12 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 21 August '85

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THREE PEOPLE were hospitalized after a two-ve-hicle crash last Wednesday afternoon at Bay Drive and Robin Avenue in the Cape May Beach (Tolz tract) section of Town Bank, township police Lt. Charles Thornton reported Thursday. Injured, he said, were Margaret T. Woods. 51, of Bucknell St., Philadelphia. Frederick Melady, 17, of 111 Fire Lane. North Cape May, and his passenger. David Gantne, also 17 and from North Cape May. According to Thornton, both Woods and Melady were driving their vehicles north on Bay Drive around 3:55 p.m. Melady tried to pass, struck Woods' car, and careened into a wooded area where his car overturned, Thornton reported. Villas and Town Bank" fire companies responded to the scene with the Lower Township Rescue Squad, Thornton added. Villas firefighters extracted the victims from the vehicle with the Jaws of»Life. he said. LOWER'S councilmen last week discussed the need for better traffic' control in the Bay Drive vicinity after a child was struck by a car earlier last week while riding a bicycle. Thornton confirmed that the child was hospitalized after the crash at Oakdale and Third avenues, two blocks east of Bay Drive in Villas. The child peddled past a stop sign and the car driver unsuccessfully swerved to avoid collision, the lieutenant explained. l>ee Stanton of Cape MayBeach told councilman at last week's work session that a couple of people were almost hit along Bay Drive over the preceding weekend. Councilman Joseph Lonergan said he purposely drove along there at 25-30 . mph. and several drivers passed him in the 25-mph zone. He saw he wants "somebody there with radar for a few hours." Township Manager James R. Stump said he plans to post more 25-mph speed-limit signs along BayDrive but citing the bicycle crash. Councilman Robert Conroy said he wants to see "Children At Play" signs erected as well. Conroy said residents have asked for 15-mph speed-limits in the Bay Drive vicinity "but we can't do that." Stump said the township's "really backlogged" on its "sign program." but that he would have the matter reviewed along with suggestions that the township create more parks in the area to- divert children the streets. STUMP TOLD COUNCIL ( and Thornton confirmed last week that a police | patrol car was damaged I then while answering a | false burglar alarm on : Suzanne Avenue, North * May "We got more damage J she did," Thornton r said of the shattered patrol I car parking light in the I two-vehicle crash Aug. 12 s on Bayshore Road, North r Cape May. the other li

driver's car was less severely damaged, Thornton said. "THE CARS ARE about two weeks late now." Stump said last week of four Ford "Crown Victorias" ordered as police replacement vehicles at $11,240 each. Last month, the manager told council that the police department's 12-vehicle fleet was in "bad shape" with two of three Ford LTDs, ordered last year for $9,077 each, out of service, pne for brakes, the other for a blown engine. "We're hurting, but we're making do," Stump said last week, attributing the delay in police car delivery to the national Teamsters' strike at auto delivery centers. CONROY TOLD his colleagues last week that he wants to "pull that ordinance" on burglar alarms "and take a look at" $25 annual fee requirements, if any. He said he was told by township police that "you've got to pay the $25 or we don't respond." Mayor Robert Fothergill told Conroy he thought the fee only pertained to alarm systems connected to the police department, not those unconnected systems in private homes or in businesses. Con roy said he understands that false burglar alarms are a big problem in Lower with fines between $i00-$500 after the fourth bogus report The one thing that seems to trigger many false alarms, he said, is electrical storms. Lt. Thornton verified the councilman's statement last week that police answered 1.100 false burglar alarms last year They don't seem to be exceeding that figure so far this year, he added. POLICE ARRESTED 83 adults and four juveniles, including five drunk driving suspects, last month while investiagating two rdpes. 13 assaults. 14 burglaries, 40 larcenies and three auto thefts. Thornton reported The force arrested 63 adults and four juveniles in June, including one suspected drunk driver, while investigating one rape. 12 assaults, eight burglaries, 34 larcenies, three auto thefts and 34 vandalisms "We're still working them," Thornton said of the July 29 rape of a Pennsylvania girl in a wooded area off Route 9. Erma, and the July 1-2 rape of a Villas Woman, 26. in her Kentucky Avenue home Police handled 793 criminal and 546 general complaints last month, investigating 64 collisions, passing out 132 traffic citations and logging 1,972 property checks. They burned gallons of gas with i 48,962 miles on patrol. ( Thornton said $14,520 in stolen property was recovered last month; 825 was reported stolen. « he noted, of the total I stolen, police this month » recovered $48,000 by I locating a $40,000 Jaguar in <

