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'Up 1 "''f "1 11111111 Mii frgnimy'Hj if ji jl "Wf p-mi ij ij utf" if 1 2BJ Wednesday, May 16, 1981 Philadelphia Inquirer Seaweed test fails to build up beach The Scene Associated Preu STONE HARBOR, N.J. State officials said yesterday that Mother Nature did not appear to be fooled by their attempts to use plastic seaweed in the New Jersey surf to trap sand and thereby build up eroding beaches. Preliminary test results show that the seaweed caused little or no sand accumulation on the beach in this Cape May County community, which acted as a testing ground for the synthetic ocean vegetation, officials said. The seaweed, called Seascape, is made of thin, green plastic strips, 4 feet long and 2 inches wide. The strips are attached to 5-foot-long tubes, said John R.

Weingart, director of the Division of Coastal Resources in the state Department df Environmental Protection (DEP). Weingart said it had been hoped that the seaweed would slow the force of waves, hinder the powerful current during a storm and collect, sand that would build up on the beach. "The preliminary results are disappointing," Weingart said. He noted, however, that the designer of the plastic seaweed, William Garrett Jr. of Wilmington, still was optimistic about the success of the project Officials believe that one of the reasons the seaweed failed is that sea life attached itself to the strips and weighed them down, keeping them from floating and catching sand, Weingart said.

"My only information so far is that the beach hasn't gotten bigger, which was the point," he added. Divers hired by the DEP to evaluate the results have been unable to locate the tubes that were placed in five parallel rows on the ocean floor in November, Weingart said. "The positive interpretation Mr. Garrett has is that it's attracting sand to the beach; that (the tubes and seaweed are covered up," said Weingart. But he said "the negative interpretation" was that the tubes had been washed away by the same erosion they were designed to combat Weingart said the plastic seaweed had been used in North Carolina.

"The beach was wider the next year" there, Weingart said. It cost $96,550 to plant the seaweed and $43,360 to monitor it Weingart said. In Philadelphia and its suburbs niniiiiti if Amusement park laws are spotty 9 ji ft -t: PhdwWphi Inquiw CHUCK ISAACS MAYBE THE STAFF at the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum is trying to send a message to the state legislature that more funds are needed. Or maybe no one has noticed. Whatever the reason, the Pennsylvania state flag (middle) that flies from one of the flagpoles in front of the museum at Seventh and Arch Streets has been flying upside down for some time.

Dealershipsi Then who is the world's smallest? Your' darkness: For some time now we have pondered the age-old question of "Who's the world's smallest Chevrolet dealer" Of course the answer is he, Marv Follow, but now we feel as if trapped in a "Kung Fu" rerun "The answer is Marv Pollow, but Grasshopper, what IS the question" Is Marv Follow the world's smallest "deal- 1 ership" or a very tiny person who sells Chevies? Please resolve this conundrum as soon as possible. Yesterday I missed my El stop thinking about it. Puzzled in East Philly Once again with the age-old questions, eh, Your Puzzleship? You couldn't have asked me who's the most affordable Ford dealer, Joann and Cass Dougherty watch videotapes of television reports on Tommy Dougherty's death Hero's memory inspires family DOUGHERTY, from I ic at the Brind Truck Leasing Co. on Third Street near Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia. According to police, Dougherty saw a group of men, variously estimated by witnesses as numbering five to eight, using baseball bats and a hockey stick to beat Paul Gula, a supervisor at Brind.

Dougherty, a trim man of 6-feeM and 190 pounds, who had been an All-Catholic League defensive end at West Catholic High School for Boys, from which he was graduated in 1978, ran to his friend's aid. He had pulled one man off the victim and was grappling with another, police Matthews indicted on 3 new counts or what car dealer has a hole in his head, or what dealer gives away a stuffed tiger with each car, or the dealer who promises to give yon "none of that stuff," or which one sells cream puffs. No, that would have been too easy. You want the word on His Shortness. The world's smallest Chevrolet dealer is located in Lansdowne, not Lilliput And Marv Pollow, who has been promoting himself in advertisements as TWSCD for the last 25 years, reported yesterday that he is 6 feet tall.

"People come in and they're amazed. They say, 'You're not the world's smallest Chevrolet They thought I was 4-foot-9," Pollow said. The ads have been an exercise is harmless deception all these years. Customers wonder if the ads mean he's the smallest or his dealership is the smallest "They don't know what 1 mean," Pollow said. "And I like it that way." For the record, he is neither.

