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News — Digest ( From Page 1 ) after he allegedly roughed up Assistant CountjProsecutor Albert Telsey in front rof a jufy last Wednesday. Hartman accused Telsey of mimicking him. O'Neill said he'll sentence Hartman after he's finished defending Wildwood businessman Louis Lambert against weapons, theft and fencing charges. Repairs, Suits Okayed STRATHMERE - Upper Township Committee adopted an emergency resolution last week, authorizing $10,000 for initial repairs to the ailing Aramingo Water Co. here. The resolution follows Superior Court Judge Steven Perskie's order last month that the township take over Aramingo. Committeemen also authorized their solicitor to sue Aramingo and add Sea Isle City to the suit filed against Upper in August by the Strathmere Improvement Association. Ron's Their Man WILDWOOD — Students and faculty at Wildwood Catholic High School reelected Ronald Reagan president by a 9-1 margin last week with about 90 percent of the . students voting in the mock election. The voting followed a formal assembly of speeches and modified debate. The election was sponsored by the senior honors history class. Preliminap- polls indicated a 4-1 Reagan victory while an exit poll predicted a 6-1 margin in his favor. Casino Impact SMITHVILLE - State Sen. James R. Hurley and five other speakers will discuss the impact of casinos on area business during a luncheon seminar next Thursday at the Freehold Barn of the Quail Hill Inn here. Sponsored by the state Travel and Resort Association, the seminar was prompted by state Assemblyman Guy F. Muziani's push for a state study on the casinos' financial impact, particularly "comps" or casino give-aways during the tourist season. School Chief Resigns CAPE MAY — City school officials have started looking for a new administrative principal in the wake of John Dermarest's announcement Thursday that he'll resign July 2, Jane B. Briant, school board secretary, confirmed Monday. Until- then, she said, Dermarest will be on medical leave. He's been with the district since January 1970. t Band's Back j SWAINTON — County freeholders asked William Band to stay on as chairman of the county MUA last week an he rescinded the resignation he submitted last month. It followed Freeholder William E. Sturm's complaint about $13 a ton tipping fees for biodegradable refuse at the MUA's new landfill, Woodbine. "The monkeys are running the zoo." griped Sturm, later apologizing to the MUA. Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr. apologized for his ' colleagues. He told Band they don't recall Sturm's remark. Rolling Up the Sidewalks DIAMOND BJSACH — Resort developer Robert Ciampitti has agreed to remove sidewalks on Memphis and Rochester avenues in the wake of contempt of court charges filed against him late last month. Ciampitti was accused of violating a preliminary injunction, blocking him from filling and building here until U.S., District Court decides if he can develop on what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contends is wetland. .«

Fines Going Up CAPE MAY — Contractors doing business with this municipality will face stiffer penalties ranging from $500 to $1,000 per day for failing to finish on time, city council decided Monday night. "I've seen fines of $200 and $250 laughed at," Councilman Harry A. Gilbert said. The new penalties will not affect the current $1.3-million street repaving work which is expected to be done by next . summer. AEDP&L? PLEASANTVILLE - John Feehan, chief executive officer of Atlantic Electric, announced Thursday Uiat the utility is considering a corporate affiliation with Delmarva Power and Light Co. which serves parts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia across the Delaware Bay. In a deliberately broad statement, AE noted that both companies' boards have begun studies of an affiliation, declining to elaborate on what type of an arrangement it would be. At Last! STONE HARBOR — Coastal Structures Inc. of Manasquan has completed work on the 104th Street Bridge, Freeholder William E. Sturm Jr. announced this week. Designed by the county Engineer's Office, the bridge cost $260,000, with Uncle Sam paying 80 percent and the county 20 percent. Thousands of dollars were saved, said Sturm, by designing the bridge "in house." It was the first timber - bridge in the state financed with federal " money. It was also finished almost six months late. Helping Hand The Herald and Lantern will once again publish a Helping Hand for the Holidays page between Thanksgiving and Christmas, listing the efforts of county groups to aid those in need. To be included in the listing, specific details on an organization, contact person and telephone number must be received at the Herald and Lantern office by Nov. 14. Questions/and or more information, call Libby Moore at 465-5057. Minister Buried GREEN CREEK - Rev. Fred Strudwick, 68, retired pastor of Bethel Green Creek and Dias Creek United Methodist churches, was buried in W|itemarsh, Pa., Friday. He was pronounced dead at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, Court House, after the 10-foot fishing boat he shared with James Losey of Villas capsized Oct. 30 in • Taylor Sound, east of Erma Park. Harold Croasdale, 67, of Del Haven rescued Losey, 75. He was admitted to Burdette's , critical care unit. , A Trashy Tale CAPE MAY —A private trash hauler's truck had so many things wrong with it that police ordered it off the road, and guess what? "I have 21 days of trash in my garage," a homeowner complained to city council Monday night. Replied Mayor Arthur Blomk vest: "Those trash haulers have put us in a very awkward # position. They give us the same old excuses and dja't fix their trucks." Charged with Murder v OCEAN CITY — Resort police have arrested a man identified only as Gerald J. Bonds for the Sunday night murder of Lucy Tiernan, 37, at her home, 710 Haven Avenue. Patrolman Scott Adams found the mother of two bleeding from multiple stab wounds in her left side when he answered an 11 : 15 pjn. call to a domestic dispute. She later died at Shore Memorial Hospital. According to police, they found

Bonds in a pile of lumber near the slaying scene. A fugitive on drug and related charges, Bonds was being held without bail Monday for murder, possession of cocaine and unlawful use of a weapon. A Year in the Making SEA ISLE CITY - Contract talks that began September 1983 between resort officials and 16 clerical workers ended Friday when city comniissioners ratified a two-year pact with Council 19, New Jersey Civil Service AssociationCommunications Workers of America.

