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COURIER-POST DEAR ABBY 4 MOVIES 12 ERMA BOMBECK 5 COMICS 16 YOUR BIRTHDAY 10 TELEVISION 17 GDlfin) (MfS)Y Living Delaware Valley WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1983 Trash recovery plan draws negative reaction "'Jiff "V.vf" JfJ jj would create steam and generate electricity. That electricty would be sold to local power companies. Under application procedures, BJM would have to apply to Purves' office for inclusion in the county plan. Only one site, at the county complex at Lakeland, is included in the plan and Pennsauken has applied for inclusion, said Purves If BJM applies, Purves and his staff would evaluate the proposal and send it to the county Solid Waste Advisory Council The council would send the application' to the freeholders, together with a recommendation for approval or denial If the freeholders approve the plan, the application would then go to the state I'etruzzi said that even though the borough has no part in the decision, he and the council would make sure the freeholders know the resident's objec lions. And.hesaid.

the borough wouldgoto court to block the facility if the county were to give its approval. After about two hours of resident's complaints, councilman Charles Gil-ligan introduced a resolution calling for the county to remove the Bell mawr site from consideration That resolution was denied by a 4-2 vote, after councilman Donald Bowers saidhedidnotlikebeingasked to make a decision before he knew all the facts. In addition to Bowers, councilmen Anthony Infanti, James Mullen and Louis DiAngelo voted against the resolution Petruzzi and Gilligan voted in favor of it By JAMES SAMUEL For the Courier-Post BELLMAWR More than 150 residents filled the borough hall here last night to oppose a proposed resource recovery plant on the site of a closed landfill here. The plan, prepared by BJM Energy Resources Inc. of Mount Laurel, calls for a $96 million facility to be built on the Bell Harbor Landfill, located between Route 42 and the Big Timber Creek.

It would burn trash and produce steam for electricity. Most of the residents who attended last night's borough council meeting came because word had spread that the proposal was currently being considered for approval by cither the borough or county governments. But Mayor Joseph Petruzzi said that BJM's proposal was not being considered by any authoritiesand as far as he is concerned the year-old proposal was a dead issue. John Purves, administrator of the county Division of Solid Waste Management, said that proposal hud never been submitted tothecounty for approval and was not a part of the county's solid waste management program. Most of the residents attending last night said they were opposed to the proposal because they fear the resource recovery plant would cause health and safety problems.

A resource recovery plant would take solid waste, the trash normally buried in a landfill, and process it to recover energy, said Purves. In the BJM proposal, the burning trash hant debate Bellmawr Mayor Joseph Petruzzi (above) fields questions on the proposed resource recovery plant at last night's meeting from such concerned residents as John Biaselli (right). 1 Courier-Post photos by Curt Hudson Neighborhood asked to help solve odor problem sewage treatment system here is much different from one in Silver Springs, Md where an enclosure contains the odor. Kirkland cited this solution, described in an article in the environmental magazine Biocycle, during the meeting at Sacred Heart. She said yesterday that she does not believe the CCMUA contention that it lacks funds to solve the problem in view of such widely publicized expenses as gold-coated windows in its administration building a few blocks from the rhurch, legal fees of nearly $250,000 to solid-Please see NEIGHBORS, Page 2C Englebert said he believes a new, lessexpen-sive technology developed in Oregon for sludge disposal will work here.

Sludge is the residue of treated sewage and the authority expects to generate about 50 tons a day once new treatment facilities are installed over the next few years. SCAT spokeswoman Zenaida Kirkland said she has not received the Englebert letter but said it was likely that she and some of her neighbors would appear. But, she added, the group wants immediate action to solve the odor problem and blames Englebert and his colleagues for dragging their feet Their comments came yesterday, in the wakeofameetingheldatSacredHeartChurch on Saturday morning, where Englebert refused to sign a written commitment the group had prepared for him. It described the odor problem, on which numerous headaches and attacks of nausea have been blamed, and set a deadlineof May 1, 1984, for enclosing the huge composting pile near the waterfront. "It would have been dishonest for me to have signed that paper," Englebert said He explained there issimply no way a solution can be implemented that quickly.

The authority's chief executive also said the He explained in a letter sent to SCAT'S leaders yesterday that the DEP has placed the authority 26th on a statewide list of priorities for an $84 million plan to dispose of the 50 tons of sludge to be generated daily when new sewage treatment facilities are installed within the next few years. The DEP will conduct a series of public hearings on its priority list at the Cherry Hill Municipal Building on Dec. 15. Englebert urged the frustrated neighbors to attend the meeting and to join him in asking the DEP to attach a higher priority to funding the authority's sludge-disposal system. By KEN SHUTTLEWORTH 01 the Courier-Post CAMDEN -TheCamden County Municipal Utilities Authority (CCMUA) has asked its angry neighbors for help in solving an odor problem caused by the authority's composting plant in South Camden.

