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Vol. 20 No. 31 !»■! s— .... c~v All ..-,..<1 August 1, 1984 .**"1;^

/Friends9 Challenge Hospital 'Steamroller' ^

By E J. DUFFY -j5^/r COURT HOUSE - Friends of Burdette asked Superior Court yesterday to block Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital's governors from changing the hospital organization by granting ultimate power to a new ruling body. "What they want to do is ram this through on short notice, disenfranchising everybody," Friends' attorney Richard T. Goodkin said of the governors' proposal to amend the hospital corporate charter and bylaws at an 8 p.m. election in Burdette's cafeteria Saturday. Goodkin was slated to ask "-Superior News- y.*: Digest Top Stories A 'etc Head Count / TRENTON — Cape May County's population increased 3.8 percent between 1980- 82 — the highest rate in the state, according to estimates released last week by the state Department of Labor and the U.S. Census Bureau. Statewide, the growth rate was 0.6 percent, they reported Although its birth and death rates remained about equal, 3,100 people moved into the county during the twoyear period, bringing the estimated 1982 population to nearly 85,000. e t Behind Schedule BURLEIGH — The county MUA now says full operation of its new solid waste transfer* station won't start until this weekend. Delay was blamed on unavailability of tJjeTYactor-trailer units that carry trash from the station to the county landfill in Upper Township. One Hat For Two OCEAN CITY - Resort resident Joseph S Clark Jr., 26, was selected from 55 candidates for a new $22,500-a year position as assistant city administrator, Joseph Kane, city administrator, announced last week Serving mainly as personnel director and purchasing agent. Clark fills two posts this month which previously paid $65,000 each. Kane noted. Clark will also tackle administrative tasks, insurance and risk management, 'Cane said. Who's Complaining ? SEA ISLE CITY — Property owners got an extra 10 days, until Aug. 20, to pay their third-quarter taxes because a computer company fouled up the bills (Page 51 Please) Pared Library Back on Track \ PETERSBURG — The county's Upper < Cape Branch Library is back on track | after a rebidding that cut about $100,000 from its construction cost and a transfusion of an additional $80,000 in county money. Four sections of the contract were rebid with new specifications, resulting in three new lob bidders. Two sections — heating, ventilating and air conditioning, and structural steel — were not rebid. Original bids were opened May 1; the latest July 17. Freeholder James S. Kilpa trick Jr. said he hopes ground will be broken around Sept. 1 and the project completed by next spring. Total cost now is $895,000; it was more than $1 million. The library is very similar to jtbe Lower Township Library which opened in August 1982 and co6t about $670,000. The county has a $260,000 grant from the New Jersey State Library which will bring local cost to about $635,000. The low bidders who were awarded contracts last week: General Contractor, Torchio Bro6. of Vineland, $517,644 compared to its bid of $579,936 May 1. Part of the saving came X . (Page 51 Please)

court Assignment Judge Philip R. Gruccio for- a restraining order, barring- the i Hospital from holding the election, during : a hearing yesterday afternoon. Gruccio s i decision was pending at press time. | LAWYER ALAN I. GOULD, president of the board of governors, said Monday afternoon that he had not been officially inform- ; ed about the hearing. - Gould notified 3,200 members of the hospital corporation in a July 25 letter that , Burdette has established a holding comI pany, Cape May Health Systems Inc. (CMHS). "All of the current members of (the hospital) corporation and its board will

automatically become members of that company," Gould wrote. ". . amendments to the hospital bylaws and certificate of i- .nor at ion will finalize this process by inging the hospital under the control of the holding company ." That control would include CMHS board powers to: remove without cause any of its directors, corporate officers or corporate members by a two-thirds vote. The holding company directors would also have veto power over hospital directors' actions in certain cases, including approval of the hospital's budget The hospital's board, however, would "have full power and authority to create,

prescribe and approve bylaws, rules ana regulations for the medical staff and to appoint. suspend or remove any practitioner from the medical staff, according to proposed amendmenfg for Burdette's bylaws "I KNOW TUfi^KDiCAL STAFF is upset about thisSHd Goodkin "They thospoflHofficials) need twothirds vote of^SSmembers to do this (amend the bWB)," he added, "but they're going ImUI it off by proxies, which is inherenfSHunfair. " Goodkin noted nfk t Gould enclosed with his July 25 letteraiostage-paid envelopes and proxy ballots which, if signed, would (Page 51 Please)

ttBr NO SKIING EITHER — Lisa Vivaldi doesn't look too disappointed by this sign at the Cape May County Park East in Court House. She's the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vivaldi of Ridley Township. Pa., vacationing in Ocean City with something besides ice skating in mind.

