32 Herald - Unlern - Dispatch 12 February '86

/^^NEWS IplgV DIGEST fj7 U j The Week's II H /I Top Stories « < From page I ) award. The consortium was being rewarded with additional program dollars for exceeding state performance standards. It placed fourth among 19 "service delivery areas in the state " JTPA offers job training and placement to the unemployed and underemployed 4 Indicted For Fraud TRENTON - State grand jurors last week indicted former Sea Isle City Commissioner J. Alan Gansert. 3fi. of Inlet Drive, Ocean City; Realtor James W. Sofroney, 45. of Isle View Terrace. Upper Township; lawyer Raymond L. Poling. 38. of Chestnut Avenue, Upper Township; and Poling's A&F Abstracting Co of Sea Isle. The four were indicted for allegedly filing false finance records in 1982 to obtain a $75,000 mortgages for Gansert. a Sea Isle City teacher, on a $95,000 Central Avenue house DEP (jets Tough THE WILDWOODS - The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP i announced last week that it will be conducting weekly inspections of sewage treatment plants in Wildwood, North Wildwood and Wildwood West and plants on Seven Mile Beach. Municipalities that do not comply with minimum treatment standards specified in their DEP permits face fines of $5,000 plus $500 a day, according to John Gaston, director of the DEP's Division of Water Resources Gaston also said state and county health worker will conduct frequent surf tests to identify any problems. T-Shirt Ordinance WILDWOOD - City Council is expecteiHo adopt next Wednesday an ordinance regulating how tee shirts are sold at 60 shops. Faced with 68 formal complaints last summer from Boardwalk shoppers. Council introduced the ordinance last week that proposes " Sioo $1,000 fines for shop owners who violate regulations on tee shirt pricing; special licensing; ownership, management and citizenship information. S3 Million For Housing OCEAN CITY — Fifty low-income homes will be built on 15 scattered sites by late next year thanks to a $3-million grant to the city Housing Authority from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD». Funding was set aside in HUD's 1985 budget so it " wouldn't be threatened by recent federal cuts. The city was earmarked for the same HUD appropriation in 1984 but the money was switched to other projects. Board Denies Marina OCEAN CITY — The Planning Board here last week denied site plan approval for a 38-slip rental marina, marina store and second-floor duplex at Third Street _ and Bay Avenue The application has been before the board six times, and Joseph Zaborowski. who proposed the project, said after the hearing he is considering a lawsuit. Robert Fleming. Zaborowski's attorney, charged that some board members were against the project for prejudicial reasons, and that ...the matter may have to be settled in court. The application was denied by a 4-4 vote after nearly two hours of discussion. DEP Huns Building TRENTON -- The state Department of Environmental Protection last week adopted changes that will limit development in coastal areas prone to storm damage, and ban floating homes. Residential development is banned in areas identified as high storm hazard

zones, all construction must be at least 50 feet behind bulkheads and seawalls and. except in cases where environmental damage is minimal, developers who destroy wetlands must replace them on a two-to-one basis. Floating homes were banned because state officials fear they 1 will use up the number of boat slips available in the coastal region. On March 11. Sea Isle City will have a second reading of an ordinance to regulate floating homes. And the Winners Are ... COURT HOUSE — Freeholders were "hoping" to name two new members to the county Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) last night, too late for this newspaper's deadline The appointees will replace James Busha of Avalon. who moved to Florida, and Roy Gillian of Ocean City, who asked not to be reappointed. Freeholder-Director William E. Sturm Jr. said a "master list" of 24 applicants has accumulated for the jobs, which pay $6,500. The freeholders last week interviewed Jerry McCargo of Burleigh. Edward Rosenberg of Court House. Curtis Miller of Wildwood and Dan Riley of Ocean City. Nominations Approved WOODBINE — Borough council approved the following committee nominations Thursday; Councilman Charles Payne will head the streets and roads committee; Councilman Leon J. Cheesman will chair the health.* education, welfare and grants committee; Councilman William Pikolychy will head the public safety and finance committee; Councilman Jose Rodriguez will chair the parks and recreation committee; Councilman Anthony Bogushefsky will heac^the property committee; and Council President Theodore DeSantis. who made the nominations, will chair the small business and industrial committee. Super Resigns TUCKAHOE — Upper Township's Board of Education last week accepted the resignation of Supt John D McGovern and named John Phillips acting superintendent. McGovern's resignation is effective April 4 and Phillips will serve from that date until a permanent replacement is named McGovern is leaving to take a superintendent position in Haddon Township. Phillips has been with the school district for six years and is superintendent of Special Programs State Targets Moths TUCKAHOE — The state Department of Agriculture wants 23.000 acres of Upper Township sprayed to prevent gypsy moths. Committeeman George Betts reports. While there were no problems with moths last year. Betts said they are expected to return this year The areas earmarked for spraying include Steelmantown. Tuckahoe. Petersburg and Seaville. If an organic compound not harmful to bees is used, the state will pay half the cost. Betts said. Calloway Named Judge WILDWOOD — City Council last week named Kenneth Calloway. 41. of North Wildwood. to serve as municipal judge replacing Joseph Visalii. who recently was elevated to Superior Court. Calloway, who was backed by Mayor Victor Di Sylvester, was municipal prosecutor, a position that paid $11,000 When he becomes a judge next month Calloway will earn $22,454 He is a 1963 graduate of Wildwood High School Fire Evacuates School WILDWOOD - Glenwood Avenue Elementary School was evacuated last Wednesday after a fire, apparentlystarted by a malfunction in a heating and cooling unit, filled the building with smoke. About 350 students and teachers

