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Fourth Exit OCEAN CITY - Jack Madge, city finance director, became the fourth management employe to quit or be canned this year when he handed in his resignation last week, effective Sept. 11. Donald Hart, senior accountant, will serve as acting finance director while city administrator Joseph Kane looks for a permanent replacement. Lower Entry VILLAS — Wade G. Cooper, financial director for Ix>wer Township, has notified its government that he is applying for Hadge's position in Ocean City. Although Cooper has been vacationing and could not be reached to confirm the report, a township official said he has not resigned his Lower job but did notify the township of his interest in the up-county vacancy. Outlet Gutted BURLEIGH — Four fire companies answered an 8 p.m. alarm with 100 men Tuesday night when fire gutted Harbor Furniture Outlet on N. Wildwood Boulevard. Several firefighters suffered smoke inhalation. The fire, under control by 11 p.m., was visable for miles. Its cause has yet to be determined. Taxing Mayor WILDWOOD — Mayor Earl Ostrander proposed a luxury tax on motel rooms last week to help reduce Convention Hall’s 1982 deficit, $206,000. As director of the hall when the deficits soared, Ostrander made the same proposal while dismissing calls for fiscal restraint. Auditors released deficit reports 10 days after Ostrander was elected mayor. Paved in Wood NORTH WILDWOOD - Uncle Sam will pay $400,000 worth of repairs for 2,800-feet of this resort's 10-block boardwalk provided the city chips in another (Page 35 Please)

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Vol.19No.36

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Septetober7,1983

3 Qualify for Bench

By E.J. DUFFY Only nine of the 12 candidates seeking the governor's appointment as the county's third Superior Court judge are considered qualified for that post by the county bar association Judicial Selection Committee. Municipal Court Judge Joseph C. Visalli, First Assistant County Prosecutor Edgar R. Holmes and municipal Solicitor James A. Waldron were recommended by the committee — in that order — for the appointment if a third judgeship is created in the next few months as expected. The committee recommendations, and its determinations as to whom is and is not qualified fcjfcthe $70,000 a year judgeship, provoked fi^kisalions of bias and dirty politics from some of those involved in the selection process. Another observer saw the committee recommendations as a Machiavellian maneuver to block former U.S. Rep. Charles W. Sandman from the appointment. Sandman is one of the nine candidates listed as “not recommended as qualified" by the committee. The other eight are: Municipal Court Judges P. Martin Way III and Edwin W. Bradway (deceased), former state Tax Appeal Judge Joel Mott Jr. and lawyers John W. Gilbert, Kenneth E. Calloway, Anthony Fulginiti, George B. Neidig Jr. and William M. Balliette. IN HIS LETTER to Dalton W. Menhall, executive director of the state bar association, Al^p I. Gould, chairman of the county bar's Judicial Selection Committee, wrote

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that those nine lawyers were'not/recom-mended-for various reasons. Among the reasons Gould cited were: “lack of judicial temperament, lack of ex- - perience in trial practice, lack of experience in that particular field (juvenile and domestic relations), failure to have recent contact in the practice of law, communications problems, and lack of judicial presence and demeanor." Gould asked Menhall to pass on the com-

mittee recommendations to Gov. Thomas Kean., The state and county bar associations have major roles in whom Kean will nominate and eventually select for the juvenile andiiomestic relations judgeship. Accordingyto Gilbert, the two bars nixed one important state appointment in the re- • cent past. COUNTY REPUBLICAN Chairman (Page 35 Please)

Lower Twp. Resort Starts Construction

Beginner’s Mother

By Clare Campbell

It isn’t that I want to keep her here— She has to go to learn to read and write, But six short years to have her to myself— Where did they go? I ask myself tonight. I tiptoe to her bed and tuck her in. I sob and choke and act just like a fool; I know I shouldn't cry, but still I do Because tomorrow she'll be going to school. Then morning comes and I can't eat a thing. I dress her up and try to hide my tears. (Ah, Omar, yes, the bird is

on the wing,

And how I’d love to re-live those six years.)

Mrs. James McStravick of Avalon sends Colleen, 5, off to first day of school.

