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News— Digest Tories Cross Burning FISHING CREEK - Lower Township police are investigating^ cross burning Saturday night on the lffwn of a black family's Woodland Ave. summer home, Lt. Charles Thornton confirmed yesterday. Joan Vance Johnson, who recently purchased the property with her husband, Carl, both of Washington, D.C., complained about the racist act to Township council during its swearing in ceremony Sunday. Mayor Robert Fothergill told her and 150 in the audience that the Township will not tolerate such intimidation. New Principal ERMA — Lower Cape May Regional school board members voted unanimously Thursday night to hire Stanley Kotzen, 49. Mount Laurel, as the new LCMR high school principal. Currently vice principal of Moorestown High School, he will be paid $41,000 a year. A freelance artist who has coached varsity baseball and basketball, Kotzen holds a bachelor of science degree from (Page 58 Please)

* V • r - "• Dorii Ward HO HO — Dr. Penny Bernstein examines sooagram of the laughing gull's love call. \

Whither Fireworks? I

\ If Middle Township's Sunday Fourth of July celebration wasn't enough for you, there are at least five more scheduled in the county, all on the Fourth. Upper Township has a parade in Strathmere at noon and fireworks at Williams Road and the beach at dusk. Wildwood promises the sky will be "ablaze with fireworks" on the beach in the vicinity of Schellenger Avenue at aboftt 9 p.m. Ocean City will have a kite flying contest at 6 p.m., a banjo band concert from 7 to 9

followed by fireworks, all at the football field, Sixth Street off the beach. Cape May will have fireworks at 9 p.m. on Congress Beach, sponsored by the Boardwalk Beach Drive Merchants Association, Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cape May, and the City. No fireworks in Stone Harbor, but all sorts of kids' activities at the football field starting at 9:45 a.m. The adults take over about 7:30 p.m. with some big band music in the parking lot at 96th and the beach

(Sewage Plant Over Capacity Nursing Home Nixed

By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE — New studies show the Middle Township Sewage Treatment Plant is over capacity and new hookups are unlikely. Eugene Mayer, president of the firm that had hoped to build a 120- bed nursing home on Magnolia Drive, said he was ( "very disappointed" to learn the news, but also "happy we found out before we started construction. "We were told from the very beginning there was capacity," he said. "If we had known there wasn't, we wouldn't have done it."

Mayer pointed out that his firm. Court House Associates, had received permission from the township sewerage commission last September to hook up to the plant. It expired in March. •IF WE WOULD HAVE hooked up in September." he said, "that would have been it. I didn't want that. The sewage has to go someplace. 1 don't want it backing up in my facility." Mayer said he wants to read the commission's reports before deciding what to do next, but "the project is going to be built, whether on this site or another site "

Shopping Center Planned

STONE HARBOR - Realtor William J Diller Jr.'s purchase of the bankrupt 76 House Dinner Theater is linked to a proposed shopping center on Stone Harbor Boulevard in Middle Township across from the Adams' Stone Harbor Sunoco and Car Wash. Diller bid $845,000 for the 76 House in I federal Bankruptcy Court May 18. He told I the Herald and Lantern this week that he I proposes to sell the building and property on Route 9 in Swainton to the original interested party, the Holy Redeemer Visiting Nurse and Home Health Agency, located at the rear of the 76 House Price apparently would be about the $600,000 which Holy Redeemer, intended to pay for the property when it bid $730,000 earlier. The religious order could not own a liquor license and intended to sell it for the balance. Diller also plans to sell the license.

depending on a buyer and approval of Middle Township. First in line to buy the license is Charles Shutter, Baltimore. Md . real estate developer who intends to build a shopping center called Stone Harbor Village which would include a restaurant with liquor license. Shutter declined to discuss the specifics of his proposed mall other than to say it would be "a quality project" and would have its own septic system designed by Van Note Harvey Associates, Cape May Court House engineering firm That's important since Middle Township's sewage treatment plant is over capacity and can not handle additional customers Shutter also said the shopping center would be owned by a limited partnership "with local people." Architect Louis DeLosso of John S. (Page 58 Please) i

He said it could be relocated to Lower or Upper Township, but he has no location in mind. Mayer's firm also burilt Eastern Shore Nursing Home in Swainton last year and. prior to that, made a lengthy search of nur sing home sites in the county. "THERE IS PLENTY of land for sale, and cheap," said Mayer, "but not for us." The problem, 'he said is various government regulations Delays caused by the sewage capacity controversy also brought a second problem into play — the prime rate It has been rising and. Mayer said, alt' ugh "the financing is there, the 'interest rate fluctuates with the prime, so obviously will have an impact. "The financing cost will be reflected in the per-diem cost of the patient," he said, "and it is to everybody's advantage to keep down the cost " Mayer had been told by the seller nt the 2.5 acres on Magnolia Drive Holly Associates -< and by tlhe sewerage com mission that the plant had adequate capacity to handle the nursing home HOLLY ASSOCIATES is made up of Court House Attorney Frederick W Schmidt Jr and Realtors Thomas J Repici. William H To /.our Jr and David J Kerr, all of Avalon Real Estate None returned phone calls fnom the Herald and lantern They were going to sell Mayer 2 5 of the 8 acres they own on Magnolia but that was contingent on approval of various permits including the sewage connection They paid $180,000 for it in March Their price to Mayer for the 2.5 acres has not been disclosed Sewerage Commission members last ( Page 53 Please )

Auk-Auk-Auk-Auk-AUUK!'

By PEG B. SINCLAIR [ STONE HARBOR - "Auk-Auk-Auk-I Auk-AUUK-AUUKAUUK-AUUK-AUUK-AUUK-AUUK-AUUK ! " i That's one of various long calls of the I laughing gull under study by Dr. Penny : Bernstein in Cape May County and in i Florida. What do all those auk-auk's say? That depends on the accompanying postures of 5 the black-caped bird, sequences of the call ! and circumstances of the setting. THERE ARE SEVERAL possible meanings. The long call could say, "I am here in this space and this is my territory," "Here I am, lover!", "Soup's on, children; come i and get it!" or "Move out of my way, you bum!" ~ Bernstein, who holds a Phd. in the biology specialty of animal behavior,

selected laughing gulls for observation because they are very talkative and appear to speak in sentences, possibly paragraphs. "Now, you take frogs," she said, laughing." the single message of the endless peep- peep- peeps in the spring is 'let's make love'. What's more, some frogs will mistakenly attempt to mate with anything that moves nearby, until they discover thesr error. "But «w>me of the laughing gulls actually search for and fine the same mate in the same location each year, after migrating to distant lands," marveled Bernstein. DAUGHTER OF a Short Hills, N.J., car diologist, she was a pre-med student at the University of Pennsylvania, but switched her major because of a life-long fascination with communications problems. She has done field research on laughing

) gulls since 1978, and studied patterns of behavior and relationships of black-tailed ' prairie dogs at the Philadelphia Zoo and ( Page 58 Please )

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