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News—^ Dippst Weeks Top Stories Brings Home Bronze WILDWOOD CREST - Resort lawyer Robert A. Fioeberg came home with a bronze medal from Parker Bros, national Monopoly championship in Beverly Hills, Calif., Nov. 17-19. Representing New Jersey, the solicitor for Avalon and Cape May's school board finished 12th of 51 players and actually beat the winner, Tim Forbes of Florida, during qualifying rounds. Forbes will represent the U.S. at the International Monopoly Championship in Atlantic City next August. Aramingo Meeting STRATHMERE — Officials from the state Board of Public Utilities and Department of Environmental Protection will hold a hearing in Strathmere Volunteer Fire Co. tomorrow at 10 a.m. about Aramingo Water Co. They'll rehash the ailing utility's problems and the costs of possible solutions. Upper Tewnship and Sea Isle City officials are also expected. A question and answer session will follow the presentation. $800,000 Project COLD SPRING — Lower Township's elementary school board voted last week to ask voters for approval of a $400,000 budget transfer aijd another $400,000 in bonds to repair Lower Township Consolidated School here. The district has been patching 200 roof leaks a year t the vintage building, Edward J. Campbell, superintendent, said Monday. He said the district plans a special (Page 41 Please) Coldren 's H20wed? CAPE MAY — Hie water wells are in Lower Township, but Cape May owns them. Cape May has the power to raise its own rates for its own residents, but can't raise anybody else's. That bone of contention came up again last week as city council decided to ask the state Board of Public Utilities (BPU) for permission to bill outside communities on the basis of master water meters. Cape May presently meters and collects water rents from individual customers. As it is, Cape May claims its own people are paying more for water than the other towns. • It operators the water system for itself, West Cape May, Cape May Point, the Coast Guard base, and parts of Lower Township including Schellenger's Tending "Cape1 May City, Cape May Point and the Coast Guard acknowledge their respective responsibilities to maintain their own water distribution systems, and do so," said Cape May City Manager Fred Coldren. "LOWER TOWNSHIP and West Cape May deny their responsibilities and insist that either the city or individual property owners are responsible for water distribution system maintenance," Coldren added. "We're trying to get a rate that we all (will) pay for water, but each community will pay for its own maintenance," Coldren said. "We are presently losing water in West Cape May and Schellenger's Landing." The water is being lost, Cape May maintains in its BPU petition, due to the city's inability to enforce maintenance responsibilities in outside jurisdictions." In the petition, the city acknowledged "long-standing jurisdictional disputes" over the matter. Cape May says the water is being lost through leaky mains that are not being repaired. It contends' those lines are in Lower and West Cape May. Both communities have argued that since Cape May owns the water system, it should also be responsible for maintaining

Mental Lifesaver Hits Beach

By JOHN DONuHUE COURT HOUSE - Flood? What flood? If you got caught in the flood last March, you may be eligible for free trauma counseling Never mind that you'd rather forget the whole thing. al Almost eight months later, help is arriving. , Now, the problem is finding out, who e needs it* Some $23,000 has been set aside for residents of the county who may still have 5 emotional problems with that flood. 1 The money will pay for counselors to listen to your problems.

You say your wooden sidewalk and your outdoor tool shed floated away and you flood insurance wouldn't cover them because they weren't nailed to the house? You say your inlaws came to dinner and were marooned at you place all summer? And you thought nobody cared? Take heart. The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly. In October, seven months after the flood, something called "the flood Assistance Recovery and Referral Project" sprang into action. It got the $23,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. What's that, a foundation? "ITS A GOVERNMENT agency," said

John C. Roy, who is coordinating the project out of offices in Ocean City. Are there any income limit requirements? * "As far as I know, there are no income requirements," be said. "Let me get my grant application," Roy added. "I can't find it," he said. "Actually, I don't know too much about this. I'm supposed to meet with a federal guy tomorrow in Court House, and I'll know more about it then," Roy said. Flood? What flood? The northeastern caused an estimated $30 million in damages in Cape May Coun(Page 16 Please)

