f ish Being Exported From Cape May

COLD SPRING — In what is believed to/ be a first for Cape May, a large shipment of squid is being sent overseas today aboard a Portuguese ship that has been — Football Upset ^ A big upset occurred in the first annual Reach Bowl high school football game in YVildwrood on Saturday. For details and action photos turn to today’s sports pages as the Cape May Herald and Lantern begins expanded coverage of the high school athletic season in Cape May County. Watch the Herald and Lantern in weeks to come for football previews and top coverage ofloa^iynes.

docked here since last Tuesday. The 300 tons of frozen squid will be taken to Portugal on the ship Joana Viera, from the docks of Lund's Fisheries on Ofcean Drive, adjacent to the toll bridge near Wildwood Crest. A spokesman said the company is expanding its overseas operations and while it has made large shipments out of other pofts, this is the first time an overseas shipment of this size has gone out of the Cape May port WORKMEN HAVE BEEN loading about 80 tons a day on the 185 ft. ship. The squid was caught about 80 miles at sea and sold to Lund’s by other fishermen. The Cape May area is said to be one of the best squid fishing regions in the world Squid is-a popular delicacy in Portugal and other Mediterranean countries.

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$130 Stickup

VILLAS — Police ire looking for two males who assaulted «ind took $130 from a Philadelphia man as he left the Miami

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Inn on Bays bore Kd

morning

' According to polici

N.J. Legion Convention Begins Thur.

WILDWOOD - The N.J. Dept, of the American Legion will open its annual three-day convention here tomorrow, Sept. 9, which includes a list of notables and concludes with a giant parade Saturday. The convention will be chaired by State Cmdr Margaret M. Malone of Hamilton Township, who recently became the highest ranking woman official in the 64-year history of the Legion when she was elected vice commahder of the national organization. FIRST CONVENTION session will start at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, with welcoming speeches being given by the mayors of Wildwood, North Wildwood, and Wildwood Crest. Frank Lautenberg, Democratic candidate for the U S. Senate, is scheduled to speak at 9:35 a.m. Also scheduled to speak is Gov. Thomaa Kean, who has been, hospitalized With back problems in Nprth Jersey. Nomination of officers for the coming year will take place 11:30 a m. , * SPEAKERS AT Friday’s session will be Congressman Chris Smith, 9:15 a.m.; national Cmdr. Al Keller. 9:45 a.m. Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, 10:15 a.m.; Sen Bradley, 10:55 a.m. Election of officers for next year and installation of department officers will follow. The Legion parade, an annual highlight, will begin 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept v ll, at 16th and Atlantic, North Wildwooc^-and proceed south through Wildwooid Tb Wildwood Crest, where it will concIude^Bt Heather Rd. The reviewing stand will be at David Ave., Wildwood. /

A m

here parly Saturday

the victim

y ; n p'nin . ure: viiillT]

r rederick Glacken was approached by Ihi' two assailants ah tut midnight as he

madr his way to his Kr , him and pul a knife tt> his throat slightly culling his nock (ilackcn was shoved into his van and rohhM ■Knlicc said the assailants drove

' an One grahlted

‘■Tdejen loFulling Mill l<ii where he

86-YEAR-OLI) Tiny Miller of Town Rank was among several residents at last week’s laOwer Township Board of Health meeting protesting conditions at the Coun-

f Photo by born Want I ty SPCA shelter run by Uennls Kelly. The dogi here was sick and could harely see whfn It.was taken from the SPCA more than a year ago. It is contended,

relive,ed The victim jnadc his way on foot lo Green Creek where he notified

' police of the incident:

Police Copt Lorry Dalton aald

Glaekon's van was evenlunlly recovered

in the vicinity of the Pirates [tenon Hayshpre ltd. ahoul 2:25 a rn Police are searchini for two while

males, both about .TO me assailant is

described as being algiul s’l" and

weighing between IBS Ud iwi lbs He was Wearing a white shirt and yellow denims The second assailant iji sind to lie approx

imately 5 #" and 16(1 pounds He was

sporting a blue gray wlindhreaker and red

jogging shorts

Shotgun Suicide NOKl’jl CAPE MAV A local man, apparently distraught] over the m en! death of his wife, took his own life henlast Wednesday, according to laower

Township police.

Robert Copestiek, ci. of koschill

Parkway was found dhot to death in his. hack yard about 1.32 j>,m The weapon, a

twelve gauge shotgun] was lying next to

the body.

According to a police spokesman, the siKoide was apparent 11- planned and not a

spur-of-the-moment incident "He set everything up. 1 ' tho officer

said, indicating that the victim had made his own funeriil arrangements and apparently purchased the shotgun for the

sole purpose of taking his life

Copestiek, ti resident for 27 years, was a retired postman frorp the Cape May

Post Office

Ruling Soon on License

Renewal for SPCA Chief , Beach Fees Back?

, by Bob Shilrx

The IJnwer Township Board of Health will recommend to thd Township Commit-

Absenteeism and Attendance Policies Vary in Area Schools

ACADEMIA — When the doors open to students at the county’s six secondary. schools today, educators will be cautiously optimistic that old nemesis, absenteeism, substantially will be locked out for the 1982-1983 school year. On the heels of a state ruling requiring every public high school to have anjittendance policy, absenteeism was edtdown considerably last year. Hopes are high among principals and teachers that atten-

dance will be even better this year, according to a survey made by this newspaper Most controversy over absenteeism occurred last year at Lower Cape May Regional High School, which has a popula lion of 1,080 students. Officials there established a get tough policy, resulting in a furor from some of the 60 students and their parents after credits were denied for (Page 19 Please)

tee within the next week whether animal warden and county SPCA director Dennis Kelly's license to operate a kennel on Bayshore Road near the Cape May Canal should be renewed. No action was taken last Thursday, after the board listened for three and a half hours to charges of truelty and neglect to animals and other claims that the kennel is clean and animals well treated Although allegations have repeatedly been made that the facility is violating health regulations, last week's testimony by Lawrence Pardei*. a sanitary inspector with the County Health Department; revealed that some seven inspections of the facility made iri the past year by state and county officials cite only two viola tions - one Concerning a gas chamber that (Page 36 Please)

WILDWOOD CHEST - Once anain a drive is on here to inslilule lieach fees Accordintt lo reports, the Committee of Responsible Citizens, a group that supporter! beach fees when the issue, was voted down earlier this year, submitted petitions last Wednesday requesting the beach fee question be placed on the November ballot. If eriough signatures V° verified, the petitions become legally binding and voters will cast ballots in the general electioh for or against an or dinance to institute tlk; fees Athlete Killed COLD SPRING — An 18-year-old North (.ape May athlete was killed here Friday when he was thrown from his motorcycle

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