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On Sunday, Oct. 9 the Stone Harbor Sea Lions gave another of their swellelegant Benefit Cocktail Parties for the Diller Vacation Home for the Blind. Hus one was held at the Windrift and they had an added twist (if you can describe belly-dancing that way>. We sat at a large table, which kept getting larger! Bill Schaffer. Robert and Annabel! Rosato, Frank and Betty Corny, Carolyn and Jim Eldon (J4m offered to give us a job when he watched us toiling on our house just after we bought it). Frank and Mary Conuell. Rose Rice. Jack and Wilma Mehan and Jack's sister Delores. John and Dot Mladjen (Dot had a dress made from one of her collection of saris) and finally Peg Schaffer, who was working like a trooper as usual all evening. Then came the moment the men had been waiting for. Complete with veils and caste nets, the bellydancer singled out two men to please, Bill Schaffer and Ernie Blair. We hope these two never have to make their living on the stage, because a couple of sillier sultana^vou have never seen Tne finale was the drawing of raffle tickets and we won our first prize, ever. It was a ceramic electrically lighted pumpkin made and donated by the president of the Sea Lions. Bert Schubert. How timely could a prize be? It was a

nifty night and we feel we have finally broken our jinx on raffle tickets. STOPPED IN last Wednesday to see Pat Fitzpatrick, instead, Councilman R. Jack opened the door and introduced us to his son Bob. quite a remarkable young man, who lives with his wife Jean, a daughter of Freeholder Ralph Evans, at 557 Stone Harbor Blvd. If you’ve never seen the Fitz-' Patricks’ home on 95th St. you've missed a greal deal. Interior decorators say you can judge people’s character by seeing their home, in this case it is perfectly true. Exquisite taste, plants a florist would envy, a real shoffleboard table and enclosed swimming pool. Everything indicative of an active, artistic and multiple- interests family. Since we got to know Jack and Pat, membership chairman of the C. of C., when we first moved down here we were most interested in talking to Bob, whom we had never previously met. Bob told us that when be was 5 years old he decided to become a veterinarian. His ambition never wavered. At age 13 he went to work for William Todd, D.V.M.. in Rio Grande and when Dr. Todd retired he continued with his successor, Dr. George Belloff. When Bob graduated from Purdue he was awarded the Highest

Clinical Proficiency Award in Large and Small Animal Medicine and has a handsome certificate attesting to the fact. Now he’s just where be always hoped to be — practicing at the Belloff Animal Hospital, 502 Delsea Dr., Rio Grande. It’s for care of dogs and cats, open five days a week and hours are by appointment only. It’s grown in size loo, now boasting the services of two veterinarians and three technicians. Our readers have got to be the greatest! Within an hour after the Herald hit the newsstands last week Mrs. Rebecca Warren of 213 33rd St. called to tell us she had a 1973 Avalon Beach Tag she would be glad to let us have. Within five minutes William Simon of 859 Dune Dr. called to say be had them for each year and would supply any we needed. Mike Wade’s mother, of 28th and 1st Ave., called and offered one the next day. Thank you all so very, very much. WE’VE GOT to drop the editorial we in this item, i am no baseball buff. My husband is a nut about it. Therefore, I settled myself to resignation to watch the first game of the World Serious — that was no misnomer; it was the most exicting thing I’ve ever seen on a baseball diamond, A real nail-biter which I spoiled for my spouse by muttering, then yelling and finally screaming at Howard Cosell. The fact that said spouse didn't strangle me was because the Phillies won. We both anticipated the second (Page 23 Please)

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other officers on the force. Wilber Ostrander was promoted to captain by his brother just after the mayor’s July inauguration.

Two Mistakes WILDWOOD - Superior Court Judge Philip Grucdo told city officials last week that be did not understand why it’s taking the new mayor-council government so long to get its act together. In the absence of an administrative code, that government was supposed to dissolve 30 days after it took office (July 1). Gruccio, however, issued an order, allowing the government to function until the code is adopted. He also ruled that city council made a mistake when it hired Charles Henry James as its attorney by resolution instead of by ordinance.

No Question

SEA ISI-E CITY — Resort residents will not get a chance to vote on the salary hikes of two commissioners after all. Superior Court Judge Michael Connor last week ordered a salary referendum striken from the Election Day ballot after Mayor Dominic C. Raffa challenged the validity of the ballot question. Connor agreed with Raffa that the contested 1983 salary ordinance does not list pay increases. The salary increases (from $12,000-$15,000 for Raffa) were authorized under a 1982 ordinance after petitioners demanded a referendum.

