News—^ Digest stories Accept* Medicare FISHING CREEK — Another Cape May County doctor has been added to the list of physicians who accept Medicare assignment with no conditions or exceptions. Dr. William R. Leisner was not included in the new Office on Aging guide because he only opened his office in Breakwater Plaza last week. vJ Clerk Collects

TUCKAHOE — Dismissing the threat of a sex discrimination suit, Upper Township Committeeman Daniel Beyel voted against a salary ordinance, adopted last week, that included a $4,000 raise for Township Clerk Barbara Camp. She wanted a $5,000 hike, to $20,000, and called Beyel a sexist for opposing a raise that increases her salary to the level of other area municipal clerks. Double Probe

NORTH WILDWOOD - Construction Official Anthony Profeta has criticized Building Inspector Eugene Sanguinetti for overzealous attempts to enforce the resort’s building codes, particularly in respect to a new Boardwalk mall. The state Bureau of Construction Code Enforcement, however, directed Profeta last week to order alleged code violations corrected at the mall. The bureau and the State Commission of Investigation are probing Profeta’s office. (Page 43 Please)

City Says Meters Bilked

CAPE MAY — Two employes of the city’s Traffic Maintenance Department have been fired for allegedly taking parking meter receipts. They are James Magee, 61, of Cape May, who has been with the city for about 25 years, and Peter Trainor of North Cape May, a part-time summer employe for two-years. They were charged in a report Monday night by City Manager Fred Coldren with "failure to deposit all parking meter receipts to the account of the city” and with "taking parking meter receipts for personal use.” Magee could not be reached, but is wife said the amount of money involved was "only about $60.” Trainor told the Herald and Lantern "it was petty stuff.” MAYOR ARTHUR BLOMKVEST said the men "admitted to between $30 and $50 a week, apiece." He declined to say how long it had been going on or to estimate the total amount taken. The city’s parking meters are estimated to bring in "roughly $200,000 a year," according to the mayor. Blomkvest referred questions to Coldren (Page 43 Please)

‘Voter’ Deadline Tuesday Zaberer Joins Burdette Revolt

By E.H. DUFFY COURT HOUSE — Restaurateur Ed Zaberer, the largest contributor to Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, has joined the ranks of those trying to unseat members of the hospital’s board of governors. "This is discouraging the enthusiasm for my wanting to volunteer that kind of money,” he complained, alluding to the board’s treatment of Dr. Suketu Nanavati, its election policies and the $50,000 he pledged to BTMH during its most recent fund drive. Next Tuesday marks the boards posed deadline for donations which will qualify contributors to vote in February for seven of the board’s 21 members. Ten governors were slated for election next year, but to prevent a board takeover by any special interest group, the governors voted last month to reappoint three of

their colleagues and to limit any special interest turnout by cutting off qualifying donations of $10 or more after Aug. 23, according to hospital attorney Carl Valore. Criticizing those decisions as obvious attempts to disenfranchise Nanavati supporters — the only known group which could be considered a special interest — former Middle Township Mayor Samuel S. DeVico has demanded a deadline extention and that 10 board incumbents stand for election in February. Most of the members haven't faced election since 1975, he said. THE EARLY DEADLINE (it had been Dec. 30.), he argued, will decrease needed donations to the hospital because many businessmen, like Zaberer, wait until they tally their seasonal profits after Labor Day to make contributions to BTMH. “Ed Zaberer was hot," DeVicO said of a phone call last week from the North

Negotiations Break Down

Worthington to Tony: ‘Stuff It’

By JOE ZELNIK Efforts to merge the Private Industry Councils of Atlantic and Cape May counties have disintegrated to the name-calling stage. The PICs expect around $3 million in federal funds in the fiscal year starting 'Oct. 1 to train unemployed and underemployed for jobs. But, although their deadline for a single "plan” is only two weeks away, neither the professional staffs nor the chief executive officer of each county — Cape May County Freeholder Director Anthony T. Catanoso and Atlantic County Executive Charles Worthington — are talking to each other. Catanoso this week mailed Gov. Thomas H. Kean a four-page letter charging Worthington "is not willing to negotiate in good faith." Worthington said Catanoso cancelled their last scheduled meeting in late July and Lasnit replied an answer to his letter

of Aug. 5, asking Catanoso to "pick a date.” OF CATANOSO’S several letters to the governor, Worthington said, "I don't pay that kind of game; he does." Worthington is a Democrat; Catanoso and Kean are Republicans. "Our plan’s ready,” said,Worthington. "My staff has been in correspondence, asking for their input. They’ve been, holding us up. If we don't get it, we'll do the plans for Cape May County.” "We’re waiting for technical assistance from the state," said Nan Mavromatcs, Cape May County PIC’s executive director. . Neither county wanted to be combined in a single consortium. Both appealed that decision by th* state, but lost. The state cited federal requirements that Service Delivery Areas (SDA) under the new Job

Training Partnership Act (JTPA) have at least 200,000 people Atlantic County has 192,000. Cape May County 84,500, according to the 1980 Census. WORTHINGTON CHARGED Monday that "the big reason” the two counties were merged was "they didn’t know what to do with Cape May County if Atlantic County was on its own. Cape May County is too small to be on its own SDA. It was a political problem somebody had to solve and they solved it by saying ‘you are going to be in a consortium.’” Catanoso. in his letter to Kean, asked for a number of special considerations for Cape May County on the grounds that "I feel Atlantic County will apply for their own Service Delivery Area designation by the year 1985 and we want to prepare ourselves for this possible split .." "I imagine we would seek to be our own (Page 18 Please)

Wildwood restaurant owner and celebrity. Zaberer threw his support behind Friends of Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, the citizens’ group DeVico. helped form to challenge the board with its own slate of governor candidates. "I subscribe to Sam's (DeVico’s) thinking," said Zaberer. "I’m going to endorse that group and I’m going to vote for them and ask my friends to vote for them.” Although many of the "potential candidates” named by Friends of Burdette Tomlin and listed in other newspapers last week said they are not candidates and had not been contacted before their names were released as such: Zaberer said he "certainly would" be willing to run against the incumbent governors, but will be unable to do so. Lawyer Alan I. Gould, president of Burdette's board of governors, declined comment on Zaberer's stand Thursday. A hospital official confirmed that Zaberer is BTMH’s largest contributor. WHILE ZABERER acknowledged his support for Friends of Burdette, many of those named as its potential governor candidates were perturbed when they saw their names listed in the newspaper. "I don’t wish to be a member of the (Page 43 Please)

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