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12 Saturday, July 3, 1999 Salisbury, Md. THE DAILY TIMES Obituaries 5Si. -X Thomas W. Church MARDELA SPRINGS Thomas W. Church, 83, of Mardela Springs died Friday, July 2, 1999, at Salisbury Cen-tenGenesis ElderCare in Salisbury.

Born in Pulear, N.C, he was the son of the late John and Sallie E. McNeil Church. He is survived by a son, Raymond G. Church; two daughters, Betty C. Bridges and Helen C.

Boahn, all of North Carolina; four sisters, Blanche Elliot of Pine Bluff Village in Salisbury, Gladys W. Banks of Fruitland, Beatrice Catlin of Mardela Springs, and Ella Mae McCarson of Thomasville, N.C; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a sister and a brother. A funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Hol-loway Funeral Home on Snow Hill Road in Salisbury, where friends may call one hour prior to the service.

The Rev. Oren Perdue will officiate. Interment will be at Springhill Memory Gardens in Salisbury. Contributions may be made in memory of the deceased to the Salisbury Baptist Temple, 6413 Hobbs Road, Salisbury, Md. 21804.

Arrangements are being handled by the Holloway Funeral Home. Edith E.W. Johnson NELSONIA Edith Elaine Wilson Johnson, 75, wife of the late Wilbur Edward Johnson, and a resident of Nelsonia died at Shore Memorial Hospital in Nas-sawadox on Thursday, July 1, 1999. She was born in Deal Island, and was the daughter of the late Harry Anderson Wilson and the late Martie Alice Todd Wilson. Mrs.

Johnson received 'her bachelor and masters degrees from Salisbury State University and her doctorate of education from Florida State University. She retired after 20 years as the principal at Princess Anne Elementary School. She previously had taught elementary education for 24 years. Mrs. Johnson is survived by one child, Dana Starr Johnson Drummond; and two grandchildren, Sarah Alice Drummond and Edward Garrison Drummond, all of Nelsonia.

A memorial service will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at the Edgehill Cemetery in Accomack Memorial donations may made to the American Cancer Society, co Miss Nancy Custis, PO Box 315, Onancock, Va. 21417. Arrangements are being handled by the B.D. Holland Funeral Home of Nassawadox.

Tbim Photo by Autumn W. CoWm The Ocean City Boardwalk was relatively quiet Friday afternoon as merchants propped for an expected 300,000 visitors over the July Fourth weekend. WEEKEND: 300,000 visitors expected in resort for holiday weekend. On a nonholiday weekend, about 800 troopers patrol Maryland roads, said spokesman Pete Perringer. State transportation officials expect about 386,000 vehicles to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge this weekend, an increase of 6 percent over last year.

People can call 1-877-BAYSPAN to check on traffic. Another note of caution: Almost all fireworks, except gold labeled sparklers, are illegal in Maryland. The Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said those caught selling and using fireworks can be fined up to $1,000 in addition to having the fireworks confiscated. "Fireworks are dangerous and injure dozens of Marylanders each year," said Fire Marshal Rocco Gabriele. WEEKEND, from Page 1 shows across the state.

Officials at Ocean City expect about 300,000 visitors this weekend for all-day festivities of food, crafts and kids events capped by two fireworks shows, according to city spokeswoman Donna Abbott. Last year, the city had 339,000 visitors. The town's year-round population is about 7,000. "It's going to be the best place to be in Maryland," Abbott said. Take care driving and give yourself extra time to reach your destination.

Speeding, driving without buckling up and drinking and driving will have consequences. Maryland State Police Superintendent David Mitchell is deploying 100 additional troopers on state roads over the three-day Tips to avoid heat-related illnesses: Drink nonalcoholic, noncarbonated and caffeine-free beverages. Wear light-colored, loose-fitting clothes. Stay in an air-conditioned environment if possible. Check on the elderly, who are especially susceptible to heat-related illnesses.

Avoid foods that increase metabolic activity heat like proteins. Some heat-related illnesses: HEAT CRAMPS. Heavy sweating and painful spasms usually in the leg and abdomen muscles. KEAT EXHAUSTION. Fatigue, heavy perspiration.

Skin turns cold, pale and clammy. Fainting and vomiting usually also is manifested. HEATSTROKESUNSTROKE. Body temperatures of 106 degrees or higher, hot dry skin and a rapid pulse. Unconsciousness is possible.

