Tjyp. Rehires Dog Warden Facing Charge On Cruelty

WitH f>o one£b* able lo provide the scr , vire of municipal'animal l/wier Township (’orrimittee on March 22 reluctantly awarded the job for another vcarlo Dennis Kelly of Cold Spring In a two t«i one decision . with Commit'teewomao }»eggie Bieberbach voting ■ against the appointment - Mr Kellys ■ company, Dehelco Inc', received a one year ctintrad to handle the municipality s increasing stray dog and cal problem He swill receive #><«) a month for his secvim Mr Kelly - who also is director of the county SIH A was charged with cruelty t.', animals in a complaint filed by the 'Associated Humane Societies The complaint expected to tie heard in Wildwood Muhte.ipaI Court April .14 - alleges Kelly allowed the yse of a gas chamber as a me^iis of euthanasia that didn't meet state standards ' _ I V(fTEI) AfiAINST Kelly because we've had so many complaints about him not doing h»V job.'' Committeewoman Bieberbach .said Saturday "We have an outbreak of dog and cat problems,” she ad d«Hl 'Tn myL^pihtph l bis could cause a health problem , But while they vbted tohire^ the animal warden, tmth Mayor Tom Clydesdale and Committeeman Jack Moran indicated that if someone else, had bid for -the job the contract probably wouldn't have gone to Kel-

*ly

Acknowledging there are many tiims when the wtfrdcn is needed but can't be reached Mr Moran said upon awarding the contract that a "little bit of servioe ls Hughe* Not Buoyed

better than nothing " But while Mr Kelly was the only bidder this year, next year may be different, MAYOR CLYDESDALE indicated that |ie has been in touch with a man from 'Woodbine who hopes by next year to have expanded his facilities enough to be able to provide the services necessary to bring the community's strpy dog and cat situation

under control

According to township clerk Claudia Kammer. the than from Woodbine Finley Tomlin, first contacted her and mentioned his possible interest in bidding shoj-tly after bids were officially received March 4 Kelly being.the only bidder After being informed what the township is looking for in the way of services, Tomlin indicated he/ will have to expand his facilities beforepe can adequately handle the job. '//

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Gun Ban Dumped

^Our hands are tied right now/ the Il year oid bny who

mayor said, referring to Mhr asXonly

OCEAN CITY - City officials have

dropped tjie idea of creating an ordinance that would prwhit hand guns here, but may begin a voTuntary training program

for those owning weapons. ’ The proposed ordinance — suggested

earlier this month by Councilman Henry Knight - was opposed by many residents who felt the city has no authority'to pass

such a law, or believe the regulations

would violate their constitutional right to

bea^arms

Truancy Charged DENNIS TWP. - The parents of an 11-year-old - boy who have kept him home

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Coast With the recent,cutbacks in federal STEP

available warden “Hopefully the other man will have the ability to bid next year."

COMMITTEEWOMAN BIEBERBACH

echoed the mayor’s remarks "I hope that now the majority of the Committee has approved his contract, he (Kelly) will start

doing his job,’.’ she said Saturday In addition to serving as the county

SPCA director, Kelly is also the animal warden for most of the municipafitirt in

Cape May County. . .

The Associated Humane Societies case against the County SPCA. filed last winter, contends that an antiquated gas chamber was used in destroying animals. Reportedly the -AHS said the carbon monoxide chamber didn’t have the proper temperature- and filtering devices. They said it “burned the lungs out" of animals

before they tlfejl

maintenance dredging funds, these condi lions are not likely to improve . r “NOW THE COAST GUARD wajits. to remove tha navigational aids.;so boaters will have fo maneuver through channels that arc virtually unmarked On top of • that; the Coast Guard may.be forced to cut back its air and sea rescue operations We're going to end up with boaters running aground-this summer, and the Coast Guard won't have the manpower or resoufef-s to rescue them," Hughes

declared

The Ocean City Congressman also noted . that the Coast Guard s budget cuts come at a time when the Coast Guat’d has been assigned more responsibilities than ever, in such areas as dbug interdiction, monttnnhg and enforcement of the ocean dumping and 200-mile fishing limit laws. ,yid enforcement .of maritime laws. . Hughes has cosponsored legislation which would restore koine 1300 million to •the Coast Guard s' budget Amofig other things, these funds would make it unnecesary for the Coast Guard to close its • Aids to Navigation Team in Atlantic City, or to remove the navigational aids from tht Soutji Jersey waterways

(From Page 1) INDIVIDUALS WITH questions for the organization should forward them via post card or letter to .the same address The questions will be examined closely "to see if there are some not thought of by our research team," Garretson explained. The right of intervention was announced by Judge McGill to STEP attorney Raymond Batten of Sea Isle City. He explairied that the, intervenor status makes STEP a party to the case with the right to be present, cross examine and introduce evidence at both evidentuary as well as public hearings. HEARINGS ON THE rate request have been* scheduled for May in four South Jersey locations and one in Newark. Mgy 10 is the hearing dale in Wildwood. STEP is arguing the utility is, in effect, punishing its captive customers for its own business and management mistakes. Atlantic Electric says inflation, high interest rates and expansion needs require the rate hike which, if -fully approved by the BPU, -would lead to-the monthly electric bills of thVaverage homeowner going up by as much as 40 per cent.

FRAMES AND LENSES COMPLEtE

to attack him last month as he walked to his bus stop on Delsea Dr , have A^tT-. ordered to appear in Municipal Court tw face truancy charges. The charges, filed by school officials, could result in William and Sylvia Matters being fined $100 if they continue to C keep their son home. The couple contend they will not.send their son'to school until his bus ,stop is moved closer to their

home.

