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<From I’ngc I» SnpnirwnKy, !» ankinK the ('SC for his rlirnf s roinstalfmonf based on Iho same grounds as Maudsley s Fulginili and AfK*r should have had immunity from punitive niiton arcording to the state law governing Civil Service proceedings. < NJS II I Th, tKith law-yers insist FOX NAVN that statute only applies to criminal matters and faults Maudslcy for her interpretation of i> However. N.JS It I ITi reads in p,’irt that, "no person shall be prosecuted, punished or subject to a penal ly or forfeiture for, or on account of," testimony before the CSC That's not restricted to a criminal sense," Maudsley maintains "Plainly, on its face, the words punishment' and 'penally' are very clear " Underlying the legal Issue and charges against her. Rogers says, is official discrimination against her because she is a homosexual "What other reason would there Ik*'’" she asks "I'm very efficient and good at my work Oh. I did fall asleep but I have contributed to that jail Why would they want to gel rid of me''" „ IIFH HOMOSKXt AI.ITV was known to her superiors because, for a number of years, she lived in a romantic relationship with one of her superior's daughters, Rogers said Although she says she can't prove discrimination based on her sexual preference. Rogers points to other women correction officers who. CSC records show, violated jail policy for which only she was taken to task As a pari of her pleadings before the CSC. Maudsley highlights one instance where Rogers alone was faulted for lenv ing her post on a coffee break although on tries in the jail log show that several women officers also left for breaks. Some, Maudsley notes, also failed In sign the log as required The women correction officers as a whole are discriminated against, the lawyer argue*, because they are not sub ject to the same procedures and restric lions as the male guards "They're being dismissed because they admitted that they had committed very, very serious violations." Fox said Al.TIIOl'fiH RCMiKRS doubts his word, the sheriff said he was "never aware of" her sexual preference In any case, her homosexuality had nothing to do with the charges against her. he added She was "laid out. practically horizontal” when jail officials found her sleeping around 3 am. May 29. 1982. Fox continued

"How that relates to her sexual preference — you'd have to have a pretty vivid imagination I just can't see how that relates." said the sheriff As for Rogers' contention that dismissal is too severe a penalty for sleeping on duty. Cosmo A Giovinazzt III, a county attorney. noted, in his reply to the exceptions Maudsley filed with the CSC, that the CSC had upheld the firing of a Jackson Township police officer last year for sleep ing on duty despite his testimony that he fell asleep due to illness and the medlca tion he was taking to relieve it OUTLINING her allegations of discrimination. Rogers is trying to interest the American Civil Liberties Union in her case Unless the ACLU agrees to represent her. she says, she can not afford to fight the firing in appellant court, where she thinks she can win A 9'v-yeur veteran guard, Rogers had earned $17,800 a year before her dismissal Afterward, she collected unemployment compensation for a time Now ineligible, and without income. Rogers worries about what will become of her. a 15-year-old God son in her care and their home in Lower Township While waiting for a decision from the CSC or ACLU. she frets about the fates of Fulginili and Aber. thinks about renting rooms out to make ends meet and talks bit terly about the Sheriff's Department "I'm not the person they say I am." Rogers concludes ' And I resent it " ' Takinn Office

WILDWOOD - Councilman-elect Vic tor DiSylvester is expected to be elected as the first president of city council in this resort's history. July 1. after the new government officials are sworn-in at a 10:30 a m ceremony at Wildwood High School

Early Dcadlinesa^^m parly deadlines will be necessary for the July 6 issue because of the 4th of July holiday News for that issue will be due Wednesday, June 29; classified and display advertising 3 p m Thursday, June 30

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Leffal LilliputianH OCEAN CITY — No sooner had the disputes — over who gets to hire and fire whom and which law applies — been allegedly settled in Superior Court last week (with both mayor and council claiming victory) than both sides went at It again in a similar argument about who appoints planning board members under which ,iaw. •A Byte offDifference » VILLAS - Unlike U.S. Sen, Frank Lautenbcrg. D-NJ. who sees computers wedging a gap between students in poor and more affluent school districts, his colleague. Sen. BUI Bradley, told Lower Township residents Friday that more money must be spent on education to pay for the expensive computer technology

Graduate Injured SEA ISLE CITY - Randy DiPletro, 18. of Sea Isle was seriously Injured last week when a tractor-trailer struck the car In which he was riding to his gradua tion at Ocean City High School Neither the truck driver, the car driver nor anothc. passenger in the car was serious ly injured In the Wednesday afternoon collision oq JFK Boulevard.

