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7 June 3 1979 Atlantic City ntliUf Prrss IhtBif People All Night Long Man And Beasts (Continued from Page Bl) the same as a dog or something 1 used to think that wav before I started working with them was at the Aquarama vacuuming the bottom of the tank one day when suddenly these three animals appeared and came swimming toward me 1 started banging for help on the side of the tank I thought they were going to eat me it was just the dolphins They came out and started playing tag Then they started pushing the vacuum for me "It really boggled my mind rom that day on I knew they weren't just dumb Schoelkopf accompanied the Aquarama to the Steel I ier several years later That's where he met Alfie who was coming to the end of his theatrical career as the management of the pier decided their water show could get along without a sea lion who balanced a ball on his nose They were getting ready to throw Alfie off the end of the pier when one of his trainers stepped in and bought the animal for S800 She took the sea lion to Gardner's Basin where he took up permanent residence in retirement now" Schoelkopf said "It's lucky for him he didn't get put back in the ocean He could never survive Even in the pen he gets terrified if a crab pinches him" Schoelkopf who quit his job at the pier' after working his way up to assistant manager has undergone his own change of lifestyle "I used to think the important thing in life was making money" he says "I don't think that anvmore I was on my way to an ulcer out there at the pier with all of those uncooperative rock stars" Since the center opened last July with funding from CETA Schoelkopf has contributed $1500 of his own salary to keep it going Even at that the center operates on a shoestring "Even with the financial trouble at least here I'm doing something worthwhile It's worth the hassle to try to rescue some of these stranded animals before something happens to them "You should see what people do to them when they wash up on the beaches These are creatures with deep emotions Yet people slaughter them as if they don't even have a The whale makes a loud noise with its blowhole "You can tell when he's going into the rest period He slows up and breathe the same Most people don't Schoelkopf wades back into the water holding a frozen mackerel He pats the whale on the head and the whale sucks in the mackerel with a quick motion that threatens fingers Alfie makes a wet sound somewhere between a sneeze and a snort "He wants one too but he's getting too fat No Alfie you don't get a mackerel "Look at him he loves to show off He showed off for the television crew out here today or some reason this whale has gotten a lot of The cameras are gone now and so is the curiosity of handfuls of people who come to gawk on weekend afternoons Now it is nearly midnight raining and back to business as usual for the three mammals stranded at the edge of the city Man Held in Assault on Officer Continued from Page Bl) Laufgus has had several disagreements with police over the last two years Within that time police have issued him a total of eight summonses involving pet and motor vehicle charges Laufgus said last week he was convicted on five of the charges hut then vindicated on appeal One charge has not been heard in court yet one is still under appeal and on another he was given a $5 suspended sentence on appeal he said In one case Laufgus was charged by DiCaro with or dering his pet dog to attack the officer In that incident Laufgus was awarded a $2500 out of court settle ment by the township's in surance company for al leged inconsistencies in DiCaro's testimony Laufgus 34 was born near Semipalatinsk in the Soviet Union and is an Israe li citizen A few weeks ago he began issuing citizen complaints for alleged parking viola tions made by police officers during the past month He said then that he pa trols by police officers' homes and the police de partment about twice a day taking pictures of the parked vehicles for use in court As of Thursday he had issued seven citizen com plaints four involving po lice vehicles and three against private cars Laufgus was still in the county jail Saturday eve ning but his wife Bina said she believed her husband had gone out Saturday iuniiay Prru Photo Garofok) Mrs McNish's four year old son Christopher wasn't hurt iWHSt Al r' iRK IIy 1 ATH ER SB that Won't 4ATVT7i Lfo) A 7 1 ia nW1 State Police Inspector ATLANTIC CITY (API State police authorities say an inspector for the New Jersey Casino Control Com mission is accused of using slugs reportedly taken from casino counting rooms to pay tolls on the Garden State Parkway State police said Ray Kuehner 23 of Mays Land ing was apprehended May 1 Shotgun by a state trooper who said Kuehner dropped slugs in two automatic toll collection machines A spokesman for the casi no commission confirmed the incident and said Kuehner had been suspend ed from his $13150 a year job pending court hearings State police said they were alerted when a toil collector said he saw Kuehner drop slugs into col lection machines He was apprehended by Trooper David Scalley shortly after the patrolman said he saw him drop slugs into a second machine at New Gretna Agents from the Philadel phia office of the US Secret Service reportedly said Kuehner told them he ob tained the slugs from Re sorts International's count ing room in Atlantic City where he was assigned to supervise the counting of slot machine proceeds morning to deliver leaflets criticizing certain township operations She said her lawyer was trying to get the $10000 hail set by Superior Court Judge Mark Addisson reduced so her husband could come home