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CAPE MAY BEACH - More than 130 bayside residents "would like us to do something about" decaying Horseshoe crabs along the bay beaches. Councilman Joseph Lonergan told his colleagues Monday night "This is quite a problem." conceded Deputy Mayor Joseph Davis who presided at the work session in the absence of Mayor Robert Fothergill to whom those residents sent a petition for help earlier this month. They want the beaches cleaned at least once a year "I don't understand," said Lonergan, "if we can make people cut their grass, why can't we have people pick up Horseshoe crabs." During council's July 2 meeting, a group of bayfront homeowners complained about the crabs that annually migrate to local shores to mate and lay their eggs. Thousands of unsightly carcasses were repelling beachgoers, residents griped, attracting flies and causing a health hazard. Former Mayor Peggie Bieberbach told the residents last month that, unlike most of the oceanfront beaches, most of Lower Township's bayshore is privately owned. Unlike resort beaches, which are cleaned on a daily or near-daily basis in the summer, the township beaches are rarely if ever cleared. ROCCO ROMANO, member of the Cape May Beach Property Owners' Association, suggested at last months council meeting that the complainants g§t together and rake the crabs for collection by municipal employes. , — ^ Fothergill then sani township crews could haul the dead\ crabs away if residents followed Romino's suggestion. That's where the complaints were left until Monday. / Returning to his argument — that beach cleanup shouldn't be any different than township-ordered lot cleanups — Lonergan cited a 1978 letter from Solicitor Bruce Gorman in which, the councilman said, the lawyer presented a similar case for beach cleaning Gorman, however, recalled the township health inspector in 1978 "turned tail and ran away" from the problem when asked to enforce cleanups based on the letter. "I think it's a definite health hazard," said Lonergan. "and rthink we should look into the owners and have them clean them (beaches) up " COUNCILMAN ROBERT CONWAY, however, said he prefers to see the township offer beach owners "incentives" i

to clean theft- waterline properties lik< "some sort of tax break We're' not going to do the cleanup,' said newly-installed Township Manage) James R. Stutep. But the towtehip, he add ed, might "take some of the sting out oi "the chore by taking" some of the labor out of it." "I will take care of that thing immediately," he told some of the petitymers who attended Mondays work session. Stump said be would discuss the problem with the beach owner or owners Gorman said he thought the beach in question is owned or controlled by Herman Tolz of Tolz Realtors. The solicitor also noted that a public health nuisance can be interpreted as something offensive to residents in its vicintiy. According to that definition, the cleanup might be ordered by the township, he implied. IN OTHER BUSINESS, COUNCIL: •Ihformally tabled discussion of councilmen's salaries since Fothergill was absent due to a family illness. Fothergill has ^proposed that council assign a committee the task of deciding what its members should be paid. •Decided to try and work out an informal rather than official solution to mounting volumes of trash from Lower * businesses while Stump reviews other municipalities' methods of collecting commercial trash. Activist Map' Baxter told council she was "disappointed" with council's decision because homeowners, she said, are paying the freight for business trashto the tune of $26 a ton at the county landfill. Stump, who told council that six men, including three township employes, spent three hours filling a truck with refuse from a single business Monday, apologized to Baxter. He told her to expect a formal response by council's next meeting. •Informally tabled action on Ordinance 84-12, a zoning code amendment which would have all but banned adult businesses in Lower "I want to see it as tough as possible." said Councilman David F Brand echoing the consensus of council in calling for additions to the measure or complementary ordinances that would further restrict sales of adult material in the township. •Adopted Ordinance 84-1A, an amendment to the Mercantile License Ordinance (No 74-2). The new ordinance eliminates fees of up to $25 for farmers and residents who grow and sell produce on their properties I

