\ Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 9 April '86 J>1

f^^NEWS DIGEST // i / The Week's iFm 1 1 *°P & °ries (From page 1) Sheriff's bloodhounds were brought in. but lost the trail, apparently where the suspect entered a motor vehicle. The FBI is assisting in the investigation. Wait '11 Next Year AVALON — Ten million dollars of beach restoration work, scheduled for Seven-Mile Beach this spring, will ^ definitely be delayed until next year, state environmental officials reported at a meeting on shore protection here last week. The project, which includes pumping two million cubic yards of sand from Hereford and Townsend 'sTnlets onto beachs between Eighth Street, Avalon and 127th Street, Stone Harbor, is held up by a funding bill delay. Recycling Plan Dumped SWAINTON — The county Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) scrapped its proposal for a mandatory regional recycling program at its April 2 meeting. MUA commissioners needed the support of communities that generate 75 percent or more of the county's recyclables to participate. Only nine of the county's 16 municipalities responded to the proposal and some of them attached conditions to their resolutions, which were requested before March 31. Interchange Denied SEAVILLE — Upper Township Committee's request to build a north-bound entrance and southbound exit to the Garden State Parkway, where Route 9 and Route 50 intersect here, was denied by the state Highway Authority. The authority said traffic in the area doesn't justify the cost of such a project. It did agree to resurface Vernon Road in Marmora and a request to restripe the road to provide left and right turning lanes. Repaving Begins RIO GRANDE - The first phase of the $2-million repaving of Route 9 began here Monday on the section to run to Atlantic Avenue in Court House. Traffic is reduced to one lane in the four-mile section between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. until the work is completed. Speed limits have been reduced and motorists are advised to take alternate routes. Grant for Road Work WILDWOOD — This city will receive $64,000 from the state Department of Transportation's $3.3-billion Transportation Trust Fund to repave and curb Pacific Avenue between Glenwood and 26th avenues, just north of the section Mayor Victor Di Sylvester is pushing to revitalize. According to the rules of the grant, the city has one year to sign a construction contract for the work or the funds will go elsewhere. Cubs Coming Sunday COURT HOUSE — Due to inclement weather Sunday, Cub Scout Troop Pack No. 65 cancelled their distribution of water conservation materials for Sewer District No. 1. They will try again this Sunday at 1 p.m. Auto Brokers Closed RIO GRANDE - Middle Township closed Cape Auto Brokers, a used-car operation within K's Flea Market at Route 9 and Bayview Drive last week when it was determined that Wesley B.

Ouram, its operator, was selling cars without a state license. Ouram, who has at least 20 vehicles for sale on the site, said he sells most of the cars by consignmet. Realtor Loses License WILDWOOD - Local Realtor James W. Sharpley surrendered his broker's license and that of his corporation, Sharpley Real Estate Agency Inc. at 225 E. Young Ave., to the state Real Estate Commission after it was found he mishandled about $36,000 held in trust for clients. He faces a $1,000 fine and cannot be relicensed until 1991, and only if he pays the fine and proves he has made restitution. He may, however, apply for a real estate salesperson's license after July 1 if the fine is paid. Tax Cut Approved WOODBINE - Borough Council unanimously passed a municipal budget last Thursday that reduces the local tax rate by five cents per $100 of assessed valuation. The new rate will be 68.8 cents. Taxes on a property assessed at $50,000 will decrease $25, to $344. Moth Spraying Set TUCKAHOE — Upper Township Committee has passed a resolution authorizing a program to spray for gypsy moth caterpillars in the western section of the township. Half the cost will beVpicked up by the state, half by the township. The township also will go out in mid-April to find a private contractor to do ground spraying at a fee of no more than $75 for each half acre. The township will pick up part of the cost. 2 Killed in Crash BEESLEYS POINT - Vincent A. Tete, 27, of the 4000 block of West Avenue, Ocean City, and Christy Lynn Banks. 19. of Cooper Drive. Somers Point, were pronounced dead at the scene of an accident here Saturday after the car Tete was driving struck a utility pole on Route 9. The 3:30 a.m. accident is under investigation by State Police. Crash Injures Five OCEAN CITY — Elizabeth Beaney. 18. of Cherry Hill, will be charged with running a red light in connection with a twovan collision at the intersection of Ninth Street and Wesley Avenue April 1, according to Patrolman Curt Dull. Beaney allegedly ran the light and was struck by a van driven by local resident Frederick Barthelmas. 76. Barthelmas and four Cherry Hill residents who were riding in Beaney's van were treated for minor injuries and released from Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point. . Found Drowned STONE HARBOR - Gerald Mellon. 60. resident of a houseboat in Stone Harbor Marina, drowned March 30 while out in a dinghy. He was found floating in the water by his wife and pronounced dead at the scene by a representative of the county Medical Examiner's Office. Connell Sentenced BEESLEYS POINT - Brendan Connell, 25, of this section of Upper Township, was placed on three years' probation and ordered to forfeit his job as an Atlantic City police officer, to perform 100 hours of community service and pay $4,000 to the family of Holly Davison, 20, of Buffalo Road, Somers Point who was killed by Connell in a automobile crash July 28. Connell was sentenced on one count of death by auto last week and