The pact calls for $850 raises both this year and next in the clerks' salaries that range between $11,000-114,000 a year. The union represents about 70 city workers total. * More Room for Books CAPE MAY — Radnor Restoration Co. of Delaware County, Pa., will build a 700-square-foot addition to the city library on Ocean Street, city council decided in announcing the contract award last week. Council, however, postponed a decision on whether to accept Arawak Paving Co. of Hammonton as the low bidder ($377,00^for reconstruction work on resort sleets.

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(From Page 1) plans and let the Coast Guard, local, state and national elected officials know how club members felt. Because of the controvery, the Coast Guard decided to advertise for lighthouse leasing proposals in late February. It already had one from MAC and received a second from the Cape May Point Taxpayers' Association which counterproposed to restore the lighthouse but keep it closed. POINT OPPONENTS of MAC'S plan objected that MAC'S idea would encourage too much additional traffic through their secluded resort to the lighthouse-tourist attraction. Any more tourists in the vicinity, they argued, would threaten local wildlife refuges and sand dunes. While awaiting The Point association's proposal in March, Smith's predecessor, Capt. Donald H. Ramsden, predicted a decision on the lighthouse lease in last April or May. In May, it was put off until June or July. In late August, Smith reported that the decision was postponed again. "The two interested parties are still talking to each other," the comptroller said then. "I don't know what the time frame is." Late last month, he confirmed that the taxpayers' association "dropped out of the competition," leaving MAC as the only other contender, but with a hitch — the association wants veto power over MAC's leasing proposal. "And we're not sure we'll lease it to the one agency because of the objections of the

other agency," Smith added. He's notify,4ng Congressman William Hughes of the f Coast Guard's latest position by mail this •^THEY'RE BASICALLY saying they have-not reachdfcl an agreement," said John Mruz, an aide in Hughes' Northfield office, Summarizing the expected letter from <5 Thursday phone conversation with Smith's office. "I know they are having substantial difficulty." Hughes, Mruz added, was asked to monitor the leasing negotiations by both The Point taxpayers' association and MAC. "We feel the Coast Guard, to this point, has done a good job in giving both sides a fair hearing," the aide continued. "The Congressman, after receiving the letter, might decide to get more involved to try and break the deadlock. But, at this point, we're waiting to see the letter." Orginally, the Coast Guard approached MAC informally about restoring the lighthouse. The oi^anization has been successful in restoring the Emlen Physick Estate and operating the mansion designed by Frank Furness as a tourist attraction on Washington Street, Cape May. WHEN THE POINT Opponents to MAC'S plans raised their objections, Ramsden said the Coast Guard was leaning in favor of the then pending lease proposal from its taxpayers' association since that organizations more closely represented the in- \ terests of those where the lighthouse is located (Actually, it's just over the Cape May Point boundary in Lower Township). "We are inclined to respect the needs of the community where the light is," he noted in March. After he received the taxpayers' association proposal and weighed it against MAC's, Ramsden inclined in the opposite direction, putting MAC at the top of the leasing see-saw again. "As a practical matter, Mid-Atlantic Center ... has sufficient resources to handle it," he said of lighthouse restoration costs in May. The Point people "are somewhat naive on costs," Ramsden added then. Coast Guard officials considered paying an estimated $100,000 in lighthouse repairs oyt of Third District money, then turning over the restored structure to The Point taxpayers' association, Ramsden continued. "BUT THAT DOES not meet the objectives of the National Historical Preservation Act," he explained, because The Point organization does not intend to open the lighthouse to visitors and the act requires public access. "It's obvious from all that I've said that I've said that Mid-Atlantic Center is going to have-a leg up because it's going to maintain it as an active site," the Coast Guard captain concluded in May. Since then, both sides have met to try and iron out their dispute. The result was that the taxpayers' association slipped off the see-saw and the Coast Guard was left balancing MAC in the air against the taxpayers' call for veto power over anv MAC lease. "I'm fairly certain, if we signed a lease with MAC, there would be all sorts of a public outcry down there," Smith observed. "My initial reaction was to delay doing anything for a year or so."

Vistenzo— — : (From Page 1) participate on the planning board." As for the zoning position, Alexis said Vistenzo "was only an advisor as to why he sent a particular application to the zoning board for review." The township plans to organize three sewage districts, but Alexis said the present district No, 1 election first has to be held. "The tone of the presentment indicated an election should be held as quickly as possible," he said. Although the construction official serves under Alexis, the grand jury presentment said Alexis never got a satisfactory answer when he asked Vistenzo about what was then a suspected illegal sewage connection between the RomneyEast subdivision, of which Realtor Thomas Repici was one owner, and the Hy-Land Motor Inn Recici owns. "That has been a sore spot." Alexis conceded last week. "It will never happen again." ^ ___ ___ , THE -GRAND JURY last week indicted Rqrici for "theft of services" because of that connection. Alexis said Vistenzo served in those unpaid jobs for many years, including since 1957 on the planning board and since 1965 on the sewerage commission. "When the township was 4,500 people, nobody was looking for the job." said Alexis!* It has since grown to 12,000, he said.