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Vol. 22 NO. 1 1985 Soowov* Corp AB rights ratanad I a n I) 3 ry 1, 1986 r?2o'mT«!S(W»w^1,NT«!io°,"*''<>"

81 s. c b s a a p u E h a r Dorif Ward

■ y, -1 llist / Dl( EST 5z/w«_ How M9hy? COURT HOUSE — It happened too late for this newspaper to verify, but an event as rare as Halley's Comet was slated for the freeholder meeting room Monday night. As many as 50 — count 'em — 50 Democrats in one room ! That's according to James Klompus, vice president of the John F. Kennedy Democratic Club of Wildwood Crest. It was among Democratic clubs planning to protest a proposed 5 percent freeholder pay hike that would give them $16,538 a year and $17,640 for the director They're all Republicans. Spending That Surplus TRENTON — Gov. Thomas Kean will get an immediate $10,000 raise to $95,000 and another $7,000 salary hike in 1987 if state legislators pass his pay hike bill as expected this month. Judges and administrators would get 29-40 percent increases, costing $6 million, while part time legislators are in line for $10,000 jumps in the $25,000 they gave themsefres in 1984. Since 1978. the (Page 17 Please)

Mercantile License ' Totally Open '

By GREGG LAW^ON COURT HOUSE — A mercantile license in Middle Township? That's the recommendation of a September report by the Governor's Management Improvement Committee and the topic of discussion at the township Chamber of Commerce meeting Jan. 6. Guest speaker Norman Lochten, Midj die's Code Enforcement Officer, said the meeting will be an opportunity to get feedback from the business community "The purpose of the presentation is to get input, both good and bad, so if we decide to go with a license it will be a fair one," he said. THE MANAGEMENT committee said there is not enough control over the movement and practices of business in Middle A mercantile license, it said, would make enforcement of local, county and state laws easier. Right now. Lochten said, the township is in the process of gathering information and has not even begun to define such a license It's totally open right now . we don't even have an ordinance to consider it." he said "We may not even need one today. "But two or three years (town the road we may decide we do need one," he said. "That's what we're looking at: the future." FOR THE PAST two months, Lochter (Page 37 Please)

Cory the Cat Survived

A Happy Ending ' for the New Year

By E. J. DUFFY STONE HARBOR - "It's one of those stories with a happy ending," Cass Clark said of the "real community effort" to help the Cat. She arrived nearly two years ago in a paper bag at the Animal Welfare Society (AWS) shelter which Clark Runs at Dias Creek Her hind leg was twisted at a 90-degree angle, some of her paw pads were scrapped off and some claws were ripped out. The woman who delivered the battered cat that February told AWS vice president Marie Rhoades that "somebody threw it into her yard," Clark reported. RHOADES TOOK THE injured cat to Dr. Robert Fitzgerald of Belloff Animal Rio Grande. He x-rayed Cory and stitched some of her wounds, but also recommended a leg operation.

It wasn't broken, the vet told the volunteer, but. like some of Cory's wounds, '.he distorted leg appeared to be an old injury. She might have suffered fresher cuts and scrapes, Fitzgerald speculated, by being dragged from a vehicle, Clark had said. She took Cory's photograph, and the prospect of an expensive operation to Bonnie Reina. this paper's general manager She named Cory — short for Courageous — and prepared the classified ad that drew such a positive "community effort" to help the cat. An account of her plight, printed under the photo in a February 1984 edition, stirred a sympathetic response from readers who mailed more than $200 to the AWS for Cory's operation — along with best wishes. "SOME OF THESE letters are really heart-breaking — written to the cat."

Clark said that the time Mary Jo Ream of Stone Harbor adopted Cory and helped pay for the leg operation at Somers Point Veterinary Hospital There. Dr Ralph Werner confirmed Fit zgerald's diagnosis that Cory suffered "a pretty severe injury" in the past that didn't heal properlySear tissue built up in iftUscles and con torted the leg sideways. Werner said after surgery to remove that tissue "She's a survivor, as they say." Ream observed then "I kid you riot, if you saw this cat you would flip out She raced up and down my stairs" despite the mending injuries "MY DOG ADOPTED IIEH." Ream added, referring to the Laboradw- Shepherd combo that was abandoned on her doorstep 12 years ago He's helped Cory 'Page 37 Please)

p. - \ J . Ch.ru Ward NO PARTY? — A dock worker hoses down the pier at Schellenger's Landing in Lower Township where fishing boats are mooored. Party boat owners are asking to have the same op|>ortunity as the risking industry for the county's revolving, low-cost loans fund.

Commercial Fishing Loans Lure Party Boats

By JOE ZELNIK ERMA — Should party boats for recreational fishers get a shot at the county's fund of revolving, low-interest loans for the commercial fishing industry? Robert Laws posed that question at the ■ last meeting of trie county Economic ; Development Commission, which administers the program. Commission members decided to "review our contract" with the stat| and to invite .representatives of a new party boat association to the commission's next meeting Jan. 15.

THE COUNTY in 1984 received a $500,000 grant from the federal Small Cities Community Block Grant Program administered by the state Department of Coipmunity Affairs. The program loans up to $50,000 at 7 percent for 3-7 years for commercial fishing projects that retain or create low- or moderate-income jobs. The borrowers also ( Page 37 Please >

Jnside... * SEASON'S first s-tow scenes, page 6. THE TRIP upsttirs is a little weird. Joy ride, page 39. THE PERFECT ti ne for a column on decks. Antiques, page 14. THREE New Yiar's columns, page 38 FAST-GROWING black powder do's anrrdon'ts, Lou \ odia, page 28.

Mandatory Recycling This Year By JOE ZEI.NIK

It bounces back like a pingpong ball, has more lives than a cat. and- is as inevitable - as the IRS It's mandatory recycling Twenty months after the county MUA (Municipal Utilities Authority! scrapped plans to coordinate a countywide recycling effort and build a $750,000 recycling processing center MUA officials said they were simply responding to the message from the municipalities — namely, don't bother But now. 11 municipalities reportedly have urged the MUA to take charge of recycling One exception: Lower Township where some officials have vowed to fight it "tooth and nail " And at the county Planning Board meeting Dec 17, county Planning Director Elwood Jarmer, supported by a Nov 22 MUA paper extolling recycling, recom.mended freeholders be asked to "mandate participation by all municipalities in a recycling program ." THE BOARD VOTED 7fl in favof with Alice Belanger of Dennisville saying she'd "like to hear a little more" because "mandating opens a kettle of fish ". "The freeholders wouldn't act until they had the answers." replied MUA Solid Waste Manger Ted O'Neill Jarmer told this newspaper it could be as long as a year before the freeholders, if they approve the concept, held required public hearings to get additional input. (Page 37 Please)

County Nixes Ponderosa

RIO GRANDE — How is a proposed 225- seat restaurant here like a 120- bed. soon-to-open nursing home in Court House? Both are in areas that will be sewered in a couple years, but until then are on lots too small for originally proposed septic systems Court House Convalescent Center apparently solved its problem with an on-site waste water treatment and disposal system. Proponents of a Ponderosa Steak House across Route 47 ( Wildwood Boulevard ) from the Village Shoppes of Rio Grande shopping

center apparently will have to do something similar. THE COUNTY planning and health departments have denied the site plan application of Furey Wally Lerro and John Patitucci. both of WiPdwood Crest. Neither could be reached to comment. But their attorney. Kenneth Callowpy of North Wildwood, said he wants "to get past the municipal planning board first." Middle Township's board will consider the application Jan. 7 But it already has the (Page 37 Please) 1