Police said the case will probably go before the mu nicipal judge June 7 for in a show cause hearing after which it may go to a grand jury not worried about Mrs Laufgus said after the incident "I know what capable DiCaro said he did not wish to comment on the incident Police Control Violence At Anti Nuclear Protest (Continued from Page Bl) "moral and ethical" obliga tion to inform the public of the restarting of the plant Start up operations began Wednesday shortly after received approval from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission but the first two attempts failed After two automatic shutdowns Thursday ef forts to put the reactor on line again riday succeed ed The plant was automati cally shut down May 3 when gauges showed dangerously low water levels in the reac tor's core An NRC investi gation indicated the acci dent occured when instru ments falsely detected high pressure in fhe reactor and outdated procedures al lowed the cooling water to drop according to the NRC Investigators said the core had not been damaged the plant was mechanically sound and op erations could resume The utility subsidiary of General Public Utilites Corp reportedly spent $300000 a day to purchase alternate fuel while the plant was down Murder Is Probed By ALEX STERN Press Staff Writer WOODSTOWN State police here are investigating the apparent shot gun mur der of an unidentified man whose bodv was found al most completely buried in a wooded area Saturday in Quinton Township Salem County They said the victim was found by a youth who called the barracks here at 1:12 pm to report his discovery near a dirt road off Jericho Road Police said there was no identification found on the body of the victim a white male who was clad in white pants a blue jacket and sneakers They said the body which was partially decomposed had been buried with only the left arm and left hip exposed The victim was buried under brush and logs police said The man's face was com pletely obliterated appar ently by a shotgun blast but police said the exact cause of death will not be known until completion of an autop sy report The body was taken to Salem County Memorial Hospital in Salem where an autopsy is scheduled to he performed today police said They said the case is being investigated by Detective A Potter of the barracks here along with the State Police Major Crime Squad Candida Olavarria prepares a Hispanic cultural feast of roost pig Sb Y' Jc IM W1S Cultures Are Spotlighted By STEPHANIE ZATWASKA Press Correspondent BRIDGETON This city it's a melting pot o'f cultures And on Saturday local residents throughout the ar ea donned the traditional garb of their culture and participated in the first annual Cultural Aware ness estival Indians Japanese Ameri cans the Germans and Es tonians gathered in the park here during the day to cook traditional foods and display their wares Mostly all came to share with others a particular her itage they were proud to be part of "We have to remember that Bridgeton is really a melting pot of nationali explained Joseph McCulley event co ordina tor and president of the city Cultural Affairs Commis sion "Today is a chance for everyone to share with oth ers their backgrounds their heritage he said "We have many proud peo ple Among the groups attend ing the festivities were the Nanticoke Leni Lenape's who recently began a cam paign to publicize their heri tage The present day location of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Indians of New Jer sey is temporarily located in Greenwich The group has a membership of more than 350 Indian families "This is really the first time these people have been able to exhibit themselves for the public a chance for people to learn what thev (the Indians) are about McCulley said BOSS Blacks on the South Side presented music and dancing as part of a tribute to their culture BOSS is an organization originating from the heart of the city It is made up of city youths concerned about the future of Bridgeton The organization's Cultur al Center located in south Bridgeton serves nearly 75 local residents daily "However more than just a cultural recre ational or education pro gram at one mem ber explained here to help all people in the city improve Another interesting cul tural group at the festival was the Seabrook Japaneses American Citizens League (JACL) During 1944 47 several hundred Japanese Ameri can evacuee families from ten inland relocation camps settled in Seabrook because of opportunities offered them by the late Charles Seabrook founder of a for mer local foods company The Japanese population later reached a peak of 2500 persons and 560 families Pines Ban Makes for an Unpredictable Land Market Continued from Page Bl apt to buy" Rummler's agency offers a similar agreement not selling anybody a pig in a poke so to said Rummler had a lot of people shying off because of the moratorium but we do get a lot of inquiries been advising people to contact the pinelands commission first to see if they can get a hardship Most brokers said that prices have neither decreased nor increased Soifer at Quest Agencv said that many would like to sell but buyers want to buy the uncertainty That's holding back explained Realtor Samuel Carvelli who met anyone expecting cheap land in the face of the pinelands ban "They would be taking a chance because have to go for a'n exemption and I think all that easy to get an One problem said Rummler is that the pineland ban supercedes local zoning ordinances like the one in Galloway Township which allows construction on some lots of one acre or less "It certainly has slowed the purchase of said Corine Olson a broker with Kulp Real Estate in Vineland on the fringes