Dascballi A poor choice of compliment Phillies announcer Harry Kalas couldn't have realized the way fans in Philadelphia would react to the remarks he made during Sunday's game in San Diego. On two occasions during the game on the West Coast, Kalas said that second baseman Juan Samuel has a smile "that could light up a haunted house." This the day after the tragic fire at Great Adventure Six Flags amusement park in Jackson Township, NJ. Cheesesteaksi Did Pat's move from South Philly? Inquirer sports writer Steve Goldstein was in Olympia, to do a story, and when he stopped into a restaurant for a bite, he discovered that the menu included cheesesteaks. However, he had to wonder how authentic a cheesesteak would taste in the Pacific Northwest, especially when he saw that the menu gave a description of the cheesesteak's origin as "an East Philly favorite." Radiot Come on. Ken, tell us how you really feel Ken Garland, morning man and resident Uncle Spunk on WIP-AM (610), isn't hiding his opinions about some of the music he has been playing under the station's new music format, which one WIP staffer describes as "popular dead people." After one vintage pop number yesterday morning, Garland commented drily, "There's a song we could be hearing forever isn't that a depressing thought?" Ghostst What do those posters mean? You may have noticed the ads that have appeared in local papers and on SEPTA billboards that show a ghost peeking through a circle with a slash through it.

The text beneath it says, "Coming to save the world this summer." The ghost looks suspiciously like one of the bad ghost brothers from Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons. As it turns out the posters are a tease for the movie Ghostbusters that will open June 8 starring Dan Akroyd and Bill Murray. Reactiont Clark to Alan: Gimme a break Here's a reader's comment on Thurday's item about my son's friend being picked up by the police and released with the warning, "Next time, don't cry like that." Obviously, this reader understood the deeper significance of the item: In your column today was the story of the two lads playing basketball using a milk crate for a basket. Whether you know it or not, it is against the law to use these crates for anything but the handling of milk. If you will look at it closely, the warning is probably embossed in the plastic.

Customers pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to replace those crates. It is because of you and others who steal them that the price of milk is almost $2 a gallon. Alan McCutloch, Delran, NJ. hetpin? i PhilKtolphu Inquirer CLEM MURRAY my Dougherty was Mr. All-American.

He played rough-touch football and he coached the Comet Boys' Club football team in Colwyn. He was a crackerjack do-it-yourselfer and he seemed to go out of his way to do things for other people. Yesterday, Cass Dougherty was asked whether, in the light of the tragedy, she would urge her surviving children never to become similarly involved. She shook her head. "How could I do that?" she said.

"I would be going against everything my husband and I have always taught them to do the right thing and to help others." The indictment also charged that in April 1983, Cohen, using Zaris as an intermediary, agreed to pay $5,000 to Matthews in exchange for Matthews' promise to help the McDonald's project further. Cohen, through Zaris, gave the $5,000 cash payoff to Matthews after the seven-member zoning board unanimously granted a variance to the project on May 12, 1983, the indictment charged. The indictment said Matthews also appointed members to the zoning board. City records show that McDonald's needed the variance because it was seeking to erect a 65-foot sign, a size not normally allowed under city zoning laws. The third count of the indictment alleged that on March 2, 1983, Klitenick, using Zaris as a conduit, made a $1,000 cash payoff to Matthews.

The payment was made in exchange for Matthews' agreement to help Klitenick obtain the necessary approvals to erect billboards on top of a building he owned at 2124 Atlantic the indictment alleged. The zoning board never approved the billboards, city records show. Brief rio N.J.), was passed by the Energy and Commerce Committee. It would allow the secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants available to maintain and improve schools, including their libraries, that provide training leading to the degrees of doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy. According to Florio, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has exhausted all private and state funding sources and needs federal help to build an adequate library for its Camden campus.

Although South Jersey has a few hospital-based medical libraries with 7,000 to 11,000 volumes, Florio said, a medical library of good quality should have 50,000 to 100,000 volumes. Passenger in car is killed in crash with tractor-trailer William F. Walsh 30, of the 1900 block of Old Forty Foot Road, Har-leysville, was killed Monday when the car in which he was a passenger collided with a tractor-trailer at an Upper Gwynedd Township intersection, officials said. Upper Gwynedd police said the driver of the car, Bruce Samuel Hamilton, 33, of the 1900 block of Nash-mont Court, Lansdale, was arraigned charges of driving while intoxicated, homicide by vehicle and related offenses. The accident occurred about 4:15 p.m.

at West Point Pike PARKS, from 1-B gomery), sponsor of the latest bill to require safety Inspections of amusement rides. "We inspect eggs, products and services, but we have no regulations for amusement rides." Exceptions to that rule are amusement park cable-car rides and other rides that utilize cables. Such rides are inspected by the Elevator Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. That department also is responsible for enforcing the state's fire and panic regulations, and in that capacity, it inspects permanent structures at amusement parks when they are constructed or remodeled to ensure that adequate fire exits are provided. But those safety checks, in Green-leafs view, are not enough.

