- K.VJ 36 * Herald & Lantern 14 November '84

News Digest i From Page 1 1 Planner Sued ^MARM?>HA — A lawsuit, charging Upper Township planning board member William Brown with improprieties in voting on a campground in which his • ^bank had an interest, has been filed in slate Superior Court by Linda Blank and Joan Shams, both of North Shore Road The suit alleges that Brown had real estate dealings with the applicant, Bayberry Cove Campground owner Ralph Clayton, Jr., and that he borrowed money froifo the Tuckahoe Bank; Brown's its president. Sewers Or Else SHAWCR£ST — Some 80 homeowners along West Rio'Grande Boulevard have agreed to pay $300,000 towards a new sewage system rather than be forced out of their homes by the county Health Department because of persistent septic tank hazards. Lower Township's MUA build and maintain the system while residents pay user and connecting costs. Outfall Sampled OCEAN CITY — A sewer outfall line, ivhich runs more than a mile into the ocean off 46th Street's treatment plant, shows no evidence of causing contamination, the county Municipal Utilities Authority reported last week. Water samples were tested for mercury, lead. zinc, cadmium, phosphorous and other contamfHants. An Audubon lab did the testing. Khaki-colored Danger BURLEIGH — Clammers from Cape May Canneries here, caught more than they expected last Tuesday - A First World War hand grenade and an artillery fuse exploded later by the Atlantic City Bomb Squad. Two days later, the squad was called back to remove the detonator from a 40-pound. 100-millimeter British artillery shell found in the attic of a Mechanic Street house. Court House. Not Guilty COURT HOUSE — County jurors found Wildwood businessmen Louis Lambert and Edward Donnelly not guilty on weapons charges and Lambert not guilty of receiving stolen property after two hours of deliberation Thursday. That followed a request for the legal definition of entrapment in the month-long trial. Both men were indicted August 1983 after lawmen raided Lambert's Erma home and Wildwood business and reportedly seized four guns, ammunition, gold silver and $47,000 in cash.

Back to Sea CAPE MAY — Two tugs towed a barge iadened with 500 tons of stone off the beach during hightide Thursday morning where it and a 68-foot tug beached Nov. 6 r after its tow line to the barge fouled the tug's propeller. With help from the Coast Guard, the tug's owners hauled it free that night. Guardsmen also freed a 45-foot tug from a sandbar off Hereford Inlet earlier that day. No Transcripts ' WILDWOOD — City council will not see transcripts of testimony from a recent state grand jury investigation of the local police department. A request was made for them by council Solicitor Henry James. Superior Court Judge Samuel D. Lenox Jr. denied the request Thursday. No indictments were handed down after the jury's probe of alleged burglaries by city lawmen a decade ago, but council President Victor DiSylvester said releasing the testimony might clear the air. On Second Thought WILDWOOD — Replacing the whole boardwalk in the second ward may not be , necessary, so the job was temporarily called off last week while city council thinks it over. Council President Victor DiSylvester said he thinks only about 10 percent of the planks in that ward may need replacing. It was also suggested that a tram operator might be persuaded to pay for some concrete work in between the boards. Arts Coordinator COURT HOUSE — Nancy L. O'Lone of Delmont. Cumberland County, is slated to be appointed by county freeholders this week to a new. part-time position as coordinator of the county Cultural and Heritage Commission. It will pay about $6,700 a year for 20 hours a week. Money is coming from a $7,500 state grant that matches the c.ounty's $7,500 contribution to the commission: $3,000 in cash, $4,500 in in-kind services, according to Freeholder James J. Kilpatrick, liaison to the commission. O'Lone's duties will include developing a slide registry of t, local artists and finding "funding sources." Falls to Death WILDWOOD — A 77-year-old woman fell five stories to her death from a balcony at Ocean Towers condominiums Saturday afternoon. She was identified as Anna Gandy, who shared an apartment with her daughter. The elderly woman was reportedly depressed for some time. Police were investigating.

Nursing Home Back on Track

< From Page 1 ) ficials last Wednesday. The sewage flow for employes and a laundry, for example, were covered in the formula used to determine daily capacity. \ BUT MILLER WAS TOLD td.'increase that sewage capacity by 50 percent, from 100 gallons per-person per-day to 150. He told the Herald/Lantern Monday that he did not yet know if that would require leasing additional land. The lease situation also had been a Health Department concern, but county Health Officer Louis Lamanna said that was resolved by an opinion from Middle Township solicitor Bruce Gorman that "everything is in order." Court House Associates is leasing about 14,000 square feet for the septic fields for a couple hundred dollars a month" according to Eugene Mayer, Miller's partner. It's a four-year lease by which time the firm hopes to> connect to a new regional sewage treatment system. If 'for some reason it can't, the lease provides that the firm can purchase the land. OWNER OF THE LAND is Holly Associates, . which sold Court House Associates 2.5 acres for $235,000. Holly paid $167,000 for eight acres on Magnolia 16 months ago. Holly Associates includes Court House Realtor Thomas J. Repici, who sold the

land to Court House Associates; Court House attorney Frederick W. Schmidt Jr., who now represents Court House Associates locally; and Avalon Realtors William H. Tozour Jr. and David J. Kerr. * Court House Associates, under the name Hospicomm Inc., already operates Eastern Shores Nursing Home in" Swainton, opened in September 1983 and already filled. It purchased that site from Repicci too. ^ THE COURT HOUSE Convalescent Center originally was to have connected to Middle Township's sewage ' treatment plant, but that was found to lack capacity, forcing its owners to design an on-site sej> tic system. . The firm intends to have finished by next August a 120- bed long-term care, skilled nursing facility plus a 24-slot Medical Day Care Program. It will employ about 100 persons and is being financed by $5.1 -million in tax-free bonds issued via the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA). The site is bounded on the north by Magnolia Drive, on the east by the driveway that serves McDonald's and the rear of the post office, and on the south and west by vacant land and Crooked Creek. The potential flow from the sewage bees into Crooked Creek is one of the Planning -r—

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PUPIL BECOMES TEACHER — Julie Esher, 11, shows Joey Blong, 10, left, and Craig Harris, 9, how to design artwork during the county Art League's "Kids Teach Kids" program in Cape May Saturday. Julie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Esher, Court House. Joey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Blong, Wildwood. Craig is the son of Mr. and Mr. Craig Harris, Cape May. The children are studeA at South Jersey Christian Academy, Erma.

