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Herald & Lantern 12 October '83

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customers waiting for dinner. But opponents charged it tyould be a nuisance and lower property values

*r Avalon J\ipa S. Harbor - SEVEN MILE BEACH - Stone Harbor reported beach fee revenues totaled $232,415 this year, a 39 percent increase over last year Avalon reported beach fee revenue of $247,271, a 27 percent increase over last year

(.all IQ ou ’re Sick CREST HAVEN - Abdominal discomfort, fever, nausea, depression or loss of appetite, followed by jaundice of the skin or whites of the eyes, are symptoms of infectious hepatitis The disease is , transmitted by food or beverages contaminated by an infected person, and by sexual contact Sixteen cases have been reported^n the county since Aug 1. Cape residents who have the symptoms, or who have been in contact with someone who has. are asked to contact the county health department at 465-3181.

Hoic About Linoleum? CAPE MAY — The planning board last week by a 4-4 vote upheld its Historic District Commission refusal to allow vinyl siding on a Washington Street house because it wouldn't blend with the surrounding neighborhood Irate owner Jack O'Neil said he wouldn't paint the house if it didn't have the siding.

»Play Me or Trade Me UPPER TOWNSHIP - Township Committee deeded a five-acre parcel of land near the Marmora elementary schoof to the board of education for recreation fields If the site isn’t improved in five years, it reverts to the township.

Grant Awarded SWA INTON - Uncle Sam came through with a $61 3 million grant last week that will pay more than'65 percent of the cost of building sewage treatment facilities by 1986 for Seven-Mile Beach and the Wildwood-Lower Tow;nship vicinity Nearly $18 million will finance construction of pumping stations, connections and an ocean outfall at :wth Street, Avalon, while the remainder will be used to build a treatment plant on Route 47. ►Rio Grande, connections through the Wildwoods and an ocean outfall off Jefferson Avenue. Wildwood Crest.

(■nnspicuous C.onsumption CAPE MAY — With 2 l ? more weeks of meter mania to go. city parking meters have already yielded a 50 percent increase over last year The city has collected $193,100. In the spring, city council almost doubled parking meter fees from 25 cerjls an hour to 50 cents, but backed off after chamber of commerce opposition

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COLD SPRING — While driving a truck load of sludge over the Garden State Parkway to a Woodbine disposal site last week, Paul F Mahr bumped the curb at the Route 109 entrance and spilled some of the slime. Traffic was backed up for several hours while crews cleaned up the mess. Erma volunteer firemen helped out with the unpleasant task and washed down the roadway with 3,000 gallons of water.

Tap Runs Red WILDWOOD — Mayor Earl Ostrander threatened to shut off water to delinouent customers of the resort's Water Utilfty last week because $662,000 iu*late payments threatened default and a $325,000 deficit for the agency. The deficit

means a hike in the city's local purpose tax next year. Many customers apparently are withholding payments because the state ruled against the utility's advanced billing policy.

A Foot a Day SWAIN'TON — State plans to clean up an Hlegal toxic waste dump along Siegtown Road won’t even be drafted until 1986. Meanwhile, arsenic, lead, mercury, benzene, phenol and chloroform from 200 drums dumped there four years ago are circulating northeastward at a foot a day in the underground water supply Dissatisfied with clean-up plans, Middle Township committeemembers voted unanimously Thursday to demand immediate monitoring Of local drinking water.

Seven Arrested WEST WILDWOOD - More arrests are expected by lawmen of the Cape May County Task Force in their crackdown on alleged drug dealers, task force officials said Friday. After a two-year probe, the task force broke up a reputed cocaine ring here Thursday night with the arrest of seven county men on drug or gambling charges

Prodigal Returns STRATHMERE — Upper Township officials want to get rid of this isolated seaside community and offered it to Sea Isle City last week. Sea Isle can have the village back (SIC sold it to UT for $100,000 about 80 years ago) if it assumes control of the troubled Aramingo Water Co. along with responsibility for policing the town, collecting its trash and taxes etc. If Sea Isle commissioners approve the proposed^annextion, though, voters in both resorts would still have the final word.

Viewable Vouchers WILDWOOD — City Council voted unanimously last week to override Mayor Earl Ostrander's veto of a measure Council approved last month, justifying its review of payment vouchers Tank Fire Fought SUNSET BEACH — Firefighters from four companies battled a fuel blaze for nearly 24 hours Friday in a storage tank at the magnesite plant on Sunset Boulevard, Lower Township. While the 320,000 gallon tank was ablaze and water cascaded around them, firemen hauled hoses up a ladder to pump foam inside. Twenty-eight drums of foam were used before the fire was brought under

control.

Chamber Adds Voice VILLAS — Lower Township’s Chamber of Commerce joined the local Republican Party, Taxpayers' Association and Citizens for Lower Township Charter Change this week in calling for voter support of (he township Charter Study Com : mission recommendations to change the municipal government system from a three-member committee to a councilmanager form. The chamber vote was unanimous, according to its president, Robert Obermeier. Cop Suspended WILDWOOD — Police Superintendent George Quinn suspended Patrolman Gary Knight last week after summer Officer Angelyn Young, 20. reportedly shot herself in the stomach with Knight’s .357 caliber service revolver on the Syracuse Avenue beach, Wildwood Crest, on Oct. 3. Young was in serious condition in the intensive care unit of Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Monday night. Armed and in uniform. Knight had called in sick before the shooting, Quinn said.

