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Sachs Replaces Childs COURT HOUSE - Cape May Point Commissioner Walt S. Sachs Jr. is slated this week to take over as executive director of the county Industrial and Economic Development Commission and county airport, according to Freeholder Herbert Frederick, who heads those departments. Sachs, former executive with a Philadelphia planning firm, replaces A.H. (Rick) Childs whom the freeholders forced to resign Sept. 6. A former Main Line resident of Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pa., Sachs also is president of the borough's taxpayers association. ffilsey Takes Post COURT HOUSE — Former Freeholder William R. Wilsey of Petersburg, Upper Township, has gone back on the county payroll as a 117,307-a-year outreach coordinator for the Job Training Partnership Act operation of the Private Industry Council at the county airport. Wilsey, 59, also a former Sea Isle City mayor, was freeholder from 1972-77, and is a retired mathematics teacher. He also is one of the few people, besides the news media, who attends most freeholder meetings. A lifelong Republican, he supported Democrat James Iannone for freeholder in 1982 and considered a run for freeholder as an independent Republican in 1983. (Page 4 Please) r-inside i FISHING in the storm's aftermath. Lou Rodia, page 40. IF YOU HAVE an interest, there's a group that shares it County Library, page 14. CAPE MAY High reunion gave an oral history lesson. From the Principal, page 45. BURDETTE TomHrVs 35th anniversary, page 46.

Is That Chocolate We Smell? By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE - The lights dimmed last Wednesday and county freeholders were treated to a 90-minute slide presentation on one solution for something that's "not appealing, but it comes every day." It was a travelogue to rival a year's subscription to "National Geographic," with attractive outdoor scenes including: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Downtown Montreal. West Chester, New York. Chicago. Saugus, Massachusetts. Near Baltimore's Harborfront. Wilmington, North Carolina. Panama City, Florida. Just outside Tampa, Florida. Someplace in Japan. Berne, Switzerland, where you could almost smell the chocolate. INTERSPERSED AMONG the hundreds of color slides were several beautiful shots of roses, and other flowers. By the time it was over, anyone would have begged consulting engineer Herbert I. Hollander for the privilege to become No. 844 in a worldwide list of — trash-to-energy plants. Or, as Hollander put it, a process that (Page 57 Please)

' - m Dorti Ward SPEEDY SMITH - Sean Smith of Pack 65 won a gold medal in the tire relay at the Cub Scout Olympics held at the county park Saturday. He's the son of Mr. and Mrs. Blair Smith of Clermont.

Poll Public On College Desires By JOE ZEl.MK CREST HAVEN — Maybe not enough county high school students have heard of Horace Greeley's "Go West, young man ." Guidance counselors last week told the county's Community College Proposal Review Committee that their impression is that "students here go north, rather than west, for everything, including shopping." "That's our perception." said Wayne C. Newell, guidance director at Wildwood High school, "and perceptions, like rumors, are hard to stop " The local directional preference was cited last Wednesday in a discussion of branch campus proposals from Atlantic Community College, to the north, and Cumberland County College, to the west. The former has a much larger number of local students "If Route 55 extended to the (Garden State) parkway." observed Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr., "it might be totally different." THE COMMITTEE had invited a half dozen guidance counselors to discuss students' college needs and desires, and Newell and Middle Township High School's David Blood were present. Blood agreed with Newell's assessment, saying that his students from Avalon, Stone Harbor. Dennis and Middle (Page 57 Please)

Assembly Candidates

Batten Says Environment Is Key Issue

Both Candidates ( Ex-Republicans Raymond A. Batten, 31, a Sea Isle City lawyer, and Peter Amico, 41, a Vineland security executive, are challenging GOP incumbents Guy F Muziani, 60, of (Page 20 Please)

SEA ISLE CITY — "I don't think tourism is the biggest issue in this county," said the tall young lawyer, leaning forward from his rolltop desk. "I think it's the environment." The county's major industry, tourism is up 35 percent over last year, added Raymond Batten, while the local environment seems to be headed in the other direction. "Clearly, the environment is or should be the biggest issue," said

■ the Assembly candidate and former Middle I Township High School quarterback who's I lost two old teammates to cancer "What I are we drinking'''' "If I would be elected tomorrow. .. the I first piece of legislation 1 would introduce I would require testing of every well within I one mile of a toxic waste site or a polluted I sewer system," he continued. Batten said he would push to finance those I tests from the large state surplus. "We're I talking about a one shot deal to freeze in a

I 'photograph' a record of what people are I drinking." IF POLLUTION IS FOUND - like the I sanitary sewage contamination that closed I beaches and backbays in the Wiidwoods this I past summer — "it would be a good idea to I require the state to treat it." the former I Avalon lifeguard continued I The Wiidwoods have been waiting since (Page 20 Please)

Campaign '85 Interviews •fta.tMty

RA YM^^^ BATTEN

Amico Rips Incumbents' 'Records'

VINELAND — "This is their legislative record," frowned Peter Amico as the lean, dark private investigator passed two sheets of paper across the desk They list, he said, the entire 1984- '85 lawmaking output of his Republican Assembly opponents — two bills by Guy F. Muziani and five from Joseph Chinnici. They're good at cranking out press releases that portray them as IIIVJ is. gwu ci L v.i aiming UUL p coo i cicaoco mai 11 ay uiciii as

concerned legislators busy with government affairs. Amico said, but most of that is a smoke and mirrors routine Most of the time, he added. Muziani and Chinnici do nothing more than sign their names as cosponsors for some other legislator's work "THESE PEOPLE ARE A JOKE." Amico continued, referring to what he regards as their chronic smokescreen about completing Route 55 to Cape May County. "All it is is public relations." First District residents of Cape May and e 0

Cumberland counties have been waiting years to see the so-called "Road to Nowhere" completed while Chinnici and Muziani pat themselves on the back for pushing the overdue project, their opponent complained. The section of roadway that's been added to Route 55 "isn't in our district," Amico stressed and, while the local (Page 20 Please) 1 1

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