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Herald & Lantern 31 August '83

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Caroline H Barnett, 78, of Sea Isle City, Aug. 24 Bom in Philadelphia, she was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary Louise E Bates, 83, of Villas, Aug 26 Formerly of Philadelphia, she was an area resident for 16 years. Edwin W Bradway. 67, of North Wildwood. Aug 25 A member of the Cape May County Bar Association, he was municipal court judge for North Wildwood Earl A Cooke, Sr, 87. of Cape May Court House, Aug 25 A resident for 25 years, he was a real estate broker Mary A Haines, 72, of DeLHaven, Aug 25. A local resident for 10 years, she was a retired employee of Graphic Fashions of {Philadelphia. tJeorgo W Holden. 80. of Wildwood, Aug 24 Born in (.'ape May. he owned and trained horses for many years Edith M. Jpter, 58. of Ocean City, Aug 25. Born in Wildwood, she was the former owner and operator of the Southern Hotel Frederick R Langford, of Vit Augustine, Fla., formerly of Wildwood, Aug 24 He was a painting contractor. William B Lugar. 67, of_ Sea Isle City, Aug 25.

Formerly of Penns Grove, he was a member of the Dupon Veterans of Foreign Wars. Hattie I. McIntyre, 82, of West Cape May. Aug. 24. A former New York City resident. she was a member of the Macedonia Baptist Church of Cape May. bauradel T. Pilcher. 78, of Ocean City, Aug. 24. An area resident for the past 22 years, she was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. William C. Sager, 69, of Woodbine, Aug. 24. Bom in Greensburg, Pa., he was a

retired electrical engineer. Augustine J. Ushka, 76, of Wildwood Crest, Aug. 25. An area resident for 15 years, he was a Philadelphia fireman. Lloyd K. Van Horn, 68, of Villas, Aug. 23. An area resident for 12 years, he was a retired electrician. Ruth G. Wible, 85, of North Cape May, Aug. 25. Bom in Brooklyn, she lived here for five years. Hugo A. Zintner, 76, of North Cape May, Aug. 24. He was a member of St. John of God Church and a veteran of World War II.

SHOW PLANNERS - Hilda Mlxsell, left, and Vicki Wear, co-chairmen of Stone Harbor Women's Civic Club local art show, get together on arrangements for event, to be held Sunday at the Club House. \

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students safe passage above the Garden State Parkway to the local high and middle schools Many students use the holes, cut by vandals in the parkway median fencing, to avoid using the walkway. More than $45,000 in vandalism to the overpass has been repaired so far. Leather License? SCHELLENGERS LANDING - l/oathorcrafters John and Nancy Bailey are asking Superior Court to order Lower Township to issue a mercantile license for a shop they plan to buy at 1180 Route 109. The township requires a site plan application because the shop, officials say, would constitute a change in the use of the building. But the Bailey's maintain that the use would comply with zoning codes Too Much Too Soon? WILDWOOD — The Fairview Cafe on Pacific Avenue was one of 35T>ars or liquor stores in New Jersey cited for allegedly serving alcohol to minors during Operation Summer 1983. a statewide crackdown on underage drinking which began July 4 and continues through Labor Day, Attorney General Irwin Kimmelman reported last week. Five Years for Fatal COURT HOUSE — Assistant CouiUy Prosecutor Robert Wells asked s4P^r Court last week to sentence Ronald D. Green, 23, to a minimum 4f five years in prison (on a 12-year term) after Green pleaded guilty to the fatal beating of his girlfriend. Germaine Jones, 20. during a July 12 argument about sex at the couple's West Baker Avenue bungalow in Wildwood / Judge Dies NORTH WILDWOOD - Hospitalized since late July, Municipal Court Judge Edwin W. Bradway, a candidate for Superior Court, died Thursday at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital. A life member of th^ Anglesea Fire Co„ Bradway, 67, deliveredloys to children in the borough for 20 years, riding through the streets on a fire engine as the resort's Santa Claus.