Fatal Fall HEAD OF THE RIVER - Clifford T Taylor, 63, of Lincoln Avenue, Bees leys'

< Point, was pronogeed dead from a broken neck early Oct. 4 after an apparent 30-foot fall from a tree hunting stand in the Upper Township woods near Weatherby Road. Police and volunteers began searching for Taylor last Monday night after his family reported him overdue from a bow hunt for deer.

Blue Fishing BELFORD — Charter fishing and wholesale bluefish sales are off as much as 50 percent in some sections of the state, boat owners and wholesalers complained last week, in the wake of a state Department of Environmental Protection warning against regular consumption of the popular seafood — and none by pregnant women or nursing mothers. A study of bluefish caught upstate during the past two years showed significant levels of a suspected cancer-causing pesticide.said the DEP.

By JOE ZELNIK VILLAS — The Volunteers and Resources Division of the Cape May County Welfare Department has received donations of everything from typing to tomato plants in its 15-month existence. Last week marked a first, however, as Arvand Padwal of Tuckerton contributed his architectural skills. He designed a wheelchair ramp for Frances Regan of Ridgewood Avenue. Her right leg was amputated below the knee this summer and she is housebound without a ramp. Contributors at Volunteers and Resources will bring Regan the ramp by the end of this month, and at no cost, according to Marianne Sheik,' division director. MATERIAL is being bought with a contribution from Harrison Beverage of Pleasantville. Woric will be donated by Bill Dwyer of West Cape May, Sheik said. Regan, who will be 30 in December, lost her leg because of diabetes and poor cir- ' culation. She spent two months at Betty Bachrach Rehabilitation Center in Pomona where she received an artificial limb. Her social worker at Bachrach was Mindy Padwal. The architect is Padwal s husband. "I'm doing wonderful " said Regan. “A lot of people my age would put an artificial limb in a closet and forget about it. But I want to walk. I always went out a lot, to card parties and clubs. I miss going out.” REGAN SAID she is walking in her home, from the living room to the kitchen, two or three times a day. "But I can’t get out without a ramp," she added.

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said, but four left and he has had "trouble

obtaining volunteers.”

THE NEW COMMITTEES would have 6-9 members, Craig said, with the main qualification being age 18 and up. Juveniles are 17 and under, he said. He said there would be no educational requirements, but preference would be given to persons who were concerned and had experience working with juveniles. “The main thing is concern,” Craig said. The committees will meet monthly, he said, at night, and for about three hours Members will receive a short training

session.

He said the type of offense would be "minor juvenile delinquency charges, misdemeanors, possibly underage drinking, possession of under 25,grams of marijuana, neighborhood disputes "IT WOULD NOT BE a serious offender,” he said, "and never a secondtime offender. These would be youths not in danger of being incarcerated, but for whom some action has to be taken.” Craig said statistics indicate the county’s juvenile delinquency rate has dropped over the last two years. But, he said, "that could be misleading because some police departments have initiated 'pre-complaint diversion programs” which make it possible for a designated juvenile officer to deal with youths at the department level. Craig urged persons interested in serving on the committees to contact him at

465-9350.

IN RECOGNITION — Avalon Mayor Rachel Sloan displays piaque presented to borough by Cape May County Unit of American Cancer Society.

Regan receives Wheels on Meals from the county, a volunteer from the Visiting Homemakers program three times a week, and physical therapy three times a week. "Friends shop for me," she said, "and my family doctor comes to the house,” She said neighbors do other things for her, like locking doors and "closing up." She praised “wonderful, wonderful neighbors” Mary La on a and Lena Goslin. REGAN WAS a Comptometer machine operator in the auditing department at Wanamaker's in Philadelphia for 43 years. •She and her husband, Earl, moved to Villas in 1963. He died in 1972. She is a member of the Democratic Club of Lower Township and the Lower Township Rescue Squad Auxiliary, whose rummage sales she used to chair. Citing this “good example" of the Volunteers and Resources program, Sheik asked courtians willing to help the needy with anything from their own skills to materials or money to contact her at 729-9200.

Chinnici: (From Page 18) An Army veteran, who served as a medical corpsman in the South Pacific during World War II, Chinnici is a member of both the American Legion and Catholic War Veterans. A lay trustee of St Theresa of Avila Church, Bridgeton, he is also a Knight of Columbus (third and fourth degrees), a Rotarian and Elk. Married to the former Mary Andeloro, Chinnici and his wife have three children who work with him in the family business.

Muziani: (From Page 18) The assemblyman had been an active Republican businessman before .he entered politics. He was chairmSn of the county Young Republicans from 1966-1968 and has been in business for 30 years — first as an accountant in his birthplace, Philadelphia, and as a Wildwood restauranteur since 1956. After attending South Philadelphia High School, he entered the Army. At 19, he was severely wounded in the leg during The Battle of the Bulge while serving as a staff sergeant with the 345 Regiment of the 86th Infantry Division. He was discharged, a disabled veteran, in 1946. IN 1949. HE COMPLETED administrative accounting courses at Pierce Junior College and went to work for a Philadelphia law firm. He later served as chief accounting officer for a wholesale food concern and eventually opened his own accounting business. In 1956, his family bought into the Wildwood Diner and took over control two years later. The family also operated the Holiday Inn and Tangiers Motel but sold out. Two years ago, Muziani and his brother-in-law built the Cape Diner in Cold Spring. This summer, he said, he gave up his financial interest in the Wildwood Diner. Divorced, Muziani is the father of one son, who is involved in the family business.

Donated Ramp Will Free Widow