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/®news ®^?/ DIGEST r^7 #7/ The Week's \ /I II II T°P^ Sorry , Jim COURT HOUSE - Freeholder Ralph W. Evans publicly apologized to golf partner Judge James A. O'Neill at the caucus meeting last Thursday. In a story on judicial workload May 14, this newspaper quoted Evans saying. "How many days are the judges not doing anything here?" Evans said last week that the judge told him, on the links, that the county led the state in a recent state Supreme Court review of "speedy trials." Evans released a copy of the report and commented, "You gotta give 'em credit." We'll Celebrate 4th COURT HOUSE — This newspaper office will be closed Friday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day. That means the news and advertising deadline for the July 9 issue will be noon Thursday, July 3. Liable for Libel? COURT HOUSE - Have the freeholders seemed a little quieter than usual? County insurance broker Charles Pessagno of Cape May reported last week that he expects their "Public Official Liability" coverage should come through any day. They've been without it since mid-March, and the annual cost probably will quadruple, Pessagno told this newspaper, from $15,000 to $60,000. That coverage is for "breach of duty," malfeasance, libel, slander, etc. Pessagno said the county's "experience" is excellent. "I don't think we've ever paid a penny." Insomniacs Beware STONE HARBOR — Only people who stay up very late or get up very early should be inconvenienced by "two or three more" closings of the Great Channel Bridge, according to County Engineer (Page 73 Please) Inside.. THE HUES are everywhere. Outdoors with Low Rodia, page 52. THE EfllCANS are in Stone Harbor; MUKDCIt: The county'* flat recorded mamtaughter. Jersey Cape, pape 25. GRADUATION clothes: An Odyswy. Joyride, page 73.

'Authentic' Wood Bridge Or Cheat? By JOE ZELNIK MARSHALLVILLE — Bongossi may be the answer. The question? Whether the covered bridge the county intends to build here should be an "authentic" wooden bridge or . "cheat a little bit" with an asphalt deck over p re-stressed concrete. The Upper Township Historical Preservation Society would prefer authentic, of course. The county is concerned about safety, of course. AND WHO'S Bongossi. an engineer with all the answers? No. Also known as Ekki, Azobe or Akoga, it's a tropical hardwood material that is called "one of the strongest hardwoods on earth." The sales literature says it's so tough it will resist infestation and decay and "refuses to bum." Lewis P. Albrecht Jr. of Seaville and . Joseph DeHaven of Petersburg brought two covered bridge models to a recent freeholder meeting. Something went wrong the first time around. Albrecht conceded, and the first scale model prepared by a consultant would have been three stories high. "SOMEWHERE the dimensions got out of hand," he said. The second model, he said, has been "scaled down" and would be 26 feet high (instead of 36) with a 32-foot portal (instead of 43). Albrecht said one of the concerns was that a wooden bridge would not be "skidresistant and the first accident you have, somebody will come back and say you did not design to present-day standards ." FREEHOLDER-DIRECTOR William E Sturm Jr. asked if the society had checked with the Tuckahoe Fire Department whether its equipment could cross the bridge. "We have not." said Albrecht, "but at 15-feet, six-inches, we do not have to check. ' Page 73 Please)

IR!- * I 1 A> wjH' QHr : Dorli Ward j SILVER QUEENS? — One of the nice things about South Jersey is that one just begins to mourn the end of strawberry season when tender, local sweet corn becomes available. The first of the season is unloaded by Al Rose and Sue Wheeler at Wheeler's Farm < Market on Delsea Drive (Route 47) in Goshen. 1

St. * N ■L ■fAjnf J. I -? * * . J ' ' M. " \ ' If Dor,, Ward Mildred Vaughan and Poplars Cops 'Solve' Senior Week WILD WOOD - Did it seem a little quieter here about 8 a.m Monday9 That's when the two-week old celebration called "Senior Week" officially ended, according to city officials Three hours later, they held a press conference at city hall and Mayor Victor DiSylvester reported that problems had been "effectively addressed" thanks to a "more disciplined environment." according to Russ Fowler of the Wildwood Tourism Dept. THE PROBLEMS? Noise, underage drinking and group rentals. Part of the solution9 There were "immediate arrests" instead of warnings, according to Police Chief Ralph Sheets As a result, 308 persons were charged with 375 violations. Sheets said. The major ones: 68 open display of alcohol. 57 underage drinking, and 87 noise violations. There also were 47 juveniles arrested, Sheets said. And he reported that State Police made 87 arrests the first week. Statistics for the second week were not available. (Page 73 Please)

Shunpike Poplars Doomed By JOE ZELNIK And WILL DENNIS MAYVILLE — The county will remove a half-dozen 100-year-old tulip poplar trees that divide two lanes of Shunpike Road Freeholders responded to Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick's report that "two art* dead, the others are rapidly expiring, and it's a traffic hazard. " He said the trees are victims of drought resurfacing and traffic fumes." The news devastated Mildred Vaughan, who lives at the that spot and successfully interceded on behalf of the trees several years ago But the news pleased two nearby residents who echoed Kilpatrick's report that the trees are dead "THEY CAN'T IK) THAT without my permission," said Vaughan. 81 "I donated the land that those trees are on so that those trees could remain there as long as they are living." Vaughan blamed the county for the fact that the trees are dying "When they planned on building that road." she said. "I told them they should put Belgian block under the road so that water could get to the roots. Of course they didn't, and the blacktop killed the trees." But Vaughan apparently agreed that thfe trees are a safety lizard. She said she has seen many people'come around them on the wrong side oT the road and she was "just waiting for a head-on to happen " Vaughan said the county was supposed to install guardrails, but never did more than place a blockade of barrels "Thank God." said John Harris of Shunpike. told the trees will be removed "The trees used to be beautiful, but it's not the '40s or '50s anymore It's 1986 and those trees are dead "1 have an eight-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son and traffic goes like crazy down this road They use the school bus \ stop right by the end of those trees, and \ cars can't see the bus stop because of it. If the Department of Engineers from Trenton would come down and see it. they'd condemn it immediately " And Gregg Martin. Vaughan's neighbor, called the trees "a hazard for drivers and i Page 73 Please)

264 Acres at Zero Mile Marker for Sale

By BJ. DUFFY COLD SPRING - Much erf Henry Ford's old farm, and the site of his once-proposed auto factory here, is up for sate in three prime parcels totaling 364 aeres. David Rutherford, a supervising principal planner with the county Planning Department, said a "quick estimate" (without actually consulting maps) indicated "no more than half of the total acreage is developable. He said about one-quarter of it is siateftoafgnatH wetlands, on which development is prohibited, and another ooequarter is swamp land. ALL THREE PARCELS are together "right at the zero mite markers" of the Garden State Parkway. "Two of the properties flank that." Michael Hohnstein of

Rittenhouse Marketing Asaodates, said Friday. The third, a 30-acre residential tract, is on Route 109 which converges with the Parkway in Lower Townahip at the Scheltenger's Landing entrance to Cape May. ONE OF THE PARKWAY parcels is a 154 acre residential tract on the west side, Hohnstein said, white the other is 64 com metdal aeres on the east side. HIS PHILADELPHIA firm is handling the sate for Binswanger Industrial, a division of Binswanger Co. the Philadelphia real estate organization that's been named exclusive agent for the sellers, Philadelphia ns Harry Stinger and Mary DeSio (Page 73 Pleaae)