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Lady Star of the Sea School, did not: go to school Thursday because of a teachers' conference. According to information circulated during the search, he left home about telling his mother, May, that he was; going to play with friends. He spoke vaguely of an "appointment" he had at 2:30 p.m., but did not make clear to his friends what that was, his father said during the search. The elder Grant described the--child as an obedient and "pretty in- telligent boy" who had been warned to rebuff strangers. When last seen about 2 p.m.

Thurs- day, the boy, who was 4 feet tall and weighed about 75 pounds, was wear-ing a gray ski jacket with a fur- 1 trimmed hood, blue jeans and black' snow boots. By Mark Wagenveld and Mike Schurman Special to The Inquirer The son of an Atlantic City police officer was found dead yesterday, apparently the victim of a beating, in a vacant lot near his home, police said last night. They said the body of Gary Grant 7, who had been missing since Thursday afternoon, had been found near a warehouse in the 100 block of North California Street, about two blocks from the child's home, in the 2500 block of Arctic Avenue. The discovery was made by Robert Hughey, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and owner of the property where the body was found, police said. Hughey, who lives in Margate, went to the warehouse about 2:30 p.m.

yesterday after hearing about the search, and then found the body, police said. Capt. James Barber of the Atlantic County Major Crimes Unit said Grant had apparently been beaten to death. An autopsy was being performed last night and results were not immediately available. The boy was the son of Atlantic City patrolman Gary Grant who had actively sought the public's help in finding the child after he did not come home Thursday.

The efforts included distributing information and pictures to the news media and combing the neighborhood around the Grants' home. The boy, a second-grader at Our Associated Press CELEBRATING their endorsements as Pennsylvania's Republican statewide candidates in the April primary are (from left) Attorney General LeRoy S. Zimmerman, who is seeking re-election; former Public Utility Commission chairwoman Susan Shanaman, for auditor general; and state Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, who is seeking re-election. They were endorsed by the GOP state committee yesterday in Harrisburg.

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