Indicted COURT HOUSE — County grand jurors indicted Burleigh builder James J. McDevitt Jr., 35, last week on one count of issuing a bad check. The developer, who faces grand larceny and bad check charges in Syracuse, N.Y., also was charged by Middle Township police last week with another count of issuing a bad check. Police have asked those who have done business with McDevitt or the firms he’s been associated with. Trinity Homes and Tara'Development Co. Inc., to contacfDetective Walt Szymanski at 465-7308.

Not Indicted ' WILDWOOD - Several city police officers were suspended last fall after misdemeanor charges were filed against them. None of them was indicted on those charges, all pleaded not guilty. In a - political interview which appeared here last week, the former officers were incorrectly mentioned as “indicted.''

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Tag Tug SEA ISLE CITY — Commissioner William VanArtsdalen blamed Mayor Dominic C. Raffa for gross negligence and mismangement of the resort’s beach tag program whose 28 tag inspectors wonH be paid until next month. In a letter to the inspectors, Raffa cited petty politics on VanArtsdalen part for the pay delay, but the commissioner argued that Raffa hired more inspectors this year and overspent the program’s $60,000 budget by $7,250. Budget transfers to fill the gap cannot legally be made until Nov. i, VanArtsdalen noted.

Call for Help

CREST HAVEN - County health officials expect to know by next week whether an outbreak of infectious hepatitis is sweeping the county. Seventeen cases, most of them in the southern portion of the Cape, have been reported in the past 10 weeks and 30 have been recorded this year. Louis Lamanna, County health officer, said last week that he knows seven or eight hepatitis carriers have not been treated. Symptoms of the disease include abdominal pain, loss of appetite, fever, nausea and jaundice; if you have any symptoms, call 465-3181.

Watts Up? PLEASANTVILLE — Customers of Atlantic Electric will pay 10-16 percent more a month next year if the state Board of Public Utilities approves the company’s request for a $53.4 million (10.8 percent) revenue increase. Since January, 1982, the company has been granted three rate hikes totaling more than $109 million while Energy Adjustment rates (tied to the lower cost of producing electricity) have dropped by $172 million. Copies of the rate hike petition will be supplied to public libraries Friday. The BPU has not yet schedule^ public bearings on the company request.

Upstate Priority OCEAN CITY — If voters approve a $50-million Shore Protection bond issue Election Day, state environmental officials said here Friday they plan to finance 75 percent of a $10-million shore protection project along Seven Mile Beach; a $2.5 million seawall and $100,000 for bulkheads in North Wildwood; $1.2 million toward 10 bay bulkheads in Ocean City and $500,000 to reconstruct a bayfront jetty in Middle Township. More of the money will be spent on upstate priority projects between 1985-1989. More than $3 million will be for administration costs.

Upping the Ante? STRATHMERE - Despite $18 mUlion in tax ra tables here and the potential-for $250,000 in annual revenue from $30 million in future ra tables, Sea Isle City commissioners had mixed feelings last week about Upper Township’s offer to give them this resort. Besides the estimated $1.3 million cost of renovating Strathmere’s Aramingo Water Co., Sea Isle also would be expected to absorb the cost of policing Strathmere and educating its children. Sea Isle commissioners want to know if the “free*’ annexation is the township’s final offer. Go-ahead (From Page 1) installed. The new bridge will have the same grade, McCann said, but its width will go from 22 feet to 32 feet and to 24 feet at the draw span, increasing its lane width from 11 feet to 12 feet. ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT, he said, will be to continue the sidewalk on the south side of the bridge across the draw span. Pedestrians now have to walk in the road across the span. Another borough bridge reconstruction at 104th Street had its Oct. 6 bid opening postponed to Thursday. Clarke said an original goal of completion by April 30 now may be extended to Memorial Day. But, he pointed out, one lane of traffic will be maintained over that bridge during construction.

Gas Company (From Page 1) Hjere is probably a reasonable way to go, but we need commitments from the customers out there.” Ryan said the company will be conducting a major marketing effort and intends to open offices in Rio Grande and Ocean City, in addition to the one on Route 9 in Swainton. South Jersey paid $17.7 million for New Jersey Natural, thus acquiring the rights to provide natural gas service to 27,000 customers in Cape May County. Officials said it normally “costs $1,100 to get a customer," and the purchase price “works out to $650 per customer." “This has been a long time coming, but it was well worth waiting for," said William Geramel, chairman of the board of South Jersey Industries, the gas company’s parent organization. Ryan joked that, although Atlantic Electric “has three times as many customers with terribly expensive electric service, they also have some load problems and we’re willing to help them 60t '' South Jersey - is headquartered in Folsom and also serves all of Atlantic, Cumberland and Salem counties plus portions of Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties.