Herald & Lantern 30 May '84 J , . 47 -a ' ,

Campaign Funds (From Page 1) surveyors of Court House, and $300 each from state Sen. James R. Hurley, the Cape May City Republican Club and McCarthy Paving, Court House. CEPTF received $250 each from Kraft & Hughes, Newark; Annette Webb, Rio Grande; John P. Millar, Avalon; county Solicitor Albert Ash; Jack Sparks, North Cape May; Joe Franko, Wildwood Crest; former state Sen. James Cafiero; Gerald Barrett, Court House, and Associated Products of America, New York, N.Y. ORGANIZATION CANDIDATES also collected $200 each from Woody's Seaboard Air, Atlantic City; Appraisal Survey, Cherry Hill; Charles Hennigan, Fairfield; Sol Needles, Cape May Realtor; county Engineer Neil O. Clarke; Fern Mead, Avalon; Julies Haber, Cape May; and state Assemblyman Joseph Chinnici's Major Coat Co., Bridgeton. CEPTF raised $150 contributions from John Scarpa, Atlantic City; Dr. Clayton Carr, Rio Grande; Earl Simpkins, South Seaville, and Cape May Solicitor John L. Ludlam ; plus $125 each from Norma Warrington, Ocean City, and the West Wildwood Republican Club. According to Mott's quarterly report the 1984 Republican Campaign Committee ( RCC) raised $28,577.99 and spent $28,018.64 between Jan. 1 and March 31. RCC received $500 contributions from John Mead, Court House; the Pilots' Association, Bay and River Delaware; Bal Harbor Motor Inn, Wildwood Crest; the Cape May City Republican Club; and Cape May insurance executive Charles Pessagno. THE COMMITTER received $600 from Van Note Harvey and $400 from McCarthy Paving, both in Court House. Mott reported $300 each to the RCC from Mott & Mott, Ocean City; A. G. Lichtenstein, Fairlawn; Webb & Harriman, Wildwood; and .James Byrne, Wildwood. The RCC treasurer lists $200 contributions etrch from Ernest Yarborough, Avalon; Kraft & Hughes, Newark; Jacquline Bronson of Beer World Inc. Villas; Walker, Preventi, Tollon & Holmes, Ocean City; John Scarpa, Atlantic City; John Sabatino, Philadelphia; Appraisal Surveys, Cherry Hill; RBA Engineers, Morristown; Major Coat Co., Bridgeton; Don Young, Ocean View; Sol Needles Agency, Cape May; Charles Hennigan, Fairfield; A1 Ciardi, Philadelphia; Woody's Seaboard Air, Atlantic City, Woodbine Councilman William Pikolyckv; Woodbine Mayor Ernest Materio; Cape Motorsport Promotions, Stone Harbor; Louis Ripa, Convent Station; and Ken Moore, Marmora. THE RCC ALSO collected $200 donations from John Sykes, Margate; Crest Haven Nursing Home architect James MacDonald; John Gibson, Sea Isle City; Larry Pepper, Cumberland County GOP chairman and Cape May County's labor lawyer , Stay-Ro Building Co.. Sea Isle; Robert Ciampitti, Wildwood Crest; Associated Products of America, New York. N.Y.; William Monaghan of Foundations and Structures, Tuckahoe; Ed Howell, Ocean City. William Morey Development, Wildwood Crest; Freeholder William Sturm; and Atlantic-Cape May Coupty ' Pharmaceutical of Margate. RCC transferred $20,000 to the county Republican Organizations it was recorded as the only organization contribution on the quarterly report filed by Mott for the period from Jan. 1 through March 31. He listed $219.55 spent then and $245.75 on hand Jan. 1.

Regional Boosts English , Math

Too Tittle , Too Late? ERMA — Lower Cape May Regional Schaal^Beerd approved $6.M» to improve English and math courses over the summer so district students will perform better on state proficiency tests. One school board member questioned that motive during the board's Thursday night meeting and criticized the appropriation for education as too little too late. A parent of a Lower Township student urged the board to upgrade its standards while another pressed for better coordination between elementary and secondary districts. "Six thousand dollars is not a lot of money to invest in education," complained board member Patricia M. Smith. "We spend thousands on sports and buses." She said she was a "little disturbed" that the administration proposed the appropriation to improve curriculum only because of the proficiency tests that will replace Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) exams in the 1985-'86 school year. THE STATE BOARD of Education voted in March to implement proficiency tests for high school juniors and college freshmen after a state task force reported in January that 90 percent of New Jersey's college freshmen were not proficient in algebra and 70 percent were deficient in verba! and other math skills. The New Jersey Education Association, representing 117,000 teachers statewide, predicted last month bleak results when tests scores are released from proficiency tests given earlier this month. ^ District Superintendent Ephraim R. Keller told the board that 96 percent of district students reached required reading levels and 79 percent reached math requirements in 1980 tests. This year, he added, 96 percent of students passed the MBS But half of the state students who took a preliminary proficiency test in October failed, he continued, and 35-40 percent will probably not pass the more recent version. •THE PROBLEM THERE is, much more is required," Keller explained. "We spend thousands and thousands of dollars for things in this school except cur riculum," Smith argued. "Our curriculupi is developed in a piecemeal fashion. "I ca^ understand being worried about this test but we should not be worried about this test," she added "We have to continually do this (upgrade the cur riculum). We have to invest money in education." After four years in local schools, a student he knew "had to work like hell" to keep up with his classmates in a rural Maine college, a Lower parent told the board, noting that his regionally-educated son performed well in math at a similar college but was behind rural classmates in other subjects. He commended the board for voting to upgrade the curriculum, urged it to continue the effort and volunteered to help "WE'RE AS GOOD AS we can afford to be," replied board president Paul B. Lundholm, adding that district students are "far advanced" when compared to those in other area districts. Keller presented figures earlier that placed Regional first among Cape May. Cumberland and Salem County high