So off we go, she skipping on ahead And my feet grudging every step I take. For two cents I would take her right back home, But I keep going for our child’s own sake.

stop beside the door and touch her hair, take my time in fussing with her dress— My face, I’m sure reflects my deep despair— I’m worried more than SHE is, I confess. I give her name and age and leave her there After I kiss her twice and tie her shoe. All the way home I weep and say this prayer: Please, God, I’ll trust, and leave her up to You. And oh, that helped a lot, in fact it was My only comfort all that long day through. To other mothers who dread starting time: May I please offer this advice to you?

DIAMOND BEACH - Bulldozers, backhoes, cranes, trucks and roadgraders will be rumbling over this stretch of Lower Township seacoast for the next decade, their construction crews changing 60-acres into a new resort. ^ For more than v two years, developer Robert Ciampetti has been collecting the required federal, state and local permits to build a $150-million community that will eventually include a shopping center, 250-room motel, 615 townhouses, 225 single-family homes, a private beach, private country club, marina, police and fire sub-stations. ^ Construction is already underway on the first cluster of Pelican Bay townhouses by Golden Homes of Avalon. Samples of the two- and three-bedroom contemporary unit# are expected to operi late next month, according to Bruce Conklin, Golden Homes president., DEPOSITS WERE accepted on several of the $90,000-$110,000 models before the bayfront ground-breaking, he said, and 115 townhouses are planned in four- and fiveunit clusters. According to William Ciampetti. sales manager for Diamond Beach Realty Co., ground will be broken later this month for 500 Spanish-style townhouses being built along the beachfront by Di Donato Construction of Wildwood. Four models will be Offered for $175,000-$350,000, Ciampetti said. Next month, he added, construction begins on a shopping center along Pacific Avenue. It is expected to open next summer with a supermarket, Italian restaurant, pharmacy, travel agency, professional offices, flower and gift shops. Since Robert Ciampetti owns the beach around his 60-acre tract, its use will be restricted to residents of the development townhouses, homes and motel. The $350,000 homes will be built some time in Developer Planning Police, Fire Bldgs., DIAMOND BEACH - Because of the e* tensive residential and commercial development planned over the next 15 years, Robert Ciampetti, developer of the 60-acre Pelican Bay tract, has «greed to build police and fire sub-stations here, according to his brother, William, sales manager for Pelican Bay and Diamond Beach Realty. * Sizes and sites for the sub-stations have yet to be decided, Lower Township Mayor Peggie Bieberbach said last week But the fire sub-station would probably be operated by Erma Volunteer Fire Co. t which currently covers Diamond Beach, she said. Neither Bieberbach nor Ciampetti could estimate the cost of the sub-stations or when they would be built.

the future between Park Boulevard and the bay, William Ciampetti continued Development residents will also have exclusive use of a country club when it is built later next^year, he said. It will in elude indoor and outdoor pools, a restaurant, saunas and other facilities. A marina complex is farther down the road SITUATED BETWEEN a seven-block developed section of Diamond Beach and the U S. Coast Guard Reservation on the north side of Cape May Inlet, Ciampetti’s community will be served by publi6 water and sewers. Roacbfare under construction now, William Ciampetti said. Neither he nor Lower Township Mayor Peggie Bieberbach could accurately estimate the amount of annual taxes* residents and businesses in that community will eventually pay to the municipality Ciampetti said “quite a bit;" the mayor agreed that well over a million dollars a year would flow into the township coffers. "Hopefully, with the extra money, it will at least stablizejhe tax rate for our senior citizens." Bieberbach added. SHE NOTED that the expected increase in tax revenue from the new resort will be offset in some degree by services provided the Diamond Beach community through the township, including trash collection, police and fire protection. The township,' Bieberbach recalled, spent $1 millionrto install seyjer lines in Diatoond Beach several years ago. Part of the cost of municipal services will be borne by the developer, William Ciampetti said. His firm, for example, has volunteered to build police and fire sub stations. One of the major benefits the community promises, the mayor concluded, is job opportunities for township and other area residents in the new Diamond Beach businesses. * (see related photo, pane 35 .)

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Doi*U Word PELICAN BAY - Bruce Conklin, presi dent of Golden Homes. Avalon, points out the townhouse development he's building as part of a $150 million master plan for Diamond Beach drafted by developer Robert Ciampetti.