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/J8^news jfelg'/ DIGEST r?7 U i The Week's H II II Top Stories (From Page 4) ceeding 2,000 gallons a day and the township would rather the MUA take on the liability. Dennis Township may make a similar request, but the MUA is still studying Upper's. f*. Senior Housing Okayed TUCKAHOE - Upper Township's Planning Board last week adopted a section of the revised master plan that allows cluster-housing for senior citizens on 50-acre minimum lots that average two units and no more than three bedrooms per acre. However, any such housing would require a state Pollutant Discharge elimination System permit to discharge more than 2,000 gallons of sewage per day. Residents would have to be at least 48 year-old, according to the board. i Chamber Honors Two COURT HOUSE - Middle Township's Chamber of Commerce gave awards Saturday to Raymond McGrath, owner of Court House Pizza, and Theodore Coiter, owner of Coiter Feed and Coal Co.. as Businessplace of the Year and citizen of the year, respectively. NuisancjyFine Upped TUCKAHOE - Urer Township s Board of Health recently increased minimum fines for violations of the nuisance ordinance, which deals with « junk and debris on public property, from S2 and $5 to $50. The maximum fine will remain at $500. Saunders Named Chiefs COURT HOUSE - Capt Raymond Saunders took over as Middle Township provisional police chief Saturday, three days after his predecessor. Andrew Vaden. resigned, citing harrassment. vandalism and threats against him and his family. Vaden returned to his detec- * tive job with the County Prosecutor s office. He was named over Saunders, a 20-vear veteran of the force, to replace Chief Edward Hansen who resigned. Local chapters of the National Association for the Avancement of Colored People and the Policeman's Benevolent Association had supported Saunders Can 't Can COURT HOUSE — Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital's board of governors prejudged Dr. Suketu Nanavati when it tried to dismiss him in 1982. state appellate court judges have ruled. In- their four-page decision released Friday, the judges barred the hospital from dismissing the cardiologist but allowed it to reopen the case and try to prove Nanavati should be canned. Burdette lawyer Carl Valore said the hospital will exercise that option unless Nanvati drops a discrimination suit in U.S. District Court. BT Restricts Sabnis • COURT HOUSE - Burdette Tomlin Memoiral Hospital is prohibiting Dr Vinayak Sabnis from performing , gallbladder surgery and requiring him to be supervised during other surgery, charging that he used improper technique during a Feb. 4. 1985 gallbladder operation. Sabnis contends that post operative bleeding after the operation is common to gallbladder surgery and that the action is based on personal reasons.

Sabnis filed a U.S. District Court suit against the hospital two years ago. when it sought to deny his application for a staff position. The hospital eventually signed a consent agreement that gave him conditional staff privleges. That's Great , But ... COURT HOUSE - The state Department of Transportation says the number to call to report potholes in state roads is 428-6550. Cape May County road superintendent Harry A. Gilbert says the number to call to fix potholes in county roads is 884-1300. If you don't know who is responsible for a certain road, you are not alone. Animal Warden Back COURT HOUSE - Middle Township animal control agent Dennis Kelly, who resigned in January citing lack of a contract and negative comments from Mayor Michael J. Voll, has reached an agreement with township committee to resume his duties. Kelly's new yearly contract pays $9,120; he previously earned $8,000. He serves all municipalities south of Middle Township. No MUA Refunds SWAINTON — Extra 1985 income from increased trash dumping at the county landfill will not be refunded to municipalities, the county MUA announced last week, but used instead to retire long-term debts, insure landfill closing costs and stabilize user fees. The announcement came in response to a resolution from Lower Township Council for a refund and reduced tipping fees. Call the Cops VILLAS — Lower Township police are asking anyone who witnessed the armed robbery of an elderly woman Thursday afternoon to contact them at 886-1619 The robber stole about $400 from the woman 3-3:30 p.m. near Bates Avenue and Bayshore Road. Another woman drove the victim home, but police don't know the driver's name and need help identifying the robber "Our detectives went up and down every street (near the crime scene) and nobody knew anything." Capt. Don Douglass reported Monday. Villas Man Indicted GREENFIELD — James T. Smith, 33. of Villas was indicted last week fpr robbing a Wawa store in this Upper Township community Nov. 21, kidnapping its clerk and threatening to rape her. While free on bail for allegedly robbing B&J's Deli. Court House, on June 27, he was charged with robbing Horizon ..Marine National Bank, Egg Harbor Township, after a high-speed chase Nov. 2 that ended in a fiery crash there O'Neal Gets Probation DEL HAVEN - Jack O'Neal, 62. former ly of Lafayette Avenue will serve five year's.probation and 150 hours community service for sexually assaulting five pre-teen girls between January 1982 and June 1985. He also was sentenced last week by Superior Court Judge Richard J Williams to pay $150 to the Violent Crimes Compensation Board. County Detective Chief William B. Matthews Sr confirmed Monday. O'Neal was indicted in August for molesting II children.

