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Council Names Busha President AVALON - James Busha is Ihe new Borough Council president and Councilwoman Mary Grace Keene will serve as virepresident. 'The council voted unarllmously to appoint at the municipal

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Both Bush and Keen were elected to the council m 1979 shortly after borough changed its form of government from a commission to a mayor-council form Busha asked for Continued support, and said it is imperative that the council remain nonpartisan to serve taxpayers regardless of political affiliations. Bt SHA HAS BEEN a full timr resident since 1973 He graduated from Temple t Jniversity in Philadelphia with a degree in business administration and worked for the Atlantic Richfield Co. retiring from N/irnfid To Moot Court

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Busha and Keen

the firm s marketing department. Councilwoman Keen was first elected to council in May. 1979. She has been a borough resideht for about 28 years and , was a former deputy tax collector for the r

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nzanne Pas ley, of II Buck Ave. a second-year student at the Rutgers School of Law at .Camden, has tn-en elected* to a seat on theseven member Stratton

Moot Court Board

Board members are responsible for organizing the intramural program at ihe Camden eampus^of Rutgers In ‘addition Mo designing the hypothetical appellate court case argued by all participants . in the competition, members select the Na

tiynal Moot Court Team that represents the School of Ubw. and Its successor board Pasley, who captured top honors in the most recent competition, is & Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Chatham College.

Combat Engineer WHITESBORO - Pvt. Tracy D. Bethune, son of local residents Randolph N Bethune. and Marie J. Bethune. has completed a combat engineer course at the US. Army Training Center at Fort Leonard

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Summer Bazaar

WILDWOOD - A summer bazaar is being sponsored by the Indies Guild of the First Baptist Church, Maple and Atlantic Aves., 10 to 2 and 6 tt> 8 July 20, and 10 to 2 July 21.

Featured will be handmade items and Christmas novelties. The guild is also sponsoring a home baked food sale the same hours July 22 and 23.

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by Assemblyman Michael Matthews, D-Atlantic, because he didn't want "a rush judgement" to be made on issue of such impoifance. AMONG tilOSE FIGHTING the bill has been Assemblyman Guy Muziani, (R-Cape May, Cumberland). Muziani, whose also mayor of Wildwdod, contends passage of the bill would have disastrous effects on the economy of Cape May County. He recently claimed during a meeting in Wildwood with county officials and members of the business community that permitting 24-hour gambling on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays would encourage tourist and seasonal employees to spend their money in Atlantic City rather than in Cape May County. Plane Goes Down LOWER TWP. — A single engine Piper cub towing an advertising banner made a forced landing into the marshes on the eastern side of the Garden State Pkwy. early last Friday afternoon. The pilot, David Bills, 24, of Clear Summit, Pa. climbed out of the airplane. He • was uninjured. LOIS TOMALINO, president bf Paramount Air Service, said the 26-year-old plane made a forced landing when it lost power. Damage to the craft was minimal, she said. The plane landed in the weeds and mud about 300 yards east of milepost 3.5 on the Pgfkway, adjacent to Jones Creek. * The Lower Township Police and Rescue Squad, .dfCoast Guard helicopter and a Mat ineColice rescue boat were called to the scene in case their help was needed. The siVof the forced landing is not far from t\Vo acres of land on the west side of the parkway which the airplanes use for dropping off and picking up banners. Slick Hits Beach CAPE MAY 4 An oily slick during high tide forced (the closing of three > bathing beaches here part of Sunday and Monday. : According to City)Mflnager Fred Coldren, the slick cKfired up at Queen, Perry and Stockton beaches when the tide receded. Tliere is suspicion it was caused when a bloat opened its bilges. Test results^feibeing awaited.

