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B|| Doris Ward SHRIMP? — Sue Marrone or Cape May tries the fried shrimp at Cape May's annual Seafood Festival last week.

News™ « Week's DlgeSt Top Stories Water Better CREST HAVEN - The county Health Department has reopened the backbays of North Wildwood to recreational water activities, but those of Wildwood and Wildwood Crest remained closed yesterday on the basis of the latest water quality sampling. County Health Officer Louis J. La manna said ocean water quality is fine and daily sampling off the Wildwoods ended last weekend. The routine of weekly monitoring continues and results appear exclusively in this newspaper in a chart on page 63. Happy Landing ERMA — It looks like future diners at the Landing Strip Restaurant may be able to get a $1.45 namburger and $3.50 club sandwich. They appeared on a sample menu submitted Monday by longtime coA-waitress Patricia Gift of North Cape May, the only bidder to operate the restaurant in the county airport terminal Duilding. Currently employed at Barry's Grill in Villas, she offered the county $7,260 for a one-year lease. She also would have to supply much of the equipment, but indicated she hopes to buy what's already there. An Inch Easier COURT HOUSE - Township Committee last Wednesday made it a little easier for residents affected by a home address renumbering program. It reduced the size of the numbers to three (Page 4 Please)

Middle Township's 33-member Police Force Wants to Change Pensions. *<"<1 Middle Voters Will Decide

Police Want Sweeter Pensions

By E. J. DUFFY Should Middle Township permit its police employes to transfer from the Public Employes' Retirement System to

the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, and provide for the financial requirements of such a pension plan? COURT HOUSE - Voters in Lower Township, Sea Isle City. Avalon and Stone

Harbor overwhelmingly answered "yes" on a similar ballot question last November. Middle Township voters will decide that question this Nov. 5 but township officials will determine how to pay for the proposed police pension change after an 8 p.m. public hearing Oct. 3 in Municipal Hall. 33 Mechanic St. Changing pension plans obviously benefits the 33-member township police force. Middle Mayor Michael Voll concedes, but it "almost certainly" means a tax increase next year if voters approve it According to figures from the state treasury department's Division of Pensions. the township could either pay $1,080,870 as "the estimated lump sum of accrued liability" for joining the Police and Firemen's Retirement System (P&FRS) or 25 yearly installments of $93,731 (for a 25-year total of $2.343.275 ». EACH YEAR. THE township would also have to pay $136,319.27 into the P&FRS. John F. Young of the state's Police and Fire Bureau wrote township Treasurer Edwin F. Stites last month. Stites said last week that annual P&FRS installments < $93,731 ► roughly equal 2 cents on the municipal tax rate while the yearly contribution ($136,319) translates into another 3' 4 cents, for an overall in- < Page 4 Please)

Doris Ward GREAT PUMPKIN! — In case the hot weather has you doubting the calendar, here's the first pumpkin picture of the season. Apparently fighting over this whopper at Tim Rush's Market on Stone Harbor Boulevard are Constance Da Costa's nine-month-old daughter. Ada, left, and Sandi Lloyd's nine-month-old son. Alex. The Da Costas are from New York, the Lloyds from Reading. Pa., and the women are the daughter and daughter-in-law, respectively, of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Lloyd of Stone Harbor.

A Catch-22 Situation

Nursing Home Still on Hold

By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE — A routine resolution, necessary before the state DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) will consider a new nursing home's proposed sewage treatment plant, was tabled by Township Committee last week after continued opposition from the Cape May Court House Neighborhood Association Committee members endorsed the

association's call for assurance that the Court House Convalescent Center, being built on Magnolia Drive, can handle 12.000 gallons of sewage a day and will have a competent operator. An "aggravated" official of Hospicomm Inc., the Philadelphia firm that will operate the home, told this newpaper both points are already covered in its permit application to DEP. In a telephone interview, Benjamin Miller said he would "ask my attorney to ask the DEP, as a third party, to inform Middle that their technical concerns are taken care of in the permit application." PRESSED AS TO what he would do if the DEP did not act, or did not move quickly. Miller said, "If it doesn't come from the DEP, I'll get the information to them (Middle Committee). Miller continues to maintain that the 120- bed nursing home will open in October, and timing appears crucial. Township Committee next meets on Sept. 19. Hospicomm 's application refers to "...a design average load of 8,000 gallons per day (gpd), with capability to handle a 12,000 gpd hydraulic overload."

; It. also states that "...the average 1 wastewater flow rate is projected to be ) 8,000 gpd based on a unit rate of 67 1 gpd/bed. Wastewater generated by employees and the small outpatient facili1 ty are included in this projection. The I treatment and disposal facilities are 1 dimensioned to handle a 150 percent t overflow rate. 12,000 gpd." "I MAINTAIN, A 120-bed facility such as l we are putting up, will have an average > daily flow of just under 8.000 gallons a 1 day," said Miller. "I've never deviated ; from that. Our plant does handle 12,000. but I'm going to gear it up for what I know » it needs. There is an emergency overflow tank for 4,000. The engineer designed it so ; it can handle 12,000." 1 Miller also attempted to clarify the controversy over whether the facility will » have an adequately trained, licensed plant oprator. At last Wednesday's Township > Committee meeting, neighborhood association spokesmen expressed concern1 ed that the Hospicomm application did not r address the competency of the plant i operator. (Page 65 Please)

¥* 1 I ' — i I * ■ Dor it Ward STILL BLANK — What if you held a slogan contest and almost nobody entered it? This sign existing Avalon via 30th Street has been sloganless for two months since "Good Bye. Good Luck. God Speed" wore out and was painted over. A contest for a new slogan — $50 savings bond for the winner — has produced only 15 entries, "nothing really catchy enough." according to Recreation Director Dave Haberle. So the former Aug. 28 deadline has been extended to Nov. 18. Maybe cooler weather will get the creative juices flowing. Entries go to Haberle at borough hall.

inside : COUNTY'S airport and economic development director is out. page 4. REPta appeal hears Nfcoletta; page 3. TIN. county 'jgn, ten irate letters; pages 66 and 67, GEMINI: analyze your affairs; Vega continue moderation. PlanetarHy S™Ei"iEST8(fching) action is in Delaware Bay. lou Rodia, page 52.