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Herald & Lantern 21 September '83

News-— Digest Bullsuit COURT HOUSE - Eileen McAndrews of Havertown, P*. t is suing Miss Kitty's Saioon and Dance Hall. North Wildwood; the Penalty Box club. Wildwood, and FA Associates, the manufacturer'and distributor of mechanical bull at Miss Kitty's The bull was defective, she argues, while the bars also share responsibility for injuries she suffered, two yean ago in a fall from it because they continued to serve her booze when she was Intoxicated JSeic Nursing Home COURT HOUSE - Magnolia Avenue will be the site of a new nursing home next year if plans are approved Court House Associates Inc. proposes a 120-bed facility with accommodations for 24 adult day care patients who would return to their homes after working hours. The developers just finished construction of Eastern Shore Nursing Home. Swainton.

New Twist No. 1 . AVALON - When they voted unanimously last month to lift a ban on new construction (introduced to reduce pressure on the resort’s overworked sewage treatment plant), borough council estimated the cost of improving plant operations at $50,000. Borough officials now foresee $732,000 in construction costs and another $120,000 in engineering fees. A'eir Twist No. 2 AVALON — To cover the cost (above) of repairs to the resort's sewage treatment facility, borough officials are considering hikes in customer water bills. Although they were considering plans to reduce pressure on that plant by implementing mandatory water conservation measures, they scrapped that alternative last week as impossible to enforce, according to Councilman - James Bus ha High Seas Nab CAPE MAY — Fifteen Latin American crewman from the freighter Sirope were arrested on drug charges la* week after

federal officials boarded the 250-foot vessel and found 344 bales (10 tons) of marijuana aboard, valued at $10 million. The Sirope was spotted drifting and disabled about 200 miles offshore. It was towed to Gloucester and boarded Friday afternoon. Off-Season Rescue CAPE MAY — Lifeguard Dave Purtle rescued Max Blumenfield, 72, of Princeton from the undertow near the Queen Street jetty Thursday afternoon. Although the passing of Labor Day usually ends Beach Patrol protection for resort swimmers, lifeguards were’posted by Beach Superintendent Buzz Mogck at six of its 14 beaches last week because large crowds turned out to enjoy the fair weather.

Fugitive Bugs TRENTON - Starting Oct. 3, federal official will began random inspections of moving vans and packed vehicles at weighing and gas stations or rest stops in the Northeast for signs of gypsy moths. If they find evidence of the leaf-munching insects on belongings, their owners could pay as much as $1,000 in fines, a state agricultural spokesman confirmed last week.

Arsonist Wanted WILDWOOD — Arson was the cause of a $500,000 Boardwalk blaze that gutted four stores between Roberts and Youngs avenues early Thursday morning, according to fire officials. It was the second Boardwalk fire in two months. A $1 million Aug. 2 fire destroyed several stores between Lincoln and Garfield avenues.

Costly Closings TRENTON — The state Education Department last week fined Lower Cape • May Regional and Wildwood school districts $2,545 each and Ocean City School District $5,090 for violating the law that requires 180 days of instruction per school year. Eleven other districts in the state received similar penalties. Basis of the fine, officials said, was $2,545 for each missed day, and that amount represents the statewide average of annual, per-pupil state aid. Ten county elementary schools were cleared of similar charges.

Switches Sides

Chamber: Keep Courts in Court House

< From page l) court house from 1933 to 1968, who sold newspapers and shined judges' and lawyers'shoes there as a youth, and who helped nlstall telephones in the existing courthouse complex buildings. Sturm works for New Jersey Bell. . Sturm acknowledged court courts are overcrowded and "tremendously” burdened. “Anyone who tells you there's no problem has his head in the sand," he said. But he said he didn't feel the method of solving the problem is a controversy "Something major has to be done," said Sturm, and the choice lies between renovation and expansion at the present site, opposed by the bar, and moving to the Crest Haven complex, opposed by the chamber Sturm said he would move "everything else not court-related" from Court House to Crest Haven before touching the courts He named the freeholders themselves, the county engineer aqd planning department as potential new occupants at Crest Haven THE FREEHOLDERS have previously agreed to build a new, l8Q-bed nursing home at Crest Haven, and have indicated they would use the present nursing home for offices now located in the Social Ser vices building in Rio Grande Court expansion, Sturm said, can be handled by "connecting and enlarging" the adjacent Cape May County Savings & Loan Building which the county purchased liQrJJW.ooo earlier this year, and by using vacanK ground at the rear of the courthoose The bar association has said this would tie "wasteful and nonproductive The freeholders have previously indicated they plan to move County Clerk Angela F Pul vino into the Savings and lx>an building And Superior Court Judge • Philip GruCcio has commented that Angie will gobble up and occupy that Bridge Work: ' From Page 1» Wildwood Road was about the same distance. , but less desirable because of a 30-cent bridge toll and a lower speed limit on North Wjldwood Road than Avalon Boulevard Known to officials as the Great Channel Bridge, the project calls for replacing its approach spans and renovating its center draw span THE COUNTY spent $160,000 for engineering, according \o Countv Engineer Neil O. Clarke The project ’s estimated $4-million cost will be - paid. 80 percent federal. 20 percent state, officials said. All local officials cited the assistance of local Congressman William J Hughes in getting Coast Guard approval Kasoff referred to "so much heat” on getting the Coast Guard permit issued "It's important to point out that what's, required is an environmental assessment which we are doing for the federal Highway Administration." he said "They incorrectly identified the project initially and all of a sudden realized there was other documentation that needed to be done We are trying to help another agency."

