The Herald and The Lantern

Wednesday, December 17,1*80

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^ews Notes from The Wildwoods C,V Mathis at large

The Creel Commtosion ■weepetakee next epring •re filling out. with potential comminion candidates including Torn! John. Chip Goodkht. Tom Sorensen. Art Scfcard. Tom l^-wls and Dr Bob Ferey. Purchase of beach parcels and the beach fee are the hottest of the controversial issues; and tin* incumbentii will be seeking to hold power. <>enr Dsvalos has received special permission to shutter the Diamond Beach Holiday Inn during the January-

February hiatus. • • • RETIRED POST Oftlwr and bicycle mogul Jim Flynn ot the Cm* la back from Acapulco where among oUier thing! he aaw Anthony Quinn making a t.v. commercial The DellMki family of North Wildwood operate a market for Jet setters there, and one cuatomer recently was Johnny Weisamuller. • • • The George HalletU are back from Vegas and will join their theatrical star son. Jack, in Jacksonville for the holidays. George is

a Midtown Lounge wine tender. • • • WHILE THE Wildwood Convention Hall (a fairly new facility which already needs a new roof) remains strangely idle, the 50-year-old Music Pier in Ocean City appears destined to become the winter home of the N J. Ballet.

Wildwood gets a big play in the late comedy star Totie Fields’ memoirs book. • • • MANY SCENES wiU be filmed in Wildwood come spring when the new book on Mario Lanza is made into a movie. ‘Lanza: His Tragic Life* tells the true story of the ex-Wildwood open air trolley car conductor. The book is loaded with references to Wildwood and beach scene photos. A great talent search is underway for the star to play Mario. Bob Hall, major domo of North Wildwood’s lifeguards, sold his Mary Marlow’s liquor license toAnglesea Beach Colony. THAT NIFTY architectural gem rising at Hereford Inlet belongs to Ed and Ayne Zaberer, whose Anglesea Inn apartment is furnished entirely in white (down to the rugs). • • • The summer crowd was out in force at Grande's benefit recently to send the Wildwood Lifeguards to Hollywood, Fla. for the lifeguard championship during Christmas week. MAYOR Guy Muziani proved himself an adept pizza twirler. Jack Bingham, looking fit and trim, was a dynamite emcee. Ex-pro wrestler Sian Sokolis, the original ‘Masked Marvel’ and wife were big attractions on the

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dance floor. ‘Scoop* Taylor hustled the beer kegs around like a pro. Hollywood, here they come! • • • Even though the casino’s security men are all exFBI, it was at the multitiered garage of the new llarrah's that a Wildwood waitress and her beau had their car stolen recently. ... - Rumor hath a 'splashy new condominium under construction any minute in Diamond Beach to house casino employees who don’t wish to live where they work. ... STATEN ISLAND’S Rick Greco, a longtime local lifeguard, is now with Playboy Casino, as is skyscraper-tall Ed Cahill, ex-lifeguard and Crest resident from Pittsburgh. ... The Gaudio family who own eight beautiful Gaudk) Christmas centers from Cherry Hill to Echelon Mall, are longtime ritzy Crest summer colonists. Drexel U. basketball star Joey Bobach, 6' 7" tall, labors summers as a wine tender at* the Shamrock and Diamond Beach. ... CPT. JIM Cichitti’s new $400,000 Starlight looks like a miniature Queen Mary. . ... Rumors that the Crest will have to buy 10 parcels of strand at excessive prices are exaggerated, but some like the Thame property won’t be cheap. The land is needed so the proposed beach fee can be enforced in time for the '81 season. ... Up-and-coming photographer Doug Ilunsberger, who left Haddon Heights for the Crest, is completing photos of the superb sculptures of Mrs. Asa Colson Sr.

KEEP YOUR peeled for8ly Stallone, who hopes to go undetected while scouting the area for his upcoming epic, 'Rocky III.’ Sly loves this area and used to lifeguard at the Crest’s Jolly Roger Motel for Johnny Way of Erma Park. City P.R. man Joe Stamile and the powers-that-bc will give him a royal welcome. 'Chuck Wepner.the ‘Bayonne Bleeder,’ who inspired the story of •Rocky,' will have a cameo role in the newest Rocky flick, which will highlight the life of Rocky Marciano and involves many beach scenes. Wepner often visits Diamond Beach in his Lincoln Continental with CHAMP license tags. ... LOCALS ARE mourning Mr. and Mrs. Bill Young, a lovable couple who spent every summer in North Wildwood. He was a Pennsauken real estate tycoon. They perished asleep in bed from smoke generated by a plastic drape fire.

Jack Hallett, the North Wildwood Beach Cove Motel owner, l»as starred in a record 150 t.v. commercials! Hallett returns from warmer climes annually to aid and abet Frank Feraco in his famous Broadwaylike Wildwood Catholic High School musical productions. Jack, who’s on tour in ‘God's Favorite,' will be home again around the first of the year. ... MORE FOLKS who enjoyed a colonial Christmas at Williamsburg include the newly weds Charlie Hewitts on their honeymoon, and Dr. and Mrs. Robert Sorensen and Mrs. Mary Sorensen.

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