Herald & Lantern 15 February '84

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TOWNSHIP POLICE arrested five motorists for driving while intoxicated last month — out of the 15 adults and 19 juveniles booked. Thirty-nine adults and seven juveniles were arrested in December. In January, police logged 43,927 miles while answering 1,446 calls, including' 289 criminal complaints, 372 non-criminal complaint^, 36 collisions and 1,024 property checks. They issued 62 traffic tickets and recovered $8,325 in stolen property; $38,848 in property was stolen last "inonth, according to Chief Robert M. Denny’s monthly summary released by Lt. Charles Thornton. Police recorded 27 burglaries and 30 larcenies last month. Twenty-eight burglaries and 54 larcenies were committed in December. JANUARY REPORTS from the Lower Township Rescue Squad will be released later this month. The squad begins its annual fund drive in a few weeks and could use an extra boost this year to help buy a new ambulance. One of its vehicles sustained heavy damage Feb. 3 and two squad members were slightly injured answering an early morning maternity call. The ambulance skidded on an icy section of northbound Bayshore , Road, r Fishing Creek, and overturned. Squad Chief Kevin Hart estimated the cost of replacing the vehicle at $50,000-$60,000. Donations can be mailed to the squad c/o Box 89, Villas, N.J. 08251. REMINDER: Registered voters elect two fire commissioners for three-year terms from each of the township’s three firfe districts Saturday. The elections will be held from 2-9 p.m. at the Erma, Villas, and Town Bank fire houses. NORTH CAPE MAY, Town Bank and Cape May Beach residents, who were concerned about the number of fire alarms they heard Feb. 2-3, can rest assured they were only minor calls. At 11 p.m. Feb. 2, Town Bank volunteers answered a report of smoke at Beverly Road on the bay. At 6:30 a.m. Feb. 3, they washed down the scene of rescue squad ambulance accident on Bayshore Road. That' afternoon, the firemen fought a brush fire at Westville Place, Chief Ray Brown reports. TOWN BANK volunteers answered 11 alarms last month, five less than December, according to Brown. The firefighters started the year off by extinguishing a Christmas tree fire Jan. 1 in Cape May Beach. The following day, they fought a grass fire in Bayshore East. They answered a smoke report Jan. 6 on Town Bank Road, North Cape May, but arrived there to find only a steam cloud froqa a dryer vait On Jan. 12, the volunteers fought a blaze at 119 Roslyn Avenue, North Cape May, that heavily damaged the front bedroom in the frame bungalow. That fire was the second there in two years, Brown explained.

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/ Two days later the firemen battled a chimney fire in North Cape May. The next day. they cooperated with the Coast Guard by pumping water from a Cape May-Lewes ferry. On Jan. 20 and 22, the Town Bankers fought chimney fires in Bayshore East and West. A stove fire, that scorched kitchen cabinets, called them out Jan. 27 while a grass fire, behind the North Cape May 7-U store, sparked an alarm on Jan. 31. That night, firemen assisted at the scene of a single vehicle crash on Seashore Road, just north of Town Bank Road, when the driver of a sports car overturned the vehicle. , Besides the fires, the company held two drills last month and sent three volunteers to light rescue school at the Hammonton State Police Barracks, Brown said. VILLAS FIREMEN answered six calls last month, half their December total, reports Dot Rothenbiller, secretary to Chief George CosteU. Three of the calls were answered Jan. 1 in response to a fire that gulled a landmark three-story’ home on Route 47, South Dennis. The company dispatched an air truck at 5:45 ajn., a tank truck at

6:30 a m. and served as stand-by for Green Creek volunteers later in the day. On Jan. 7, the firemen answered a report about a smoking television on Glenwood Avenue. On the 24th, they responded to a call about a faulty electrical outlet and ended the month with a Jan. 31 call to assist at a Bayshore and Birch roads accident. ERMA CHIEF Robert E. McNulty reports that the company answered four alarms last month, two less than December. On Jan. 1, the firefighters extinguished a grass fire off Fay Avenue. They battled a blaze Jan. 13 that badly damaged a two-story frame home at 400 Angus Avenue. The firemen were called out Jan. 22 to rescue a freezing kitten from a tree at 637 Seashore road and the next day they responded to a reported propane tank leak at the El Camino trailer park on Route 9. Volunteers held a drill on vehicle fires and use of fire trucks Jan. 16 followed Jan. 23 by a drill on flammable and combustable liquids. PATRONS OF LANGON’S Pharmacy on Bayshore Road, North Cape May, have probably noticed a new sign outside. Although Floyd J.

Lang on is still helping out at the pharmacy a few days a week, he officially turned the business over to Rodion Foils in December. Langon opened shop in March, 1963 at the North Cape May Shopping Center and later moved to 3850 Bayshore Road. He’s spending most of his time now operating his 33-acre RX Ranch In Goshen where he boards show horses, he said. JIM ZA&IEL, a senior at Lower Cape May Regional High School, has been accepted at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass.. Edward T. Jurewicz. chairman of LCMR’s fine arts department, announced. The son of Mr. and Mrs. John Zagiel of Villas has performed in LCMR’s concert and marching bands and its jazz ensemble. He will be playing next month in the pit orchestra for .the school’s staging of “Hello Dolly." Currently studying (Page 22 Please)

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