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Mystery Pilot Still Unidentified

By E.J. DUFFY ERMA — It's annoying enough when a 4 mosquito wakes you up with that irritating hum and lands like a buzz bomb just out of swatting range on your shoulder blade. But where do you complain when the aircraft out to get the bugger ruins your sleep0 "Many of us called the security office at the county airport." wrote a reader griping

about "a plane flying barely above our rooftops" that "woke many of the residents" in Villas and North Cape May around 6 a m ; on July 11. "We. ..got very little (actually nothing) | from the Security Department, and also air- i port management." the reader added. j "There are many irate voters in Ix>wer

Township who are very annoyed with the , airport management's public be damned ( attitude." «£ "WE TOLD THEM they were spraying for mosquitos." replied Edward C Kotz. deputy director for airport operations, when jji asked about the complaints (Page 73 Please) jJP*?

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News— ^ DiffPCt Weeks LVIgCSl Top Stories Police Talks TUCKAHOE - State Rep. Guy P. Muziani has called a meeting next Tuesday, July 30, at 2 p.m. in Upper Township Municipal Hall to discuss complaints of inadequate State Police protection. Muziani said the mayors of Woodbine and Dennis and Upper townships, Sheriff James Plousis, and State Police representatives will attend. Sewage Truce? COURT HOUSE - Developers of the proposed 120- bed nursing home on Magnolia Drive has given up on a controversial plan to use a septic system and proposes to install a miniature sewage treatment plant instead. "We've accomplished our purpose," said John Beitel, chairman of the Cape May Court House Neighborhood Association fighting the original septic system, "if this 8,000-gallons-a-day plant is large enough." Hospicomm President Eugene Mayer did not return thjs paper's phone calls. The DEP has postponed a July 29 hearing on the case to mid-September to give everyone a chance to study the plant's design. Back To Court COURT HOUSE - Carl Valore, attorney for Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, is asking the appeals division of Superior Court to set aside Judge Mavin Rimm's ruling that the hospital could not dismiss cardiologist Dr. Suketu Nanavati for allegedly disrupting patient care. Valore argues that Rimm ignored the weight of evidence and used the strong standard of proof in arriving at his January decision. Nanavati's attorney hadn't filed a responding brief by last (Page 4 Please) Mjnsjdp RWYIHWG you ever wanted to know about tablet and never dared to a*. Antiques by Arthur Schwerdt, page 18. LOCAi reactions to the Reagan cancer. Health Watch, page 51. CLASSIC tea stories to read while vacationing by fle tea. page 45. WE-AW concert makes an older generation wonder at the missed opportunity of using popular music to unite. From the Principal, page 28. f

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State Police: No Complaints i *■ PORT NORRIS — The commander of the State Police station covering Woodbine and Dennis and Upper townships says he has adequate troop strength to cover those municipalities at this time. Lt. S. W. O'Brien was reported in this paper last week as saying he lacked manpower and those communities "really should have their own departments." O'Brien said Monday that "In the future, if the townships keep growing the way they are, they're probably going to have to get their own police departments. But not in the immediate future." This newspaper's story resulted after two dozen residents of the Dennisville and Ocean View areas of Dennis Township complained to county freeholders that 4, state police were not controlling speeders, illegal parking, truck traffic, etc. "WE ARE KEEPING UP with the complaints" said O'Brien Monday "They've (Page 73 Please)

Freeholders Clobber Election Board

By JOE ZELKIK COURT HOUSE - If Freeholder William E. Sturm Jr. owns any covered wagons, he may want to circle 'em. His fellow freeholders last week attacked the county Board of Elections, which he "directs", figuratively, at least. Last December the freeholders did a number, in closed session, on Purchasing Director William C. Deaver. Sturm heads that department, too. Deaver resigned in April. That was about the time the freeholders ripped Roads Supervisor Leroy Reeves. He's in the Public Works Department Sturm headed. Past tense. Reeves quit and, earlier this month, the freeholders, in a rare display of not following unwritten rules, ignored Sturm's recommendation on Reeves' replacement. So Sturm gave up the department.

