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Consultant: Merge With Atlantic Committee Favoring Own (Mini 9 College

By JOE ZELNIK (•REST HAVEN — The county's educational consultant Monday recommended a joint Cape May/Atlantic Community College as "your best bet ." But the intitial reaction of the committee charged with making a recommendation to the freeholders seemed to prefer the consultant's second choice, a county Community College Commission. That's a "mini-community college" with the county in control, having a small administrative staff, and contracting with

colleges to offer courses, programs and student services. "AT FIRST BLUSH." said Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr.. educational liaison and committee chairman, "my own personal preference is the commission." Kilpratrick said his reasons included "the cost factor" and the "inconsistency" that a joint college uses population to determine the makeup of its board of directors and assessed valuation to apportion shared cost. Thus. Cape May County would get three of 10 trustees (30 percent) in a joint opera-

tion with Atlantic, and pay 41 percent of the college's operating/capital budget. ATLANTIC COMMUNITY College, on the other hand, welcomed the joint school recommendation, but not the indication the commission format might be favored "I don't think the commission is a good idea." said Dr. Kenneth Yowell, vice president for academic and student affairs at ACC. "It would cause a fragmentation of quality educational programs and an uneven distribution of appropriate courses and options for the students. "Under the commission." he continued, "you almost bid^for educational services

among a number of different outside agencies; some well, some poor, some mediocre. There is not the consistency of educational services which Cape May County needs The county would be unable to establish any true self-identity in terms of post-secondary education. I'M NOT SURE they fully understand the implications of the commission format." he said. The joint college, he concluded, offered Cape May County "some selfdetermination" and merger with "an already known quality." Consultant Dr. N. Deans Evans, head of Foxgill Consultants of West Chester. Pa., was hired last December for $16,750 to I study the county's higher education needs I and recommend how best to answer them SHOULD IT HAPPEN this would not be I the first time a client has selected Evans' I second choice over his first preferece. I Evans proposed a joint operation to WarI ren and Sussex counties on 1981. "They went commission." he told this < Page 4 Please >

33Bfr ' ^ ■ ' !"ii i THIS IS A YACHT? — The 'Diderot' Stuck in Great Channel °°ris Ward

^S&NEWS~ DIGEST I ,/ 111 / The Week's jj jj H Top Stories One Hat Hung Up COURT HOUSE — County Republican Chairman Philip R. Matalucci was Slated jo retire that post last night at a meeting of the county's 224 GOP committeemen and committeewomen. Sources said Cape May GOP chairman Harry A. Gilbert, 52. city councilman and county superintendent of roads, was favored to replace Matalucci in a vote too late for this newspaper's deadline. Matalucci. 55, winner of a $3.9-million state lottery last year, said he was ready "to start to relax a little bit. but I'll still be around and help in any way I can." He's been party chairman for 12 years. He also is county treasurer. So This Is Avalon... STONE HARBOR - Don't blame the superstitions about Friday the 13th for this Friday's 6-11 a.m. closing of the Great Channel Bridge. That link between here and Middle Township also is closed the same hours today and tomorrow. The three-day inconvenience is "needed in order to install the electric motor frames on the east leaf of the drawspan," according to the County Engineer's office. Think positive. Look on it as an opportunity to see Avalon or North Wildwood Boulevard. Water Quality Fine CREST HAVEN — Ocean Water quali- i ty is well within acceptable limits for the i fourth straight week since the county began its recreational water monitoring i program. The few high counts from last week's testing (see chart inside) were in i (Page 4 Please)

THIS IS A BOAT? 'Floating Home' at Avalon Pointe Marina DorU Word

Short-Timers Paid Minimum Wage

I Great Channel Bridge Balks 127-Ft. Yacht SKIP GLADUE STONE HARBOR — For 29 months, the Great Channel Bridge reconstruction has £ inconvenienced motorists and pedestrians Last week, it snagged a boat j] Crew of the northbound. 127-foot Seine jj River yacht "Diderot" had second : thoughts last Wednesday when they saw . that only one side of the drawbridge was I open. g But the wind caught the ship as attempts r, were made to turn it around and it came to i Page 62 Please i 2-Story House {Boat) Towed | Up Intercoastal By LAURA REHRMANN | SEA ISLE CITY — Sunbathers on 1 bayside docks sat up and stared. Speedboat drivers turned and pointed A twostory house, complete with deck and oe cupied deck chair, floated up the intercoastal waterway May 30. As the 14-by-42-foot floating home passed under the Sea Isle City bridge at John F Kennedy Boulevard, two men unloading their catch of clams looked up briefly without much interest. Ed Cranmer and William Sheppard. both of Villas, said they've seen those big i Page 59 Please)

50 Leeshurg Prisoners Working Here

By E.J. DUFFY "We have them working in restaurants, laundries and bakeries" among, other businesses, said John Stabile, pdblic information officer with the state Department of Corrections. He was talking about wbrk-release prisoners. Eighty minimum security inmates from Lees burg State Prison are released for work in area businesses, he confirmed. Fifty of them work in Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, Cape May and Rio j Grande, according to Roger Harris, workrelease coordinator at Lees burg. "Do you know where they're working in Cape May County?" Stabile was asked. "EMPLOYERS AREN'T that fond of telling anybody." he replied. Harris also didn't want to discuss that in |

detail, but county Sheriff James Plousis said Leesburg prisoners are working at least a Wildwood bakery laundry. Leesburg inmates have been working at i inside.. j| I FROM sorghum to sugar. Jersey Cape jj ■ Historically, page 37. I A RECORD fish? II could happen to 1 9 anybody. Outdoors with Lou Rod La, I ■ page 52. I SriJDS. Advice from Ficence Heal; I I page 41. I The HORROR in Stone Harbor. A let- I ■ ter, page 75. I BORN in the back of a micro bur; page jf 9 5. |

Wildwood Linen Supply in Wildwood Crest; Wildwood Italian Bakery. Marine Bakery and Uncle Lou's Pancake House in Wildwood and for the City of North Wildwood. according to another local law y enforcement officer. "They bring 'em down by the bus load everyday," that source added. " ... usually with a driver who's also an inmate." Without his work release coordinator available Monday, Plousis said he couldn't name all the work-release locations. "By law, they don't have to notify me at all," he added, confirming "complaints or concerns — whatever you want to call them" about the prisoners. Plousis said his department also has a work release program, but employers can get more manpower from Leesburg. Employers, he explained, "want 10 or 15 (Page 62 Please)