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today Totio Eckert’s Thunderbird skidded on the slick Scotch Bonnet Bridge and plunged into the channel. The huge banner waving in front of Shelter Haven which proclaimed •Totie Eckert at the Piano” was brought down ; our town was in mourning. Totie was a delightful person and a queen of entertainers. She packed them in with her hilarious singa longs and original acts. I especially enjoyed the one with the bartenders going through the routine of "Balling The Jack.” Totie will be fondly remembered for a long, long time. Incidentally, Jack Stack tells me that her given name was Roberta. I became smitten with Stone Harbor fever 20 years ago when a friend of my husband’s offered us his place at 88th Street on

the beach. The magnificent Atlantic Ocean was at our front door, and we would sit on the upper deck with binoculars and watch the ships- go by. Several nuns used to walk the beach in the late afternoon and then would sit in the small pavilion there, reading and feeding the gulls. (Our California granddaughters believe there is no sand like Jersey Shore sand to sink their tootsies into, and I have heard those same sentiments from folks who .have traveled around the

world.)

In March of 1962 Mother Nature did it to us again, and many lovely beachfront homes were devastated. The town fathers called a meeting while the stom was still raging to take the necessary steps for rehabilitation. As soon aa. the waters receded, trucks and bulldozers were on the

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job clearing the debris from the streets. Within a week construction began on a new stone and timber bulkhead. This project cost a cool million and extended from 80th Street to 114th Street. The lovely promenade on the beach from 80th to 83rd Streets also took shape at that

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In those days we never ventured beyond H4th Street; except from Third Avenue, the roads were unpaved and the dunes were wild with seagrass and bramble bushes. Nearly all of the lovely homes nearer the Point were built within the last decade. The "upsidedown” houses became more and more popular and some dwellings appeared as architects’ dream (or nightmares, > depending on- one’s tastes in architecture). Whether a year-rounder ) or a summer-timer, you’ll' always find a perfect pJJ& in Stone Harbor. Heating Credits MILLVILLE -r More than. 15,600 households in Cumberland and Cape May served by public utilities will receive a heatingseason credit of $100 each under the Utilities Lifeline Bill, according td' information - furnished to Assemblyman James R. JIurley today by John Davis, the state’s Acting Director of the Office pf Legislative Services. Notices will go out in October to ail qualifying users df gas or dlectricity. The heating season subsidy will be paid in the form of credits agains bills for electricity or gas and will not be in the form of cash. Users of oil, the fuel not having, a ' public utility source, will be able to 4*apply the $100 credit to their oil bills if they choose. Under the recently enacted legislation which had the support of the Cumperland-Cape May delegation, there are three groups of eligibles: Group One - receivers of Pharmaceutical Assistance Act, Group * Two - Social Security Disability for blind and disabled adults, and Group Three - {Social Security Supplementary Income.

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