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Digest (From Page 1) not, how about Friday? Whenever it opens, it's not completed. That will come with more work in the fall, but no more closings, authorities have said. Mavromates Hearing COURT HOUSE — Freeholder Herbert (Chuck) Frederick said last week that county PIC (Private Industry Council) Administrator Nan Mavromates of North Wildwood will recdve a hearing May 30 on disciplinary chafes. Complaints against Mavromates, six-year veteran in - the $31,753 post, have not been revealed. She's due to return to work tomorrow after a doctor ordered her to take two weeks' sick leave in the aftermath of unspecified charges that reportedly would result in her being demoted. EDC Cancels ERMA — The county Economic Development Commission cancelled its second consecutive monthly meeting last week and won't meet again until June 19. The last session was held March 20. Executive Director A. H. (Rick) Childs said it wasn't possible to get a. quorum for . last week's scheduled meeting. The fivemember commission has been down to four since January. In February, its chairman G. John Schreiner, asked freeholders to appoint Michael Belansen of Cape May to the vacancy. He was on the freeholder appointment agenda last night. He's owner of the Golden Eagle Inn, Cape May; the Grand Hotel, Diamond Beach; Cape May County Holiday Tours; and Seniors on the Go Inc. 3 Interviewed COURT HOUSE — Freeholders, last Thursday interviewed three persons for four unpaid positions on the Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Board. They include Arlene DeVaul of Seaville, who cited 21 years experience as an employe at the Lutheran Home in Ocear View, plus a family experience with a mental breakdown, Pat Brooks of Wildwood, guidance counselor to 9th and 10th graders at Wildwood High School; and Jack Trombetta of Green Creek, Lower Township policeman for 12 years, who said he had initiated a drug and alcohol abuse program in the township. Clamp That Hose KING OF PRUSSIA — The Delaware River Basin Commission declared a drought emergency Monday in the states that border the river — New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York. Pennsylvania Gov. Richard Thornburgh declared a modified drought emergency in the eastern part of the state last month. Following his example and the commission declaration, governors of the other three states are expected to restrict water use this month. Squad Collects $71,850 VILLAS — Lower Township Rescue Squad raised $71,850 by April 30 in $35 ambulance service subscriptions from 2,055 households — one-sixth of the township residences that were sent subscription infonnation. Dissatisfied with an annual $50,000 municipal contribution, the squad asked the township to requests bids for emergency service. When that didn't happen, the squad in January decided to charge instead.

Indicted for Assaults ' I WHITESBORO — County grand jurors last week indicted former Kentucky Avenue resident Richard S. Bennett, 36, on three counts of aggravated assault and one count of resisting arrest for slashing Lower Township Patrolman Bruce Olexa and attacking another officer while they were trying to arrest Bennett on a bench warrant April 10. , Olexa suffered a 21 -inch throat wound from a broken bottle, police reported. A former patient at Ancora State Hospital, Bennett was transferred to Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital after his arrest. Teen ' Critical ' COURT HOUSE - David Bailey, 15, of Goshen Road was listed in critical condition Monday at Atlantic City Medical Center after he was struck on Route 30, Absecon, Friday night by a car driven by Jean Marie Santoro, 29, of Monterey, Calif. "He ran into the side of her car," according to Police Sgt. Lee Pattison. Dredging Next Month AVALON — State money will pay all of the $360,000 needed iO dredge Oler Thorofare next month, borough officials announced last week, allowing boaters a passage around the 30th Street (Avalon Boulevard) Bridge to Townsend's Inlet and the ocean. The dredging, which will take about two weeks, has been delayed since 1981. Earlier this month, state Sen. James R. Hurley reported that the state would pay $300,000 to dredge nearby Snake Creek. * Virtually ' Not A Virtue NORTH WILDWOOD - Council adopted Ordinance 894 last week which virtually bans adult businesses in this resort through restrictive zoning and policing measures. It didn't go far enough for some of the 65 people attending council's meeting, however. They want sexually explicit material outlawed in the city. Council President Lewis Ostrander said council might later consider a stronger ordinance. Permit Probe WOODBINE — Borough Solicitor James Waldron surprised councilmen last week when he called for their immediate attention to allegations that the borough's state-administered construction code office is haphazardly issuing building permits. In some cases, the solicitor said, those officials apparently failed to get Pineland Commission clearances before issuing permits. Council agreed to consider the matter during its work session tomorrow. Driver Found Guilty NORTH WILDWOOD - Mark Garofalo, 22, of Langhorne, Pa., is scheduled for sentencing June 7 on three counts of death by auto in connection with a fatal July 9 crash at Atlantic and 21st avenues. County jurors found him guilty of those charges Thursday. Killed in the crash were Elwood McAlister, 62, and his wife, Elizabeth, 59, of Magnolia, Camden County. A family friend, Alyson Hall, 14, of Nova to, Calif., died the following day of injuries. Kathleen Farmer, 35, the McAlisters' daughter, and her children, Brian, 16, and Kelli Anne, 14, were injured in the collision.