faces a charge of driving while under the influence in Upper Township Municipal Court. r Charged with Assault WILDWOOD - Dominic Patrone, 19, of North Wildwood, was charged with aggravated assault for allegedly beating a Philadelphia man with a steel rod during a brawl at the corner of Wildwood and '* Pacific avenues March 31. Also charged with aggravated assault was John Boyd Kopecki, 21, of the 4700 block of Fower street in Philadelphia, for allegedly stabbing local resident Timothy Quinn, 19. Patrone was released on a summons ; Kopecki was held in Cape May county jail on $5,000 at 10 percent. Shoplifting Spree COURT HOUSE — Middle Township Police last week charged a 13-year old boy and 14-year-old girl with shoplifting and a second 13-year old boy for shoplifting, possession of stolen property and being an unlicensed driver after they allegedly shoplifted from the Ames and Jamesway stores here and spent Easter weekend on the beach in Wildwood. All three youths are from Penns Grove and were turned over to the Salem County Sheriff's Department. The third youth allegedly stole a car in Pennsville and is expected to be charged with theft of a motor vehicle. Theft Charges WILDWOOD - John Anthony McElroy. 19, and Francis Daniel Casey. 18. both of the 100 block of E. Roberts Avenues. ^ were arrested by Lower Township Police March 31 and charged with possession of stolen property when they were stopped for a routine check and the station wagon they were driving was discovered to have been stolen. McElroy and Casey allegedly admitted to also stealing a Fordjyan on March 29. No Building Ban VILLAS — More than 150 people attended Lower Township Council's meeting Monday night, many of them expecting Deputy Mayor Peggie Bieberbach to propose the temporary but township-wide building ban which she told this paper she would "probably „ seek" then. But only a March township "Board of Health Communication" recommending a ban — not a formal moratorium resolution — was listed on the agenda. Perturbed, Bieberbach instead proposed and Council approved a study of local water and sewer conditions. The health board recommended the building ban because of salt water intrusion and nitrate in local wells No Waivers VILLAS — Lower Township Council vojed unanimously Monday night to table indefinitely proposed Ordinance 86-8 which would have waived transcript fees for non-profit organizations appealing zoning board decisions. The measure evolved after The Lower Township Tax

payers' Association filed such an appeal, arguing that it should not pay for \ transcripts because its membo&and , pother taxpayers already paid for* recordings of the Jan. 30 zoning session The association told this newspaper last week, however, it still wants' the waiver, but it does not support the ordinance. Fire Kills 2 Children COLD SPRING — Robert Lunzy, 31. was in critical condition Monday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center's burn unit. Upland, Pa., suffering burns over more than 50 percent of his body He and his wife, Linda, who was uninjured, lost their children Morgan, 5, and Clinton. 4, in a Friday morning fire that gutted the family's three-story frame home off Route 109. See Above COLD SPRING - "Let's all kick in and salvage what we can for this family," Mayor Robert Fothergill told Lower Township residents Monday night, urging them to contribute food, clothing and . money, "mainly money," to Robert and Linda Lunzy. TTiey lost two children and their home here in a fire Friday morning; Robert was severely burned. Contributions are being accepted, Fothergill said, at the Recreation Center behind Township Hall, 2600 Bayshore Rd.. Villas CAFRA Hearing Today DIAMOND BEACH - State Depart ment of Environmental Protection officials plan an 11 a.m. public hearing today in Lower Township Hall, 2600 Bayshore Rd.. Villas, on developer Albert Mucchetti's application for a CAFRA (Coastal Area Facilities Review Acti peri mit for "The Gables;" 23 townhouses at ! S. Station Avenue here. Township planners March 20 tabled final site plans for 4 the project until their April 17 meeting Illegally Stored Waste VILLAS — Arthur Hucklebridge, owner of Art's Waste Oil Service on Route 47. Green Creek, pleaded guilty in Superior Court last week to charges of illegal storage and transportation of hazardous r waste and failure to submit a hazardous wasfe manifest Hucklebridge transported and stored waste oil on his property in the 400 block of Bayshore Road here without authorization from the state Department of Environmental Protection. a violation of the Solid Waste Management Act. • (v 1 I \ See Coupon on . } Classified I \ page ' • ! 50< \ ; i OFF \ 1 J _ __ _ \i

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