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'Friends' Challenge Hospital 'Steamroller'—

(From Page I) allow tbe board president to cast votes on behalf of absent members of the corporation for the amendments to bylaws and corporatioacertificate Gould supports. One of the proposed changes, Goodkin stressed, prohibits voting by proxy in future annual or special iheetings of the CMHS directors. Currently, membership in the cohpora tion is open to anyone with the $10 annual dues ; that entitles members to vote for the hospital board of governors. If bylaw amendments are approved, though, members would pay $5 a year plus "such membership fees a#' the CMHS board . determines." Now, governors have no authority to remove members of the corporation. If the bylaws are amended, CMHS directors would have that power. FRIENDS OF BURDETTE, a consumer group originally formed last yearTo support Dr. Suketu Nanavati's court I fight against his dismissal from the hospital, considers the proposed changes a "bush league manipulation' of the democratic electorial process" by the hospital governors and their attorney, Carl "Valore, Gould's associate^ "If this corporate 'prize package' is so good, why must it be steamrolled in such a big hurry?" Friends asked in a Monday press release. "There is no element of urgency, other than the board determination to totally control the hospital lock, stock and barrel." The Friends have been contesting - hospital officials' conduct prior a February election of governors tiwfsaw Friends' candidates overwhelmingly defeated during a poor voter turnout. Registers tion for that election was ended last August and the governors inadequately publicized the voting, the Friends maintain. Those and other alleged election discrepencies affected the balloting so that incumbent governors were reelected. "Their (governors') past conduct should , be enough to restrain them. . Goodkin said, summarizing his argument to Gruccio in the Friends' request to ban Saturday voting with a restraining order. "WE NEED SOMETIME,'' the lawyer added, "to mount afpuBllcity campaign to in- • form^fce mtembirs what's taking place." "Tl|^^Bn di it," Goodkin conceded, noting tlfct^THe proposed amendments would legaffyalter the hospital's corporate

structure if members of Burdette's cor poration approve them. If held, the election would follow in the wake of Nanavati's suit and directly on the heels of efforts to unionize Burdette's professional and non-professional employes. ^Despite mandatory anti-union meetings he)d by hospital administrators last month for employes and seven-percent average pay hikes for all workers 3? June, Burdette's non-professionals vofra 177-137 a few weeks ago to join Local 1&8 of (he United Food and Commercial Workers' International Union. Professional staffers voted 64-59 for unionization but 21 tauots f were challenged; a decision on them Is expected soon. UNION SYMPATHIZERS on Burdette's staff said before tne votes that the move to join Local 1358 was in part prompted by the hospital governors' votes to strip Nanavati's privileges at Burdette. Both sides have presented their cases to Superior Court where the matter rested several weeks ago. Nanavati contended that the board sided with its second vice president, Dr. Robert Sorensen, chief of cardiology, in the dispute between the physicians. Lawyer Vincent La manna Jr., a former hospital governor, testified in March that the dispute stemmed from Sorensen 's prohibition against cardiologist Nanavati interpreting electrocardiograms at Burdette — a $75,000-a-year business. "It seems like it's a big deal because it comes on the heels of certain things that -have been happening at the hospital," Gould observed, referring to the election pming after Nanavati's case and the unionization votes. "I know it's coincidental," he said earlier, "but the act of restructuring our corporation has been in the works for years." Calling the present structure "antiquated," Gould disputed Goodkin's contention that governors are rushing to an election that ill disenfranchise members of the current corporation. "That's just not so," he said, Noting that hospital officials "intend to advise" corporate members of Burdette operations and solicit advice from them. Most hospital's don't "have any community input," Gould added. "We're complying with the noticing requirements," he said of the reputed rush to election.

in rnl SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS — Three graduates of Middle Township High School were recently awarded $1,000 scholarships by Mid-Jersey Cape Rotary Club. presentation are, front, left to right, Jerry Fowler. Debra Reichert, and Phillip Amundsen. Rear is Dr. Jeffrey Vecere, youth scholarship chairman, who made the presentation. V,

Pared Library Back on Track — —

(From Page 1) from using a less costly interior brick. Electrical, McDonald and Forbes, Inc. of Atco, $63,337 compared to $76,400 by the county officials said. Furnishings, Library Product Inc. of Neptune, $87,354 compared to $109,162. That saving was achieved primarily by separating furnishings from the general contractor, Torchio Brothers, whicH had bid $109,162 on May 1. Plumbing, Joffee Plumbing Company, Inc. of Vineland, $41,855. compared to $46,100 by the previous low bidder. Capital Heathig of Cherry Hill.

previous low bidder. DEC Electric of Berlin Not rebid were; Structural Steel. Southern Steel Fabricators of N.J., Vineland. $31,444; and heating, ventilating and air conditioning, Capital Heating Com p»y, Cherry Hill, $39,900 Other costs, unchanged, include $45t000 for the fee of architect Carmen La Rosa of Camden, $10,000 for art work, $10,000 for bondihg and miscellaneous fees, and $48,466 for contingencies. The county is borrowing the $896,000 with a bond issuf .

tEdtier Quality

" (From Page 1) / by, an unknown object in the Intercoastall# Waterway. < 'The most recent problem, a breakdown' in the autoclave (sterilizing machih6),vforced the department to cancel its samples in the back bay waters of Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, Lower Township and the Cape May area. Clay C. Sutton Jr., environmental program administrator said the decision was

made to omit those waters and test 1 Avalon, Stone Harbor and North Wildwood back bays on July 23 because "that's the problem area." The autoclave breakdown occurred the previous week, Sutton said and a repairman made two visits, but repairs await the delivery of some parts. Suttons said he was told the parts should be here this week, but he was not sure if a complete sampling program would be _pken this week, either.

