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keen Sentenced BRIDGETON Elvin Copson. 16, of \V Popular Street. Wildwood. was i sentenced to two years in the Jamesburg I Training Center last w eek for escaping < Trom the Cumberland County Juvenile < Detention Center with another youth April 4 and forcing Hopewell Township < * * farmer Alfred Caggiano to drive them to t Millville Copson and his Atlantic City < companion, 15, who was apprehended the i same day. escaped by scaling a 14-foot barbed-wire fence in front of four t counselors. c t c t Loud and Clear 1 .. e CAPE MAY — This resort's noise s ordinance "is being used to vent vindictiveness between feuding e neighbors" instead of regulating noise i detrimental to the public. Superior Court p Judge Philip Gruccio ruled in a decision £ last week that found the ordinance K unconstitutional. Three plaintiffs S( including Carney's tavern. Beach Drive. tj which had been cited for ordinance S) violations, tested it in court Gruccio S found it "subjective, arbitrary" and discriminate^ enforced. fi «•: * If •

(From Page 1) Devils' Towers National Monument in Wyoming for eight years beginning in 1970. During the later period at the zoo. she also observed tail displays, social organization, touching patterns, forms of approach and gaze direction of grivet and vervet monkeys. After earning her doctorate at Penn. she followed laughing gulls south to investigate summer and winter foraging, interaction and communication Gulls are colonial and social birds — that is. they hang around and nest together in groups. Numbers of gulls show up quickly when an intruder steps into their nesting areas. They pay close attention to their surroundings and move quickly as a mob to reach discarded food or possible prey." she explains. THE LAST SEVERAL decades' population explosion of gulls has slowed, says Bernstein. The rapid reproduction years, after Aububon Society protection of birds was recognized, were directly due to exposed garbage dumps throughout the United States. Now, since open trash heaps are less abundant and habitats are disappearing, there is less food available and the coastal avenger birds do not produce as many spring. As a matter of fact, herring gulls are an aggressive species when it comes to a meal. They will eat the eggs and the young of their neighboring gulls, if the nest "is left untended. Laughing gulls don't indulge in such Everyday gull enemies are dogs. cats, foxes and predatory birds like WATCHING GULLS for scientific documentation requires long hours of beach, dune, trash heap, landfill and bayside alertness. J "But it's like a good soap/fopera," she grinned. "You'd be surprised gf^ihe similarity to human behavior! " * To identify her subjects, she color bands each gull under special permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her research work at Tuckerton and Stone and at Crystal River and Cedar on the Gulf coast of Florida were sponsored by grants from private organiza and Stockton State College between sessions of teaching biology students at and Trenton State. She hopes to complete and publish her and is working on this project in a

small office at the Wetlands Inst^ute where she has also written a stfiqnce n teacher program for grants to the instii&te ) this year. e HER UNUSUAL Kaleidoscope of 1 Science classes, with graduate credits f available from Glassboro State, will begin 3 next month on the premises. These sessions for teachers will explore the multiple ? facets of sciences today and help teachers i- present the various subjects in an exciting, i- challenging light for students. With long black hair and dark brown t eyes. Penny Bernstein has the comfortable u smile and shy but friendly mannerisms of i a college student rather than an ac- ? complished young woman well into postr doctorate research in a science field. !> ' She recently married Tom Lambert, who works for the Atlantic County mosquito control division. LAST YEAR, a grant from the s American Philosophical. Society allowed her to expand her laughing gull study. She > is the author and publisher of "Gulls of - Cedar Key", a pamphlet which tells how to i identify gulls species, what behavior to look for. where to find gulls and othe, in- • formation. This booklet is available for $1.25 at the Wetlands Institute's nature I bookstore. "The more we find out about other social creatures and how and why they talk to i each other, the better we can understand why we talk as we do, said Bernstein. "Man is already a good communicator — or thinks he is. By learning more, it could

be possible, for example, to achieve world peace through superior diplomacy. We are already beginning to teach human communications as we teach animal communication. taking into account the body posture, motions and surroundings along with words spoken." With the glint of a space explorer she added. "There is a whole constellation of uncharted details out there in face-to-face ex changes. Think about it. It's going to be exciting to learn how complicated we are and how we can use that new knowledge! "•

m Doris Ward MEET BUTTONS — Samantha Frame. 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Frame Jr. of Erma. snuggles up to Buttons. her newly-adopted kitten.

