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Herald & Lantern 8 June "83

Vote Early: Real Early

Shotgun Marriage for PICS

KJ. Duffy COURT HOUSE -“’’Vote Early, Avoid Congestion." the county Board of Elec lions advised on sample primary election ballots mailed to everyone in the county who has voted within the past four years Voters who took the sample seriously would have rushed to cast their votes just after the polls opened yesterday morning According to the Official Primary Elec tion Sample Voting Machine Ballot, they had just one hour — from 7 a m. to 8 a m to get to their polling place and choose candidates in. local, county and state races The shortened Election D^y wasn’t plan ned as an intentional break for poll workers, but was caused by a printing error. explained Diane Rudolph, deputy

county clerk. Apparently, all the sample ballots (more than 47,000) were printed with the one-hour polling period listed, she said. To correct the error, she added, the county had a notice published Monday in the Atlantic City Press. The ad, which appeared on page 18, did not mention, however, that the ballots were incorrect. It simply informed readers that the pdlls would be open from 7 a m. until 8 p.m. According to an Election Board official, the faulty ballots were printed by TAPCO Commercial Printers in Pemberton While the official did not have figures on the cost of printing the postage-paid samples, the cost of printing them last year exceeded (3,000, the official said.

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JUNE 7, 1983 Polls Open 7 A.M. to 8 A.M.

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CAPE MAY —.Rescued by a passing sailboat, fine Camden County fishermen spent eight hours in Delaware Bay off Reeds Beach Saturday when their 24 foot outboard was capsized by rough waves, the U S Coast Cuard reported. Earlier last week, the 38-fool "Conestoga" from . Somers Point ran aground in unmarked Hereford Inlet The 28 foot "Tally-ho" ran aground and sunk off Here fort! on May 21 I'leu to Superior SEA ISLE CITY — Accusing his fellow commissioners of having violated his of ficial rights and the Walsh Act when they voted to remove him as director of public affairs and public safety, and stripped him of duties as director of revenue and finance. Commissioner William VanArt sdalcn has asked Superior Court to reinstate him to his posts and power A June 17 hearing has been scheduler! Staff In feet ion? OCEAN CITY — Complaining about in- ^ tcrfcrence from Mayor Jack Bittner. Albert P Dunsey. city engineer and public works director, will resign June 24 to accept a similar post in Florida for (42,000 a year. Dunsey faulted Bittner for ordering his department to work on minor projects (like Sunday snow removal on certain streets and alleys) while larger ones were neglected (rood Job WILDWOOD — Anthony T Catanoso, 25, nephew of the North Wildwood mayor and county freeholders' director with the same name, has been appointed to replace Wildwood Mayor-elect Earl Ostrander as director of this resort's Con vention Hall on July l A former employe of the Republican National Committee, the youfiger Catanosb was selected from 20 candidates for the (18,000 a year post New Dump for Old WOODBINE — State Department of Environmental Protection officials have given the county Municipal Utiliticfs Authority the go-ahead for preparing a 3(M-acre tract along the Woodbine-Upper Township border as the site of a new county landfill If granted final approval by the Pinelands Commission in August.

COURT HOUSE — Middle Township police will be working shorter hours for more pay. according to a new labor agreement with the township The 32 member force will be working a 40-hour week instead of 42 hours and get a 5.25 percent increase in paychecks The starting salary for patrolman will remain at (15,000 a year, however Stay Tuned WILDWOOD — Resort residents might want to skip their usual snack or rest break between TV commercials soon in order to see their hometown on the tube City officials are thinking atxnfl produc ing television ads for the resort Since the town's PR people listed a toll-free phone number on promotional literature, they've received 5,000 more vacation inquiries this year than last year Injunction Sought CAMDEN — U S District Judge Stanley Brotman will hear arguments tomorrow on local NAACP attorney Louis Horaslinc's request for an injunction to block the Wildwood Board of Education's April 20 decision to fire two black educators Board Solicitor Bruce Gorman maintains that the board action is not a federal matter, but Hornstine contends it's a civil rights issue Wrong Exit COURT HOUSE — While other inmates were making a racket in a county jail ex ercise room, four convicts took turas trying to break through a wall from a plum bing closet to the roof of Housing Unit Six jast month, according to jail officials Six inmates have been charged with conspiracy, five of them w-ith attempting to escape artd four of them with causing malicious damage to property

Motel Okayed , OCEAN CITY — Ocean Plaza, a twostory. 46-unit motel, will rise near the Boardwalk between Seventh Street and Plaza Place, according to plans approved last week by the city Planning Board The developer, Dr Richard Raab. who originally intended to build townhouses on the site, was granted a use variance to begin construction within 200 feet of the Boardwalk commercial district