Vietnam Veterans

(From Page 1) pery Rock University, he kept his military record to himself and focused on getting an education. "It wasn't worth the hassle," he said. HE RECEIVED a B.S. in environmental science and elemental education in 1974, and started his first teaching job at Teitelman months later. He also is track coach, ecology club advisor, and in charge of a seventh-grade camping program. In his spare time. he. is an environmentalist. "I try to teach people about nature," he said, "make them appreciate it." •"! KNEW he felt bad," said Mrs. Williams, "but 1 didn't know he felt as bad as he did. He could hardly tell me about the parade; he felt so emotional." "My wife is in tune to how I feel," said Williams, "but she can't crawl inside my body." Williams couldn't sleep the night before the parade He dressed in his jungle fatigues and he and Mendyke left home at 2:45 in the morning for a bus that departed Vineland at 5. They arrived at the parade ' staging point in Brooklyn about 8 a.m., and spent about two hours reminiscing with other veterans until the "two-and-one-half mile sea of green" started. "They were yelling and screaming 'thanks' on the Brooklyn side," said Williams, "and I thought it was great. I didn't think it could get any better. "Then the construction guys had a sign across the Brooklyn bridge, thanking us. But when we got off the bridge, they were six-to-eight people deep, throwing confetti, thanking us. It got better and better every block we went. I couldn't describe what that experience was like. It was one of the best things that ever happened to me in my life. "I KEPT WALKING slower and slower, to take everything in. My senses were being bombed with everything. They were hugging and shaking hands. They weren't just there for the parade They were genuine. They were happy to see us." Among the spectators, "a lady sitting on the curb with a picture of a son Missing in Action and a sign identifying his outfit, waiting for someone to say, 'Yeah, I'd seen your boy.' " After the parade there was a reunion at the Hotel Penta, then a party at the USS In

— ■ — V, v Doris Word SCRAPBOOK — John R. Williams, wife Sandra, and month-old Emily with an album Williams is compiling on his Vietnam experiences. trepid, an aircraft carrier moored in the New York Harbor. Williams got home about midnight, but the celebration wasn't quite over. His wife and children had mounted a sign above the living room door: "Wefcome Home. Dad; You're Always Our Hero." The next morning Williams slapped an "I'm a Vietnam Vet" bumper sticker on his truck. . "I'M NOT AFRAID to tell people I'm a ^ -'Vietnam veteran any more," he said last week. "I'm proud of it now. I'm going to try to form a group. There are lots of guys down here still kind of hiding, not wanting to say they're Vietnam vets." Williams agreed to an interview with a photograph as long as it was pointed out that "every damn vet in the country should be in the picture. I want to be a representative for every guy that served in the war. They were all part of me. and I'm part of them." There was the inevitable question about whether the war was right. "Right?" said Williams. "I did what I was supposed to do. Right or wrong is over With" ^

• W\ ( Toxic Dump Study Still Not Scheduled

(From Page 1) "found contamination on^ite and none offsite, which would indicate the pollutants * either haven't moved off-site as of yet, or aren't going to. "It doesn't look like a spreading emergency," he said.

"I'd have to know what wells they're talking about." said Jarmer "It may have moved past those wells, so far off-site that ' the wells they have aren't detecting it any more. Most did detect some toxics at one- ) point in time " Jarmer said he would ask the freeholders and the county counsel "to follow up and demand progress reports , every month to make sure the thing is # moving along." * AFTER A RIFS is prepared, the DEP will consider alternatives on how to solvfe the problem Then it selects a design and a contractor to do the work. Fiscal 1987 continues to be a guess on when the actual clean-up could start. And who would pay for it? "The Superfund, if the Superfund is still , around," said a DEP source. "We haw not yet set aside any funds for any problems in fiscal 1987," said Karen Howard of^PA. There also could be "cost recove|7 from the potentially responsible parties," a DEP official said. A number of industrial chemicals were found in 1979 illegally dumped in a former gravel pit on Siegtown Road. Scores of barrels were removed, but many had broken open. EPA added the site to its list of the 24 most hazardous waste sites in the state in December 1982. At that time it ranked 241 on an EPA list of the 418 most toxic locations in the country.

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