of the pinelands ban area "Many people are afraid to buy because afraid they be able to obtain a well permit Usually they can on a five acre Settlement time has increased from about 30 days to three months because of the ban said Mrs Olson "It takes a long time to send the forms to Toms River and they have a Are bargain prices available for land affected by the moratorium? Mrs Olson explained that the moratorium lowered land prices but it has slowed the increase "It depends on what you consider a bargain" said Rummler in Absecon "Yeah Sure there's bargains As far as I'm concerned anything you buy today certainly will be worth more a vear from now than it is today And once they lift the moratorium it's going to bfc worth more money" What scares Rummler is the potential of a big auction with the influx of more influential people what I don't like and that's what I'm going to be afraid of have an individual who reallv needs a house and the seller keeps backing off He knows another (buyer) is coming down the pike who can afford the (higher) Rummler added that mainland brokers have been hurt by the lack of buyers a connotation among the general public that a broker is sitting back making a million dollars which is far from the truth "We know of a couple of cases that have gotten Rummler continued all through this office We know of a couple of exemptions in the hard core zone 1 don't think there's any rules on what constitutes a hardship It probably decides on what side of the bed he got up on the morning he granted it" lost alot of sales because of agreed Carvelli had deals under agreement that 4 fell through because of the Wes Denman spokesman for the state Depart ment of Environmental Protection explained that the Pinelands Development Review board was meeting twice weekly to approve or reject applications in the pine'lands area established by order of Governor Brendan Byrne in early ebruary of last week the board granted exemp tions for 2242 building lots or dwelling units and denied 6990 So you can see that denials are running ahead of approvals That includes both zones Denman indicated that the application approv al depended on whether or not the project was in the preservation zone or in the outer zone "Last week they turned down an industrial park and a 4i)() site campground in Manchester Township which is in the core area but thev approved a 450 site campground in Dennis Town ship which is in the outer I 4 Injured In Night Car Crash WILDWOOD CREST our Pennsylvania men es caped critical injury al though pinned in the wreck age of the car which crashed into a utility pole at Nash ville and New Jersey ave nues here early Saturday police said They said the car driven by Michael Joseph Young 20 of Brookhaven Pa slammed into the pole pinn ing him and three passen gers in the wreckage at 4:26 am The Wildwood Crest fire department was rushed to the scene along with three local ambulances and an ambulance from North Wildwood police said They said firefighters used the special of Life" extrication tool to cut Young and his passengers from the smashed auto The four were then rushed bv the ambulances to Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Cape May Court House po lice added A hospital spokesman said Young was admitted for treatment of a dislocated hip while the three passen gers were released after treatment for various inju ries The passengers were iden tified as: Anthony Steven Pascala 19 of Aston Pa: who sustained facial inju ries including a fractured nose: Mark Shaeffer 19 of Chester Pa who sustained multiple scrapes and bruises and Timothy eeny 18 of Brookhaven Pa who sustained facial injuries Police said the driver of the wrecked auto was charged with driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages Cape Man Gives Up After Spree MIDDLE TOWNSHIP A Dias Creek man surren dered to police here after allegedly shooting up his Cape May Court House home Authorities said the sus pect William Johnson III 25 of Hand Avenue was taken to the Cape May Coun ty Jail on a charge of unlaw ful use of a dangerous weap on No shots were fired by police during the approxi mately 30 minute episode riday night and no injuries occurred Police said the incident in the residential neighbor hood was reported after 9 pm when a "man with a call was received Police said the first pa trolman on the scene report ed hearing two shots fired inside the house Moments later a sergeant reported seeing an occupant firing a gun Police said the supect fired four shots all appar ently into a wall and hw didn't shoot at police or anyone else As a precaution however police evacuated surround ing homes then began at tempts to talk the suspect into surrendering They said they were aided by his father who arrived during talks with the sus pect Police said Johnson came out and surrendered without further incident and a 38 caliber revolver he alleged ly used was seized Police said they had no motive for Johnson's actions Restaurateur Makes 10 oot Pancake MUNCIE Ind (AP) Steve Keever poured the batter to make a pancake Saturday An hour and 15 minutes later it was done all 10 or so feet of it The 31 year old owner of a breakfast specialty restau rant claimed world's record for the largest pan cake ever made As measured by Delaware County Sheriff Garv Carmi chael it was 10 feet 1 inch at the widest point and 7 feet 3'2 inches at the nar rowest point The previous largest pan cake according to the Guin ness Book of World Records was 6 feet 1 inches It was whipped up by Dennis A Dupuis at a 1977 summer festival in Hampton NH Keever's creation was cooked on a specially built 8 loot square grill outside his restaurant About 200 per sons looked on i Vl.