Health, B-T Nix Free Flu Shots

(From Page 1) all four either have or are giving the shots to their residents. Lamanna said the county ordered the vaccine in March, but the manufacturers had problems and it was not available. He said he didn't know how the nursing homes were getting their vaccine — "scrounging If it, I guess." The county's Crest Haven Nursing Home also administered the shots to its residents, but no one was available at the home to explain whether the county supplied the vaccine. JOANN OXLEY, director of community relations at Burdette-Tomlin, said the hospital administered 344 free shots last year, after having purchased 1,000. She said it was still uncertain whether the hospital would get a refund for unused vaccine, but she said vaccine was "the smallest part of the cost; the staff time is more." The hospital gave the shots at six locations last year; the Joseph Millman Community Center in Villas, the Upper Township Senior Center, the Stainton Senior Center in Ocean City, Cape Human Resources offices in Wildwood and Woodbine, and at the hospital. "The hospital felt last year it was a positive thing for the community," said Oxley, "but lack of interest changed their mind." * It did give shots to volunteers this year, she said. Fourteen months ago, the hospital, waging a fight for control of its board of directors, released a mortality study pointing out that the county's "high proportion of elderly residents" is a reason for some of

its high death rates. THAT STUDY reported that "pneumonia and influenza are considered a winter killer of the elderly, frail population" and said that "encouraging early intervention and prevention, such as seeing a physician at the onset of colds, etc. and flu inoculation, might decrease morbidity as. well as mortality." "We think flu shots are important for the over-65s," said Nancy Kater, epidemic intelligence service officer with the Center for Disease Control (CDC). "It's relatively easy to target them," she said "But Medicare does not cover it and many of the elderly, especially those on limited budgets, depend on public source. Kater discounted "contraindications. There just are not very many." And she said legal worried stemmed from problems with the Guillain-Berre Syndrone lawsuits following the record flu shot year of 1976. THE CDC THIS YEAR redefined its high risk groups, she said, giving the highest priority to persons with severe car- • diovascular or pulmonary disease, residents of nursing homes or chronic care facilities. Second priority, she said, was "health care personnel with extensive contact with people in the high-risk group. Third level, she said, was "otherwise •healthy persons over 65." "But the only person who should not receive it," she said, was someone with a severe allergy to chicken eggs, or a history of severe reactions. "Ten thousand persons die from flu in the U.S. each year," said Kater. "It can cause severe complications resulting in pneumonia, hospitalization and death."

Middle Creates Two Vistenzo-less Posts

i From Page 1 1 unadvertised "emergency" meeting last Thursday afternoon. The committee, which includes Alexis, Leusner and Mayor Michael J. Voll, met at about 3 p.m. in a private, closed session to discuss the Vistenzo question, according to Leusner. When they decided to make the appointments, Solicitor Bruce Gorman advised them that would have to be done in open session, Leusner said. Alexis then called the Press, an Atlantic City daily newspaper, and the GazetteLeader, a North Wildwood weekly newspaper, and gave them "a half-hour's notice,'' Leusner said. The Herald/Lantern was -not contacted. The Press sent a reporter; the Gazette-Leader did not. ALEXIS DEFENDED that method of notifying the public saying, "We fulfilled the requirements of the law." He said the "emergency" that necessitated the special meeting was that he and Voll would be out of town on vacation this week and the regular meeting scheduled tomorrow would not be held. Leusner also cited the vacations as the reason for the emergency session. "We felt we had to address the grand jury situation," he said. "Time was of the essence. Lack of action could have been interpreted as business as usual." A GRAND JURY presentment released Oct. 29 had criticized the township for having Vistenzo in so many positions and, in effect, being the only person one had to see to launch a project in the township. Vistenzo responded by resigning his unpaid post on the township Sewerage Commission and, although keeping the $26,672-a-year post as construction official, removing himself from any of its duties in

regard to the controversial Court House Convalescent Home being built on Magnolia Drive (see related story). Alexis told the Herald and Lantern that he still hasn-t found anyone to take over those duties. "Nobody wants to touch it with the publicity this project's had." he said. ALEXIS SAID Nicoletta was '.'doing a large portion of the zoning officer's duties to begin with. All we did is remove Mike's portion from it and place it in Carol's hands." Alexis said Nicoletta was, next to Vistenzo, "most knowledgeable on zoning affairs." He also said she was a Republican. The three committee members and Visten- - zo are Democrats. Alexis said Lochten was an insurance representative. Leusner said Lochten worked at the Burleigh Market. Lochten 44, said he's lived in Burleigh for three years, was manager at the Burleigh Market until early summer, and has been working there part time since. He said he was a Democrat. LEUSNER SAID Lochten "will have to take a Civil Service exam and compete with anyone else who decides to take the exam." He started work yesterday. The grand jury presentment said that Vistenzo "maintains too much control and power in the operation of the Sewerage District." And it said it was "disturbed with Michael Vistenzo's personal dealings with individuals who have substantial interests in matters pending before Michael Vistenzo. It singled out Court House Realtor I nomas J. Repici, who was indicted by the grand jury Oct. 29 for "theft of hervices." r