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News — Digest <Frompagei> soon will conduct a block by block monitoring program of the Villas salt ! problem. * Smell Something? ; WEST WILD WOOD - The borough has reopened its landfill to temporarily stockpile storm debris, and has a special permit to burn it from the DEP. Despite some complaints Cape May County Health Department officials said they were keeping an eye on the operation and ( saw "no cause for action " Leaky Pipes STRATHMERE - County health officials lifted a ban on water use in this Upper Township resort Friday that was imposed Wednesday when tests showed the Aramingo Water Co. system contaminated by human waste bacteria. Company officials notified residents to boil drinking water while the system was " saturated with chlorine. Until the * chlorine content decreases. Aramingo customers were being advised to avoid drinking the water. Several leaks were detected in water pipes and are suspected as sources of the contamination. Greening the Beach SEA ISLE CITY — Gov. Thomas Kean handed Mayor Dominic C. Raffa a hefty check toward a $3.1 -million beach restoration project just before the March 29 nor'easter. but city officials estimate they'll need antoher $5 million to replace the sand washed away then. The resort may wind up paying 6V12'2 percent of the cost, though, since the federal government might pick up 75 percent of the tab with the state paying the remainder. ^ Two GOP Slates CREST HAVEN - Sheriff Beech N. Fox will run for his sixth term with two freeholder candidates, Cape May Point Commissioner Charles D. Reeves and Upper Township school board member Dorothy R Armand. Fox will face Ocean City Patrolman James Plousis in the June 5 Republican primary while Reeves and Armand are up against incumbent Freeholder Gerald Thornton and his running mate. West Wildwood Mayor Herbert Frederick. Action Tonight )\ WILD WOOD — Mayor Ear! Ostran^ has selected former Atlantic City^""^ administrator Hubert Maultsby. 41. as his choice from several candidates for the I

HL 1 Donj Wart! HONORED MEMBER — Sal]} Hummel, left Amrncantsm chairman of VFW Pdat 5343 in Villas, gives a poppv Toraage|to Mrs. Helen Lenis. Ihe pool's oWesl member. The post is named lor Li. fharies (Baddy) iesis is honor of Mrs 1-ewis' see ) killed in World War II. j

* job as Wildwood administrator Mauitsby, who terved as Atlantic City's deputy director of housing and social services and as$cting director of public works, parks and public properties, is a former college professor and dean who earned a doctorate degree in history. Council is expected to act on the nomination tonight. Another Assault WEST CAPE MAY - Cape May Cqmty Prosecutor's Office is investigating the sexual assault on a woman at 2:30 a.m. Friday as she walked home near Broadway and Eldredge Avenue. Since a Cape May man suspected of similar attacks last year is in jail. Robert Elwell. captain of detectives with the Prosecutor, said, "It leads us to believe there's someone else out there." Crash Claims Woman MSHING CREEK - LUlian Krouda. 65: of W.est Rio Grande Avenue. Wildwood. was killed last Wednesday meriting, April 25. in a three-vehicle collision at Breakw ater and Fishing Creek roads. She was a passenger in a c:.r driven by Cerilda Ruocco. The two wvre returning from grocery shopping ard headed eastbound on Breakwater R^ad when their car was struck by another driven northbound by Mary Ellen Morris of Oakdale Avenue. Villas. The r iocco car then crashed into a beverage truck stopped westbound on Breakwater :-:-Yad and operated by Paul J. Carmel Jr m" Melody Lane Linwood.

Sodium Down, But Still Too High I ,f

(From Page 1) readings of 53.5. 52.3, 53.4 and 45.6. Avalon's Wells tested at 40.5, 56.3, 62.6 shd 49.4. Avalon took its own samples at the same time and place, §ent them to a different lab, and got these readings: 41.8, .8, 31.8 and 52.2. Distribution systepi samples in Avalon had readings of 40.4, 56.6, 47.3, and 30.7. Its own samples at the same sites had readings of 42. 60, 50 and 31.4. The county's samples taken Feb. 28 had •ound readings as high as 159.7 in Cape lay. 163.4 in Stone Harbor, and 153.7 in valon. BUT THE BIGGEST discrepancy came ith readings in Ocean City, where the •ounty seven weeks ago found a well eading of 180.3. Well samples taken April had sodium readings of 27.3 and 27. Nearly matched by readings of 30.1 and 29.4 by ihe New Jersey- Water -Co., which serves Ocean City. And. whereas Ocean City's tap water sampled at 118, 49.6 and 61.7 in February, ion April 4 it had consistent readings of 26.8, which almost matched the Water Co.'s readings of 29.8, 29.8 and 29.5. FOR WILDWOOD. North Wildwood, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, all served by the Wildwood water system, the county found in samples taken March 28 readings of from 6.3 to 21. 5T&11. wells and 7.9 to 9.7 in four distribution points. Sea Isle City's water sampled April 4 had well readings of 27.6 and 29.8 and distribution system readings of 29.3. 29.4, 29.5 and 30.2. The county's latest sample also included results from communities not previously sampled. THE WELL SERVING Cape May Court House tested 49.9 and four Court House locations tested as follows: 17 N.Boyd St., 49; 4 Goshen Rd.. 49.3; 210 Highland Ave., 48.8; and Stites Avenue. 49.5. Two wells in Wpodbine tested 5.3 and 6.8 and two homes. 6.2 and 6.3. Three Lower Township wells tested at 31.6, 21 and 18.1, and four homes in the township at 17.3, 30.8, 18.8 and 24.3. One distribution point sample in Strathmere had a 31 reading Finally, two wells on the U.S. Coast Guard Base in Cape May tested at 57.1 and 56. LAMANNA SAID officials held an "informal round table discussion" over the latest numbers and noted the surprising

fact that "historically sodium is higher in the winter than in the summer when you would think the opposite. "If there is sodium in the aquifer these wells are drawn from." he said, "it may be lying concentrated due to lack of use and that may account for slugs of sodium. "That's only a theory','' he cautioned, "a supposition. Hopefully by next February we'll have a better picture." Jack Novodoff. director of the academic laboratory and field facilities at Stockton State College, said he had "no explanation" for the big difference between^ February and March test results. "It might be a good idea to study the effect of tides." he/said. "That would be a good study for a student ."