National Weather Service Death Notices THOMAS W. CHURCH, 83, of Mardela Springs died Friday, July 2, 1999. A funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Holloway Funeral Home on Snow Hill Road in Salisbury where friends may call one hour prior to the service. Interment will be at Springhill Memory Gardens in Salisbury.

Arrangements are being handled by the Holloway p.m. at the Holloway-Melson Funeral Home in Pocomoke City, where friends may call Sunday; from 7 to 9 p.m. and from noon to 1 p.m., Monday. Interment will be at Bethany United Methodist Cemetery in Pocomoke City. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Glen Burnie Unit- ed Methodist Church in Glent Burnie.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American-Cancer Society, co Mrs. Gerry' Harrison, 337 Winterquarters funeral Home of Salisbury. ROBERT WILLIAM ELLIS 69, of Chincoteague died Thursday, July 1, 1999, in Keller. A funeral service will be held Monday at 1 p.m. at the Salyer Funeral Home in Chincoteague, where friends may call two hours prior to the service.

Interment will be at the John W. Taylor Memorial Cemetery in Temperanceville. Arrangements are being handled by the Salyer Funeral Home in Chincoteague. EDITH E.W. JOHNSON, 75, of Nelsonia died Thursday, July 1, 1999.

A funeral service will be held kmMimmKk Road, Pocomoke City, Md. 21851. Arrangements are being ha'n- by the Holloway-Melson Funeral Home of Pocomoke" City. LOIS GASKINS ROWE, 75, of Exmore died Thursday, July 1, 1999, 'at Shore Memorial Hospital in' Nassawadox. A funeral service will be held today at 3 p.m.

at the Belle Haven Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by the Doughty Funeral Home Exmore. JAMES THOMAS SHRIEVES, 64 Onancock died Friday, July ,2, 1999. A funeral service will be' held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Williams-Onancock Funeral Home in Onancock.

Memorial donations may be made to the Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church co Mr. Dar-rell A. Bays, 11 Onancock Onancock, Va. 23417. Monday at 11 a.m.

at the Edge-hill Cemetery in Accomac. Arrangements are by the B.D. Holland Funeral Home of Nassawadox. JACKIE WEBB PONDER, 52, of Glen Burnie died Wednesday, June 30, 1999, at North Arundel Hospital in Glen Burnie. A funeral service will be held Monday at 1 CRAB: New discovery may save species CRAB, from Page 1 South America to the Canadian Arctic to breed.

A big increase in the demand for eel and conch in Europe and Asia produced a corresponding increase in the demand for horseshoe crabs to use as bait. Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey have imposed controls to reduce their harvests by 60 to 80 percent, but Virginia set a limit on crab landings this year that is 26 times higher than the average. That drew rebukes from environmental groups and Bruce Babbitt, U.S. secretary of the interior. Targett, who studies the chemical signals given off by marine creatures, said her work began just over two years ago after she attended a symposium about the decline in horseshoe crabs, "and one guy said there is something in the female that attracts conch and eel." She and students researchers first confirmed that there is a special attraction to the female, and then, by a process of elimination, isolated the compound that attracts conch and eel.

She said she is a few steps away from synthesizing it and bringing it to market, but already there is interest. "I'll be happy when it's out," said John Boland, a seafood buyer for Cape May Foods in Cape May. N.J. Jack LeCates, 63, a waterman from Rehoboth, said he doesn't know if horseshoe crab stocks are declining. He said they are expensive and hard to find.

"If a lure is reasonably priced, and it works, it would be worth it," he said. Timei Photo by Joey Gardner Results of tests taken in March at Sharptown's Cherry Beach will keep the site on the EPA's Superfund list. BEACHES: Sharptown still Superfund site 'Godfather' author dies New York Times as "a small classic." But it sold fewer than 5,000 copies and Puzo, seeking the fame and fortune he felt he deserved 1 Mario Piuo Cherry Beach VS DORCHESTER jl DS W.COMIcT" BEACHES, from Page 1 sions. Phipps said the high bacteria levels could be caused by a number of factors. "It could be caused by the native waterfowl and wildlife, agriculture or local sewage systems in the area," she said.

