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NICE BUFFALO — Domenic Rosselii, 195 pounds, makes friends with the 1,000-pound female buffalo added to the Cape May County Park last week. The 2-3-year-old female -was accompanied by a 600-800-pound yearold male named Olaf by the anonymouscontributor who financed their acquisition. Rosselii, park maintenance foreman, said there will probably be a contest for children to name the buffalo, with a first prize of a family^ trip to the Philadelphia Zoo. The buffaloes have their own compound at the park, which is open daily from 9 a.m. to one hour before dark. Just follow your nose.

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Another Probe COURT HOUSE - A second special 23-member Cape May County investigative grand juryjwill begin hearing testimony tmSvveek involving .he Middle Township sewerage Commissygi A previously empaneled special • investigative grand jury, looking inti- >he county Municipal, Utilities Authority * M.U.A ). marks it's First anniversa ; this month. v Round Two WILD WOOD - Superior Court Jut^e James O'Neill swore in Capt Ralph i Sheets last Wednesday as Mayor Ea; Ostrander's latest appointment for resort police chief. He had named his brother. Capt. Wilbur Ostrander. to the post but city council did not confirm him. Despite last week's ceremony, council confirmation and Civil Service rerie are pending. Sheets also filed as Democratic candidate for sheriff |as week, but my bail out to hold the chief's job. , S Taste Something CREST HAVEN — A municipal water • supply "may be the long-term solution" for private wells in the Villas section of Lower Township affected by salt water intrusion, according to Clay Sutton, j environmental program administrator for the Cape May County Health Department. He said summer employes » (Page 13 Please)

HERE'S 40 percent of a group of Cape May Countians who headed fpr die beach as warm, sujny weather finally arrived. The other 60 percent inside. ♦

County Looks Gift Horse ip Mouth

But What About the Overpasses?

' By JOE.ZELNIK I "Dear Tom. Thanks for the $72 mill'on. i but we'd like a little more .." That's the kind of message Cape May i County Freeholders have asked county < Engineer Neil Clarke and county Planning I Director Elwood Jarmer to compose for a resolution supporting Gov. Thomas H. Kean's proposed Transportation Trust i Fund. . Freeholders are pleased that the fouryear, $3.3-billion transportation rehab ilitation and construction program in dudes $62.5 million to reconstruct North Wildwood Boulevard (Route 147 > But they're less than thrilled that no * mention is made, in a four -year plan, of three overpasses the county wants on Route 444. the portion of the Garden State Parkway in Middle Township owned by the state Department of Transportation (DOT). CLARKE AND JARMER were at their desks this week with lined yellow writing pads, vera sharp pencils, and furrowed

from looking a gift horse in the mouth Not'only do they have to con Kean. but they also seem to have somewhat different degrees of enthusiasm themselves. Finally. they have two diftercnt freeholder - viewspto meld Freeholder Director Anthony T Calanoso. who also is mayor of North Wildwood. is understandably satisfied Let's not do anything to endanger North Wildwood Boulevard, he said. "I've been waiting 28 years lor it . "I think we should lie a little stronger about Rt 444." said Freeholder Gerj W Thornton "I would like -to see a conynilment and a target date KE-t\ WANTS freeholder support. and. more important, that of the court y Republican state legislators for ? • An $88 million state appropriation raised through the sale of revenue bonds • An increase in heavy truck registration fees that would raise $30 million. • A toll road authorities contribution of

$25 million With federal matching funds that would provide $3.3 billion for the trust fund over lour years, husaid. * TIIE GOVERNOR'S -letter asking sup • port for this package also included a list of projects that would be undertaken in the county over the next four years should the Legislature accept and approve my program." "Our state representatives will want to know . do w e want them to support it . yes or v no?" Clarke told the .freeholders "We should withhold our support until ' we see if we can geTa commitment from % T rentes." said Thorn ton?' Jarmer. who earlier had written "a *• rather strong letter that the freeholders in sist on full funding <(or 444 1." said the governor's capital improvement program only contained projects that could fx- completed over the next four years # • But if the argument is that it'sjKX on the list because they An t complete it in (Page 13P^pase)

Sodium Down, but Still Too High in 3 Towns

CREST HAVEN - The latest (March 28- April 4) tests of drinking water on Cape May County's barrier islands have found sodium ( salt • readings considerably lower across-the-board than tests taken in I February • Three communities, however - Cape May. Stone Harbor and Avaion — continue to have more sodium than the state-recom mended maximum for persons on low - sodium diets. But Ocean City. Sea Isle City and the Wildwoods are well below the levels that .last month prompted county Health Officer Louis La manna to alert county physicians of the problem Conceding "a significant difference" between the two sets of figures. La manna said it would require 0 full year of once-a-month testing before "we can form any hard and fast conclusions." LAM ANN A SAID he was sure laboratory procedures were proper. The

samples were taken by the Health Depart , ment and analyzed by Stockton State j College. "Sodium levels do not remainconstant." said Lamanna. "It will take a period of time. Continuous testing is the only way to find out ft would be premature and irresponsible to make predictions of' at tempt to form conclusions ' The state says 50 mg/1 < milligrams per | liter) is the maximum allowable level and j requires doctors to be warned if the sodium content is higher The federal and j physician-recommended level for persons i on low sodium diets is 20 mg/ 1 IN CAPE MAY. two wells tested at 63 3 and 62.5 and four distribution system tests | ran 64.6. 61 .4, 61.5 and 62.8. And Cape May Point, which uses Cape May water, had a tap water sample of 64 7. ! Stone Harbor's four wells tested at 46.2. I 62.6, 56.8 and 54.6. Four iiomes tested had (Page IS Please) * <

"!•/ ' .if ■K Ooru H a'4 TULIP QUEEN — CoHeen Sbeehan. ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sheehan of Cape Nay . reigned as Tulip Queen during the Tulip Festhal in Cape May last weekend.