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if^^ofcEST f /lil rh*w*ek'* [ // // ■»»*• Fire Closes Henny's STONE HARBOR — A fire in a storage area behind the kitchen closed Henny's Restaurant, at 9628 3rd Avenue, to business on Tuesday, local police said. Sgt. Rocco DiSylvester of the county Arson Task Force determined that the fire was of an accidental nature and was caused when serosal can fumes were ignited by the pilot light of a hot water heater. The fire was discovered at 8:44 a.m. and extinguished by the local fire department within an hour, police said. Trial in Eighth Week CAMDEN — Dr. Suketu Nanavati retook the witness stand in federal court Monday, as his case against Dr. Robert Sorensen and Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital entered its eighth week. Nanavati, and Indian national, is suing the hospital for $4.4 million, alleging that attempts to dismiss him were based on racial discrimination. The hospital and Sorensen are suing Nanavati for an unspecified amount, alleging he defamed them. Beer Baron Beeper ? VILLAS — William Pflaumer, owner of the "Beer World" estate here and C. Schmidt & Sons Inc. brewery, Philadelphia, should be freed from prison and electronically supervised on house arrest, his lawyers argued in a recent letter to U.S. District Court Judge Charles Weiner. Convicted on 21 counts of mail fraud in 1983 for bilking New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware out of $125,000 in diesel fuel excise taxes, Pflaumer started a three-year prison sentence March 10. But he could help his ailing brewery, perform community service and receive heart treatment if authorities monitored him on house arrest with a transmitter attached to his ankle, his lawyers said. (Page 64 Please)

County-Owned Buildings Boom

• jfl* ^ mm Doris Ward TOP OF THE MORNING — Bursting with patriotism is this quartet from the decorated bike contest at Stooe Harbor on the Fourth. From left, Scott Lloyd, 6: Sarah Taylor. 7; Edward Taylor, 4; and Bobby Lloyd, 5. whose hat was heavier than the others. Sarah and Edward are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Taylor of Avalon; Scott and Bobby are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lloyd of Stone Harbor.

Consultant Eyes Need To Add Help By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE - The county's three-year-old "Buildings Directory" is already as out-of-date as a Nehru jacket. Unprecedented growth — of buildings, land, square feet — has been accomplished largely with bond issues and will be paid for gradually over as long as 20 years. But people are going to have to mow those new lawns, paint those additional buildings, sweep those added corridors. With that in mind, the county last week hired Richard N. Ottaway of Upper Montclair for $5,100 to do an "organization study" for Facilities and Services, the department that maintains county buildings and grounds OTTAWAY. AN ASSOCIATE management professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said he'll spend four days this month collecting data, four days in August analyzing it, and two days in August writing his report, which will be submitted the first week in September. Questioned June 24 about the scope of the Ottaway study, Freeholder Ralph W. Evans, who heads Facilities and Services, said the department would be surveyed about "people we need and don't need." But it's difficult to imagine that anyone currently on staff would not be "needed" as the county grows. "The county is expanding rapidly," Facilities and Services Director Harry Kehr told this newspaper last week. "When you add square footage of buildings, how do you equate this in terms of how many carpenters or electricians or custodial people you need; how many are required to maintain these various buildings?" (Page 4 Please)

'It's a Real Shame

No Swim Time on the Tuckahoe

By GREGG LAWSON TUCKAHOE — It was a no-swim fourth of July in Tuckahoe. High counts of fecal coliform bacteria caused the county Health Department to close a seven-mile stretch of the Tuckahoe River from the Riverview Campground to the state Fish and Game Reserve 11 days ago. Resampling last Wednesday showed continued high counts, and the river remained closed to swimming and water skiing through the weekend. The state standard for rivers and back rJLci Riverview Campground Scene

bays is 200 MPN (Most Probable Number). Two consecutive counts of 200 MPN or above necessitate the closing of recreational waters. HIGH FECAL COUNTS ranging from 220 to 1,600 MPN were recorded at 10 sites June 25 and a confimatory sampling on June 27 showed high counts at four sites, ranging from 240 to 1,600 MPN. Samples taken July 2 showed high county at 10 sites ranging from 240 to 2,400 MPN (the highest possible reading) at two sites. "It's a real shame; the children here have a good time in the river," said Betty Boykin of Philadelphia, a summer resident at Riverview Campground for the past seven years. "They go swimming and fishing and go tubing from the head of the river down to the campground. "It's a shame they don't have anywhere | to swim now," said Boykin, who was down with her three grandchildren. "WE USED TO GO swimming from 10 (a.m.) to 5 (p.m.)," said Nichole Gutierrez, 9, of Northeast Philadelphia. "We never got out of the water. "Now we just go to the playground," she said. "It's really boring around here now." The county Health Department, which has been carrying out a "full-blown" investigation according to Public Health Coordinator Loofe J. Lamanna, has been unable to pinpoint the source of the contamination, but has one lead to go on. "One of our field people claims to have stumbled onto a pipe," i jmnnnn said. "Right now we're trying to trace the origin of it That may be a source, then again, it may not. "WE'RE NOT EVEN SURE it was a a pipe," Lamanna lid later on Monday 1 "He was in waist-deep water and tripped p over it. He went back today to get an idea * of what it was. We're waiting for that." | Lamanna said the river has had high fecal counts for years. In the past, he said, they were attributed to wildlife, runoff

from animal farms and leachate from i sewage systems near the river. "Historically, past surveys have shown pollution to be the result of natural sources," Lamanna said, "although we did uncover some sewage violations." (Page 4 Please)

County to Tape Meets COURT HOUSE — Freeholders are expected to begin recording their meetings — both public and closed — by next month. In so doing, they apparently will follow the lead of all 16 county , municipalities which have been tapaing for some time. The county solicited bids early this year, according to Purchasing Agent Edmund Grant, and is prepared to award the equipment contract to Lanier Business Products of Ventnor at a cost of $3,445.

THAT INCLUDES nine microphones, a dual-cassette recording system, and 240 casettes (at $3 apiece). Persons mindful of the Nixon Administration's Watergate scandal in 1973-74 may be interested to know that the system has "no erase beads on recorder or transcriber which eliminate "any possibility of acciden tal erasure," according to its specifications The freeholders' intent to tape their meetings was first publicly revealed in February during "On the Record, " a television interview show on Channel 2. REPLYING TO questions about secret meetings from this newspaper's editor, Joseph R. Zelnik, Freeholder-Director William E. Sturm Jr. said the board had budgeted $3,500 to tape meetings and should have the equipment installed by mid-year. Sturm said last week that the "concept" was unanimously approved by the freeholders "at budget time." Budget deliberations began late last fall and were concluded early this year. The timing of releasing closed meeting tapes to the public apparently would be the (Page 4 Please) I

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