followed fire drill procedures and emptied the building in less than two minutes. No one was injured and no damage estimate was available. The fire was confined to the school nurse's station. Classes resumed yesterday Fire Claims House RIO GRANDE — An electric heater might have caused the fire Saturday afternoon that destroyed Morris Boyd's single-story house on Indian Trail here, investigators speculated. No injuries were reported from the smoky blaze that started while Boyd was away from home. Blaze Guts House DENNISVILLE - Fire gutted on unoccupied single-story house at Oak and Cove roads here Saturday night Thirty volunteers from Dennisville and Ocean View companies battled an intense 7; 42 p.m. blaze with more than 12,000 gallons of water from Johnson's Mill Pond. After firefighters left the scene, the blaze ^ reignited around midnight and they brought it under. control around 3 a.m. Sunday The blaze was under investigation by the county arson squad City Appoints Belasco NORTH WILDWOOD - Louis Belasco was appointed by City Council last week to succeed Joseph Visalii as municipal court judge. Belasco is city prosecutor and solicitor to th. .oning board. Mario Farina, formerly of the county Public Defender's Office and now in private practice, will- fill those slots. Visalii was appointed to replace the late Superior Court Judge Charles Sandman in the court's Family Division. Sex Assault Alleged NORTH WILDWOOD - Steven Karr. 33. of East 16th Avenue here, was indicted last week on single counts of aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy at a Middle Township gravel pit off Route 47 July 6 Karr. an employe of Wildwood's Public Works Department, was suspended without pay pending the outcome of the case. He was released from the county jail Jan. 15 after posting a $40,000 property bond Fares Dismissal ELDORA - Local resident Herschel Beebe, the state conservation officer accused of illegally killing a deer from his state car in Dennis Township on Dec 12. has until next week to appeal dismissal from his $25,000 a year job by the state Department of Environmental Protection <DtPi. The DEP veteran of 31 years and his brother. Ellis, a non-paid deputy conservation officer, were suspended after a Friday hearing into the deer slaying. Board Taps Mar VILLAS — Lower Township's elementary school board has appointed James A MacDonald of Cold Spring as architect for the proposed expansion of • Memorial School here. At least 12 classrooms will be built in the near future with another 12 possible in several years County architect for its new Crest Haven Nursing Home, MacDonald is the school district's architect of record and husband of board member Dolly MacDonald. Rape Suspert's Bail Out TOWP4 BANK — Superior Court Judge Arthur Guerrera reduced from $100,000 to $50,000 Friday the bail for Clarance M Moore. 36, of Iselin Avenue here. The self-employed mason was arrested there last Wednesday night and charged with the Jan. 14 rape of a Gibbs Avenue

woman. 26. in Somers Point where he's also a suspect in two other recent rapes. At the time of his arrest. Moore was free on $70,000 property bail while awaiting trial for the 1985 rape of a West Cape May woman plus the rape and attempted rape then of two women in Wildwood Crest. Crash Kills Villas Men VILLAS — Michael Copson. 23. of 312 Beachwood Ave. here, was killed last Tuesday when a car driven by Walter Hill. 43. of 107 S. Ninth St.. Del Haven, skidded off the Garden State Parkway in Egg Harbor Township and crashed into a utility pole. Hill was treated for injuries and released from Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point. Copson. a passenger, was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple and extensive injuries. The crash is under investigation, police said.

Developer ^ Plans 225 T'houses By E.J. DUFFY SCHELLENGER'S LANDING - "Har bour Town Resort." a 225-unit townhouse complex, could rise along the waterfront just north of here if Lower Township planners approve a height variance. They haven't been asked to yet. Developer Dick Weber and his representatives only asked them for input on a "sketch review of plans" for the $50-million project during a recent Planning Board meeting. Weber's plans project construction over six-eight years of a two-story L-shaped complex with five 85-foot towers off Ocean Drive on 30 of the 57-acre Portifino Marina He told planners he doesn't want to "trash" the site but he will want a variance for the towers from the township's 65-foot height limit. Municipal planner Margaret L. Spencer noted that the limit was imposed because the township has no firefighting equipment able to reach above 65 feet. LOUIS H. CONLEY JR.. Weber's planner and a township fireman, said Cape May and Erma fire companies would fight any fires at "Harbour Town Resort" with Wildwood Crest and West Cape May firefighters as backup. Mayor Robert Fothergill. a township Planning Board member, said no new firehouse is in the foreseeable future for the area. As long as Cape May has the proper equipment, he added, its firefighters must respond to any blaze at the complex. Spencer suggested the Planning Board invite Erma Fire Chief Robert E. McNulty to discuss the subject with developers during a future board meeting, but no definite date was set. Weber's proposed complex would be within township Fire District No. 3. the Erma company's coverage area Weber told the board that the five towers would honse a ships' store, shops, a restaurant. support facilities, as well as lockers and showers for a swimming pool and tennis courts The developer said his plans also call for 600 parking spaces and ice-free boat storage along Cold Spring (Cape May) Inlet. Neither Weber nor the Planning Board, however, apparently, discussed what impact the project might have on summer traffic congestion at the canal bridge bottleneck. Ocean Drive. Route 109 and the Garden State Parkway converge traffic there from several southbound lanes through the narrow Schellenger's Landing corridor into Cape May.

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