Board Balks ; Rehires i * Beleaguered Four

By E.J. DUFFY ERMA — Lower Cape May Regional s#ool board rejected the recommendations of its admini^ration and voted to rehire four special eofeation teachers during an unusually weO-attended monthly meeting last week. More than 70 people, mo^t of them either teachers, students or parents, waited nearly an hour while the board debated the question behind closed doors Most of the spectators applauded when the board voted unanimously to rehire two teachers at the district high school, and at its eight-one decision to rehire two more at Richard M. Teitelman (middle) School. Another round of applause sounded after half the crowd left and the board unanimously accepted the resignation of Teitelman principal Jennette R. Babbitt. According to the Thursday night agenda, she wanted her resignation effective Sept 1 and approval of her to return to classroom teaching this fall. The board made the changes effective Aug. 30, however. It also accepted the resignations of Beverly Shields, Teitelman clerk -typist; Nancy Didriksen, language arts teacher there"; Maryann TothVmiddle school social studies teacher, and Margaret J. Thomas, district supervisor of speciat~-education Thomas, though, will remain as a learning disabilities teacher-consultant for the child study team. SEVERAL TEACHERS who attended the April meeting, linked some of the resignations, and the recommendation against rehiring the two Teitelman special-ed teachers, to conflicts between the middle school faculty and Babbitt. Bill Noe, a Teitelman special-ed teacher, called Gloria Walters and Ann Copeland. the middle school teachers not recommended for rehiring, "scape goats" of the administration.

"It was a difficult year for me and I've been at this game for 19 years." he told the board, noting that, as novice teachers. Walters and Copeland worked under considerable handicaps — a lack of curriculum and more than the legal classroom limit of special education students, some of them "severely disturbed." "They've got a year under their belt; they've got some experience," Noe argued as one of several spectators who spoke for the four marked educators. Other speakers praised high school special-ed teacher Daniel Cappelletti for his before and after school help to students with their studies and extra-curricular activities As one student put it: "As a man. he's the perfect role model." Cappelletti and Lynn Massamiano were not recommended for rehiring at the high school. She was called "inspirational" by one speaker for performing the "nearly impossible" task of helping stage the school's March production of "Hello. Dolly!" Massamiano helped design the costumes and seri^fd as business manager. Babbitt and Alan G. Beattie, high school principal, did not attend the board meeting when its members rehired , Massamiano and Cappelletti without dissent. Board President Paul B. Lundholm cast the only votes against Walters and Copeland. Regional serves students from Lower Township. Cape May. West Cape May an<k Cape May Point. •

NE* JUDGE — State senators confirmed Gov. Thomas Kean's nomination of former U.S. Rep. Charles W. Sandman Jr., 63. as Cape May County's third Superior Court judge in a 35-0 vote Monday afternoon. The Erma Park resident of Lower Township was recommended by bipartisan supporters, but the county bar association Judicial Selection Committee « called Sandman, and eight out of 12 other county Republican lawyers, unqualified for the I74.M0 judgeship last summer.

But What About the Overpasses?

(From Page 1) . four year$." he said, "how will we ever get it done? "If we support this bond issue.' be said, "we should insist at least on preliminary engineering < for 422L"' > "DO WE HAVE IT in blood that 147 wiH start by 1968?" asked Thornton "We've heard that before." "North Wildwood Boulevard and 444 were in an old bond issue;' agreed Jarmer "North Wildwood Boulevard was $6 million when we first talked about it." said Catanoso. Jarmer came out of last week's meeting with the goal of "grafting a resolution for the freeholders to basically support the governor's trust fund proposal with something in there about w e do want some commitment for the Route 444 project." "We're definitely going to support it." said Clarke, "but try to make some points. We'll prepare a resolution with quasi- . support, but displeasure that 444 is not in there." THE COUNTY and Middle Township in tend to buifci a "frontage road\' on the east side of the' parkway, use Route 9 for a similar purpose on the west side, and close about nine roads that now feed into the parkway, between milepost 7.8 and 11.69. The county would do the share north of Stone Harbor Boulevard, the township south of the boulevard Jarmer indicated the commitment to do

that may be weakened by the state's lack of commitment to the overpasses The state has started, with DOT maintenance money, a leftturn lane at Crest Haven Road for northbound parkway traffic "That's interim work." said Jarmer. "A permanent solution is needed because there should be no roads intersecting a main, arterial highway It's dangerous and it inhibits the function of the road to carry heavy traffic." The county wants an overpass with on and off ramp6 at Crest Haven Road and Stone Harbor Boulevard, and an overpass, but no ramps, at Shell Bay Avenue BESIDES the $62.5 million in the capital improvement program for the North Wildwood Boulevard project, another $9.7 . * million is set aside for a half-dozen projects: - - That includes: • $4.9 million for widening and resurfacing Route 47 in Middle Township between /Hand Avenue and Gcfchen Road i • $500,000 for drainage work on Rts- 47 and 9 in Middle Township • • $2.5 million for intersection improvement and a bridge over railroad lines at the intersection Routes 50 and 6*1 in Upper Township. . • $1 .2 million far some work on the Route 47 -bridge over Grassy Sound on Rio Grande Road leading into Wildwood. • $600,000 for work on four bridges on Route 52 between Ocean City and Som mers Point.