His bill calls for the inspection of amusement park rides by insurance companies, the Department of Labor and Industry or private inspectors certified by the department. The bill also would require amusement-park operators to carry at least $1 million in liability insurance. Currently there is no requirement for amusement parks and carnivals to carry such coverage. Greenleaf contends that many small carnivals and fairs operate without any insurance. In Delaware, to the dismay of state Fire Marshal Ben Roy, there are no laws regulating amusement parks, and there are no licensing requirements, no safety standards and no inspections.

"I feel very strongly that amusement parks, and especially the rides, should be inspected on a periodic basis," said Roy. A bill that would authorize Roy's office to conduct such inspections was passed by the state House last year and now is awaiting action by the Senate. Roy said the bill's progress had been delayed because Delaware lawmakers were considering an alternate plan that would put much of the burden of inspection on private insurance companies. Roy said there was only one permanent amusement park in Delaware, Funland on the boardwalk at Reho-both Beach, a block-long facility that features Ferris wheels, kiddy rides, video arcades and a haunted house. Funland owner Allen Fasnacht said the park was inspected annually by his insurance company.

Under a law enacted in 1975 in New Jersey, amusement-ride operators must have a permit and carry at least $100,000 issurance coverage in case of an accident. Rides are inspected by state officials at the time a permit is issued each year, plus several other times throughout the season. From April through December 1983, officials with the state's Office of Safety Compliance conducted 4,733 inspections of amusement rides around the state and subsequently issued 616 notices of violation. In 1983, inspectors shut down 60 amusement rides, 16 of which were never reopened, according to Seymour Rubenstein, who oversees the state's Office of Safety Compliance. Among the rides shut down either temporarily or permanently were a Ferris wheel at a carnival in Camden; a children's carousel outside a fast-food restaurant in Cherry Hill, and a roller-coaster in Atlantic City.

and Morris Road. A spokesman for the Montgomery County coroner's office said Walsh was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Police said the accident resulted when Hamilton, who suffered minor injuries, made an improper left turn in front of the tractor-trailer. The truck driver was not injured. Inmate's sentence extended for stabbing man with a pen A Bucks County Prison inmate was sentenced yesterday to an additional three to 10 years in prison for stabbing a fellow inmate in the head with a ball-point pen in June during a quarrel.

County Judge Kenneth G. Biehn imposed the sentence on Robert Butler, 22, formerly of the Ashland Apartments, Warminster. Police said Butler jammed the pen three Inches into the skull of inmate Thomas Yurick, 25, on June 23. Police said Butler, who was serving a five- to 20-year sentence for robbery and escape in a state penitentiary but was in the Bucks jail awaiting a court appearance, tried to steal a necklace from Yurick, who was serving a five- to 10-year sentence for rape. When Yurick tried to get the necklace back, police said, Butler stabbed him.

Yurick still has a fragment of the pen point lodged in his skull, according to police. MATTHEWS, from I undercover investigation that led to the March indictments. Dumont would not comment on the genesis of yesterday's indictments. But in a secretly recorded conversation in November between Matthews and undercover agent James Bannister, Matthews talked of receiving a $5,000 payment from someone in exchange for a "big favor." Matthews, 50, later identified that individual as Zaris, federal officials said. According to yesterday's indictment, Zaris played a crucial role in the extortion schemes, directly paying $5,000 to Matthews and acting as a conduit for the remaining $6,000 in payments.

Zaris, Cohen and Klitenick recently testified before the federal grand jury under grants of immunity, according to people familiar with the case. Federal authorities assured the three men that they would not face prosecution if they testified against Matthews before the grand jury and at the trial. Yesterday's indictment charged that on March 23, 1983, Zaris wrote a $5,000 check to Matthews in exchange for the mayor's help with the By CLARK DeLEON 7 Letters of commendation will be presented to traffic reporter Rick Gillespie, pilot Mark Ciccone and Philadelphia Highway Patrol Officer Fred Madanick by state police Maj. Leon D. Leiter during 1 p.m.

ceremonies at the Belmont barracks. Go Patrol crew members were on routine traffic patrol Feb. 24 when they sighted the accident, in which three people died. The helicopter landed in the westbound lanes of the turnpikeand transported a woman to Suburban General Hospital. Selection of jurors to begin in Chester street-slaying trial Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in Philadelphia in the murder trial of Dean Campbell, 21, of Chester, who is accused of shooting John Maletsky during a late-night robbery at a Chester intersection while Maletsky's 4-year-old daughter looked on.