Boy's Body Found WILDWOOD CREST - Marc M. Mcthot, 11, of Montreal, Quebec, apparently drowned in the surf off Learning Avenue Aug. 23. His body was found 12 blocks south early Thursday morning. Police suspect that the boy might have ' had a epileptic seizure since he suddenly disappeared when he and his sister. Alexandra, 6, entered the shallow water Tuesday to rinse off sand. Increase Proposed EGG HARBOR TWP. - This Atlantic County municipality will host a public hearing in its Bargaintown Road township build^g at 2 p.m. Sept. 14 on New Jersey Water Company's proposed $5.2 million rate increase. Utility customers will pay another 17 percent on their annual water bill if it's approved by the state Board of Public Utilities. NJWC received an eight percent increase in July, 1982. Mandatory Fines TRENTON — Rowdy teenagers, sipping the suds while burning rubber around street comers, may be a stereotype marked for extinction. In any case, it will be more expensive to preserve the image. Gov. Thomas Kean signed a bill Friday making it illegal to operate or ride in a vehicle while drinking. First offenders face mandatory $200 fines. Census Report I\o, 1 WASHINGTON - Living in New Jerscf is an expensive proposition, according to the lateit figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. Mortgage-paying homeowners here shell out aii average $456 a month; only Alaskans ($640) and Hawaiians ($463) pay more. State homeowners without mortgages pay $218 a month in other bills, exceeded on by Massachusetts residents at $225. Tenants here pay the fifth highest rents in the nation. $270 a month average. Census Report No. 2 WASHINGTON - The Census Bureau reports that Cape May County mortgagepaying homeowners make the second lowest monthly payments in the state at $360, Homeowners without mortgages here make the lowest monthly bill payments at $161 average but Cape May ' County tenants pay monthly rents comparable to the more affluent upstaters at an average of $272. Atlantic County renters pay an average $252 monthly.

Schools Face New State Monitoring

(From Page 1) district in meeting and exceeding state standards related to education law and regulations." They included; Cape May, West Cape May, Stone Harbor, Upper Township, Wildwood Crest and the VocationalTechnical District. "Monitoring was put on a back burner this year," said Bongart. "Thus there was not much of substance in the June 1 letter. But that is also a credit to the school districts. The product has improved in the last five years. Schools are in better shape." HE SINGLED OUT Wildwood, whose addition to the Glenwood Avenue School made it possible to end a 49-year-old "intolerable, situation" of having grades 3-12 in Wildwood High School. He also cited an addition to the Ocean City High School which provided a new library, science classrooms, art rooms, rooms for learning-disabled students, administrative offices, guidance and health rooms. ' Many of the recommendations to other districts involved technical points related to state approval of building changes rather than quality of education. "Monitoring dealt more with quantity than quality," said Bongart, "because quality is a tough area to get into." Among the recommendations: Lower Cape May Regional was told to get approval "in a timely manner" for renovations and construction made six or seven years ago at the high school and at Richard M. Teitelman School. "The department has asked them to do this time and time again,” said Bongart. MIDDLE TOWNSHIP was told to "provide a plan to eliminate the need for the continued use of emergency substan-. dard space for regular instruction, small group instruction and special education in elementary schools No. 1 and No. 3." The report added that "substandard facilities" have been used for 32 years in Elementary No. 3. "The Middle Township solution is not easy,” said Bongart. “Substandard means they don’t meet state criteria for such things as square feet per child, window space, etc. There is taxpayer resistance to new construction. "One solution is to get rid of 100 kids," he smiled. "And enrollment is declining,v he added. Other recommendations from the June 1 letters:

