It’s the White House For Villa of Villas

By JOE ZELNIK VILLAS — Villa.will be honored at the White House on Valentine’s Day. The 90-pound Newfoundland, will receive a medal from Barbara Bush; wife of Vice President George Bush, as winner of the 30th annual Ken-L-Ration Dog Hero of the Year (1983). The honor comes for saving Andrea • Anderson, then 11, in a blinding snow storm last February. Villa's owners, Linda and Richard Veit, will receive a 8500 U.S. Savings Bond. And, possibly best news to Villa, she’ll get a year's supply of Ken-L-Ration. TLL BET THAT THING will eat a good pound of food a day,” commented Doug Burson, senior communications specialist for the Quaker Oats Company in Chicago. After next'Tuesday’s ceremony, followed by “media interviews,” the entire party — Andrea, the Veits and Villa — will be flown by helicopter to New York City where they’ll spend the night and then appear on ABQ-TV’s “Good Morning

America” on Feb. 15. The'show airs from 7 to 9 a.m. • This is the first time the award has been given at the White House and, although everyone is pleased it will come from Mrs. Bush, there also is still some hope President Reagan will do the honors VILLA’S HEROIC DEED occurred during the blizzard of Feb. 11. Andrea was playing behind her Frances Avenue bouse on the bay when high winds blew her over a sand bank and left her stuck in the snownear the water. She cried for help, but on one could bear her. No one but Villa, who lived next door and scaled a five-foot fence (for the first and last time) and 11 ran to Andrea's assistance. First she circled the child. (“That’s an instinct the Newfies have,” explained Linda Veit.) Then she licked the child's face and “stood like a statue” until Andrea put her arms around the dog’s neck. Villa walked, Andrea held on, and the two returned to her home where she sobb(Page 18 Please)

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Final Salute CREST HAVEN — U.S. Marines and cadets from Valley Forge Military Academy served as honor guards while his family, friends and neighbors mourned the death of Lance Cpl. George Dramis, 19, of Court House during his burial at the Veterans’ Cemetery here yesterday. The eldest son of Middle Township Police Sgt. James Dramis and his wife, Luretta, was killed and two other Marines injured during a firelight with Druse militiamen at the Beirut airport in Lebanon Jan. 30

Rescue Crete Injured

FISHING CREEK — “They were very lucky,” Chief Kevin Hart of the Lower Township Rescue Squad said Monday of two squad members who escaped with minor injuries Friday when their ambulance skidded on an icy patch of northbound Bayshore Road, near the Heidi Avenue curve, and overturned. The crew was answering a 6:30 a.m. maternity call to Hudson Avenue. The ambulance sustained heavy damage and ^jll have to he replaced for $50,000-$60,000, Hart said.

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Sodium Levels Climbing Salt Taints

By JOE ZELNIK Salt water — potentially dangerous to perhaps one-quarter of Cape May County ’s population — is believed to be contaminating some of its municipal and private wells. An irreversible salt water line is moving inland, from the ocean and the Delaware Bay. Seashore resorts — excepting the Wildwoods, which get their water irom wells at Rio Grande on the Mainland — and Villas are most affected, according to Clay Sutton, Environmental Program administrator for the county Health Department. “The salt water line has moved many blocks inland,” he said. We know sodium levels are climbing at an alarming rate. It’s a severe problem in the Villas and we

Salt Line Is Advancing on the Barrier Islands.

are getting close to th^ limits on some of the barrier islands.” THE SODIUM (SALT) content of water is no problem for healthy persons, but it is for those with heart, kidney, or circulatory ailments, or complications of pregnancy The former problems are more common to the elderly, and 20 percent of the county’s population is 65 or older. Medical sources say one-third of Americans should be on low salt diets because of high blood pressure, etc. The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) sets 50 mg/1 (milligrams per liter) as the highest safe sodium measure, but the usual low sodium diet allows only 20 mg/1. The county’s health and planning departments, with shared responsibility for measurirg sodium and alerting the medical profession and public if it becomes dangerous, feel they lack sufficient data. “IF IT REACHES levels that could be dangerous, there would be a medical alert," said Louis J. La manna, county health officer. Health and Planning intend to monitor more wells more often, Sutton said, and to review additional data more frequently. He declined to single out communities until more data is analyzed. But reliable sources cited Cape May. Stone Harbor, Avalon, Sea Isle City and Ocean City. And the county reportedly is setting up a special testing program in Avalon and Stone Harbor. John O'Donnell, assistant superintendent for water and sewer in Avalon, said that borough's water never tests, on average, higher than the state's maximum contaminant level of 50 mg/1. But figures he gave for comparison purposes showed the readings double what they were a year ago. IN JANUARY of 1983, Avalon's four wells had reading! of 20,22,21 acd 20 mg/1. On Dec. 20 of 1983, they had readings of 53, 48,46 and 29 mg/1. That averages 44 mg/1. If the reading goes above 50 mg/1 O'Donnell said the borough notifies doctors and the county Health Department. That has never happened, he said, in his 11 years working for the borough.

fFells Mary Grace Manlandro, manager of Mae Mallow Memorial Laboratory Inc. of North Wildwood, which tests Avalon’s water, said she had thought O'Donnell was alerting “whoever is on kidney dialysis, whoever has to be notified," if the reading was over 20. She said the laboratory tested Stone Harbor’s water last year, but “never did sodium for them.” Ira Dillon of the Stone Harbor Public Works Department could not be reached, but borough manager Edwin F Pain said 'Page 19 Please) 23-Unit Mall By June for Stone Harbor

STONE HARBOR - Local developer J. David Diaco expects a June opening for a 23-unit shopping mall condominium on the site of Hahn's Restaurant, 261 96th St. It will be called Harbor Square and include an H.A. Winston's family restaurant operated under franchise by Diaco. He and Hahn's owner. C L. Petosa & Sons, are scheduled to make settlement "probably in the next two wepks," according to Kevin Rae of Diaco Inc. Transfer of the Hahn's liquor license' from Petosa to Diaco has been approved, said Rae. He said Winston's will be “a restaurant with a liar rather than a bar with a restaurant — not a night club.” Plans are to have it open year-round, he said. WINSTON’S IS a popular Philadelphia area chain headquartered in Pennsauken with 18 restaurants in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The mall has been okayed by Stone Har bor zoning officer Herbert Hornsby, one of a half-dozen necessity approvals (Page 19 Please)