‘No’ to Regional MIDDLE TWP. — A proposal by school officials here to form a regional high school with Stone Harbor, Avalon, and Dennis Twp. was rejected last week by two of the communities involved. County School Supt. Robert Bongart has received word from both Stone Harbor and Dennis Twp. that they don’t .want to pursue the proposal aired at a meeting last month. UNDER A REGIONAL system, the percentage of cost to each district is based on community property value. Reports indicate that if regionalization had been approved Avalon would pay 49 per cent of the school budget, Stone Harbor would contribute 19 per cent, Dennis would put up 7 per cent, and Middle Twp.’s share would be 25 per cent. The number of students from each district is 72,21,204 and 671 respectively. Freeholder Choice OCEAN CITY — Local attorney James Kilpatrick was selected last week as the city Republican Organization’s choice to succeed. Jack Bittner as the party’s freeholder candidate this November. Bittner withdrew from the county race after being elected mayor in May. A COUNTY GOP committeeman, president of the Cedar Beach Civic Assn., and a member of the local Zoning Board of Adjustment. Mr. Kilpatrick ran unsuccessfully in May for a city councilman-at-large seat. He was one of four residents interviewed for the freeholder slot. The final choice for freeholder candidate will be made by the 168 county GOP Committee members on July 21. School Aid Cut \ TRENTON - Almost $641,500 of anticipated state aid won’t be reaching Cape May County schools as a result of last week’s state legislative action against amending the state budget to restore aid to education. County School Supt. Robert Bongart has indicated the cuts — revenue local districts already included in their final 1982-83 budgets — will result in several school boards having to decide whether to use surplus (if available), cut programs, or request permission from voters to borrow funds to get them thru the coming year

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Wildwood/I^ower and Seven Mile/Middle projects ready for construction funding at

the right time," Marinakis noted. Public hearings will be held on the

priority, MUA chairman Charles Hathaway noted, adding. "Now.is the time for unity within Cape May County. Every municipality should present a written

statement in support of the priority list. "AFTER ALL," Mr. Hathaway con-

tinued, “this county is now finally slated to receive a major portion of the available grant funds for ifs projects. The competition is terrific and there will be challenges made. We need to stand together. If the funds go elsewhere or if the participating municipalities do not cooperate, then these projects which are sorely needed to clean up pollution will have to be paid for 100 percent with local dollars. That can only in-

crease the costs to users."

Under the segmented funding plan, the ret segment for the Wildwood/Lower pro-

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ject would initially cost $65 million and be eligible for $42.2 million in federal funds plus added state construction funds. The initial segment for the Seven Mile/Middle project is potentially eligible for $17.5 million in grants according to the neW

priority rating.

"WE ARE requesting substantial support at the Aug. 5 public hearing at Stockton State College," Marinakis remarked. “It is obvious that our gpme plan has been very much on target in that we now stand a good chance of obtaining a major portion of the limited grant funds

available.

"It is important that we all now let the state DEP know that we are concerned about the continued pollution of our back bays and that the funding proposed for the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority projects is essential for the implementation of the solution," he conclud-

ed in a news release.

(From Page 1) "cording to Cmdr. A1 Sarra. is not to interfere in commercial search and rescue operations. This, he said, isn’t to abrogate the Guard's mission of furnishing aid to fishing or pleasure boats which are out of gas, have battgry trouble, or are holed and

flooding

This is true, Cmdr. Sarra said, particularly ifthe situation is life-threatening The sUynsis-expected to last a year Officials' , tfouldn T t comment on whether it is connected to the Coast Guard Rules and Mission Study submitted in April to Congress by Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis. THAT REPORT the first thorough review of Coast Guard mission responsibilities in 20 years — urged the adoption of user fees "to recover the costs of various vessel safety functions, waterways management, aids to navigations,

routine icebreaking operations and other Coast Guard-provided services." Whether the latest study is an outgrowth of the previous review aimed at charging fees for towing and salvage operations or shifting responsibility for those activities to commercial operators. Coast Guard officials won’t say. AS PART OF THE latest study, information is also being sought on the number and location of commercial towing and salvage operators, their capabilities, problems encountered .by boaters and salvage operators, and the availability of Coast Gurad and other non-commercial assistance. / Further information about the study may be obtained from or comments made to: Robert Anthony, Commandant (G-CpEI, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second St., S.W . Washington,W) C. 20593, or by phone (202 ) 426-2430.