Band on MUA COURT HOUSE The County Freeholders last week appointed Lower Township resident William F.X. Band to replace John Vinci on the County Municipal Utilities Authonty. The 3-1 vote found^'ree'holdtr Ralph Evans casting the lone dissenting vote. , Freeholders Jack Bittner, Williatn Sturm and Gerald Thornton supported the appointment

OCEAN CITY - Mayor Chester

Wimberg fast week decided against seeking reelection, turning the city’s mrfyoral

contest in a three-way race between

county Freeholder Jack Bittner, former

Mayor B. Thomas Waldman and city councilman-at-large Nickofas Trofa Although he previously said he wouldn't seek reeleotion this year, the

mayor began circulating nominating peti-

tions earlier this month reportedly

because he had been asked to do so by

those dissatisfied with the other three cahdidates. . Firemen to Fight

WILDWOOD — Firefighters here say they will.go to court if the city continues 4 to refuse to implement, a four-year contract recently formulated thru arbitration While the city’s 14 members of Local 50 of the Firemen’s Benevolent Assn, claim the city is refusing to talk with them, city • solictor John Grooh contends the contract hasn’t been implemented because the dJy hasn’t received the arbitrator’s decision.

School Board Contesis^Tues.

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(From Page 1) ning. for a one-year unexpired term and one running unopposed' for a three-year ^term. Candidates for the one-year term are William F. Sims, Lucinda S. O’Connor, George Murray Wolf and William K. Soens Carman Scarpa is seeking the three year jiosition. The budget—totaling'\more: l h an $935,000—calls for a tax levyjof $797,210. / In the Cape May’s - including the Lower Cape May Regional distri<|| —• board candidates are running unopposed - Running for three three-yedr terms on the Cape May Elementary Board are incumbents John Daly, Kay Douglass, and newedmer Robert B. Janifer Sr The district’s tota| $944,000 budget calls for a tax levy of $603,000 for current expenses and $25,0d)0 for capital outlay. . West Cape May has two threeyear terms available but only one candidate, hr cumbent Alyce V. Julien. is running. Voters are being asked to put up $125,600 for the current expense part of the total $176,000 budget, and another $1,000 for capital outlay. * In Cape May Point, Miriam R. LayJon is running unopposed for a three-year term. Voters are being asked to approve a tax levy of $40,898 in support of the district’s $60,768 budgfet In the Regional district, Lower Township incumbent Paul Lundholm is’ running for a three-year term and incum1 bent Deltdn Brooks is seeking to fill a oneyear unexpired tetm Both Cape May incumbenti, E»- Hutchinsbn and Stephen Todd, an; running for three-year terms. West Cape -May’s single seat on the ninemember board isn’t up this year. Regional’s total $5.2 million budget calls for a local tax 1 levy of about $3.7 for current expense and $20,000 for capital outlay. Four candidates are fighting for three three-year positions in Middle Township. . They are incumbents .Mary If. Norbury. John L. O’Dea and Janies Gj Allax, and newcomer Edward J. Rosehberg Jr. The tax levy to support the current expense portion of the district’s total $7.4* million budget is about $4.5 million. For capital outlay more than $19,000 is being

requested

Three incumbents —.all unopposed — ace running for the three three-year terms ■ available in North Wildwood. They are Jerome O’Conhell. Andrew Melchiorre

and Anna M. Ritter.

Taxpayers are being requested to raise $1,399,509 in current expense antt^.OOO in

capital outlay. The total budget is about $1.8 million. 1 • Incumbent Blanche Cfiatbbrrf is running unopposed for the one three-year term available in West Wildwood. Some $107,000 • ' is being asked to support the ciifrent expense portion of the total $151,000 budget. In Wildwood five candidates are vying for three three-year terms. They afe incumbents Larry Snyder and William Mitchell, and newcomers Curtis A. Miller, Jerome Brown and Elaine M. Vignola. * The requested tax levy is slightly oyer $2 million and the total budget js $»^million. Wildwood Crest has three candidates running for two thr^e-year terms. They are incumbents Robert Patterson and Benjamin Ingersoll, and challenger Stanley

Gage

Voters are being asked to approve a $1.56 million tax levy in support of the cur-' rent expense portioh of the total $2 million budget. Capital outlay totals $8,000, Incumbents Billie *J. Sellers and Glenn Townley are running unopposed for the two three-year terms in Stone Harbor. The requested local tax levy is about 389,000. The total Budget is slightly over $501,000. In Ocean City, incumbent Jean Serber is running unopposed.for a two-year unexpired term. There are four candidates for the three three-year seats, incumbents Jeanne Gorman and David Stefan, and challengers Gerald Walker and David Gilpin. , ■ Approval is being sought for a local tax levy of $4,753,330 to support the current expense part of, the district’s $8,9 million budget. An additional $200,000 is requested . for capital Outlay. In Dennis Township seven candidates are vying for three three-year terms. They include incumbents George Brewer Jr, Rithard E. Fowler and Bradly Neilson, and challengers Glen E. Beebe, Frank Dougherty, Howard I^roy Hess and Sandra L.)Carman. Taxpayers are being asked to raise $1,30*1,262 to support the current expense part of the more than $2.2 million budget In Woodbine there are three candidates running unopposed for the three threeyear terms. They are incumbent.Enrique Rodriquez, and newcomers Geraldine Troup and Mary Lombardo. The district’s total overall budget of more than $1.3 million calls for some $306,445 to be raised in support of the current expense portion and $1,500 to be provided for capital outlay.