Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 23 April '86 69

^1I^NEWS DIGEST ^7 III / r',e Week's jj jj J j Top Stories (From page 1) Bridge Closing STONE HARBOR - The Great Channel Bridge, which links this borough with Middle Township, will be closed for repairs from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. today through Friday, the state Department of Transportation announced last week. Alternate routes are Ocean Drive to North Wildwood Boulevard (which requires a toll) or through Avalon to Avalon Boulevard. Two Trucks Ctash OCEAN VIEW — Joseph Sturgeon and Daniel Tarsi, both of Court House, were treated at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital for multiple bruises after their trucks crashed at Woodbine-Ocean View Road and Corson's Tavern Road April 15. Tarsi was driving north on Corson's Tavern Road in a dump truck owned by George Tozour when his brakes reportedly failed; Sturgeon was driving west on Woodbine-Ocean View Road in a Municipal Utilities Authority 18-wheeler. State police are investigating. Eying Code Change AVALON — Borough Council last Thursday introduced an ordinance that would restructure the administrative code to increase the number of departments from three to six. The move is expected to spread out the heavy workload of Borough Administrator Andrew Bednarek to other department heads. The existing code provides for departments of law, administration and engineering. The proposed ordinance would create departments of administration, law, water and sewer, public safety, public works and revenue and Finance. It is tentatively scheduled for second reading and a public hearing May 15. > Testing Delays Cleanup SWAINTON — The pollution in the Holy Redeemer Visiting Nurse agency's pond will remain there for two more ; weeks, according to Public Health \ Coordinator Louis J. La manna. Employes of Albrecht and Hume \ construction contractors removed debris from the area surrounding the pond but the county Health Department is awaiting the results of water samples taken by Sentry Laboratories last Friday. They will determine if any toxic substances are present, La manna said. Suit Struck Down v COURT HOUSE - U.S. District Court Judge Mitchell Cohen has ruled that Dr. Robert Sorenson's court complaint, alleging that Dr. Suketu Nanavati defamed him and attempted to monopolize the practice of cardiology at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, doesn't contain enough evidence to go to trial. Sorenson and Nanavati still have federal court suits pending that charge each other with "interference in business." 'Green Tide' Study v OCEAN CITY — Representatives of the state Department of Environmental Protection, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the county Municipal Utilities Authority and the county Health Department will be working together to determine the cause, effect and limiting growth factors of "green tide" algae blooms which annoy bathers. Suit Over Lots SEA ISLE CITY — City attorneys and local engineer John Gibson are beginning litigation over three privately owned beach lots. At issue is whether the city has in effect condemned the lots by not allowing Gibson to develop and how much the lots are worth. The city must

acquire the lots as part of a 1973 beach protection fund agreement with the state. Police Sgt. Resigns WILDWOOD CREST - Sgt. Joseph Lloyd, a 19-year veteran of the police force, resigned recently amid charges he harassed a Lower Township woman while on duty. Robert Wells, First assistant in the county Prosecutor's OfFice, said the case was investigated but brought to a conclusion by Lloyd's resignation. Upper Okays Budget TUCKAHOE - Upper Township Committee adopted its $6,867,670 1986 budget April 14. Residents still won't pay any local purpose tax because of gross receipts and franchise taxes from Atlantic Electric's B.L. England plant at ^Beesley's Point. Among anticipated budget expenditures are $225,000 for insurance costs, a $125,000 increase, and $811,456 for salaries and wages, a $88,606 increase. DEP Ruling 'Invalid WOODBINE — A state appellate court recently ruled that the state Department of Environmental Protection's 1984 order to close the Woodbine landfill is invalid and the agency must re-examine the matter. The appeal was lodged by the Borough of Woodbine and Foundations and Structures Inc., the firm that has a contract with the borough to operate the landfill. Fire Guts Home SEA ISLE CITY — An unoccoupied house owned by Louis and Ingrid Piscane of Churchville, Pa., in the 5600 block of Landis Avenue, was gutted by Fire last Wednesday. The kitchen and utility area was destroyed. The exact cause for the blaze wasn't available, but the fire is being ruled accidental, according to Police Chief Carl Gansert. The blaze, however, is still under investigation. Airport Ideas WOODBINE — The Port Authority here is