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Herald & Lantern 14 December '83

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(iirl, 16, Raped

< K-K.VN (-ITY - Police reported last week that a city girl. 16'. was raped Nov. 24 around 5 45 p m on the beach near l ith Street. Shore Memorial Hospital reported the incident, police said. The rapist, who remained behind the victim during the assaultV-plished her onto the i>each na>m the Boardwalk. Police have a . vague description of the attacker and are advising w\men not to walk unescorted

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COURT HOUSE — County grand jurors

found Keith Reedel, 22, of Yardly, Pa., not guilty Friday of rapirig a Philadelphia woman. 18, on July 3 near the menhaden plant. Route 47, Middle Township. The jury deliberated for an hour. According to testimony, the woman's friend told a North Wildwood policeman about the incident several hours after its alleged occurence and that the woman was treated at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital for cuts and

bruises.

Boy Flees Fire SCHELLENGER’^S LANDING - A seven-year-old Lower Township boy escaped-his family’s burning bungalow on Wilson Drive before fire scorched two rooms and smoke damaged the house early last Wednesday afternoon, Town

Commission Named to Study Vo-Tech-[FrorralPage 1) ~

program at vo-te< fof

:ause “now they go there fof vocational and here for academics and can change and come back here (full-time) in a /nihute I think some kids should ride thayfence until they know hat they want t/ do. But the parents be more difficult to come McVey' also said he was "concerned about the effect on my teaching staff. If significant enrollments from my school go there, it could result in a decrease in teachers here If that occurs, it could result in a loss of my youngest, leastexperienced people. "In many cases, they are. my coaches, my people actively involved,” he said. “It could prematurely age my staff . " LOWER CAPE MAY Regional High School Principal Alan Beattie agreed that enrollment was a concern, his being down about 20 over last year But he said students are taking more courses because the district increa&d the credit requirement for graduation from 100 to 110. Beattie ateo said that, traveled time under the current shared-time program is “a big waste of time that could be put to better use " He said students in the shared-time program get only six periods of classtime in a seven-period day. "I don’t know whether this will fly or not," he said. "It would draw some students from our enrollment, but I don’t think as many as are in the shared-time program " WILDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Principal Ernest Harper said he did not think a full--time program at vo-tech “would affect our enrollment adversely.' If “would be beneficial for students with hardships that would prevent them coming to a regular comprehensive public high school,” he ad-‘ ded, “such as someone who has to work, or may not have been able to find a vocation he is interested in, but needs the academics that could be offered at votech.” Harper also said the program could help "imminent dropouts," the students Kistler

indicated he felt were among the most likely potential students for the proposed new

program.

Kistler said he is concerned that “the push for higher academic achievement” will cause more students to drop out, leaving them “with no employable skills, neither academic nor vocational.” Rather than get those students later, as adults preparing in night school for the GED (General Educational Development) test, Kistler said, “we would prefer to provide an appropriate program from the

start.”

otEAN CITY HIGH School Principal Michael Cipriano, who is a member of the study commission, said he “wouldn't worry about any decline in enrollment

here.

“I don’t know if I see a new program happening,” he said. "We will have to look at all avenues.” He also pointed to the potential loss of “home school pride. If you go to Lower Township and vo-tech part time,” he said, "you still graduate from Lower.” In addition to Kistler, Kilpatrick and Cipriano, the study commission includes: From vo-tech: Principals Susan Smith and Daniel Money, Curriculum Director James O’Hara, school board vicepresident William Tozour Jr., teacher Robert Griesbach and former students Steven Givens and Cherri Douvris. From other schools. Wildwood School District Supt. Arthur Moltz, social worker Karen Oswald, and school board member Georgia Harris; Lower Regional guidance director Pasquale Pirro and instructor William Carr, who also is a member of the Wildwood Crest board of education; Llpper Township Schools Supt. John McGovern, Middle Township school board member Andrea Balliette; and Stone Harbor school board member Albert Meadowcroft Also, contractor Gregory Willis; William Diller of Diller and Fisher Realty - in Stone Harbor; county bar association president Paul Dare; and Dennis Curley, general manager of the Golden Inn in Avalon.

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Bank Fire Chief Ray Brown reported. Cape May firemen were first at the scene with two engines and a ladder truck. Town Bank volunteers arrived later with four engines and another ladder truck. Robbers Taker$8,500 . OCEAN CITY — Harry Klause and his family of Aberdine Road escaped uninjured last Tuesday but lost $8,500 to two masked robbers who entered the Klause home around 9:30 p.m. Wearing orange ski masks and carrying a shotgun and rifle, the robbers locked Klause, his wife and two children in a closet and fled with the cash. Police have no suspects in the case last week. Call with information at

399-9111.