< From Page 1) out and cooperate.'* It’s up to Democrat Worthington and . Republican Catanoso to negotiate the composition of a new PIC board, size and location of staffs, etc. "WE HAVE NO PROBLEM with Cape May County,” said John Bettis, director of Atlantic County's Division of Training and Employment, which includes PIC. “Our problem is with the state and the way the state has treated us. We’ve worked together with Cape May County in the past; I sent my planner there at least three times in the last year." "Worthington and I have known each other for a long time," said Catanoso, "but I don’t know where to start. We were working fine the old way." The merger results because the federal Job Training Partnership Act mandates Service Delivery Areas (SDAs) of at least 200,000 people. According to the 1980 Census, Cape May County has 84,500; Atlantic County 192,000. Atlantic County, however, is using U.S. Labor Department population projections to claim it has 200,747 and should be its own SDA. "Cumberland and Salem don't make 200,000," said Bettis. "Gloucester is about 32 people short.” "Atlantic and Cape May are contiguous counties serving the same labor market." \said Shrom "The only other thing he (Bodman) could have done was form a threecounty SDA with Salem, Cumberland and Cape May. That could be a little weighty He did not want to go beyond two counties.” "WE PLAYED THIS by the book," said Bettis. "All we’re asking is a litUe consideration." "Sure you can make exceptions." said Shrom, "but that is something he wanted to avoid doing. He (Bodman) wants to deal evenhanded with all counties." Catanoso's written appeal to Gov. Kean disputed the state's contention that Cape May and Atlantic counties make up one labor market area. Actually, he wrote, Atlantic County’s growth depends on the casino-hotel industry, a form of economic development "detrimental to our own tourist trade." HE ALSO REPORTED that Cape May County’s economically disadvantaged and unemployed could not afford to commute to Atlantic City for jobs, or to move to Atlantic City for housing. Cape May County has been an independent "prime sponsor" for PIC for only seven months It was part of a "balance of state" administrative unit managed from New York until last October That unit in eluded Salem, Warren. Sussex and Hunterdon counties "We were working fine as an indepen dent sponsor." said Catanoso "We’re going to try to keep the same thing we have. If our funds are cut back, if they decide they're going to get the biggest part of the apple, that means our programs are going to be cut back We re going to ask for what's coming to us, a full third of the board and of the money " "Atlantic County will be the grant reci pient," said Bettis. "We can project what probably will happen, but I'll keep my per sonal opinion to.myself." Bettis did say that "cf course there would have to be a satellite office in Cape May County to serve the people " CAPE MAY COUNTY received (1.3 million for combination PIC-CETA (Com-

Serving Time COURT HOUSE - Andre Delmont Robinson, 20, of W Cheltenham Avenue, Philadelphia, will serve up to four years in prison for his par* in the Feb 22 arm N ed robbery of the Union Trust Co. office. Schellenger and Pacific avenues. Wildwood His accomplice. Albert Williams. 30. of W Baker Avenue. Wildwood, has pleaded guilty to theft while a juvenile defendant is charged with robbery and conspiracy.

prehenslve Employment Training Act) programs in 1983; Atlantic County got about $2.3 million. Cape May County, which subcontracts many of its programs to Cape Human Resources, has a staff of about a dozen. Atlantic County has a staff of 41, Bettis said. Two factors indicate both agencies will have to reduce staff and programs by the Oct. 1 start of the next fiscal year: •The federal government is reducing the total appropriation for PIC- Cape May County PIC Director Nan Mavromates said she projects an (800,000 appropriation next year which would require "drastic cuts." •New federal regulations reduce the maximum amount that may be spent on administration from 20 percent to 15 percent. BETTIS SAID the appropriation is in the House-Senate Conference Committee which is trying to balance President Reagan's proposal of (55 million for New Jersey with a House figure of (92.5 million and the Senate's (63.6 million "The experts,” Bettis said, expect the Senate to prevail, which would give the two-county consortium (2.4 (2.8 million, not much more than Atlantic County had to itself this year. Shrom said Bodman has “some discretionary funds which he'll earmark for the merged SDAs. Extra dollars are part of the incentive for them to join," The state has a June 30 deadline for a new PIC board. The consortium has until Aug. 31 to submit a fiscal '84 plan Even though Cape May and Atlantic counties will merge their PICs, Cape May County will keep its individual PIC board for CETA projects until Sept. 30, according to Mavromates.

Glass Plant ;— (From Page 1) adjustment in the second 10 years, based on the cost-of-living index. Beiseigel said most of the glassdecorating machinery has already been ordered and is being built "on the faith of our good word. They knew all of our applications couldn't fall through," he said Key to the firm's financing is a (300,000 loan from a federal Small Cities Grant given Lower Township. But some of the loan conditions have been changed in recent days A one-year moratorium on payment of interest and principal has been dropped "We're not overly concerned about that," said Beiseigel. And the duration of the loan has been reduced from 15 years to 10 years, Beiseigel said The interest rate is a fixed rate that is to be one percent less than the prime rate at the time of lease signing. The prime rate is currently lO'-z percent. Besides the loan, the firm has a local investment of (237,500. Eight members of Cape Equity Partnership, which controls 52 percent of the firm’s stock, put up (25,000 apiece, or (200,000. Beiseigel and his partner. Jay Knox, have invested (37,500. And there is about (550,000 in bank loans The totals meet the federal requirement of a 2 , ^-ratio of private investment to public money. Beiseigel said. Beiseigel said the firm is still negotiating with utilities to decide whether to use electric or gas. A key piece of equip ment is a lehr ("like a kiln with a moving belt"), used to bring the glass to about 1,200 degrees (F), in order to fuse the decorating material into the glass item, a process called color labeling "Once you light a lehc," he said, "there’s very little reason to bank it. It's expensive. It uses one heckuva lot of kilowatts. We’d prefer electric if Atlantic City Electric makes it attractive enough for us." There is no natural gas line to the airport now, Beiseigel said, but propane gas could be used until a connection was made The firm envisions a staff of 40 initially, climbing to 100 Beiseigel said it still intends to use classroom training programs through the county's Private Industry Council PIC set aside about (100,000 for this project, but that's for the fiscal year ending Sept 30 and delays make it unlikely that amount of money can be spent PIC administrator Nan Mavromates said she has been advised that unspent money can be carried over into the next year for administrative costs That could be welcome since federal budget cuts plus merger with Atlantic County are expected to force drastic cuts in administration next year.