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June 5, 1985

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MAKE A BRIGHTER DAY — Faculty Sign Language Club at the county's I Ocean Academy rehearses "We Are the I World; We Are the Children." which it I will present at graduation ceremonies at I 10 a.m. today. Signing increases com- I munication with handicapped children. I according to director Kathy Filippo! I From left, front row. Kim Hilbronner I Donna Aviles. La Netta Desrosiers. I Carol Deuter, Meg Kubiak and Ntncy I Harris. Back. Filippo. Mary Maloy. I Eileen Higman. Debbie Yeager and Pam I Roberts.

News--The ... njppct Weeks O Top Stories Dems Selling Clubhouse COURT HOUSE - The county Democratic organization has paid some $5,500 in taxes owed on its Pacific Avenue clubhouse here, but voted last week to sell the budding. Mary Kalbach, vice chairman, confirmed Monday. She said the property's assessed at $101,400 so the organization should net a good bit more from the pending sale. The clubhouse had been listed for tax sale by Middle Township. PIC Change? COURT HOUSE — Lawyers for county freeholders and Nan Mavromates, administrator of their Private Industry Council (PIC), met last Thursday and "resolved" their differences, they said. The freeholders had sent complaints about her work to Mavromates via a deputy sheriff in April. Mavromates told this newspaper she was "satisfied" with the settlement. Freeholder Herbert (Chuck) Frederick, who heads that department, said Mavromates was still in charge "as of right now." The implication was that she won't be much longer. PIC is a 12-member department administering a $lV5-million job training program. Short Move GREEN CREEK — With its present lease at Route 47 and Burleigh Road ex- § pired, the post office will move a half = mile north to a temporary location in a * trailer adjacent to the former "47 Supp- I ly" building. Postmaster Wally Carty said he "hopes" that building will be renovated into a permanent site for the post office. Its hours are from 8 to 12 and (Page 54 Please)

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BEATS WALKING - Being a tall man with a short bike was no problem for Jim Fromuth. He just got a seat extender (for the bike). Fromuth and his wife. Jean, are from Reading. Pa., but weekend in their summer home in Stone Harbor.

Wildwood, Resorts Lead County in Crime

By E.J. DUFFY WILDWOOD^- -=■ This resort led the county's 16 mimicipalities in the number of people victimized by crime last year, a lead it's held for the past five years.

According to the 1964 state police Uniform Crime Report (UCR), Wildwood was followed last year by eight other resorts - Stone Harbor, North Wildwood Ocean City. Sea Isle City, West Wildwood. Wildwood Crest, and Cape May, respectively. Stone Harbor and North Wildwood, respectively, retained second and third places on the local list of crime rates for the second year in a row, having switched places in 1982. Stone Harbor ranked second and North Wildwood third in 1981 and I960, though. For the past five years, resorts have held at least the top six UCR slots on the local crime rate list. That lends weight to lawmen's criticisms that the UCRs don't properly reflect the impact on resort crime from thousands of seasonal tourists ^ because the statistics are based on relatively small residential populations. ALTHOUGH MAINLAND municipalities (Woodbine, West Cape May. Dennis, Lower, Middle and Upper townships) see their shares of summer campers, county resorts bear the brunt of local vacatiooeers. Latest figures show 750,000 tourists in the county on an average (Page 65 Please)

17 Backbay Sites Flunk CREST HAVEN — Seventeen of 46 backbay water sites tested by the county Health Department May 29 had higher than desirable fecal coliform bacteria counts. County Health Officer Louis J. La manna said it is assumed the high bacteria counts were the result of runoffs and storm drainage from rain of previous days. "II those high numbers repeat this week, without rain," he said, "there may be a problem in some areas." The chart appears exclusively in this newspaper, on page 63 this week. THE STATE WATER quality standard (Page 65 Please)

Maybe by Fail I Chamber Asks Aid From Freeholders By JOE ZELNIK

I ~~ ^rhe county.Chamber of Commerce has asked the i8rs i0ViI! S4'500 appropriation to bring it back to the $7,500 level of three years ago. The freeholders responded that they don't have the money now but might by fall. J Chamber officials said they expect to have their $14,000 annual in-

come from the Seaville Information Center cut in half because the state has taken over the operation. Chamber Executive Director Robert C. Patterson Jr. told this newspaper that its "rainy day account" is down from $30,000 to $10,000. and "could be exhausted by the end of the calendar year. It's been raining a lot lately. * "WE'RE NOT GOING down the tubes," said Patterson, "but we don't want to have to cut down on our services." Patterson said payroll is the chamber's biggest, expense, the result of the loss of the federal CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) program which provided, in effect, free help. (Page 65 Please)

inciHo GREAT (Gatsy, that is) look of the Roaring 20s is modeled by Eileen Champion. For other provocative hair styles, see page 16. Also inside, WARM up, Capricorn; by sympathetic, Scorpio. Harry Emerson Otto's Planentarily Speakinp, page 67. LOWER the flag for local officials? Two views, page 66.

Employes Nix Offer By 283-111 By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE — Negotiators for county government and its largest union will meet this week to try again to write a new contract. Employes rejected the previous proposal, 283-111, and a state mediator is in the wings. Some 700 employes, represented by Local 1983 of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, have been without a contract since last Dec. 31. They work in county operations running the gamut from the courts to roads. The union's 12-member negotiating team had recommended approval of the proposed contract and, in the wake of its rejection, many reportedly are being replaced. Lawrence A. Pepper Jr. of Vineland, the county's labor counsel, said he was "surprized and deeply disappointed" at the rank and file's defeat of the proposed three-year contract. "AFTER FOUR MONTHS of negotiations," he said, "we had come to an agreement they said they were satisifed with and that they would recommend to their fellow employes to approve. We believed we'd touched aU the bases and thought they had the pulse of their people." Business Agent Kenneth Childers of Wildwood Crest said "the hangup was longevity" and "that bonus money would not go into the base salary." The vote was taken May 24 with 394 of about 550 union members casting ballots. (Page 65 Please)