LOWER TOWNSHIP: Obtain permanent approval for the Memorial School to use the municipal gymnasium. North Wildwood; Provide a plan to 1 eliminate the need for continued use of emergency substandard space for the basic skills improvement and speech programs, and ensure that all emergency facilities are approved by * the county superintendent. Woodbine: No resource room program can have more than five students and no resource room teacher more than 20. The new monitoring procedure will examine finances, planning, schoolcommunity relations, comprehensive curriculum , student attendance, facilities, professional staff, mandated programs, achievement in state-mandated • basic skills and equal educational opportunity/affirmative action. New requirements: An average daily attendance rate of at least 85 percent districtwide and 80 percent for each school; Annual staff absenteeism rate of less than 5 percent districtwide; Documentation on student dropout rates. THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS also must select by Sept. 30 three "planning objectives" that are attempts to "raise, increase, expand current offerings," according to Bongart, who must approve them by Oct. 31. "They have to plan how to show some growth, something many would do on their own anyway, rather than sit on the status quo," said Bongart. "But this is not a trivial thing; they must show significant progress: who is affected, what kind of progress, by when, how to prove you did what you said you were going to concentrate on." In addition to those three major planning objectives, the districts also mast remedy any deficiencies pointed out in the June 1 letters, Bongart said. His office will have two years to monitor the planning objectives' progress in all 17 county school districts. He said he would start with "the most needy." Bongart’s staff was reduced during a state budget crunch earlier this year, leaving him to monitor the new state programs with one administrative assistant and three part-time coordinators shared with adjacent counties. "We have to do it,” he said. "I guess there’ll be some long hours and long days.”

Recycling: Easy in Stone Harbor /

(From Page 1) landfill and we didn’t lose any money,” noted Janet O’Hara, borough maintenance clerk. Currently, the MUA deducts the cost of landfill dumping and its administrative charges from the money earned on sales of recycled material to the eight municipalities that participate in its program (Stone Harbor, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Ocean City, Wildwood, North Wildwood, Dennis and Middle townships). The difference is rebated to them. POINTING TO THE $1.70) rebated to Middle Township last year, a locifl scrap dealer faulted the MUA recycling payback. He told Middle officials this month that he could offer them a better deal and Mayor Michael Voll is interested in dropping out of the MUA program. Diane M. DeMeo, MUA recycling coordinator, argued, however, that Middle only began voluntary recycling in one section of the township late last year. The small rebate reflects the iniUal effort in Del Haven, she said. MUA recycling agreements with the eight municipalities expired last September and the county agency is now redrafting proposed pacts which, if approved, would offer the municipalities upfront payments for recycled materials rather than rebates, DeMeo explained. AS IT PRESENTLY stands, the rebates are not only a turn-off for Voll but also for Fothergill; he doesn't like the potential return on MUA recycling of township trash. At the Aug. 22 public hearing on mandatory recycling, Fothergill and Lower Mayor Peggie Bieberbach told the standing-room-only audience that the township had been informed that the county would institute mandatory recycling in Lower if the township failed to do so. While a draft agreement concerning the Woodbine landfill's use by county municipalities is strongly worded in favor of recycling, said DeMeo. "the county can’t come in and start one (a recycling program) for them.

"There’s no way," she added. "The county just doesn’t have the legislative authority to do that. It would have to be a service agreement." Since mandatory recycling became law in Stone Harbor, it has worked "just fine — they haven’t had any problems," DeMeo continued. Initial resistance evaporated, she said, and borough residents "really don't mind doing it.” "IT IS NO TROUBLE," said Margorie Otten of 87th Street. "I’m doing it because I don’t like waste. America wastes too much." i She rinses bottles and other glass discards before storing them for collection and saves her waste paper. In Stone Harbor, glass and paper products are collected at the rear doors of houses and motels once a week during the summer and every other day in the off-season. Even vacationers comply with the recycling regulations, O’Hara noted, because borough motel owners post the ordinance requirements in guest rooms. "We have very few that don’t do it," O’Hara said of recycling. "In fact, we’re the highest in the county as far as participation and the tonnage." One Stone Harbor resident, who doesn't recycle trash, agreed to discuss it provided her name wasn't used: "I’m lazy," she laughed, adding that she also combines housework with a career in the summer. "We do it in the winter time but we don’t in the summer." While Lower Township opponents of mandatory recycling object to the cost and burden it would place on them, Otten thinks Stone Harbor’s less stringent program is “a great idea." "I HOPE ALL the other folks in town cooperate because it’s so easy," she said. "It’s just as easy to carry the bottles out empty as it is to carry them in full." "Absolutely," agreed Mrs. Richard N. Rich of Stone Harbor and Jenkintown, Pa. She recycles “because it’s conservation. "Why throw away something that can be used?” she asked. It’s so little trouble (to recycle); I think they should pursue it."