N. W'wood Bay Closed After Leak

(From Page 1) iform bacteria before the signs come down. "It will eventually dilute and disappear," said Sutton. "The solution to pollution is dilution. " SUTTON ADVISED persons who need to know when the water is safe for swimming or bathing to call the Health Department at 465-3181. The department's weekly water sampl ing took place Mqpday. July 23, prior to the sewer line bppdlT but showed high fecal coliform jxfcteria counts in the area, possibly an indication the line was leaking. Sutton said. The state water quality standard for feca! coliform bacteria is 200 MPN < most probable number). The department found readings of greater than 2400 at Otten's Canal. 340 at Hoffman Canal (loth Avenue). 926 off the dock at Maryland and Chestnut. <and 350 at docks along the south side of North Wildwood Boulevard

Complete chart for the county's ocean and back bay water quality appears on page 65. The county's resort communities have had more than their share of sewer line problems recently Sea Isle City is making emergency repairs necessitated when a 90-vear-old pipe collapsed. And Ocaan City last week appropriated $50,000 for emergency repair of a storm sewer pipe that apparently collapsed a year ago Empty Space? ( From Page 1 » 1 out that the county has parking spaces in the Middle Township municipal building lot across the street from the Library Building "We may have to assign some spaces over there," he sarti

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and clerical workers, dissatisfied with contract negotiations, deeided not to work overtime to correct the errors. That made it possible for the city to blame its employes and the employes to blame the city. ) . Indicted SWAINTON — State grand jurors have indicted Leonard S. Kaplan (or using $52,636 in Medicaid funds and $71,378 in patients' money for his personal gain from 1979-'8l while operating the iormer Swainton Nursing Center which went bankrupt in 1982. The indictment also charges that Kaplan failed to pay the state more than $27,000 in 1979 and 1980 withholding taxes. tieu> Light OCEAN CITY — A new traffic signal went into service Monday at 55th and West in the south end of town. This is where county Route 619 turns from West Avenue to go onto Ocean Drive and into Strathmere There's also a left-turn lane from both directions to facilitate

motorists coming from Sea Isle City to Ocean City. Love It or Leave It TUCKAHOE — If you work for Upper Township, you'll probably have to live in Upper Township Township Committee haS passed an ordinance giving first preference for township jobs to local residents and requiring nonlocal residents hired to move to the municipality within one year. Those rules don't apply to Some positions such as municipal judge, prosecutor, engineer, auditor, solicitor, planning and zoning boards. Faults Liberty Capt. MANASQUAN — Robert Hooyman, 34, captain of the Liberty, should have waited wit a 30-knot gale before steering the flooding 87-foot scallop boat through the inlet here where it capsized in heavy seas, a Coast Guard investigator concluded in his preliminary report on , the Dec. 12 mishap. William Bates, 24, of North Cape May and Michael Luckowski, 17, of Wildwood, drowned when the Liberty overturned. Stanley Tomlisson, 40, of Cape May and Frederic Dieckemann, 30, of Manasquan, died after rescue. Other crewmen were injured.

Walk For Peace OCEAN CITY — ,Dr. Helen Caldicott, founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, will speak at a nuclear disarmament rally Monday marking the 39th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. The rally follows a 5 p.m. Walk for. Peace from 18th Street to Sixth Street at the Boardwalk. Caldicott, former professor at the Harvard Medical School, was the subject of a recent one-hour telecast, highlighting her stand against nuclear weapons based on the medical consequences of a nuclear war Pedestrian Killed WILDWOOD — James Deitz, 27, of Havertown, Pa., was arrested last week and charged with killing Mark Henderson, 21, of Philadelphia while driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Deitz's car struck Henderson while he was walking along West Oak. * Avenue around 4 a.m. July 22, according to police. The victim died in Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital shortly after his arrival. Deitz was also charged wKh refusing to take a breath test, driving while possessing drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was being held last week in lieu of $50,000 at tbe county jail.

Jetty Heating SEA ISLE CITY — Trespassing on jetties could cost violators $500 fines or 90 days in jail if tne city commission adopts an ordinance making the jetties off limits. That ordinance was introduced last week and is scheduled for a final vote after an Aug. 14 public hearing. Arrested on Tip WILDWOOD - Scott M Whitaker, 2S.y was sent to the county jail in lieu of x $250,000 bail after his arrest late Saturday night for the stabbing earlier that evening of Vernon Seger, 22. on the •» porch of the men's apartment building, 136 W. Garfield Avenue. Stabbed five times, Seger died while being rushed to the hospital. Police apprehended Whitaker without incident at Arctic Avenue on an anonymous telephone tip. Heading West J OCEAN CITY — Downer's Grove, HI., f" will be getting a new administrative 1 assistant this month when Stephen R. V j Gabriel, forme senior environmental planner for this resort, heads west to take the job. Gabriel, 31, served in that post from 1977 until May 4.