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Freeholders OK Murder 'Trial'

COUKT llOUSiC - There's a murder trial scheduled for the county's C)ld (kmrl House Building next month, but the defendant wilt never go to jail. The "trial" will be six p&formances of the drama. "Night of Jiimary 16th," which will be given by the Jersey Cape Performing Arts Guild Sandpiper Players on March 6. 0, 15. 16. 22 and 23 The freeholders approved tliat request from Freeholder James S. Kilpa trick Jr . tPage 28 Please)

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^OLD AND NEW — 7Vi-year-old Racgan O'Looe obviously pondered plenty before she came up with the Valentine at left. But this is the electronic age and 8-year-old Chris Lcusncr finds be can compose sweet talk faster at a com- j puter. Raegan is the daughter of Ngncy and Edward ) O'Lone; Chris is the son of Carla and Charles Leusner. f — — Ml I Ml Ml MWMMMMMPB— ■ ■ II III

A Building Ban for Court House? \

You know that one-mile-radius circle the county has drawn around the Williams dump in Swainton — prohibiting any development until the extent of toxic waste pollution is determined? " Well, now the county is considering a similar ban around the still-undefined area

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Merry Christmas COURT HOUSE — County Planning Director Elwood Jarmer said he'll have his recommendations on what to do r about a proposed 12, OOO-squa re-foot shopping center and 140-scat restaurant on Magnolia Drive ready for the Planning Board's Feb. 19 session. It meets In the county library building at 3 p.m. The center would put 5,500 gallons of effluent a day into sewage beds adjacent - to Court House Convalescent Center. The ' shopping center, whose plans have been at the county Health Department since (Page 8 Please)

* of private well pollution on Atlantic and Pacific avenues in Court House. "It would seem to me the same kind of policy should be applied," said county Planning Director Elwood Jarmer. "Where it has authority, the county shouldn't be authorizing additional^ development until we come to a resolution of how the problem will be resolved." Freeholder William E. Sturm Jr. toldthe board last week that he'd had inquiries from families in Swainton. "Their property is not moving; the banks won't loan money. Many want to enlarge. There are 'For Sale' signs throughout the area." And a state-federal study of the problem promised last fall is no where in sight. "WE'VE GOT TO GET them to locate the plume," said Sturm. "Somebody's got % i

SALT IN WATER: The latest test results confirm the year-old pattern. Page 29. FRESHWATER fishermen spend 2 million man days a year in New Jersey trying to catch the big oije. Lou Rodia. Page 18. • *

to gel off first or second or third base, or wherever the hell it is now." "I don't understand it," said Jarmer, who reported the Planning Board has written DEP to ask how "litigation" ( Whcalon Industries of Millville has sued to do its own study) caused DEP "to put "everything on hold." (Filed in autumn, the suit hearing has been postponed several times since then. It (Page 28 Please) i

Vo-Tech R eworks Budget

By JOE ZKl-MK COURT HOUSE — Unlikely a.s leaping across a chasm with two jumps — county freeholders disagreed publicly last week. Three Of tbern — Freeholder Director Gerald M. Thorton, Vice Director James S. Kilpatrick Jr., and Herbert (Chuck) Frederick — serve on the five-member Vc^ Tech Board of School Estimate. The oilier two members are. Gamaliel Broadley and William Tozour of tlie Vo-Tech Board of Education. They unveiled 1 983-86 preliminary votech budget of $2,851,461 last week, a |140,0(i0 increase over last year. The county would supply 05 percent, $1,847,470; the balance would come from state and federal sources. Thornton and Frederick said they had "problems" with the proposed budget and could rLJ vote for it. An apparently surprised Kilpatick, who is the freeholder liaison to the vo-lech district, said he favored it. "I'VE WORKED CLOSELY with the voted) district," he said. "I know the time and effort spent by the board. I recognize the cost of education is going up. The state and county must be committed..." Broadley, although he had a 3-2 sentiment in favor of the budget, decided to delay. "We .want to show harmony," he said. "1 move we postpone until you gentlemen can agree. We'll come to you again." That will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the freeholder caucus in the county library office building. It's the middle of Vocational Education Week, Vo-Tech Suj>i. Wilbur J. Kistler Jr. pointed out. Kistler's problem is that last year he sold the Board of Estimate a 9 percent budget increase on the projection of a whopping 34 percent enrollment growth. Instead, enrollment declined another 13 • percent. "You didn't meet your goals," Thornton told Kistler. "You're absolutely correct." said v Kistler. >Sb \s Looking "at FTEs (full-time equivalents), the district enrollment declined from 468 in September 1983 to 412 last September. Kistler had projected 628. This proposed budget projects an enrollment of 537 FTEs, an increase of 30 percent, a 5 percent budget hike and a 6 percent jump in county support. "I'm disappointed with the enrollment," Kistler told theixjard. "We put on a veryenergetic campaign. We did hold our own (Page 28 Please)

United Way Tops $100,000

RIO GRANDE - The United Way of Cape May County wrapped up its annual campaign last Wednesday night, raising a record $100,210 in its seventh year of existence. That's 67 percent of its $150,000 goal. The lion's share of pledges and donations, 60 percent, came from companies and their employes. "That's always been the stronghold of the campaign," said Thomas Byrne, campaign vice president. "Between the two, about $45,000 comes from the employes," Byrne added. Corporate gifts amount to $15,000. A SEVEN-FOLD increase in donations was received from casino employes who

live in Cape May County. Atlantic Electric Co. workers increased their payroll deductions by 30 percept. Substantial increases in pledges also came from 5>outh Jersey Gas Co., NewJersey Bell, Hunt's Theaters, and the Woodbine Developmental Center, Byrne said. "We feel it was a successful campgian," JByrne said. "Even if the dollar amount doesn't show a big gain, we made a lot of strides in certain areas. We are all volunteers. We've only been in existence for seven years." The goal for each of the last two annual campaigns was $150,000, a figure Byrne (Page 28 Please)