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NORTH WILDWOOD - Ope Hey County Freeholder Director Anthony T. CaUnoco tha week uid he hun't yet made up hh mind about resigning his pooiuon early next year, a frequent rumor. "ThatU happen when it happens if it happene,” be said. The rumon have Otanoeo, 10 years a Freeholder and U years the board's director, getting out early to pave the way for a successor from the Wildwood*

Slowdown CAFE MAY — City Council exited a lie-hour closed session with architect* Monday and decided to concentrate for now only on phase one of the proposed city promenade and convention hall complex They’d been told the entire five phase package would coettf .J million. The city has $2 million budgeted, based on funds expected from a *500,000 federal Small Cities grant, a *250,000 state Green Acres grant, a *250,000 minimum private investment, and a proposed *650,000 city bond issue.

Meetings Closed AVALON — Borough and State environmental officials meet behind closed doors at 10 a.m. today to discuss possible (Page 10 Please) More Buttery Cheese Due RIO GRANDE — Another free butter and cheese distribution is expected in Cape May County “probably the first week in November.” according to Marvin Morrell, a supervisor with the county Welfare Department Morrell said he expects the federal surplus food to come from the state in late October. The state has announced its distribution to counties will begin Oct. 3 and run through mid-November. The county's last surplus butter and cheese distribution in April gave out about 36,000 pounds of each to an estimated 7,300 countians Distribution is handled by Cape Human (Page 10 Please)

DEDICATED — Mary Anderson, seated, and Mabel Graham, at her left, were honored by the Cape May County Office on Aging last week for their work with the agency andYor being “over 7«.“ They received plaques from assistant director William Sheva. left. and executive director Ann Zabora. right. Anderson is director of the North Wildwood Sr. Center and Graham beads the Nutrition Program at the Airport Sr. Center

Wilsey Calls COURT HOUSE - Former Cape May County Freeholder William R. Wilsey .this week called off his independent race for freeholder, but vowed to continue his opposition to Republican William E. Sturm Jr., who is seeking reelection. Wilsey, 57-year-old Republican, said he will issue “one or two releases getting specific on Bill’s improper performance, hoping to turn off enough voters to swing them elsewhere.”

Off Race Asked if the “elsewhere” meant a Democratic vote, he said, “I may come out publicly and support a Democrat; I have to think about it.” Sturm didn’t seem concerned. * “I served six years with Wilsey,” he said. “I never found it productive to pay too much attention to him then, and I still find it that way.” WILSEY SAID he got into the race last (Page 10 Please)

Soccer, Yes, But Jobs, No t By JOE ZELNIK DEL HAVEN — Two new soccer fields should be completed this we^k' on Bay Shore Road on the Lower-Middle townships border Located in the undeveloped 1,900-acre Cape May County, Park South, the $10,000 project was funded primarily by a $25,000 federal grant under a program intended to create jobs It’s been estimated five unemployed per sons wiH be hired for five days at the minimum wage of $3.35 an hour Park Commission executive director Leon Fulginitti said it had been hoped to provide more jobs by seeding the field with grass, but a Sept 30 federal deadline for spending the money forced the county to go to sod instead “WE’RE SORRY it couldn’t create more jobs,’ be said. “If we just could have gotten started sooner ” He blamed “paper work” for the delay. Jay Watson, senior planner with the Green Acres program of the state Depart ment of Environmental Protection, which allocated the federal funds, said the DEP “tried to get a tinteextension past Sept 30 because technically the fall planting system doesn t begin until OcLlS, but they disallowed it.” Watson said he didn't think planting seed would have used any more unskilled labor than sodding. “It might evpn take more unskilled labor. (Page 31 Please)

Hurley: A Shoe-In

■The State Senate Race-

Until...

— by a relatively unknown c novice, Republican state Sen. James R. Hurley, 51, of Millville was a virtual shoe-in for re-election -until a legislative reprimand broke over his head (see related story, page 31). Now, Vineland lawyer Christopher H. Riley Jr., 34, looks more like a contender to state Democrats, eag^Th^piQ' another seat in the upper house,

ED. NOTE: Republican incumbent James R. Hurley, a Millville public relations executive, faces Democratic lawyer Christopher Riley, a novice Vineland politician, in the race for the $l8,000-a-year Cape May-Cumberland seat in the state Senate, a part-time post that will pay $25,000 next year.

state Republicans are wringing thenbands, fearful that Hurley's problem could lose them the Cape May-Cumberland and

First District seat.

Personally untainted by the Watergate scandal former. Ui>. Rep. Charles Sand-

Riley: Restore Integrity

Before his opponent-got into hot water at Union Lake, Millville (see related story Page 31).. Vineland lawyer Christopher H. Riley, 34, was asked to .mn at the top of the

Democratic ticket.

When former state Sen. James Cafiero,

The Herald/Lantern Interview

by E-J( Puffy

man Jr. of Erma lost his congressional seat to reform candidate William Hughes because of Sandman’s loyalty to former President Richard M. Nixon. If guilt by association toppled a local congressman, won’t an ethical reprimand by his colleagues hurt a state senator? BOTH MAJOR PARTIES have been ask mg that-question indirectly to voters and bluntly within their ranks. The voters will

answer it Nov. 8.

JAMES R. HURLEY

running

Chinnici, thinks the senator will survive the storm. Fewer voters may cast ballots for Hurley than in 1981 when he first won election, but Chinnici is confident Hurley

will outdistance his rival.

In the 1961 race, then Assemblyman Hurley beat Cumberland County Freeholder Edward H. Salmon 17,544-12,505. Both have been popular officials and vote-getters. Hurley’s opponent

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Despite his 3,476-1,278 vote primary victory over security executive Peter Amico, Riley was viewed as a “throw away” candidate by the party, according to an 'insider. After all, Riley collected less than half the votes Hurley garnered as a courtesy (8,811), running unopposed in the GOP primary. Prospects looked bleak for Riley until (Page 30 Please)

Jt-Cape May, Cumberland, decided 'against re-election in 1981, the Democrats tapped Cumberland County Freeholder . Edward H. Salmon as their candidate for Cafiero’s First District seat The Republicans put up then Assemblyman James R. Hurley. Both candidates spent small fortunes in their race for the $18,000-a-year, part-time legislative job, but Hurley, 51, beat Salmon

by.4,700 votes.

Despite the reprimand, one of Hurley’s / As a reigning freeholder, former Mayor inning mates, Assemblyman Joseph - of Millville and proven vote-getter,Salmon ^ *•- | '* r ' was probably the D^mocrars best shot at

the Senate seat; he’s charismatic, energetic, conservative and has subsjan^ I tial name-recognition:* at least in"-l

Cumberland County.

SALMON. HOWEVER, apparently didn’t want a rematch with Hurley this time around so the party leaders gave Riley the nod. Salmon stood unopposed with Jeanne L. Gorman in the primary as the party’s Assembly candidates.

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