Loansharking NORTH WILDWOOD - Louis Pizza, 46, and Alexander DeCamillo, 47, pleaded guilty to one charge each of loansharking in U.S. District Court, Newark, last week. Six loansharking aril conspiracy charges were filed against them by a federal grand jury in Camden. Both men admitted making many usurious loans of up to 420 percent and of using threats and violence to punish late debtors. They are slated for sentencing Jan. 31. Brother's Keeper NORTH WILDWOOD - Louis Pizza, 46, of 14th Avenue pleaded guilty Thursday in Superior Court to gambling and drug charges connected to a December, 1982 raid on the A & LP Italian Food Center, East 15th Street, owned by his brother, Elio, 51, also of East 14th Street. Elio pleaded guilty to three weapons offenses Nov. 28; 17 other charges were dropped in his plea agreement. They Liked It. COURT HOUSE - Mayors Rachel Sloan of Avalon, Jack Bittner of Ocean City, and Anthony Catanoso of North Wildwood have praised an evaluation of Cape May County government and asked the state to do the same thing in their towns. Sloan and Bittner were on the steering committee that approved the report and Catanoso is director of the board of freeholders that requested and

approved it.

Family Loses Home WHITESBORO — Fire destroyed a Fishbourn Road bungalow and left a family of nine homeless last Wednesday when flames spread from the chimney through the attic. Homeowner Robert Harrison battled the blaze with a garden hose until Middle Township Police Patrolman Scott Webster arrived and helped with an extinguisher. Volunteer State Maps: A ‘Quick

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manual so supervisors can spend less time

answering questions.

• Establish a safety committee.

• Devise a system requiring nonprofit organization requesting funds to prove

need.

• Set guidelines for record storage. Interestingly, all the above were offered as "short term suggestions, simple to implement and with small benefit.” But the additional highway maps proposal was instead under "long term suggestions,” harder to implement. THE REPORT CLOSED with four pages of "additional suggestions,” 19 of the total of 67, which were described as “ideas that have merit, but are very difficult to implement without high benefits, or which only affect a small group in a minor way.” That grab bag ran the gamut from a complaint that “the judiciary is often arbitrary and perceived to consider itself above the other arms of government,” to a call for a review of "the organizational and financial structure of the county airport." The study reported that overtime for weekend work at the county park should be eliminated. The county said it would raise the issue at future union contract negotiations. It suggested local school districts pay chargebacks for the education of their residents at the Juveniles in Need of Supervision (JINS) Center County Schools Supt. Robert G. Bongart told the Herald and Lantern that he agreed with that proposal. The study charged that noneligible residents were receiving education reimbursement from the county for attending community colleges, a problem the Herald and Lantern reported last May. The study said the county counsel would be asked to research legal aspects of the question.

firemen from Rio Grande, Court House and Green Creek companies brought the fire under control in about an hour. No Delay OCEAN CITY — “How long is it going to take Ocean City to get on the stick?” Ellery Bowman, president of the county Board of Taxation, asked last week when the board refused to extend the city property revaluation for a third year. Mayor Jack Bittner and most of the members of a citizens’ committee want the one-year delay but the autonomous city tax assessor said it’s unnecessary.

Two Arrested WILDWOOD CREST - John Hess, 18, and Steven Sackett, 21, of East Cresse Avenue were arrested Thursday and charged with burglary and related offenses after police searched their apartment and allegedly found stolen calculators, radios, tools and other property there. Hess was also charged with possession of cocaine and a deadly weapon. Hearing Monday VILLAS — Lower Township police served a summons at the Whale House Tavern on Bayshore Road last week, notifying its operator to appear before township committee at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 19 and answer-seven allegations of license violations. They include three counts of “lewd and immoral activity,” two of serving intoxicated persons, and one of after-hour sales. Appeal Denied DIAMOND BEACH — Lower Township Committee turned thumbs down last week on a developer’s suggestion that the township pave a portion of Rochester Avenue and assess property owners along the roadway for the work. Di Antonio Bros, attorney, William Balliette, unsuccessfuly argued that the township planning board had unfairly required his client to pave a portion of Rochester Avenue before constructing an office building there. He appealed that condition to the committee. Milford Man Jailed OCEAN CITY — Wayne Salmon, 18, of RD l, Milford, was being held in the county jail last week in lieu of $10,000 bail. He was charged with the Nov. 25 theft of $300 in property from 300 56tb Street and the burglary of another $410 in property Nov. 30. Some of that property was recovered from a 55th Str*i apartment Salmon shared here, police\ reported. Hit’ for County something Albert M. Ash was asked to do about seven months ago. * "We didn’t discover any of this stuff,” said Salvesen of the study. “This has all'' been around. We tied it all together and started to quantify some of these things.” SALVESEN SAID it was impossible to calculate the dollar savings from eventual implementation of the proposals. "Many of them involve increased efficiency and the elimination of red tape and bottlenecks,” he said. The study concluded that some county employes "do not use their work time in an efficient, productive manner," and called for “closer supervision" and “better supervisory practices.” It said it would implement this with "letters to all department heads.” The freeholders turned down several suggestions including charging county park users for "other than normal operating times” and ending a Weights and Measures Department practice of testing and certifying noncommercial scales such as those used by school wrestling teams, for fishing contests, etc. The freeholders said the park “is a service that should be provided free of cost to the public,” and limiting Weights and Measures “will create a bad public impression.” The study’s major proposals reported earlier, were for consolidation of human and health service agencies into one department, an administrative code, an administrator, long-range financial planning, and more computer use. It was conducted in October and November by a six-member team of department heads, coordinated by several state officials, written by a Boston, Mass., consulting firm paid $25,000, and reviewed by a seven-member local steering committee.