LT Woman Acquitted COURT HOUSE - Superior Court Judge James A O'Neill has ruled that Irene Widmaicr, 82. of Cold Spring, was not guilty of aggravated manslaughter by reason of insanity when she killed her husband with a 38-callber handgun Oct 25. after an argument in the couple's home on Schellengcr’s landing Road

TRENTON — Police could order suspected drunk drivers to undergo blood or urine tests if a bill, sponsored by state Sen. James R. Hurley, R-Capc May. Cumberland, Is passed by the state Assembly and signed by the governor The state Senate passed the bill Friday

Boarding at Sea WASHINGTON - In a 8-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that customs agents can board any vessel in Inland waters any time The high court reversed a lower court decision that agents must suspect wrongdomg. like drug smuggling, before boarding an inshore craft Blue Lawn ISo. I

OCEAN CITY - City council told a resort book store owner it will not amend city blue laws by inserting a single word to permit the sale of hardcover books on Sundays If Atlantic Book Shop owner Martin Simon wants to sell anything heavier than magazines, he'll have to have the law changed by voter referendum. council said

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OCEAN CITY - Although only the municipal court judge can legally decide what can be sold on Sundays, the city solicitor agrees with a recent Chamber of Commerce list of hygienic supplies it thinks can be sold without violating the blue laws. The solicitor recommends that police be given the list to better enforce Sunday hygienic supply sales

PIC Spending $25,000 for P-R Effort

(From Page U also does the county's tourist promotion, said it will be his Job to "sell the program to individual businessmen who don't understand it and haven't taken adventage of things they can be doing " PIC's federal fnoney is available to pay for classroom .training and for up to onehalf of the wages of persons receiving on the Job training DESPITE PIC's concerns about its public image expressed last week, three months ago it was praised by a U.S. Assistant Secretary of l>abor. Albert Angrisani At a luncheon at the I>odge, speaker after speaker cited PIC for accomplishments in eluding a Presidential recognition for com munity service, an award from the state New PIC System A Piece of Cake

After three months of hungering for the most efficient way to combine working and eating, Cape May County's Private Industry Council may have reached the piece de resistance Members had a buffet luncheon ai the 1/odge from 12 noon to 12 50 Inst Wednesday, then held a 13-minute business session In April, board members of the federally financed agency that tries to find jobs for unemployed and underemployed, decided it was inefficient to try to sandwich in business and eating at a session that started at noon and often lasted past 2 In May. PIC tried a 10 a m business meeting followed by an optional lunch at noon A quorum didn't show until 10:20 and several complained that 10 a m. was bad The whole thing took more than three hours Last week's session was swift, but also poorly attended Of 18 PIC members, seven showed up and two sent representatives This PIC board will be totally revamped after three more meetings anyway because of new federal regulations

for "an outstanding logo," and a certificate of appreciation from the county chamber of commerce. Chamber executive director Robert W Patterson Jr. is a PIC member The advertising campaign due to start in about a week, will cost $16,806 including $5,138 for newspapers. $3,785 for TV, $3,633 for radio, $3,000 for billboards and $1,250 for Coastline's placement fees THE NEWSPAPER budget includes $1,400 for five ads in the Atlantic City Press. $1,008 for six ads in the Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger, $1,008 for six ads in the Gazette-Leader, $800 for five ads in the Upper Township Times, $540 for five ads in the Star & Wave, and $382 for two ads in the Cape May County Herald and Ixjwer Township Lantern All the ads would be the same 40-inch size. The television budget Includes $1,440 for WAAT TV. $1,400 for Group W Cable, and $945 for Cable I Entertainment of Ocean City The radio budget includes $1,330 for WWOC. $1,270 for WSLT, and $1,012 50 for WCMC Two billboards, "to promote name iden tity," will be rented from R.C. Maxwell for September. October. November and December. The $3,000 cost includes $325 per billboard per month, plus $400 for “production." THE $7,200 EARMARKED for public relations will include monthly job placement reports, economic impact statements, progress reports, year-to-date recaps, general information releases, and "at least three press conferences " Goal of all this. Coastline's said, is to "try and keep PIC's name in the media as much as possible " Coastline also proposes to "beef up" PIC's speakers program, to make presentations at joint business-community-governing body meetings, and possibly set up a fall or winter one-day Businessmen's Conference with "state or national speakers, a luncheon and mini workahops." "Prepared written information will be presented to all reporters to avoid confusion and misquotes," the proposal said