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October 3, 1984

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News itDigest EStoDouble Standard ? STONE HARBOR - Only adult businesses that do not sell or display > obscene material will be allowed to operate here if borough council adopts "" Ordinance 680 as expected next Tuesday at 7 p.m. Approved on first reading Sept. 11, the proposed ordinance outlaws adult ousinesses that sell or display obscene material and imposes zoning restrictions on those that sell or display material "which emits sensualty but is not obscene." Sizzle Fizzle WILDWOOD — Free booze, bus rides and other goodies offered by casinos to change Cape tourists into Atlantic City gamblers ought to be banned, Assemblyman Guy F. Muziani told the state Travel and Resort Association last week. He wants association backing for his bill that would prohibit the casino freebees in the summer. Muziani plans to unveil the bill to the state Legislature's GOP caucus next Thursday. Results Thursday OCEAN CITY Results of a land management study, on passible uses of the area between West and Bay avenues. 36th and 48th streets, will be discussed during a 3 p.m. meeting tomorrow in the City Hall conference room. The study proposes zoning changes for the area, a park, storm water management, environmental protection and regulations, f See Below TUCKAHOE — Upper Township county GOP committee members voted 11-3 last week to select, as expected, regular Republican George Betts as the partycandidate for township committee. (Page 18 Please > -inside FREEHOLDERS okay $100,000 for art. Page 5. VICTORIAN Week in Cape May. Pages 25-40. Q GOOD FISHING through Thanksgiving? Lou Rodia, page 48. LOWER, MIDDLE still winless. Mark Mattern, page 46. DREAMING of your own business? County Library, page 63.

Wildwoods Flunk Final Water Test By JOE ZELNIK CREST HAVEN — As luck would have it, the county Health Department concluded its 1984 recreational waters monitoring program last week with some unaccountably bad results in Wildwood and North Wildwood. But as a whole, the county's 10-year-old program came up with clean water during most of its 17-week duration. County Health Officer Louis J. La manna said he was "pleased with the overall quality of the ocean waters." He said the good results were a "reflection of the interest and concern of the mun- ' cipalities over the past decade. They spent money to upgrade their sewage treatment plants." But the samples taken Sept. 24 found five spots (of 12 tested) with fecal coliform bacteria readings well above the 50 MPN (most probable number) which is the state maximum. They included a 110, 130, 170, 220 and 540. And they defied the usual explanation that they were the result of heavy rains which emptied clogged polluted catch basins. It hadn't rained in days. "I CAN'T ACCOUNT for these numbers," said Lamanna. "I don't knowwhy. V He said they were kot the result of sewage treatmentjlan't effluent because the department also monitors them and found no problems. The sites with the high numbers Sept. 24 had been "beautiful Tor the past 7-8 weeks," Lamanna said. This week's results appear in a chart on page 61 . Lamanna said the back bays also tested (Page 18 Please)

Doris Ward NO CANDLES? — Terry Brown, Cape May's Civic Affairs director, holds up v Jared Meirer for a better look at the cake commemorating the city's 375 anniversary of its discovery by Sir Henry Hudson. Jared is the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Meier of North Cape May.

EDP, But Not PDQ By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE — Cape May Countygovernment is on the verge of "complete computerization," according to Freeholder Gerald M. Thornton. Butj first someone has to tell it what it needs* Getting an electronic data processing (EDP) consultant to recommend a com- ( Page 18 Please) ^

Crest Eyes 18-Block 'Walkway' * ... By ED HARNETT WILDWOOD CREST - Call it the green ing of the strand. Or a walk on the wave side. Mayix?,. getting the borough's recreation act together. Perhaps, for the big-city-oriented. Central Park South or Fairmount Park East? Embodyng, in part, all of the above, is the Crest Beach Park and Nature Walk, an innovative concept announced this week by the Wildwood Crest Planning Board, which has been developing the idea for months. It is designed to transform 18 blocks of the borough's oceanfront. almost half its length, into a varied recreational, cultural, and esthetically appealing park complex. Key elements in the park plan are a lowlevel wooden walkway and parallel bicycle path running just to the landward side of the dune line from Cresse Avenue, the borough's northern boundary, to Rambler Road, 18 blocks south. The walkway, proposed as 10 feet wide and 18 to 24 inches off UfTground. would take a meandering course to conform to the natural configuration of the dunes FOR SEVEN BLOCKS, twin pathways will traverse borough-owned land. It is proposed to seek easements from owners of the other beachfront property involved. The walkway, as planned, will be high enough for strollers to see over the crest of the dunes to enjoy the panorama of sand, surf, and sky, but will not interfere with the view from the landward side. Uneven configuration will also allow for deviations to permit access to oceanfront motels with parking entrances at the rear Beach Park will link existing recrea(Page 18 Please)

— The Congressional Race

Hughes, Massie Embrace Conservatism

Democratic Congressman Bill Hughes faces political newcomer. Republican Raymond Massie. in the campaign for the Second District U.S. House seat. Whoever wins it will be paid $72,600 a

; year, alloted as many as 18 staffers plus i $180,000 to pay them, maintain offices etc. The winner ->wll represent district residents of Oape May, Atlantic, Cumberland and Salem counties, plus portions of Burlington and Ocean counties. Twenty-four percent of district voters are registered Democrat, 31 percent Republican and 45 percent as MASSliTHAS BUDGETED $215,000 - $60,000 from the national Republican organization — to topple Hughes and win back for the GOP the seat it lost 10 years

ago when the Democrat took it from former Congressman Charles Sandman, now a Superior Court judge. Hughes outspent his 1980 and 1962 rivals but expects to spend less than Massie — $80,0004120,000 — in defending his seat toward a sixth term this year. Massie has his campaign work cut out for him. Hughes claimed 57 percent of the vote against Sandman and has never dropped below that margin despite the district's Republican registration edge. He collected 68 percent of the vote in a 102^86-47,069 victory two years ago over Vineland High School teacher John

Mahoney, now fin Atlantic County freeholder. Hughes defeated outgoing Cape May County Sheriff Beech Fox 135,437-97,072 in the 1980 Second District race with 57 per cent of the vote. FOX PAINTED HUGHES as a closet liberal with an undeserved reputation as a conservative. Tried before against the incumbent, that strategy didn't work for Fox but has been successful elsewhere. Massie has revived it in this year's contest. His bid, he said, is "one of 43 Challenge Campaigns that the state and national

Republican parties have decide to target and provide full funding. "They were convinced that the district could be won once they (voters) understood what his (Hughes') record was," Massie added. "I was convinced I could win this seat back for the Republican Party." Through a "good media and an excellent news letter," Hughes, his opponent noted, has "built a reputation as bring seen as a fiscal conservative, as being seen as strong on anti-crime, as being seen as strong on defense. "We reviewed his legislative record for

the last 10 years," Massie continued. "He's got an 80 percent ADA (the liberal Americans for Democratic Action ) rating ; it's on a scale from 1-80." That rating slip(Page 47 Please)

The Herald/Lantern Interview 1 bytj. Duffy

RAYMOND MASSIE

BILL HUGHES