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New Horse Needs — New Name

by JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE - The county Sheriff s Department has added a cavalry — sort of. A "fully-trained" horse, donated by the Philadelphia Police Department, will be used to patrol the 218-acre county park on weekends and at special events. The horse's name is Jan. but he's going to have to get used to a new one. Sheriff James Plousis is holding a contest for children. 12 and under, to name the gelding, which he described as a "Thoroughbred, chestnut brown with black tail and black mane."

Entry blanks for the contest appear in c today's issue, on page 93. and also are f available at the park. Sept. 13 is the deadline to return entries to the sheriff at c the county courthouse. v PLOUSIS SAID a trainer told him "you can acclimate a horse to a new name in 1 about three days." 1 The first 100 entries will get Philadelphia ( zoo passes. The winning entry will receive a gift certificate to be determined. r The park has its own security force, but j the Sheriff s Department has been patroling it for the last two months, at the re-

quest of Parks Executive Director Leon Fulginiti. Plousis said. "A horse can go places nothing else can," Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr.. who heads public safety, said last week. THE SHERIFF SAID this is the third enforcement agency in the state to have a horse, and the first sheriff's department. He added that it should be "good community relations. How many children pet a patrol car?" The sheriff also recently added two (Page 93 Please) ' N* 1

Harold Copper and Jan

News™ f-v • , Week's D I geSl Top Stories Smell Suit? CREST HAVEN - Middle Township Mayor Michael J. Voll said Monday that the township will begin taking depositions tomorrow morning from people complaining about odors at the county Municipal Utilities Authority's new composting plant here. Armed with depositions. he said, the township will sue to close the plant. The mayor, who also is local Health Board chairman, said the board voted unanimously Thursday to go ahead. The MUA has said it needs a few weeks to solve the odor problem Eau de SIC SEA ISLE CITY — That stench along Central Avenue may be reduced this week when R.J. Longo Co. of DenvilSe begins trenching for 2,200 feet of newsanitary sewer lines between John F. Kennedy Boulevard and 49th Street. The city spent $1 million to repair Central Avenue sewer lines that collapsed between 35th Street and the boulevard last summer. Scheduled for completion Sept. 30. the current project will cost $434,371, about $200,000 less than originally estimated. Quit, or Face Trial COURT HOUSE - Hearings for six county Parks Department employes, accused of being disorderly persons for using marijuana while on the job, were postponed Friday and rescheduled for next Monday. The employes have bqen suspended and the county is willing to drop charges if they'll resign, according to Detectives' Capt. Robert W. Elwell. Parks has already hired three replacements: a carpenter, a groundskeeper, and laborer. A seventh employe, William Howard MacBride, was fired and is charged with theft and possession of more than 25 grams of marijuana, Elwell said. Gag Order STRATHMERE — Complaints from four residents about noise from the (Page 4 Please)

No Traffic Problems?

COURT HOUSE — Herring or baloney? Freeholders James S. Kilpatrick Jr. last week said newspaper accounts of citizen complaints about traffic problems in Dennisville and Ocean View were "a red herring" "That's a lot of baloney," responded Kit-

ty Hamman of Main Street in Dennisville. "And I'm sure anybody in Dennisville would agree." "That's what he (Kilpatrick) would say," commented Louis Weiner, president of the Ocean View Civic Association. "It's no red herring. It's a very real fact of life. " HAMMAN AND WEINER were among

two dozen Dennis Township citizens who T complained to the freeholders July 9 about traffic problems in their communites. which lack local police and are patroled by the State Police out of Port Norris, Cumberland County. The freeholders had suggested residents • consider asking for local police. State Police Lt. S. W. O'Brien attended the freeholder meeting last week "to answer your questions about our coverage' in Dennis, Upper and Woodbine. " (Page 93 Please)

pinside... AVALON recall looms. Page 18. COUNTY plagued with insurance claims. Page .(no page no.) MAKE the community college decision in public. An editorial, page 94. LENGTHY hunting season, for antiques. Arthur Schwerdt, page 16. SINCE caterers first walked the earth.. .Joyride, page 95. LOWER Township's version of "The Breakfast Club." From the Principal, page 70. ARIES: go ahead; Capricorn: trust instinct. Plane tarily Speaking, page 95.

Bert Hodge MORNING DEVOTIONS — Sisters of the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary say the Stations of the Cross at the Villa Maria by the Sea retreat house at 1 1th Street and the beach in Stone Harbor. About 1.500 sisters from that order, headquartered at Immaculata, Pennsylvania, come to Villa Maria each summer for a 6-day retreat. 4-day vacation. The retreat house accommodates 200 and has its own chapel, closed to the' public, for daily masses.

I 1,000 Visit Daily Gulls Dying at Station

By E.J. DUFFY BURLEIGH — "They claimed that the trash transfer station wouldn't attract seagulls," Middle Township Commit-

teeman James Alexis complained after inspecting the county MUA depot on Shunpike Road last week. "I got an anonymous call," he explained, that migratory Laughing Gulls were being killed or maimed on a wire grid rigged above a fire pond there to discourage the birds from landing. "They constructed the pond," Alexis griped, referring to MUA officials. "I think they constructed an attractive nuisance." He compared the pond to an open cookie jar that lures children, then snares them when they reach inside While a score of birds circled or fed on a pile of uncovered trash at the site last Wednesday, battered remains of 25 other gulls rotted nearby. Victims, Alexis said, of the MUA which last year told him and other opponents of a transfer station here that the birds wouldn't be a problem , trash would be out of their reach Middle Township officials preferred a site on county property at Crest Haven. But freeholders selected a 19-acre Burleigh tract where the depot opened this time last year. BY OCTOBER. MUA Executive Director George Marinakis was calling the sea birds a nuisance at both the transfer sta- ( Page 93 Please)

County Eyes More Of Middle By JOE ZEI.NIK COURT HOUSE - A representative of the New Jel-$ey„Gqnservation Foundation last week offered to help the county acquire additional land for open space ± County freeholders are known to be eying a 56-acre parcel on 'he west side of Route 9 just south of the 218-acre countypark in Middle Township The property owned by Viola Naylor. has been listed at $7,000 an acre for a total of $392,000. Sources indicated the county was willing to pay that price, but Naylor changed her mind The county still is "wooing" her. sources said. REALTOR multiple listings describe it as "an excellent property for development of medium-priced homes, zoned for a single-family and duplex, with public road frontage on two sides." Taxes were $4,272. The property does not include the Naylor house. Middle Township officials reacted with dismay last month wnen the county announced it would buy the Social Services and American Center Society buildings at Route 9 and 47. "the top piece of real estate in the county," according to Mayor Michael Voll. He released a three-page list of property owned by the county and therefore tax exempt The total value was almost $26 million and the annual taxes lost amounted to more than a half-million dollars. DIRK VAN NEST of the conservation foundation suggested to the freeholders that some property owners, whether for tax or other reasons, are willing to donatesome of their land. In that way. and using the Land Trust/Green Acres Acquisition Program, the county could obtain land "at nominal cost," Van Nest said. "There's still a free lunch around." com mented county Planning Director Elwood (Page 93 Please) I Early Deadline COURT HOUSE - This newspapers office will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2. News and advertising deadlines for the issue of Sept. 4 will be 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29.

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