Swedesboro and an $8,000 pickup elsewhere. TOWN BANK Fire Chief Ray Brown reports seven July alarms, four of them false. His company answered six in June, five in May. False alarms last month sounded July 8 at a North Cape May auto parts store, on July 13 and 29 at Lower Township Consolidated School, Cold Spring, and on July 30 at 449 Del-View Rd., Cape May Beach. Firemen fought brush fires July 7 and 12, their first near the North Cape May 7-11 store and the second at Avalon Road and Clubhouse Drive, Town Bank They battled a vehicle fire July 29 on Ferry Road near the North Cape May Acme. ERMA FIRE Chief Robert McNulty reports eight July alarms, seven of them answered by his company, that's one less than June, two less than May. The Erma firemen were called on the July 13 false alarm at Consolidated School, NcNulty explained, but Town Bank actually answered it. His company did respond to a false alarm triggered by an electrical storm, at the Richard M. Teitelman School on July 7. Firefighters started the month with • a report of strange odors at 113 Briarwood Dr., Breakwater Estates. They were coming from a pillow in a dryer which eventually caught fire. McNulty said. Three days later, the smoke eaters fought a debris fire on ' Raleigh Avenue, Diamond Beach, with Wildwood Crest volunteers. On July 12, the Erma firemen extinguished a blazing propane tank at Seashore Campground "We had our moments on that," said the chief. "Those things tend to launch sometimes." He said firefighters fought brush fires July 20 and 23 behind Wuerkers' Farm off Seashore Road and a flaming motor July 23 at Diamond Beach Lodge that was reported as a structure fire VILLAS FIREMEN also had their share of brush fires last month. They started the month off fighting one at Star and Carolina avenues July 1 with another, two days later, at Bates Avenue and the beach, a third the next | day at 2010 Bayshore Rd. | and the last on the same day (July 4) at Rose Lane j and the Beach, according i to Dot Rothenbilier, fire | commissioner. , Altogether, the company | answered seven July | alarms, one more than < June, one less than May t Villas volunteers fought ; a house fire July 8 at 24 Iowa Ave., and an oven fire t July 11 at 200 W. St John's l Ave. That same day. they | responded to a report of an auto gas tank leak on c Miami Avenue. **• F This month, the Villas r hosts its Sunday Aug. 25, 7 a m. i until l p.m. at the f Bayshore Road and Georgia Avenue

' Adults ($3) and children ($1.75 under 12) will be offered all they can eat of pancakes, sausage, eggs, bacon and home fired, and pick up a cake for dinner at the firehouse sale. COUNCILMAN .Joseph Lonergan takes "exception," he said to an item printed here last week that recorded his vote against Ordinance 85-22, which approved an agreement between the township and the local MUA Lonergan conceded that Township Manager James R. Stump may have mentioned that the agreement allowed each entity to use the other's employes and equipment. But, the councilman noted, 85-22 "says., 'for the providing of manpower... and other services, as needed.' " He disputed that the agreement called for "equipment" sharing as printed here. "My big objection was," Lonergan said of his vote against the ordinance, "we're going ahead without getting bids." LOWER S MUA decided last week to go in with the township on purchase of computer equipment both will share, according to Stump. "That's right, they voted to share a computer," said Lonergan who attended the MUA meeting, noting that the proposed equipment would be covered under a different MUA-township pact. "And the MUA is paying part of the (Computer) updating." Lonergan said he didn't know the equipment cost but that Stump told him the township's cost is covered "in our regular budget. "And we're (councilman) probably going to vote on it, too," he said. "I'VE BEEN getting some complaints about the cleaning at Millman Center," Lonergan told his colleagues during their work session last week. So has he, Stump replied, he said he has put the cleaning contractor on notice that if the work doesn't improve at the township-operated community center in Villas, the contract will "be terminated." "I'LL SHOOT FOR this month," Stump told Councilman Conroy, responding to his request for a new effort to revitalize Villas Conroy proposed a "tax incentive. or something for the people in my area, particularly on Bayshore road," He suggested the township contact the counabout the possibility of deferring tax increases on improvements for few years. He also recommended that the township acquire for municipal parking lots along Bayshore Road "before it's fully developed." "Let me see what I can pull together," Stump replied, noting earlier that "we are talking about dosomething about Road in this (Page 16 Please)