building, but you're not going to get anybody else in there." r'The judges want top priority," said 'TOirm last week, “but senior citizens are waiting for the nursing home, too.” Shirm said the Crest Haven Nursing Home and the county prison are both “bursting at the seams.” Crest Haven has a waiting list of 26, he said. And the prison, he said, issuing an annex "for work release prisoners and to relieve pressure.” He said expansion of the prison will be "necessary in the next two to five years." IN URGING COUNTY chamber directors to "back up" the Middle Township chamber. Sturm echoed the latter’s concern about the impact of any move of court facilities on local business. He said the courthouse itself has a halfmillion dollar payroll 26 times a year and that grows to $750,000 every 26 weeks if one includes other county employes. A “ripple effect" on local business results, he said. Sturm said a report from Ocean City architect Edwin Howell on how best to solve the problem of crowded judicial quarters is ‘.‘due in the next 10 days." He also said the county plans to widen the entrance to Crest Haven and provide acceleration and deacceleration lanes on the Garden State Parkway Age Key • From Page 1) ly," he said. THE STUDY ALSO suggested that the types of malignant cancers be identified "before considering which types of cancer detection programs are to be initiated." “WeTl be following through on that," said Waldron. The study warned that interpretation of its cirrhosis deaths data "should be limited" because of underreporting as well as overreporting of itjis the primary cause of death. Based on only 15 deaths from cirrhosis reported in 1981, the study suggested "the possibility that underreporting is occuring in the county. "Supporting this assumption is the substantial number of hospital admissions in 1981 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of alcohol abuse," it said. WALDRON SAID the hospital will not decrease Us efforts to treat alcoholism because "members of the staff and many social workers in the hospital and county feel there’s a singificant alcohol problem in the county. "We had 300 referrals in the first six months." he said. "It took off like a shot." The study concluded that "health services" do play an important role in the treatment and diagnosis of chronic diseases But it said any relationship between mortality and health resources would depend on "an assessment of several factors, such as abUity to respond to emergency situations, quality review of treatment, etc.” Waldron said be felt no additional assessment of those factors is needed because the hospital meets monthly with the county ambulance chiefs’ association and has an "ongoing quality assurance committee, as set up in every hospital."

Slayer Sentenced COURT HOUSE — Superior Court Judge James A. O’Neill sentenced Ronald D. Green, 23, to a minimum of five years in prison on a 12-year term last week for beating to death his girlfriend, Germaine Jones, 20, after an July 12 argument about sex in the couple's W. Baker Avenue bungalow, Wildwood. Green is wanted in North Carolina on burglary charges.

COURT HOUSE - Ed Rosenberg, former financial chairman of the county Democratic organization, signed on as incumbent GOP Committeewoman Pat Peterson’s campaign co-manager last week. Peterson faces Democrat committee candidate Jim Alexis in the fall election. Rosenberg faced him in the Democratic primary but dropped out of the race, charging Middle Township party leaders with harassment and proAlexis bias.

Ooris Ward

FRIENDSHIP SCHOOL — Restored by the late James Wilson of Marmora and Lyle Fleetwood of Tuckahoe, the Friendship School, circa 1830, was dedicated Saturday at its new location next to the Palermo Grammar School on Route 9. South Palermo. Virginia Wilson, president of the Upper Township Historical Preservation Society, presents the school key to Township Mayor Lenord Migliaccio, left. Acquired by the Bicentennial Committee, Friendship School was used until i860 at the Enoch Clouting property in North Palermo.

News Notes— • From Page 48) (finance approving the 96th St. concept. We, personally, had reservations about the funding of the project but^after talking to the Administrative Asst, to the Mayor, Ted Pain, and other financially astute persons, we have been assured there is no danger this municipality could find itself occupying the same spot in which N.Y.C. recently found itself. The financial position of ROA is strong and getting stronger. They presently have upwards of 1,200 members, 400 of whom are

registered voters. They are hopeful of increasing membership to 1,300 this year and naturally this will add clout to their impact on future legislation. There is neither good nor bad news about reconstruction of the 96th St. Bridge. Coast Guard approval is still pending. Repairs to the 104th St. Bridge will probably be effected this year. Great news for owners of large dogs like retrievers, shepherds etc. ROA is seeking a place where they may legally expend their large amounts of energy (as necessary to canines as oxygen is to humans) bet-

ween 122nd and 127th Sts. on the beach without any adverse environmental impact. ROA, as well as the Zoning Board of Adjustment wjl^ insofar as possible, limit further construction of condominium?: because of the serious density problem which already exists and they want to avoid the problem with sewage which obtained in Avalon this summer. The 96th St. Arcade caused few problems this summer — complaints arose mainly from the effects of bicycle congestion.