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R^snews IjM?/ DIGEST 7/7/- Ss£ Help for Esperanza COURT HOUSE - Residents of the Esperanza Neighborhood in Marmora were assured last week pf a no passing area and lower speed lpnit on Tuckahoe Road (Rt. 631) near Burley Road, their I exit to Tuckahoe. Freeholders said they supported their request and John McCarthy. area traffic engineer for the state Department of Transportation, said he'd "ti7 for" a 40 m.p.h. limit. Residents said there are 50-60 homes in the neighborhood and told a number of stories about being forced off the road by high speed traffic, especially trucks. Cluck, Cluck CAPE MAY - H uge demand for chickens by the fast-food industry has brought a national fowl shortage. But one would never have known it in Cape May County last weekend. Dozens of people did the "chicken dance" to the music of Robert Hoffnagle and Sons at the Tulip Festival in Cape May. And 200 people waved 400 wing-like arms to the same song as played by Chuck Pendrack's polka band at the Polish American Club's spring dance at St. Raymond's Hall in Villas Saturday night. Don't Light a Match WILDWOOD CREST - Joshua Miller. 28, was charged with possession of cocaine. possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana under 25 grams and possession of fireworks after being stopped by State Police on the Garden State Parkway in Egg Harbor Township last Thursday. He is being held in Atlantic County jail in Mays Landing on $50,000 cash bail. Subdivision Delayed COURT HOUSE - The Middle Township Planning Board tabled until May 22 a vote on an eight-lot subdivision on a 12-acre site along Route 47 and Bucks Avenue last Thursday, after local environmentalists said the site is a roostiftg pond for egrets and <ibout 40 other waterfowl. The land is owned by Pleasantville contractor Roger Hansen (Page 48 Please) I Inside*. SOMETHING new for AvaJon: two I more traffic lights; page 3. METALS: one of best values on the I market. Antiques, page 20. CAPTAIN Henry Washington ■ Sawyer escapes execution. Jersey I Cape Historical?, page 17. T is for judges, especially I Supreme Court. County library, I ■ PAY HIKES to some county | employes, page 3. And Save $780,000

W Kr JBM v ■ i F ■ vfl Dorli SAME TO YOU. FELLA — Molly Doherty makes a male courting gesture during performance of the Klompendansing (wooden shoes dance) by members of the Joanne Reagan Dance Studio at the Tulip Festival in Cape May last weekend. Molly's the 9-year-old daughter of Rhea and Bruce Doherty of Cape May Court House.

MUA to Spend SI Million ; _ I To End Cotnposting Odors

By GREGG LAWSON CREST HAVEN - The county Health Department say* a Sl-million air scrubber should eliminauNodors at the Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) sludge composting plant by mid-July. Residents west of the Garden State Parkway have once again been complaining about foul odors, which they describe as smelling like a salt marsh at low tide or an open cesspool. MUA spokesman Donald Hutchinson said the authority has issued a $l-million contract to install a double stage, 100-foot air scrubber. That work will push the cost of the facility over the $10 million mark. THE SCRUBBER includes four features: a condenser, sulfuric acid wash, hypochlorite wash and, if needed, a carbon filter, according to a report from county Sanitary Inspector Joan F. Thaler. Thaler's report, from an April 16 inspec-

tion. said the source of off-site compost odors are most likely: • Those coming from the reactor building exhaust through a 50-foot Scrubber tower. "When the reactor exhaust is released through the 100-foot scrubber tower presently under construction, the (Page 4 Please)

County May Cancel ' the Blues '

By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE — County government may get rid of "the Blues" to save some greenbacks. "The Blues" are Blue Cross and Blue (Shield of New Jersey, the health care benefit for almost 1,100 county employes. The county expects to take over the pro-* gram, a step which should save more than three-quarters of a million dollars a year, according to the first of several firms, bidding to administer it. Employe benefits, covered by their union contract, would be unchanged, according to Freeholder-Director William E. Sturm Jr. "This does not change your present plan," agreed Walter Peters of Lowe & Associates Inc., a Columbus, Ohio financial service firm. "This is just a funding change." "WHAT ABOUT acceptance of this

card?" asked Freeholder James S. Kilpa trick Jr., referring to use of a new county medical card instead of a Blue Cross Blue Shield card. "It would be the same as now," said Peters. The benefit, including Blue Cross Blue Shield premiums, reserves aruk-jtd- « ministration, currently costs the county $2.16 million a year. Peters told the freeholders April 22 the county could do the job for $1.38 million. He based that figure on the following: • ACTUAL CLAIMS (based on the last three years) of $1.2 million. • Administration cost (to Lowe) of $7.50 a month per employe for a total of $99,000. • A "re-insurance" to cover any claims of $100,000 or more that would cost $5 a month per employe or $66,000. • A one-time "set-up" cost (again to Lowe) of $15 per employe or $16,500. (Page 16 Please)

Courts Project Clobbered By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE - Edwin N Howell - he's the Ocean City architect with the red ears. Howell's ears have to be perpetually burning _from negative comments abouL_work on the county's controversial courthouse renovation project Last week, consistently critical Freeholder Gerald M. Thornton was joined in his doubts by Freeholder Herbert (Chuck) Frederick. J'This was B.C. — before Chuck." Frederick told a handful of opponenLs to demolition of the Prosecutor's 11 -year-old building (which they call "the old library building"). They brought petitions which they said contained 700 signatures. "THIS STARTED before J came on board. " continued Frederick, who took of fice Jan. 1, 1986. "But I am not totally pleased. I have some reservations on the process that brought us to this point " He told this newspaper that he wanted "further reconsideration of the entire project. I've heard concerns, and of concerns, from several parties. We've had the architect in several times. I don't know how much review he gave it before he came up with his decisions. There have a been all kinds of modifications and we haven't even lifted a brick yet. Saying there was "no real construction at the airport yet," where the courts will be relocated for up to two years while the courthouse is enlarged and renovated. (Page 57 Please)

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FINAL TOUCH — Maryanne McConnell. right, of Wild wood, beauty culture student at the vo-tech school, applies makeup to Priscilla Bennett of Mayville who is graduating from Atlantic Community College's general secretary class. Fashion ♦ •

Don I tfor, show and makeup demonstration were held at ACC's Rio Grande office jast Friday, sponsored by the college and the county Office of Employment and Training. * »