What Empty Space?

CREST HAVEN — There's always a waiting list for the county's 140- bed Crest Haven Nursing Home, which is one reason ^ a new, 180-bed building will be constructed Now it looks like there could be a waiting J list for the empty space in the 31-year old I / Crest Haven building after its residents " move out. I Freeholder Gerald M. Thornton said he / and his colleagues are "weeding out" proposals to share the 54,000 square feet that I should be available late next year, i \ The first proposal expected to bloom, however, is a 30- bed Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital alcohol detoxification unit which Thornton called an "alcohol residential treatment unit." Thornton said a Burdette Tomlin detox ification unit "would relieve the county of the future responsibility of having to create its own." • Freeholders agreed last week to give "conceptual agreement" to Burdette Tomlin so it can apply to the state for a certificate of need. But Thornton said "some things still have to be worked out." When the freeholders first decided to build a new nursing home, they indicated the county Social Services Department could be moved from Rio Grande to the old nursing home That lohks less likely now. Thornton ticked off Jhis list of other agencies that have expressed interest in moving into the building\ which he said is "structurally very sound./' • A juvenile detention holding facility. • Family Court counseling. • The prison work release program. • Mental Health servires.

• An intoxicated driver resource center for counseling, as mandated under new* , legislation k 4 ) The county expects to advertise fjj$" bid^f < late this year or early next year fori$oth 9 J $9-million nursing home and a $6.3-naillioA^ courthouse expansion. .? ; f! ^ The two projects probably will bdundefte way simultaneously, ruling out fearliewB plans to finish Crest Haven first *iijdiav«A| court operations in the old Crest maverlB temporarily * Ayj Architect Edwin Howell show& tfcwL freeholders a rendering of the pr<hx*vj new courthouse last week It broilHfc/ unanimous approval and such commmffi*' as "looks great," "super," "bfatitifuFf^ and "well done." » '.smB Howell was instructed to "proceed intj i design development and confirm a con % estimate." Freeholder Director Anthony Catanoeo asked what effect the expansion would have on court bouse parking. "We will redesign it so as to pick up an additional 22 spaces around the boiler plant," said Howell. Freeholder William E. Sturn Jr. pointed (Page 51 Please) r inside... WHO SAID: a "The seashore people took our top soil and gave us back $1 their trash." Page 5. It J "To insist all alcoholism is a sickness is a cop-out." Page fife. "West Wildwood feels locfcB B' in, and rightfully so." Page y i

N. W'wood Bay Closed After Leak

By JOE ZELN1K NORTH WILDWOOD - The county Health Department has closed 20 blocks on the bay to recreational use after a 10-inch sewer main broke and leaked raw sewage into the bay at West 6th Street The incident occurred about 8:30 a.m. July 24. and was reported to the Health Department, according to Clay C. Sutton Jr.. environmental program ad* minislrator He said he had no estimate of how many gallons of sewage flowed into the bay before the break was repaired. The department that night posted the area 10 blocks in either direction, "from Otten's Harbor to Maryland and Chestnut avenues." Sutton said, with 2CL30 signs saying. "No Swimming or Bathing." He said the area was reposted Friday because "many were pulled down by the kids " NORTH WILDWOOD City ministrator Thomas Flud said its Public Works Department worked on repairing the break until about 4 p.m. before deciding it lacked sufficient manpower . and equipment ? Foundations & Structures Inc of Tuekahoe then was contacted and repaired J the main by the early morning of Wednes \ day ..July 25 Cost was $4,055, according to The bay waters continue to be sampled. Bauttbn said. Sampling was not done Satur fljnay£or Sunday, but on Monday Sutton sair R"ie water was "still pretty bad y He said the department will require AC' three consecutive low counts of fecal col(Page 51 Please) ^ Water Quality tts Falter HAVEN — The county Health nt failed to sample almost half sational waters monitoring sites (55 of 130) because of equiprrjen! 11 the ocean water sites were lie third consecutive week that a rf back bay sites in Lower and the Cape May area were not 9-10, the bay waters in Lower Township and the Cape May area were not i sampled because of inclement weather f On July 16-17, the same waters were not checked because, according to the depart ment, the boat's propeller was sheared off 'Page 51 Please)