'Schobls in recent math tests, with a 127 pomt score, but below the statewide leader, Ridgewood High School in Bergen County, at 157. Seventh graders in the district's Richard M. Teitelman (middle) School also finished first in the tri-county area with a 137 math score, Keller said, while Teitelman eighth graders placed second at 137, behind Landis School, Vineland. Another Bergen County school finished first statewide, at the middle school level, with 193 points. Still, the Lower resident maintained, students in other districts surpass Regional students in other subjects. Another parent from Lower told the board that she had been informed by a teachdr in Lower Township Consolidated (elementary) School that there is very little coordination between the elementary district and Regional. Since ^she has a child who will soon be transferring from one district to the other, the parent expresseov concern about the teacher's report and volunteered to help

provide the necessary continuity of courses. Keller told the parent that there's "more articulation" between the local districts than the teacher reported but "there's always a gap." i MUA Suing DEP X SWAINTON — County MUA officials plan to sue the state Department of * Environmental Protection (DEP) to force up MUA priority for project funding from a $100 million federal kitty Since the MUA obtained a federal waiver allowing it to discharge primary treated sewage into the Atlantic, the DEP has ranked MUA sewage projects below 70 others seeking the money The DEP also may not honor the federal waiver since it mandates secondary sewage treatment * for new projects

Flop Stalk Two $20,000 Trucks

(From Page 1) pick up the material cheaper than they were doing with their own personnel. "They hadn't been spending money to do it," said Plewa, "so to them it was a new expenditure." Plewa said he did not approach the mainland communities "because they need door-to-door service and that is very expensive." And he gave up on an idea to-try to interest school systems and commercial customers. "We put that on hold," said Plewa. "There's a lack of response to the conception of recycling. Maybe we're here too soon for that concept. We're thinking maybe the best way for recycling to work . *

is to first give people the motivation to recycle by having to pay the high fees, Then they'll be self-educated about the value of recycling." r The MUA had offered a $23.46-per-ton "credit" for delivery of recyclables that would have been deducted from $26 a ton tipping fees for trash disposal at the MUA's new landfill. ^ 'The MUA really tried to make it work," said Plewa. "The loss is not the MUA's, or mine, but tbe individual taxpayers in this county. They turned down one of the best deals in the state. "The MUA figures someday the people will come knocking at their door for recycling," said Plewa. "Rather than convince the people they need it, let the people come to them and say they want it." jka

Dems Get Sheriff Candidate

( From Page 1 ) perience as qualifications for the sheriff's job. FOX FIRST WON election to that job in 1969 and has been reelected every three years since then. The Golf Club Road resident of Burleigh, Middle Township, ran unsuccessfully against Democratic Congressman William Hughes in 1980. Fox, 42, considered but abandoned a possible campaign against Hughes this year. A life-long area resident, he was graduated from Cape May High School. He was commissioned a second lieutenant with the state Army National Guard in 1957, serving as a summer patrolman with the Lower Township Police from 1955-'58. The incumbent was graduated from the State Police Academy in 1960 and served as a trooper until elected sheriff. Before starting in law enforcement. Fox worked in his family's well (frilling and related businesses .and, since 1964, has operated Edgewood Village mobile home park in Rio Grande with his wife. His primary opponent has been a patrolman with the Ocean City police force for the past nine years. Plousis currently serves as traffic safety officer and department director of community affairs. A RESORT RESIDENT, Plousis, 31, hails from Delaware County, Pa., where

he was graduated from Monsignor Bonner High School He earned a bachelor s degree from Slippery Rock ( Pa. ) University and is working toward a master's degree in history. Charter member of the state and local chapters of MADD ( Mothers Against Drunk Driving), the candidate has been coordinator of the county Task Force on Drugs and Drunk Driving. He campaigned to raise the state drinking age and was selected as a panelist at the state symposium on drunk driving in Atlantic City last October. The following month, Plousis was named to give a presentation at the Ninth International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety in San Juan, P.R. He received a meritorious service award for his crusade against drunk drivers last year from the Fraternal Order of Police and was named then to Who's Who in American Law Enforcement. Plousis originated a bicycle safety pro-, gram applauded by Gov. Thomas Keen, the Boy Scouts, National Safety Council and Bicycle Federation. He assisted state Sen. James R. Hurley in drafting a bill requiring moped drivers to wear helmets that was signed into law, and has assisted Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes in drafting legislation for federal funds to help states fight drunk driving.