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Vol. 20 No. 41 iwtwwtctr. a« rfghn f.»rvu. October 10, 1984 • -'*•'■'■

Oorit Ward TIGHTEN UP — Walh Fiore makes sore his bike is in shape for the bike-a-tbon held : Saturday in Rio Grande to benefit St. Jude Hospital. Wally is the ll-year-otd son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fiore of Rio Grande.

News ■ . . . Digest KU, IPhere's the Keeper? COURT HOUSE - Freeholder William E. Sturm Jr. has asked County Engineer Neal 0. Clarke to ask the state DEP, "not the MUA," if there isn't some place other than the MUA's new landfill to dump "stumps, trees and branches" from the cleared Dennisville road. An incredulous Strum said the MUA was charging the county $26.50 a ton ("l 1/3 cents a pound") to take the material. "That's damned stupid," said Sturm. "The monkeys are running the zoo." ] I Smelly, but Smooth ? AVALON — Some bad news and some 1 (Page 18 Please)

96th St. Bridge 'Snagged' By JOE ZELNIK STONE HARBOR - Oh no! Less than a week after starting phase two of the Great Channel (96th Street) Bridge reconstruction, officials are already talking about a "major snag" that could delay completion until next fall. Over the freeholders' dead bodies, that is. The dispute centers on the electrical circuitry system that powers the motors that raise the bridge leafs to allow water traffic. The system costs about $50,000 of a $3.5-million project. ON ONE SIDE: the Board of Freeholders and its North Jersey consulting engineer, A. G. Lichtenstein. His firm is being paid $167,000 to design and oversee the bridge job, plus another $25,000 it sued the county1 for because of extra work caused ^yheri' the project went from one nine-month job to two six-month jobs. On the other side: the electrical subcontractor, Rise America Inc. of Parlin, and its equipment manufacturer. Square D Electrical Equipment Co. of Secaucus. In the middle: Raymond International of Houston, Tex., the general contractor. If the bridge isn't done next April 19, it will have to pay a penalty of $2,500 a day. Last, but not least, the referee, the state Department of Transportation. It's a coun(Page 35 Please)

Doru Ward GOOD LOOKER — Adria W atson of Cape May checks her hat before heading to the ; Victorian Fashion Show at the Emien Physick House, a highlight of the Victorian Week festivities which con tin hp in Cape May through Sunday.

High Sodium Levels Persist CREST HAVEN — Drinking water in Cape May, Stone Harbor and Avalon continues to contain sodium (salt) levels higher than recommended for people on low-salt diets. The county Health Department has been testing water in Avalon and Stone Harbor bimonthly since August of 1983,kand added the rest of the county and went monthly in February. It's looking for patterns and, with the county Planning Department, will prepare a report and recommendations. The state Department of Environmental (Page 18 Please)

County Will Pare Court Cafeteria By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE - To cook, or not to cook; that could be the question. Middle Township Chamber of Commerce will contact county freeholders this week to oppose the size of a planned cafeteria -kitchen in the proposed county court facility. No problem, says Freeholder James S. Kilpa trick Jr., who said he's already told the architect, Edwin Howell of Ocean City, to "greatly reduce" the area. Richard Haefner, chamber president, said it could accept "an area for people who carry their lunch, and vending machines for soup or sandwiches. "We don't need a full-blown kitchen serving hot meals," said Haefner KILPATRICK SAID he has in mind something similar to courthouses in Mont gomery and Delaware counties (Pa. ) done in conjunction with the Association for the Blind. He said he envisioned coffee, dqnuts, hotdogs and cold sandwiches being served "It is not our intention to have a banquet facility," he said. "But there will be times in inclement weather when it's inconvenient for individuals to go out." Kilpa trick also said scaling down the kitchen-cafeteria would not co6t any more money in architect's fees Last month the freeholders okayed $1,700 for some changes required by a judicial realignment. (Page 35 Please)

Zagone Banking on Fox Voters

The Race for Sheriff — J™"0!*"' newcomers ore vying /or the three-year I U2.S00 job as county sheriff — Democrat Nick Zagone and I Republican Jim Plousis. \ The winner will supervise as many 88 department ■employes: manage as much as 2.5 million; serve sub- \ poenas ; post sheriff sales; and, perhaps, resume control > QJ the county jail.

Plousis Ocean City Patrolman

Nick Zagone thinks be can beat Jim Plousis in the sheriffs race even though Plousis trounced incumbent Sheriff Beech Fox in the GOP primary. "That's my chance," added the Villas Democrat, unfolding a political cartoon published during the primary. It shows

Plousis as the puppet of county GOP chairman Philip Matalucci. "A lot of people," Zagone continued, "think that Mr. Fox was a good sheriff — that Mr. Matalucci mishandled the whole thing "If this (GOP) fight has been effective, I

"There's no question about it," Jim Plousis says of the election for sheriff. The Republican primary was his major battle and the Ocean City patrolman won it. Plousis, 32f ran on the Regular Republican slate with freeholder candidates Herbert Frederic* and incumbent

Armand and Cape May Point Commissioner Charles Reeves. - A month before the primary, county GOP chairman Philip Matalucci called for an investigation of Fox's campaign finances from his 1961 reelection bid and (Page 34 Please)

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think I have a terrific chahce," he observed, echoing Fox in calling M«n»hwvH "a b<*s. a Tweed-Daly type of person." A political novice, Zagone, 67, is obviously hoping to garner votes from Fox supporters and combine them with those of Democrats and independents to beat Plousis. THAT'S POSSIBLE: 7,186 Republicans voted for Plousis in June and 5,492 voted for Fox. More than 51,000 people are registered to vote, about half of them Republicans, some 8,545 Democrats and 16,250 independents. Nearly 60 percent of those registered (28,000) voted in the party primaries Zagaoe also has other things En'nE for him, be says. The Democratic column lists two women candidates (Geraldine Fer rare for vice president and M.M. Peggie (Page 34 Please)

Gerald Thornton Suspecting beforehand that county GOP committee members would not endorse him, Plousis' primary opponent, outgoing Sheriff Beech Fax, asked Supervisor Court to block the committee members' candidate selection. Superior Court Judge Michael Connor obliged in April. The party organization then picked Plousis, Thornton and Frederick by bracketing them with other Republican candidates on the ballot through their campaign chairman. Freeholder Director Anthony Catanoso Just after the court ruling in Fox's favor, the party organization drummed him from its ranks. HE FORMED HIS OWN ticket - Beech Fox Regular Republicans — with freeholder running mates, Upper Township school board member Dorothy

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