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Herald & Lantern 13 lanuaVy '82

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The Wild woods G.V. Mathis at large

NORTH.WILDWOOD mayor Anthony T. Calanotu) and three incumbent Republican councilmen were Sworn into office at .the city's reorganization meeting

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In addition to the mayor, the oath of office was administered to Councilman - at - Large Tim O’Leary, First Ward Councilman Walter Shivers Hr. and Second Ward Councilman Joseph V- Rend Jr. CATAN08K has been mayor since 1958, O'l^eary is beginning his sixth twoyear term, Shivers his seventh three-year term and Read his second threeyear term. Read’s first, term on Council was spent us a Democrat. He changed parly affiliation and ran as a Republican in November. IN A SURPRISE move, Wildwood .Crest solons may take over sponsorship of the National Pan Am Bicycle Races, which brought valuable international publicity to Wildwood for several years. If the Crest powers-that-be okay the idea, Comm. Wilhnr Ostrander won't be unhappy as his Public Works manpower was used to handle the hundreds of details concerned with running the faces. Most Crest taxpayers are hoping the begch fee will be forgotten until the USA reaches better economic times , HARRY RAFF,* of B A R Enterprises in' the Crest is in the vortex of the biggest fad in eons, the video electronic game craze. Raff was associated with Playboy Casino until the tragic death of his father, Art. Young Raff services campgrounds and motels with video ga'mes. A spinoff of the computer age, video games allow players to shoot down space invaders, gobble up fast mov mg dots, and play basketball belter than the 7fi’ers Nor is the fad limited to teenagers. , AREA DOCTORS and lawyers can In* seen enjoying their breaks with vodeo games The* French Canadians also dole on the games, and are prime patrons at the campgrounds Amazing figures are also racked up by convenience stores thal fill up odd spaces with the mechanical games Some folks fear the games will Ira in youngsters’ to become gambling addicts. Educators‘think the poten tial for bosilive use of the video games is literally staggering "If learning to play these games can In* fun and involving, why can’t all learning be?" says one pedagogue WESLEY MARX, who authored a splendid feature, "SOS Save Our Shorelines" in the November Rpadrrji Digest would Ik* dismayed to find that it's business us usual in destroying our sand dune barriers in the Wildwoods A handful of youngsters emulating Evil Knlevel on high speed mopdHs and motorcycles are daily ravaging and destroying the dune grass and thin

new line of barrier dunes accumulated by snow

fences.

THEY ARE obviously unaware of the ecological damage, but shouldn’t this ' be mentioned often in area

schools?

Marx made many men.tions of South Cape May

and Avglon-ln his splendid article.'Avalon rates special praise for its dune preservation program, as unique both in the county and the country. AN EX-WILD WOO H* lifeguard mascot is carving quite a career for himself in the movito. He is John I*. Navln, the son of longtime Wildwood lifeguard John Navln. He . plays Derek Mellot with (ieorge C. Scott and Timothy Hutton in the new 20th Century Fox release, Taps, filmed at

Valley Forge Military Academy He is currently making Tijuana with' Shirley Mad,nine. He phiyed the child lead with Sandy Duncan in Peter Pan on Broadway. He has been a Wildwood mascot for the past four seasons ELAINE SONC'INI has been named news director of station WPEN, Philadelphia. She is the wife of WIP disc jockey Ken (iarland and both are often seen poolside at Quality Inn, Diamond Beach, during the season.

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