The man was identified along with his brother Michael, 19, by Maletsky's wife, Debbie, 26, during a preliminary hearing as the men involved in the Jan. 21 attack. Michael Campbell and a third man charged in the attack, Wilbert Daniels, 25, will be tried separately at a later date. Mrs. Maletsky has said she had been following in a separate car and had witnessed her husband struggling on the corner with a man she identified as Dean Campbell.

"31 said, when he was stabbed and collapsed on the street. Gula was able to break free. Police rushed Dougherty to Methodist Hospital, where he died shortly after arrival. It was at the same hospital that he had been born in 24 years earlier. Four men are to be tried in connection with Dougherty's death on charges of murder, manslaughter, possessing instruments of crime and conspiracy.

They are Dominic DePas-quale, 33; Jerry Gentzler, 33; Joseph Martino, 33, and Joseph Lattera, 29, all of South Philadelphia. Without being icky about it, Tom McDonald's project. McDonald's had agreed in August 1982 to buy the property at 27 N. Arkansas Ave. from Cohen for $1.1 million, contingent upon the restaurant chain's receiving the necessary city approvals.

The indictment said that Zaris acted as Cohen's agent in the sale and was entitled to receive a $55,000 commission. Dumont said yesterday that there was no indication that McDonald's officials had any involvement in the extortion scheme. Matthews, who was recalled from office March 13, controlled appointments to the nine-person planning board and was a member himself, the indictment said. The indictment alleged that on April 6, after receiv-ing the $5,000 check from Zaris, Matthews voted to approve the McDonald's project. Seven other board members voted for the project, and one member was absent, city records show.

According to the transcript of Matthews' conversation with the undercover agent, the former mayor spoke of how he "washed" the $5,000 check through his accounting firm in Ocean City, N.J. tection order eight years ago, said Ted O'Neil, manager of solid waste for the county. The facility has two synthetic liners, a piping system to collect leach-ate for off-site disposal and 15 monitoring wells. The dump is not designed for hazardous-waste disposal and has an expected life span of more than 20 years. Haddon Twp.

seeks $4,000 in aid for cleanup after storm Cleanup for last week's storm damage in Haddon Township will cost at least $4,000, according to township clerk Florence Black. The Haddon Township board of commissioners approved a resolution last night asking the state for permission to use $4,000 in emergency aid to pay township crews overtime. At least 48 trees were knocked down during the storm, Black said. If the state approves the aid, the township will pay the workers now and allow for the money in next year's budget. Panel passes measure to aid medical library in Camden A U.S.

House committee approved a measure yesterday aimed at getting federal financial assistance for a medical-school library in Camden. An amendment to the Health Professions and Services Act of 1984, sponsored by U.S. Rep. James J. Flo- New Jersey and Metro News in Camden County man charged in death of his grandfather Kenneth G.

Hollimon, 24, was charged yesterday with murder in the slaying of his grandfather James Covington, 86, with whom he lived in the West Atco section of Winslow Township, Camden County. A spokesman for the county prosecutor's office said that Covington was found beaten and unconscious at his home at 2:30 p.m. May 9 by a granddaughter, who was not identified. Covington died yesterday in West Jersey Hospital, Southern Division, in Berlin. Authorities said Covington had been beaten on the head with a table leg.

Hollimon, who is unemployed, was arrested the day of the incident and charged with aggravated assault, robbery and possession of an offensive weapon. Hollimon is being held in Camden County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. A bail hearing was scheduled for today on the murder charge. Synthetically lined landfill opens in Cape May County The first synthetically lined landfill in New Jersey opened yesterday in Woodbine, Cape May County, a county official said. The $5.5 million landfill was tne first such facility built under a state Department of Environmental Pro 2 Florida residents are held on drug, firearms charges Two Florida residents were arrested on 1-95 in Bensalem Township yesterday and charged with illegal possession of narcotics and a gun, police said.

Ellen Mary Venne, 29, and Kenneth John Lyons, 36, both of Lake Worth, were stopped for speeding about noon by state Trooper Juan Diaz, who discovered a loaded revolver and "various amounts of cocaine and marijuana along with drug paraphernalia" in the car, police said. The two were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of cocaine with intent to deliver, criminal conspiracy and possession of a firearm without a license. They were arraigned in Bensalem before District Justice Chris Ritter and were being held in Bucks County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail each. Go Patrol crew to be honored for aiding accident victim Three members of the Arco AMPM Go Patrol team will be honored today by the Pennsylvania State Police for their helicopter rescue of an accident victim from the Pennsylvania Turnpike in February, a spokesman for Atlantic Richfield Co. said..