The authority's executive director, Herman Englebert, asked members of the newly formed South Camden Action Team (SCAT) to join himon Dec. 15 when heappeals tothestate Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for help on a long-range solution. $vsJ few 3 hu II 1 Town clerk vows battle to keep job By TIMOTHY CWIEK For the Courier-Post WOODBURY HEIGHTS The suspended borough clerk here says she will fight for her job in the courts if council does not reinstate her Frances Drill, the borough clerk since January, was suspended from her job without pay last week after she called council members "corrupt" at a Nov 9 public meeting. Drill became upset during the meeting when officials said they would not pay her for a five-week maternity leave She earned about $9,500 a year as clerk. In dispute is about $1,000 in pay.

In a telephone interview, Drill said she would pursue a court challenge to be reinstated and receive the maternity pay if the council does not reinstate her. "I'm confident things will work out well for me," she said. She charged that the council has committed sex discrimination against her for refusing to pay for her maternity leave, butdeclinedtodiscussthespecificsofhercaseon the record. Borough solicitor Harold Crass issued an opinion that a maternity leave does not qualify for disability pay under the borough personnel code "I'm happy she had a baby. God bless her," Crass said.

"I hope the child is healthy. But don't ask taxpayers to give her $1,000 for having it." Drill was the first borough employee to become pregnant, Crass said, but he checked with several state agencies including the Division of Civil Rights, and learned that the borough does not have to pay Drill for the leave One of Drill's staunchest supporters is Mayor James Master, who disagrees with Crass' opinion and the council's decision to suspend Drill "Morally, we should give her the money," he said. 'Everybody thought she was going to get paid I'm sure we can afford it." He said Drill was told she would receive the maternity pay by several officials during her pregnancy He saiu Drill is an efficient clerk who worked in the borough hall right up to theday her son was born, Aug. 26 "I never had a problem with her," he said. "She was outspoken, sure.

But the girl was efficient and honest It's just that when other people tried to rule her, she wouldn't allow it." He said some officials became angry with Drill, believing that she knew about her pregnancy before taking the job but did net inform them But Master said Drill's failure to inform officials of her pregnancy before she was hired County moves state courts to new locale By RENEE WINKLER Of the Courier-Post CAMDEN City Hall, with its squared-off 18-floor tower, shed one of its multiple personalities this week. No longer does the building house Camden County's delegation of state courts. A massive moving adventure this week transferred all court records, furniture and personnel to the county's new Hall of Justice, three blocks away, at 5th and Mickle streets. The new six-floor building has a $14 million price tag that continues to rise with change orders. Old City Hall, dubbed the "milk bottle" by oldtimers because of its unusual shape, will still house most city gov-, ernment offices and a range of Camden County administration personnel.

The top floor holds a commercial radio station, WJJZ. Some departments now in leased space, including the prosecutor's and probation offices, will move into space left vacant with the withdrawal of the courts. For a time those with offices in the rear of the new Hall of Justice will have a view of the Delaware River and the Philadelphia skyline. The view, available mainly to judges whose chambers are in the rear of the building in a secured area, won't last long. It will be blocked, floor by floor, as the county's new jail rises between the Hall of Justice and Ulysses S.

Wiggins Waterfront Park. City Hall, officially termed the Courthouse Annex, was opened in 1931. Constructed at a cost of $10 million, it was opened to provide additional court and office space. The old courthouse, a domed building styled after the Capitol in Washington, D.C., was razed in the 1960s. When it opened in 1906, with a pricetag of $800,000, it housed the county jail.

In 1953 the jail was relocated in a sixth-floor addition in City Hall. The site of the old courthouse was sold to Lit Brothers, a defunct Philadelphia-based department store. That building, vacated when Lits moved to the Echelon Mall, was purchased by Camden County and renovated to house a series of administrative offices, including the county's welfare and election boards. Spokesman for Camden County, Herbert L. Stoolman, said the county's Cultural and Heritage Commission has asked the state's Historical Commission to designate City Hall a historic site because of its unusual architecture.

Much of the original furniture in the building is art deco, featuring inlaid wood trims and iron grating on former heat ducts. A lot of those furnishing have been used over the years to record romances. Not a single bench in the building is clear of scratched-in notations ranging from "B.J. loves Suzy" to "Ralph 1961." A few obscenities also mar the pew-like' Please see COUNTY, Page 2C Courier-Post photos by Sam Kushner Deputy clerk Albert J. Mungioli (above) checks boxes as movers (below) load truck.

if, 'T'ff If 1 v. ttHtti i wn im liirTtrrnf-it Mrinmiii inn i i urn in ir in mi i 'i 'ir 7 should not determine whether she receives maternit pay. 1 The council still must meet sometime next month to determine whether Drill will be fired from her job. Master said it appears likely that the majority of council does not want her back "This is a terrible thing," he said. "She might have to go to court.

I think she has a good case.".