"We haven't isolated a one-point source." Bacteria levels can also vary on the location where the sample is taken, Phipps said. "Levels would be different from the shore line than 10 feet or 50 feet out," she said. "It will be different if it's taken in the channel, at the surface or two feet below the surface." The greatest concentration of bacteria levels is found at the shoreline, due to the risk, Phipps said. Cherry Beach was also placed on the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list a program for eliminating health risks from the worst hazardous waste sites in the nation after state and federal officials found the beach to be contaminated with cancer-causing polychlorinated bithenyls, or PCBs, which are contaminants found in oil and grease spills, a Maryland Department of Environment official said. The contamination was thought to be coming from Grieco Waste Oil, a waste oil and recycling facility in Sharptown.

Tests taken in March were not positive enough to remove the beach from the Superfund list. NEW YORK (AP) Best-selling author Mario Puzo, creator of the fictional Corleone mob family and winner of two Oscars for his screen adaptations of his book The Godfather, died Friday. He was 78. Puzo died, apparently of heart failure, at his home in Bay Shore on Long Island, said Neil Olson, his literary agent. Puzo had just finished work on his latest book, Omerta.

The book is due out in July 2000. Puzo, who wrote seven other novels in addition to The Godfather, was born in New York, the son of illiterate Italian immigrants. After serving in World War II, he began his writing career starting out doing pulp stories for men's magazines. But his literary ambitions were much higher, and he published his first novel, The Dark Arena, in 1955. Puzo's next book was an autobiographical piece about the Italian immigrant experience.

The Fortunate Pilgrim, was hailed by The Times Graphic warmth of the water and the proximity of potential contamination sources. That would mean that those wading and playing closer inland, usually small children, are at a higher as a writer, set out to write a best seller. He succeeded. The Godfather, which came out in 1969, covered a different immigrant experience: It focused on the Corleone family, Italians who came to the United States and plunged into the world of organized crime. The book sold more than 21 rrtil-lion copies worldwide, and spawned movies that became American cinematic classics.

"The Godfather" (1972) and "The Godfather Part 13" (1974) both won best-picture Oscars las well as the Oscars for best script. OFFICES: Commissioners split on project DISPLAY ADVERTISING DEADLINES (DEADLINES DO NOT APPLY TO HOLIDAY Monday Thursday at 4 p.m! Hatteras move going faster than expected BUXTON, N.C. (AP) The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, being prddded along a bed of rails and rollers away from the encroaching Atlantic, may reach its new home next Tuesday, more than a week ahead of schedule, officials said Friday. The lighthouse was a scant 778 feet away from its destination when work began Friday, said Joe Jakubik, project manager. On Thursday, it moved 354 feet.

"It's going really well," Jakubik said. "The system is operating perfectly." when he voted for the separate building. The records also include Purnell saying another building would alleviate the downtown parking problem. He did not return several calls. The new building is "still in the development stages," said Susan Canfora, county public information officer.

Shocker and Bloxom could not be reached for comment. Another issue is how the county will pay for the new building. "There are a lot of things we could use that money for," said Lynch, who wants to resolve how to pay for the building before continued meetings OFFICES, from Page 1 gency Services and at least one room for the Sheriff's Office all originally slated for the downtown building behind the county courthouse. "I see no compelling reason for this," said Commission President Jeanne Lynch, who voted with Councilwoman Louis Gulyas against the plan. Lynch opposes the plan for several reason, saying the downtown project has been set since 1995 and residents expected one-stop-shopping for county services.

According to records from a June 15 meeting, Purnell said he was "looking to the future" with Clendaniel. Lynch said Thursday she also is concerned that construction money will be taken from other important projects. "The money Bloxom has proposed we use comes from the capital projects funds that were designated to cap the landfills in Snow Hill and Pocomoke City," she said. Chief Administrative Office Gerald T. Mason said the county continues to look at several financial plans.

Said Lynch: "We have to vote to fund (the public safety building) or we have to rescind the concept vote. I just don't want this to drag on." Friday at II p.m! at 4 p.m; Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday The Daily Times does not charge for Death Notices, which are carried as a matter of public record. The more detailed Obituaries are prepared and submitted through the funeral director, based on information provided and paid for by the families of the deceased. The Daily Times requests the cause of death in every obituary as a matter of public record. If it does not appear, it is because the information was unavailable or the family declined to provide it.

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