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News Digest "From Page 1) the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a master's from Glassboro State University. He was selected from 40 some applicants No Picture! RIO GRANDE — Freeholder Gerald Thornton sent a Herald & Lantern photographer packing Thursday when she declined to include him in an assigned photograph of an elderly resident receiving a new Senior Citizen Discount card from a staff member of :he county Office on Aging. The photographer told Thornton she was not assigned to include him. but he told her if be wasn't in it she couldn't take the picture A Republican candidate for reelection. Thornton last appeared here this spring when he filed nominating petitions with his running mates. Squeaker TUCKAHOE - George Betts, GOP organization candidate for Upper Township Committee, lost his chance to occupy a seat on it by one vote to the man who has filled it for 20 years. Leonard Migliaccio. according to a recount Thursday Betts has until next week to challenge the election, however Running as a (Sheriff) Beech Fox Regular Republican. Migliaccio collected 875 votes at the polls to Betts' 882. but absentee ballots tied the totals at 894. The recount gave Migliaccio an 894-893 edge. Sizable Settlement WEST CAPE MAY — Borough resident Wayne Hickman. 34. a driver-salesman for the Coca Cola distribution center off Route 9 in Marmora. Upper Township, will receive $350,000 in settlement for ' # injuries he suffered after a collision at the plant in October 1981. The insurance carrier for Anthony Frarik of Ocean View. Dennis Township, agreed to pay Hickman $325,000. Frank, whose car " rear ended Hickman's, said he was distracted when an Atlantic City Press carrier threw a newspaper across the road. The Press' insurance company agreed to pay Hickman $10,000 and the carrier's company another $15,000. Break-in WOODBINE — Postal officials are^ I

offering up to a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the burglar who broke into the Washington Avenue post office late last month and stole $10 Informants are asked to call the post office at 861-4291 or John Tucker at the postal inspector's office in Philadelphia. (215) 596-5417. Church Desecrated OCEAN CITY — Vandals desecrated tbe Macedonia United Methodist Church. 951 Simpson Ave., during the June 23-24 weekend, spraying blue paint on the \ altar, organ, piano and choir gowns. Two oak pulpits were destroyed and food from the church pantry dumped onto the floor Food coloring was spilled onto chapel carpeting and stained oak pews, according to police who are^nvestigating the crime Shopping Center (From Page l) Sabatino Associates in North Wildwood said he has done some design work for the center, but is not yet retained. Realtor George Reed of the Diller & Fisher Agency said Shutter is purchasing 30.3 acres from Joseph Carusi of Cape May "contingent upon permits from state and local authorities." He said settlement is scheduled Aug. 1 and "we see no problem with it." Diller. however, said Shutter's financing may not be arranged and "several options" for the liquor license exist. "Having the only available liquor license in Middle Township £ives me the option to sell to whoever I wish to sell it toj' he said. Shutter told the Herald and Lantern that he has "a commitment from the bank." • The Herald and Lantern previously • reported that Diller 's price for.the liquor license is in the $250,000 range. That plus the $600,000 price tq Holy Redeemer would total his $845,000 bid. Dillersaid his settlement for the 76 House is scheduled for October. _ "0,y Redeemer, with a mother house in Philadelphia, would renovate the 76 House into an office building for its staff, according to Wayne Whelan, administrator It has grown from a Staff of five when it started in December 1982 to 42. The eight-year-old 76 House was forced to file for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy law Its owner, William H. Marshall, said it will remain open this summer It includes a 378-seat restaurant-theater room, kitchen and banquet facilities, 30-stool bar, package store and parking for about 100 cars.