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Vol. 20 No. 39 am rial* ■—.■ ■d. September 26, 1964

News— ^ Digest ^Stories In Loving Memory . . . COURT HOUSE -\About 20 churches and business places in the county received vases of red. white and blue flowers Monday from the James and Luretta Dramis family "in loving memory" of their son, Marine Lance Cpl. George Louis Dramis. The flowers were sent, Mrs. Dramis said, to some of the people who were "nice to us" after their son was killed by a sniper at the Beirut airport in Lebanon Jan. 30. George would have been 20 this Saturday. Rival Wanted ERMA — Stanley Kotzen, new principal of Lower Cape May Regional High School, is looking to start a traditional Thanksgiving Day football rivalry for Regional's Capers. He told the LCMR school board last week that be challenged Middle Township High School, but its officials turned him down. Now Kotzen' s got his eye on a holiday game with Wildwood High. Lending Space ^ COLD SPRING - County freeholders temporarily relinquished 20,000 gallons of sewage capacity last week — reserved for the Erma airport in the Lower Township's MUA's sewage treatment plant, Villas — so developers can build a S5-miihon, 180-bed nursing home here. Although the sale is still being negotiated, the facility is tentatively designed for 20 acres adjoining Maud Abrams Elementary School. Freeholders want the capacity returned when the MUA plant expands. Write-In Wrung Out TUCKAHOE — Bruno Tropeano. Democratic write-in candidate for township committee, said last week he will fight a decision against certifying > him as a candidate. A Republican, Tropeano lost in the three-way GOP primary but garnered^ write in votes in the Democratic primary. He wants to face George Betts, the likely GOP candidate in November. Betts tied incumbent Committeeman Leonard Migliaccio, leaving (Page 20 Please)

Raymond's Race Starts Monday

104th St., How Long? How Long? STONE HARBOR - It was South Jersey's worst bridge Now some residents are saying it's South Jersey's worst bridge reconstruction The 104th Street bridge job is four months behind schedule and costing the contractor — Coastal Structures Inc. of Manasquan — a penalty of $150 a day or $4,500 a month. It was opened to two lanes of traffic last Friday, but work is only about 85 percent completed. Latest problem is lack of a state-re-quired minority business .enterprise, specifically a contractor to do 2-3 days of paving. Coastal Structures began the $235,745 bridge reconstruction in April and had expected Thompson Construction of Gouldtown to satisfy the minority business requirement by paving the bridge, curbs and sidewalk. A Thompson spokesperson told the Herald and Lantern it had submitted a proposal, but told Coastal last March it wouldn't be ahl£ to do it. Eld Walker, DQT resident engineer on the job, said the state has "allowed a ' substitute," but Coastal hasn't been able to find one. ^ "The stone is doiVn (for paving)," Gary McGeddy.^Coastalj Structures president, told the Herald and Lantern. "I was ready

Dorta Ward - COUNTDOWN — James Coogan of Raymond International Builders prepares signs for closing of the Great Channel Bridge oo Stone Harbor Boulevard at 7 a.m. Monday.

to pave and they're telling me I can't do it myself. I'm trying to get more names. If I can't, I don't know what the bell I'm going to do." /~ "It's been disgusting," said Borough Manager Edwin F. Pain who said he'6 had numerous complaints about dust, dirt, noise, equipment, etc. plus one-way traffic for almost six months. The bridge connects to a peninsula with about 50 homes, most of them for summer residents. (Page 20 Please)

96th St.; DOT: Meet Goal or Pay By JOE ZELNIK Poised as a panther. Expectant as a bridegroom. Faster, everyone hopes, than a speeding bullet. And quiet as a mouse. That's Raymond International Builders of Houston, Tex., which will close the Great Channel (96th Street) Bridge to Stone Harbor at 7 a.m. Monday Then begins the race to see if Raymond can complete 80 percent of a reconstruction project in 50 percent of the allotted time — by next April 20. THE BETTING is it can't If it doesn't, tourists, a key to Stone Harbor's summer prosperity, will have to get in and out of town the same way everybody else will be doing for the next seven months — via Avalon Boulevard 'or North Wildwood Boulevard. That's an extra dozen miles plus a 40-cent bridge toll for those who prefer North Wildwood. Also if it doesn't make the deadline, Raymond will be socked with a penalty of $3,500 per working day, $2,500 per calendar day, according to Bob Hovick, resident engineer with the state Department of Transportation (DOT). Earlier this year, county Engineer Neil O. Clarke said he doubted the state would try to enforce that penalty because (Page 20 Please)

Bradley: Invest in Education A senator seeking reelection and saying he's responsible for adding a billion dollars to the federal budget? That's Democratic incumbent Bill

SEN. BILL BRADLEY Doha Ward

The U.S. Senate Race — Bill Bradley has the reach on Mary Mochary. The Democratic incumbent is a foot taller (6-5 ys. 5-4), will spend five times as much on his campaign ($5 million vs. $1 million), and has the power of the incumbency behind him. • . , (Page 14 Please)

The Herald/Lantern Interview by (oseph H Zetnik

Bradley who said he's fought to defeat Reagan administration cuts for education and to fund his own programs. New Jersey, be said, had 90,000 high school graduates and 20,000 dropouts last year. He went to the Senate floor in 1982, 1983 and this year, be said, to fight for more aid to education. His own amendments added $50 million for gifted students, $24 million for merit awards, and $100 million over two years for remedial education. Does that mean he deserves the "biggest spender'* label opponent Mary Mochary tags him with? 4 "EDUCATION IS DIFFERENT than, a lot of other federal programs," said Bradley. "It involves the future of our country and our children. I support the marimnm investment in all our children's education. "In six years, I voted to cut nearly $300 billion in nondefense spending," he said. "I voted for budget cuts in 1961, 1962 and 1964. If the whole Senate had voted the way I did on taxes and thebudget, the budget would be in surplus in 1985." Bradley's focus 00 education places him in support of tuition tax credits for attending private or parochial schools, a Reagan program Mochary opposes. In response to a question. Bradley said (Page 14 Please)

"As long as people remember 'Mary,"' said Mary Mochary, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Her biggest problem she feels, just ahead of a shortage of campaign funds, is lier lack of name recognition, especially in contrast to her Democratic incumbent opponent, Bill Bradley. "People know the name Bill Bradley," said John Samerjan, Mochary's press secretary. "But they don't know what he's done except play basketball." Mochary is a partner with her husband, Stephen, in the law firm of Cerny 4 Mochary, where she makes about $100 an hour. HER FINANCIAL disclosure report, required by the Ethics in Government Act, lists values of stocks, bonds, properties, (including shares in the Houston Astra baseball team), etc. by "categories" rather than exacf dollars. She told the Herald-Lantern her assets totaled "a little more than Bradley." His report said he was worth "More than 979MND." "I'm very enterprising," said Mochary who, like Geraktine Ferraro, is involved in numerous business interests With ber husband. Mochary said Ferraro's candidacy might be a bit of a help since it "heightened women's enthusiasm I got lots of

Mochary Holds Tight To Reagan volunteer calls the day after she was nominated. But Mochary doesn't believe there is a (Page 14 Please)

MARY MOCHARY Don* Word