reviewing a proposal by Mike Tracy, a principal in the Campark liquor store and deli opening just outside the airport, to develop retail stores and light industrial facilities on approximately 70 acres. It is also considering a request by Resorts International Hotel Casino that would make the airport the ofFicial parking facility for its blimp. Ole! OCEAN CITY — Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr. came back from a familyvacation to Mexico with a tan and a beard. The tan'll^ade and the beard probably won't outlast the spring, he confided. Although Cape May County naturally remains his favorite vacation spot, he did mention that classy hotels in that country of the plummeting peso can be had for $40 a night, breakfast included. Well Work Okayed AVALON Borough Council last Thursday authorized seeking bids to repair the 38th Street well, one of four that services the borough. The well is pumping at 20 percent of capacity, and Water and Sewer Supt. Howard Blood said it is "critical" the work be completed before the summer season and high water demand. Made to be Broken MARMORA — Upper Township Mayor Daniel Beyel and his brother David will be installing a 10,000-galion underground water tank at their $1 million Route 9 and Pine Road ofFice complex, despite a township ordinance that requires a 30,000 gallon tank. Beyel defended the ordinance when it was drafted by township committee in October. The Planning Board unanimously agreed fewer the requirements after Beyel suggested no tank at all.

O.C. Radio Sold OCEAN CITY — Charles B. "Chuck" Kramer, Frank Frenadez. and Robert Spain, owners of WDVR-FM (98.3), have agreed to sell the 3,000-watt radio station for $550,000 to JBJ Radio Inc. of Richmond, Va. Ocean City Radio broadcasts "adult contemporary" music and beams its signal over a 30-mile radius, Kramer said, when announcing the sale last Thursday. 270 Days in Jail OCEAN CITY - William Dunn, 25, of Millville, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge James A. O'Neill last week to two years probation and 270 days in jail and had his driver's license revoked for two years for killing John Larkin. of •Xong Island, N.Y., in a three-car crash here last Aug. 18. Dunn also pleaded guilty(to a charge of drunken driving and was sentenced to a $500 fine and ordered to pay a $1,000 insurance surcharge and spend 48 hours in an intoxicated driver resource center. His license was suspended for an additional two years. Sex Assault Sentence CAPE MAY — James A. Combs, 39, of Hampton, Va., was sentenced in Superior Court last week to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl here while babysitting her last Nov. 19. Combs is also being held in the county Jail as a fugitive from Virginia, where he is wanted on charges of rape and. sodomy in Hampton. He will be extradited to Virginia as soon as authorities there can pick him up. Redden Charged Again WILDWOOD - Philadelphia authorities are charging Richard J. Redden, of Magnolia Avenue, with killing Timothy Underwood, 25, by shooting him once in the head in the 3400 block of Kensington Avenue on Feb. 9. Redden is currently under indictment for the shooting death of Wayne Miner, 18, of Wildwood, at a home in the 200 block of Sixth Avenue, West Cape May. Guilty of Sex Crime OCEAN CITY — Edwin Jones, 37, of Warrington, Pa., was found guilty in Superior Court last Wednesday of attempted sexual assault and criminal sexual contact for assaulting a 17-year-old Warminster, Pa. girl at a home in the 800 block of Fifth Street March 21, 1983. Jones faces 10 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for June 20. - Enclosed Mall? NORTH CAPE MAY - Singer Assoc Inc. of Baltimore, Md., is expected to present conceptual plans to Lower Township's Planning Board 7:30 p.m. Thursday for a 250,000 square-foot enclosed mall between Ferry and Town Bank roads on Bayshore Road here, Harry W. McVey, township planning director, confirmed Monday. Singer, he said, wants two "anchor" stores for the $14 million mall : a discount outlet and a fashion department store. Budget Vote Delayed VILLAS — Lower Township Council on Monday postponed final action scheduled then on the 1986 budget of $6,757,414. Adoption is expected during a special 4:30 p.m. meeting next Monday in Township Hall here. The budget projects no hike in the tax rate which soared last year from 36-53 cents on each $100 of assessed property value. Meet the Candidates o COLD SPRING - Rev. George W. Fincke of Covenant Bible Church will moderate a Candidates' Night for six Lower Township Council contenders 7:30 Monday in Maud Abrams School auditorium, 714 Town Bank Rd. Candidates from The People's Choice and Republican slates for three ward Council-seats will each be alloted five minutes to present their platforms before ^ fielding audience questions. The forum's sponsored by The Lower Township Taxpayers' Association.

