1ft t Herald & lantern 10 October '84

DorU Ward BEST APPEARING — Mrs. Carol Porch, right, president of the Rio Grande Fire Co. ladies Auxiliary, accepted a proclamation from Mayor Michael Voli, center, as the township joined in praising firemen for their performance at the state convention. She holds trophy for best appearing ladies auxiliary while husband. Ralph, left, fire chief, is shown with second-place award for best appearing pumper of 1.000 gallon class and firstplace for 1982 tanker over 2,500 gallons.

Stench Warfare Resumes

OCEAN CITY - The county Ml! A has approved a $112,059 proposal by the engineering firm of Camp, Dresser, and McKee Inc. to design new odor contropfacilities for the Ocean City Region Wastewater Treatment Facilities. "We are taking this ac-

tion in October in an effort to expedite the work and, hopefully, have the new equipment installed and operating by next summer." George Marinakis, MUA executive director, explained. Authority chairman William F X. Band

reiterated a strong MUA commitment to Ocean City to solve the odor problem. Construction on the estimated $1.2 million project is expected to begin in January, according to Peter Tunnecliff, vice president. Camp. Dresser and McKee. < The high priority odor areas identified under the MUA's immediate response program includes the Rotating Biological Contactor Units (RBCs), the sludge thickeners and the sludge processing and septage receiving areas. Odor control in the RBC area will be accomplished by installing two-stage odor treatment of wet scrubbing, activated carbon treatment, and by providing removable covers for the open influent and ef-/ fluent channels, Marinakis said. "The equipment to be installed in the RBC area will be sized to handle not only the six current bays but also the two additional bays that are planned to be installed," Marinakis noted. A new wet scrubber system will also be installed to treat the air from the two sludge thickeners and from the influent screenings facility. The thickeners will be covered to collect the air for treatment. Marinakis said that odor control in the sludge processing building and septage receiving facilities will be increased by treating the air through a second stage activated carbon system added to the existing wet scrubber. The MUA Authorized a new odor control study during late summer after receiving continuing complaints. Installation of the first odor control equipment was completed during 1984 but proved to be insufficient to abate the

Dorit Ward GOOD OLD DAYS? — Sue Carroll, left, and Mae McLaughlin, both of Cape May, modeled at the Victorian fashion show during Cape May's Victorian Week, which continues through Sunday.

IN STYLE — Jacqueline and Leroy Lippman of Calif or don't just attend Cape May's Victorian

Doris Ward Week celebration; they dress for it. Here they relax on the lawn of the Emien Physkk Home.

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I News Digest ' From Page 1 » I good news, folks. First the bad: the CounI ty Municipal Utilities Authority iMUA) I will be tearing up Ocean Drive to lay I sewage lines from Sea Isle City and Stone I Harbor. Now the good news: the county I will negotiate with the MUA to have the I entire road paved,curb to curb, from I 80th to 7th Street/The road could use it. Suit Follows Suit CAPE MAY - St. Paul Fire & Marine I Insurance Co. of Toms River won't pay I attorneys for city Manager Fred Coldren I and his predecessor, Robert Cabana, to I defend them against a libel suit filed by I Windsor Beach owner Robert Spiegle. So I the city has decided to sue the insurance I company. Spiegle, whose libel suit is scheduled for court ^January, contends that Cabana and Coldren damaged his reputation and business through statements made to The Press in 1979 and 1980 about his $55,600 purchase of a 54-foot beach at Congress Street in 1978.