STURM TOI.D this newspaper he saw no connection between the earlier whittling away of his powers and the current election board controversy. "I don't think this would fall into that category." be said "I'm assigned as liaison to the election board, for advice and consultation. but it's an autonomous body appointed by the governor. Actually, although the four-member board is appointed by the governor, he accepts the recommendations of both political parties and names two Democrats and two Republicans. The board appoints staff, which reportedly includes five Democrats and five Republicans. The department has a 5191,795 payroll, which includes $6,750 apiece for chairman Helene G. Mace and secretary Elfreda Andrea, and $4,500 apiece for members Ruby Hall and Lennea Plant. THE ATTACK ON the election board was prompted by a Middle Township refusal to

pay the county $662. 16 for primary election sample ballots because they arrived "on election day or later..." % Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr commented that the same thing happened in Ocean City. "That's absolutely true." said Sturm, who lives in Middle and also got his ballot late. "Apparently a computer changeover caused some problems." "We were late," Registrar Mary Kalbach of Wildwoorl told this newspaper "Middle Township had a perfect right to do what they did. We're switching from Addressograph to computer You can't get it out if you don't put it in. We have no problem, but the county wants it done yesterday " "WE LISTENED to the (election) board make a pitch that things would be done mo-* expeditiously and more efficiently with a $38,000 computer," Freeholder Direc(Page 73 Please)

j Romney East ■ Permit Nixed By JOE ZELNIK | COURT HOUSE — Flotsam from the discredited former Middle I Township Sewage Commission keeps thumping into the current Middle f Township Sewage Commission. Last week, Samuel C. Stokes of Philadelphia came to the commission f for permission to connect to the sewage system a home he plans to I build in Romney East, a 19-home subdivision approved for a sewer ■ main in the fall of 1983. i Stokes' lot is just south of the home of Realtor Thomas J . Repici who.

Stokes said, sold him the lot on March 30, _ 1984. Stokes said he paid $25,000 under the impression that it was "a fully improved lot" with city water and sewer. But the commission, its sewage treatment plant averaging more than its 100,000-gallons-a-day capacity, has been denying new service to anyone that would increase the flow. THE COMMISSION interviewed Stokes for about 90 minutes July 16. When every possible question had been asked, a prolonged pause of more than a minute evidenced everyone's reluctance to put the matter to a vote. Finally it was chairman A1 Karaso who moved to deny the application "based on the findings. " Members Phil Heck and James G. Killian Jr. both commented that they "leaned toward" Stokes. "I feel for his hardship in this case," said Heck. "We would be doing him an injustice if we didn't grant the permit. But I understand we have a responsibility to the other people in the area. I'm torn between both." THE HARDSHIP was caused by the seller and the developer," said member Nancy Jeanne DeVico. "The reason it is a problem is that the seller misrepresented the lot. We would be doing the community an injustice." "People have been living along this line (Page 4 Please)

Subdivision Owners Ask Closed Meet COURT HOUSE - Romney East Associates has threatened to sue the Middle Township Sewage Commission for denying a hookup to a lot owner. (See related story, at left.) The firm has requested "a special closed session to discuss this situation and avoid potential litigation " The commission voted 3-2 July 16 against granting a sewer connection to Samuel C. Stokes of Philadelphia The Romney East letter, dated last Friday. was prepared by Court House attorney Frederick W. Schmidt Jr.. signed by David James Kerr of Avalon. and a copy hand-delivered to this newspaper by Court House Realtor Thomas J. Repici Repici said three would be "no addi tional verbal comments ." "IF ANY GROUP of citizens wants a special meeting, the commission will decide, depending on the urgency, whether a special is warranted." said Commission (Page 73 Please) MOLEHILL — Election Board registrars Sam Stubbs and Mary Kalbach at the console of the computer blamed foe late sample ballots.