OOPS! — Who cays chivalry is dead? When Leslie Leaf toot a flop on icy Stone Harbor streets, cousin John Donatone at first kept going, then had second thoughts. He’s the 7 r year-old son of Susan Donatone of l«Sth Street; Leslie’s the it-year-old daughter of Kathy KMne of

News—— . Digest Kories Lower GOP Taps 4 VILLAS — Lower Township GOP leaders selected Samuel Stubbs as their choice for at-large mayor in the May election for five seats on the new municipal council. The GOP also'tapped Villas bricklayer John Cummings for the second at-large seat, Villas businessman Robert Conroy for the first ward (Villas) seat and county planner Robert Bonner for the second ward (North Cape May) slot. The leaders will name their third ward choice, Monday.

New Contract

‘Squatter’Homes in Path Boulevard Project Set

AVALON — Borough police settled for a 5% percent salary increase in the twoyear contract ratified by borough council last week. The $22,200 average pay.for 14 officers covered by the pact will increase by $1,221 this year and another $1,289 next year. Starting salaries for patrolmen drop from $17,770 to $15,770, however.

Still Dumping COURT HOUSE — Superior Court Judge L. Anthony Gibson ruled last week that Mar-Tee landfill in Middle Township will remain open for at least 45 days or until county officials come up with a reasonable alternative. The county Municipal Utilities Authority plans to open a new landfill this spring in Woodbine. Meanwhile, Mar-Tee has been accepting 60 percent of the country trash from 10 municipalities. Lower Man Arrested GLASSBORO — Sean Patrick O’Brien 18, of Town Bank Road, North Cape May, was arrested by police here Friday and (Page 25 Please)

George Flew* — He’s Got a Secret.

Work for Plewa s People

Beach Tags Mean Jobs

By JOE ZELNIK CREST HAVEN - George Plewa is gambling on a “secret weapon” to create jobs for "his people.” Plewa is executive director of a sheltered workshop called Jersey Cape Diagnostic Training and Opportunity Center. His people are some 200 handicapped persons half of whom comi to the center to work daily. That work, be hopes, will be more certain after delivery in two months of one-of-a-kind, custom-designed, tag manufacturing machine.The one-operator machine (“it’s a press, that’s all,” Plewa explained) will print.

cut out and number beach tags at “a very, very fast pace^ 1 The exact speed is "a closely held secret because I don’t want my competition to know. Let them do their own research." As the machine spits out the tags, Plewa’s people will take over with the labor intensive job of attachins Dins. “THAT COULD PUT everybodyto work for a minimum of three to four months a year,” said Plewa, his eyes sparkling like a driller who’s just struck oil. “The maximum is as far as your imagination will carry you.” Plewa's imagination carries him throughout the state of New Jersey to $6 communities requiring 2 million beach tags a summer, and beyond that to condos; pool, fishing, tennis amj golf dubs; key tags, luggage tags, dog tags ... William A. Kamered of Cour. House, director of the Center's industrial division, is “point man" on tUs project. He surveyed the state far potential customers add his sates letters and price sheets are in the mail, offering “a durable product for'* trouble-free use.” Lack of work is the center's biggest

“We have a very low industrial base,” said Plewa. “There are few companies in the area with work to bid on. It’s a symptom of Cape May County. It can’t even pro(Page 25 Please)

By JOE ZELNIK Reconstruction of battered, two-lane North Wildwood Boulevard (Route 147) into a four-lane highway is on the FAST track. But overpasses on the state section of the Garden State Parkway (Route 444) in Cape May County look as tentative as ever (see related story) Those were the highlights of a session last week at the county Chamber of Commerce between officials from the chamber, the state Department of Transportation (DOT), county Planning and Public Works departments, North Wildwood and Middle Township. FAST is an acronym for Federally Ac- ■ cetera ted Special Transportation, with emphasis on “Accelerated.” ’Primarily because of the unsafe condition of its bridges, the Route 147 project should go to tad by the fall of 1986. For the state, that’s fast. Construction would take two years, bringing comptetiop late in 1988. But the road would not have to be closed for the job, a primary concern of everyone PRELIMINARY COST estimate of the 4.2-mile project is $60-65 million, according to Charles Voorhees, DOT supervising engineer/design for Cape May County Local officials were told environmental analyses (which are something less than environmental impact statements) will be made of two alternate routes — just south of the existing roadbed, and along a .railroad bed to the north. Officials favor the existing roadbed, a route that will take a number of homes, all in the wetlands, most west of the drawbridge over Grassy Sound. Voorhees said most are summer homes and, in many cases, they are occupied by “squatters” who don’t bold title to the land. He said those persons would not be paid for land they do not own, but they “ap(Page 19 Please)

Lighthouse Ideas Sought

By EJ. DUFFY CAPE MAY POINT - Who will restore the local lighthouse? Will it be open to the public? „ i Those questions the U.S. Coast Guard will answer after official review of pending proposals for the lighthouse project next

Rather than hand Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts ^a tease to restore the deteriorating structure and open it as a tourist attraction^the Coast Guard derided to advertise in The Herald and lantern this week for other proposals to preserve the 124-year-old beacon. “We decided to do this becawe MidAtlantic Center... (is) not an association in the community where the lighthouse is,” explained Capt. Donate H. Ramsdtn, com-

ptroller of the Third Coast Guard District. “We are requesting proposals from groups thdt can qualify as historical groups under a Uhse agreement," he said. Though soliciting proposals before awarding a lease is not required, be added, the Coast Guard decided to go that route after his staff received “several tetters of concern” about MAC plans for the lighthouse from Cape residents and officiate. “OUR PLANS.” wrote former MAC president Herbert M. Beitel in the organization's Oct. 22 annual report, “are to make that wonderful (lighthouse) view available to our visitors as well as — in conjunction with the Chamber of Com

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