Runaway Bus OCEAN CITY — Thomas Jennings, 69, of Longport was admitted to Shore Memorial Hospital for observation Saturday after his 1981 truck was dragged nearly 2,300 feet by a Silver Eagle tour bus into a parked truck. The bus' brakes failed on the Ninth Street Bridge. Before it coasted to a stop near N'jnth and As bury Avenue, the bus also ran a red light and hit an auto driven by Loucilla Thurlow, 64, of Ocean City. Its bumper and the bus doors were torn off. Only < Jennings was reported injured. Hall Selling Out ? WILD WOOD — Convention Hall directors want to sell its 10 Boardwalk stores, rather than rent them to tenants, and sell air rights above the parking lot on the north side of the building. Sales plans will pernfy Wild wood's Parking Authority, which operates the hall, to retire $2 * million in bonded debt. Plans will be discussed with city council before any decision is made. Don 't Fence Me In COURT HOUSE — The county has agreed to purchase about 16 acres adjacent to the state Extension Service building on the north side of the Court House-South Dennis Road in Middle Township from the estate of James O. Garrison. Price was $74,900 and settlement won't take place until next Jan. 4. or later. Toxic Testing CAPE MAY — City Manager Fred Coldren released a letter at city council's meeting last week in which Jersey Central Power and Light Co. of Morristown reported plans to test its former coal gasification plant, Lafayette and St. John streets, for the presence of toxic chemicals this month. The city requested tests of the site where the plant closed 40 years ago. v. Citing Company COURT HOUSE — Complaining that Murphy Mart management has defied his call to fill pot holes in its' parking lot ' here, Middle Township Committeeman Charles Leusner told his colleagues last week that the shopping center owner Court House Village Co.. should be handed a formal complaint. The committee decided to direct the tpwnship health officer to cite the company for the alleged health hazard. Pleads Guilty SWAlNTON — Leonard Kaplan of Margate, former owner of Convalescent Care Inc. which went bankrupt here two years ago. is free on bail while awaiting sentencing Oct. 29 for defrauding Medicaid out of $52,636 and failing to pay the state more than $26,000 in 1979 and

1980 taxes. He pleaded guilty in Superior Court Friday and faces 20 years inprison ment and $42,500 in Jines. 9- Year Minimum * WILDWOOD - Scott M Whitaker, 25. will spend at least nine years in prison oa a 20-year sentehce for the aggravated man slaughter of Vernon Seger, 22, on July 28, Superior Court Judge James A. O'Neill ruled last week. Whitaker fatally stabbed Seger five times after an argument about a loud radio at 136 W. Garfield where both lived. On parole for a 1980 stabbing then, Whitaker was also charged with slashing another neighbor's face but those charges were dropped in a plea bargain. Rescuers Save 7 PORT N ORRIS — William Bannon, 37, of Court House was one of seven people Coast Guardsmen and Marine Police rescued from the Delaware Bay during rain, fog and high winds early last week. Reported overdue Sept. 30 from Jack King's Marina here, Bannon and two Millville fishermen were os potted by helicopter near the Brandywine Light early Oct. 1 in six-foot waves. Four unidentified people were also rescued from an open boat 10 miles off Fortescue later that morning.

Boat Sinks; 2 Saved THUNDERBOLT, GA. - Coast Guardsmen rescued Carl Bacon, 18, of Cape May and Mark Gero, 23, of Tuckerton from the mouth of the Wilmington River last Tuesday night after their 46-foot <T fishing boat. Liari, struck a jetty and xsank while the fishermen were attempting to dock here. Neither man was reported injured but the boat was extensively damaged. Salvage was under way Wednesday. Spirits Up AVALON — You may be thinking Christmas, but Avaion officials this week announced they'd like to have homemade floats in next year's Fourth of July parade. There'll be all feorts of categories, all sorts of prizes, and judging for costumed walkers, all in the a theme. "Spirit of America." Call 967-3066 for details. High Sodium (From Page 1) Protection says the healthy maximum is 50 mg/1 (milligrams per liter). Four private residences in Cape May tested at 61.6, 60.6, 58 and 54.6. A home in Cape May Point, which also uses Cape May water, tested at 53.6. CAPE MAY'S municipal wells had readings of 65, 63.7 and 29.4. And wells at the US Coast Guard base tested at 53.3 and 51.6. * \ The city has acknowledged its salt water instrusion problem for some time and is seeking either new wells or a water supplier. Only qfje of four Stone Harbor private residences tested had a reading of 52.9. The other three were 47.7, 46.6 and 46.5. But its municipal wells tested at 47.8, 57.4, 60.9 and 79.1. Avaion also had only one higher than 50 mp/l of four homes samples. The other three had readings of 40.4, 40.3 and 33. Two of its four municipal wells tested at over 50, one at 5yi , the other 59.3. The other two were 40.1 and 31. ONE BARRIER ISLAND municipal well owned by Wildwood had a reading of 89.2. but Health Department sources said it is usually not used except for fighting fires. Its drinking water primarily comes from wells in the Rio Grande area where there is not believed to be a salt "water problem. These samples were taken Sept. 5 and 6 and tested at the Stockton State College laboratory since the county still isn't capable of testing for sodium. / The state requires— physicians to be warned if the soditmi levels t^> 50 and county Health Officer -Loafi* J. Lamanna did that in March, calling readings over 50 mg/1 "a serious problem." County cardiologists.-ftobert Sorensen and Suketu Nanavati,^>n the o^her hand, have said the salt levels are nothingjoj*- ' concerned about.