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Jersey Cape NATURALLY"

The salt marsh is at its most colorful in the fall, but in subtle ways. For the /most part, in order to see the colors, you'll have to look closely through the sea of waving grass. Now is the time to start looking as most marsh flowers began to bloom in August. The pink or purple flat topped clusters of saltmarsh fleabane now join in display with the golden yellow slender-leaved and seaside goldenrods which actually started to bloom in

July.

Salt marsh asters open their flowers to the fall sunshine. Together with my favorite plant, sea lavender (alsa called marsh rosemary), they fleck the green landscape with a lavender or light purple coloring. Both these plants occur on the higher parts of the marsh near its border with the upland. They share their habitat with two perennial, fall flowering woody shrubs, marsh elder and groundseltree. Neither bush produces noteworthy flowers. Their non-descript, green or yellow white flowers have no claim to fame.

The most brilliant colors of the fall marsh are not aUributable to the flowering plants at all but to the succulent, annual green plant called Jointed Giasswort. Growing upright on the salt flats like miniature trees, the sausage shaped stems of the giasswort may be picked in summer and pickled. ’ In the fall, this previously inconspicuous green plant turns all shades of red, from coral to scarlet, and sets the marsh ablaze with patches of color, i dare say that the glassworts' color may rival New England fall foliage for brilliance!! Watch the marsh for the next few weeks and see if you don’t agree. , h ^ V/ Text; Joan Gafli oS ' l/iustration/rom Salt Marsh Flowers o/ B Southern New Jersey by Carol Newcomb

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TRENTON — Despite opposition from the New Jersey Education Association, Gov. Thomas Kean uTgetf the state Board of Education last week to open teaching ranks to college graduates who lack traditional certifications in education. • Public hearings will be held on that and other education proposals, including one to set minimum teacher salaries at

$18,500 a year.

Dry Reply STRATHMERE — Upper Township will not comply with a state Department of Environmental Protection order that the municipality take over Aramingo Water Co. here. According to Township Solicitor James A. Waldron, the order was improperly issued in that the township Was not given advance notice of the action and no public hearing was held

beforehand.

Leaving MU A SWAiNTON — Former county Freeholder Kenneth Holnistrup, 62, will retire from his $36,000 post as construction coordinator for the county Municipal Utilities Authority on Oct. 1, he announced last week. Holmstrup served, as freeholder from 1960-1972 and as executive director of Lower Township’s

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Speedy Arrests

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COURT HOUSE - Local lawmen

wrapped up a six-week drug probe Sept. 2^ when 14 suspects were arrested during . pre-dawn raids in Lower Township, / Wildwood and North Wildwood, police

reported last week. Most of the

defendants are being held in lieu of bail on conspiracy charges. Others are also charged with possession or distribution of

methamphetamine (speed).

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(From Page l) grams earlier so both can be attended. A Herald and Lantern telephone survey of county schools found near-unanimous agreement that future exercises will be held on the final day or later so as to preclude future problems with the state. “Our last day is June 15,” said Special Services Supt. George Bailey, “and you can bet we won’t have it before the 15th” “We haven’t diseussed it yet,” said Dennis Township Elementary School administrative principal Harry C. Brown, "but we will abide by the state rules.” “We will try to go along with the state,” said Ronald C, Jost, administrative principal at Avalon Elementary School. UPPER TOWNSHIP, North Wildwood and Wildwood Crest officials said their graduations will be on the last day of school, June 13, June 14, and June 13, respectively. Sea Isle City officials Aid June ll is their last day of school and graduation “will be on or after the 11th.” Cape May Elementary may eliminate its graduation, according to administrative principal John Demarest. “Why have it ifcit’s going to cause proilems?” he said. “It’s ludicrous to spend aoney for diplomas, caps and gowns, etc.” Demarest estimated the cost of graduation to the district was “a couple thousand dollars.” DEMAREST WAS CRITICAL of the state for raising the issue. / “There are more important things in the state than that,” he said. “Education is generally falling apart; look at the national reports relative to mediocrity in education. Let’s address that problem.” And Wildwood schools superintendent Arthur Motz said that the fuss probably had cost the district a couple hundred dollars because “we had to sit down with our attorney” to prepare its response. Assuming each district used two to three hours of lawyers’ time to respond to the show cause orders, county schools probably spent about $2,000 on the 18(Klay '•

Pleads Innocent WILDWOOD - David J. Vitale, 27, of Atlantic Avenue, Wildwood Crest, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in Superior Court last week. He is charged with the July 16 fatal beating of John Dubak III, 20, of Southampton, Pa., outside the Martinique Motel and Bar, E. Oak Avenue, here. Vitale is bong held in lieu of bail at the county jail. Realtor Charged WILDWOOD — Local Realtor Thomas Haynes, 37, of Wildwood Crest faces charges of hindering prosecution and evidence tampering in connection with an Aug. 30 dispute between Lorraine Blundo, 51, of Atlantic Avenue and her husband, Mario, outside B1 undo’s bar, Baker and Atlantic Avenues. Wildwood police charged last week that Haynes hid the shotgun Lorraine Blundo allegedly used to blast through the windshield of the family car. . . ■ . ;. . • Lost Man Found DENNISVILLE — Volunteers from six fire companies found George K. Parker, 62, of Eldora in a woods here Saturday afternoon. Parker, who was visiting the owner of his boarding home, was * reported missing Friday night. Nqprly 100 firefighters joined in the search after Cape May’s J£-9 unit isolated it to the wooded area. Reported well, Parker was f taken to Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital for observation. State Fire Code? TRENTON — Owners of restaurants, bars, hotels, motels and shopping centers, or of any building exceeding sixfloors, will be required to meet statewide fire codes if Gov. Thomas Kean signs into law a bill calling for state registration and annual inspections of such buildings which the state Senate approved 39-0 last week. Crewman Missing CAPE MAY — After two days adrift in a lifeboat, Scott Duncan, 35, of Miami was rescued 45 miles offshore by a - container ship Thursday. He and crewman Manuel J. Rodrigues were missing since Tuesday when their 41-foot sailboat “Boom-Boom" sank. Although Coast Guardsmen located debris from the boat Thursday, they called off their search for Rodrigues Friday night.

Mugger Jailed WILDWOOD — Curtis Howell, 27, of Whites boro will serve at least five years of a 10-year prison term for attempting to rob undercover Wildwood Police Officer Steven Ortman on May 27, .according to a plea bargain in Superior Court last week. Howell was on parole for 1980 burglary and theft charges at the time of the mugging attempt. Shelton: v (From Page*!) “Get your own act together before you come and tell us how to run our business,” said Brown. BROWN, 47, who calls himself a “fullycommitted Christian,” joined the Shelton College staff In fall of 1980, first as an academic dean. He became president last year. He received his doctorate in philosophy of education from Indiana University, Ind. ' His wife Karen, who has degrees in music and education, also teaches at Shelton. Brown’s philosophy of state regulated education is not too far removed from Mein tire’s own philosophy as printed in an undated pamphlet titled “Is God 'In American Education? ” God is not in American education, writes Mclntire, but “secularism, humanism, materialism, socialism, Marxism, ecumenism” are. V “Shelton College stands against this entire development,” he continues. “Shelton College in Cape May, N. J., has God in all of its life.” / He. adds: "Shelton College has become the battleground for the right of a Christian college to exist ... Tire secular, humanistic forces of the state have sought to destroy it because its witness has been so clear, uncompromising, and strong.” He concludes by calling for “500 of the (Page 48 Please)