsy moths, which is scheduled to ge underway in the county this week Still Won’t Spray MIDDLE TWP. — Despite a petition containing almost l,000 signatures, and more than 50 protesting residents Township Committee last Thursday declined to join the state spraying pro gram against gypsy moths. While Committeewoman Patricia Peterson called the no-spray decision a drastic mistake. Mayor Sam DeVico maintained the township couldn't remain within the state Caps and join the q>ray ing program which, he maintained, was a waste of time and money anyway based on its alleged ineffectiveness over a previous period of several consecutive years. Head-on Kills 3 RIO GRANDE - Charges of reckJess driving and multiple counts of death by auto have been filed against John W Owens. 20. of Villas following a triple fatality Saturday night on Rt. 47 between the menhaden plant and parkway According to Middle Township Ptl Jack Kirwin, Owens was the director of a car which was traveling west at k high rate of speed when it skidded and crossed the median, glanced off another vehicle and crashed head on into a convertible, flipping it and trapping three Penn sylvania youths inside. Pronounced dead at the scene were Peter Lacourse, 18. of Fort Washington, Connie DcVincent, 18. of Plymouth Meeting, and Karen Wilmanski of Nor ristown Owens was listed in poor condition late Monday night at Burdette Tomln Hospital. Ptl. Kirwin talked briefly with Owens before he lapsed into unconsciousness Condo Controversy CAPE MAY - The site of the old ten nis courts on Lafayette St. may soon be the home of an 80-unit condominium development. Submitted by James Mac Donald, Carl Buck and James Brolly, the controversial proposal that would include development of properties from 1101 to 1135 Lafayette St. will be discussed at a special Plannfng Board meeting this Thursday at 7 p m in the local Commum ty Center. Several nearby residents have opposed the project claiming such development will add to the traffic congestion that already exists in the area, especially in the summer.

Appeals Conviction

VILLAS — An appeal filed last week in Superior Court, Appellate Div.. seeks a review of the murder conviction of Patrick Fulmer, 53, who was found guilty of the March 1980 rifle slaying of his wife of six weeks, Nora O’NeiH Fulmer Fulmer’s attorney alleges his client's 25-year prison sentence came following an unfair "hearsay" trail. (Page 17 Please)