Recycling (From page 1) municipalities are selling on their own. Magnetic machines would have separated the cans by type and they would have been flattened. THE MUA GOAL: to reduce the municipal waste stream — 140,000 tons last year — by 15 to 25 percent during the next three or five years. The advantages? For the MUA: a longer life for its landfill. more efficient operation of a planned resource recovery ( burning trash to create energy) plant, and delayed expansion of that plant, a certainty because of population growth. For the municipalities: Every ton not sent to the landfill is currently a saving If $29.80, plus a "sharing" of the - profits" from resale of recyclable material estimated at $5 to $10 a ton The MUA also said recycling can bring state grants. FOR THE INDIVIDUAL: taxpayer savings that logically result from the above benefits to the MUA and the municipality, plus the "environmental benefit" of preserving natural resources and conserving energy. With all those goodies, why did half the county's municipalities resist endorsing the proposal? Probably because of a general distrust of the MUA and a specific distrust of its argument that recycling can save money. Lower Township Deputy Mayor Peggie Bieberback, for example, said she'd fight the proposal "tooth and nail." She and council member Joseph Lonergan said the MUA wanted a commitment on trash, but wouldn't commit on the price it would pay. TOWNSHIP MANAGER James Stump has reported the voluntary recycling pro gram cost the township $61,163 in 1984 Actual program cost was $117,179, from which ^tump subtracted $17,892 received f6r recyclables, $19,050 in avoided dumping fees, $15,899 for extra employes he said would have been needed for collections if there were no recycling, and a $3,175 state grant. MUA Recycling Coordinator Linda Pitale said the example of a voluntary pro- < gram is inappropriate. "In order for the program to be successful," she said, "you first have to promote participation. Your vehicles are driving the same mileage. To stop for a few morehomes on the same block will not add a significant amount of time to staff or change the mileage traveled by vehicles. ••SECOND," SHE SAID, "most municipal collection programs operate with at least a two-man operation, some with three. But most effective programs operate with a one-man program. It saves you significantly. "As you collect more (recyclables)," she concluded, "tipping fee avoidance and value of recyclables will go up. This is not intended to make anybody rich, but I believe then they would not lose money They should definitely be able to collect the expenditure of collection." Stone Harbor is the only community in the county with mandatory recycling, a progrm it Started in 1981. It collects paper and glass and intends to add metad containers by summer, according to Borough Manager Edwin F. Pain. THE MUA HAS SAID that the borough "does not actually enforce its mandatory ordinance." but does actively promote it." "The borough's per capita recovery rates are some of the highest in the state," the MUA said in a recent report. Its officials concede that one reason for that high rate is that it results from crediting the recycled materials collected during the summer season to the much smaller year-round population. Pain said the borough has not done a cost analysis, but "we don't think it's costing us any more to recycle than not to recycle." And, he added, the borough's program "helps avoid the long-term problem of landfill capacity." • THE MUA IN THE SPRING of 1964 scrapped an earlier proposal to coordinate the county's recycling efforts. At that time it said it wanted commitments from municipalities With at least one-third of the county's population. It got them only from Stone Harbor, Ocean City and West Cape. The latest proposal resulted late last year after 12 municipalities requested assistance. They found markets lacking for small amounts of recyclables and were losing money. That's when the MUA set •lie goal of 75 percent of trash participation and approvals by March 31.