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Herald & lantern 28 December '83

COMMITTEE has scheduled its reorganization meeting for 2 p.m. Monday. Mayor Peggie Bieberbach will take her oath of office for a third and final term as a committee member. She and her two colleagues will select a mayor to serve until July — when the committee is replaced by a township council and assign themselves to head the various municipal departments. Aside from the meeting.

nces i closed Monday Jot the postNew Year’s Day holiday. ••• THE COMMITTEE will conduct public hearings tonight on two proposed ordinances that it approved for first reading Dec. 12. One ordinance. No. 83-89, would amend the Land Development Ordinance (No. 81-92) to alter definitions of zoning districts. Adoption of the ordinance will allow the township to conclude an out-of-court

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settlement with two developers who had planned to build low-cost houses and apartments along Bayshore Road and the Cape May Canal. Although the revised zoning wotild decrease the number of units the

developers could build, GOP council candidate Samuel Stubbs has raised objections to the tentative settlement (see Letters to the Editor). The second ordinance to be considered tonight (No. 83-40) will, if adopted,

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Roadside Rejects Still Running High

TRENTON — The New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles’ roadside inspection teams stopped 3,541 vehicles in November and issued rejection stickers to 2,552 for various safety defects or violations of the motor vehicle laws. “That is a rejection rate of 72 percent, which is only 1 percent less than the rejection rates recorded in September and October,” said Clifford W. Snedeker, Director of the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles. “The rejection rate has increased since we resumed roadside inspections in September of this year because our teams and the local police officers working with them are making a determined effort to remove problem vehicles from the road,” Snedeker said. “We don’t want unsafe vehicles endangering lives on New Jersey roadways.” “The roadside rejection rates have regularly been higher than the inspection

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station rates of 48 to 49%, since the roadside teams are concentrating on passenger vehicles with obvious defects and commercial vehicles which do not currently go through the state inspection system," Snedeker said. The municipal police working with the teams issued 1,901 summonses during November and im.pounded 78 vehicles on the grounds they were unsafe vehicles, unregistered, uninsured or being operated by unlicensed or suspended drivers. Ten drivers were arrested — two for driving while suspended, two on outstanding warrants, three as unlicensed ^rivers, two as disorderly persons and one for possession of a gun and knife in his vehicle. The owners of more than 54 percent of the vehicles stopped were issued summonses by municipal police for various motor vehicle infractions. More than half of the 1,901 summonses issued were to motorists who had no credentials (278), no insurance (156), or who had failed to have their vehicles inspected or repaired (710). In addition, 133 motorists were cited for operating vehicles with missing or inoperative lighting devices, 92 were cited for operating unregistered vehicles and 81 for operating vehicles with worn or defective tires. Once again, the leading cause of rejection during roadside inspections in November was faulty lights. Thirty-cne percent of the vehicles (1,085) were rejected for that reason, while failure to have pro- • per credentials accounted for 22 percent of the rejections; bad brakes, 15 percent; excessive emission, 13 percent; and steering and suspension problems, 12 percent. Since the roadside inspection program was launched in September 1982, 64,634 vehicles have been stopped and 38,453 have received rejection stickers, a rejection rate of slightly more than 59 percent.

Judge Sea Isle Lighting Tonight SEA ISLE CITY - Judges will circulate from 7 to 9 tonight to view Christmas lighting. Mayor Dominic C. Raffa said certificates will be given for the best house, doorway, overall display and business.

create a township Incinerator Authority. As proposed by Committeemaa Robert Fotbergill, the five-member organization would oversee plans toward the conversion of the Harbison-Walker magnesite plant at Sunset Roach into a municipallyoperated incinerator that could eventually supply power for an industrial complex. In a Dec. 9 registered letter to Fothergill, Stubbs volunteered to serve on the authority, (but see page one story.) The committeeman said Stubbs' offer will be considered. The proposed authority, he added, might be expanded to more than five members by amending the ordinance prior to the final vote: ••• COMMITTEE REVIEW of allegations against the Whale House Tavern, Bayshore Road, Villas, has been postponed until 8 p.m. Jan. 9. The tavern was served by police Dec. 7 with a summons to appear before the committee and answer charges ^of “lewd and immoral activity,” serving ii>toxicated patrons, afterhour sale of alcoholic beverages etc. ••• DESPITE EFFORTS by IRS officials to delay its landing for another month, the tax deduction stork blessed Township Solicitor Bruce Gorman, Lower’s Planning Board Solicitor Paul Dare and their wives with adorable little 1983 dependents this month. Dare and his wife, Sherri (Blum) of Court House, became the parents of a little girl Dec. 7 at Shore Memorial Hospital, Somers Point. Gorman and his wife,

Grace (Danato) of Erma, saw their third child born Dec. 16 at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, Court House. Named Brent Elliot John, the seven-pound, 13-ounce infant arrived just in time to spend his first holiday with brother, Bruce Michael, 5, and sister, Megen, 7. Contratulations to both pairs of parents on their good fortune (and timing). May the babies enter the New Year with good health — and sleep thorugh the night. CLAUBIA HAMMER, who was elected this month as president of the Cape May County Municipal Clerk’s Association, has just been appointed alternate county member of the advisory board for the Municipal Clerks of New Jersey. Peter Yecco of Wildwood serves as the regular board member but both he and Hammer will be expected to attend future state association meetings. ••• CAROL R. DEMUSZ of Demusz Realtors, North Cape May, has earned the Graduate Realtor Institute designation from the state Association of Realtors. The honor was bestowed during the 67th Annual NJRA Convention at Bally’s Park Place hotelcasino in Atlantic City. ••• REMINDER - The Senior Citizens of North Cape May are hositing a Jan. 8 trip to the Playboy hotel-casino. The $10 price includes dinner and a sljpw. A bus will depart Pennsylvania Avenue and Delaware Bay Drive at 3 p.m. For more information call Anne Lewandowski president, at 886-9279.

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