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1 waterway has corroded boat finishes, > killed bai' and lobster catches I Clammy Complaints BURLEIGH — Neighbors of Cape May Canners complained to Middle Township Mayor Michael Voll last Thursday night that they couldn't sleep because of the stench from the clam processing plant on Indian Trail. More than a dozen complaints were recently received, Voll said, and the plant will be ordered closed unless the odor problem is corrected. Plant operators, however, have reportedly agreed to try and eliminate the suspected causes Home Approved PALERMO — A 155- bed nursing home proposed for the west side of Route 9 a mile and a half south of the 34th Street bridge into Ocean City has received the unanimous endorsement of the Cape May County Council of the Southern New Jersey Health Systems Agency The HSA board was to vote on the application this week Charred with Death COURT HOUSE — Cindy Walters, 22, of Terre Hill, Pa . was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail at the county jail Saturday, charged with drunk driving, killing a Lower Township woman with a car and leaving the scene of the Friday morning fatality on the Garden State Parkway at milepost 12.5 Charlotte E Hickman, 38, of Bayshore Road, North Cape May, became the 13th person to die on county roads since June. She was struck around 4 a m on the southbound Parkway shoulder after her car broke down l Down, 3 to Go OCEAN CITY — Clerical and bluecollar city employes will be paid $1,200 a year raises for two years and $600 during the third year of their new 24-year contract with the city City council authorized the mayor to sign the agreement last week with the Communications Workers of America that represents 140 personnel The pact has been pending since Jan. 1. Still pending are labor contracts with resort police, firemen and lifeguards Molesting Charged (1) WILD WOOD — Marine Police Officer Anthony Becica, 40, a resort iesident, has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of charges that he molested a female minor here between July 1979 and September 1980, a state police spokesman reported. Stationed in Atlantic City, the six -year Marine Police veteran was previously assigned to the force's North Wiidwood station. He was free on bail and scheduled for arraignment Monday.

VILLAS — Lower Township resident Robert McFarland, 51, was being held in the county jail Friday in lieu of $25,000 after his arrest on charges that be molested a girl, 7, on July 18, according to township police. The alleged sexual assault was reported Aug. 14, police said. Molesting Charged (3) " t „ CAPE MAY — Richard Kohler, 40, of Delaware Avenue, Some^s Point, was arresf&d Friday on charges that he molested a young boy between June 11 and Thursday, according tdthe county prosecutor's1 office. Kohler, a maintenance worker at a beachfront condominium, was arraigned in Superior Court and sent to county jail in lieu of $25,000 bail. Indicted for Molesting COURT HOUSE — County grand jurors indicted the second of two men last week charged with sexually assaulting children at a Goshen- farmhouse in Middle Township James E Meyers, 33, is free on $10,000 bail pending his Aug. 27 arraignment on a six -count indictment. His roommate at the Delsea Drive farm, Rickson P Robbins, 33, was indicted on 15 counts of sexual assault earlier this month against five farm hands, ages 11-16 Molester Sentenced WILDWOOD — Daniel Richards, 35, will spend the next 15 years at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center. Avenel, for molesting children here and in Middle Township between March 1981 and September 1983, Superior Court Judge James A. O'Neill has ruled. He sentenced Richards to 30 years at Avenel where the former West Wiidwood Avenue resident was diagnosed as a compulsive and repetitive sex offender Richards must serve 15 years before becoming eligible for parole He was indicted in March and pleaded guilty in April. Alcoholism Rate ' From Page 1 1 • A $6,700 grant from the freeholders that will be used to put counselors in Mid- . die and Wiidwood high schools. Huber said he also anticipates $3,000 in donations from private sources. "WE'RE CONCENTRATING on the schools," said Huber, "because if we can teach them now, it's a lot more cost effective then treating them when they're older. "Also, the school has a captive population," he added. Huber's staff includes one part-time person He anticipates adding two more parttime people, a counselor and a secretary. He and his wife, Jacqueline, live in Court House. She's also a clinical psychologist and is on the staff of Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry in Fort Washington, Pa. They also share a private practice in Cherry Hill.