War Bride Dusts Memories

CAPE MAY BEACH - During the months immediately following the end of World War II, 39 years ago, more than 60,000 foreign "war brides" who had married American sen icemen came to the United States. * Aboard the Queen Mary on one of those trips was Margaret Owens Baj, 24, of Liverpool, England. She was greeted in New York by her husband, Stan, then the couple settled in Philadelphia, Stan's home town. Today, the couple lives in retirement in the Cape May Beach section of Lower Township where they bought a modest home nine years ago. The Bajs have a daughter and two grandchildren who live in Bayside Village, Villas. Stan is a 1937 graduate of Northeast Catholic High School and grew up in St. Adalbert's Parish. "I was a milkman for five years when I graduated high school, then went into the war," he said. "Later, I was a bakery driver for 18 years and a bartender for 13 years. Down here, I was a school bus driver for four or five years. I'll be 66 next week." His wife was working with computers for the Royal Ordinance Factory in England where the couple first met during the war. "A PROFESSOR AT Cambridge was developing computer systems at Lec thworth Garden City where a lot of pioneering was being done," Peggy said. "I had been doing payrolls when they sent me down to Lecthworth to program a computer. Of course, that industry was all so new then that when I came to the United States, nobody over here knew what I was talking about. "We met in 1943. Stan was stationed in England, then he went to France and we didn't know when we would ever get together again," Peggy continued.

"After VE Day, Stan was sent back to England for rest and recuperation before being shipped to the Pacific. We were married Sept. 1, 1945, and the Japanese surrendered the next day . " she recalled Stan chuckled. "We were married one day during the war," he said. Peggy remembered how the soldiers were sent home to the U.S. while their brides had to stay in England for a time, awaiting approval to join them. (Page 41 Please) Twp. Liens On Dem HQ COURT HOUSE - The County i Democratic Party, trounced earlier this month at the polk by a 2-1 margin, may i also be in for a licking by the tax collector. The party hasn't paid the taxes on its i clubhouse since 1962, despite assurances | that there is money to pay them. Elections have been taking priority, i says the party's chairman. 1 Middle Township last week placed a lien i of $2,106 against the property, at the cor- i ner of Pacific Avenue and the Garden I State Parkway, for unpaid 1983 taxes. The township can foreclose and sell the t property outright ia six months, if the s taxes are net paid by then. ( The owner is officially listed on tax rolls < as Cape May County Democratic Ex- * ecutive Committee. Samuel S. DeVico. 52, former Middle i Township Mayor and current county party r * (Page 41 Please)

DEP Weighs Appeal

Nursing Home Site Last Week Doru ward

| Meets With Co. Planners I Tomorrow By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE — The county Planning Board last week refused to rescind its appeal of the CAFRA (Coastal Area Facilities Review Act) permit for the proposed Court House Convalescent Center. Instead, officials told the developers, Court House Associates, that they would meet as soon as possible with the DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) to attempt to resolve concerns about waste water from the 120-bed nursing home proposed on a 2.5-acre sites on Magnolia Drive. The meeting will take place tomorrow, according to John Weingart, director of DEP's division of Coastal Resources. In the meantime, he said, the county's request that the permit be "stayed" would ndt be acted upon. "We are allowing the applicant to continue construction through Thursday," said Weingart, "on the basis of the acceptance of die applicant to restore the site should the appeal be successful." ATLANTIC CITY attorney Norman L. Zlotnick represented Court House Associates before the nine-member board Nov. 20. It had Linwood attorney Michael J. Fitzgerald present as its counsel. The Planning Board has charged DEP did not adequately consider ground water quality, specifically nitrate dilution, possibly because mo6t of its attention to the project came while it was still expected to connect to the Middle Towiwinp Sewage Treatment plant The plant's lack of capacity was revealed in late June Zlotnick, saying his client had "deepseated feelings" that he was being treated "more than a little unfairly," said the record would show that DEP did make consideration. I hope to convince the board tonight to withdraw the appeal," said Zlotnick. "We we can answer your concerns tonight that tomorrow, or the next day, or next week, you can tell us you are withdrawing the appeal." BUT AFTER 85 MINUTES of discussion, board chairman William J Diller Jr. summed up by saying, "The answer will from (DEP) Commissioner (Robert) Hughey (to whom the appeal went) and we will go from there." Zlotnick suggested the difference of opinion could be the result of poor communications, or a typist's error. (Page 16 Please)