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BALLOTS ARE due in f Township Hall tomorrow / from Cape May Beach ( (Tolz Tract) residents f who've been asked by 1 Township Manager James R. Stump to vote on wheter j they want Lower's MUA to i install sanitary sewers in j thier Town Bank « neighborhood. 1 In what he called a "final proposal" Friday. Stump I as MUA director, is offer- < ing to connect 153 properties to the authority's system if their owners each < pay $1,400 over seven i years. ] Stump initially proposed i to complete the $210,000 t project at $1,315 per pro- | perty, revising the intiial • cost last month to $1 .500 for I lot owners and $750 for I home owners each year i over five years. Van Note-Harvey, MUA i engineers (see below), originally estimated the i project at $530,000, according to Stump. WHILE CAPE May Beach residents are deciding if they want MUA sewers. Stump will be revising cost projections for installing them in the Baywood Park section of Fishing Creek "I don't think it's feasible," Stump said Friday of the $150,000 proposal to connect 59 properties. That estimate was reduced from the original engineering version of $350.000-$375,000. Although Stump told Baywood Park property owners late last month that sewers would cost each between $1.000-$2.300, he's now looking for grants to complete the installation project. STUMP'S ALSO looking to replace Van NoteHarvey as the MUA engineering firm. "The Lower Township

Utilities Authority has decided to change engineering firms." he confirmed Friday. "This change is just another step in the overall reevaluation of all MUA policies," he added without elaborating, except to say soliciting proposals "from a few select firms that specialize in sanitary engineering." THE MANAGER wouldn't comment for the record on the county Health Department's response to his queries about where its personnel performed an "intensive survey" of Baywood Park that "revealed no malfunctioning septic systems" month. Development residents disputed that survey and its conclusion during a recent meeting with Stump. He called it "a bunch of so to speak. " "But they promised that, after Labor Day. they're going to do a dye test on every one of those septic tanks," Stump said of the Health Department. STUMP. BY THE way. marks his first anniversary as township manager tomorrow, and six months as head of the MUA. His comments on those jobs are elsewhere in this edition. TAKING A SHOT at the manager, one reader filled out a Lantern "News Coupon" last week, calling for "an investigation of how Township Manager Stump is able to afford a $350.000-plus home on Shore Drive with his supposed income of $45,000 " The reader, identified as "a Lower Township tax payer of Mr. Stump's salary." also asked, "is our

recent tax increase helping to pay for gas for Mr. Stump's township vehicle? And why is Mrs. Stump driving this township vehicle on weekends?" Responding to those questions Friday. Stump said his wife did drive his township car once when he parked it behtftd her auto. (As part of his hiring agreement with 'the township, the municipal vehicle and its fuel are financed with tax money. > Stump, who has other sources of income besides his township salary, is renting — not buying — his Cape May Beach home in Town Bank for $600 a month, he said. PATRICIA BOWMAN, chairwoman of the township Incinerator Authority, said Monday that it would not make a recommendation to councilmen on a proposed incinerator as planned last night. A report, expected from the authority engineer, hadn't arrived by Monday in time for members to review it. The authority, she said, would either call a special meeting on the subject or consider it during its regular 7:30 p.m meeting Aug. 20 in Township Hall, 2600 Bayshore Rd., Villas. CANDIDATES for the township's Community Standards Review Board are advised to return ap-

s plications to the municipal j clerk's office in Township Hall by next Wednesday. „ Eight board members -J will be selected by councilmen. from a cross section of township society, to decide what is and what isn't pornographic. TOWNSHIP SOLICITOR Bruce Gorman, his wife. Grace, and daughter. Megan, have just returned from a two-week trip to Scotland and England while Gorman attended the American Bar Association's annual conference in London. The Gormans stayed at Grosvener House. Mayfair. and visited Edinburgh where the solicitor once at- < tended summer classes as a Colgate University (N.Y.I undergraduate ) "It wasn't the same," he i sighed. , COUNCILMAN Joseph 1 Lonergan recorded three 1 and 4/10 inches of rain on i the gauge ouLside his North ( Cape May home after last week's thunderstorm, he ' said. 1 REMINDERS - ; Township planners hold a work review session 7:30 1 p.m. tomorrow in i Township Hall. • Council's next general work session is 7 p.m. Monday in Township Hall. • Environmental commissioners meet there Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. • Lower's MUA meets 7 p.m. next Wednesday in its administrative building. 2900 Bayshore Rd.. Villas. _

Seven Mile Beach News Notes

(From Page 24) real reunion spiced by a couple whom we hadn't met previously through they've summered on the island for 16 years. Joe and Ann Conway of Avalon are great fun! He has recently retired from the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia. They were planning to visit their son. a commander in the Navy, in Annapolis; then entertain their other son from Georgia with his family When that excitement passes the four of us plan a visit to Touche. which the Conways love and we have yet to see. Evening's highlight was. without doubt, the return of Sara Brady. Sara's back at fighting weight and sang to a standing ovation! TOM BRENNAN. who owns and operates the Harbor Light restaurant, 98th Street and 3rd Ave. in S.H is expanding his horizons. On July 19 he purchased "the business and property" of the Whitebrier Inn. 20th St. off Ocean Drive. Avalon. We followed the Whitebrier on the beach to its present chic quarters. Now. with new management and same chef we can

start enjoying old-favorite food again. WE HADN'T heard Rick Safford. piano soloist and singer at the Golden Inn in Avalon so Richard Haggarty of 67th and Dune Drive took us there for dinner July 29. If you like top-flight fingers on the keys, you'll love Rick. Because it was a Monday and less crowded than usual we learned that Jack Haughton. the mixologist, remembers all the entertainers we once knew when Wildwood. not Casinoland. got all the big names. He even remembers some we don't like the Murphy Sisters, who he said "weighted about 300 pounds each." He thinks they were at the old Shelter Haven. Also learned that Ginny llogan is the waitress with the greatest seniority She is Mr. Vince's (Cat's Meow) sister-in-law and securing repeat customers for about 16 years that we know of. Another one we love there is Joann Foley, daughter of Chief Joe Foley of the Avalon Police Force. We talked to him once about Joann and he said. "Oh, she's my favorite too, but she's a street angel and a house devil and you may quote me."

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