User Fees Equal Taxes

By JOE ZELNIK CAPE MAY — 1976, the Bicentennial year. Cape May had assessed valuation of $107 million, a $2.5-mi!lion budget, and a local tax rate of $1.29 per hundred dollars of assessed valuation A decade later, 1986. The city's assessed valuation has increased by 159 percent, to $277 million. Its budget has increased 88 percent, to $4.7 million. And. keeping in mind the jump in assessed valuation, the local tax rate is now 56 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation. There have been many chances in 10 years. But City Manager Fred Coldren was able to boast in his ^1986 budget message of one thing that hasn't changed at all: the amount of money raised through local property taxes. It's about $1.6 million this year, as it was in 1976. Thus the portion of the budget raised from local taxes has dropped from 64 percent in 1976 to 34 percent today. FOR COMPARISON purposes, the county budget has climbed from $15 million in 1976 to $44.5 million this year, but its share of money raised by local taxes has remained almost the same: 69 percent in 1976, 67 percent this year. jF How is Cape May doing it? By increasing the revenue from socalled "user fees'' to the point that this year's budget relies on them for just as

much money as from properly taxes: $16 million Then years ago. user fees totaled just under $350,000 or 14 percent of the budget Today they are 34 percent Ten years ago. beach tags were still a year away This year, they will bring in an estimated $350,000 Parking meter income was projected at $73,000 in 1976. This year, assuming another 100 meters and a plan to increase some meter fees so all will be 25 cents a hklf-hour. the'take is estimated at $420,000 Revenue from franchise and gross receipts taxes (collected from business' has doubled, from $116,000 in 1976 to $332,000 this year. FINES AND COSTS collected by the city's Municipal Court brought in $75,000 in 1976, are estimated at $210,000 this year Revenue from fees and permits totaled $14,500 in 1976. This year the city expects $126,000. Mercantile and alcoholic beverage licenses brought in 39.656. in 1976; this year $87,000 is projected Ten years ago the city anticipated $29,000 from leases and rentals; this year. 77,000. There is one other significant difference in comparing the city's budget revenue with lOydarsago. In 1076. it anticipated using a surplus of $217,504. Thir year it expects to use $600,000.

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In the past few years we've thrown a brunch buffet before the concert jointly sponsored by the Women's Civic Club of Avalon and the Avalon Performing Arts Committee. It will be held this year 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Avalon Community Hall. The versatile 90-voice Lewis Shearer Chorale puts on a show that puts most Broadway musicals to shame. Tickets will be available at the door. We're moving and won't have a pre-concert party, but we'll certainly be there ourselves. MEMBERS OF Keeping in Touch had a luncheon meeting March 3 at the home of Peg Grimes. Plans for their spring dessertbridge went into a spin when it xfras discovered the previously-chosen date conflicted with the Garden Club's trip to Meadow brook, the Liddon Pennock estate in Rydal. Board members of KIT did a fast shuffle and came up with a new date for the party. It will be held noon Thursday, April 22 in the Fire Hall. Tickets are available from any member of the organization. Poker and canasta players will also be aboard that day. Marcelle deLaurentis ana Sara Brady are cochairing the happening and the men's committee, consisting of Ernie Blair. Scott Daniels. Ray deLaurentis and Paul Rowland, will supply the muscle STONE HARBOR'S Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a glitzy gala 7:45 p.m. Friday. April 25. at the Elementary School. Called Reaching for the Stars, it will have as its main attraction a concert by the Wildwood String Band. This will be done as a warmup for and in preparation of Stone Harbor's 75th Anniversary. Last time we went to a town party here it was a blast and we saw everybody we knew in the

borough — mark your calendars now. CAPE MAY County's library information service has to be the greatest, Harry Belafonte, celebrated singer-actor, was on television discussing Hands Across the World, the event sponsored by USA for Africa. We got an invitation to participate some time ago. decided to be part of the chain joining hands from coast to coast in this country, and then lost the invitation Harry sparked our memory of the invitation but then he let us down — he didn't say how to get in on the action. We called the library at Court House and. • like always, they came through. They gave us the facts published in an old issue of Time magazine The wonderful gesture of good will takes place May 25 and the toll-free number for information is: 1 -800-USA-9000. Harrymust have jarred the memory of thousands, maybe millions, because the lines have been busy all day. LEARNED FROM a chat with Police Chief Louis Taylor of Avalon that March 1 former Patrolman William Coughlin of Court House attained the rank of sergeant. Sgt Coughlin has served on the force 14 years. He and his wife, Pat. have an 18-year-old daughter. Kelly, who works in the County Probation Office, and a 14-year-old son Bill, a student at Alternative School ST. PAUL'S Roman Catholic Church in Stone Harbor will be newly dressed for Easter Monsignor Vincent Giammarino and Father Michael Orsi have commissioned sculptor Gerald Lvnch of Villas to create a* new baptismal font to be placed in the tabernacle near the main altar. The old marble one. grouted to the flour in the vestibule, was found to be severely eroded but its brass, crown-shaped cover

has been salvaged, replat ed and will be placed on the new font to provide continuity. The new work will be a bas-relief depicting the baptism of Christ by St. John the Baptist. Lynch is widely known for his talent. Two other pieces presently in progress are the Ffsherman's Memorial and commission of a work for Crest Haven Convalescent Home OUR FIRST snowWds have returned. Ann Allen and Marie P.M. Spence were sporting enviable tans at' the- February business meeting of Stone Harbor Seniors, when antiques dealer Roger Crawford lectured and made on theMyrt appraisals for mdmoers in the audience. ^Crawford, who owns Cape Island Antiques in Cape May. aroused interest after his lecture as well by mentioning that he was the purchaser of all the contents of the Wiley House, which had been pictured on the first page of the Herald that same day He described the Jaguar * and two Volkwagons. which most interested us. as being almost totally irreparable from rust. By the time you read this. Senior snowbirds Quenlin and Arlene Sternbergh. Herman and Marie Siri, Carey and Jane Boss, Russ and Becky Bailey, and Dr Jim and Eleanor Kane will have returned to the fold. Food Sale RIO GRANDE ~ Xi Beta Tau Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi will hold a food sale 10 a.m. -2 p.m. Saturday in the foyer of the Rio Mall to bdnefit'its charily fund Card Party WEST WILDWOOD - A card party will be held at Borough Hall. Glenwood Avenue, noon Tuesday, March 18 by the West Wildwood Social Club.